Republican Lies category archive
Gamers 0
Roy Eidelson explores the mind games that the right-wing deploys to further their agenda and how they are being used to protect the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Here’s a bit about one of them:
Follow the link for the complete list with more detail.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom and Greg Palast discuss recent events in the Republican gut-out-the-vote effort.
A Trumpled Party 0
Dana Milbank looks at Republicans’ early campaign tactics for this fall’s election and concludes that they intend to use ad hominem character assassination, lies, innuendo, falsified photos, and the like as their first choice of tactics (follow the link for his list of numerous examples).
He suggests that the Trumpling of the Republican Party is complete. A snippet (emphasis added):
How Stuff Works, Gut Out the Vote Dept. 0
Thom and Greg Palast discuss the mechanics of voter suppression, focusing primarily on Florida and Kansas.
Stimulus–>Response 0
Robert Epstein, former Editor-in-Chief at Psychology Today among many other accomplishments, offers a construct for understanding why Donald Trump does and says what he does and says. The concept is “sympathetic audience control”; it does not refer to the individual’s controlling the audience, but rather to the audience’s affecting the individual.
Everyone, of course, is affected by this to some degree. We behave differently at the in-laws than at the neighborhood watering hole, differently in church than at a party or in a business meeting.
Epstein suggests that Trump manifests an extreme version of sympathetic audience control.
I find this completely consistent with Trump’s behavior as observed and reported daily; follow the link to determine whether or not you find his argument persuasive.
Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Aside:
In a similar vein, Dick Polman mourns the death of truth.
A Spicy Publication 0
Farron is not impressed with Sean Spicer’s new book. (Unfortunately for Farron, he makes an egregious error in his rant. Can you spot it?)
(Typo fixed.)
Stray Thought 0
I’m still unsure what I feel about the propriety of the Red Hen Restaurant’s owner’s decision not to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders. As the pearl-clutching has demonstrated, it provides right-wingers another opportunity to pretend that they have been victimized in some way when called to task for their misdeeds.
Nevertheless, I am certain of this:
If a baker can legally refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple, a restaurateur most certainly can legally refuse to serve a liar.
Gay is not a choice. Lying is.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Thom talks with Greg Palast about Palast’s efforts to expose the workings of the “voter purge” scam.
How Do You Know that Donald Trump Is Lying? 0
Jay Bookman answers, His mouth is open.”
Nor Any Drop To Drink 0
Thom interviews a reporter who thinks the decision to approve the water Flint, Michigan, to be questionable, especially as lead water lines are still in place.