Greg Sergeant valiantly tries to list the lies told by Trump in his first interview since becoming president.
Start with his claim that 3-5 million votes were cast by illegals. Add to that his claim that all of those votes went for Hillary. Then his claim that a Pew study backs up his story. Then his insistence that the author of the study, who disagrees with Trump, is “groveling.”
If Trump is right, the election results should be thrown out and another election should be held.
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You have to stop posting the diversions. Keep to the important issues. Just saying.
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Not that my voice counts for much around here any more, but I second this. Trump lies – we’ve known that all along. And he does it, I think, in large part to keep his critics focused on that, not what he’s doing behind closed doors. The question is what’s being done to stop him.
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Dienne
any suggestions
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The fact that we have a howling sociopathic demagogue in the White House is not an important issue? Good grief, when do people wake up?
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Totally agree, Joe. These are not diversions, and if some of the readers of this blog think that Trump’s lies have nothing to do with education, they are incredibly naive. He will impact education, the environment, women’s rights, minority rights, LGBT rights, etc.
It will impact us, our children, their education, the future of this country, and of this planet.
We need to seriously think about what kind of country we will leave to our children and grand-children.
If we scr*w up this country badly enough, our children’s’ education will only be one part of it, but certainly not the only part.
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For those who want “pure” education posts, nothing is stopping you from reading them and passing on the others. I love reading the education posts because I’ve been out of the education world for 19 years and I learn something new from every one.
What attracts me to this site is my strong belief that Diane is the most important civic educator in the nation. Her record and views on education are the glue that holds it all together. The old truism that you don’t discuss religion and politics at the dinner table always caused me to ask my students, “Then what the hell do you talk about at dinner?” I feel like we can talk about anything in Diane’s living room/dinner table/classroom. Our love of public education is what invites us all in.
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Yes Joe..and all like minded comments…these issues are life and death…and the future of our nation.
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It is important issue because Americans are concerned over the integrity of presidency and White House owned by a thin-skinned clown and his clones manufacturing facts.
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Diane, Trump is always right. He’s alt-right. Politically and metaphysically.
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It is logically impossible for Trump to be metaphysical, unless of course by metaphysical you mean beyond the pale.
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I’m talking alternative metaphysics.
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Diane,
Sorry for the off topic comment but I don’t know how otherwise to get to you.
I very much appreciate your work and advocacy but noticed that your tweets are coming through using linkis – this requires people authorize linkis to access their twitters to get to your links.
I, and others, don’t want to grant them access and have problems with their “service.” If you agree,could you not tweet using their links – I believe it would make your links easier for people to click through to get to the source documents you’re linking to.
I, relatively recently, somehow started using linkis and my friends / followers brought it to my attention so I got rid of it.
If you agree, here are a couple of pages with more info:
http://www.adrianjock.com/remove-linkis-frames-twitter/
http://www.thriftymommastips.com/how-to-remove-link-is-from-your-tweets/
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thanks, Mike, I was unaware of that Twitter problem.
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There are no more lies, only eventual truth (potential major investigations, while full media blackouts may occur).
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DARTH BANNON
Bannon to Media: Keep Your Mouth Shut
“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Steve Bannon, President Trump’s chief White House Strategist, said during a telephone call with the New York Times on Thursday. “I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country.” Bannon, one of Trump’s most trusted advisors, previously served as the executive chair at Breitbart News, a far-right outlet that has frequently featured alt-right, xenophobic, racist, conspiracy theory-heavy commentary. During their first week in the White House, President Trump, Bannon, and press secretary Sean Spicer have frequently expressed their views of the “dishonest media.”
This pronouncement came today from Steve ‘Goebbels’ Bannon. Shut down all the media he says.
Note to teachers who do not want Diane to post “diversions”….I am really concerned about teachers who want to shut down the discussion of all of the incendiary problems Trump is causing each moment. What are you teaching in your classrooms if not current politics and history of government? If you bury your heads in Trump defecation, you perhaps need to find a new career. Real teachers teach what the real world presents.
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Thank you Diane for being a dedicated teacher. You serve your readers so well by expanding on the real world and current events.
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Ellen, I agree.
