Even as you read this, the next Big Lie that Republicans like Rick Wilson believe will save them is being mortared into place in plain sight, brick-by-brick, and with the enthusiastic support of the Beltway media,. And that Big Lie is that the GOP was a principled, sane political party which was doing just fine until Trump rolled into town with his Magic Meathead Mesmerizing Machine and somehow overnight transformed +60M principled, sane Republican voters into a mob reprogrammable bigots and imbeciles.
The idea that 53% of Republicans in a recent poll think that Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln actually doesn’t bother me excessively because I drink an actual fuckton anymore have been watching Republican polls for a long time, and have observed the rise of poll-trolling and troll-polling. You know, the thing where Republicans, when questioned, will blame Obama for the Hurricane Katrina response or where pollsters will ask questions trying to cast a certain demographic (presumed knuckle-draggers) in a weird light by pointing up one weird and very click-baitable response. You can tell me Republicans by just 53% are defensive enough in support of Trump to compare him favorably to the guy on Mount Rushmore, the $5 bill and the freaking penny, and I’m going to basically shrug. (I will note, however, for posterity’s sake, that Trump invited this comparison. And outside of Republicans, he definitely does not compare favorably.)
Republicans are going to like the current Republican president. It isn’t brain science.
This video starts off with a Fox News interview in which a couple of apologists for Blackwater explain an incident in Iraq in which mercenaries “neutralized a threat” at an intersection, a very bland and seemingly everyday event in an occupied country. After seeing Fox misrepresenting the whole affair and calling the mercenaries heroes, the video reveals that this was the Nisour Square Massacre, in which a group of unprofessional gun-toting American assholes went on a murder spree, killing 17 civilians and blowing up vehicles left and right. Fox avoided mentioning the victims and was shockingly dishonest in their misrepresentation; this report pulls no punches and describes their murder.
Fox News Affirms Its State TV Status with Slobbering Interview of Trump Campaign Shill
It’s getting more difficult with every passing day to differentiate between Fox News and the Republican Nationalist Party. And even though the network was created to serve as a propaganda vehicle for right-wing politics, the degree to which it has become the communications office of Donald Trump’s cult movement still manages to be surprising.
On Sunday morning Fox and Friends co-host Ed Henry “interviewed” Kayleigh McEnany, the press secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign. It was another in a frequent series of Trump campaign and administration officials appearing regularly on Fox News. They know they have an open door at Fox where they can deliver their disinformation at any time without interruption or dispute. And this booking was no exception. Henry asked a total of four question, and each one seems like it was written by some Trump PR hack, complete with hostile allusions to Democrats.
Facial Recognition Software Knows It Has Seen Man Before But Can’t Remember His Name
AKRON, OH—Wondering if it was possibly confusing the man for a different guy with a 10 mm nasal bridge and a right earlobe hanging 0.4 mm lower than his left, a Cognitec FaceVACS-VideoScan Unit #121 facial recognition camera expressed frustration Monday after focusing on a man it knew it had seen before and found itself unable to remember his name.
It’s now official! Republicans are nuts. More than half of these twisted Deplorables make him the most popular GOP president except for Bush shortly after 9/11.
Our current politics may be miserable. But there’s plenty of comic relief if you know where to look.
It’s been a miserable year for politics, really. Impeachment? There’s nothing fun in that. Still, those of us who follow this stuff all the time do find some amusement in it, and I like to compile a list of what political junkies have to be thankful for. In other words: Sure, things are terrible, but at least we can have a two-day story about whether the hero dog is a boy or a girl. Ready?
Stupid joke Twitter accounts. I’m afraid this one is losing steam, as politics Twitter itself has become a lot less fun than it used to be. But it was good to see that Representative Jim Jordan’s poor abandoned jacket has its own account.
All those presidential candidates. Seth Masket counts 44 people who have so far done candidate-like things this cycle. And that’s just the Democrats! A field of that size leaves plenty of room for the kind of goofy contenders who — assuming they don’t actually come close to winning — provide a little comic relief. This cycle, forget about the vanity campaign of Marianne Williamson, and enjoy the thoroughly unmemorable members of the House who somehow thought they could win.
In MadMikesAmerica, Michael John Scott researches a lot, then speculates a bit on how things would, or could, happen if a president went rogue and tried to nuke a country.
PZ Myers hears Rick Perry declare Donald Trump to be the Chosen One, annointed by God. Professor Myers seems skeptical.
tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors recounts President Trump’s Thanksgiving phone call to members of media and military. He expressed gratitude on behalf of the nation to … well … himself.
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warned Republicans they could be walking into a trap if they insist on calling their wish list of impeachment trial witnesses like Hunter Biden, because that would open the door for Democrats to secure potentially damaging testimony from the likes of John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and even President Donald Trump.
On Friday morning’s edition of America’s Newsroom, anchor Sandra Smith asked Wallace to weigh in on the week of damaging impeachment testimony. Wallace delivered a mostly-neutral assessment of “both sides” of the issue, although he did remark that the witnesses had “certainly” proven a link between security assistance and a White House meeting, if not the investigations.
But then Wallace volunteered a warning to Republicans about calling in as laundry list of witnesses at a Senate trial.
SpongeBob SquarePants first made a public appearance in 1999, but it took quite some time for the emergence of a scholarly work which directly cited the character as a primary focus for study. This one, from 2005, is a likely candidate as the first:
