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Republican Lies category archive

The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Farron discusses how the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights act has led to gutting out the vote.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Mendacious twits.

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Consensus Census Con 0

Mike Littwin takes a deep-dive into the Trump Administration’s changing rationales for adding a citizenship question to the census. A snippet:

When Trump was asked why he was so insistent in pursuing the citizenship question, he offered up various possibilities, saying, “Number one, you need it for Congress — you need it for Congress for districting (sic). You need it for appropriations — where are the funds going? How many people are there? Are they citizens? Are they not citizens? You need it for many reasons.”

Oops. Redistricting? Number one? That’s what the question’s opponents say it’s about.

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Facebook Frolics 0

Model frolics.

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The Cavalcade of Lies 0

Ann McFeatters takes inventory.

And Will Bunch is worried.

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Predictability 0

Tony Norman spots a pattern:

He (President Trump–ed.) never tries to distance himself from his lies — only from the truth.

Follow the link to see why he said that.

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Objectiveng to Science 0

At the Bangor Daily News, Basav Sen of the Climate Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies outlines the Trump administration’s war on science. A snippet:

Recently, the Department of Energy began referring to natural gas as “freedom gas,” which sounds like something straight out of satire site The Onion. Unintentional humor aside, this choice of terminology resembles the calculated debasement of language by totalitarian states.

Last November, when a report by government scientists contradicted Trump’s position and showed that the United States will suffer devastating consequences from climate change, the president simply declared that reality was irrelevant. “I don’t believe it” was his response.

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“The Play’s the Thing Wherein To Catch the Con of the King” 0

PoliticalProf.

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At the Meeting Was Gerry Mander (and His Entire Staff) 0

Read the story Sam refers to.

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Numbers Don’t Lie . . . 0

. . . but people do.

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Phishing Expedition 0

Woman on cell phone.  Man says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Video Vandals 0

Shorter Dick Polman comments on the right-wing’s faked video of Nancy Pelosi (and the legion of other faked videos). A snippet:

Granted, fakery in politics isn’t new; nor are conservatives the sole offenders (there’s a theory among some addled lefties that Melania Trump has a body double, based on a manipulation of certain photos). But the current technologically-driven threat to democracy is decisively asymmetric. None of the Democratic presidential candidates spend their time re-tweeting fake videos; Trump may not have created this dangerously toxic climate, but as the commander-in-chief in the war on facts, he is predictably its prime abetter.

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All the News that Fits 0

See the study that Farron is discussing.

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Con-sistency 0

Donald Trump dressed as Indian ascetic sitting atop pile of papers labeled

Click for the original image.

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The Privileged Flew 0

Elie Mystal argues cogently that Donald Trump’s attempt to assert executive privilege regarding the Mueller report (and other stuff) amounts to putting toothpaste back in the tube.

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Translation 0

Robert Mueller says,

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Trump’s Infanticide Fantasy 0

Seth comments on the continuing cascade of lies and gullibility of Trump’s true believers.

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Facebook Frolics, Lies and Lying Liars Dept. 0

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Lies and Lying Liars 0

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The Art of the Con, Lies and Lying Liars Dept. 0

Scott Martelle considers Donald Trump’s pervasive prevarication and posits a postulate:

I guess when you look at the totality of the lies that have flowed out of the White House for more than two years, you really can’t call it a culture of lying.

It’s an entire ecosystem.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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