{"id":3802,"date":"2020-09-23T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T20:26:10","slug":"the-power-of-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/politics\/the-power-of-propaganda","title":{"rendered":"The power of propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/lifestyle\/celebrities\/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods\/\">https:\/\/golf.com\/lifestyle\/celebrities\/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods\/<\/a> tells what I suspect is a pretty accurate story about Trump&#8217;s character. We know that almost all of his business ventures have ended up bankrupt &#8211; which I think is what he&#8217;s trying to do to the country itself, so his conservative buddies can steal all of our social security money.<\/p>\n<p>However, conservative news sources sell the idea that Trump is a good businessman, and conservatives buy the lie. There&#8217;s no convincing them that it is a lie &#8211; and here&#8217;s the part I find really puzzling. Over and over it Trump gets *caught* in his lies &#8211; like his firing of the pandemic team, his insistence that the pandemic would blow over, etc &#8211; and yet I can safely bet that my conservative friends have either already forgotten this fact or will conveniently forget it when it comes time to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio-768x1060.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/HitlerRadio.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, https:\/\/golf.com\/lifestyle\/celebrities\/how-why-president-trump-cheats-golf-playing-tiger-woods\/ tells what I suspect is a pretty accurate story about Trump&#8217;s character. We know that almost all of his business ventures have ended up bankrupt &#8211; which I think is what he&#8217;s trying to do to the country itself, so his conservative buddies can steal all of our social security money. However, conservative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}