I see what trump means by fake news now!

[Dill]

(06-28-2017, 12:23 PM)xxlt Wrote: I guess it would be mildly interesting to know whether he ordered it made, or whether some underling made it to gain favor and said, "Look Mr. Trump, you were on the cover of Time again! Want to show this cover off at the golf clubs?" and Trump was to ignorant to know it was fake or didn't care if it was.

But at this point, we're parsing exactly what kind of an a-hole he is, the exact color of the flames, the depth of the depravity. It's kind of like asking if you eat something out of a dumpster if you will die of dehydration, infection, or fever. At the end of the day what does it really matter if you are dead no matter what.

He's one of the worst human beings on the planet. Exactly how a taxonomist would name him really matters little to me at this point.

Either way, putting a fake Time cover on the wall like is just another example of how he constructs a relation between himself and an imagined, desired reality.  If you can do it in pictures or on tv then it's real.

Sometimes he seems to think if publicly tweets or says things that aren't true about a subject and enough people defend him to create an "alternate" narrative then a saturation point is reached in which he himself can believe the alternative narrative. When both narratives are in the media then they can be equal real.

Propagandists have always know they could do this with mass audiences, but generally they well understood the difference between what was true and what was made up.

What I am saying is that Trump himself is swept into the illusion. He lives in it. And it works, if by that we mean it is politically effective, keeps support under Trump and Republican lawmakers.  If I can get enough photoshopped pictures on my wall and enough people to believe I won the Decathelon in the 84 Olympics then eventually I can believe it too.