Republican Lies category archive
Gutting Out the Vote, a Long-Term View 0
Amanda Marcotte find the implications of Republicans willingness to deny and dispute the results of the recent election, maintaining that it was somehow “stolen” despite all evidence to the contrary, to be somewhat disquieting. Here’s a bit from her article at Salon; follow the link for the rest.
In the same vein, Werner Herzog’s Bear dissects what he refers to as the ersatz (my words) “crisis of legitimacy.”
A Pecedented Presidency, Yet Again 0
And if it can’t find a precedent, it just makes one up.
Afterthought:
Whatever happened to “contempt of court”?
This seems as contemptuous as contemptuous gets.
A Precedented Presidency, Reprise 0
At the Bangor Daily News, University of Maine Professor Amy Fried recounts Donald Trump’s long history of temper tantrums levy=eling charges of fraud when he doesn’t get his way.
(Misplet wrod correxed.)
Strategization 0
Along the same lines, David Atkins tries to make sense of what’s happened to the Republican Party. A nugget:
Image via Juanita Jean.
“Pointing and Laughing” 0
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
We are a society of stupid.
The Poison of Positive Thinking 0
Steven M. suggests that Donald Trump doesn’t believe in truth, at least not as some sort of objective thing. A nugget (emphasis added):
Trump literally doesn’t believe in truth, at least not the way you and I do. He believes he has the ability to alter reality with his mind. He takes Norman Vincent Peale’s Power of Positive Thinking far too seriously. (On the other hand, he’s a lousy businessman who’s lived like a billionaire his whole life, so maybe he does have at least some power to warp reality in his favor.
The entire piece is worth a look.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Thom and his guest discuss efforts to gut out the vote in Georgia in the lead-up to the January run-off vote.
Two Different Worlds 0
At The Denver Post, Ian Silverii contrasts reality and the MAGA Fantasy Land. A snippet:
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In the alternative reality, which we’ll call the “MAGA universe”, COVID-19 is a hoax, a conspiracy, the “China Plague” or just another common cold. The hospitals aren’t overflowing, there are more than enough ICU beds and nurses and doctors to go around, and Americans aren’t going to let politicians tell us we can’t be with our families.
Continue the tour at the linkk.
A Cavalcade of Lies 0
David dissects the deluge of dissimulation.
All the News that Fits 0
Farron explores how Newsmax invokes “the Fox News defense.” (Warning: Mild language.)
Courting Disasters 0
The writers for Night Court would have considered this too outrageous to attempt.
The Art of the Con 0
Brian Greenspun explores the scam. A snippet (emphasis added):
What also isn’t working is this American democracy, which used to pride itself as the one country on earth that exalts the peaceful and orderly transfer of power from one president to the next. It isn’t working because public servants who take an oath to uphold the Constitution — those folks would be the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who used to care about such things as our democratic norms — are AWOL.