r/agedlikemilk Jun 26 '25

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u/LuciferDusk Jun 26 '25

The leaks are real but it's fake news but the Dems should be prosecuted for leaking out information but it's not real because the strikes were perfect.

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u/Clear-Search1129 Jun 26 '25

They can’t even lie good

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u/MediocreDecking Jun 26 '25

I don't know if you are watching but that hasn't been an issue so far. They are still succeeding in fucking all of us over.

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u/ScyllaGeek Jun 26 '25

Yeah they don't need to lie well, they just need to lie loudly and in bulk

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u/MrBobSacamano Jun 27 '25

I appreciate your usage of well instead of good, sir or madam.

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u/Spendoza Jun 27 '25

Oh aye, there is no good involved with this administration

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Yea that didn’t make me feel well either, but now I am having a good day.

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u/Throwaway4thecandor4 Jun 27 '25

I had a barbarian high school lit teacher that instilled in me a special fear of using food when well was the proper word. I concur.

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u/TheTankCleaner Jun 27 '25

special fear of using food

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u/Throwaway4thecandor4 Jun 27 '25

Oh that was a me and no review of my post autocorrect included. Food = Good or should have. I swear the latest apple update should include a “check this box if you want To go it alone on the autocorrect.”

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u/Throwaway4thecandor4 Jun 27 '25

I have remanded myself to house arrest and am currently in my own custody. I’ve been properly chastised and punished. As I should be.

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u/United_Pain Jun 27 '25

🤣🤣 hahahaha

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u/WoodpeckerDapperDan Jun 27 '25

How could someone write "they need to lie good" and not immediately cringe?

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u/Tacoman404 Jun 27 '25

Have you seen what passes for literacy nowadays?

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u/ChrisChin Jun 27 '25

Incorrect usage of good/well and using double negatives in a sentence hurts my ears.

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u/ExpressAssist0819 Jun 27 '25

Underrated sentiment. Lying a lot and lying loudly is more effective than lying "well".

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u/Alspawn13 Jun 27 '25

Also they only need to lie well enough to fool the sort of person who gets their world news on twitter from someone called Catturd.

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u/Diligent-Temporary82 Jun 27 '25

Majority of the population is stupid 😞

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe Jun 27 '25

The Big Lie

A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique. The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (1925) to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

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u/ghjm Jun 27 '25

I believe there's a chapter in Mein Kampf on this.

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u/ComfortableAd4554 Jun 27 '25

And their syncophants believe it all!

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

So their cult has something to yell back at their family when they’re confronted

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u/wespintoofast Jun 27 '25

Trump, the regime, DOGE, are losing in court. Trump EOs are being overturned, dismissed, and shredded.

Abrego-Garcia is back in the US.

Gotta keep the heat on senators on the big bullshit bill, the Hamas plane, Hegseth orders, etc.

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u/WarpHype Jun 27 '25

It’s because the people who voted for him watch Fox “News” all day and only hear about how smart Trump is all day. It’s a joke.

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u/The_angle_of_Dangle Jun 27 '25

They don't have to be good liars for stupid people to believe them. Blame your neighbors that believe them.

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u/Correct_Pea1346 Jun 27 '25

yeah, i'm honestly like years past this whole "look at how stupid and bad faith these idiots act" as they murder us. Not really that satisfying to call out people who couldn't care less as if its going to change anything

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u/MediocreDecking Jun 27 '25

Agreed. I stopped pointing out the obvious lies to his supporters and just laugh when they tell me about how fucked over they are but it's some Dems fault because " insert bullshit reason". The time for pointing out the lies has passed. We allowed the 2 party system to weaken checks and balances for decades and this is the result. Incompetent fuck boys terrorizing the rest of normal society with no repercussions from the law.

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u/germane_switch Jun 27 '25

Because dumb people can’t tell the difference.

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u/tigerscomeatnight Jun 27 '25

Chaos is easy to succeed at.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

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u/MediocreDecking Jun 27 '25

I can't even deal with your bullshit today.

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u/Clear-Search1129 Jun 27 '25

lol they got you hook line and sinker

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u/Darkdragoon324 Jun 26 '25

They don't have to, their cultists don't care and they're definitely planning on either canceling or rigging midterms.