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Totally dysfunction: The White House needs psychosocial intervention.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.amp.html?client=safari
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Totally dysfunctional
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Apparently, Mr. Bannon likes to refer to himself as Darth Vader. He obviously never saw the Return of the Jedi because in that movie, Vader KILLS the Emperor and regains his humanity after telling his son, Luke Skywalker, that he was right about knowing that he (Vader) still had good in him. So, Vader was redeemed in the end. Sorry, Mr. Bannon, you are no Darth Vader.
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I’m sure that there will be some who will read this comment and think, “That could never happen here.”
I suspect that Littlefingers Donald Trump’s endless lies that support his alternative reality will eventually lead to him calling for martial law and a suspension of Congress and all Constitutional rights including the 1st and 2nd Amendments. When that happens there is only one force with the power to stop Littlefingers, the U.S. Military.
Will the generals do what the GOP is not doing; will the generals say no and refuse to obey that order when it comes?
U.S. Military officers do not have to obey the President’s orders, and they know this.
But officers of the National Guard swear an oath to obey the President and the Governor of the state or territory.
Officers in the U.S. Military (Army, Air Force, Marines, and Navy) swear a different oath than officers in the National Guard.
“I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
I’m not sure about the Coast Guard.
The size of the National Guard (state militia, reserve forces) is 578,900
Most members of the Nation Guard are part time and have jobs in the private sector. The National Guard takes an oath to perform state or federal missions and can be deployed for either. A governor can call up troops to assist in national disasters, and the president can order troops for federal missions both domestically and in foreign nations.
Total active military, Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force, is more than 1.4million
What happens if a state’s governor refused to cooperate or agree with a presidential order for martial law?
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At this point, anything could happen with this psychopath in the Oval Office. His dispute with Mexico and the Mexican president is nuts, insane, stupid and perfectly avoidable. And that’s just one issue, one event in a parade of bad/horrific decisions and appointments.
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If anyone thinks that it could “never happen here,” even more than “1984,” which Diane referenced and which a lot more people seem to be reading right now, they should read “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Very chilling.
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Awww…can’t we just watch the movie? Or maybe just live the reality! 🙂
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Mamie, you are right, we are starting to live the reality. 😦
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Unfortunately, I think the people reading these books already voted against Trump and marched on Saturday, January 21, but most of his deplorable followers/voters/minions/fools, etc. don’t read books unless they are pornography with mostly graphics and photographs.
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Sadly, Lloyd, I suspect that you are correct.
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Also suggest Neil Postman’s “Amusing ourselves to Death”
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This is all a kabuki show. Journalists feel emboldened to call out obvious lies, while they let politicians get away with supporting awful laws and cabinet nominees. Why isn’t the media hammering Tillerson? Devos? Price? Sessions? Pence? Instead they focus on Trump? The Media fails again.
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The plan is working!
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Hi Señor Swacker:
IMHO, it seems that way! I cannot think logically anymore!
The unthinkable GOP, Senators, and House of Congress are bought by foreigners (Russian? Chinese?) to harm America and Americans?
All journalists and media owners are owned by TRAITOR(s)? May
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An interview with Bernhard Langer, the professional golfer who Donald used as example of voter fraud in the NYT story today–who lives in Florida and is a German citizen–was just posted in the German tabloid Bild, which is the biggest selling paper in Germany. In it Langer states that he has never met Donald and the story is a complete fabrication.
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Lawrence O’Donnell spoke at length last night about this Trump lie using Langer to his own twisted advantage. Glad the NY Times is using the word “lie” rather than Chuck Todd’s “falsehood”…
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I wonder when the Lame Stream Media will start to call those “alternative facts” what they really are: Bullshit.
If THEDonald is one thing it’s that he is THE consummate bullshitter.
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He’s a bullshitter, a consummate con-man, and a grifter.
But I’m at least glad that they’re using the word “lie.”
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A 20% tax on all imports from Mexico lets add China to it as well great idea .That would be fantastic bring it on Donald . The sooner the better.and yes Bill Clinton’s name is on that policy regardless of the fact that it belongs to Republican Congresses.
