It’s a day of reckoning today for #Infowars#ConspiracyTheorist#AlexJones, & a long-awaited culmination for the #SandyHook families who sued Jones for #defamation. A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has decided that Jones must sell off his personal assets through a Chpt 7 liquidation in order to pay families nearly $1.5B in #damages for spreading #lies that the 2012 #SchoolShooting never happened.
It is irresponsible to obsess over Pres #Biden’s tendency to mangle a couple of words in a speech while #Trump is out there sounding detached from reality. Biden, who is old, at least makes sense. Trump, who also is old, rants like someone you’d cross the street to avoid.
We in the #media have failed by becoming inured to Trump’s verbal incontinence — not just the rapid-fire #lies & #revenge-seeking threats, but also the frightening glimpses into a mind that is, evidently, #unwell. In 2016, #Trump said outrageous things at his campaign rallies to be entertaining. In 2024, his tangents raise serious questions about his #MentalFitness.
the propaganda about the "freed" hostages is reaching new levels. Despite over 8 months of lies, propaganda and disgusting fake stories about rape, mutilation, starvation and murder of Israelis in captivity, they are ignoring the truth and reality of what is right in front of their eyes.
In a misguided effort to be "unbiased," most news media have stopped calling Trump's Big Lie about the 2020 election what it is. Instead they're using terms like "false statements" or "claims without evidence."
Memo to the media: Calling out lies isn't "biased." It's your job.
Imagine willfully and purposely abandoning #reason, #logic and the shared common #reality by which the rest of the world chooses to interact to the point where an entire #political#party publishes this "press release?"
How embarrassing!
Disgraced former president and convicted #felon Donald J. #Trump has been lashing out with vitriol, emotional dysregulation, and flat out #lies and #dangerous#rhetoric since the verdict was made public (and quite frankly before any of his trials even started). He has clearly demonstrated to the entire #world he is the personification of a leaky colostomy bag.
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t by Tom Phillips, 2019
As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the hilarious story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?
#Freedom, #justice, #equality, and #opportunity are #values the majority of #Americans can agree on. The #GOP as it is incarnated now so narrows the scope of applicability as to make their positions utter falsehoods for large groups of people. The majority can see through their #lies, but adherents see #mendacity as the cost of doing business. But at least they believe what they profess and the means to get there. #Democrats on the other hand, are facing a crisis of #legitimacy. The #contradictions between #democratic values and #foreign_policy have been laid bare. #Israel/Gaza, the #TikTok ban, and the heavy-handed #police response to campus #demonstrations have shown that democratic values will be tossed aside the moment they conflict with #policy goals and manufactured #consensus. It's not that people don't #believe in the values Democrats profess; it's that people don't believe that Democrats believe in these values.
If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.
Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.
"the last thing #Trump wants to do is protect the integrity of #elections. He is dedicated to doing the opposite of that.
He relentlessly attacked the #election process in the years leading up to the 2020 election in an attempt to discredit the results even before any votes had been cast...
he continued to tell #lies about the election, and instigated the #Jan6 insurrection.
...in a repeat of his behavior prior to the 2020 election, [he's] trying to discredit the 2024 results in advance."
Hitler, Mandela, Putin, Jesus, whatever. It's all random words of untruthful messaging and seemingly contagious idiocy — @OurShallowState#quotes#quote#Trump#Lies
#Trump claimed today at his speech in front of #law enforcement officers in #Michigan that he called the family of #RubyGarcia, who was killed by a friend of hers who was a migrant. Trump claimed he spoke to several of her family members….
Ruby Garcia's sister Mavi Garcia told WOOD TV8 that neither Trump nor any member of his campaign have contacted her or any of her family members, & was upset that Trump was #exploiting migrants.
The family of #BrianSicknick, the #PoliceOfficer who died during the #Jan6 attack, blasted Trump’s appearance at a wake Thurs for slain #NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller.
Charles & Kenneth Sicknick on Fri expressed condolences to Diller’s family, but said #Trump’s appearance, especially the #PressConference outside a funeral home, was nothing but an #inappropriate#PoliticalStunt.
Lev Parnas, former associate of Rudy Giuliani, testified yesterday to the House Oversight Committee, stating,
"The only information ever pushed on the Bidens and Ukraine has come from one source and one source only: Russia and Russian agents.” Parnas added that impeachment proceedings against Biden were "predicated on a bunch of false information that is being spread by the Kremlin."
#Republican Donald #Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the #history of the #Jan6, 2021, Capitol attack [#insurrection], but positioning the #violent siege & its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the #WhiteHouse.
In heaping praise on the rioters, #Trump is shifting blame for his own role in the run-up to the bloody mob #siege & asking voters to absolve hundreds of them — & himself — over the deadliest attack on a seat of American power in 200 yrs.
At the same time, Trump’s allies are installing 2020 #ElectionDeniers to the #RNC, further institutionalizing the #lies that spurred the #violence. That raises red flags about next year, when #Congress will again be called upon to certify the vote.
"Trump’s appearance in Georgia … reflected a man not rooted in any kind of reality, one who struggled to remember his words and who was, by any definition, incoherent, disconnected, and frequently malicious. …
Watch his speeches. Share them widely. Don’t look away."
"This is the sixth time in the last year she’s told this story to blame Biden. Any claims she just made a mistake is also a lie.
In their response to the State of the Union speech, Britt and the GOP have managed to insult the status of women, exploit sex trafficking for their own gains, and lie to the public about the facts to erroneously blame Biden. This is certainly the state of the Republican Party."
When Kareen Abdul-Jabbar says that Katie Britt has told her lie about Biden and immigrants being sex-trafficked five times in the past year, he links to this news report (see link below).