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Trump Turns The Lies Up To “11”
And the crowd goes wild…
For a while, the “fake media”, which enabled Trump in a real way in 2016, wasn’t really covering Trump’s rallies. Except maybe to note he had one. And thus wasn’t giving him oodles of free advertising. And a widespread forum for his spew.
Now all of a sudden it’s a free-for-all again.
Not completely sure what’s changed, other than we’re closer to Election Day so perhaps the act of campaigning automatically becomes more newsy.
Perhaps it’s that Trump’s behavior has become even more outrageous. Which it has. Whether it’s calculatedly so or a feral response to being cornered at least temporarily, we don’t know. But his rallies are getting attention they weren’t just a couple of days ago. And his lunatic messages are once again freely being amplified.
We don’t want to also start repeating the escalating lies the President’s been telling, or the lurid crazy images he’s been painting. But they have again begun to creep into our feeds like a drumbeat, mostly in the context of “can you believe he just said that?”
But we’ll give you an example of something that isn’t new, just amplified: that COVID-19 is overblown as always, and even in areas where it’s currently “heated up”, it’ll be back down in 2 weeks. Evidence? He survived…
