Make Lying Wrong Again

4 Dec 2024

Before the election, I was looking forward to possibly retiring this user name.

"But he committed a robbery!" you say. "He killed a man!" Granted that as a murderer he deserved this punishment, what have you done, you wretch, to deserve to watch it?" - Seneca

“I have a lot shit to get done before then and I need to make money” “Also very privately if you write an email or a text about, l’m gonna kill you cause I love you but you’re so out of control” - Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador & former fiancé of the President’s son Gift article 🎁👇

wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

Source www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Most of the physics constants implicated in fine tuning for life could vary by factors of 10 - 1 million times or more and still result in a habitable universe For comparison, an FM radio dial needs to be much more finely tuned: its full useful range is only a fraction of that

nytimes.com‘I Was Sold a Bill of Goods’: Americans and the Distrust Election (Gift Article)Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.

Source (this is the open access version but there’s also a peer reviewed version) arxiv.org/pdf/1902.03928

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Aryeh

@aryehcw.bsky.social

22 Sept

'“We drank the Kool-Aid, and we were wrong,” said Ryan Wagner, 41, a conservative in northern Michigan who was once an enthusiastic supporter of the president...“I can’t even listen to him talk anymore,” he said.' www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

Donald Trump is lying when he says “the US controls the strait” His supporters know he is lying But he’s “Lying for the Lord”, so it’s ok. Their acceptance of the lie is a loyalty test We know it’s a lie bc of public ship tracking data Facts and gift article below 👇🎁

“The United Arab Emirates said Iran struck one of its ships on Saturday, following hits on three others last week.”

He fully expects his supporters to pay the intellectual, moral & economic cost of his lies for him And the more they pay, the harder it will be when their own debt come due

“Tehran has managed to squelch traffic through the crucial energy chokepoint with relatively little military force … Iran doesn’t need to defeat the U.S. Navy. It just needs shipping companies, captains and insurers to fear that defying it could put their ships at risk” - WSJ

“The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT!,” the president said, “and there is nothing Iran can do about it.” He ended the post saying, “Praise be to Allah!” - WSJ

Trump said in August the U.S. has “total control of the Strait of Hormuz” He said it again on Sept 2 in this clip 👇 He keeps saying it

“Ship-tracking data shows that just 14 vessels on Tuesday crossed a waterway that routinely handled more than 130 a day ... Eleven of those ships took the route administered by Iran” - WSJ

Independent third party vessel trackers show - 9% pre crisis vessel crossings - 40x pre crisis cost to insure supertankers - $103 per bbl oil price vs ~$65 1yr ago

straits.liveStrait of Hormuz Closed | Live Tracker & MonitorIs the Strait of Hormuz open? Effectively no, it is closed to commercial shipping. Live status, updated every 5 minutes.

Source straits.live

wsj.comTrump Says Strait of Hormuz Is Under U.S. Control. Few Ships Are Listening.With limited bursts of firepower, Iran is able to make the waterway too risky to cross.

WSJ gift article 🎁🔗👇 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

20 Sept

“Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet” - George Orwell

“Kremlev secretly bankrolled much of Trump Jr.’s wedding weekend, paying to rent out a private island, among other big-ticket items, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people” Source 🔗👇

“Why did a Russian oligarch who is close to Putin pay for much of the president’s son’s wedding? What is the nature of Trump Jr.’s relationship with Kremlev, and, importantly, how might it change over time?”

propublica.org“Our Dear Friend Umar”: How We Uncovered That a Russian Oligarch Bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s WeddingOn social media and in tabloids, photos from Don Jr. and Bettina Trump’s Bahamas wedding were tightly curated. But sometimes, what — or, who — isn’t pictured is just as important as what is. Let’s go ...

Frank Montoya Jr., a retired career FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles, put it this way: “If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something.” www.propublica.org/article/dona...

“The island where the reception party was held can rent for about $100,000 per night. Kremlev paid for multiple nights.”

“Kremlev picked up the tab for the fireworks display. The company that put it on typically charges around $70,000 for such shows.”

16 Sept

That’s quite a headline from the WSJ: Americans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran War

www.wsj.com/business/ene...

16 Sept

wsj.comAmericans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran WarHigher gasoline and diesel prices have led many families to save less and curb spending elsewhere.

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Steven Hassan PhD

@cultexpert.freedomofmind.com

13 Sept

People around the world should pay more attention to how much life sucks living in an authoritarian country! As USA midterms approaches we should do our best to turn out massive numbers of voters saying “NO” to anyone connected to GOP and Cult of Trump! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/b...

nytimes.comSocial Media in China Is Getting Really DarkThe Chinese Communist Party has spent years trying to make “positive energy” the dominant mood of the country’s internet. It’s no longer working.

