Donald Trump and his allies have repeatedly, and falsely, accused Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, both Republicans, of presiding over a fraudulent election. This is having some interesting consequences in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections in January. The Daily Beast reports: Conservative operatives and a super PAC with ties to … Read more
The Twitter-troll-in-chief was having a mental breakdown last night over his hand-picked Supreme Court not doing what “Dear Leader” has commanded them to do. Trump Ominously Declares Joe Biden Will Only Win White House if Supreme Court Fails to Stop It: With just five days left in a hotly contested election in which most polls … Read more
The Washington Examiner, Breitbart News, The Gateway Pundit and The Washington Times (i.e., The Moonie Times) and other conservative media (ahem, Fox News) amplify false claims of rampant voter fraud in what a new Harvard study calls a “propaganda feedback loop.” I have been warning you about Epistemic closure and the ‘conservative misinformation feedback loop’ media bubble … Read more
During the final presidential debate last week, Donald Trump in one of his rants introduced a conspiracy theory: But now, with what came out today, it’s even worse. All of the emails, the emails, the horrible emails of the kind of money that you were raking in, you and your family. And Joe, you were … Read more
Cheeto Benito went the full fascist banana Republican tinpot dictator on Tuesday. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “we have a republic, if we can keep it.” Steve Benen reports, Echoes of Nixon reverberate as Trump presses Barr to target Biden: When it comes to Donald Trump’s presidency, the “this is not normal” observation has long since … Read more