I was thinking today about the creep’s latest conspiracy theory — his claim that his predecessor’s presidential pardons don’t count because some of them may have been signed with an autopen. It’s a completely idiotic assertion, particularly given the number of times that he himself<\/i> signed via autopen during his first term.<\/p>\n
Of course the assertion itself doesn’t actually make any sense. But I don’t think that making sense was the point of this latest bit of craziness.<\/p>\n
I think the point of all of his wild falsehoods and actions — claiming that Ukraine started the war that Russia started by invading Ukraine, randomly deporting university professors for no reason, I could go on and on here — is to relentlessly pile one obvious falsehood on top of another, so as to continually stoke rage, to the point where the very concept of rational discussion breaks down.<\/p>\n
If there can no longer be rational discussion, then truth doesn’t matter. And that’s how autocrats destroy democracies on their way to absolute power.<\/p>\n
So sure, the creep is once again being crazy. But he is being crazy like a fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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