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- orange man bad said (all) Mexicans are rapists. Classic

• "We can't wait for the final proof to come in the form of a mushroom cloud"
• "Qaddafi is about to cause a humanitarian crisis"
• "Qaddafi is taking viagra to rape young girls" - I'd be curious, do men that take viagra even really WANT to have sex or do they just want to be able to please their wife?
• "Assad is gassing his own people"
• "Russia hacked our election / Trump is a Putin puppet"
• "Trump will start WWIII"
• "January 6th was an armed insurrection"
• "Jeffrey Epstein killed himself"
• "Kyle Rittenhouse is a white supremacist that killed 2 innocent black men" / "Who is Daryl Brooks?"
• "Madeline Albright was a good moral woman that was the first female secretary of state, who tragically has passed away"
• "Gasoline prices are high because of Putin"

AmericanKulak says

* "Mostly Peaceful" Arson and up to two dozen deaths in the Sizzling Summer of 2020 (when social distancing got a medical exemption for rioters)

https://theethicalskeptic.substack.com/p/the-principle-of-diminishing-narrative

The Principle of Diminishing Narrative Returns

The pace of human discovery within a scientific discipline is inversely and exponentially proportional to the body of discovery already accomplished inside that discipline

Cognitive Load Theory suggests that a person engaged in the act of lying must process more streams of logic than a person relating a simple fact or observation. Due to our limited capacity for processing information, lying requires more time as the liar must assemble a more complicated calculus of contention. The liar needs to reconcile multiple streams of consistency: the fabricated story itself, the truth they are seeking to deflect, the perceptions and responses of the audience, and the consistency of the liar’s tale with the their previous statements or established prior art on the topic.

Lying involves continuous ‘strategic monitoring,’ where the liar constantly checks their responses against past statements to maintain consistency. This continuous monitoring increases cognitive load and slows down response times. Finally, lying can be viewed as a kind of multi-tasking: managing the lie and managing the interaction. This results in an increasing game of rhetorical deflection along with the necessity of placing the liar on a pedestal of virtue or non-assailability.

This principle is not simply a principle of human psychology; rather, it applies to large systems and organizations as well. It is a fundamental law within computation and complex systems (this is my professional domain) that system load functions in inverse proportion with its performance.

Of course we all understand the impact which bureaucracy plays in the response times of medical and governmental organizations. ...

A Narrative must answer questions progressively more slowly over time, resulting from efforts to ensure that discovery both conforms to The Narrative Line and is consistent with past established elements of narrative.

As the tangled web begins to become obvious to outsiders, a shroud of rhetoric and virtue must be established to protect The Narrative Line.

Patrick says

is consistent with past established elements of narrative.

And that is where they fuck up. They don't even try to maintain the consistency -- because their Narrative is sooo fucked up.

Annnndddd...serendipity delivers me this perfect example just now:

https://sashastone.substack.com/p/the-deep-state-meets-the-honey-badger

Of course, Bannon would rather go to jail than capitulate to the Deep State. Haven’t they been paying attention? If they knew Bannon, really knew him, they’d know he’d remain defiant in the face of their tyranny...

They continue to lie to themselves that they are being prosecuted and jailed for real crimes, and all of this is above board, totally normal, and the only way democracy can survive.

The MAGA movement and all American citizens who aren’t part of the ruling class, who don’t have the deep pockets the Democrats do, can’t possibly compete in any election if there isn’t ground game mobilization. That is why Bannon is such a threat. He is bringing the people together to inspire them to get involved and have a chance at winning elections now bought and paid for by the dark money the Democrats used to decry.

They are taking out Bannon because they can. They have no checks on their power. They know how influential he is, just as they knew how influential Tucker Carlson was. That’s their game. They can’t beat them with ideas or better candidates. They can only beat them by silencing them.

January 6th and the Big Lie
At the heart of the case against Steve Bannon is the real “Big Lie,” that Trump and Bannon were planning or helping to incite the attack on the Capitol. They believe both were part of a planned “insurrection,” which isn’t true.

But to know that, you’d have to have been listening to the War Room like I was, ground zero for Stop the Steal. The last thing they would have wanted was a violent riot. It stopped Trump’s efforts to debate the 2020 election in the Senate and gave absolute power to the Democrats for the foreseeable future.

That is what they wanted - a Reichstag Fire event that they could use to go to war on their own citizens. However, questions remain, such as what the FBI knew and when they knew it. Why did they leave the Capitol unprotected?

The January 6th committee also kept important information from the public, facts that would exonerate Trump, like the clip of Nancy Pelosi admitting it was on her to protect the Capitol. ...

Like Trump, Bannon is not dangerous because of who he is or what he says. He’s dangerous because he leads an army of newly awakened citizens who are inspired enough by him to use their collective voice to take back the country they love. And that is what democracy looks like.

Patrick says

Like Trump, Bannon is not dangerous because of who he is or what he says. He’s dangerous because he leads an army of newly awakened citizens who are inspired enough by him to use their collective voice to take back the country they love. And that is what democracy looks like.