Everyone knows that Trump lies, has always lied, and will always lie. The only people to whom it is no concern are his loyal base who will always believe whatever he tells them. The problem here is not with us but with the lamestream media which refuses to call out his lies as lies but uses weasel-words like "confused".
His biggest lie yesterday, please take this seriously because a man who launched a coup de etat to keep himself in power the last time will run for a third term to keep himself in office and try to become a King for life.
I believe it was Anne Appelbaum, in the Atlantic, who said that an authoritarian lies constantly in order to assert their authority over reality. Reality does not matter. What the authoritarian says matters.
As you say Jill, society cannot function like this.
Do we have a brave enough journalist who can interview Trump and ONLY confront him about his incessant lying? Rather than arguing with him about a specific lie, do we have a journalist who will assert, "You lie" (that's the truth) and ask him questions about his motivations and patterns of behavior?
Everyone knows that Trump lies, has always lied, and will always lie. The only people to whom it is no concern are his loyal base who will always believe whatever he tells them. The problem here is not with us but with the lamestream media which refuses to call out his lies as lies but uses weasel-words like "confused".
https://substack.com/@dearlstephens/note/c-115065565
His biggest lie yesterday, please take this seriously because a man who launched a coup de etat to keep himself in power the last time will run for a third term to keep himself in office and try to become a King for life.
I believe it was Anne Appelbaum, in the Atlantic, who said that an authoritarian lies constantly in order to assert their authority over reality. Reality does not matter. What the authoritarian says matters.
As you say Jill, society cannot function like this.
Do we have a brave enough journalist who can interview Trump and ONLY confront him about his incessant lying? Rather than arguing with him about a specific lie, do we have a journalist who will assert, "You lie" (that's the truth) and ask him questions about his motivations and patterns of behavior?