And Nikki Haley said on TV today that DJT isn't going to win elections by lying about crowd size. And he should stop doing that. I would pay whatever DNC charges to put that on a loop to run daily. In prime time. Followed by the inane comparison to MLK.
Kevin McCarthy was interviewed and said the same thing. Vivek Ramaswamy, same story. His “best people” tried to advise him through the TV when he was in office.
I think the Dems can ask how that works if he gets his fingers on the “football” again.
From NPR
— Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump—
My vision of Donald Trump is somewhat distorted from many others across the U.S. I envision a rendition of Frankenstein with ugly dyed blond hair, a sprayed on tan, and a huge screw through his neck that says “Made in Russia.”
On August 11th, Fact-Check found 162 lies and distortions in a recent Trump news conference. The Washington Post ran an article on January 24, 2021 that was titled “Trump’s False or Misleading Claims Total 30,573 over 4 Years.” And the MSNBC Morning Joe newscast labeled Trump’s speeches: “It’s Just Madness: Inside Trump’s list of Increasingly Bizarre Claims. From stating the crowd’s at a recent Kamala Harris rally were generated by AI, to saying Biden will try and reclaim the Democratic nomination, to mentioning that Joe Biden prepared to have the FBI assassinate Trump, and Biden faked having COVID-19. This list is endless and vile.
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The one lie that concerns me the most is Trump saying “the Mueller Report was a hoax and Trump has no ties to Russia.” This lie in particular has diverted voter’s attention from the truth - that Trump not only has ties to Russia, but appears to be influenced and controlled by Vladimir Putin.
"On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement. He congratulated the Russian Duma for Trump's win of the U.S. presidency. The Russians were celebrating one of the greatest intelligence and clandestine operations in modern history. A Russian asset was now the President of the United States.” (Unger, American Kompromat)
Donald Trump has filed bankruptcy six times. (The Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2016) He has been convicted of fraud with his tax, business, and bank records providing proof. He was found guilty of 34 felony charges by a jury (The N.Y. State ‘Hush Money Case), and also guilty and legally defined as a sexual predator (The Guardian, May 10, 2023). Cases still outstanding include the Federal Classified Document Case, the Federal Election Interference Case, and the Georgia Election Interference Case. While hundreds of insurrectionists have been sentenced to prison time, Trump still remains free for the January 6th treasonous act of inciting an attack against the United States and the rule of law of our nation. This man belongs behind bars and the most serious crime he has committed is treason.
On January 28, 2021, Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote an article for the New Yorker called “Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason? She initially commented “Few events in American history have matched the Framer’s definition as clearly as the insurrection of January 6th.”
The similarities between Trump’s form of leadership as our President, and the dictator Putin are not just similar but identical in many ways. When a leader rules by instilling fear in elected officials so they do as he wishes, it is considered a tyrannical dictatorship and not a democracy. The Washington Post ran an article on September 14, 2023 which said “Senator Mitt Romney (R) described the fear felt by senators as they considered Donald Trump’s second impeachment.
Donald Trump is revengeful, and he and his followers threaten the lives of those opposed to him or their families. This is an exact replica of how the Russian government works. In the first few years of Putin’s dictatorship, over 80 reporters were murdered. Other Putin opposition have been poisoned or shot. Most recently, Alexei Navalny was lethally poisoned, recouped in a German hospital, but returned to Russia only to be incarcerated and murdered in a remote penal colony.
The evidence-supported facts reveal that Trump is not fit to be the President of the United States. Yet many Americans continue to believe his lies or deny his court convictions. These people are ill-informed and many are brainwashed.
Mass mind manipulation - aka brainwashing - began about 100 years ago and was used extensively in Germany by Hitler. He converted a peaceful nation into a country of mass murderers - over six million people were murdered. Putin spent his spy years in East Germany and absorbed Hitler’s methodologies. Lo and behold, we find these same techniques used today in the United States by Donald Trump. His speeches are filled with hatred, violence, revenge, and “bloodshed.”