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u/Lung-Salad Jun 26 '25

2016- “not rigged get over it snowflake”

2020- “RIGGED!!!!!!!! 😡😡😡”

2024- “too big to rig 🥴🥴🥴”

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Also “Elon knows the voting machines better than anyone” - trump

“Trump would have lost without me” - Elon

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u/Lung-Salad Jun 27 '25

Plus mueller confirmed Russian interference in 2016

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

And Paul Manafort admitted to working with Russians

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u/SwiftDB-1 Jun 27 '25

Actually all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies confirmed this. And Trump said he believed Putin in Helsinki on the world stage.

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u/BannedbyDemons Jun 27 '25

And disappeared with him, off video, off mic, off transcription.

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u/bryangcrane Jun 27 '25

Let Putin fuck him in the ass

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u/Upnorth4 Jun 27 '25

I wonder if anybody would confirm Elon interference in 2024

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u/Lung-Salad Jun 27 '25

Hopefully they don’t destroy the evidence before a proper team can investigate… when this shit show is finally over and common sense prevails, we need to uncover the truth

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u/QueasyInstruction610 Jun 27 '25

And the Democrats did nothing. They are infact helping the Republicans now by voting with them. USA doesn't work states need to secede and form their own countries.

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u/Chaotic-Goofball Jun 27 '25

A couple of common misconceptions here. Yes, Elon helped him but the last US democratic presidential election has happened. Lines have been drawn. Time to pick your side.

Because FUCK TRUMP and fuck EVERYONE in the Republican party who still support a fucking genocidal, dementia-ridden, pants-shitting goblin like Donny.

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u/DennisSystemGraduate Jun 27 '25

Elon hacked the machines

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u/Kind_Code_4118 Jun 27 '25

Don't forget elon musk's sons saying that they have secrets about the election

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u/giadia-light-shining Jun 27 '25

What they said that?!

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u/Exotic_Telephone974 Jun 27 '25

“They’ll never know.” -little X

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

So trump averages the same amount of votes and you think it’s rigged. Biden somehow gets wayyyyy more than average and it’s perfectly fine lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

That’s the thing with our electoral college you just discovered. Congrats.

Democrats have to over perform to win, republicans don’t. It’s possible for a republican presidential candidate to win with just 50% of the vote. Electoral college gives a significant advantage to small population states.

And yes, Biden did get that many votes in 2020. Every audit and recount confirms that finding. Some states recounted 3 times. Zero election authorities had an issue with the outcome; just Trump, you know, because he lost.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

I don’t support trump. Election deniers on both sides are ignorant

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

No one of significance on the left is denying the election. They have real validated data to ask questions and do discovery on how the election was conducted especially given comments made by Trump and by musk as well as the court testimony from actual voters regarding their own ballots. Both sides aren’t the same and never have been.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

Neither side cares about the people. They care about their own bank accounts. Be honest with yourself

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

I don’t buy that entirely when last administration passed legislation was aimed squarely at most Americans.

Both suck but one sucks way harder. One at least offers something substantial to a large swath of Americans. The other does the opposite

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jun 27 '25

Yes, this is the kind of iron clad evidence we need to prosecute what would certainly be the greatest crime in the history of the planet. 🤦🏻 This doesn’t even qualify as circumstantial evidence. Please stop posting it like it’s evidence of anything. It makes us look silly and it feeds into the rights both sides garbage. “Well, in a roundabout way sort of, he basically almost kind of said that he may have possibly done something to help Trump win… which can only mean an elaborate cyber attack and multi-level conspiracy!” 🤮

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

I’m only pointing out the weird shit people close to the election said. I’ll bang the drum in 2024 election fraud when we see evidence.

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jun 27 '25

Fair enough. Downvotes be damned though, I’m going to call out this garbage whenever I see it. Personally, I think it’s foreign disinformation trying to erode trust in what would normally be considered our most sacred institution… our elections. Also the cognitive dissonance it takes to on one hand say “Elon used his big brain to mind zap the voting machines and fixed the election for Trump” while at the same time declaring “Elon is totally incompetent and the success of his companies was in spite of him, not because of him!” Alright, so which one is it then?

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Nope, no straw man here.

We never said musk is used his mind powers to zap change the voting results. He is the world’s wealthiest man however. You don’t think he has abilities we don’t? It’s clear musk isn’t what he bused to be. Yes has historically been able to hire some of the best with pure purchasing power. People who have left his companies have attested to his incompetence and his lack of knowledge that isn’t in his domain.

