Reality Assassins — Lock ‘Em Up
We know that deliberate lies are creating fake realities designed to push people to overthrow their own democracies. Time to toughen our stance against these assassins of reality
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Doesn’t matter how long I’ve been doing this work, the hours before a major investigation drops always feel like Christmas Eve. I can’t wait to wake up and see my latest Hot Type column in Byline tomorrow and, of course, will share an excerpt here.
I hope my words in tomorrow’s paper are helpful in enriching our understanding that liars like Trump and Vance and Musk and Flynn are using lies to create fake worlds, and in those worlds, people are being encouraged to overthrow their own governments. The people don’t know they are stooges for fascism — they think they are patriots. They have lost touch with reality, because a reality star is killing reality one lie at a time.
If we view GOP leaders and their technofascist allies as reality assassins, using techniques created by Russian political technologists that were initially detonated on the Russian people to create a death cult, it’s easier to understand what is happening to people and why they are living in false realities.
Join me in demanding a return to decency and a return to a fact-based world. All Trump & Co. have are their well-funded lies, and they use them because they’re trying very hard to seize power, and they need brainwashed stooges to get them there.
They are part of a transnational criminal gang trying very hard to avoid prison for a variety of felons, as I will prove in tomorrow’s Hot Type column.
We must view them as reality assassins. We must understand that the lies are deliberate and that those who force people to live in fake realities have a lot in common with Jim Jones and Vladimir Putin.
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Lastly, thank you to everyone who bought a copy of my latest ebook — American Monsters: The Book, a compilation of the first 15 investigations into the network accelerating global fascism. Please share the link with anyone who might be interested.
Although I redacted the dedication and acknowledgments, I left the zebra lines off Jim and HiFi’s names. We’re seeing this through to victory and beyond.
Thank you to everyone who believes that reality and democracy are worth saving.
Let’s give Spencer Tracy in 1960’s “Inherit the Wind” the final word.
“Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. And with banners flying and drums beating, we'll be marching backward through the glorious ages of that 16th Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment to the human mind.”
We’ve seen this before. We’ve defeated it before.
LFG.
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Image courtesy John R. Johnson adopted from the pre-code Paul Muni film, “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” — 1932
