More Republicans are echoing the theme that dissent is treason: “It’s absolutely a success” — Spicer says on Yemen raid, and adds that any opinion to the contrary does a “disservice” to deceased SEAL — Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) February 8, 2017
Senator Mitch McConnell censured Senator Elizabeth Warren for “Impugning a Senator,” blocking her from speaking on the floor for the rest of the debate. Sen. Warren, complaining about Jeff Sessions, was reading from the Congressional Record, quoting the letter Coretta Scott King (widow of MLK) wrote to Congress in 1986, when the Senate denied a judgeship to then U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions because he was too racist. […]
I hate to start with the shiny distractions, but here’re some of today’s Trump tweets: Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
(New England Patriots beat Atlanta Falcons in overtime.) Trump, in a Saturday interview (broadcast on Sunday), insisted the US was morally equivalent to Russia under Putin. Trump: …It’s better to get along with Russia than not. O’Reilly: But he’s a killer, though. Putin’s a killer.
(Borrowing from a nice NYT article by Charles J. Sykes.) The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth. — Garry Kasparov The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell It’s noticeable calmer when Trump is on vacation, so […]
A federal judge issued a stay against the Trump Muslim Ban Executive Order, temporarily blocking travel ban, effective nationwide. White House officials (Spicer, Priebus, et al) lied, saying that it effected only 109 people, and then lied again, saying they weren’t badly affected. At this point, Customs has denied over three hundred people, who were either turned back or sent to other foreign nations (where […]
Protests continue against President Trump’s Executive Order temporarily banning immigration, refugees, and potentially, legal green card holders. Kellyanne Conway repeated the lie about President Obama’s purported six-month ban on the Iraqi refugees.  She went on to make a new lie about two Iraqis who to the US and became the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. That’s because there was no such event. She’s just […]
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