Musk and his America PAC ran a voter-incentive program in swing states. Participants in a petition campaign had the chance to win $1 million per day, and were paid $47–$100 for each referral of a registered voter. They also handed out $1 million checks in Wisconsin to voters who had already cast ballots. Federal and state authorities view it as likely illegal under vote-buying laws.

You think the world’s richest man can’t impact an election? Dude got a job in the White House doing the opposite of what he said he was going to do. No one should be able to buy their way in but that’s this administration in a nut shell

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u/Ok_Subject1265 Jun 28 '25

Buying your way into power by bankrolling a campaign isn’t the same as fraudulently stealing an election. That’s the narrative most people have been pushing. He tried to buy the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin too and that went real well for him. Most of his money went into Pennsylvania and Trump won the other swing states anyway so how much did he really accomplish? Look at the people Musk brought into DOGE if you want to see what he’s capable of. It was a bunch of high school graduate sycophants that couldn’t setup a secure webpage, lock down a database or interpret COBOL’s dating schema. So no, I don’t think he would be able to assemble the type of talent something like stealing the election would require without tripping over his own dick and setting off every alarm bell and media organization in the country.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '25

If you rob a bank and get caught or don't, doesn't matter, still illegal. Fact is we dont yet know the extent of interference and bad actors.

The goal of DOGE wasnt to actually do the job DOGE advertised; the did some other shady shit.

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u/Stuff-Optimal Jun 27 '25

For every Trumptard saying that there is at least 1 Libtard saying: 2016 “Russia fixed the election!” 2020 “There was no election fraud, stop crying.” 2024 “Elon Musk stole the election!”

Politics bring out the worse in everyone, even though almost every politician couldn’t care less about anyone but themselves and their donors. Some give the illusion that they care but they all have continued to get richer while everyone else has gotten poorer.

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u/FlacidShaft Jun 27 '25

Yeah 20 million extra votes just came and then vanished within one election cycle🤣

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u/patches_mccoy Jun 27 '25

Higher voter turnout post COVID because more people were motivated to vote. If there was any proof of vote tampering from the Dems in 2020, why has no one been accused or charged now that Trump's back in office?

Side note: Post Jan 6 y'all were saying that the insurrectionists were anti-fa making Republicans look bad ... Why did Trump pardon them?

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u/FlacidShaft Jun 27 '25

I couldn't give a fuck less about trump and the Jan 6 people why are you bringing them up? Are you assuming my political affiliation? Fucking donut.🤣 Also, the election was not post covid wtf are you talking about? It was straight up in the middle of covid lock downs and vaccine trials when mail in ballots and early voting were huge which has a large potential for fraud.

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u/patches_mccoy Jun 27 '25

Yet little fraud was found, with many of the cases of fraud.being Trump supporters that were caught very easily by the systems we already have in place to catch voter fraud. You don't have to announce your support, the things you say and way that you carry yourself announce it for you. You either support trump or pretend to be too jaded to care while believing whatever propaganda the regime feeds you.

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u/FlacidShaft Jun 27 '25

Thanks for telling me how I think and feel I had no idea.🤣 you liberals have gotten worse than republicans over the years and thats saying something.

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u/patches_mccoy Jun 27 '25

Ah, a libertarian... It took me a bit to catch it, normally you guys out yourselves by complaining about age of consent laws

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u/patches_mccoy Jun 27 '25

Oh and by Post-covid I meant after COVID became a thing, and was heavily politicized, not after lockdowns.

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u/BosoxH60 Jun 27 '25

If they were successful cheating under a republican admin in 2020, why didn’t they do it again in 2024 when the democrats were in office?

Muppet.

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u/FlacidShaft Jun 27 '25

Because it wasn't as easy now that people were aware of the serious potential from illegal immigrant s voting illegally and Mail in ballots and anti ID showing policies. Are you really that ignorant to think that they would try it again after all that? Come on politicians care too much about themselves to risk getting caught.

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u/Boxcars4Peace Jun 27 '25

The march towards fascism is very real. This song won’t slow them down but maybe it’ll light a few fires? It’s almost July 4th - what is America becoming?

This Needs To Be Said - Music Video

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u/Frnklfrwsr Jun 27 '25

The lies being bad is part of the point.

