Republican Lies category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
David debunks de bunk.
Aside:
This conspiracy theory is, indeed, laughable from the git-go, as David points out.
But it’s not really about elections.
It’s about rallying the bigots and racists who are Trump’s base.
Lies and Lying Liars Dance a Walz 0
The speed with which Republicans have moved to misrepresent, besmirch, and smear the record of Minnesota governor Tim Walz takes one’s breath away. Indeed, it might lead an optimist to conclude that Republicans are afraid that he might attract votes in November.
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy debunks de bunk spread by Idaho Republican Party chairwoman Dorothy Moon in a recent column about Walz. Here’s one bit of the bunk he debunks; follow the link for the others.
Moon begins her scrutiny of Walz by saying “Under Walz, Minnesota put tampons in boys’ bathrooms….”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop right there, Chairwoman Moon. You are off to a bad start. This is not what happened at all.
The bill Gov. Walz signed was a budget item providing free menstrual products to all students who needed them beginning in fourth grade, making Minnesota one of 28 states that currently require schools to provide period products.
Two female students, ages 14 and 16, proposed the idea to the Minnesota legislature. The girls had been taking extra tampons to school to share with classmates who could not afford them.
One of the girls summarized their efforts: “It wasn’t part of a political agenda. It was to make students feel safe.” Too bad our adult political leaders often fail to be so levelheaded.
Platform 2025 2024
0
In 2020, the Republican Party did not adopt a platform, This year, they have, and, as David points out, it is absolutely disconnected from reality nuts. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Pinball Lizard 0
Martin Schram looks at Donald Trump’s recent Mar-a-Lago they-called-it-a press conference and gets transported to the past. An excerpt:
Groundwork 0
Bernie Sanders argues that, in pretending that Kamala Harris’s crowds do not exist, Donald Trump is gearing up for big lie redux. Here’s a bit:
Sanders argued there is a “method” to Trump’s “madness.”
“Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses. If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are ‘fake’ and ‘fraudulent,’” Sanders wrote.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
That pretty much sums up what Pete Buttigieg said about J. D. Vance.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy anticipates how Republicans will treat Tim Walz.
So far, he pretty much seems to have nailed it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Lawrence O’Donnell looks at news media coverage of the Trump campaign and argues that “it’s 2016 all over again.”
Via C&L.
________________
*Mark Twain.
All That Is Old Is New Again 0
Trump plays his trump card: Birtherism all over again, and it’s just as phony the second time around.
Welfare Queen Redux 0
Sam and the crew point out that the party of New Secesh just can’t keep themselves from letting their racist flag fly.
Republican Family Values 0
Thom runs the numbers.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
TYT Sports hears many rhymes.
I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow. I know racism when I see it.
Today’s Republican Party is the party of racism.
Racism is all they got.
________________
*Mark Twain.
But It’s the Only Possible Explanation 0
At the Denver Post, Krista Kafer argues persuasively that wingnut conspiracy theorists have hit Bottoms.
