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Why Do So Many Americans Ended Up Believing the Lies Pushed by the GOP?
How the science of the Big Lie & propaganda works to the GOP's advantage. Donald Trump is still insisting he won the 2020 election, despite having lost by about 7 million votes and being wiped out in the Electoral College. Science, it turns out, is on his side.Not the science of elections: the science of propaganda. New findings from psychologists at universities in California and Georgia and published in the journal Cognitive Research show that the more often a statement — regardless of its truthfulness — is repeated, the more emphatically it's believed.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom
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Tuesday's Daily Stack
Hour One: Why Do So Many Americans Ended Up Believing the Lies Pushed by the GOP?
Speech: " Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 " Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".
Was Putin Part of the Jan 6th Treason with Trump?
Article: " 8th Amendment" " Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Quote: " Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power" - George Orwell.
Quote: " There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know." - Donald Rumsfeld.
Hour Two: DNC Chair Jaime Harrison on Democratic Messaging- Jaime Harrison, DNC Chair
Is Big Oil Trying to Throw the Election to the GOP?
Fox-So-Called-News Is Endorsing Italian Fascist Melon & Want You To Believe She's the "Center" Politically
Clip: " Dank Ihrer Führung wird Deutschland sein Ziel erreichen, Heimat zu sein. Heimat zu sein für alle Deutschen der Welt." by Rudolph Hess, 1934 Nuremburg rally.
Hour Three: Was Trump Ally Roger Stone Coordinating the Jan 6th Treason Event?
Article: " 10th Amendment" " The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
Biden's Student Debt Relief Just Costs a Fraction of the Giveaway to the Uber Wealthy
What Will We Find Out From the Confiscated Secret Service Phones?
Article: " Brexit" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: " It's striking that twice in this short clip Meloni stretches to blame "financial speculators" for scheming purposefully to inflict societal ills you might think were remote from financial markets as such. That's a rhetorical theme with a history we should recognize. [video]" by Walter Olson.
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Is Big Oil Trying to Make Americans Hate Democrats?
Are Democrats Prepared for GOP Fear Mongering? Featuring Jaime Harrison
Why GOP Lies Convince So Many Americans
Why Did GOP Resurrect 1864 Law That Let 10 Year Old's Consent To Sex?
How the Republican Party Turned Into Crazy Fascists Featuring David Corn
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