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The Big Lie and the Elastic Truth: How to Invent a Coup
Real Clear Politics ^ | Jan 3, 2022 | Frank Miele

Posted on 01/07/2022 12:40:53 AM PST by gattaca

I’ve taken a guilty pleasure recently in watching the faux intellectuals on MSNBC and CNN pass judgment on not just Donald Trump, but also on everyone who shares his disdain for authoritarian pronouncements on COVID-19, election integrity, climate change and a host of other issues.

From what I can tell after studying Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Jake Tapper and the late, lamented Chris Cuomo, liberalism today is characterized by a low regard for the intelligence of average Americans and a very high regard for the elastic nature of language.

Essentially, words are expected to mean whatever Democrats and their media enablers want them to mean. This has been most evident in the war against Donald Trump since the 2020 election, but it was certainly in play earlier. For example, saying that Donald Trump is a “racist” meant he supports border security. Saying Donald Trump is a Russian “colluder” meant that Hillary Clinton had paid a British spy to manufacture a phony dossier implicating Trump.

But the campaign to destroy Trump really lifted into the stratosphere after the Nov. 3 election. When they called his claim that the election was stolen “the Big Lie,” what they meant was they don’t agree with him. When they said he made his claims “without evidence,” they meant “without evidence that they agree with” or that they would even look at.

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1 posted on 01/07/2022 12:40:53 AM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca

The armed rabble know the truth. Nuf sed


2 posted on 01/07/2022 12:44:14 AM PST by Equine1952
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To: gattaca
When they called his claim that the election was stolen “the Big Lie,” what they meant was they don’t agree with him. When they said he made his claims “without evidence,” they meant “without evidence that they agree with” or that they would even look at.

Yeah, when Basement Joek's "turnout" in a certain DNC-captive Florida county is 178% of The Halfrican Lightbringer's 2008 record, you have to begin to wonder.

Racism, or blatant vote fraud?

3 posted on 01/07/2022 12:45:30 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: gattaca

The date of this article is 2022, not 2021.


4 posted on 01/07/2022 12:48:04 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Equine1952

Dem’s, antifa, BLM, MSM are pulling punches.


5 posted on 01/07/2022 1:20:54 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Is this the jabbed, masked rabble that obeys Fauci at every turn? Or the armed rabble that depend on Biden for a monthly government check or healthcare.
So if you subtract those.. what is left. The left has set up a great dependent class. That’s why even the marine corp is filled with Fauci bots.


6 posted on 01/07/2022 1:21:23 AM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: equaviator

Dem’s, antifa, BLM, MSM are pulling punches. (Don’t let the smooth taste fool you because they can and will do a lot worse than what we’ve already seen.)


7 posted on 01/07/2022 1:25:35 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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The people are not stupid, we see, we know and we have had just about enough


8 posted on 01/07/2022 2:51:39 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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high regard for the elastic nature of language.

Aka

Weasels and weasel words.


9 posted on 01/07/2022 5:38:08 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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