Republican Lies category archive
Election Defiers 0
Thom talks with Jocelyn Benson, Secretary of State for Michigan, about what it was like when armed Trump supporters turned up at her house because Trump lost the 2020 election and about what may motivate such extremism.
This New Gilded Age 0
John Oliver rips Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” and how it will make the rich richer and the poor even poorer. (Warning: Mild language.)
Via C&L, which has commentary.
All the News that Fits 0
Above the Law reports that Donald Trump’s personal attorney has threatened to sue news outlets for reporting, well, news.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Seth hears a Trumpled rhyme with George Bush’s Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.
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*Mark Twain.
All the News that Fits 0
John Amato reports on a Trumpled truth-teller.
“The Big White Lines” 0
Sam and the crew find themselves somewhat taken aback by a Louisiana legislator’s bill to ban contrails (or, to use wingnut conspiracy lingo, “chem trails”).
The stupid. It burns.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier is fed up with Republicans’ lying about dying.
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.