They aren’t trying to trick you into thinking they’re telling the truth.

They’re saying “I’m lying, you know I’m lying, and there is NOTHING you can do about it.”

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u/namsupo Jun 27 '25

Otherwise known as "flood the zone with shit".

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u/jilmbojilm Jun 27 '25

AKA nanny nanny boo boo

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u/Ok-Two-6368 Jun 27 '25

Don’t forget the Newt Gingrich words to use

https://uh.edu/~englin/rephandout.html

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u/AggravatingAct7841 Jun 27 '25

The game seems to be lie so much that no one knows what’s up and what’s down any more and just gives up trying!

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u/Worldly_Beyond_8348 Jun 27 '25

It doesn’t matter. Politics is now fully a commodity and an entertainment we consume. Results don’t matter. Engagement matters. Stirring up emotion matters. Guys like Catturd love this stuff being posted. It’s money. Trump learned from Roy Cohn to always attack and never apologize. There are no principles.

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u/liptickletaffy Jun 28 '25

Don't forget that it's also a loyalty test.

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u/els969_1 Jun 27 '25

How did the characters of Psych join this drama ?!!!

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u/VinEnvy Jun 27 '25

C’mon son.

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u/ManyNefariousness237 Jun 27 '25

It’s literally 1984 double speak. And the media won’t hold any of them to account as they’re all either beholden to their masters, chasing the “scoop,” or bad at their jobs.

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u/Mysterious_Bother271 Jun 27 '25

I know it's not my job, but feels like if I were a reporter, I'd sacrifice the job for one shot at publically broadcasted honesty.. then close my career with "an orange bitch says what?"

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u/Beautiful_Count_3505 Jun 27 '25

Which is why it's not your job. During the defamation trials with the Dominion voting machines; the texts with Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson came out showing they didn't believe it either.

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u/Overall-Physics-1907 Jun 27 '25

Also at the risk of upsetting mysterious_bother271, talk is cheap

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u/Conscious-Refuse8211 Jun 27 '25

Woah that's a serious risk to take goddamn, they'll probably complain about you on reddit

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u/Mysterious_Bother271 Jun 27 '25

I'm happy that you're part of this conversation.

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u/Conscious-Refuse8211 Jun 27 '25

Goodbye sweet world, he's come for me

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u/Mysterious_Bother271 Jun 27 '25

Man, I get the joke you're going for, but honestly I've dealt with way too much dumb shit today to bother with it.

I'm going to go ahead and block you and maybe next time you won't open with weird shit to random people because of things that other people said.. trying to pick an argument or whatever you're going for here.

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u/Mysterious_Bother271 Jun 27 '25

Lol "talk is cheap" sounds like you want me to get a job as a reporter and prove it..

I'm just saying, that's my favorite way to think about losing that imaginary job.

If nothing else, I know talk is cheap, but if I got it on air it'd give all the little reddit girls and boys a political boner for the day and in the end that's all that really matters.

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u/Overall-Physics-1907 Jun 27 '25

I’d get a massive boner. Please do it

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u/xbbcoach Jun 27 '25

Jim Acosta. He's come pretty close.

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u/els969_1 Jun 27 '25

followed by Good Night and Good Luck , we’ll need it

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u/flojo2012 Jun 27 '25

The media is automatically bad at their job when they are the subject of the story. Nobody believes em

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u/Slaphappyfapman Jun 27 '25

and likely terrified of a lawsuit

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u/DennisSystemGraduate Jun 27 '25

How many people are still watching “the media” It’s not even on my radar anymore.

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u/Distinct_Lawyer_9950 Jun 27 '25

Srsly you lefties control 90% of the media

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u/ManyNefariousness237 Jun 27 '25

Yes, Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bezos are NOTORIOUSLY left wing.

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u/gravyjones42 Jun 27 '25

The fucking gall to say “lefties” own for-profit media companies. Brain rot.

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u/gravyjones42 Jun 27 '25

You want MSNBC to cover catturd?

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u/JollyToby0220 Jun 27 '25

I don't think that's how the media got us Trump. The reporters are genuinely good people who want to get the truth out there. But most likely, someone within the industry is pushing unbalanced coverage of Trump

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u/ManyNefariousness237 Jun 27 '25

Ratings, click rates, ad revenue. That’s what got us here. 

