The Red White and Blue Pill
Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.
Delegitimizing the institutions that might report inconvenient or damaging facts about the president is strategic for an administration that has made a slew of impossible promises and takes office amid a cloud of ethics concerns and potential scandals.
I think the lies are just going to get more and more brazen and the defenses of his lies more and more bizarre.
Trump: crime and gangs are ruining the country. Actual statistics: that’s not remotely true.
Trump’s description of this country being a mess of crime and high unemployment is largely false. We have problems. We even have some growing problems with substance abuse. But crime is nearing historic lows and the economy is growing.
If you think the country is falling apart, you’re living in a bubble.
The transition is a mess. This is bad.
Trump’s Age of Ignorance Threatens Humanity
He seems hell-bent on ushering in an era where expertise is not just ignored, but actively disdained. This has manifested itself all over his still-short list of appointees, but the nominees related to science and health seem particularly egregious. These are Trump’s “unspecialists”—anti-experts, candidates that would be laughed off as absurdities if we weren’t living in the middle of a Philip K. Dick dystopia.
Goldman Sachs Completes Return From Wilderness to the White House
“Government Sachs” is back.
That swamp just got ten feet deeper.
Conway: Dems trying to humiliate Cabinet picks
They want to be treated like special snowflakes and spared the humiliation of answering questions about the jobs they’ll do.
The Case for Not Being Crybabies
Why are we still saying Trump isn’t doing enough to avoid conflicts of interest? He’s made clear he wants to profit off his presidency. Let’s accept that. That is what he wants to do. If you’re a journalist, start documenting the details. If you’re an activist or politician start mobilizing against his corruption.
Anti-Trump Republicans and Trump’s ‘Blacklist’
The thing to keep in mind here is that these jobs are technocrat jobs and the people in the blacklist are life long Republicans with experience in government. It’s spectacularly bad judgment to block these people when the Trump administration is so understaffed.