Donald Trump’s reelection campaign launch this week was a textbook example of manufacturing an alternate reality, with an assist from his partner in propaganda, Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing rag the New York Post. Trump says coronavirus comeback underway: People are ‘starting to feel good’: President Trump invited The Post into the Oval Office on Monday for … Read more
I’m not sure whether Donald Trump is more Baghdad Bob, denying that there were any American tanks in Baghdad when they could be seen only several hundred meters away from the press conference where he was speaking, or George W. Bush staging his flight deck “mission accomplished” PR stunt after the initial invasion of Iraq, … Read more
Above Photo: A woman holds a sign during a rally to open the state at Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix on May 3, 2020. Arizona Republic. We are witnessing the consequences of Moral Relativism and Objectivism among the right-wing with the “spread the coronavirus” protestors opposed to social distancing measures enacted by governors to slow the … Read more
Donald Trump has spent four years promoting a “deep state” conspiracy theory with which to undermine the U.S. intelligence agencies and the state department. He has removed virtually all of the career service personnel who led those agencies, out of retaliation for their having investigated his campaign’s numerous interactions with Russian operatives in the 2016 … Read more
The first “confirmed” death from COVID-19 in the U.S. was on February 29. Some 60 days later, the U.S. passed the grim milestone of 60,000 “confirmed” deaths on April 29. The Trump body count surpassed the 61,000 deaths by August 4 forecast by the model touted by the White House on April 9, with 61,717 … Read more