Americans need to wake up from this hypnosis and see the facts - our democracy hangs in the balance.
Wow; great work assembling all that uncontested data! BTW 900 Jan6 insurrectionists have pleaded guilty and I believe about 1,400 have been convicted of federal crimes. Trump says they were “peaceful” and will pardon those who were “innocent” including those who were “convicted of federal crimes” by juries and federal judges including those judges who were appointed by HIM!
tffg was going to give us the best, most beautiful health care, and every week was infrastructure week, all while the Republicans tried numerous times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and absolutely NO infrastructure was repaired during their term in office. Their idea of 'fiscal responsibility' is to not spend (their) money on anyone who is not them.
The Republican owners of mainstream media are very comfortable perpetuating and/or ignoring the lies and crimes of tffg, because they want tax breaks, no rules -- for them, and ad clicks for all the garbage they now all spew. I canceled all my subscriptions to these quite some time ago.
Trump operates on casual whim, deep anger, and revenge toward anyone who has slighted him or disagreed with him, ever. He has never concerned himself with the Country. Any mention of "making it better" is a smokescreen for major Trumpian/GOP changes that will doubtless make it much worse. And there is now so much evidence of Russian interference in our elections, that we can longer avoid the topic. I think we can be assured that anything Trump says he will do, will change, perhaps 180º. Trump has never been truthful or consistent or faithful to anything but his own massive and pathological ego. The repubs are spread out into every facet of the coming elections, to nitpick, deny, and to draw out the results on a macro level ... if not change them. We must see him gone, and those who would interfere - nation or person - brought to justice.
Spot on, Steven. It's the pattern of retribution, wanting to make it seem like Grump is the only one who can fix anything and fearing that if someone else gets credit for something it takes away from the glory for his highness. Isn't that what happened when during his term in office John McCain, in perhaps his last official act as a senator, gave thumbs down to Grump's effort in this regard?
I mean, one has to assume that the folks running the NYT are intelligent adults. It's beyond me, however, as to why they keep framing their headlines in such duplicitous terms? Why? Aren't they intelligent enough to not know what a Trump regime would represent. Or is it that they are trying to hedge their bets in case he wins in order to ensure that he will not shred the paper along with their careers?
Well, I've news for them: he and his acolytes will destroy the NYT as part of the process of purging what remains of our "free" press. And if they don't believe that, I have the proverbial old bridge to sell them.
America's mass media has turned craven beyond all measure. Are they too stupid to realize that he is a pathological liar? Of course not. But he makes them money. So the media abandons their sacred role as guardians of our freedoms that the Founders knew to be paramount, thereby enshrining freedom of the press in the First Amendment. The media does not care that they are aiding and abetting the worst candidate in our history
Isn’t the Times just giving its readers a “heads up” that Trump is going to say anything to blunt the Democrats’ advantage on issues like health care and abortion? It suggests the futility of trying to run a campaign against Trump exclusively on “policies” instead of on character and fitness to serve. That’s also why it is difficult to debate Trump. The fact that he has to win to stay out of jail has only turbocharged his tendency to say whatever he needs to say to get elected. Ironically, it is Trump’s base that knows he is a liar — that is why he pays no price among them for publicly retreating on issues (e.g. abortion) that are sacred to them. They know that as soon as Trump is elected he’ll forget about whatever promises he made to appease and attract the voters in the middle.
Perhaps it's time for the Democratic Party to run some full-page ads in the NYT to address how disgusting the paper's penchant for one-sided coverage? Surely they wouldn't turn down the money!
Thank you soooooo much for addressing this critical conundrum of careless shameful Media-laziness-for-profit lying about in their chaise lounges letting TYrump and his cascade of lies spew forth like creeping mold over our Democracy!!!!!!
