On Monday, House Republicans issued an impeachment prebuttal ahead of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment scheduled for Wednesday. It is a shocking exercise in alternative reality disinformation and propaganda based upon a Russian-inspired conspiracy theory. These “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans are all Kremlin propagandists now. As I have said before, the Party of … Read more
Update to The GOP war on truth itself, and John Neely Kennedy, the junior senator from the state of Louisiana. Oops, he did it again! Steve Benen reports, GOP’s Kennedy, hoping to aid Trump, keeps echoing Russian propaganda: On multiple occasions, U.S. officials have explained to elected policymakers the dangers of promoting Russian disinformation. In … Read more
Those of you who are C-Span junkies are all too familiar with this. During the viewer Call-in program, the hosts take questions from viewers about the major news events of the day. Most of the questions are reasonably well thought out and rationally related to the topic. And then there is the occasional tinfoil hat … Read more
Update to Heads up! Sen. Lindsey ‘Stonewall’ Graham is ready to begin Stalinist show trials of the Russia investigators. Ambassador Fiona Hill, an expert on Russia and Vladimir Putin, told Devin Nunes to his face that his Ukraine conspiracy theory is ‘harmful’ to Ukraine and U.S. national security interests. She showed how Trump and Republicans function … Read more
Donald Trump and his allies just can’t stop using the anti-semitic “dual loyalty” trope to attack Jewish Americans. Recall that back in August, not that long ago, Donald Trump “doubled down on referring to Jews who vote for Democrats as ‘very disloyal’ to Israel, invoking a dual loyalty trope widely viewed as anti-Semitic.” Trump doubles down … Read more