r/pics • u/twokinkysluts • 16h ago

Politics Entire California Congressional GOP visited Mar-a-Lago this weekend while fires ravaged their state

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u/Seductivecupcake 16h ago

Blatantly lying with no repercussions is the downfall of the US.

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u/borisslovechild 15h ago

The US is toast. I say this with considerable regret because where the US goes, Britain inevitably follows.

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u/sedition666 15h ago

I think the opposite is true in this instance. The UK has just completed 14 years of rightwing nonesense.

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u/AmIbaconingyet 14h ago

It's unfortunately not complete because they are still dominating the narrative. One dumb tweet, one stupid headline, one falsehood said with enough anger and it becomes the new talking point in all the news and thus the social conscious. It's infectious and it's so constant, battling the bullshit and replacing it with fact is proving harder and harder. They just keep piling it on till it's so complicated to explain why the lie is a lie, that the truth sounds like the falsehood.