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Posted on 01/19/2021 4:50:43 PM PST by Ennis85
It began and ended with a lie. The shameless birther conspiracy – seeking to blow away his predecessor, President Barack Obama – set the mendacious snowball rolling down Capitol Hill.
For four years it gathered momentum as it careered across the US. By the time it thundered back to Washington, the ‘post-truth era’ was established.
Without a blush, President Donald Trump would claim the election was a fraud. ‘The Big Steal’ was burnished into national consciousness. No, there was no evidence. But in Trumpworld none was needed. Fake news or alternative facts blossomed and flourished, any who dared root them out were discredited and belittled.
Blizzards of lies are the same as any other. They stick and they harden. Those caught in them have their vision blurred and skid in all directions.
The mob that descended on Washington had been blinded and misled by a snowstorm of deceit.
Ever loyal to their commander-in-chief, there was total buy-in to the rules of diversion and division. Disaffected and disillusioned, they followed. No folly was too flagrant, no character flaw too deep for them to lose faith in their “very stable genius”.
In this fantasy world, the opposite of right tended to be the most likely direction to follow.
In the Washington Post recently the author Tom Rosenstiel, who is director of the American Press Institute, suggested there is now an obligation to “create a public square with a common set of facts”. This “square” used to be called reality, but that was in another time.
No commander-in-chief so conflated the national interest with his own as Mr Trump.
He claimed the pandemic was a contrivance and spread the suspicion masks make you more vulnerable to Covid-19, not less.
This, he freely admitted, was because if the public truly understood just how much Covid-19 was ravaging America it could damage his election prospects.
His self-serving cultivating of “the base” went into over-drive, all the while his Republican Party let him loose in its wheel-house.
His demonising of Muslims, pulling out of the Paris Accord, building a wall, and trampling all over long-revered international relationships will keep the midnight oil burning for the new President Joe Biden from the beginning.
Polarising to the end, today, the last of Mr Trump’s tenure in the White House, will be met with either a sigh of relief or a cry of indignation.
Many may also be hoping it marks the end of the line for the twice-impeached president.
The only thing that was spinning faster than him was the revolving door of staff exiting the Oval Office at warp speed. Now he too bows out in ignominy.
His last act of bad grace was to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor.
Perhaps more than anything the barricades around the White House, and the troops on every corner around the Capitol, speak best to the dark shadow Mr Trump has cast.
That cute you guys believe that.
https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/the-2020-presidential-election-fraud
"His demonising of Muslims,"
What demonization?
"pulling out of the Paris Accord , building a wall"
What was wrong with that?
"and trampling all over long-revered international relationships"
what relationships were trampled over? I've never sbeen told which.
>> Irish Independent Editorial Staff
STFU, staff — you’re a stain on Truth.
“a public square with a common set of facts” would be the exact opposite of the “market place of ideas.”
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Pop culture. Media. Education. The three brainwashing mechanisms by the wicked for the simple-minded. This time it is media.
Yes, all his enemies did was lie snd practice deceit.
What a shameful piece of nonsensical writing.
It is TRUE that Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.
The Australians recently removed members of Parliament who were found not to be natural born citizens, which is required there.
We have just ONE office requiring that and BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.
True dat
They had to whitewash Obama somehow after all this spy scandal...
Haters will hate and say anything to reinforce their hate. Unfortunately, these loathsome scum of society have millions who believe all of the lies.
F### off left wing tyrds he was by far the best President and faced an entire establishment coup, and corruption.
Some of the Irish are unable to see the light because they walk around with their head up their ass, sorry to say. They should be more concerned with their country which has many problems.
Why are you posting this? Who cares what a country with six people and a socialist prime minister says
Name one...
www.independent.ie/service/contact-us-26897641.html#newsroom.
I just sent them a nice e-mail, I suggest you push back a little too! : )
Poo emoji, x2
The endlessly repeated Goebbles propagandistic lie. In truth the evidence for election fraud is overwhelming. See Dr. Navarro’s “immaculate deception”.
The upcoming forensic audit of Maricopa County’s (AZ) Dominion hardware and ballot materials will confirm the nature and extent of the fraud.
Nope.....Trump is leaving behind the lies and deceit, of the swamp.....dwelling place of lies/deceit.
>> the exact opposite.
Pretty much. These sniveling bitches provide nothing other than ridicule and lies.
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