Republican Lies category archive
“The Horsemen of the Rightwing Apocalypse” 0
Emma talks with Rena Steinzor, research professor of law at the University of Maryland, about her recent book American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy.
DJT and DEI 0
David makes a strong case that, if there is a DEI (In this case, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Inequality) candidate running for president, that candidate is Donald Trump. Along the way, he eviscerates Republicans’ claims that Kamala Harris is somehow a “DEI hire.”
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
At SFgate, Alec Regimbal does a deep dive into Fox News’s coverage of the attempted robbery and shooting of NFL rookie Ricky Pearsall, pointing out that it demonstrates just how far Fox News will go to make stuff up and call it “news.”
Foxy Shady 0
Emma and the crew take another look at Fox News’s attempt toe make birtherism great again.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Virginia Scholomiti offers a modest proposal so as to elevate the level of dis coarse discourse:
Follow the link for her reasoning.
It’s the Stupid, Economy 0
Farron discusses Donald Trump’s alma mater’s report that Trump’s economic policies fantasies (I wanted to say “ignorance,” but I refrained) would devastate the economy.
Afterthought:
Despite what NBC would have you believe, “business man” and “con artist” are not synonyms.
And, yes, I think NBC is significantly responsible for convincing lots of persons that Trump was something other than a colossal failure at business.
Republican Family Values 0
Nickolas Kristoff details the deception. A snippet:
The problem? While neither party has done enough to support families and children, the one that is failing most egregiously is — not surprisingly — the one led by the thrice-married tycoon who tangled with a porn star, boasted about grabbing women by the genitals and was found by a jury to have committed sexual assault.
Follow the link for his bill of particulars.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Eamma and the crew discuss Fox News’s attempt to make birtherism great again.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
David debunks de bunk.
Aside:
This conspiracy theory is, indeed, laughable from the git-go, as David points out.
But it’s not really about elections.
It’s about rallying the bigots and racists who are Trump’s base.
Lies and Lying Liars Dance a Walz 0
The speed with which Republicans have moved to misrepresent, besmirch, and smear the record of Minnesota governor Tim Walz takes one’s breath away. Indeed, it might lead an optimist to conclude that Republicans are afraid that he might attract votes in November.
At the Idaho State Journal, Mike Murphy debunks de bunk spread by Idaho Republican Party chairwoman Dorothy Moon in a recent column about Walz. Here’s one bit of the bunk he debunks; follow the link for the others.
Moon begins her scrutiny of Walz by saying “Under Walz, Minnesota put tampons in boys’ bathrooms….”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop right there, Chairwoman Moon. You are off to a bad start. This is not what happened at all.
The bill Gov. Walz signed was a budget item providing free menstrual products to all students who needed them beginning in fourth grade, making Minnesota one of 28 states that currently require schools to provide period products.
Two female students, ages 14 and 16, proposed the idea to the Minnesota legislature. The girls had been taking extra tampons to school to share with classmates who could not afford them.
One of the girls summarized their efforts: “It wasn’t part of a political agenda. It was to make students feel safe.” Too bad our adult political leaders often fail to be so levelheaded.
Platform 2025 2024
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In 2020, the Republican Party did not adopt a platform, This year, they have, and, as David points out, it is absolutely disconnected from reality nuts. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Pinball Lizard 0
Martin Schram looks at Donald Trump’s recent Mar-a-Lago they-called-it-a press conference and gets transported to the past. An excerpt:
Groundwork 0
Bernie Sanders argues that, in pretending that Kamala Harris’s crowds do not exist, Donald Trump is gearing up for big lie redux. Here’s a bit:
Sanders argued there is a “method” to Trump’s “madness.”
“Clearly, and dangerously, what Trump is doing is laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses. If you can convince your supporters that thousands of people who attended a televised rally do not exist, it will not be hard to convince them that the election returns in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere are ‘fake’ and ‘fraudulent,’” Sanders wrote.