Eric Vitiello

“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul - all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been - arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul - it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.”
― Oliver Kornetzke

“Also, Botox is a $2.8 billion per year cosmetic industry, because millions of people inject it into their face to reduce wrinkles and appear younger.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“The Barnum effect—the propensity to derive personal meaning from statements that could apply to many people—helps explain why certain individuals can become susceptible to hokum peddlers”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery

“In his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler put forth the theory that “in the big lie there is a force of credibility.” He imagined “untruths so colossal” that the public “would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” In these passages, he was accusing Jews and Marxists of using the rhetorical Big Lie to start World War I. (Accusing others of using the Big Lie is a good way to deploy the Big Lie.) But really, he was writing a guidebook that he would later follow.”
― Rex Sorgatz, The Encyclopedia of Misinformation: A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, ... ... ... Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery