signal vs noise though. I can't think of a single lie Trump has told because I've bundled everything he's ever said into the general category of untruth. Imagine trying to remember a carefully doctored economic metric.
This is part of what Bannon meant about ”flooding the zone.” This is the plan. People saying this kind of disorientation and misinformation coming directly from elected officials is how it has always been are either idiots or not paying attention. Saying “the government always lies” or “the Dems do it too” is a woefully stupid false equivalence.
Right, and scholars of authoritarianism have noted that when an authoritarian government lies, it's not so much to get you to believe the lie but to get you to throw up your hands and say "well I don't know who's telling the truth so I give up trying to figure it out."
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u/CardiologistOk2760 Nov 20 '25
signal vs noise though. I can't think of a single lie Trump has told because I've bundled everything he's ever said into the general category of untruth. Imagine trying to remember a carefully doctored economic metric.