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Lie-Ridden MAGAs Lead Benjamin Netanyahu To A Humiliating Loss In Iran
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We’ve heard so many lies as a society that most of us are practically desensitized to the evidence of it. While some of the denial and deflection reflect overt prejudice in certain areas, in many cases, it always had to do with cognitive dissonance, discomfort with change, ignorance, but never an overt endorsement of lies, although we’re getting there.
The thing about lying is that you have to keep manufacturing the evidence that proves to others (not yourself) that you’re not lying, which is how we get a ‘Trump’ character in the White House twice. MAGAs elected Trump for nothing else but to maintain the veneer, and to keep warming the waters of what they wish they were: Fair, strong, peaceful, diplomatic, accomplished, etc.
They demand nothing else from this country.
Lacking firsthand experience of what it may feel like to take personal accountability for one’s life prospects leads many of them to entirely dismiss the blatant lies he tells as isolated one-time events or the work of evil Democrats.
For a long time, MAGAs lived in constant fear that acknowledging Trump’s lies threatens to expose their own shortcomings, but now the day has come.
The problem
Keen global leaders such as Bibi Netanyahu see right through this desperate attention-courting and hope to take…
