As I said, they know exactly what they’re doing.
And he had the nerve to get all huffy over being fact checked and truthfully told his inflammatory lies were connected to the spate of bomb threats since the debate:
Saying that he condemns the violence while continuing to encourage it is less honest than Donnie refusing to condemn it. They are encouraging domestic terror.
Of course this is the problem, we, including perhaps especially me on these forums and everyone in general, spend so much time on how awful Donnie and Vance are … and they are, we have so little energy/bandwidth to talk about Harris. They suck up all the oxygen and Vance is right about one thing, lying about this gets the press to talk about the issues they want to bring up.
And, as brought up by others here already like
@Eric and
@Roller with Loomer, being irredeemably awful doesn’t hurt them, anyone paying attention knows they are irredeemably awful and their supporters want them anyway, some even more so. I dunno. I’d like to think if our media blitzed them with this story and used accurate language to report on it like terrorism and lies and racism and just plain nuts then we’d be better off - it would certainly make for a nice change of pace. But the cynical, depressed part of me wonders if it would matter at all. We’ve normalized their behavior so much … plus except for a few spasms like above I’m not sure the once vaunted institutions of press are capable of holding them to account. It’s all very depressing.
