At least the Washington Post published an investigative report today showing that DHS is posting video “proof” of civil unrest that is old and/or taken in other locations than DHS claims. It’s worth a look, even though WaPo can’t bring itself to call these posts propaganda or explain that it is illegal for the US government to produce or distribute it to a domestic audience.
Thanks, Liz. Up is down… the sky is green…the earth is flat. It’s Opposite Day in Bikini Bottom…written into the “Ground Hog Day” script. This nightmare is ridiculous 😞
The fact there are so many Americans who are willing to ride and support the Trump train to Hell , is the most terrifying aspect of his “leadership” . Greed, hate, deliberate ignorance and dishonesty are the qualifications needed to ride this train. Like any business, if you have no customers for what you are selling, you crash and burn. So the market is here and it is terrifying
Yesterday, Rebecca Gordon posted a relevant essay in Tom Dispatch calling Trump's master aim "Strategic Incompetence." It is a clever way to disable a government without a coup.
By appointing cabinet members, agency heads, and senior staff who are clueless about their organization's mission and are incompetent to lead anybody anywhere, the government just wastes time and invents facts to politically flatter the administration - while proverbial Rome burns.
The Trump administration enforces invented crimes, siccs the military on imaginary enemies like Colombia and Venezuela while doing nothing to effectively end a real wars in Europe and the Middle East. America's research, which used to be #1 in the world, is now wasting money on research trying to prove crackpot theories about the causes of diseases rather than pursue research to identify valid causes and cures of diseases.
Schools and universities are being transformed into right-wing grooming factories where facts are deleted or perverted to promote political ideologies. If I had a college-age child today, I would send them to a Blue state university or even overseas. K-12 in my state of Florida is so dumbed down that the only option a parent has is private schools. The evidence is already mounting that GenZ is the laziest, most ignorant and incompetent generation in modern history. The military and police can no longer find sufficient qualified recruits without lowering standards.
If I were the leader of Russia and China, I would be delighted to see my economy getting more competitive in the global marketplace simply because America is a rudderless ship of state with a defense department that simply chases its own tail and economic policies that have alienated every single ally in the world.
Thanks for the good summary of the battle… there are so few words, comments that make sense to me having chosen medicine as my profession. I live with what I was able to accomplish for rehab, for head & neck cancer pts. patients. I saw them usually shell shocked at not knowing what hell was going to happen with surgery. It keeps me going that I could help them go forward, heal, function and every smile I remember…
I’m one but know there are many more w/ compassion and ability to help…💙
I can't imagine what it must be like for dedicated medical professionals and scientists, who've studied for years and worked long crazy hours, to hear idiots like RFK Jr. saying that we no longer need to trust experts because we can all do our own research. As a former writer and editor, I get mad about people thinking they can use capital letters whenever they feel so inclined, which is hardly a threat to anyone's health and welfare.
Makes me wonder if 47 is doing to healthcare what he has done to the law firms, the networks, the universities… is he asking healthcare giants to sign loyalty pledges????
These are the worst people to have in positions of power. Do they actually believe the misinformation and disinformation, or are they just cynical tools of the authoritarian state?
Too many Americans are truly too stupid to understand simple scientific facts. As Orwell noted in 1984, ignorance is strength and 2 + 2 is 5 if Big Bloated Brother trump demands it be so. maga takes ignorance is strength as gospel and are quite proud of their abject stupidity and cult behavior. You can also thank the likes of corporate media, Joke Tapper and bezos WaPo for working diligently to make Americans as stupid as possible. Chemtrails are hurting us all!, they scream as they refuse to vaccinate their children against preventable and sometimes t deadly diseases.
Once the flood of excrement is so massive, the source and quality become irrelevant. The objective is to undermine trust in everything except Dear Leader.
At least the Washington Post published an investigative report today showing that DHS is posting video “proof” of civil unrest that is old and/or taken in other locations than DHS claims. It’s worth a look, even though WaPo can’t bring itself to call these posts propaganda or explain that it is illegal for the US government to produce or distribute it to a domestic audience.
