Why this lie is important

[a2zmom]

Yesterday, press secretary Sean Spicer had this to say to the press: (I am copying this from The Atlantic)

Yesterday, at a time when our nation and the world was watching the peaceful transition of power and, as the president said, the transition and the balance of power from Washington to the citizens of the United States, some members of the

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[carlyinrome]

I was absolutely floored when I heard that alternative fact bullshit. I mean, that was Smith's job in Nineteen Eighty-Four. I can't decide if these people really are this ignorant and un-self-aware, or if they think they're pulling a fast one. Either way, it's terrifying.

[a2zmom]

It's extremely terrifying as they try to convince people that objective truth does not exist.

[kita0610]

He's not talking to us. He's talking to his supporters, which is just as scary, only in a different way. Basically, he's demanding they accept his truth which they will bc it's either that or admit they were wrong, which most folks do not like to do. This sows discord among every citizen paying attention- whether they're paying attention to him or the facts. Basically, he's brewing a mini (or not so mini) civil war, so he can rape* the country without us noticing.

*I hate this word and do not use it lightly. But this is literally what Mango Mussolini is doing.

[evil_little_dog]

I was gobsmacked when I read that online earlier today - I'd been cheering that the women's march(es) had a larger turnout than Trump's inauguration.

Then I read that and was like, "What the what?"

Yeah, it's very, very scary.

[rahirah]

I'm slightly encouraged that the media (or parts of it) seems to have grown a spine and is pushing back on this -- though it would have been nice if they'd started doing so last year. :P

[kita0610]

Problem is he's decided he's only going to answer questions from members of the press who are nice to him (read: kiss his orange ass). So anyone pushing back is going to get less and less access. Not that it matters, I guess. It's not as if he's saying anything truthful anyway. I was worried we were headed to Nazi Germany, but it's feeling more like N Korea.

[beer_good_foamy]

Which, presumably, is also why Conway is now calling for Trump to "put in his own security and intelligence community."

A separate organisation for handling "intelligence" and, ahem, "security", personally answerable to the president. That sounds great, doesn't it? How come nobody's tried that before?

[carlyinrome]

That's deeply awful, though not the first time I've heard it from their camp. I read some reports that the Secret Service made multiple requests to Trump's people to eliminate their own private security force, which was violent with protestors and inept on a level that interfered with the Secret Service's ability to perform their jobs, but Trump was like, "Nah." (Also, I would have lost my shit with that woman spending ten minutes evading actual questions to talk about the president's dickcrowd size. Infuriating.)

[beer_good_foamy]

Even if Trump's private SA are that incompetent, it all starts looking like a nation-wide version of the Altamont disaster. And if someone gets them properly organised, well...

Conway seems a perfect fit for Trump. At least she'll keep Kate McKinnon working for the next four years.