Archive for the ‘myth busting’ Category

Conway Admits Trump Told of Russian Hacking in JANUARY yet continued to deny. Pushed to ease sanctions.

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Conway reveals Trump was told about and acknowledged Russian hacking last January. So why was he still sowing seeds of doubt as recently as last week?

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June 26, 2017
Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  · Posted in: Crime, Election, mystery, myth busting, National Security, Partisanship, Politics, Rants, rewriting history, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity, Scandals, Seems Obvious to Me

Trump Says Paris Accord Too Tough. Staff Justifies Backing Out Because It Wasn’t Tough Enough

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Trump justified backing out of the Paris Climate Accord by claiming the standards were too tough. Then he sends out his EPA Chief to justify backing out by citing scientists who complained it wasn’t tough enough.

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June 5, 2017
Posted in: Energy Independence, Environment, Global Warming, Jobs, myth busting, Rants, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity

Tillerson and Clapper Rebuke Claims Russia Didn’t Interfere in Our Election.

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Trump’s own Secretary of State confirms Russia meddled in our election, and former DNI James Clapper rebukes claim he cleared Trump.

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May 17, 2017
Posted in: Crime, Election, myth busting, National Security, rewriting history, Right-Wing Insanity, Scandals

GOP Healthcare Plan Would Be Largest Shift in Income From Poor to Rich in History

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The GOP’s proposed elimination of the Medicaid Expansion in ObamaCare to justify a massive tax cut for people making over $300 Million dollars a year is not just obscene. It’s historic.

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May 8, 2017
Posted in: Healthcare, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Party of Life, Right-wing Facism, Taxes

Trump Failures Demonstrating Why You Can’t Run Government Like a Business

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Despite having absolutely NO experience in public office, Donald Trump ran for president on his record as a successful businessman, promising to run the country like a business. 100 days of failure in, we are seeing why that’s a strategy doomed to fail.

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May 1, 2017
Posted in: General, Greed, Money, myth busting, Politics, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Seems Obvious to Me, Taxes

First 100 Days: Can We Say the Honeymoon Is Over If It Never Began?

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Saturday marks Trump’s 100th day in office. He now says the 100 Day benchmark is ‘ridiculous’, but it was HE who made it a big deal.

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April 24, 2017
Posted in: General, myth busting, Partisanship, Politics, rewriting history, Right-Wing Insanity

Debunking This Syria Conspiracy Stupidity (and saying goodbye to the tinfoil hat brigade)

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The complexities of the Syrian chemical weapons attack has driven The Conspiracy Theory crowd into overdrive. Put away the tinfoil hats. Here are the facts.

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April 10, 2017
Posted in: fake scandals, Middle East, mystery, myth busting, National Security, Rants, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, Terrorism, War

GOP Leads in ‘Unprecedented’ Behavior re: SCOTUS Nomination

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Republican say a SCOTUS filibuster would be ‘unprecedented’, but so would repeal of the rule they’d have to repeal to prevent it.

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April 3, 2017
Posted in: Civil Rights, myth busting, Party of Life, Politics, rewriting history, Right-Wing Hypocrisy

Trump Voters Are Discovering a Wish List is Not a Plan

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For years Republicans have insisted they have “secret plans” to achieve all the things they want to do, but as was made clear last week, all they ever had was a “To Do” list.

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March 27, 2017
Posted in: Healthcare, myth busting, Partisanship, Politics, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity

The (In)Complete (and growing) List of Trump’s Russia Ties

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The list of people and events linking Russia to the Trump campaign/White House is growing so long, I feel the need to start keeping track.

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March 13, 2017
Posted in: Crime, Election, mystery, myth busting, National Security, Politics, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Scandals

Trump is getting his intel from Right-Wing conspiracy theorists (and that should worry us all.)

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Our Commander-in-Chief keeps retweeting unverified claims gleaned from Far Right conspiracy theorists despite access to the entire Intelligence Community.

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March 6, 2017
Posted in: myth busting, National Security, Politics, Rants, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity, Scandals, Seems Obvious to Me

We All Know Why Trump is Demonizing the Press

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Trump is working overtime to discredit ‘The Media’ as ‘fake news’ because he can’t explain away their findings.

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February 27, 2017
Posted in: Election, myth busting, National Security, Partisanship, Politics, rewriting history, Right-Wing Insanity, Scandals