Great thread - how to counter the Trump "Firehose of Outrageousness"

[NewJeffCT]

From the brilliant Teri Kanefield - taking the "Firehose of Falsehood" and elevating it to the Firehose of Outrageousness

Link to tweet

(Thread) The Outrage Dilemma

Staying sane—and saving democracy— under a Firehose of Outrageousness.

The Rand Corp. describes the extremely effective Firehose of Falsehoods propaganda method: a rapid, continuous barrage of outrageous falsehoods.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

1/ Trump, who adopted the method from Putin, is a natural at this.

From the researchers: “Don’t expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with a squirt gun of truth.”(p.9)

Playing whack-a-lie will wear you out. Trump can reel off several lies in a minute.

[lunatica]

1. It says aim your Firehose of facts not at the Firehose of missinformation

but at the people they’re aimed at with similar tactics.

Yes. Informed people have a very good advantage in fighting missinformation.

Which is why Cruella DeVos is busy undermining education. And Dick Cheney’s wife Lynn has been writing propaganda faux American history books for elementary school glorifying our history and ignoring the bad stuff.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Yes

and why the DHS was purged and so many changes happening at DoJ and elsewhere