I figure it might take about five to ten years to rebuild the industrial base that we lost since NAFTA and Permanent most favored nation status with China . Of course those sparkling new factories will have the latest in robotics with far fewer humans than when they left with 5 million jobs.
Think of the positives all of those Mexicans going back to their family farms that NAFTA destroyed. As Corporate mega farms in the wheat belt get a sh-lacking. I’ll bet they can grow corn quicker in a Mexican village than we can grow factories.
But in the 2 years that it takes to just draw up the plans for our re-industrialization, Americans would see a massive pay cut on day one as the cost of almost everything they buy goes up by 20 percent .Or corporate America takes a shave in profits and the markets tumble or both.
Everybody thinks that Trade agreements were about tariffs. Sorry they were already very low, they were really about creating a framework where by American multinationals could feel safe relocating their supply chains and factories, into cheap labor markets. How long before the shelves in Walmart are emptied as China launches an economic retaliation disrupting .
We may finally get the “change we can believe in” as those Trump voters storm the Bastille with pitchforks and gasoline. I don’t think they will be bothering with locking them up.
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Drumpf has no idea about economics, he only knows how to bully…and this kind of import tax punishment will lead us straight into a massive depression. Poor houses will be on every corner.
This insane and ignorant man who surrounds himself with fascists like Bannon and Conway and who does not want to learn, belongs in an asylum, not in the WH….but I would settle for the prison. Hope Tribe brings him, and all of them, down. Let the trials begin ASAP.
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My point exactly Ellen and I am afraid the sooner the better. We will .survive a collapse we may not survive Trump as a Democracy, or worse.
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Lock him up
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Meet the Trump opposition party. Humanity.
https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.amp.html?client=safari
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An absolutely chilling article from the Guardian in reference as to why the IPOTUS is continuing to lie about the general election results:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/26/donald-trump-voter-fraud-lie-political-gain-explanations
A ghastly possibility…
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Stop the presses. Politicians lie. I love teachers (I’m one), but we (you, rather) veer toward the dramatic, perhaps because the field is heavily influenced by estrogen.
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Rum,
I am not posting your comments until you change your pseudonym. You claim to be a teacher but I doubt it given the tone of your comments and name. . I have rules requiring a modicum of decency on the blog. You have crossed the line. I find your nom de plume offensive.
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Diane,
Perhaps Rum is really #stevebannon?
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He has nothing better to do, I am sure
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Bannon is not reading Ravitch. No offense.
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Rum returns, with a new name. Thanks, Alex Corey for dropping the ugly nom.
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I’m doing you a service, Diane. I’m saving your blog from half-witted Unionistas.
And I am a teacher. One of the best.
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The ex-Rum is back with a blast at unions, to complement his last comment demeaning female teachers. (Too much estrogen in the profession, he said).
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Sorry to “offend” but it’s true; when you teach in a slum you see the devastating effect of too much estrogen, and too little testosterone. Young men need role models. They need to see a responsible man go to work every day and waste half of it posting comments on your blog. They don’t need to hear radicalized blowhards hyped on five-dollar coffee.
You owe it to me to publish my posts. I bought and read The Language Police. Perhaps you should go back and read it?
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Alex, I don’t owe you anything. No one has the right to publish offensive comments on my blog. I support free speech in the public arena. My blog is my living room, and I do not allow comments that offend me or my readers.
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Is that you Donald?
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RSL is just a tenth rate troll spoofing for the sake of spoofing. Is he really a teacher? Probably not. Does he even believe what he is saying? If he has half a brain, I would guess that he doesn’t believe in the nonsense he’s posting. He does sound like a Trump wannabe with his misogyny and boasting.
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RSL, nobody owes you a d@mned thing. This is a privately owned blog, and as Diane said, it’s her living room, and she gets to set the standards of discourse.
And also disinvite anyone who flagrantly violates her standards.
If you don’t like that, perhaps you should start your own blog. I bet that most of the readers of this blog will not be visiting it, however.
If you are, in fact, a teacher, I feel very, very sorry for your students.
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Ok, that’s it. I want a refund.
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Humpty Drumpty has DREDGED UP the Swamp. He’s pscycho and is unfit to serve. GOP needs to start IMPEACHEMENT paperwork NOW.
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