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I'm so curious about this. Full disclosure I consider myself a "left facing pragmatist." Which basically means I would be indistinguishable from a "right facing pragmatist" apart from the direction I would like to move in.

But anyway, I'm sure everyone has heard by now of the Israel Palestine conflict. Minutes after the opening salvo pretty much the entire right wing was trying to blame Biden (of course, who else) for giving Iran 6 billion dollars. That was a lie, as the 6 billion to which they refer was actually Iran's own money. But instead of backing off the doubled down and insisted that being able to use 6 billion for one thing freed up 6 billion for attacks. So naturally it is now being reported that Iran never got the monet and in fact it's being frozen.

Don't right wingers feel even a little bit mad that they were lied to? And to be fair the outrage may very well be part of the reason Biden thought to have the 6 billion frozen, but that could have been brought to his attention without lies. Because it seems the reason for the lies is because the benefit is it increases the chance of scoring political crits but the cost is nonexistent because right wing voters don't hold their liars accountable..

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-to-hold-off-on-disbursing-6-billion-in-iran-oil-revenue-unfrozen-in-prisoner-deal-4007cc51