alternative-facts

Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?

The truth is that our self-deceptive lies range from seemingly tiny untruths to massive life-altering falsehoods about reality.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

When you've grown up mis-educated, surrounded by fear and hate, unaware of your privilege, lies can sound like the truth.

Two half truths don't make one truth.

It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that__ exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it__ so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is.

Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least_ought_to be true.

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.

Truthful hyperbole_ is a contradiction in terms. It__ a way of saying, __t__ a lie, but who cares?__