Murdering the truth

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‘Rationality Seems to Have Fallen Out of Vogue’: Snopes’ Managing Editor Talks Fact-Checking With NYT

December 26, 2016


Lately, conspiracy theories and fake news about Snopes and its founders have been emerging, too. Binkowski said she isn’t going to stop pushing back on falsities no matter what.


http://www.mediaite.com/online/rati...managing-editor-talks-fact-checking-with-nyt/


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/t...edCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article

For fact checking website Snopes, a bigger role brings more attacks

"People don't know what to believe anymore."

 

[Hypoxia]

Facts are now irrelevant.

Bullshit talks; reality walks.

Alas, it can't last -- as delusional Snappy Sammy Smoot learned when he was executed for a vision-induced murder, "If you can't deal with reality, reality will certainly deal with YOU." Moral: don't always listen to the voices in and around your head. Especially not the invisible ones. What's the proverb? "Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."

OTOH suckers are good sales prospects. I loved hitting Mormons when I did solicitations -- they'll buy anything. All believers are suckers. Did you ever read stories of pre-WWII America with bible salesmen circulating in rural areas? The talented made a good living. The LIT versions with these roving holymen screwing their devout-but-lonely housewife-customers are on the mark too.

Ah yes, fucking the faithful. There are reasons the USA Bible Belt is also the incest, rape, bastardy, abuse, and divorce hot-zone. Holy, inspired, fact-free reasons. Bullshit reasons. Same as alt-right media are bullshit voices. Hey, followers of Breitbart and InfoWars: you are what you eat.

 

[Iceprincess12]

Even the word murder fails to create any sense of seriousness.

Look how far we've come baby!

 

[BotanyBoy]

Ah yes, fucking the faithful. There are reasons the USA Bible Belt is also the incest, rape, bastardy, abuse, and divorce hot-zone. Holy, inspired, fact-free reasons. Bullshit reasons. Same as alt-right media are bullshit voices.

Must not have been through the CA central valley recently.....

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Not only do Republicans want to pass whatever legislation they desire, they want to do it free from serious public scrutiny and, worse yet, they don't want their paw prints on the crackdown.

Expertsaul Ryan’s livestream crackdown may be unconstitutional

The GOP response to Democrats’ gun-control ‘sit-in’ triggers concerns about the power to punish elected officials.


The Constitution gives the House the authority to discipline members; I have never heard of anything where an officer of the House was given that authority,” said Mike Stern, a former lawyer for the nonpartisan House counsel’s office and the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s GOP staff.

Stern, who called the proposed rule a “plausible Constitutional issue to raise,” said Democrats could take the matter to court. “Their strongest argument would be: The House doesn’t have the authority to give these officers the power to punish us; only the power of the House can do that, and [Republicans] have short-circuited our rights by the way they’ve done it.’”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/paul-ryan-livestream-constitution-232994


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...ming-from-the-House-floor-is-unconstitutional


Remember when House Democrats staged a sit-in to insist on a vote for gun control legislation, and relied on livestreams and social networks to keep their message alive when TV cameras weren't running? Republicans weren't happy about that... and now, they're hoping to prevent a similar protest from happening again. The party has proposed measures that would fine members of Congress up to $2,500 ($500 for the first offense) if they record or livestream images and audio on the House floor. According to Paul Ryan spokeswoman Ashlee Strong, it's meant to "ensure that order and decorum are preserved" so that politicians can "do the people's work."

https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/27/republicans-propose-banning-livestreams-on-house-floor/


The protest was not publicly broadcast because the House had not formally gaveled into session. Instead, the protest gained steam after Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., used the video streaming app, Periscope, to share footage of the sit-in. C-Span eventually broadcast Peters' video feed.

The newly proposed policy, which would have to be approved by the full House when they return in January, would fine a member $500 for the first offense and $2,500 for any subsequent offenses. The funds would be taken out of the member's net salary.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...roadcasting-photography-chamber-floor-n700396

House rules established in 2000 and clarified in 2009 already prohibit members from using “mobile electronic devices that impair decorum,” a list that includes “wireless telephones and personal computers.” The proposed rule change would add fines to help enforce those rules, a source said.

he proposed rule will be voted on by the full House when it returns to session in early January. Some Democrats, not surprisingly, are vowing to fight it. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., was among those who took to Twitter to blast Republicans for the proposed rule change.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/hou...live-stream-photos-congress-floor-1201948717/

Rep. Eric Swalwell used Twitter to suggest that he will film another protest on the House floor, if he thinks that is what is needed.

