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In reply to the discussion: CNN isn't messing around with this chyron [View all]LudwigPastorius
(9,190 posts)42. "if he piled on the crap more and more that people would eventually believe he is the victim."
Trump may have read this, from the mind of a genocidal maniac...or, maybe he's just cut from the same cloth and happened upon the principle himself.
...in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.
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Thank you for stating what needed to be said before this got too far.
Haggis for Breakfast
Oct 2018
#52
It's what the USMC drill instructor drove into our heads every single day.
NoMoreRepugs
Oct 2018
#56
No, because they're cowards. All GOP members are sniveling cowards. nt
Progressive Jones
Oct 2018
#53
Anderson Cooper starts out his 8PM show just about every night exposing the lies...
George II
Oct 2018
#13
Tweety is about Tweety. His misogynistic panel-hosting is atrocious.
Mike Rows His Boat
Oct 2018
#26
"if he piled on the crap more and more that people would eventually believe he is the victim."
LudwigPastorius
Oct 2018
#42