Mendacity

Coronavirus, Mendacity, Sen. Ron Johnson

Sen. Ron Johnson: From Ludicrous to Malevolent

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/22/2020 • 2 Comments

I’ve previously described Sen. Ron Johnson as America’s Dumbest Senator™, and his years in office confirm that assessment. A man who was formerly ludicrous, however, may now be fittingly described as malevolently mendacious. Sophie Carlson, Laura Schultz, and Patrick Marley report Wisconsin reports record-high 48 coronavirus deaths as Sen. Johnson falsely claims state has flattened the curve:…

Disinformation, Mendacity, Trump, Unfit

Fact Checking Trump from Last Night’s Debate: ‘Almost every single thing Trump said during last segment of debate was inaccurate’

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/30/2020 • Comments

Mendacity, Trump

‘A fire hose of lying:’ Trump town hall fact check

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/17/2020 • Comments

Disinformation, Mendacity, Republicans, Trump

Fact-Checking RNC 2020, Fourth Night: Trump is a serial liar

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/28/2020 • Comments

Disinformation, Mendacity, Republicans, Trump

Fact-Checking RNC 2020, Third Night

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/27/2020 • Comments

Disinformation, Mendacity, Republicans, Trump

Fact-Checking RNC 2020, Second Night

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/26/2020 • Comments

Disinformation, Mendacity, Republicans, Trump

Fact-Checking RNC 2020, First Night

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/26/2020 • Comments

Mendacity, Trump

‘Do you regret at all, all the lying you’ve done?’

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/14/2020 • Comments

Campaign Ads, Disinformation, Joe Biden, Mendacity, Trump

Trump’s Campaign of Photoshopped Lies

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/06/2020 • Comments

Laura L. Sweet, of the design firm If It’s Hip, It’s Here, nicely shows how the Trump campaign takes pictures of Joe Biden speaking, with his family, or praying and deceptively edits those photos to make Biden seem alone or ill.

Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Disinformation, Mendacity, Public Health, Trump

Trump’s Excuses as COVID-19 Cases Continued to Rise

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/14/2020 • Comments

(Click for larger image.) Via The Lincoln Project.

Coronavirus, Covidiocy, Mendacity, Public Health, Trump

‘Gaslighting on a massive scale’

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/03/2020 • Comments

“This is gaslighting on an enormous scale, and means until people eventually get sick or their family members get sick, the communities hit hard, they won’t believe it, and then it will be too late,” said [Dr. Celine] Grounder. “The problem is there’s a lag period from the time that somebody’s infected and starts to…

Authoritarianism, Bigotry, Conway, Ethics, Gluttony, Grifters, Impeachment, Kakistocracy, Medicine, Mendacity, Nepotism, Never Trump, Official Misconduct, Sloth, Trump, Trump-Russia, Unfit

Trump’s Condition: Unfit by Many Standards

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/07/2020 • Comments

It’s enough, as an indictment of Trump, to see and then reject his role on purely political grounds: a bigoted autocrat of limited knowledge & reasoning ability with a love of foreign dictators and contempt for American liberal democracy. One doesn’t need a training in medicine to reject Trump. There are, however, compelling critiques of…