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I'll say; they've beat us all down.
The RNC weaponized exhaustion
The sheer volume of lies and illegal behavior from Trump and the Republicans is what allowed them to get away with it.
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Aug 28, 2020, 12:30pm EDT
The most consistent theme of Donald Trumps Republican National Convention wasnt that Joe Biden was a puppet for radicals. It wasnt even that rioters and looters are coming to your home and only Trump can protect you from the radical left.
The clear theme of the RNC was a flagrant and brutal disregard for the truth.
The first night of the RNC featured more false and misleading claims than all four nights of the DNC put together, according to a CNN fact-check. The second night starred an anti-abortion activist whose tale about the horrors of Planned Parenthood had been exposed as a fraud more than 10 years ago. On the third night, Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the murder of a police officer by a far-right extremist was a crime committed by left-wing rioters. It was all capped off by President Trumps Thursday night speech, a farrago of falsehoods that even veteran Trump fact-checkers found stunning.
Basically everything Trump says about Bidens proposals is false, the Washington Posts Philip Bump writes. In a tour-de-force segment, CNNs Daniel Dale spent three minutes debunking the speech at a rapid clip and still didnt cover all the lies:
Link to tweet
Writing honestly about the RNC requires centering the dishonesty. But adequately describing the sheer breadth and brazenness of the lying that was on display these past four days would take volumes. And after a certain point, the whole thing reaches diminishing returns: Some depressing political science research suggests that pointing out when Trump is lying doesnt actually change the way voters feel about him.
And thats the dark brilliance of the RNC, and maybe the entire Trump presidency. If you just lie and break legal rules frequently enough and brazenly enough, the sheer volume of misconduct will overwhelm the systems that are designed to check them.
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https://www.vox.com/2020/8/28/21405144/trump-rnc-speech-fact-check-lies-hatch-act
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)Been saying all along w 45.
He just makes shit up as he goes along, but he knows he can overwhelm people with endless bullshit.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)The article below credits Putin's Russia with developing it, but Goebbels and other autocrats used something similar:
The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It
High-volume and multichannel
Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
Lacks commitment to objective reality
Lacks commitment to consistency.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
(Rand Corporation)
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Read Michael McFauls Twitter thread from yesterday.
He lays it all out. Putin is pulling all the strings.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)kentuck
(111,102 posts)People are becoming worn down.
Sometimes it is good to just take a break from it all.
Do not get lost in the confusion.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)It means more and more of this country have had more than enough of this orange assclown and are mobilizing the big election buttkicking the world has ever seen. Exhausted? That's laughable. We are fired up and ready to go.
Wicked Blue
(5,834 posts)and get their heads rotating like old 78rpm vinyl records.
Such as:
-- The Orange Traitor wants to take manufacturing of American products out of China and hand it over to the Russians. There will never be American manufacturing jobs again.
-- Melania is a Russian agent assigned to make sure he carries out Putin's orders.
-- Barron is actually Putin's son.
-- The planned Trump Hotel in Moscow will be the headquarters for an international ring of sex traffickers, as well as the biggest brothel in the world.
-- COVID-19 is part of a Russian plot to depopulate the United States. The Orange Traitor opposes the use of masks because he is carrying out Putin's orders.
--Trump and his children have been looting the U.S. Treasury and sending the money to Russia through secret channels.
-- Donald Jr. is a pedophile.
-- Trump wants to destroy Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid in order to create a new phony healthcare system with the goal of injecting microchips into all Americans.
-- The American education system is being ruined in order to make room for a new curriculum of Russian language instruction.
Take your pick or add your own
Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)Can't keep up with the sheer volume of lies, which is why their gaslighting is effective.