Republican Lies category archive
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.
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.
