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October 28th, 2022 - 5:12 pm § in Republicans, Schools & Colleges

Is this the dumbest GOP smear ever?

Democrats are still mad about losing the Civil War and not being able to own slaves anymore. So they’ve been planning to topple the United States for decades, and schools don’t teach black history because the teachers unions don’t want kids to know it was white people who freed the[...]

October 24th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in News Media, Politics

Believe it or not, the GOP’s crime record is worse

Despite the homily about “lies, damned lies, and statistics,” crime data tells the real story. “On the one hand, it is accurate that the murder rate in the U.S. has gone up at an alarming rate. On the other hand, despite the right-wing media narrative to the contrary, this is a pro[...]

October 24th, 2022 - 7:58 pm § in Politics, Republicans

Photoshopped campaign ads appear in N.C. races

Republicans, who have a long history of doctoring images to smear political opponents (see, e.g., article here), are doing it in several 2022 North Carolina races. See example below and read story here. In this case, the target of the smear is state Rep. Ricky Hurtado, who narrowly defeated a GOP in[...]

October 9th, 2022 - 7:46 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Racism, Republicans

Who would you vote for?

The kind, friendly pastor? Or the football player who suffered so many concussions he can’t remember how many children he has? For Republican voters, this is easy: The guy with the “R” after his name. It’s about power, not character. Their candidate in this race has none. He&[...]

October 5th, 2022 - 7:57 pm § in Hypocrisy, Politics, Republicans

Yawn, another GOP candidate is a lying hypocrite

This has become routine. I expect GOP candidates to be liars and hypocrites. (See, e.g., “pro-life” Herschel Walker, a GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, paying for his girlfriend’s abortion and lying about it.) Today I’m going to make an example of Mark Finchem, the QAnon-link[...]

September 21st, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans

GOP candidate exaggerated his military service

Are we still surprised when a Republican politician is caught lying? I’m not, it’s so routine now. I have a theory about why Republicans lie so much, that goes like this: They think they’re on a Mission From God to “save America” from liberal heathens (who behave like [...]

July 8th, 2022 - 1:28 pm § in Biden, China, Politics

What the GOP says about gas prices

Something is happening that Republicans eyeing the fall elections don’t like: Hiring remains strong and gas prices are falling. I’m not saying they’re against a strong job market and lower gas prices; they’d just rather take credit for it themselves. Anyway, this is what Hous[...]

July 8th, 2022 - 8:49 am § in Politics

Why do Republicans lie so much?

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has introduced a bill to repeal the federal excise tax on guns and ammunition (see story here). He explains, “As assaults against Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms continue to emerge, so do treacherous threats that seek to weaponize taxation in order to price this con[...]

June 29th, 2022 - 2:14 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics

Who is Cassidy Hutchison?

Besides the witness who shredded the last remnants of whatever illusions of respectability and legality still clung to the Trump gang of seditionists who tried to violently overthrow our government? She’s not a lawyer. Not a Democrat agent, either. Hutchison (bio here) is 25 years old. SheR[...]

June 16th, 2022 - 1:35 pm § in Politics

Being stupid isn’t lying

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) isn’t necessarily a liar. He just lacks “a fundamental understanding of how television works” (see story here). On Thursday, June 17, 2022, Steube “confidently blared on Twitter that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed CNN to broadcast its Jan. 6 commit[...]