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Mother Jones

@motherjones.com

11 Sept

I’ve covered Islamophobia for years. Trump's GOP has taken it to a new level.

motherjones.comI’ve covered Islamophobia for years. Trump's GOP has taken it to a new level.The shocking vilification of Muslims is one of the most troubling storylines of the midterms.

After 9/11, Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed direct involvement in the ground zero effort “I have over a hundred men down here” “Men from my company. We have another hundred coming in a little while” “I was just down to ground zero” Almost certainly lies

snopes.comWas Donald Trump at Ground Zero Searching for Survivors Two Days After 9/11 with Workers He Paid For?A meme echoes President Trump's 2001 comments about having hundreds of workers search for survivors after the terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan.

“by 15 September 2001 the area was on lock down. "There was no way anyone could get in and out of there without a [government-issued] badge” Source www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

gettyimages.comDonald Trump reacts to the destruction of the World Trade Center...Donald Trump reacts to the destruction of the World Trade Center attack on 9-11.

Interview source www.gettyimages.com/detail/video...

Source x.com/goangelo/sta...

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“John Feal, founder of the 9/11 first responder health advocacy non-profit the FealGood Foundation, responded to Ground Zero on 12 September 2001 as a construction demolitions expert. He also told us he didn't see evidence of hundreds of workers hired by Trump at the site”

“He’s very comfortable propagandizing that event for political purposes … Even in the face of tragedy, he can’t help but self-promote and self-aggrandize” said biographer Timothy O’Brien

“Everyone who helped clear the rubble - and I was there and I watched and I helped a little bit … Those people were amazing. Clearing the rubble. Trying to find additional lives. You didn’t know what was going to come down on all of us - and they handled it” - Trump in 2016

politifact.comClaim exaggerates Trump’s role in 9/11 recovery efforts“Donald Trump spent 9/11 marching into a war zone of fire and ashes with an army of his own men to save Americans.”

Source politifact.com/factchecks/2...

nytimes.comFact-Checking Trump’s Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders (Published 2019)The president repeated claims about his presence at ground zero during the signing ceremony for legislation to ensure health care funding for emergency workers who rushed to help.

“the size of the Trump Organization at the time was “a little bit over a dozen people,” which would have made it impossible to send hundreds of people to participate in the relief effort” Source www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/u...

Alles, the former New York fire chief [said] if Trump had sent a 100-worker crew to ground zero, “there would be a record of it” “Everybody worked under direct supervision of the police and fire department and the joint commander for emergency services”

Live feed of Tim Scott at the Trump Party national convention in Dallas

“Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others have discussed with the president that Tehran could continue to resist U.S. pressure under the blockade and other military tactics, potentially extending the conflict past Inauguration Day in January 2029”

wsj.comExclusive | Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of TermThe president still says he expects the war will end “immediately” after midterm elections this fall.

Source www.wsj.com/world/middle...

This is a real photo

nytimes.com60 Posts in 10 Hours: How Trump’s Social Media Reflects His Version of Reality (Gift Article)With an assist from A.I., President Trump offers a window into how he wants to be seen — and, critics say, a barometer of his mental state.

Source, and gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...

6 Sept

“What is my object in making a friend? To have someone to be able to die for, someone I may follow into exile … the thing you describe is not friendship but a business deal.” - Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

motherjones.com25 years later, 9/11 is still claiming livesA Long Island doctor once treated 9/11 responders who were dying. Now she’s a reporter and trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.

6 Sept

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

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Mother Jones

@motherjones.com

6 Sept

"We go to funerals. Then we go to hospital beds. This is real. DOGE is not real. Fuck, Elon Musk."

nytimes.comMilo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE (Gift Article)Mr. Yiannopoulos, a prominent early supporter of President Trump, was detained at the New Orleans airport. The Trump administration publicized his arrest and shared a mug shot.

28 Aug

“Mr. Yiannopoulos himself had reveled in Mr. Trump’s mass deportations, calling for ICE checkpoints at supermarkets and gas stations and “total legal immunity for ICE agents when they’re on duty.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...

23 Aug

I worked hard to edit this 60 Minutes episode down to under 3 minutes In under 3 minutes, Andrew Hitt, one of Trump’s most fervent supporters in the election of 2020 exposes attempted election fraud Ask your MAGA friends to watch it. Ask them if they think Andrew is telling the truth

12 Aug

If I could give the younger generations advice: 1) If it’s free it’s probably bad. Pay for at least one subscription to something. WSJ, NYT, AP, Reuters, local papers etc 2) If it’s entertaining it’s probably bad. Choose boring sources. Mostly text. Non-editorial. Less personality driven

31 July

I really enjoyed Bertrand Russell’s short book, The Problems of Philosophy But I especially enjoyed the last couple of chapters where he rejects both global skepticism and religious metaphysics What do the better educated philoso-raptors out there think? 😀