Thanks, Liz. Up is down… the sky is green…the earth is flat. It’s Opposite Day in Bikini Bottom…written into the “Ground Hog Day” script. This nightmare is ridiculous 😞
The fact there are so many Americans who are willing to ride and support the Trump train to Hell , is the most terrifying aspect of his “leadership” . Greed, hate, deliberate ignorance and dishonesty are the qualifications needed to ride this train. Like any business, if you have no customers for what you are selling, you crash and burn. So the market is here and it is terrifying
How will we endure 3 more years of trump's bad intentions? Can't he just take the five billion dollars he's gotten since inauguration and go home?
There are no limits to his greed!!
He’d need that SCOTUS immunity on paper.
Isn't it already on paper?
Yesterday, Rebecca Gordon posted a relevant essay in Tom Dispatch calling Trump's master aim "Strategic Incompetence." It is a clever way to disable a government without a coup.
By appointing cabinet members, agency heads, and senior staff who are clueless about their organization's mission and are incompetent to lead anybody anywhere, the government just wastes time and invents facts to politically flatter the administration - while proverbial Rome burns.
The Trump administration enforces invented crimes, siccs the military on imaginary enemies like Colombia and Venezuela while doing nothing to effectively end a real wars in Europe and the Middle East. America's research, which used to be #1 in the world, is now wasting money on research trying to prove crackpot theories about the causes of diseases rather than pursue research to identify valid causes and cures of diseases.
Schools and universities are being transformed into right-wing grooming factories where facts are deleted or perverted to promote political ideologies. If I had a college-age child today, I would send them to a Blue state university or even overseas. K-12 in my state of Florida is so dumbed down that the only option a parent has is private schools. The evidence is already mounting that GenZ is the laziest, most ignorant and incompetent generation in modern history. The military and police can no longer find sufficient qualified recruits without lowering standards.
If I were the leader of Russia and China, I would be delighted to see my economy getting more competitive in the global marketplace simply because America is a rudderless ship of state with a defense department that simply chases its own tail and economic policies that have alienated every single ally in the world.
Once again, education fails us, the easily swayed have become the loud voices in America.
Elect idiots and get an idiotic government.
Thanks for the good summary of the battle… there are so few words, comments that make sense to me having chosen medicine as my profession. I live with what I was able to accomplish for rehab, for head & neck cancer pts. patients. I saw them usually shell shocked at not knowing what hell was going to happen with surgery. It keeps me going that I could help them go forward, heal, function and every smile I remember…
I’m one but know there are many more w/ compassion and ability to help…💙
I can't imagine what it must be like for dedicated medical professionals and scientists, who've studied for years and worked long crazy hours, to hear idiots like RFK Jr. saying that we no longer need to trust experts because we can all do our own research. As a former writer and editor, I get mad about people thinking they can use capital letters whenever they feel so inclined, which is hardly a threat to anyone's health and welfare.
Begs the question: Research who? Where’s that research? Breitbart?
He’s an idiot but I and real Drs. cherish our integrity and care for those who trust in our care.
It's those that are receptive to the message not to trust in your care that are the problem.
Makes me wonder if 47 is doing to healthcare what he has done to the law firms, the networks, the universities… is he asking healthcare giants to sign loyalty pledges????
Liz / Aaron, every time I get to, "That’s it for today" I think, "How did you keep your sanity writing about these outrages?" Thank you.
These are the worst people to have in positions of power. Do they actually believe the misinformation and disinformation, or are they just cynical tools of the authoritarian state?
Trump believe? Only that his delusional world is real. The others: Hop on the Unreality Train; next stop, Domination.
Stupid is as stupid does…<sigh>.
Too many Americans are truly too stupid to understand simple scientific facts. As Orwell noted in 1984, ignorance is strength and 2 + 2 is 5 if Big Bloated Brother trump demands it be so. maga takes ignorance is strength as gospel and are quite proud of their abject stupidity and cult behavior. You can also thank the likes of corporate media, Joke Tapper and bezos WaPo for working diligently to make Americans as stupid as possible. Chemtrails are hurting us all!, they scream as they refuse to vaccinate their children against preventable and sometimes t deadly diseases.
Death of truth, death of conversation … welcome to your Brave New World!
Once the flood of excrement is so massive, the source and quality become irrelevant. The objective is to undermine trust in everything except Dear Leader.
Where are my leftist/liberal hackers to take down these bullshit govt websites? This needs to be one phase of removing these assholes.