Steve Ruis doesn’t like lies. And he understands that some lies are worse than others. This Breitbart lie, he writes, is a giant whopper.
A young man tragically took his life in Virginia. His mother went to the local school board and said he killed himself because of COVID isolation and “critical race theory.” Breitbart said so.
But what Breitbart did not say was that the young man graduated high school before COVID closed it down. And that CRT was not taught in his school.
And there is more.
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This is truly sickening that this kind of nonsense is repeated as fact, and corrections – if they are ever made – are buried.
This likely would be reported in the NYT as “Parent says her son committed suicide because of covid isolation and CRT, teachers’ union disagrees.”
Corrections? We don’t need no stinkin corrections!
As of the 2020 Census, there were approximately 79 million nonwhite persons in the United States. You can count on the fact that if one of these people commits a horrific crime, not-so-bright-Bart and Faux News will lead with it. They might as well be The Daily Stormer.
Donald Trump loves to talk about how he is “the best” at this or that. “Nobody knows [fill in the blank] like Donald Trump,” he says again and again, like a grotesque parody of one of those children’s dolls with a drawstring recording activator. There is one thing, however, that he doubtless IS best at, and that is lying. His record, there, is extraordinary.
The Loser Former Guy ran for president on two ideas: a) that he had the necessary ability to “fix” America because he had “started with a small loan from [his] father” and “built a business worth billions” and that b) he was going to build a wall to keep out the hordes of “rapists and murderers” who were “taking your jobs.” You know, the same one who has claimed again and again to have had “nothing to do with Russia” and that he had a “perfect call” with Zelenskyy and that he didn’t commit a long, long, long list of crimes and that he didn’t collude to overthrow the last election, which he claims that he actually won. All lies.
When the day comes that The Idiot finally shuffles off this mortal coil, I propose the following inscription for his tombstone:
Here lies Donald Trump,
but that’s nothing new.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/jobs/2012/05/04/what-immigration-means-for-u-s-employment-and-wages/#:~:text=The%20Impact%20of%20Immigrants%20on,opportunities%20and%20incomes%20of%20Americans.
Also, note that immigrants, documented and undocumented, like everyone else, make use of goods and services and thereby create demand, which creates jobs.
So, the “they’re taking your jobs” stuff is just another racist lie.
Furthermore, Department of Justice stats show that undocumented immigrants have one of the lowest crime rates of any subgroup in our population. So, the rapists and murderers bit and the taking our jobs bit are both lies.
For a long while, the father of a former student, an aged Trumpist, used to send me clippings from rightwing extremist media. So, I plowed through a bunch of DOJ stats and sent him proof that undocumented immigrants had very low crime rates. His response? So? One crime by these people is too many.
Aie yie yie. Racism is impervious to facts.
I commented on this on the Putin post.
Another rumor, reported in The Washington Post:
GOP legislator backtracks on claims students meow, bark, use litter boxes
By Jaclyn Peiser
During a televised debate over a Nebraska school funding bill on Monday, Republican state Sen. Bruce Bostelman brought up an issue he found particularly troubling: furries.
“Schoolchildren dress up as animals — cats or dogs — during the school day; they meow, and they bark,” he said. “And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary?”
But within hours of the debate, Bostelman backtracked and admitted the accusations were inaccurate.
“It was just something I felt that if this really was happening, we needed to address it and address it quickly,” Bostelman said, according to the Associated Press.
The senator did not immediately respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment early Tuesday.
Bostelman is the latest Republican state leader to repeat discredited rumors of students identifying as “furries” and demanding cat litter at school. Furries are people who identify with or are interested in anthropomorphic or cartoon animals. People in the fandom often wear costumes and interact with their community online or at conventions.
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In January, the co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party shared a Facebook post about a mother’s claim that at least one school put a litter box in a unisex bathroom for students who identify as cats. A Michigan superintendent responded to the post, emphatically debunking the claims. Similar rumors spread in Iowa last month on social media, forcing a superintendent in a small school district to send a letter to parents dispelling the gossip.
The rumor in Nebraska was mentioned last month in a Facebook group called Protect Nebraska Children, according to Jon Kipper, a reporter for KMTV. A parent asked about the litter boxes, noting that he was “not trying to propagate a rumor, I just want to know if it’s true, and I am praying it’s not.” Although a secretary for the school replied that it was not true, Kipper said, the speculation spread.
