There is an expression which is especially salient in today's political environment: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
A few days ago, a mentally imbalanced man, David DePape, broke into Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home with the intention of kidnapping her and physically harming her.
The deranged fool was too stupid to check the Congressional calendar to see whether or not she was in DC!
It has become obvious from his social media posts that DePape was inspired to attack Pelosi by the non-stop vitriol by the right wing fake news propagandists against Pelosi. It didn't help that people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, while trying to make a name for herself, called for the execution of Nancy Pelosi.
So after the attack, it became a matter of urgency for those same right wing propagandists to deflect blame away from themselves, and the one thing these liars excel at is gaslighting their followers.
Thus was immediately born the false claim that DePape broke into the Pelosi home in his underwear.
This was completely false. A lie manufactured in thin air. Gaslighting 101.
But the fake news media didn't stop there.
They decided they needed even more deflection from their culpability and decided to manufacture an even bigger lie and claim DePape and Pelosi were gay lovers, and that this fight was a "lover's quarrel".
Again, a lie manufactured in thin air.
Of course, to protect themselves from lawsuits, they surrounded these lies with "maybes" and "perhaps" and "it is possibles". But they knew full well their credulous followers would swallow those lies whole and instantly began parroting them as FACT far and wide.
But the propagandists did not stop there. Oh hell no. They need maximum gaslightage to deflect from the obvious sources of DePape's terrorist act.
So they decided to make DePape a gay prostitute hired by Pelosi.
Again, pure manufactured bullshit. Incredible, no?
And the rubes instantly took it as truth and are working double overtime to deflect, deflect, and deflect, all at the bidding of the liars who lie to them.
Of course, the actual facts will all come out in court. But by then, the rube herd will have been thoroughly gaslighted and will refuse to follow the trial. Again, at the behest of those who weaponized DePape to commit his terroristic act.
And thus the foundation of the next terrorist act has been laid.
No, the attacker wasn't arrested in his underwear. And, no, the attacker wasn't a "friend."
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The right wing outrage machine must be held accountable. Their lies can no longer be tolerated.
The weaponization of the weak-minded.
