Mastodawn

"Everything that has come out of the mouth of the Secretary of Health and Human Services is a lie. Everything from the Secretary of Education is a lie. Everything said by the Treasury Secretary is a lie including 'and' and 'the.”'

#Trump #Iran #war #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Epstein #KristiNoem #PamBondi #RFKJr #LindaMcMahon #ScottBessent
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"There is a beginning to the lies, January 20, 2025, but there is no end in sight. The war on Iran is just another thing for them to lie about. That this war, in fact any war, involves issues of life and death does not matter to these men."

#Trump #Iran #war #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Epstein #KristiNoem #PamBondi #RFKJr #LindaMcMahon #ScottBessent
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https://www.alternetamerica.com/p/trump-may-get-5-supreme-court-seats

"New reporting from The Daily Beast, building on earlier work by The Post and Courier, reveals that FBI handwritten notes from interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old contain details that did not appear in the official summaries released as part of the Epstein files."

~ John Byrne

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #coverup
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Trump May Get 5 Supreme Court Seats As Epstein Child Claim Surfaces

Iran offers $60k for missing American pilot, and Trump posts white nationalist slogan on Truth Social

Alternet America

"The woman told the FBI she was abused and trafficked by Epstein, who introduced her to Trump in 1984 in New York or New Jersey. The official summaries — known as 302s — described some uncertainty about her travel with Epstein. The handwritten notes, according to the reporting, are 'slightly less tentative,' and could constitute evidence of underage sex trafficking if accurate."

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #coverup
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"The notes also record two additional interactions with Trump that the official summaries reference only briefly."

#Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #coverup
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Gondor 2d ago

@wdlindsy
I'd REALLY love if we could agree to do a CW to (t)his face, hidden as default.
Please.

@grootinside You'll please have to help me understand your point. Do you mean that any posting that links an article showing that face should have a CW label?

Gondor 2d ago

@wdlindsy
No, just his face of course. I wouldn't know how to do that. It's probably not possible at all. Am just SO tired to see at least his face 24/7 everywhere. Sorry.

@wdlindsy
Shrug. The GOP has A/B tested and lying works for them better than telling the truth. Understandable.

(As one of our local Austrian conservative politicians joked that the conservative party (ours) is the whore of the rich, the joke was as well received as planned and I'm not sure if such a nice take description would do for the GOP, so yes, lying is a rational behaviour. Not very social, but hey they are the anti-social party anyways)

@yacc143 We can choose to shrug, if we wish. Or we might make other choices than cynicism.

@wdlindsy It's not cynicism; it's IMHO an important insight that lying is a completely rational behavior for a political party that has little to nothing to offer in “real” goodies in its program for the big majority of voters.

And the conservatives/fascists of the world seem to have “discovered” this (or their marketing/PR consultants did) over the past 2 decades (timelines vary a bit by country).

Presto you get emotional campaigns based on fake facts, alternate realities, …

It's hard to argue with "feelings".

Yesterday I saw a really ugly “demo” of this, a comedian who likes to chat with his viewers. A Canadian (0th generation, herself an immigrant) complained that the biggest problem in Canada is “immigrants”. (Not realizing that the Canadian immigration system is generally considered the gold standard for Western immigration systems, "we pick the immigrants who we need". But I guess the lady listened too much to emotional bullshit.