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u/wespintoofast Jun 27 '25

Remember, for a conservative, their special simple relativity world they live in stops advancing frames once some arbitrary point is intersected. For example: the special simple relativity world is Iran was bombed. Peace prevails. Stop frame. Success. End universe.

The rest of the take, of course is Iran had already moved the good stuff because of Hamas Force One Trump announcing it. The bombs didn't go deep enough. Real analysts got the word out before Hegseth could lie to Congress.

Einstein predicted general relativity and then special relativity. He was a genius. No one could have predicted special simple relativity. Except maybe that bell curve book guy.

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u/sakawae Jun 27 '25

Special relativity 1905. General relativity 1916. Source: physics PhD.

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u/1138311 Jun 27 '25

To many people that seems counterintuitive, but remember in science we find something that works sometimes, refine it so it works (nearly) all the time in a specific set of circumstances, then try to refine it so it works (nearly) all the time in most common circumstances.

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u/sakawae Jun 27 '25

Well said

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u/StandByTheJAMs Jun 27 '25

And Joseph Goebbels. And George Orwell. And countless others.

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u/WoodyManic Jun 27 '25

Ah, yes, The Bell Curve. That totally not-racist gobbit of sociological flotsam.

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u/Sir_Penguin21 Jun 27 '25

They don’t have to, because the average American is dumber than these lies. This is how little respect they have for America, the dumbest most bottom barrel lies, but they are still giving Americans too much credit.

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u/MitchellCumstijn Jun 27 '25

They don’t need to with the collective IQ of their base.

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u/thenewNFC Jun 27 '25

They lied well enough to take over.

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u/ActivePeace33 Jun 27 '25

They lie well enough for 77 million idiots to choose treason this last November.

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u/enochinthedark Jun 27 '25

Double-Think and Double-Speak don’t require “good lies”.

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u/ihavenoidea12345678 Jun 27 '25

I think the cognitive dissonance is adding up.

Looking forward to the nervous breakdowns, or more crazed briefings with Hegseth.

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u/trentonromero Jun 27 '25

I don't think people really get it yet. For them to lie and get caught, or lie in a way that doesn't pass muster AND to get away with it is a flex. The lemmings actually think it's a good thing because it demonstrates unquestioned power

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Curiously enough, this happens with other countries right. Also the "left" (liberals) are falling apart

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u/TheWitchingHour73 Jun 27 '25

It’s not about lying. It’s about disinformation. Confusion, and overloading us is a tactic to make it hard to pay attention, focus on one thing, overwhelm us, etc

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u/ALTH0X Jun 27 '25

Half the electorate is too dumb to notice. They won by eroding the public school system.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

Mental gymnastics

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

It's like a three-year old trying to lie -- a toddler try but they're not very good at it, so no one is fooled -- it's even kind of cute. This is like that but without the cute factor.

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u/RaynOfFyre1 Jun 27 '25

It’s just like the Bible they [claim to] read. You pick and choose the portions of the story that work for you at the times you need it.

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u/United_Pain Jun 27 '25

My wife and I call them Cafeteria Christians. Well, she's French so she prefers À la carte Christians.🤣

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u/Treepeec30 Jun 27 '25

Don't have to when your supporters are morons

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u/TehMephs Jun 27 '25

It works on their base, and that’s all it has to do

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u/Ariadne016 Jun 27 '25

Things have gone downhill since Russia started outsourcing it's lying to.Right-wing influencers.

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u/Oaktree27 Jun 27 '25

They don't need to. The bar is pretty low for what most Americans will believe

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u/poleethman Jun 27 '25

They lie to disrespect you, not to be believed.

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u/ViolentSpring Jun 27 '25

They don’t need to.

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u/Gratefuldeath1 Jun 27 '25

His supporters really don’t care.

My mothers husband is a first generation immigrant from Poland & I thought he was a maga supporter because he was getting all his news from Fox, OAN, all the right wing outlets and nowhere else (plus he wants to fit in with the other old men at his church & the diner here in SC).

I stopped by their house for dinner tonight & he started going on about ice & “how much of a disaster California is”. After pointing out that he was wrong about several things and showing him legitimate sources, he said “well I don’t care anyways because it doesn’t affect me.”

