Republican Lies category archive
All the News that Fits 0
David dissects the torrent of lies that a Fox News host is able to cram into a 41 second clip. (Short promo at the end.)
The Comey-uppance, Rule of Lawless Dept. 0
David discusses Donald Trump’s vendetta (my word, not his) against James Comey and the implications thereof.
“Because I Wanna” 0
Per Above the Law’s Kathryn Rubino, that’s the crux of the Trump maladministration’s legal justification under the terms of the U. S. Constitution for Donald Trump’s executive orders.
(Broken link fixed.)
Quacking Up 0
David discusses how the Trump maladministration is replacing science with ideology and turning the Federal Drug Administration into the RFK-DJT Emporium for Exotic Eiixirs. (Warning: Short promo at the end.)
“Fog of Lies” 0
Thom discusses how billionaires are spending to skew dis coarse discourse.
Here We Go Round the Merry-Go-Round 0
Methinks my old Philly DL friend Noz has pretty much nailed it.
A Real Estate Development 0
Farron discusses the Trump maladministration’s farcical legal action against the National Trust for Historic Preservation for having the unmitigated gall to take issue with his wanton destruction of public property, i. e., the East Wing of the White House.
Read the news report that Farron references.
The Blame Game 0
Mary Trump discusses who is the actual enemy within.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Doug Jones sums up the Trump maladministration’s attempt to prosecute the Southern Poverty Law Center for being:
“This is a pure political retribution,” Jones said in a video posted to social media.
Follow the link for context.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Courtesy of Rick Strom, here’s a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
American Stasi 0
At NJ.com, Ted Sherman runs the numbers and concludes that they do not support ICE’s public statements for its crackdown on immigrants, whether they be illegal or legal. An excerpt:
Comparisons with previous years actually show the increasing numbers of apprehensions were due to more arrests of those who had not been convicted of any crime, the analysis showed.
Read the whole thing. Methinks it supports the claims of those who believer this is not primarily–or, for that matter, in any way–about criminal behavior, but is all about skin color and ethnicity.
(Slightly edited for clarity.)
Mongers of Hate 0
Thom discusses how today’s Republican Party has weaponized hate and faction over the last four decades.
Aside:
I think that Thom is quite correct about the legacy of Ronald Reagan, but I think he should also have included as a contributing factor Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy, which has turned the party of Lincoln into the party of Jefferson Davis.
Honest to Pete, if Ev Dirksen or Nelson Rockefeller came back from their graves, they would be ashamed of what their party has become.
A Litany of Lies 0
The Washington Post’s slogan was once “Democracy dies in darkness” (at least until Jeff Bezos decided that he liked darkness). Thom argues that democracy also dies in lies, then goes on to list lies that Republicans tell and have told for years without the press’s calling out their lying.
Spin City 0
At SFgate, Erin Rode explores how the right-wing media machine turned a nothing-burger into the conservative* cause celebre.
The topic of the piece is a bridge designed to allow wild animals, including endangered species, to safely cross a busy highway, a project which is slightly behind schedule and slightly over-budget, something that never ever happens with big, years-long projects except when it does.
Rode traces how the events, all of which had been reported as they happened, were repackaged, tied with a bow, and turned into fodder for the wing-nut rage machine.
Here’s a tiny bit, describing one of the outcomes of this process:
It is an inside look into the workings of the right-wing hate factory.
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*And, yes, I know they are not “conservative” in any traditional sense. They are somewhere between reactionary (as in back to 1859) and anarchistic.