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Republican Lies category archive

Those Who Disdain History Are Condemned To Rewrite It 0

For example.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Fact-Check 0

Couple watching as Donald Trump concludes his speech with

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Redaction Action 0

Image of sharpie labeled White House next to a document with multiple words marked out so that all that remains is

Via Job’s Anger.

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The Never-Ending Stories 0

Donald Trump speaks of the Access Hollywood tape, saying

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Deficit Spinning 0

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Wahrheitdämmerung 0

Ned Barnett muses on the twilight of truth.

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It’s All an Act, Folks 0

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The Gist of Christmas Past 0

Red Hats looking into empty sack as Donald Trump as Santa Claus walks away.  Red Hat says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Wars and Rumor-Mongers of Wars 0

The Miami Herald’s Carl Hiaasen skewers Fox News’s annual phony-baloney “war on Christmas” schtick. A snippet:

Missing from Fox’s energetic coverage of the war are names, ranks or an organizational chart. Not to minimize the menace, but whoever is actually in command of this conspiracy is doing an incredibly lame job of killing the Yule spirit.

Just a few days ago, former President Obama put on a Santa hat and delivered actual Christmas presents to patients at a children’s hospital in Washington, D.C.

What the hell, Tucker (Carlson–ed.)? To conservatives, no man symbolizes the rotten left-wing plague more than Obama — so why is he out there promoting this sacred Christian celebration?

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All the News that Fits 0

Shorter Shaun Mullen: Inquiring minds don’t want you to know.

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Spin City 0

Joe Patrice skewers the Tumpists’ argument that there is such a thing as a “perjury trap.” A snippet (follow the link for the rest):

It all goes back to the “perjury trap” argument so many lawyers are disgracing themselves to push. It is not, in fact, a perjury trap to catch someone in a lie. It is a perjury trap to prosecute someone for wrongdoing where they would otherwise avoid prosecution — for example, a crime that is time-barred — by making them lie about it. The term addresses the injustice of functionally doing an end-run around the protections that the system affords potential defendants by punishing them for a separate crime just because law enforcement can’t touch them for the underlying offense.

But for Dershowitz, when Flynn made false statements to federal investigators, those statements could not be material because investigators knew they were false. In his mind, apparently, materiality requires investigators to rely upon the false statement.

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The End of an Era? 0

Shaun Mullen, ever the optimist, thinks that the Congressional Republicans’ Hillary witch hunts might be drawing to a close.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Frame One:  Republican Elephant orders bloodhound,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Russian Impulses 0

Jay Bookman points out that denial is not just a river in Egypt.

It was Donald Trump’s campaign strategy.

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Signs of the Times 0

Republican Elephant says,

Via Juanita Jean.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Jay Bookman points out some real life voter fraud. Here’s a bit from his article:

This year, however, conservatives seem to have finally found the evidence of voting fraud that they’ve long sought, and they’ve found it in North Carolina of all places. A Republican political operative, hired by a Republican congressional candidate, has been accused of running a large-scale operation to submit fraudulent absentee ballots in favor of the GOP and to collect and destroy large numbers of absentee ballots in favor of the Democratic candidate.

Do please read the rest, in which he demonstrates that this is but one element in North Carolina Republicans’ steaming, fetid pile of duplicity.

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All That Was Old Is New Again, Horse and Sparrow Dept. 0

Thom points out the there’s nothing new about trickle-on economics.

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The Fire This Time 0

Donald Trump talking as his pants burn.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Decoding De Code Meets Twits on Twitter 0

El Reg reports:

In a paper distributed through ArXiv earlier this month, researchers Sophie van der Zee, Ronald Poppe, Alice Havrileck, and Aurelien Baillon – from Erasmus University, Utrecht University, and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan – describe how they found significant linguistic differences between factually accurate and inaccurate Trump tweets, and used this finding to construct a language-based lie detection model.

The accuracy of their model was about 73 per cent, making it better than a coin-toss, but far from foolproof in its evaluation.

More at the link.

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The Voter Fraud Fraud 0

Mike reacts to Lou Dobbs’s claims of illegal immigrants’ voting (warning: language):

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