It should come as no surprise that those who spread lies, KKKonspiracy theories, alternative “facts,” gaslighting, Trumpiness, truthiness, totally whacked out B.S. and all other manner of Orwellian disinformation and misinformation are going to take exception to those who use actual facts, science, history and reality to uncover the massive KKKon game the TrumpubliQans have perpetrated on their gullible suckers.
No wonder Trump can freely admit that he “loves the uneducated.”
And of course the TrumpubliQans, with their own history of perversion, pedophilia and their own REAL child sex traffickers (and the traffickers’ friends and enablers) like Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Gym Jordan (echoes of Dennis Hastert), Lauren Boebert (whose husband Jayson was convicted and served time for “lewd exposure” to underage girls), right-wing pedophile priests and, of course, Jeffrey Epstein’s best pal Donald “pu$$y-grabber” Trump, are determined to employ their favorite tactic of distraction and redirection:
The “BIG LIE” strategy straight outta the Joseph Goebbels / Roy Cohn / Roger Ailes / Karl Rove / Vladimir Putin / Steve Bannon / Stephen Miller / Donald Trump playbook:
“Project your own weakest vulnerability back at those you oppose.”
I agree that it’s disingenuous of them to complain. But I’m not in favor either, because two things:
* It’s the Department of Homeland Security which is among the government agencies that I trust least.
* It’s the government. It may or may not be run fairly while the Democrats are in charge, but eventually, it will be the Qpugnicans in charge.
Well okay, a third thing: * I think it’s a really bad idea to have the government in charge of censorship, no matter how well intended. Bear in mind that we’re clearly suffering from the current lack of any control at all. I’d prefer to “somehow” let the market do it… like newspapers used to do by having a policy of truth and care and editors/publishers with the power AND THE WILL to enforce that. For the ones that did. … Or some other way? Users flagging things obviously doesn’t do much or well. Maybe a system like Texas’s “you can sue them” system, but for lies? I really don’t know…
The board could easily be populated by real-life embodiments of our national lunacy: Greene, Gaetz, Hawley, Cruz, Cawthorn, Gohmert, Boebert, Trump Jr., Trump Sr., and too many more.
I see the punk kid rikki is raving mindlessly, as usual, and dishonestly, as usual…..The objections to the disinformation board (and, it DOES have a stupid name) are way over-blown, for the simple reason that it has no power. It’s like the imbeciles and/or lunatics blaming Dr. Fauci for what individual governors or mayors did in terms of dealing with Covid.
When the GOP is grabbed by the tail, knowing they’re the culprits, they cry fowl….deflect, investigate, lie more, add more theories….. there’s no end to their madness…..
Hey, Beetle Bailey-Level Intelligence, Friedbird waterpistol, patrick murphy, loony squiggles, rikitikirussianbot, klemubermoron, ammosexuallydysfunctional, opspecial ed, JAwholikesbluegrass, jane b thinkin’ VERY ignorantlee, 60 rottenbuzzardbrains adhered to a scorching sidewalk, sammy ugly avatar, leonarddonk, I found your brother, Montana Bill. He’s crawled over ArcaMax to spread with greasy crap. Man, he must love him some delayed comix. When are the rest of you gonna slink on over there?:
Elon Musk Calls BS on Truth Social CEO’s Trump Claim
“We’re all for it,” Nunes said. “President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said to go and buy it, because the goal of our company is really to build a community where people are in a family-friendly, safe environment, very much different than Twitter.
“Someone has to continue to take on these tech tyrants,” he added.
The New York Post shared Nunes’ claims in a tweet early Friday, adding that Musk had been “quietly” influenced by the former president.
“This is false,” Musk replied. “I’ve had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social.”
The Tesla billionaire has repeatedly said that he will champion “free speech” if his Twitter bid goes through, and in recent weeks right-wing personalities have rejoiced about the $44 billion buyout.
That has stirred speculation that Musk will reinstate former president Trump’s account, which was permanently suspended from the platform following the January 6 insurrection because of how Trump’s tweets were “being received and interpreted on and off Twitter” and “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
As Musk noted, Trump so far has indicated that he will not rejoin the platform either way, opting to stick with Truth Social instead. It remains to be seen whether he will adhere to that pledge.
