miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-226 days agoNoem says LA 'would have burned down' without Trump's National Guard deploymentwww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down110file-text
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minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up93·26 days agoDelusional. But that’s the fascist playbook. Just keep asserting absolutely delusional things and flood the zone with bullshit (as Bannon puts it).
minus-squareFreshParsnip@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-226 days agoMy aunt says if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
minus-square(des)mosthenes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·26 days agoI was gonna say this
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoThe lies are audacious though. Most people know this is a lie but there’s no consequences so it is then taken as a display of power. The word I use for this is mendacity.
Delusional.
But that’s the fascist playbook. Just keep asserting absolutely delusional things and flood the zone with bullshit (as Bannon puts it).
My aunt says if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit
I was gonna say this
The lies are audacious though. Most people know this is a lie but there’s no consequences so it is then taken as a display of power. The word I use for this is mendacity.