In other news: water is wet
Sorry, that’s a total smartass dick comment, just kinda gettin in the bandwagon and voicing my existing frustration.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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You have a right to be angry. We should all be very angry.
The "both sides" in the comments are exhausting.
Trump administration is literally denying video evidence, and using AI to manipulate photos in newspapers.
One is way more fucking bad than the other. And shame on you if you can't tell the fucking difference.
They can tell the difference. But you'd be amazed at the mental gymnastics someone with extremely strong motivations can engage in.
You gotta remember that these are mostly people who went back to the Trump trough three times in a row, even as he's been steadily destabilizing and destroying their lives. If they admit they fucked up now, they have to admit they've been fucking up for over a decade, non-stop. Many of them would literally rather die than do that.
I worked for a newspaper a couple decades ago. AP Photographers were getting fired for cropping suggestively or removing power lines for composition.
This is an insane time to be alive.
I was going to say that I don't understand why they put any effort into faking anything if they're going to blatantly lie about what we've all seen.
However, there's a reason to fake things. It's not to convince people that the faked things are real. It's to convince people that the real things are faked.
Edit: typo
I strongly believe this has been happening for years.
Lying to the public has been a thing since government existed.
It’s just more blatant now.