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December 7th, 2024 - 1:57 am § in Politics, Republicans

The epidemic of lying in American politics (video)

Politicians have always lied, but it’s different now. There’s more lying, it has more serious consequences, and it’s resulting in distrust of our institutions. Republicans lie more than Democrats, because winning is everything to them. Facebook played a major role in the Jan. 6 ins[...]

October 29th, 2024 - 5:32 am § in Politics, Republicans

Kari Lake is still a weasel (video)

Kari Lake, a former Phoenix newscaster turned wannabe politician, is running for U.S. Senate in 2024 after losing a 2022 race for governor. Lake, a notorious election denier, persisted in contesting the 2022 results in court despite having no evidence; she not only lost at every step, but she and he[...]

October 27th, 2024 - 2:44 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Is J. D. Vance lying about Trump’s true intentions?

First of all, J. D. Vance is a proven liar. He was a front-and-center promoter of the “Haitians eat pets” conspiracy theory; and when he was force to admit it was false, he nevertheless tried to justify demonizing an entire group of innocent people as a way to score a political point. Va[...]

October 26th, 2024 - 10:00 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

The silly things Republicans say

Election years are called “the silly season” for a reason: Campaigns bring the lunacy out, especially on the right. But these statements by Republican politicians go way beyond normal election-year puffery and bombast: Example 1: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), on September 29, 2024, called Kama[...]

October 20th, 2024 - 1:00 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Politics, Republicans

Why nobody listens to Sen. Lindsey Graham

Like many Republican politicians, Graham once condemned Trump, but now is a fawning sycophant. In this media interview, he loses his cool and descends into shouting and silliness. Liz Cheney says “don’t listen to Lindsey Graham,” calling ignoring him “good life advice.”[...]

October 17th, 2024 - 8:07 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Texas GOP governor exaggerated non-citizen voting

In August 2024, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted the state removed more than 6,500 noncitizens from its voting rolls. The registrations were canceled “through a routine practice” of culling voter lists of people “who have moved or died,” the Texas Tribune said here. That’[...]

October 16th, 2024 - 5:11 pm § in News Media, Politics, Republicans

George Floyd protests weren’t riots and didn’t kill 15,000 black men

A Republican liar claims “the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.” It’s not remotely true. Ryan Gidursky, a rightwing activist (see his website here), made that assertion on a CNN talk show on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (read stor[...]

October 16th, 2024 - 2:36 pm § in Politics, Republicans

MAGA liars target Arizona seniors with scary mailer

As the 2024 campaign approaches a climax, a Trump-affiliated group is sending Arizona senior voters a fraudulent mailer (photo, below) falsely declaring their Medicare benefits were cancelled by Kamala Harris (read story here). Even the stamp on the envelope is fake. The group behind the flyer (phot[...]

October 15th, 2024 - 11:39 am § in Politics, Republicans

Vance claims there was a “peaceful transfer of power” in 2021

J. D. Vance, Trump’s 2024 running mate, is a prolific liar. He falsely accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of stealing and eating pets, which has caused real harm to innocent people (see story here); then he tried to justify this lie as “telling stories” to get media a[...]

October 13th, 2024 - 3:03 pm § in Biden, Politics, Republicans

J. D. Vance’s word games

Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH), depicted at left, is a Yale-educated lawyer and published writer who’s very good at manipulating the English language to make it look like he’s not lying when he is. Campaigning for Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 12, 2024, Vance called Biden’s inaug[...]