Ted Lieu tweeted this old article by Alice Park in Time Magazine today, The Fascinating Reason Why Liars Keep On Lying. I can't read Ted's mind and I don't claim I can ascribe motivation to his actions on Twitter but...
Friday Paul Krugman was reminiscing in The Times about the promise the Ryan-led Republicans would "move their party off its cruel and mindless agenda of tax cuts for the rich and pain for the poor, bringing back the intellectual seriousness that supposedly used to characterize the conservative movement." He points out that not only did that never happen but
According to his latest FEC filing at the end of March, Paul Ryan has already spent $2,586,047 this cycle and has a campaign archest of $9,399,416. Last cycle he spent $13,393,345-- against a vanity candidate the Democratic Party ignored and who spent a grand total of $16,890-- far less than the crackpot Trumpist, Paul Nehlen, who primaried Ryan from the right and spent $1,402,877.
On April 5, 2017, National Geographic released a preview of its film, Hell on Earth: The Fall Of Syria And The Rise of ISIS, by filmmaker Sebastian Junger and producing partner Nick Quested:
Project Veritas was able to capture a CNN producer saying exactly what we already knew – the Russian-Trump collusion hack narrative is utter BS with no evidence, and entirely a concocted media fiction. It also was a reaction to the rejection of the climate accords – to further attack a sensible policy of pulling out, by focusing attention on a lie. Chalk this up to the millionth time CNN has been caught faking news.
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“Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies,” wrote David Leonhardt in today’s NY Times. Does that statement seem odd, coming on the pages of one of the country’s most prestigious, and even staid, newspapers? But that was just the beginning. Leonhardt continued by warning that “as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them.
Professors of economics, Dr. Hong and Dr. Zhao, authored a paper that advocates exaggerating global warming data to support the urgency of UN climate treaties. [...]
Someone needs to explain to Señor Trumpanzee what "exonerated" and "vindicated" mean. No matter where you woke up Friday-- red state, blue state, purple state, there were no newspaper headlines talking about vindication. They were all talking about how we're saddled with a compulsive, manipulative liar in the White House.
Just over a month ago, Michael Grunwald, writing for Politico noted that Trump's executive orders are mostly theater. With much flourish-- and not much impact-- he's signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president since FDR.
