BlackoutThat feeling you get after you are caught telling a little white lie over nothing but instead of coming out with the simple truth you double down & it was accepted and you finally feel relief.
saltescIt wasn’t accepted how you think.
The other person still saw right through your bullshit but let it fly through a combination of a) they can’t be bothered to not play along; b) they do the same bullshit too and expect you to “accept” too when their time comes.
littleblue✨Ah, a student of politics too, I see
The final gambit is to excoriate them at the first opportunity, exposing them for being a dirty fibber
Or:
c) calling you out on it releases such a political shitstorm that it is better to just leave it at that.
For example when you try to hide the fact that your favorite tailor blowed up a high ranking politician in order to establish a tenuous military alliance.