Category: politics

How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump

How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump

Journalists need to understand what Trump is doing and refuse to play by his rules. He is going to use the respect and deference typically accorded to the presidency as an instrument for spreading more lies. Reporters must refuse to treat him like a normal president and refuse to bestow any unearned legitimacy on his administration.

Trump’s proxies need to be asked over and over again to provide evidence. When they are unable, they need to be asked why they are unable to defend the president’s assertion and if they believe what the president said. You can not play he said she said here.

Kellyanne Conway Gets Flustered Refusing To Answer Whether Trump’s Voter Fraud Tweet Was True

Kellyanne Conway Gets Flustered Refusing To Answer Whether Trump’s Voter Fraud Tweet Was True

George replied, “There is no evidence that there were millions of illegal votes, zero.”

Conway continued to whine about the media and legal recounts that are being conducted and cried, “Why can’t you allow this President-elect to form his government the way that President Obama and Secretary Clinton had suggested they would like him to do?”

wow.

NYTimes: Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States

NYTimes: Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States

Trump Backers Go to Court to Block Vote Recounts in 3 States

“In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself,” she said, “verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would put all concerns around voter disenfranchisement to rest. Trump’s desperate attempts to silence voter demands for recounts raise a simple question: why is Donald Trump afraid of these recounts?”

The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times

When people start throwing Nazi salutes in public, it has a way of clarifying where everybody stands. (via The ‘alt-right’ splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along – LA Times) … Some white nationalists themselves have a term for the split: the alt-right versus the “alt-lite.” Yep.

Good Riddance to Fidel Castro!

Good Riddance to Fidel Castro!

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Among them, in reality only a dozen outstanding heads do the leading and an elite of the working class is invited from time to time to meetings where they are to applaud the speeches of the leaders, and to approve proposed resolutions unanimously – at bottom, then, a clique affair – a dictatorship, to be sure, not the dictatorship of the proletariat but only the dictatorship of a handful of politicians, that is a dictatorship in the bourgeois sense