I did not see the Times today.I would prefer to see trump's picture occupy the whole front page with an X over it. But..............I believe the paper is legally obliged to report stories, write headlines without opinion. It gave equal print time -Harris' claim & trump's claim.A better headline would have been something like Candidates disagree on Obamacare. The reporter's opinion as to who is being truthful would be found on the editorial page. Otherwise, there would likely be cause for a legal suit, & trump knows how to do that.
I doubt trump even knows that all he says are lies. A person in his mental state can talk themselves into believing what comes out is the truth. The terrible thing is that people like the speaker and other "Republican" members of gov't know the truth and have declared allegiance to him showing their interest is not in rightful governance but in staying on the public payroll.
Not many read papers anymore, only 2 or 3 NYTs are delivered to a store daily , & some days, I am the only one to look at it. His people get their news from X and Fox. Then, they repeat what they read or hear and when asked, can't even explain what they mean.
He has no health plan, not in two weeks, not ever. His idea of health care is Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Ronny Jackson (who gave up his medical license) and Rick Scott while CEO of HCA in TN who created and enacted the biggest Medicare fraud at the time. It was RS who he put in charge of devising the nonexistent “better” health care plan. Maybe NYT could write about that.
The disagreement is about what he would really do. I guess the headline could be a question. The big problem is lots of people only read the first line & don’t see the rest let alone read the article.
“ Harris Says Trump Will Repeal Obamacare. Trump Now Claims He’ll Make It ‘Better.’
The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law.”
And Nikki Haley said on TV today that DJT isn't going to win elections by lying about crowd size. And he should stop doing that. I would pay whatever DNC charges to put that on a loop to run daily. In prime time. Followed by the inane comparison to MLK.
Kevin McCarthy was interviewed and said the same thing. Vivek Ramaswamy, same story. His “best people” tried to advise him through the TV when he was in office.
I think the Dems can ask how that works if he gets his fingers on the “football” again.
From NPR
— Republicans for Harris' want conservatives to vote Democrat in 2024 to topple Trump—
“Organizers said more than 70,000 people joined the call live, where speakers urged Republican participants to get behind Harris through volunteering and publicly supporting her campaign. — https://www.npr.org/2024/08/13/g-s1-16886/republicans-for-harris-haley-voters-trump-conservatives-gop-democrats
The media’s starting block should be the premise (backed by tons of evidence) that all Trump does is lie.
My vision of Donald Trump is somewhat distorted from many others across the U.S. I envision a rendition of Frankenstein with ugly dyed blond hair, a sprayed on tan, and a huge screw through his neck that says “Made in Russia.”
On August 11th, Fact-Check found 162 lies and distortions in a recent Trump news conference. The Washington Post ran an article on January 24, 2021 that was titled “Trump’s False or Misleading Claims Total 30,573 over 4 Years.” And the MSNBC Morning Joe newscast labeled Trump’s speeches: “It’s Just Madness: Inside Trump’s list of Increasingly Bizarre Claims. From stating the crowd’s at a recent Kamala Harris rally were generated by AI, to saying Biden will try and reclaim the Democratic nomination, to mentioning that Joe Biden prepared to have the FBI assassinate Trump, and Biden faked having COVID-19. This list is endless and vile.
From Democracy to Democrazy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a $5 paid subscriber.
The one lie that concerns me the most is Trump saying “the Mueller Report was a hoax and Trump has no ties to Russia.” This lie in particular has diverted voter’s attention from the truth - that Trump not only has ties to Russia, but appears to be influenced and controlled by Vladimir Putin.