Peddling false claims about Twitter wouldn’t be a new tactic from Nunes. At the beginning of April, he claimed on Fox Business that Truth Social was home to more “interactions” than Twitter, calling it “kind of a ghost town.” It was a dubious claim, considering that Twitter has more than 200 million daily active users.
Man who stormed Capitol in caveman costume gets prison
A New York City judge’s son who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a furry “caveman" costume was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg told Aaron Mostofsky that he was "literally on the front lines” of the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
“What you and others did on that day imposed an indelible stain on how our nation is perceived, both at home and abroad, and that can’t be undone,” the judge told Mostofsky, 35.
Mostofsky was one of the first rioters to enter the restricted area around the Capitol and among the first to breach the building itself, through the Senate Wing doors, according to prosecutors. He pushed against a police barrier that officers were trying to move and stole a Capitol Police bulletproof vest and riot shield, prosecutors said.
Maddow Blog | The flaw(s) in Trump’s idea about launching missiles into Mexico
“You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill.” A few months after that, then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said, “I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him.”
As farcical as the anecdote sounds, Esper described a situation in which the then-president, four years into his term, told his Defense secretary that he believed the Mexican government lacked sufficient control over their own country. As such, as Trump saw it, the United States could “just shoot some Patriot missiles” into Mexico and destroy drug labs.
We could do this “quietly,” Trump told Esper, adding that “no one would know it was us.” According to the plan, Trump would simply deny responsibility when asked about the missile strike.
In other words, as recently as 2020, the commander in chief of the nation’s most powerful military, thought it’d be a good idea to launch Patriot missiles — which are not intended for ground targets — into an allied neighbor’s country, to kill non-military targets, at which point he’d lie to the world.
Mark Esper’s book is a plea to voters that a Trump presidency ‘cannot happen again’
“When it boiled down to the message that Mark Esper was trying to get across in this book, what he says is that he believes that Donald Trump is out for one person and one person only, himself, for his own political future, for his own reputation, and that he doesn’t have what it takes to be a public servant, to put even one iota of the public good over anything else,” said fellow analyst Dana Bash. “And I think if there is one takeaway, that is probably it. Again, what we need to do is remember that this is also a man with a reputation who wants it try to keep it intact, and he clearly feels like his reputation was tarnished.”
“I think there are a lot of people who worked in that White House who I’ve spoken with and you’ve spoken with who are kind of going through a little bit of personal therapy here,” said Borger. “Because they’re trying to figure out what they saw, exactly what they saw, what they did, and what they didn’t do. And, you know, we have seen that in Stephanie Grisham, for example, who has written about this, now Mark Esper has written about this.”
Trump profanely fumed at Mike Pence after military leaders refused to shoot protesters
The former president suggested shooting protesters “in the legs or something” in the summer of 2020, according to a new book by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said Trump angrily berated him and other senior officials when they refused to go along with his proposition, reported The Guardian.
“‘You are losers!’ the president railed.
Esper said the president often used that type of language, but he said the episode stood out because he had never seen Trump that angry or direct such venom at people in the same room — which at the time included Pence, attorney general William Barr and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“He repeated the foul insults again, this time directing his venom at the vice-president as well, who sat quietly, stone-faced, in the chair at the far end of the semi-circle closest to the Rose Garden," Esper wrote. "I never saw him yell at the vice-president before, so this really caught my attention.”
“[He was] waiting, it seemed, for one of us to yield and simply agree," Esper wrote. "That wasn’t going to happen.”
Republican wins GOP nomination from jail as he awaits trial for murdering his wife
“Andrew Wilhoite, who’s suspected of fatally striking his wife with a gallon-sized concrete flower pot, secured a spot Tuesday as one of three Republican candidates in the race for a seat on the Clinton Township Board,” the Indianapolis Star reports. “The 40-year-old has been incarcerated in the Boone County Jail since March after police said he told investigators he threw a concrete flower pot at his wife, Nikki Wilhoite, the night before and dropped her body over the side of a bridge.”
Brad King, co-director of the Indiana Election Division, explained that under Indiana law, Wilhoite is allowed to run.
Under Biden, there is an attempt to counter disinformation by getting the facts out. Under Trump, the entire administration was dedicated to getting out disinformation.
The thing that gives me pause about this proposed branch is that (1) it was proposed under DFT’s admin, and (2) it’s part of DHS, which simply shouldn’t exist, period.
DD Wiz Premium Member about 2 years ago
It should come as no surprise that those who spread lies, KKKonspiracy theories, alternative “facts,” gaslighting, Trumpiness, truthiness, totally whacked out B.S. and all other manner of Orwellian disinformation and misinformation are going to take exception to those who use actual facts, science, history and reality to uncover the massive KKKon game the TrumpubliQans have perpetrated on their gullible suckers.
No wonder Trump can freely admit that he “loves the uneducated.”
And of course the TrumpubliQans, with their own history of perversion, pedophilia and their own REAL child sex traffickers (and the traffickers’ friends and enablers) like Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Gym Jordan (echoes of Dennis Hastert), Lauren Boebert (whose husband Jayson was convicted and served time for “lewd exposure” to underage girls), right-wing pedophile priests and, of course, Jeffrey Epstein’s best pal Donald “pu$$y-grabber” Trump, are determined to employ their favorite tactic of distraction and redirection:
The “BIG LIE” strategy straight outta the Joseph Goebbels / Roy Cohn / Roger Ailes / Karl Rove / Vladimir Putin / Steve Bannon / Stephen Miller / Donald Trump playbook:
“Project your own weakest vulnerability back at those you oppose.”
Daeder about 2 years ago
And they don’t want America protected from Russian disinformation, because they love it!
Concretionist about 2 years ago
I agree that it’s disingenuous of them to complain. But I’m not in favor either, because two things:
* It’s the Department of Homeland Security which is among the government agencies that I trust least.
* It’s the government. It may or may not be run fairly while the Democrats are in charge, but eventually, it will be the Qpugnicans in charge.
Well okay, a third thing: * I think it’s a really bad idea to have the government in charge of censorship, no matter how well intended. Bear in mind that we’re clearly suffering from the current lack of any control at all. I’d prefer to “somehow” let the market do it… like newspapers used to do by having a policy of truth and care and editors/publishers with the power AND THE WILL to enforce that. For the ones that did. … Or some other way? Users flagging things obviously doesn’t do much or well. Maybe a system like Texas’s “you can sue them” system, but for lies? I really don’t know…
B 8671 about 2 years ago
The Republicans, their sycophants/apologists and their servants/slaves especially the ones who post here are the kings of Orwellian fantasyland.
LookingGlass Premium Member about 2 years ago
So say a bunch of quislings!!!
/SHEESH/
Kurtass Premium Member about 2 years ago
In other words, trump’s propaganda network, fox.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-advise-trump-white-house-1281740/amp/
FrankErnesto about 2 years ago
Defund DHS, and while you are at it Trump’s Space Force. Gawd, how cartoony can we get?
The Nodding Head about 2 years ago
The board could easily be populated by real-life embodiments of our national lunacy: Greene, Gaetz, Hawley, Cruz, Cawthorn, Gohmert, Boebert, Trump Jr., Trump Sr., and too many more.
Vidrinath Premium Member about 2 years ago
Wow. Clay drew the RW commenters.
Bookworm about 2 years ago
Censor not, lest ye be censored. . . .
Godfreydaniel about 2 years ago
I see the punk kid rikki is raving mindlessly, as usual, and dishonestly, as usual…..The objections to the disinformation board (and, it DOES have a stupid name) are way over-blown, for the simple reason that it has no power. It’s like the imbeciles and/or lunatics blaming Dr. Fauci for what individual governors or mayors did in terms of dealing with Covid.
Masterskrain Premium Member about 2 years ago
If the Republicans couldn’t LIE, they’d have nothing to say.
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
When the GOP is grabbed by the tail, knowing they’re the culprits, they cry fowl….deflect, investigate, lie more, add more theories….. there’s no end to their madness…..
rossevrymn about 2 years ago
Hey, Beetle Bailey-Level Intelligence, Friedbird waterpistol, patrick murphy, loony squiggles, rikitikirussianbot, klemubermoron, ammosexuallydysfunctional, opspecial ed, JAwholikesbluegrass, jane b thinkin’ VERY ignorantlee, 60 rottenbuzzardbrains adhered to a scorching sidewalk, sammy ugly avatar, leonarddonk, I found your brother, Montana Bill. He’s crawled over ArcaMax to spread with greasy crap. Man, he must love him some delayed comix. When are the rest of you gonna slink on over there?:
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Republican traitors never stop lying.
charliekane about 2 years ago
All adherents of the former guy, and his ilk, may check their Orwellian outrage at the door, thank you!
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Elon Musk Calls BS on Truth Social CEO’s Trump Claim
“We’re all for it,” Nunes said. “President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said to go and buy it, because the goal of our company is really to build a community where people are in a family-friendly, safe environment, very much different than Twitter.
“Someone has to continue to take on these tech tyrants,” he added.
The New York Post shared Nunes’ claims in a tweet early Friday, adding that Musk had been “quietly” influenced by the former president.
“This is false,” Musk replied. “I’ve had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social.”
The Tesla billionaire has repeatedly said that he will champion “free speech” if his Twitter bid goes through, and in recent weeks right-wing personalities have rejoiced about the $44 billion buyout.
That has stirred speculation that Musk will reinstate former president Trump’s account, which was permanently suspended from the platform following the January 6 insurrection because of how Trump’s tweets were “being received and interpreted on and off Twitter” and “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
As Musk noted, Trump so far has indicated that he will not rejoin the platform either way, opting to stick with Truth Social instead. It remains to be seen whether he will adhere to that pledge.
Peddling false claims about Twitter wouldn’t be a new tactic from Nunes. At the beginning of April, he claimed on Fox Business that Truth Social was home to more “interactions” than Twitter, calling it “kind of a ghost town.” It was a dubious claim, considering that Twitter has more than 200 million daily active users.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-calls-bs-on-truth-social-ceo-s-trump-claim/ar-AAWZtub?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bdf52b2155ff45b98f38c6f84a11e285
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Man who stormed Capitol in caveman costume gets prison
A New York City judge’s son who stormed the U.S. Capitol wearing a furry “caveman" costume was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg told Aaron Mostofsky that he was "literally on the front lines” of the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
“What you and others did on that day imposed an indelible stain on how our nation is perceived, both at home and abroad, and that can’t be undone,” the judge told Mostofsky, 35.
Mostofsky was one of the first rioters to enter the restricted area around the Capitol and among the first to breach the building itself, through the Senate Wing doors, according to prosecutors. He pushed against a police barrier that officers were trying to move and stole a Capitol Police bulletproof vest and riot shield, prosecutors said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/man-who-stormed-capitol-in-caveman-costume-gets-prison/ar-AAWZNyZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bdf52b2155ff45b98f38c6f84a11e285
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Maddow Blog | The flaw(s) in Trump’s idea about launching missiles into Mexico
“You have no idea how much crazy stuff we kill.” A few months after that, then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said, “I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him.”
As farcical as the anecdote sounds, Esper described a situation in which the then-president, four years into his term, told his Defense secretary that he believed the Mexican government lacked sufficient control over their own country. As such, as Trump saw it, the United States could “just shoot some Patriot missiles” into Mexico and destroy drug labs.
We could do this “quietly,” Trump told Esper, adding that “no one would know it was us.” According to the plan, Trump would simply deny responsibility when asked about the missile strike.
