Republican Lies category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Ron Fournier is the father of a fully functional son who is on the autism spectrum and a member of the board of the Autism Alliance of Michigan. At the Detroit Free Press, he–er–expresses some skepticism as to RFK Jr.’s intent to conduct “studies” to blame autism on vaccines. Here’s tiny bit of his article; the whole piece is worth a read:
What I’m not OK with: President Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spending taxpayers’ money on phony studies with rigged outcomes to support their conspiracy theories ? or with RFK’s plans to reportedly pursue those studies by collecting Americans’ private health data.
Dye Hard 0
Farron takes a look at how RFK Jr. cherry-picks data and misquotes studies to sell his snake oil. (Warning: Farron gets rather heated and uses a bit of language.)
Republican Thought Police 0
Robert Reich argues that, in these Trumpled times, truth is in peril. Here’s a bit of his column:
Not even the truth is safe.
Go read the rest.
The Rule of Lawless 0
The quiet part is now out loud.
All the News that Fits 0
Dan Perry argues that confusion is the game plan. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.
This is why Trump won’t shut up about “the fake news” and declares the media the “enemy of the people,” a phrase borrowed from Stalinist Russia. That’s why his stooges actually speak of “alternative facts.” That’s why characters like Elon Musk will try to present the news media as “elites” pursuing some dark agenda to silence the valiant voices of the ordinary citizen (on social media, of course).
The Woman without a Country? 0
The Trump maladministration orders a native-born U. S. citizen to deport herself.
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts has more on Republicans’ mean for the sake of mean.
Video via C&L, which has commentary.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s what Trump and Musk are trying to do to retirees who want to collect their social security.
Number Gamers 0
The Late Show does the math.
Special Bonus QOTD 0
Chris Potter, in the voice of Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan:
For some fool reason, this made me think of someone in the news.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron debunks de bunk that Trump and the Trumpettes spew to justify sending persons who don’t look like them to concentration camps (I do not use that term loosely) in foreign countries.
Trump has succeeded in at least one thing.
He has made me ashamed of being an American.
Republican Thought Police 0
In the midst of a longer article about the right-wing propaganda machine, Yastreblyansky makes the following observation, which methinks is right on the mark:
Signal Achievements, Reprise 0
Emma and the crew discuss the increasingly obvious incompetence of the Trump maladministration, with a focus on “signalgate.” (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
Afterthought:
In a video clip, Donald Trump says, “To be honest with you.”
Yeah. Right.
Vaccine Nation 0
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a vaccine against the epidemic of stupid.
Now, the Gaslighter 0
Mary Trump, who just happens to be Donald Trump’s niece and has known him all of her life, dissects the dissimulation.
This New Gilded Age 0
This dude has clearly never worried about where his next meal was coming from.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
A Tune for the Times 0
The Parody Project points out that the art of the steal is the Trump new deal.