Mendacity

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…

Disinformation, Mendacity, Propaganda

Thomas Rid on ‘Active Measures,’ Part 2

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/05/2020 • Comments

Disinformation, Mendacity, Propaganda

Thomas Rid on ‘Active Measures,’ Part 1

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/04/2020 • Comments

America, Bigotry, History, Mendacity, Politics, Race, Wisconsin, WISGOP

WISGOP Treasurer Brian Westrate ‘Well Understands’ Nothing

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/24/2020 • Comments

A horde of ignorant, but racially motivated, men infest the Wisconsin GOP. Brian Westrate is a good example of playing to this bad condition: in an attempt to discourage racist Republicans from displaying Confederate banners at a protest, he erroneously (and outrageously) contended that he did “well understand that the Confederacy was more about states…

Bad Ideas, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Mendacity, WEDC, Wisconsin

Foxconn’s ‘Innovation’ Centers: Still Empty a Year Later

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/13/2020 • 2 Comments

Over at the national tech website The Verge, Nilay Patel reminds that a year later, Foxconn has still done nothing with the ‘innovation’ centers that foreign corporation promised it would open around the state. They’re still empty: See FOXCONN’S BUILDINGS IN WISCONSIN ARE STILL EMPTY, ONE YEAR LATER. In Whitewater, the ‘Greater Whitewater’ Committee…

Coronavirus, Depravity, Mendacity, Trump

The Dead Enders

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/08/2020 • Comments

Those who have committed to Trump, and remain committed, will not yield now. Even his failures during a pandemic will not shake their resolve. On the contrary, they’ll say anything, and perhaps do anything, in support of their prior commitment. One should not be shocked by this — Hobbes was right, at least regarding the…