In other words, as recently as 2020, the commander in chief of the nation’s most powerful military, thought it’d be a good idea to launch Patriot missiles — which are not intended for ground targets — into an allied neighbor’s country, to kill non-military targets, at which point he’d lie to the world.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/maddow-blog-the-flaw-s-in-trump-s-idea-about-launching-missiles-into-mexico/ar-AAWZ3J9?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bdf52b2155ff45b98f38c6f84a11e285
The leader of the republican party is a psychotic criminal who understands nothing except his own infantile ego.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
‘The cruelty has no bottom’: Legal expert blasts TX Gov. Abbott for trying to ban some children from public education
https://www.rawstory.com/the-cruelty-has-no-bottom-legal-expert-blasts-tx-gov-abbott-for-trying-to-ban-some-children-from-public-education/
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Mark Esper’s book is a plea to voters that a Trump presidency ‘cannot happen again’
“When it boiled down to the message that Mark Esper was trying to get across in this book, what he says is that he believes that Donald Trump is out for one person and one person only, himself, for his own political future, for his own reputation, and that he doesn’t have what it takes to be a public servant, to put even one iota of the public good over anything else,” said fellow analyst Dana Bash. “And I think if there is one takeaway, that is probably it. Again, what we need to do is remember that this is also a man with a reputation who wants it try to keep it intact, and he clearly feels like his reputation was tarnished.”
“I think there are a lot of people who worked in that White House who I’ve spoken with and you’ve spoken with who are kind of going through a little bit of personal therapy here,” said Borger. “Because they’re trying to figure out what they saw, exactly what they saw, what they did, and what they didn’t do. And, you know, we have seen that in Stephanie Grisham, for example, who has written about this, now Mark Esper has written about this.”
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-esper-trump-2657275508
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Trump profanely fumed at Mike Pence after military leaders refused to shoot protesters
The former president suggested shooting protesters “in the legs or something” in the summer of 2020, according to a new book by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said Trump angrily berated him and other senior officials when they refused to go along with his proposition, reported The Guardian.
“‘You are losers!’ the president railed.
Esper said the president often used that type of language, but he said the episode stood out because he had never seen Trump that angry or direct such venom at people in the same room — which at the time included Pence, attorney general William Barr and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“He repeated the foul insults again, this time directing his venom at the vice-president as well, who sat quietly, stone-faced, in the chair at the far end of the semi-circle closest to the Rose Garden," Esper wrote. "I never saw him yell at the vice-president before, so this really caught my attention.”
“[He was] waiting, it seemed, for one of us to yield and simply agree," Esper wrote. "That wasn’t going to happen.”
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-mike-pence-2657275159/
The leader of the republican party traitor Trump is a sadistic lying sociopath who enjoys hurting people.
Radish the wordsmith about 2 years ago
Republican wins GOP nomination from jail as he awaits trial for murdering his wife
“Andrew Wilhoite, who’s suspected of fatally striking his wife with a gallon-sized concrete flower pot, secured a spot Tuesday as one of three Republican candidates in the race for a seat on the Clinton Township Board,” the Indianapolis Star reports. “The 40-year-old has been incarcerated in the Boone County Jail since March after police said he told investigators he threw a concrete flower pot at his wife, Nikki Wilhoite, the night before and dropped her body over the side of a bridge.”
Brad King, co-director of the Indiana Election Division, explained that under Indiana law, Wilhoite is allowed to run.
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-andrew-wilhoite/
GiantShetlandPony about 2 years ago
I remember reading that Orwell towards the end of his life made a comment to the effect of:
My books were meant to be warnings, not how to books.
Vidrinath Premium Member about 2 years ago
Clay, grats on 5 years without missing a ’toon. You mentioned on youtube that there was a GoComics interview on that.
https://www.gocomics.com/blog/4970/editorial-cartoonist-clay-jones-is-on-a-five-year-posting-streak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxIkM0gvSY
Rich Douglas about 2 years ago
Under Biden, there is an attempt to counter disinformation by getting the facts out. Under Trump, the entire administration was dedicated to getting out disinformation.
Ally2005 about 2 years ago
Kip Williams about 2 years ago
The thing that gives me pause about this proposed branch is that (1) it was proposed under DFT’s admin, and (2) it’s part of DHS, which simply shouldn’t exist, period.
AtomicForce91 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Like the lie that there was Russia Collusion…