KGB Charm School Grads Community Theater Group Presents…
The Russian influencers in the White House will always lie
For a decade, I’ve been writing about gaslighting, real fake news, theater craft, and more recently, clickbait fascism and reality TV fascism.
Reading books by reporters in authoritarian countries, it is understood that governments run by dictators always lie — they never tell the truth. So when other world leaders react, they often are furthering unreality.
I have warned repeatedly about the damage inflicted on the world when a nation as powerful as the United States has a regime devoted to lying, constantly manipulating reality to serve their own kleptocratic thirst and that of their masters.
We have a real, malignant problem when we can’t trust whether events are real or staged, when we no longer have a shared narrative of truth.
Trump’s regime functions like a KGB Charm School Grads Community Theater Group, presenting chaos, violence, cruelty, grievance, and always angling for ratings.
It’s a tragedy presenting as an incompetent village production.
In order to remain rooted in truth, you just have to assume they are always lying.
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Okay, the caption for the photo made me nervous—some igit isn’t going to get the dripping sarcasm…and will take the photo apart from the context—THEY ALWAYS LIE—