Not very much has changed with the disinformation being generated by the usual external players. Russia Studied How to Get Americans to Make Mistakes…(how Americans take the Russia disinformation bait) – The Atlantic https://t.co/n5TIn3mf77 — Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) March 20, 2021 For decades now, Russian security services have studiedĀ a concept...
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Anand Giridharadas wrote a piece for The Atlantic asserting that Biden has been moving leftward. This may only be a short term impression only because the GOP is trying to find its way after the previous guy is gone and before he may be indicted. The real problem lies with...
Still early and a far too familiar pattern has been repeated today in Boulder, Colorado. 10 are dead including one first responding police officer. More information has yet to be revealed much like the shootings in Atlanta. If only Republicans were as concerned about checking the backgrounds of people who...
Laurie Garrett makes the case for the greatest crime perpetrated by Trump for which he may never be prosecuted. In March 2020, Trump said he wanted the nation “opened up and just raring to go by Easter”, and his enablers still believe the Big Lie. A vast swath of evidence for...
Laurie Garrett makes the case for the greatest crime perpetrated by Trump for which he may never be prosecuted. In March 2020, Trump said he wanted the nation “opened up and just raring to go by Easter”, and his enablers still believe the Big Lie. A vast swath of evidence...
Ted Cruz tried to slither around the coverage of his holiday in Cancun, including an interview on Hannity to offset a series of lies once social media caught him at the airport.Ā Ā #TedFled because heās really not all about the accountability or even patriotism considering his role in the insurrection. Cruz's...
One hopes that after the farce of a TrumpĀ impeachment acquittal, that criminal proceedings begin in all of the relevant venues. WeĀ have already seen how Trump uses lawfare delaying tactics with even less aplomb than Mitch McConnell. We can also be assured that within the year, the numerous right-wing militants will...
“In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” ~ Aristotle It is a fact that the biggest threat to our species is not climate change, though it will likely end much of what we experience today, but rather our war on bio-diversity. Bio-diversity is under attack from...
How closely associated were elements of the insurrection remains an open question as 300 suspects have been identified so far, with members of Congress possibleĀ persons of interest. The Capitol riot was, to use an old @EliLake phrase, like scumbag Woodstock. https://t.co/kzUvXYIof0 pic.twitter.com/uNQljdvvWV — Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) January 21, 2021 The...
Stories do have consequences, and following Trumpās American Carnage, truth will out in the larger American narrative. This James Fallows essay is worth reading, made important by the trial balloon of making Andrew Cuomo the AG nominee. For Biden personally, as president, the best thing he can do for most of...
Why bother counting the votes after Dixville Notch weighs in. Dick Nixon won both Ohio and Florida in 1960 and lost to Kennedy. But you do you Donald, itās still 1-52 in failed legal challenges. x The President of the United States literally wants to overturn certified election results and a significant fraction of...
Desperate Trumpists might be a bit late to obstruct the polls, assuming that law enforcement actually does their constitutional duty. ā…the most effective modern disinformation is defined by what scholars call ācensorship through noiseāādrowning out the truth with a barrage of lies, distortions, and conspiracy theories designed to confuse and...
āIncrease in cases is accelerating with no signs of abating. Hospitalizations already increasing. Reasonable conclusion – deaths too will follow.ā If Trump wins and continues his dissonant herd immunity āpolicyā, over 100,000 excess deaths will occur in addition to the Trump Death Clock. x View this post on Instagram Don't...
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The second actual debate could be three too many as we expect more of the same stunts despite a mute switch for the two-minute responses to questions. The GOP has telegraphed some of the debateās tactical options including foreign interference, even as they whined after foreign policy wasnāt included as...
The Trump campaign goes virtual and now may attempt a national address to get more free media even after spreading the Trump virus at a fundraiser Thursday. Contact tracing may go back to the Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS nominee announcement as the super-spreader event, even as Hope Hicks specifically has been identified....
It does seem old-fashioned but the Biden post-debate train tour seems better than Trumpās promises to never return to (insert state) if he loses, which he did tonight in Duluth. x All aboard! Tune in as @DrBiden and I kick off our train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania. https://t.co/z2m4tpAHNJā Joe...
More Trump attention-seeking shtick has happened. Heās threatened to refuse to transfer power. That could really happen because heās nuts and even if he only represents an anti-democratic 25% of the US population. 26% if you include the plutocrats. Itās going to get worse until Election Day, what with Trumpās inner-child channeling...
In revisionist history, perhaps the Union troops hunting down John Wilkes Booth were only interested in him because of some āwanton endangermentā. We do know whoās a snake in these counterfactual historical narratives. x For sure! Itād be like charging John Wilkes Booth for shooting recklessly inside a crowded theater....
Biden continues to lead with no slippage nationally, and is apparently perceived by 13% as more intelligent than Trump (sic). x New Quinnipiac national poll: Biden 52%Trump 42% Second national poll of the day putting Biden +10, after MU Lawhttps://t.co/xUqrQzeaBsā Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 23, 2020 x Brutal numbers for...
Thereās a diary on top of the rec list right now thatās based on a story in the Atlantic, that Trump might try to take advantage of a clause in the Constitution that says the electors shall be chosen āin such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.ā If Trump...
Feral pigs are the crying-wolf excuse for some firearm owners, as though the average hunter needed a modern sporting rifle (semi-auto long gun with large capacity magazine) to defend their home and children against predator species. Then thereās Kenoshaās 17 year-old killer and his AR-15 pattern rifle with 30-round magazine. The...