 

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11 March 2015


Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), under Republican governor Rick Scott, forbade employees from using terms like “climate change,” “global warming” or “sea-level rise”.


https://www.theguardian.com/comment...mate-change-strategy-ban-words-climate-change

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Smothering the possibility of the truth getting heard.


"...(Trump) offered up a series of misleading, disjointed responses, during which he falsely claimed to have created thousands of new jobs, dismissed alleged Russian interference in the presidential election, whitewashed his sprawling financial conflicts of interest, and offered up word salad in a rambling defense of Israel."


December 29, 2016


http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-press-conferences

Journalists are not allowed to pin Trump down to a coherent answer.



They are not allowed to confront him, or question Trump, at all.


Reality and truth are dismissed and denied.


In place of truth, a defense against truth is given to Trump fans.


The truth does not benefit Trump. A lie benefits him. Trump can steal from others, and take credit and make false claims.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Sep. 15, 2016

Ford, in a statement, said: "It’s unfortunate that politics are getting in the way of the facts. We’re very proud to have invested $12 billion in our U.S. plants and created 28,000 U.S. jobs over the last five years. We have more hourly employees in the U.S. than any other automaker, and we produce more vehicles here than anyone."

Later in the day, Ford CEO Mark Fields went on CNN and said there will be no American job losses because of this move.

"Zero," Fields told CNN's Poppy Harlow in an interview from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

In fact, Ford made a commitment last fall to invest $9 billion in U.S. plants and create or retain more than 8,500 jobs as part of a new four-year contract with the UAW. Of that, $4.8 billion goes to 11 facilities in Michigan.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/new...it-timing-fords-mexico-announcement/90412572/

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I hear Alan Rickman's voice, pronouncing "Obviously," in a weary and withering voice, as Snape.

The report, a damning and surprisingly detailed account of Russia’s efforts to undermine the American electoral system and Mrs. Clinton in particular, went on to assess that Mr. Putin “aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.”

The report described a broad campaign that included covert operations, including cyberactivities, with “trolling” and “fake news.”

New York Times

The report depicts Russian interference as unprecedented in scale, saying that Moscow’s assault represented “a significant escalation in directness, level of activity, and scope of effort” beyond previous election-related espionage.
The campaign was ordered by Putin himself and initially sought primarily to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, “denigrate Secretary Clinton” and harm her electoral prospects. But as the campaign proceeded, Russia “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump” and repeatedly sought to elevate him by “discrediting Secretary Clinton and publicly contrasting her unfavorably to him.”

Washington Post


In other words, those who voted for Donald J. Trump for president did exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted them to. Trump, meanwhile, has denied that Russia's efforts had any influence on the outcome of the election. He is wrong.


http://www.thestranger.com/slog

The question that is not asked and answered, is why people needed Putin to bolster their choice.

This suited the immediate needs of the GOP, despite the threat of possible blackmail behind it.

Did Putin threaten to dump the contents of Russia's treasure trove of Republican secrets ?

The Scottish play looms, and the words are once again repeated.

Rotten, indeed.

 

[phrodeau]

(edited)

The Scottish play looms, and the words are once again repeated.

Rotten, indeed.

"Rotten" is from the Danish play. The Scottish play has the "tale told by an idiot."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

*blush of shame*

oops, it was an accidental murder of the truth, on my part.

Trump as Macbeth ?

*responds by getting violently ill.*
But, still...
The couple with the most ambition, and the worst motives, reach the top.
"Putin and Jabba the Drumpf."
(It is Jabba the Drumpf and his wife, that will walk into the white House.)

Rotten in the United States of America

My subconscious got the better of me.
The idea of the new White House family portrait horrifies me.

Jabba the Drumpf, himself, is poison poured into the ear of America.

This haunts me-

"Look here, upon this picture, and on this,
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
See, what a grace was seated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;
A combination and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man:
This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:
Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,
Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?"

