Republican Lies category archive
Twits on Twitter 0
A twit who lost his spadoinkle.
Coup, Me? 0
Thom discusses Republicans’ seditious actions. He quotes from a speech by George Washington:
Cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust domination.
Jim Crow Keeps Rising from the Grave 0
And this surprises you how?
Misdirection Play, Merchants of Death Dept. 0
Kevin McDermott deciphers the doubletalk.
Misdirection Play, Invalid Syllogism Dept. 0
Thom gets into the weeds.
Birth of a Nation 0
Thom discusses the origins of today’s Republican Party.
Aside:
Would that I were as optimistic as he.
Making Book 0
Another member of the Trump administration (sic) comes out with yet another self-serving book.
Aside:
I know them both. Sheetz is okay, but Wawa rocks.
The Fear Marketplace of Ideas 0
Along these lines, in the context of a longer editorial about efforts to ban books in schools because reading books might lead to (gasp!) thinking, my local rag today points out
All the News that Fits (and Very Little of the News that Doesn’t) 0
At northjersey.com, Jim Beckerman reports on the news that wasn’t reported. A snippet:
We waited and waited.
There was one reference, somewhere between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. A shooting in Buffalo had occurred, Fox told its viewers, and people were dead. But no elaboration, no commentary, no on-the-scene interviews. Perhaps 15 seconds, all told.
He goes on theorize that this was because the shooter embraced “replacement theory,” which a number of Fox News voices have been spreading energetically.
Follow the lin for his reasoning.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The Associated Press skewers the half-truths and pretzel logic of a recent film that claims to verify voluminous voter fraud.
The short version: the pile of photographic propaganda proves primarily that propagandists prevaricate.
Follow the link for facts.