The opening line from yesterday's Chernobyl miniseries on HBO speaks so much for today.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

This was a problem for the Kremlin, long before 1986, and long afterwards as well. It certainly did not go away after the Soviet Union fell apart; if anything, it only got worse.

Truth-management and Post-Truth have since been the Kremlin's main export in the 21st Century, and we are now seeing it full bloom here in the United States today.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. this country has had and does have its share of lies and dosent need russias help on that end .

[nocoincidences]

2. That show is depressing

for many reasons, but I was struck by the stupidity of denying the truth of what was happening, and then dying because you couldn't speak the truth about it.

We have so many politicians today who would and have had exactly that reaction in a catastrophe---I say it isn't happening so it isn't happening.

No, my skin isn't melting off, no, I am not throwing up blood, no no no....

[lame54]

3. That is Trump's end game