During his speech Monday, a clip of which was viewed more than 600,000 times on Twitter by early Tuesday, Bostelman repeated an unconfirmed story about a student. He said that someone told him the child, who identifies as a cat, defecated on the floor after the school refused to provide a litter box.
“Really,” Bostelman said. “School administrators, what is going on? Nebraska Department of Education, what is going on?”
Following his comments, Bostelman and Democratic state Sen. Lynne Walz contacted school districts asking about the litter boxes. The district leaders “assured none of that happened,” according to KMTV.
Representatives from three school districts told the Nebraska Examiner that Bostelman’s comments were false. Josh Fields, the superintendent of Seward Public Schools near Lincoln, called the comments “ridiculous.”
“It’s an ugly rumor,” Shawn Scott, the superintendent Adams Central Public Schools, added.
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schools putting litterboxes in bathrooms
Jewish space lasers
CRT indoctrination in schools
George Soros’s caravans of rapists and murderers
pedo pizza parlors
the Trump/JFK, Jr., 2024 presidential ticket
the perfect phone call with Zelenskyy
Covid vaccine microchips
the stolen election
Ukrainian bioweapons labs funded by Hunter Biden
Venezuelan voting machines
Trump is “strong on” Russia
FEMA death camps
the hydroxychloroquine, oleander, colloidal silver, and ivermectin miracle cures for Covid-19
healthcare death panels
the war on Christmas
There is nothing too crazy for the post-truth rightwing in America. The standard line of one entire political party in the United States today sounds like something from a play cowritten by Pee Wee Herman and Eugène Ionesco.
The right is looking for any way to discredit real public schools. Here in North Florida the local Sinclair Broadcasting keeps running a series called “Crisis in the Classroom” despite the fact there is very little material to fuel the so-called crisis. It is a propaganda campaign to undermine trust in public education.
The Crisis in the Classroom series on Utah’s Sinclair station has actually focused on things that need to be changed. Like charter schools skimming money and a district that is using Summit Learning all over the place. So I guess we’re lucky here.
For the United States to survive the extreme rights (is there anything further to the right than extreme — extreme right lunacy maybe?) endless lies, hoaxes, and conspiracy theory propaganda designed to create a kleptocracy and shred the US Constitution, the US has to bring back the Fairness Doctrine with some serious teeth and add those rules to social media.
This tsunami of lunacy and lies started with President Reagan back in the 1980s when he got rid of the Fairness Doctrine and added unchallenged lies to free speech.
From wikipedia, quote: On February 11, 2009, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told radio host Bill Press, “we gotta get the Fairness Doctrine back in law again.” Later in response to Press’s assertion that “they are just shutting down progressive talk from one city after another”, Senator Harkin responded, “Exactly, and that’s why we need the fair—that’s why we need the Fairness Doctrine back.” end quote
We need it back to get some balance in talk radio, for example. Instead, we have nothing but far right wing scum bag fecal flingers.
YES—it is always overwhelming to hear what is being purported as “news” on a.m. radio: and in some locations a.m. radio IS local media
Ciedie– 15 & + yrs ago, I used to drive one of my kids from suburban NJ to a summer skateboard camp in the outer boonies of central PA. After the 1st unpleasant crowded commute on I-80, I mapped myself out a scenic (& faster) route on back roads. The radio stations through those mountains were ?!?! Through most of that beautiful swath, all you could tune in (on fm or am!) was Prosperity Gospel or virulent faux rw news… At least in my suburban NJ “bubble,” you can get rw, lw, & neutral.
Meanwhile, as a sign of how effective the lies are, a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll released today shows Trump leading Biden 47 to 41 in a hypothetical 2024 presidential race.
This is REALLY frightening.
I googled “Is Breitbart News still popular?”
Here’s the good news, per Wikipedia: Breitbart experienced a huge drop in between 11/16 an 6/17, and has been declining since. “By 2019, Breitbart had lost nearly 75% of its readership, going from 17.3 million at the beginning of 2017 to 4.6 million in May 2019.
That’s awesome.