Jabba the Drumpf would not have been the man that interceded for America, with the disaster that Wall St. brought about. Jabba would have panicked, as he has, before.

President Obama is an educated man, a worldly man, a calm man.
Only President Obama knows why he decided to take on the responsibility.

It is obvious to anyone with eyes, why Jabba the Drumpf gripped the opportunity.


Today, FOX TV "news" offers a video clip compilation of all Jabba's insulting gestures. It is meant to be a defense of one of Trump's blunders.

For goodness's sake, the Drumpf family is not the Addams family.
A fictional work of comedy, is not meant to rule over the world, except for in a play or a movie.

Everything about Jabba the Drumpf is fictional.
We have the American banks to blame, among others, for supporting the fiction.

What is not fictional, is the real destruction that Jabba the Drumpf leaves in his wake.

Why should Drumpf and his children leave off from adding misery to the world, when it works for them ?

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/06/trumps-new-washington-hotel-owes-laborers-more-than-5-million/

JAN 6, 2017

Trump’s new Washington hotel owes laborers more than $5 million


The man who bragged about stiffing workers during a presidential debate is at it again

 

[phrodeau]

You can argue about his gestures and what sort of brain farts causes him to make them. But when it comes to his words, it's crystal clear that Donald Trump is a liar.

Here's a link to the article about people celebrating 9/11 in New Jersey. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...3aa433fafdc/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.37ce1e7fa1aa Neither of the authors have walked back their story in any way.

Here is what Donald Trump said this morning:"I was never mocking anyone, I was calling into question a reporter who had gotten nervous because he had changed his story."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

November 25, 2015

Trump thought he lucked out, digging up a September 18, 2001, Washington Post article by reporters Serge Kovaleski and Frederick Kunkle. The old clip claimed a few people had been detained after allegedly being spotted celebrating in "tailgate-style" parties on rooftops in northern New Jersey.

Seizing upon this factoid, Trump tweeted, "I want an apology! Many people have tweeted that I am right!"

Forgetting that this didn't come close to being an affirmation that he'd seen "thousands" of people celebrating on television, Trump's supporters howled in outrage. Who were these biased witch-hunters to accuse him of lying? The Donald was right all along!


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-is-too-dumb-for-tv-news-20151125


In fact, police had to be deployed to places like Paterson anyway to protect immigrants from exactly that sort of mob violence. This is one of the reasons we know Muslims weren't dancing en masse in the streets, because police were parked on those streets in huge numbers to keep people out.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...orter-mocking-claims-fact-check-a7168091.html

The article, which appeared on page 6 of the Washington Post on Sept. 18, 2001, described FBI probes in northern New Jersey in the wake of the attacks. In the 15th paragraph, it said that “law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.” (No mention of dancing, by the way.)


Trump spins the story-

Trump is clearly imitating Kovaleski’s disability – the reporter has arthrogryposis, which visibly limits the functioning of his joints. Trump claims he did not know Kovaleski, but the reporter closely covered Trump’s troubled business dealings while he was a reporter for the N.Y. Daily News between 1987 and 1993.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The respectable community cautioned the government about Trump.
Do not give him the landmark Post Office, they said.
You will regret it, they said.


January 9, 2017


Trump Organization and LendLease, its construction manager, suddenly decided to stop paying three contractors on the project.

The Trump International Hotel, housed in DC’s Old Post Office, was supposed to be a showcase for the managerial genius of Trump’s daughter Ivanka. We guess she’s learned everything she knows about business from her dad! All three companies have filed “mechanic’s liens” for unpaid work on the hotel totaling over $5 million; Friday, we learned the Maryland electrical contractor, AES Electrical, is owed nearly $2.1 million for work it did in the frenzied final weeks of construction, according to the company’s executive vice president, Tim Mille..."

(Oh, dear. Seems to be many people that were left holding an empty bag of promises not fulfilled.)

Wonkette sez-


There is at least this silver lining: Now that everyone in the world knows Donald Trump is a cheap sociopath who never pays his bills, his ethical conflicts may no longer be an issue: No construction firm with a lick of sense should ever risk working with him ever again.


http://wonkette.com/610241/looks-li...ctors-for-5-million-like-father-like-daughter