Republican Lies category archive
What Happened Happened 0
The writer of a letter to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch points out that it can be done: Yes, you can teach history without teaching the dreaded and degrading (to white children according to Republicans, that is) critical race theory.
History through White-Colored Glasses 0
South Dakota’s governor wants to teach a “true and honest” (sic) version of American history that somehow does not mention America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
As someone who trained as an historian and whose ancestors wore the grey, I find the denial delusional. And vile beyond words.
Afterthought:
If one’s only option for protecting one’s political position is to lie to oneself (and others, including students), perhaps there’s something wrong with one’s political position.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Excerpt:
They (Republicans–ed.) talk about winning the battle of ideas. They have lost the battle of ideas. . . . They are winning with gerrymandering, they are winning with making voting difficult . . . .
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See the news report that David discusses.
Devolution 0
Rex Huppke is less than optimistic about the fate of the polity; he fears that glorification of stupid which has taken root in some quarters does not bode well. Here’s just a tiny a bit from his article (emphasis added):
You can draw a straight line from the glorification of numbskullery and the rejection of facts to the Jan. 6 attack.
Yet somehow, since Jan. 6, the stupidity being peddled has only gotten worse. Trump and an astonishing array of Republicans and right-wing media types continue to insist the 2020 election was stolen. There is zero evidence to support that and, in fact, even the former president’s most loyal flunkies who have ham-handedly “audited” election results in various states have come up with zilch.
Vaccine Nation 0
Paul Krugman makes sense of the senselessness. A snippet (emphasis in the original).
So none of this makes any sense — not, that is, unless you realize that Republican vaccine obstructionism isn’t about serving a coherent ideology, it was and is about the pursuit of power. A successful vaccination campaign would have been a win for the Biden administration, so it had to be undermined using any and every argument available.
Dis Coarse Discourse, Pretzel Logic Dept. 0
This torrent of demented drivel defending the Trumpettes’ attack on the Capitol a year ago yesterday astounds in its absurdity.
Let me summarize it for you: They were wrong but they had legitimate questions about the elect–they shouldn’t have done it but they were aggreiv–oh, hell. I’ll just go solve a maze instead.
He can’t bring himself to admit that they fell and are still falling for Trump’s Big Lie. Instead, he chooses to pretend that said lie was somehow legitimate.
We are a society of stupid.
Debunking De Bunk 0
In a long, detailed article, the AP’s David Klepper tears apart what his story identifies as “the five top falsehoods” about the January 6 insurrection, which are spreading in right-wing and “social” media. Here’s a bit of debunking; follow the link for the rest of de bunk.
CLAIM: THE RIOTERS WEREN’T VIOLENT
Dozens of police officers were severely injured. One Capitol Police officer who was attacked and assaulted with bear spray suffered a stroke and died a day later of natural causes.
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who rushed to the scene, said he was “grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country.” The assault stopped only when he said he had children. He later learned he had suffered a heart attack. Fanone resigned from the department in December 2021.
Rioters broke into the Senate chamber minutes after senators had fled under armed protection. They rifled through desks and looked for lawmakers, yelling, “Where are they?” In House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, staffers hid under desks while rioters called out the name of the California Democrat.
That’s not how some Republican politicians have described the insurrection.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Georgia county claims that closing all but one polling place will make voting easier.
In other news, down is up, left is right, and pigs have wings.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Village People Dept. 0
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