#Demagogues

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear." Hannah Arendt.

[bostonwalks]

The path to peace in the Middle East. Regime change in Iran!

[tribalephemeral]

Small Talk

Small Talk ….but there wasn’t any error, all the lies –:came together, no one questioned them;{ all alerting others to the weather .– singularly absent of demagogues ..::a spectacle was joined ever nightly *..#inside, the notes were compiling upon a desk . . { From my 2017 book Synaptic Syntactic available on major platforms such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo, as well as direct…

[ehj3]

NIGHT AND DAY

“You know I work all day / To get you money to buy you things” —John Lennon & Paul McCartney I happened to be driving down a rural two-lane blacktop further away from encroaching urbanity than I usually venture. Sharing the road with giant semis, slightly smaller pickup trucks, a lot of SUVs, and the occasional always inconsiderate BMW. On a straight multi-mile stretch of road between strip…

[cynicalclassicist]

It's disturbing to think that no matter how many facts we throw at people a lot of them will just ignore it when they can remain addicted to the lies of demagogues.

[ilions-end]

euripides' hecuba will be my first athenian play of the year. oof this is gonna hurt, isn't it

also the opening segment talking about "that wily knave, that honey-tongued demagogue Odysseus"... one day i'm gonna run out of ancient plays and i'm going to miss athen's wickedly pragmatic shitheel odysseus so much. i find him as interesting as the homeric one at this point

[theresolutedesk]

The 47th president of the United States is, by colloquial and common definition, a Demagogue.

He is making his way towards becoming a Tyrant.

He uses emotions and his speaking ability to appeal to the people on the grounds that their problems stem from 'Other People', and they are to be blamed.

He lies and attacks the 'Deep State', his chosen elite.

He has fundamentally changed the way people view the United States and the presidency.

He has gone against established norms, especially in international affairs.

All in the name of 'the people', and 'smaller government'.

[forgottenbones]

Com'è che questi pare c'abbiamo sempre una paresi facciale quando salgono sul podio per gasare le masse*?

*ho detto ciò che ho detto

Notevole il punto interrogativo alla fine della frase.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be fools." Henry Louis Mencken.

[catgirltoes]

*twirling my hair and giggling and kicking my feet* Gosh, I could totally be a political provocateur. I should start writing pamphlets. The girlies love my inflammatory rhetoric.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Das Geheimnis des Agitators ist, sich so dumm zu machen, wie seine Zuhörer sind, damit sie glauben, sie seien so gescheit wie er.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself appear as stupid as his followers, so that they imagine themselves to be as clever as he is.

—Karl Kraus, Sprüche und Widersprüche, pt iv: Presse, Dummheit, Politik (1924)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[ehj3]

EVERYMAN EIDOLON

NOTE: I’ve tried for days to organize my thoughts about the concept that inspired the drawing above. I give up. Please consider the following paragraphs each on their own, more as a collection of aphorisms, a la Nietzsche, than a cohesive essay, thanks… “I’m not here to be perfect, I’m here to be real.” —Stefani Germanotta ONCE UPON A TIME, there were believers. There were belief makers, too.…

[saywhat-politics]

Ronald Reagan: "We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a Trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag..."

[beenbettercomic]

"Rain of Votes"

This was such a difficult comic to finish. So much stress and anxiety and now the day has happened.

But I gotta' draw those who sent me voting pics and I need to finish the story arc.

-Jimmy Purcell.

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Avatar: The Legend of Korra [2012]

[daenystheedreamer]

you did the thing where you talked about your asoiaf sona and i was like hm herm hmm about mine ever since And i found the perfect name BUT i wanted to run it by you. Jawnethyn…or jawnythyn….

always support asoiaf sonas. but jawnethyn sounds so fun. need to go to the club with jawnethyn!!