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The Wizard

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1. It's the constant lying
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:43 AM
Mar 2020

Every day is a new and bigger lie. Alternative facts are lies. The human mind cannot process the avalanche of lies coming from Trump and his congressional death cult. The W. Bush administration did the same thing. Orwell rolls in his grave. Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" should be required reading in all high schools and colleges.
I spent some time as a trial assistant with a trial lawyer who always said "everything changes once the lying starts." It is incumbent on our Fourth Estate to expose the lies as fast as Trump and his enablers put them out for public consumption.
When the Bush cartel was ruling us the compliant media fell into line because they knew that exposing the lies would have cut them off from access to the White House, thus eliminating an easy paycheck for being Administration stenographers toting the lie of the day.
Trump employs the same tactics. Every news source that exposes him and his cult is labeled "fake news" or "failing."
The media's real failure is in not hammering home the fact that the constant lying (gaslighting) is damaging the United States for the benefit of the corrupt orange tyrant.
An example is the fact that a Court found the Trump cartel had looted a charity for personal gain. An act so reprehensible that anyone else would be going to prison and the media coverage would have been non stop. Instead the fearful, compliant media does the bidding for this continuing criminal enterprise.

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