Some fact checkers discovered more than 25 blatant lies in tfg's CPAC rant, adding to the 31,000 or so false statements that another person has counted since tfg appeared on the big stage. And after all the lies and chaos at FNC with tucker c and his teammates, including the Boss, Rupert, even admitting to peddling lies, they continue to…
Some fact checkers discovered more than 25 blatant lies in tfg's CPAC rant, adding to the 31,000 or so false statements that another person has counted since tfg appeared on the big stage. And after all the lies and chaos at FNC with tucker c and his teammates, including the Boss, Rupert, even admitting to peddling lies, they continue to manipulate their audience with more lies. How braindead are those viewers that they still believe anything that is being broadcast on that channel?
Part of what goes wrong when former democracies sink into despotism is that the sheer volume of lies becomes so overwhelming that they become hard to highlight, challenge and hold accountable; similar to what happens when invading bacteria overwhelm a body's immune system and produce sepsis. We surely need to hold the line.
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." -John Adams
With all due respect to one of our founders, since when does a maxim do anything? Even if it’s a good maxim it just sits there until it’s taken to heart and moved on by we the people.
The same with the Constitution; and isolated quotations prove little except that, in many cases, Republicans are misrepresenting the history and the earlier historical mindset of the founders,. The anti-authoritarianism of our founding philosophies was applied shockingly unevenly, yet those Enlightenment Era principles have tacked against the wind into some of the more Woke streams of consciousness that now circulate in our society (End of explicit slavery and "Jim Crow" laws, women's suffrage, rights of workers, responsible sexual freedoms, etc.) that contrast with the authoritarian dark ages Republicans seem eager to restore.
And some strings of words provide a useful shorthand when they seem to hit the nail on the head.
And I think that actions based on lies, individually or as a national policy, are rather like flying in a fog with totally bad instruments. Maybe you'll luck out, but the odds of disaster are over the top. We as a society have become far too inured to significant lies, and it is literally killing us. Truth can be illusive but lies are deliberate, and often provable. We need to make lies and liars a far more visible issue and demand verifiable chains of evident in matters that matter, of which there are many. Some kinds of provable lies, especially from a position of entrusted authority, should be a matter of law, others a matter of decisive social rejection.
I keep wondering if the trump golden boy wasn't clever snark from some shadowy social commentary artist, like Banksy, but with a far less subtle "slapstick" style.
Some fact checkers discovered more than 25 blatant lies in tfg's CPAC rant, adding to the 31,000 or so false statements that another person has counted since tfg appeared on the big stage. And after all the lies and chaos at FNC with tucker c and his teammates, including the Boss, Rupert, even admitting to peddling lies, they continue to manipulate their audience with more lies. How braindead are those viewers that they still believe anything that is being broadcast on that channel?
Part of what goes wrong when former democracies sink into despotism is that the sheer volume of lies becomes so overwhelming that they become hard to highlight, challenge and hold accountable; similar to what happens when invading bacteria overwhelm a body's immune system and produce sepsis. We surely need to hold the line.
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." -John Adams
Much squealing, distress and righteous indignation.
Meanwhile it is human lives that are being nipped in the bud.
Lives, liberty, sanity. Worldwide -- especially in Ukraine. So far.
And it is arbitrary power that is out there, among us, nipping life in the bud.
I believe that the wealthy, technologically advanced US still leads the world (or did) in per capita COVID deaths, just for starters.
With all due respect to one of our founders, since when does a maxim do anything? Even if it’s a good maxim it just sits there until it’s taken to heart and moved on by we the people.
The same with the Constitution; and isolated quotations prove little except that, in many cases, Republicans are misrepresenting the history and the earlier historical mindset of the founders,. The anti-authoritarianism of our founding philosophies was applied shockingly unevenly, yet those Enlightenment Era principles have tacked against the wind into some of the more Woke streams of consciousness that now circulate in our society (End of explicit slavery and "Jim Crow" laws, women's suffrage, rights of workers, responsible sexual freedoms, etc.) that contrast with the authoritarian dark ages Republicans seem eager to restore.
And some strings of words provide a useful shorthand when they seem to hit the nail on the head.
Amen!
I stole your line when I posted this LFAA on my FB page. I hope you don’t mind.
Every word out of his mouth is a lie, including "and" and "the."
And “comma” and “period”....
And I think that actions based on lies, individually or as a national policy, are rather like flying in a fog with totally bad instruments. Maybe you'll luck out, but the odds of disaster are over the top. We as a society have become far too inured to significant lies, and it is literally killing us. Truth can be illusive but lies are deliberate, and often provable. We need to make lies and liars a far more visible issue and demand verifiable chains of evident in matters that matter, of which there are many. Some kinds of provable lies, especially from a position of entrusted authority, should be a matter of law, others a matter of decisive social rejection.
VERY. Marli.
I keep wondering, was the golden statue of trump on display again?
Yes!
I keep wondering if the trump golden boy wasn't clever snark from some shadowy social commentary artist, like Banksy, but with a far less subtle "slapstick" style.
No, he's a full-on Trumpmoron.