#Republican #House just passed a bill that would require people prove they were US citizens when they registered to #vote, 220-208, w/4 #Democrats joining #Republicans. The bill, which is unlikely to make it through the #Senate, echoes an EO #Trump signed last month as part of his push to tighten voting laws tied to his #BigLie.
It is already against the #law for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, & there is NO evidence of voting by noncitizens.
"The notion that Canada is not real is an example of the complaisant lies that imperialists tell themselves before beginning doomed wars of aggression. The specific association of Canada with fentanyl is a big lie that allows Americans to shift responsibility away to a chosen enemy and enter a world of geopolitical fantasy."
As Timothy Snyder notes,
"When Trump announces an aggressive policy, he attaches to it a grotesque justification. The nonsensical fiction is supposed remain in our minds, as a button to be pushed, so that we accept violence. ...
Big lies today? That Canada attacked the United States first by sending masses of fentanyl across the border. And also that Canada also does not really exist."
Timothy Snyder: Blame #Canada: Our warmongering, drugged-out #conspiracy theory
#biglie #trump #fentanyl #gop #uspol
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point
"Trump’s economic plans are incoherent and incomprehensible at least partially by design. The goal, by this longtime scam artist, is to bamboozle the American people and take their money."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Musk #Trump #recession #inflation #authoritarianism #destruction #economy #BigLie
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-budget-2025-big-lie-mike-johnson
While talking about the #BigLie, Bernie used a classic classroom technique - audience participation! He asked questions and took answers from the audience. 18/
"Dans ce 3eme épisode d’analyse sur la transformation des États-Unis sous Trump, nous explorons le projet politique de Peter Thiel et son influence croissante à travers son protégé JD Vance. Au-delà d'une simple analyse du trumpisme, cet épisode révèle comment une alliance inédite entre tech-right américaine et forces anti-démocratiques menace directement l'Europe. À travers l'étude des réseaux d'influence, des techniques de manipulation et des vulnérabilités européennes, nous comprenons que ce qui se joue est une tentative de redéfinition radicale de l'ordre mondial. Un épisode crucial pour saisir les enjeux du moment historique que nous vivons."—Julien Devaureix
Les Architectes du Chaos : Peter Thiel, Maître du Jeu. | #PAUSE >
https://shows.acast.com/sismique/episodes/67b775746f2e96290c913636
…Since launching his 1st Republican presidential campaign in 2015, #Trump has often attacked & even sued #media outlets whose coverage he dislikes, & has repeatedly criticized US #defamation laws.
A federal judge in 2023 threw out Trump's $475M defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which Trump claimed the network's description of his election #fraud as the "#BigLie" associated him w/ #Hitler. Trump's lawyers…invited the judge to reconsider the #legal standard set in #NYTvSullivan.
"When I got to the steps, they knocked me down, stepped on my head, pulled out my shoulder, broke my glasses, I was not breathing," Hemphill said. "If it wasn't for the Capitol Police Officers, I wouldn't be here 'cause I couldn't breathe. They pulled me up and put me behind them."
"The turning point for Hemphill came weeks later, as she learned how much of the "Stop the Steal" movement was based on lies.
"They're lying about everything."
I must be special because I was able to access all of those “destroyed” documents from the January 6 committee. Reports, interview videos, transcripts. Let me help you be special too and retain them. #uspol #January6Insurrection #Sedition #BigLie #LiarsBeware when the truth is in your face. https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/january-6th-committee-final-report?path=/GPO/January%206th%20Committee%20Final%20Report%20and%20Supporting%20Materials%20Collection
…#Trump’s 2024 election effort was more a #disinformation crusade than a conventional political campaign—a natural outgrowth of his peddling of the #BigLie about the prior presidential election. The falsehoods served him well & protected him from the accurate charge that he imperiled #democracy.
…So the #authoritarian virus that Trump represents has reinfected the political body. This time it’s worse. He has made clear his autocratic intent, with much of it spelled out in #Project2025.
#Trump would have been convicted of #election interference, #DoJ report says
Special Counsel #JackSmith says Trump would have been convicted if he hadn't been elected.
#election2020 #djt #donaldtrump #biglie #stopthesteal
Stop #BigLie2 In Its Tracks #ABlueView
To stop #BigLie2 from being believed like the #BigLie was, I wrote in https://tinyurl.com/4y96vpzb, "we must all push back now on any & all claims--from Trump, the press or pundits--that Americans empowered Trump w/a mandate!"
I just did; will you please too?
He rambles on and on about how he has The Biggest Crowds in History! And as he rambles, the cameraman pans to show all the empty seats and the people walking out. And walking out. And walking out.
Near the end of his PA speech, #Trump - whose #BigLie that his 2020 loss was the result of fraud inspired his supporters' #Jan6 #insurrection - mused that he should not have handed over power.
"I shouldn't have left. I mean, honestly, because we did so, we did so well," Trump said.
"We had such a great, so now, I mean, every, every polling booth has hundreds of lawyers standing there. It's all about the lawyers," he added.
"Why has Donald Trump shown his darkest side these last few days?
He is energizing his base for the authoritarianism he hopes to bring about. And he is preparing his voters for complicity. ...
[But] Trump is a bully you can topple with your little finger.
Or at least with the hand that casts the vote. All we have to do is go to the polls. We can close the door to that darkness."
~ Timothy Snyder
"The group has nearly 50,000 members and says that it is meant to be a place where users can 'share potential incidents of voter fraud or irregularities you see while voting in the 2024 election.'
In practice, it is a cesspool of election conspiracy theories, alleging everything from unauthorized immigrants voting to misspelled candidate names on ballots."
"For months, billionaire and X owner Elon Musk has used his platform to share election conspiracy theories that could undermine faith in the outcome of the 2024 election. Last week, the political action committee (PAC) Musk backs took it a step further, launching a group on X called the Election Integrity Community."
~ Vittoria Elliott
#Trump #ElonMusk #disinformation #BigLie #Twitter #X
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https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-election-denial-community-x/