"On November 9, 2016, just a few minutes after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, a man named Vyacheslav Nikonov approached a microphone in the Russian State Duma (their equivalent of the U.S. House of Representatives) and made a very unusual statement. He congratulated the Russian Duma for Trump's win of the U.S. presidency. The Russians were celebrating one of the greatest intelligence and clandestine operations in modern history. A Russian asset was now the President of the United States.” (Unger, American Kompromat)
Donald Trump has filed bankruptcy six times. (The Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2016) He has been convicted of fraud with his tax, business, and bank records providing proof. He was found guilty of 34 felony charges by a jury (The N.Y. State ‘Hush Money Case), and also guilty and legally defined as a sexual predator (The Guardian, May 10, 2023). Cases still outstanding include the Federal Classified Document Case, the Federal Election Interference Case, and the Georgia Election Interference Case. While hundreds of insurrectionists have been sentenced to prison time, Trump still remains free for the January 6th treasonous act of inciting an attack against the United States and the rule of law of our nation. This man belongs behind bars and the most serious crime he has committed is treason.
On January 28, 2021, Jeannie Suk Gersen wrote an article for the New Yorker called “Did Trump and His Supporters Commit Treason? She initially commented “Few events in American history have matched the Framer’s definition as clearly as the insurrection of January 6th.”
The similarities between Trump’s form of leadership as our President, and the dictator Putin are not just similar but identical in many ways. When a leader rules by instilling fear in elected officials so they do as he wishes, it is considered a tyrannical dictatorship and not a democracy. The Washington Post ran an article on September 14, 2023 which said “Senator Mitt Romney (R) described the fear felt by senators as they considered Donald Trump’s second impeachment.
Donald Trump is revengeful, and he and his followers threaten the lives of those opposed to him or their families. This is an exact replica of how the Russian government works. In the first few years of Putin’s dictatorship, over 80 reporters were murdered. Other Putin opposition have been poisoned or shot. Most recently, Alexei Navalny was lethally poisoned, recouped in a German hospital, but returned to Russia only to be incarcerated and murdered in a remote penal colony.
The evidence-supported facts reveal that Trump is not fit to be the President of the United States. Yet many Americans continue to believe his lies or deny his court convictions. These people are ill-informed and many are brainwashed.
Mass mind manipulation - aka brainwashing - began about 100 years ago and was used extensively in Germany by Hitler. He converted a peaceful nation into a country of mass murderers - over six million people were murdered. Putin spent his spy years in East Germany and absorbed Hitler’s methodologies. Lo and behold, we find these same techniques used today in the United States by Donald Trump. His speeches are filled with hatred, violence, revenge, and “bloodshed.”
Americans need to wake up from this hypnosis and see the facts - our democracy hangs in the balance.
Elizabeth, From Democracy to Democrazy
Wow; great work assembling all that uncontested data! BTW 900 Jan6 insurrectionists have pleaded guilty and I believe about 1,400 have been convicted of federal crimes. Trump says they were “peaceful” and will pardon those who were “innocent” including those who were “convicted of federal crimes” by juries and federal judges including those judges who were appointed by HIM!
tffg was going to give us the best, most beautiful health care, and every week was infrastructure week, all while the Republicans tried numerous times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and absolutely NO infrastructure was repaired during their term in office. Their idea of 'fiscal responsibility' is to not spend (their) money on anyone who is not them.
The Republican owners of mainstream media are very comfortable perpetuating and/or ignoring the lies and crimes of tffg, because they want tax breaks, no rules -- for them, and ad clicks for all the garbage they now all spew. I canceled all my subscriptions to these quite some time ago.
I believe the Republicans in the House tried more than 50 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act?
Yep. With nothing to replace it. Guess they overlooked that small detail.
Trump operates on casual whim, deep anger, and revenge toward anyone who has slighted him or disagreed with him, ever. He has never concerned himself with the Country. Any mention of "making it better" is a smokescreen for major Trumpian/GOP changes that will doubtless make it much worse. And there is now so much evidence of Russian interference in our elections, that we can longer avoid the topic. I think we can be assured that anything Trump says he will do, will change, perhaps 180º. Trump has never been truthful or consistent or faithful to anything but his own massive and pathological ego. The repubs are spread out into every facet of the coming elections, to nitpick, deny, and to draw out the results on a macro level ... if not change them. We must see him gone, and those who would interfere - nation or person - brought to justice.
