Dishonesty is the defining characteristics of Trump and his administration, and lies are a daily occurrence. While there are far too many lies to track, I thought a thread dedicated to the worst and most notable lies would be useful. There’s a lot of material to choose from.
(I could have tapped into a rich vein of lies simply by linking to Trump’s Truth Social account — hence the OP title.)
Now you’re justifying a murder. There is no turning back for you.
Ordinarily, this is an excellent idea. But we notice that Noem immediately jumped to self-serving conclusions before any evidence was available except a short video showing something that bears no resemblance to Noem’s speech. She spoke of a mob, but there was no mob. She spoke of a car stuck in a snowbank the ICE agents were attempting to free. There was no stuck car. She describes the victim as a domestic terrorist, but friends and witnesses say she wasn’t even a protester. She said the officer feared for his life when the video shows he was in no danger. She said he was seriously injured, while the video shows him walking around normally. Tellingly, Fox News refused to air any of the videos.
Now, perhaps the videos were seriously misleading or incomplete, and there’s much more to the story. Noem certainly had no more when she produced the standard Trumpian narrative of one lie after another. But we now know that ICE and the other agencies involved prohibited anyone else, anyone remotely independent, from looking at any evidence or doing any investigation. Instead, the “investigation” will be done by the perps, and we know how that turns out. Noem and Vance have already taken an extreme position utterly at odds with the available videos, and if their position after their “investigation” differs from the conclusions they jumped to, we know a miracle has happened for the first time.
Considered in a larger context, what Trump is doing has a way of triggering “accidents” or acts of violence or other excuses, however pretextual, for using US troops to control the population using force and intimidation. Grabbing innocent people almost at random and locking them up somewhere, without any due process, is sure to provoke the kind of reaction Trump can use. I suppose this will eventually produce a nation Bill would love to live in,
Flint:
Tellingly, I have asked Bill five times whether he would prefer that America remain a democracy or whether he’s OK with the idea of a dictatorship under Trump. It’s the ultimate softball question. He refuses to answer.
I suppose he could argue that Trump isn’t doing anything wrong because SCOTUS says so. I think there have been at least 2 dozen shadow docket cases where the lower courts found Trump unlawful, and SCOTUS has reversed all but two, albeit with no hearings or written opinions.
Flint:
But the question wasn’t whether he thinks Trump is doing anything wrong — it was about which option he would choose if given a choice between America remaining a democracy versus America becoming a dictatorship under Trump. The answer should have been an instantaneous “democracy, of course”. He didn’t give that answer, and in fact he’s afraid to answer at all. I can only conclude that he would actually prefer a Trump dictatorship.
If fits. Cults are already mini-dictatorships, so it’s no surprise when a cult member goes full authoritarian.
The position of that bullet hole, if it was aimed at her head, indicates that he was at the front corner. The car was turning away. If he was nearer the grille, it would have hit his colleague.
This would be a lot less of a stupid statement had Noem, Trump, Miller and Vance not started the misinfo before her body was even out the car.
The context of the thread, the reason I brought it up, is the dishonesty of the regime.
I’ve seen all angles. I see no evidence the shooting was justified. But of course you side with the administration. The poor officer was hit so hard he managed to get 3 shots in. Which of course did not – could not – stop the car, so self defence goes out the window.
Local authorities have been barred from investigating. Why? Because Trump can pardon at the federal level.
These are dark times, and you’re clapping like a seal.
One should not need to be a partisan to be uncomfortable with the idea that resisting arrest, or even making contact with an officer, is a capital offence. Americans used to be quite feisty wrt government and protest. I always get ‘1776’ thrown in my face if they find I’m a Brit.
Obey them Redcoats, Yankees. If ye know what’s good for ye.
It is impossible for him to utter that. You as an American surely know that in rabid Republican (now MAGA) propaganda, “democracy” is a word that is frowned upon.
“Democracy is not in the constitution,” they say, “Republican form of government is.” This way they reveal their moronicity – they do not know that republic is in Latin the same thing as democracy is in Greek. Republic is the same concept translated into Latin from what democracy is in Greek. And there is no way to make them know, because they passionately hate knowledge and facts. They love their moronic propaganda since John Birch Society.
Democracy, free speech – even the ‘tyrannical government’ rationale for bearing arms – seem paper-thin concepts in today’s America. Cynicism, skepticism towards the government narrative is, IMO, entirely healthy, even vital for a functioning democracy. But because criticism inevitably emanates from the hated opposition, MAGAs have to circle the wagons, and defend the indefensible. Critics are propagandists, biased, irrational. ‘Our’ people, meanwhile, are always objective. Especially ‘independents’. It’s just that the Left are always in the wrong, is all.
Not a few of these self-styled libertarians will have been howling about mask mandates and government overreach 5 short years ago. Now a masked security force is defended to the hilt, given ‘absolute immunity’.
A great time for fans of irony.