Notes | Brutkey

The Propaganda Professor reviews a disinformation effort that parallels the Republican use of constant repetition of the same set of lies until they are regarded as truth.

This time, Republicans are using saturation: the echo of the same falsehood from multiple directions at once.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#propagandaprofessor

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In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson goes into a few important details as the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics merges with
Trump’s approach to his involvement in the Epstein case,
the sudden, easily disproven overwrought accusations against President Obama (Really? Obama?),
and his laughable legal filing against the Wall Street Journal.

They all join in a discernible pattern.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#heathercoxrichardson

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In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson goes into a few important details as the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics merges with
Trump’s approach to his involvement in the Epstein case,
the sudden, easily disproven overwrought accusations against President Obama (Really? Obama?),
and his laughable legal filing against the Wall Street Journal.

They all join in a discernible pattern.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#heathercoxrichardson

This was not considered Woke in 1949:

tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has a fuzzy time with math during Trump’s fun‑with‑numbers fantasy as he claims to have lowered drug prices to way, way below zero, then even again below zero 15 more times.

The rest of the gang join in as Trump’s chief economic advisor lets us know the latest jobs numbers are great if we don’t count the latest jobs numbers.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#mockpaperscissors

Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit notes a similarity shared by autocrats. When their self‑congratulatory fantasies collide with reality, they explode at anyone who fails to join in denying that reality.

Key example:
"Putin’s decreed there will be no recession, so the way he’ll do that is to tell everyone there’s no recession."
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#eb-misfit

Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has current numbers as a large majority of Americans, in fact a large and increasing majority, look at Trump’s record on
inflation,
civil rights,
immigration,
tariffs,
jobs,
natural disasters,
the Epstein case,
the Trump administration,
Trump’s job performance,
and Trump himself
(whew!)

They don’t like what they see.

Not on any of it.
Not even a little bit.
https://www.red-state-blues.com/2025/08/09/week-of-the-epstein-everlast-dodging-defending-fox-ignoring-more-trump-creepiness-lies-loathing-from-the-public-gerrymandering-racism-ice/#jobsanger