Republican Lies category archive
Tin-Pot Trumpery 0
We are doomed.
The Fox Fear Factory 0
Thom looks back on Fox News’s greatest greatest hits and how Fox lies got us to where we are. Pulled together in one summary, it’s an impressive resume of serial dishonesty in pursuit of political gain.
Falsified Flags 0
Facebook Frolics 0
At this point, outrageous U. S. political stories on Facebook should be assumed to be false unless they can be confirmed from an independent source.
How Stuff Works, the Right-Wing Noise Machine Dept. 0
In the midst of a larger article about Trump’s fumbled fulminations about expressing condolences to the families of the four soldiers who fell in Niger, Paul Waldman describes the wingnut propaganda process. You can follow the link for the complete article, but here’s the crucial bit:
(Open tag fixed. Darned computers expect you to splet stuf rite.)
All the News that Fits 0
Not so bright, Bart.
The website originally published an article entitled “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis” with a picture of the ex-Arsenal star on a jet-ski before it was swiftly changed.
Follow the link for a screenshot of the Breitbart lie.
The “Memory Hole” 0
Brian Klaas remembers George Orwell:
President Trump has brought the memory hole to the United States.
Follow the link to find out why Klaas said that.
Twits on Twitter, Ryan’s Derp Dept. 0
Farron skewers Paul Ryan’s efforts to promote trickle-on economics.
Twits on Twitter 0
Lost in translation twits.
“Nonsense Debt” 0
Josh Marshall looks at the developing war within the Republican Party between the absurd and the absolutely crazy, witness the recent Alabama primary victory of Judge Roy Moore.
Marshall suggests that Republicans have done it to themselves. (Unfortunately, they are poised to do it to the rest of us, also.)
Here’s a crucial bit; follow the link for the rest (emphasis added).
This is the crux of the issue. Last spring I said the Trump phenomenon was a product of what I termed ‘nonsense debt‘. Republicans had spent years pumping their voters up on increasingly extreme and nonsensical claims and promises. This worked very well for winning elections. But it had also built up a debt that eventually had to be repaid. Concretely, they were making claims and promises that were either factually ridiculous, politically unviable or unacceptable to a broad swath of the voting public. Eventually, you get elected and need to produce. By definition that’s never really possible: both because the claims and promises are nonsensical and unviable but also because a politics based on reclamation, revenge, and impulse is almost impossible to satisfy through normal legislative politics.
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