In an interview yesterday, Trump went all in on sanctioning extralegal political killing, because death squads seem right for his presidency, shooting people on the avenue, Fifth Avenue. x Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: “This guy was a...
in a new video which you can see below I think it is fair to say that what started last evening with the piece in The Atlantic has clear ālegsā ā the story has now lasted more than 24 hours, the essential features have been confirmed by multiple media outlets,...
In Shakespeareās Macbeth, the three witches promised Macbeth that he could not lose until āBirnam Wood shall come to Dunsinaneā (that being Macbethās castle). Since it was impossible for a forest to pick itself up and move, Macbeth figured he was invulnerable. But Duncanās troops cut branches from the trees...
After all the stupidity and incompetence, Trump really does sound like he says things with no filter. And even as he says he said no such thing, his excuses are even stranger, and his lies are getting amplified by the Russians, again. A new report details multiple instances of Donald Trump allegedly...
Trump never read Bob Woodwardās first book on Trump, Fear, and yet, Trump does believe that thereās no such thing as bad publicity, what? Why it matters: Trump participated extensively in Woodward's research for the book, sitting for 17 interviews at the White House, Mar-a-Lago and over the phone between December...
Trump just said, and I quote: āabsentee good, mail-in very very bad.ā (Orange man⦠bad) President Donald Trump said the quiet part out loud, admitting heās intentionally withholding money from the U.S. Postal Service to undermine its ability to handle mail-in voting in the 2020 election. āThey need that money in...
Thereās a presser from the Trump golf club, because optics matter: “Congress needs to stay in Washington and work this out. Now watch this tee shot.” Undoubtedly pimpage of executive orders as a GOP stunt to criticize the Congressional impasse and circumvent legislation. CNN is covering it, as is MSNBC and...
Yes I am SHOUTING.Ā Thatās because this is about the most important thing you can read today. The piece is titled How the Pandemic Defeated America and is subtitled āA virus has brought the worldās most powerful country to its knees.ā Yong, a staff writer for The Atlantic, actually warned...
Peter Nicholas throws cold water on the gaslight that is building up, anticipating stunts galore before Novemberās election day.Ā Jobless numbers, 151,000 dead, and basic incompetence could still be tolerable for a āmajorityā, considering the faults in the US election system. Too many stupid things can still happen. GOTV. āIf Trump...
Trumpās incompetence is not simply inaction, it has a theory for his brand of failure, namely āāexecutive underreachāĀ as a species of leadership failure thatās as destructive as executive overreachā. Much like sandbagging and the repeated absence of actual policy formulations, MangoĀ Mussoliniās fascism is fiat(s) in a failed state. Underreach is...
Trump wants Confederate spectacles, why else try to attack NASCAR because of its flag ban. The ultimate Confederate spectacle is the resilience of theĀ lost cause narrativeĀ perhaps reinforced by the Jim Crow erection of monuments. It was amusing that the press tried to goad the WH Press Secretary into an admission...
In this new post at The Atlantic, the former 4-Star General and Director of Central Intelligence forcefully gives his support to renaming those US military bases named for traitors to the United State. Posted at 6:15 this morning EDT, the sub-title of the piece puts it bluntly: It is time...
Itās worth reading Anne Applebaumās Atlantic article āHistory Will Judge the Complicitā, or does the GOPĀ wish to reveal the truth of conservative principles as oxymoron. “The question now is whether the old American mantras, the appeals to traditions of democracy and the rule of law, still workāor whether they have...
Trump tweeting at 11pm last night probably got around to reading Tom Nicholsās article in The Atlantic and will probably wake up trying to figure out how to take tenure away from him. More importantly Nichols reminds the reader that the attraction of white, non-college educated men for Trump is complex and...
That is how Tom Nichols describes him in this powerful piece in The Atlantic. I might note the phrase āthe Most Unmanly Presidentā has been trending on Twitter today. The piece, which is well worth your reading (and the publication allows several free reads/month) is subtitled Why donāt the presidentās...
āAs the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided & insulted perceived enemies & promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between rounds of golf.ā https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1264717545787006976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Perhaps Howard Stern, of all people, said it best: āThe oddity in all of this is...
Ed Yong of The Atlantic hs a strong track record as a writer on medical issues. He has a new piece up, titled Americaās Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further and subtitled The coronavirus is coursing through different parts of the U.S. in different ways, making the crisis harder to...
Pew pew pew and the operation warp speedā¦. x President Trump compared the accelerated effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine by January 2021 to the Manhattan Project. Experts have noted that a timeline of even 12 to 18 months is optimistic.https://t.co/Bb1ibQwfcs ā All Things Considered (@npratc) May 15, 2020 x...
They also serve who only stand in shadows cast by gaslight. https://twitter.com/pppatrickford/status/1254437713467580416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Donald Trump loves attention, and people canāt help but give it to him. Itās been this way for a generation. Television cameras and tabloids were trained on him long before he was president, and even more so now....
Trump persists in claiming that the āshutdownā will kill more people. It wonāt, despite the logical fallacy of associating the current death rate with curtailing economic activity. Q Mr. President, when you talk about ā back to the numbers for a second. When you talk about the numbers ā...
Todayās COVID presser approached a high point in propaganda content: x “That's one million eight hundred and seventy thousand million tests.” pic.twitter.com/AKxe9h3vVIā Matt Rogers (@Politidope) April 7, 2020 Example of the anecdotal rather than the scientific evidence and the āTrump = miracle workerā meme x Michigan Democrat politician says Hydroxychloriquine...
This is a robbery in progress,” wrote David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect. “And it's not a bailout for the coronavirus. It's a bailout for 12 years of corp. irresponsibility that made these companies so fragile that a few weeks of disruption would destroy themā McConnell declaring a...