Republican Lies category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, John Hill debunks de bunk. A snippet (emphasis added):
“If We Don’t Talk about It, Then It Must Not Have Happened” 0
The Trump maladministration’s attempt to expurgate America’s history of the parts is doesn’t like continues apace.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
The editorial board of the Bangor Daily News hears a rhyme. Here’s the rhyme; follow the link for context.
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*Mark Twain.
Health Care Hallucinations 0
It sure sounds as if RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again report was written with AI. Here’s the lede:
Seven of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all.
And this guy’s in charge of HHS.
Much more at the link.
Vaccine Nation 0
Farron comments on what happens when a science denier is put in charge of an agency that (supposedly) relies on science.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The New Secesh’s efforts to white-wash (I use that term advisedly) America’s history find another target.
On May 20, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed all park units to display the signs to comply with President Donald Trump’s earlier executive order, which claims that U.S. history has been distorted by ideology and seeks to counter what it describes as revisionist narratives that portray the country’s past in a negative light.
To translate, the words
portray the country’s past in a negative light
is New Speak for
tell the truth about.
Our Society Is in Decay 0
Exhibit One: Florida Man.
Afterthought:
I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to posit that today’s Republican Party has abandoned the concept of “promoting the general welfare.”
The Rule of Lawless 0
“Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the Don:
Vaccine Nation 0
Sam and the crew play a video of RFK Jr., Secretary of HHS, saying that people should not take medical advice from him.
So Sam and the crew wonder, what’s the point of having a Department of Health and Human Services if you can’t take health advice from it?
Afterthought:
The Trump maladministration is succeeding at one thing: Undermining the credibility of the federal government.
Which, methinks, may not by accident.
The Lies of the Land 0
Thom dissects how and why big (Republican) lies work and lists a litany of said lies.
As an aside, his arguments are consistent with points made by Vanessa LoBue, whose Psycnology Today article I mentioned yesterday.
Fantasy World 0
Yes, Virginia, there is an alternate universe.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
At the Charlotte Observer, Gene Nichol lists four lessons learned from the thwarting of the recent attempt by North Carolina Republicans to steal the election of a justice of the N. C. State Supreme Court through bogus charges of voter fraud.
But it seems that the voter fraud fraudsters just won’t give up.
The Artifice of the Deal, Reprise 0
David marvels at the mumbo-jumbo. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
The Rule of Lawless 0
At Above the Law, Kathryn Rubino notes that Donald Trump has now set his sights on British lawyer and International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan for (gasp!) prosecuting. She goes on to note that
Trump’s bold sanction play for lawyers doing their jobs is yet another attack on the rule of law.
The distressing details are at the link.
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.