Republican Lies category archive

At the Bangor Daily News, journalism professor Joseph Hayden looks at the (right-wing) hysterics about “antifa” and concludes that it is a barrel of balderdash, a bucket of batherskate, a freight-load of fantasy, designed to derail the discourse. Here’s a snippet; follow the link for the evidence.

. . . for the most part, labeling protesters as members of “antifa” — or, as Trump likes to say, “professional anarchists” — is often either a red herring or a false flag operation used to frighten gullible citizens.

David argues that he has identified an actual “crisis actor.” And it’s not who believers in “crisis actors” would have you think it is.

Sam talks with Mike Dimondstein, President of the American Postal Workers Union.

At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy opines that Donald Trump’s comparing himself favorably to Teddy Roosevelt, like much of what Donald Trump says, flies in the face of fact. Here’s a bit of his article:

But then, of course, Trump, who never does his homework before spouting off some grandiose hogwash, once again displayed his lack of historical knowledge during the signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House, saying, “There hasn’t been anything like this since Teddy Roosevelt, I suspect.”

That is the second time this summer that someone has compared Donald Trump to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. Back in July, as South Dakota governor Kristi Noem introduced Trump prior to his speech at Mt. Rushmore, she likened him to Teddy Roosevelt as a man who “braves the dangers of the arena.”

I have recently read two Theodore Roosevelt biographies and, to paraphrase 1988 vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, “Mr. President, you’re no Teddy Roosevelt.”

Follow the link for his reasoning.

Thom and a caller discuss (and differ on) how to recover from 40 years of media concentration and right-wing propaganda.

Warning: Short ad at the end.

See the news reports David refers to at these links:
USPS considering closing post offices ahead of presidential election
Postal Service says it has ‘ample capacity’ to handle election after Trump casts doubt

And here’s a related report I saw earlier today:
Postal Union Leader Warns Assault on USPS Puts US on “Path Toward Dictatorship”

Nancy LeTourneau investigates Donald Trump and Bill Barr’s tactic of selective deception. A snippet:

But while the attorney general demonstrates that he is more interested in punishing Trump’s accusers than he is in this country’s national security, it is important to keep in mind that this whole charade is based on a lie. From the beginning, efforts to defend the president have been based on convincing everyone that the entire Trump-Russia investigation was based on the Steele dossier. Therefore, Trump and his enablers believe that if that document can be discredited, it shows that the whole thing was a hoax—or even an attempted coup.