Biden’s Bad Faery Tale: Counter-Spectacle

President Biden gets the power of Disinfolklore.net when he speaks of Trump’s use of the Jan 6th Insurrectionists in his rallies as a “Bad Faery tale.” @Potus speaks of how if we read in a novel about a US President who participated in an insurrection using that participation as a platform for election, we wouldn’t believe it.

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Counter-spectacle in action. Biden names the spectacle for what it is: a “Bad Faery tale.” By invoking the framework of fiction — if you read this in a novel, you would not believe it — Biden breaks the spectacle’s fourth wall. The moment we recognise the spectacle as a story, it loses its power over us. This is the move from Watcher to Trito: naming the narrative as Disinfolklore.

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