Trump’s obsession with control and partisan fakery hijacked America’s 250th—turning a celebration into a spectacle of greed, celebrity, and chaos. #CorruptCelebrations #PostTruthPolitics

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The War Over America’s Birthday Party

As plans for the festivities became Trumpier, allies of the president tried to oust Republican commissioners.

The Atlantic

#PostTruthPolitics, #PostFactualPolitics or #PostRealityPolitics, is a political culture in which facts are considered irrelevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth_politics

Post-truth politics - Wikipedia

"Half-truths and full lies are more concerned with diverting political consciousness and consumption to the trenches of identity and lifestyle preoccupation, and away from more critical areas such as the political and economic decisions relating to our standard of living, and even the very education system that troubles the media because of a nonexistent cat child."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/girl-didnt-identified-as-a-cat-post-truth-politics-media-gender-identity

It doesn’t matter if a girl identified as a cat (she didn’t). The issue is how post-truth politics exploits it

We pay a high price for the rows and divisions created by the right and its media allies to distract from their failings, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian
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