The scary thing for me . . . well, there are a host of them . . . but one in particular:
We have a pathological liar as president. The worst in our history, and it’s not close. He’s fast approaching 20,000 lies just since he took office. And, again, this is on top of the normal, every day, baked-in lies that our government has always told, that our corporations have always told, that leftists (and others) have always known about. Trump lies about the usual stuff too. The wars, the coups, the renditions, the environmental damage, the oppression of minorities, our carceral system, etc. etc., either via omission or commission. But he adds to the pile of lies in an unprecedented way, and we know this because his own staff constantly has to walk back things he says, once caught/called on it. They either walk it back or try to spin it into non-existence.
Just today, for instance, Google had to deny Trump’s claim that it was developing a site for everyone to check to see if they had the virus. He claimed 1700 engineers were working on this, when it’s just a San Fran pilot program in beta. He does this endlessly. He lies, claims credit for things that aren’t happening, or happened years ago before he took office, and then others have to rebut this nonsense. Too often, however, the damage is done, especially for his supporters who believe he’s a god emperor. Then the other dominoes fall: “Fake news!!” “Deep state!!” blah blah blah.
It’s never a good thing to be led by a lying, bullying, deeply insecure conman who sells, sells, sells!!! his snake oil endlessly. But right now may be the worst time in living memory for this perfect storm of the grotesque.
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