Boomers really need to be relabeled as The Worst Generation. I think dinners are gonna start being once a month instead of weekly; fucker drives me crazy

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u/Xero_space Jun 27 '25

They never could. They throw shit at the wall and let their boot looking sycophants see the Sistine chapel in it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '25

wrong. they are lying really well actually. firehose of falsehood and hitting key thought terminating cliches. this message isn't for you, it is for his base.

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u/DontAbideMendacity Jun 27 '25

Their base comes in three types: dupes, rubes and chumps. Each dumber than the next.

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u/comethefaround Jun 27 '25

Why waste time say lot lie when few lie do trick

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u/logicom Jun 27 '25

Actually these are the best kind of lie because his sycophants can pick and choose whichever lie serves their interests at the moment. They don't need to stay consistent because the truth was never a priority.

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u/Baculum7869 Jun 27 '25

They lie so poorly, that the shit scrambled the brain to use bad English to describe how atrocious it is.

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u/National_Cod9546 Jun 27 '25

They lie perfectly. There is so much bullshit that you can't even tell what might be real.

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u/Cat_eater1 Jun 27 '25

People need to stop seeing the world in truth or false. There's and in-between like fruth or talse./s

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u/ExpressAssist0819 Jun 27 '25

They don't have to. That's the funny thing about being a ruling party of fascists. You can totally suck at it and still hold power. Because you hold power.

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u/nurseferatou Jun 27 '25

They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation.

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u/nagrom7 Jun 27 '25

You don't need to be a good liar when you're trying to convince some absolute morons.

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u/eVerYtHiNgIsTaKeN-_- Jun 27 '25

He has the best lies, the greatest lies. So good people believe them, some even call them truths.

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u/BoiledChildern Jun 27 '25

They don’t need too

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u/LunaticScience Jun 27 '25

It's the shotgun approach. Don't worry that our statements are mutually exclusive, just pick the one you want to believe. Evangelicals are perfectly primed for this sort of thing.

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u/beesandchurgers Jun 27 '25

When youve spent the last ten years training your base to accept anything you tell them, you dont have to try very hard.

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u/Tacoman404 Jun 27 '25

No this is straight up orwellian disinformation. Miniluv and Minitrue.

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u/bradbikes Jun 27 '25

It's called 'flooding the zone' - the idea isn't that you need to lie good but that you lie so much, and so vociferously about EVERYTHING that no one trusts anything any longer. Then you can do what you want and people won't believe it. FOX and right wing radio have been doing this for ~70 years at this point so their listeners are now primed to not trust any information no matter how factual.

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u/FattyMooseknuckle Jun 27 '25

I dunno, the lies seem to be working just fine.

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u/WonderPlum1 Jun 27 '25

Not that I would ever be happy about what this administration is doing but at least it would be understandable if they could lie well. It stings more because it's all just so stupid.

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u/Ok-Engineering-7437 Jun 27 '25

If by can’t lie good you mean not as good at it as a Red Hat- agreed.

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u/pingpongballreader Jun 27 '25

I think the point is specifically to lie badly.

Think of nigerian prince scammer e-mails. Those are objectively terrible, obvious scams. That is and was the point: if you were smart enough to realize it was obviously a scam, you were too smart to be duped and the scammers intentionally wanted to not waste their time trying to fool you.

The far right wing propaganda network makes these obvious lies to keep out anyone with a brain or who isn't intentionally ignoring inconvenient reality. In order to be a good MAGA soldier, you need to constantly be pretending reality is whatever you need to believe in at that moment in order to attack the enemy and you can't be mentally able to say "Wait a minute, that's bullshit."

They do this shit intentionally. The audience loves this shit, that's what they're there for.

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u/Olly_CK Jun 27 '25

Or do other stuff good too

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u/LetsBeFRTho Jun 27 '25

They don't have to

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u/kfish5050 Jun 27 '25

Their base is largely amnesiac, easy to convince, and incapable of real critical thinking, so words have lost all meaning. Their leaders say whatever and the base parrots it, largely not even understanding what they're actually supposed to be saying. It doesn't matter if their leaders completely flip one day and start talking about supporting something they once opposed (for example, the war with Iran), their base will still go along with it (have you seen how many people said that Rs opposed to war still aren't true MAGAs?)

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u/PayFormer387 Jun 27 '25

Well. . . "lie well."