I sat on this when it first broke because I wasn’t 100% sure it was the same kid in the video, even though they looked identical. Snopes is calling it “unproven” because they can’t say “definitively” it is Kyle, which they would have to do unless Kyle Rittenhouse confesses. However, Snopes points out plenty of evidence….
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“GOP Says Vote Trump… or Get a Marxist Hellscape” … what's behind the orange curtain
50 Texans drank bleach last month as apparently Joe Biden threatens to be Castro reborn, or so the GOP believes. Senator Tim Scott says there’s a threat of a “socialist utopia” which is fairly frightening compared to the historical revisionism of last night. Tonight features more of the same. x Republicans during the first night…
Trump goes to Wisconsin today behind 11 points: It's not 2016, rather it's more like 1992
Nine new polls find Trump consistently behind in polling. Trump is going to Wisconsin after Pence spoke to evangelical groups there yesterday. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump makes his second trip this week to a crucial battleground state, traveling Thursday to Wisconsin as polls show him losing ground to former Vice President Joe Biden in this fall’s election. […]…
Bolton book says administration was uber-corrupt and advisers laughed at Trump behind his back
No way am I going to buy John Bolton’s book. That gruesome, caramel corn-looking motherfucker won’t get a penny from me. But, hey, the enemy of my enemy is (very temporarily) my friend, even if he looks like Wilford Brimley fucked one of Saruman’s orcs. And The New York Times has one of the first…
CO GOP Rep Dave Williams posts totally legit flyer left behind by “protesters”…
Trumpian Colorado Rep. Dave Williams posted a flyer on his Twitter feed that he claims was found at the Colorado capitol building. Dave isn’t the sharpest tack in the box. x Apparently, this flyer was found outside the CO Capitol during the “peaceful†protests. Obviously, this is unacceptable to say the least. Encouraging violence &…
COVID-19 is not “behind us” – the second wave has already begun – protests are not slaughterhouses
There is a spread that’s occurring as global travel increases and with the “opening-up” of economic activity. Trump’s attempt to take credit for low numbers is absurd on its face considering that between 36 -65,000 US deaths came from his inaction. Like GOP vote suppression there will be testing and testing data suppression. (CNN) New…
Dispatches From Behind Enemy Lines (Covid-19 edition)
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” Donald Trump, February 17, 2017 It has been a while (a few years) since I have posted a last Dispatch. I thought though with most (sane) people finding themselves at home it may…
LIVE BLOG another pseudo-event by Trump: “we left behind a year of tremendous death”
Live Blog below It wound up being the same as the COVID Taskforce briefing, turning into a campaign speech with the same talking points, mentioning Biden more, and lying about causes of the COVID contagion. 4:00 PM EDT half-hour late, lasts about an hour with questions President Trump Delivers Remarks on Protecting America’s Seniors The…
189 days to election day as Trump declares “worst of pandemic is behind us” by lying again
Even without the daily COVID Taskforce presser, we get notable pieces of disinformation, such as VP Pence not wearing a mask at the Mayo Clinic, and Trump trying to bypass the WH press corps with a surprise press conference at 3 pm. Trump did repeat his usual misinforming claims about numbers as case numbers reached…
stan / standing behind the IMPOTUS*
They also serve who only stand in shadows cast by gaslight. "We Stand Behind the President" pic.twitter.com/qaOv3Ep00D — patrick ford (@pppatrickford) April 26, 2020 Donald Trump loves attention, and people can’t help but give it to him. It’s been this way for a generation. Television cameras and tabloids were trained on him long before he…
Politico, “Biden mounts behind-the-scenes mission to win over wary progressives”
I like the sounds of this: Joe Biden’s campaign is mounting an aggressive behind-the-scenes effort to address the biggest weakness of his candidacy: A lack of enthusiasm among the liberal base, particularly young voters. Since his landslide victories earlier this month, Biden’s advisers have engaged in talks with a range of top progressive groups, including…
“Expert-on-everything” Kushner Behind Trump's Call to End Shelter-in-Place
Vanity Fair is reporting that one reason Trump is talking about lifting the “shelter-in-place” orders is that Kushner is advising him to: Trump’s view that he can ignore Fauci’s opinion may be influenced by advice he’s getting from Jared Kushner, whose outside-the-box efforts have often rankled those in charge of managing the crisis. According to…
Mike Bloomberg says Trump's New York friends laugh at him behind his back
Well, “friends” might be a stretch. I don’t think Trump actually has friends. Associates? Gobsmacked, open-mouthed starers? Mike Bloomberg knows Donald Trump and knows how to get his goat. After Trump attacked the self-made billionaire business genius’ height yet again this morning, Bloomberg hit Trump where it hurts: x .@realDonaldTrump – we know many of the…
AHA! Tech Firm Run By Former Clinton Operatives Behind App For Iowa Caucus!!!!
No, this isn’t a conspiracy theory. But it is fodder for at least a Hollywood comedy script writer. An app created by a tech firm run by veterans of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign is taking heat for the unprecedented delay in reporting Democratic caucus results from Iowa. Results from Monday’s caucuses could not be transmitted…
What's behind these attempts to normalize those who carried out America's concentration camps?
We all bore witness to the sheer horror of seeing families at the border ripped apart, and parentless children sleeping en masse on cold jail floors. Trump’s advocates literally argued detained children weren’t entitled to having much of anything in jail, including soap or toothbrushes. More than half of the taken children under the age…
The pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz's independent presidential bid
This headline from The Daily Beast summarizes the pure greed and idiocy behind Howard Schultz’s planned independent presidential bid: x Howard Schultz blames Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his decision to run as Independent and it has to do with her plan to tax the rich https://t.co/OyWnMKDZGn— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019 First off, the…
Meta: Why Many Of Us Hide Behind Walls
Most of us don’t want the rabid Internet in our private and business lives, some like Ellen Pao cant avoid that connection Ellen Pao was at the heart of two of 2015’s biggest feminist news stories: her discrimination lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins; and her resignation from content-sharing site Reddit, after weathering what she…
A glimpse behind the curtain of how Koch-funded corporate front groups manipulate the news you read
Originally posted at Eclectablog. Over the past several years, I have written about how corporate front groups, largely funded by corporatists like the Koch brothers and their network of fake grassroots (“astroturf”) groups, manipulate the media to serve their corporate bottom lines. They use this network to amplify their corporate messages, disguised as “reporting” or…
