Here’s a revolutionary thought. Our public servants have been lying to us at a fantastic rate. Suppose we decided we didn’t like that? I know this is far beyond the pale these days, but what would happen if we demanded our officials not lie to us? Crazy, I know, but...
I can’t tell if we’re insane or stupid. We see the collapse of the two-party system into a criminal kleptocracy, and yet we keep pretending it’s something else. I started this with the Stoneman Douglas High School deaths. It still hurts to think about it, but we have another mass...
The New York Times keeps making the same mistakes. Republicans are manipulating them, just the same way they always do. Now they’re writing that “Democrats ‘cave’!” like it’s not just quoting Republican talking points. Will the Times eventually realize their mistake, and admit Republicans are manipulating them again? Or will...
Today’s Republicans are openly racist and anti-immigration, at least if you’re brown. (Go ahead: tell me why Trump only wants English-speaking Swedes.) So the GOP keeps pushing their classic approach to white supremacy: wrapping themselves in the flag and pretending they’re the most rational of all actors. All their positions...
After Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, President Donald Trump thumbed this response: I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful....
And I’m still thanking whatever god that listens, that Trump remains so miserably bad at everything he touches. It’s his only saving grace. White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville “had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit.” — PolitiFact National on Thursday, August 17th, 2017 Think, for a second,...
It’s weirdly entertaining watching as Trump unspools all over the White House floor. I mean, sure, someone’s gotta clean that mess up, but until then, it’s almost a work of art. Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not...
I know it’s retro of me, but I think liars aren’t worth spit. They’re just not worth even listening to. I actually mean that literally. If you listen to a known liar, you either have to spend more time to find the real sources so you’ll know where they lied...
So, I counted Trump’s tweet since my last article. What the hell, it’s only 34 tweets so far. (Hard to believe Trump actually holds down a day job. You’d think his boss would be getting on his case about wasting so much company time.) The biggest issue on Trump’s mind...
Did you know that the Senate impeached President Richard Nixon at least partly for lying to the American people? They saw that as malfeasance in office. I didn’t remember that. Lying is dishonorable for most of us, but it isn’t always a crime. In 1974, though, Congress felt differently about...
Things are moving along the way you’d expect. The White House is minimizing the Russian collusion news, saying…. Eh, who cares? They’re liars. Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the… Such a bad liar, it’s painful to listen to her. Kellyanne Conway responded with…. No. Don’t even start. Trump tweeted…. Trump lies...
Trump’s tweets are making the rounds: I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.. – Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017 …to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me....
Trump, who still shrilly insists there was no Russian hacking, issued a string of tweets about the Washington Post detailed, extensive article about that hacking. In his latest tweets, Trump said– Yeah, I still don’t care. Trump remains a compulsive liar; nothing he says has weight or bearing. That makes...
Today, Senate Republicans released their draft of Trumpcare. You remember, the one they were going to rewrite from scratch? It’s like the kids who did their homework on the bus into school. Republicans changed a couple of words from the House version, cut even more money from the poor and...
President Donald Trump speaks at press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 9, 2017. (Erie News Now) Oh, Lordy. Trump still feels inadequate about his election. Again. Why can’t he act like most conservative Americans? Donny. Just go out and buy yourself some big pistol,...
Yesterday, James Comey called President Donald Trump a liar. He did this in sharp,, specific detail. He cited his contemporaneous documentation and the people he spoke to at the time. Comey was specific, detailed, and damning. Today, Trump responded to Comey’s accusations, saying everything Comey had said was a lie. ...
I’m still a little shocked at how casually the White House lies about stupid stuff. When NBC asked the White House spokeswoman about the Comey hearings, the press corps could hear every TV in the White House playing the Senate hearing. And yet deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders insisted that...
I admit, I do the David Brooks dance now and then. In my version, I see how many paragraphs I can read from a Brooks column before he simply asserts something that’s more than mildly dubious, completely undefended, and yet essential to his argument. (Evidence isn’t really his gig.) No...
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