Republican Lies category archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Well, well, they finally caught a voter fraudster and you’ll never guess who it is (Hint: It’s not an illegal alien or a Democrat).
How Stuff (Doesn’t) Work, Trickle-On Economics 0
Note: Recorded on location, so the sound is a bit echoey.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Can’t Stand the Light of Day Dept. 0
The Maine Secretary of State, who is on Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission, has decided that he must file suit to find out what it is doing.
Words fail me.
Afterthought:
I have not lived in a state with a “Secretary of State.” I must confess that I am not exactly sure what a Secretary of State does. Then, again, I lived in Pennsylvania, which has prothonotaries, and I never figured out what they did either.
The End of Retirement, Pensioners in Penury Dept. 0
(Farron gets a bit heated in this report.)
The Art of the Con(sequences) 0
Chuck Jones, head of the United Steel Workers Local 1999 at the Carrier plant where Trump famously (fatuously?) promised to stem the outsourcing of American jobs, realizes that he and many of his fellows were among the jobbed. A snippet:
“I don’t think he’s really going to come through, even though I hoped he would,” one laid-off worker told me.
“He pulled a bait-and-switch on us,” another said.
The irony is that anyone who knew anything–I don’t mean research, I mean a casual acquaintance with healines–about Trump’s record in business saw through the con from the beginning.
A Charted Flight of Fancy 0
Stephen Colbert explores Louie Gohmert’s chart of crazy.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and Greg Palaste discuss the Republican operatives who are attempting to discredit Roy Moore’s victims and their histories of gutting out the vote.
The Toll of Trumpled Truth 0
At Der Spiegel, Roger Cohen mediates on the dangers of Trumpery. A snippet:
I actually remember shrugging. And it was the shrug that was terrifying. This is how autocrats – or would-be autocrats – cement their power. They wear you down. They take you down the rabbit hole. They want you to hear the great leader declare that 2+2=5 – and shrug.