Republican Lies category archive
Herding Trumples 0
The AP goes on the lies round-up. A snippet:
“Who’s the banana republic now?” asked newspaper headlines an ocean apart in Kenya and Colombia.
Trump leaves Joe Biden with repair work to do on the government’s credibility in a country where millions went along with their president’s fantastical ride — believing his persistent falsehoods about masks, election fraud, socialists in the halls of power, antifa rampant in the streets, his tormenters at every turn.
It’s a legacy of “magical thinking,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. “They have a full-blown independent reality, totally cut apart from the world of facts.” He said that is the road to fascism.
Misdirection Play, Insurrection Resurrection Dept. 0
Thom marvels at the Republicans’ attempts to blame anybody but themselves for what happened at the Capitol on January 6. As an aside, this segues nicely to Paul Krugman’s article linked in my previous post. (The relevant comment starts at about the four minute mark, after the introduction.)
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Paul Krugman marvels at the mendacity. A snippet:
For the big thing that has changed since Hofstadter wrote is that one of our major political parties has become willing to tolerate and, indeed, feed right-wing political paranoia.
This coddling of the crazies was, at first, almost entirely cynical. When the GOP began moving right in the 1970s, its true agenda was mainly economic — what its leaders wanted, above all, were business deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. But the party needed more than plutocracy to win elections, so it began courting working-class whites with what amounted to thinly disguised racist appeals.
Those “racist appeals” he mentioned weren’t even “disguised,” not even “thinly,” to the eyes of anyone who pays attention.
Freedom of Screech, One More Time 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu explains that words can have consequences. A snippet:
Choosing the Low Road 0
Thom discusses why the Republican Party fears honest elections.
“The Red Hats Are Coming! The Red Hats Are Coming!” 0
Stephen’s monologue from Wednesday evening was a tour de force.
Phoning It In 0
Seth takes a look at Republican efforts to steal the Presidential election.
The Lies of the Land 0
David Atkins marvels at the circular reasoning of seditious Republicans seeking to perpetuate the presidency of the petulant pestilence. A snippet (emphasis added):
It’s a perfect self-referential paradox of propaganda. Lie to millions of Americans in order to justify destroying democracy, then use the fact that millions of Americans believed your lies as the reason to try to do so, regardless of the validity of the underlying claims.
The Brother Hunt 0
Two of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe novels concerned finding family: The Father Hunt and The Mother Hunt. In both of them, Nero Wolfe solved the mystery.
Now, Donald Trump is off on a brother hunt, but Nero Wolfe he’s not.