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@TheAtlantic and @SNFAgoraJHU Author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine, Twilight of Democracy and now AUTOCRACY INC find me more often on the blue site

Oct 4, 2020, 5 tweets

Since I wrote this, Trump had himself photographed "working": signing a blank piece of paper, with a binder photoshopped in afterwards to make it seem more serious. He can't even lie competently. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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OK there are disagreements about the use of photoshop. Let's just say the pictures were very obviously staged.

And yes, of course we are all now paranoid. We are meant to be paranoid. That's the point of the White House's endless, repetitive, constant lying, it's designed to make us that way.

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