The purpose of lying is multifaceted but a LARGE part of it is to demoralize people.
Orange Hair and the Clown both smirked all-day-every-day feeding lie after lie to the WH Press Corps.
Politicians get this weird smirk and $#!T eating grin on their faces while lying. Like the pathologic ris sardonicus of tetanus patients, some politicians have this smirk on their mugs perpetually. It is a real red flag for me when anyone sports one.
The rats know that they are sending code to their followers "We overpower them on this, HA!" and they are downright joyful in their lies.
Notice the war on comedians and humor you see nowadays and always in communist countries.
Humor is a way of both pointing out truth in a sort of parable form that sticks with the listener. AND it is, when people are laughing and silly, a way of overclocking the brain to get them to think around obstacles and figure problems out quickly in real time.
It is very powerful medicine against lies.
Thx.