i have to say that the utter disregard for facts and science and objectivity and reason is probably the single most frustrating thing to me around politics today. like it just absolutely does not matter if what you say is true or not. there are no repercussions. with trump it gets back to that "seriously but not literally" crap. so now we're not supposed to take our president-elect literally? jesus.
i'll say this, it's certainly an effective strategy for getting your fascist candidate elected.
"Post-truth" is straight out of Orwell. Scary, scary shit.
And, the Trump team is already working to continue this practice of pushing obviously false stories. Corey Lewandowski said in a speech that Trump won by "the largest majority since Reagan in 1984" and Trump himself is pushing a fake story that his election stopped Ford from moving a plant to Mexico. Given that Pence once tried to start his own news service in Indiana, this group is giving very alarming indications about how they will try to control the news.
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i have to say that the utter disregard for facts and science and objectivity and reason is probably the single most frustrating thing to me around politics today. like it just absolutely does not matter if what you say is true or not. there are no repercussions. with trump it gets back to that "seriously but not literally" crap. so now we're not supposed to take our president-elect literally? jesus.
i'll say this, it's certainly an effective strategy for getting your fascist candidate elected.
"Post-truth" is straight out of Orwell. Scary, scary shit.
And, the Trump team is already working to continue this practice of pushing obviously false stories. Corey Lewandowski said in a speech that Trump won by "the largest majority since Reagan in 1984" and Trump himself is pushing a fake story that his election stopped Ford from moving a plant to Mexico. Given that Pence once tried to start his own news service in Indiana, this group is giving very alarming indications about how they will try to control the news.
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