Republican Lies category archive
The Republican Fantasy Land 0
Paul Krug tries to understand the Republican Party’s mass denial of objective reality. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
And while climate-change denial is a worldwide phenomenon, its epicenter is clearly here in America: Republicans are the world’s only major climate-denialist party.
Nor is climate science the only thing they reject; not one of the candidates contending for the GOP’s 2016 nomination was willing to endorse the theory of evolution.
What lies behind Republican science denial? The answer seems to be a combination of fealty to special interests and fealty to evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., who dismissed the coronavirus as a plot against Trump, then reopened his university despite health officials’ warnings, and seems to have created his own personal viral hot spot.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Farron catalogs Donald Trump’s lies about coronavirus.
The Epidemiologist Tweets 0
By the by, I was in my local supermarket yesterday, because cats need cat food, and the “Bathroom Tissue” aisle was striped bare.
Lies and Lying Liars, Going Viral Dept. 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., looks inside the bubble.
Misdirection Play, Going Viral Dept. 0
Sam comments–well, more accurately, casts scorn–on a Fox News attempt to market the notion that the coronavirus and precautions against it are parts of a plot to bring down Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, life doesn’t go on.
Afterthought:
The sad and frightening thing is that persons who spend their days hermetically sealed inside the Fox News/AM talk radio bubble will likely be susceptible to this–at least until they self-quarantine.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., tells one voter’s story–a voter who waited in line for six hours to vote in a primary–then looks at the larger picture of the voter fraud fraud. Here’s a bit:
More at the link.
(Broken link fixed.)
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and Greg Palast discusses Palast’s the recent court ruling favoring Palast’s investigation into Georgia Governor Kemp’s gut-out-the-vote strategy.
The Lies of the Land, in the Face of the Evidence Dept. 0
David discusses the willingness of Donald Trump’s dupes, symps, and fellow travelers to accept and rationalize Trump’s lies.
The Lies of the Land, Reprise 0
At the Bangor Daily News, David Farmer marvels at the magnitude of the mendacity of the Conman-in-Chief (and his entire staff).
Credit Where Credit is Undue 0
(Warning: Commercial starts at about the five minute mark.)
The Art of the Con 0
Steven M. explains what the political Ponzi scheme is Madoff.
It Doesn’t Add Up 0
At the Hartford Courant, Thomas Cangelosi does the math. A snippet:
In particular, when Ambassador Gordon Sondland said he “surmised,” based on the logic of 2+2=4, that President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into the 2016 elections, the President’s defenders that seemed to insist instead that 2+2=5.