Spot on, Steven. It's the pattern of retribution, wanting to make it seem like Grump is the only one who can fix anything and fearing that if someone else gets credit for something it takes away from the glory for his highness. Isn't that what happened when during his term in office John McCain, in perhaps his last official act as a senator, gave thumbs down to Grump's effort in this regard?
I mean, one has to assume that the folks running the NYT are intelligent adults. It's beyond me, however, as to why they keep framing their headlines in such duplicitous terms? Why? Aren't they intelligent enough to not know what a Trump regime would represent. Or is it that they are trying to hedge their bets in case he wins in order to ensure that he will not shred the paper along with their careers?
Well, I've news for them: he and his acolytes will destroy the NYT as part of the process of purging what remains of our "free" press. And if they don't believe that, I have the proverbial old bridge to sell them.
America's mass media has turned craven beyond all measure. Are they too stupid to realize that he is a pathological liar? Of course not. But he makes them money. So the media abandons their sacred role as guardians of our freedoms that the Founders knew to be paramount, thereby enshrining freedom of the press in the First Amendment. The media does not care that they are aiding and abetting the worst candidate in our history
Isn’t the Times just giving its readers a “heads up” that Trump is going to say anything to blunt the Democrats’ advantage on issues like health care and abortion? It suggests the futility of trying to run a campaign against Trump exclusively on “policies” instead of on character and fitness to serve. That’s also why it is difficult to debate Trump. The fact that he has to win to stay out of jail has only turbocharged his tendency to say whatever he needs to say to get elected. Ironically, it is Trump’s base that knows he is a liar — that is why he pays no price among them for publicly retreating on issues (e.g. abortion) that are sacred to them. They know that as soon as Trump is elected he’ll forget about whatever promises he made to appease and attract the voters in the middle.
Perhaps it's time for the Democratic Party to run some full-page ads in the NYT to address how disgusting the paper's penchant for one-sided coverage? Surely they wouldn't turn down the money!
Steven and Mark!
Thank you soooooo much for addressing this critical conundrum of careless shameful Media-laziness-for-profit lying about in their chaise lounges letting TYrump and his cascade of lies spew forth like creeping mold over our Democracy!!!!!!
IT SO IRRESPONSIBLE and DANGEROUS!
I did not see the Times today.I would prefer to see trump's picture occupy the whole front page with an X over it. But..............I believe the paper is legally obliged to report stories, write headlines without opinion. It gave equal print time -Harris' claim & trump's claim.A better headline would have been something like Candidates disagree on Obamacare. The reporter's opinion as to who is being truthful would be found on the editorial page. Otherwise, there would likely be cause for a legal suit, & trump knows how to do that.
I doubt trump even knows that all he says are lies. A person in his mental state can talk themselves into believing what comes out is the truth. The terrible thing is that people like the speaker and other "Republican" members of gov't know the truth and have declared allegiance to him showing their interest is not in rightful governance but in staying on the public payroll.
Not many read papers anymore, only 2 or 3 NYTs are delivered to a store daily , & some days, I am the only one to look at it. His people get their news from X and Fox. Then, they repeat what they read or hear and when asked, can't even explain what they mean.
He has no health plan, not in two weeks, not ever. His idea of health care is Dr. Ronny Jackson.
Ronny Jackson (who gave up his medical license) and Rick Scott while CEO of HCA in TN who created and enacted the biggest Medicare fraud at the time. It was RS who he put in charge of devising the nonexistent “better” health care plan. Maybe NYT could write about that.
The disagreement is about what he would really do. I guess the headline could be a question. The big problem is lots of people only read the first line & don’t see the rest let alone read the article.
“ Harris Says Trump Will Repeal Obamacare. Trump Now Claims He’ll Make It ‘Better.’
The popularity of the Affordable Care Act has changed the political strategy of Republicans, who are no longer campaigning to end the law.”
You're preaching to the saved. How do we reach Trumpsters?