I'd like to thank Mr. Simpson for alerting me to Barack
Obama's receiving Politifact's lie of the year in 2013. Since he didn't include
it, "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it." Here are a
few other winners. In 2015, they awarded it to the many campaign misstatements
of Donald Trump. In 2016, they gave it to the folks helping to spread the fake
news smear of the American news media. A prime purveyor, of course, being
Trump. In 2017, Trump was given the "honor" for his claim that
Russian interference in the election is a hoax.
Obama apologized for his error. His bad for thinking people
wouldn't want worthless health insurance policies. I don't recall him spreading
conspiracy theories, though. Our current president was (is?) a prominent
birther. He believes climate change is a Chinese hoax, vaccines lead to autism,
millions voted illegally in 2016 and that Ted Cruz's father had a role in
assassinating JFK. His latest nonsense about Obama "embedding" a spy
in his campaign has as close a relationship with reality as the previous
delusion about his phones being tapped. Maybe it's just a guilty conscience
from the fact that he and everyone on his campaign seem to have close relations
with various Russians.
Our current representative, as a member of the House
Intelligence Committee, could provide some oversight of the executive branch.
They seem to have other priorities, though. I'll join Ms. Nadolski in urging
support for Tedra Cobb in next month's primary and November's general election.
The swamp isn't getting drained with Republican control and it would help wipe
the smirk off of Vlad Putin.
The lies of Donald Trump are like unto the stars of the heavens or the sands of the desert -- no man can count them. Not many politicians have made such a point of being honest as Obama did. But if the wingnuts didn't have a warped sense of reality, they'd have no sense of reality at all.
ReplyDeleteCalling Trump a liar and what he spews, lies, just seems so inadequate. I just saw a comment in a thread where some Trumpist was opining on his hero's multi-dimensional chess moves vis a vis North Korea. Rick Wilson has an article in the Daily News on that. Stumbled upon it right afterward.
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FiveThirtyEight doesn't think Trump is playing chess of any dimension. Instead, they think he's playing Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe.
DeleteThat was interesting. Hadn't heard of that. I'll give him that Trump isn't playing chess in any number of dimensions. I have doubts about tic tac toe too, though.
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