Republican Lies category archive
Numbers Don’t Lie . . . 0
. . . but people do.
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:
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.
Trump’s Infanticide Fantasy 0
Seth comments on the continuing cascade of lies and gullibility of Trump’s true believers.
The Art of the Con, Lies and Lying Liars Dept. 0
Scott Martelle considers Donald Trump’s pervasive prevarication and posits a postulate:
It’s an entire ecosystem.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Birther of the Nation 0
President Obama’s country of origin is not the only birthplace the Donald Trumples. Field reports (emphasis in the original):
“My father is German, right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany,” Trump said during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who is from Norway.
Ahhhm, no Donald, your father was born in New York. I mean seriously, who does this? Who lies with all the world watching about where his father was born? I am starting to think that the man just can’t help himself. Surely he must have known that this could be easily fact checked. I suppose that when you tell so many lies and you are used to getting away with them you become emboldened to just tell more.
Follow the link for the full Field report.
Raising the Barr, Reprise 0
Shaun Mullen argues that Attoadey-General William Barr is holding a brush and a bucket of whitewash.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom reads from Greg Sargent’s new book.
The Diet of Worms 0
In related news, my local rag has a long Washington Post article about how sea-level rise and result salt infusion in groundwater is rendering some coastal farmlands infertile.
Willful Ignorance 0
Dick Polman comments on Donald Trump’s council of climate change charlatans who claim that climate change cannot be, but, if it is, it’s benign and beneficial.
A snippet:
In related news, my local rag today had a long article about how rising sea levels are devastating rural coastal communities.