DrALJONES<p>"Bully lies" are so blatantly false as to be impossible to believe.</p><p>Their purpose is to force people to publicly choose between truth & slavish public obesiance to the autocrat.</p><p>Choosing to side with truth publicly marks one as "enemy of the state".</p><p>Trump's "Bully Lies" are from the autocrat's handbook.</p><p><a href="https://www.thisamericanlife.org/855/thats-a-weird-thing-to-lie-about" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thisamericanlife.org/855/thats</span><span class="invisible">-a-weird-thing-to-lie-about</span></a> </p><p>Reading from Surviving Autocracy:<br><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565060/surviving-autocracy-by-masha-gessen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5</span><span class="invisible">65060/surviving-autocracy-by-masha-gessen/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThisAmericanLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThisAmericanLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBullyLie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBullyLie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MashaGessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MashaGessen</span></a> .</p>