#political-misinformation

#political-misinformation

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS.

"People are lazy," wrote Ailes in 1970. "With television you just sit-watch-listen. The thinking is done for you." This is effectively the mission statement of a generation of conservative propaganda ranging from Rush Limbaugh to Fox News to Alex Jones to Tim Pool to Candace Owens to Charlie Kirk. Just substitute YouTube, Twitter and podcasts to update it for our modern era targeting America's laziest thinkers like Joe Rogan.

Following his successful meeting with President Xi Jinping in South Korea, President Trump convinced President Xi to continue purchasing, or begin purchasing again, American soybeans, which is something China wasn't doing under the last administration because they had no respect for President Biden or for the country at the time. But now they know President Trump is not messing around. He's going to stand up for American farmers and American families.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is the father of six children. He's also the US health secretary. Two facts that might lead a reasonable person to assume he possesses a basic understanding of how foetuses develop. In a shocking development, however, it seems that Kennedy an anti-vaxxer who says his brain was partly eaten by a parasitic worm may not know what he's talking about.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump and his celebrity health ministers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Oz held a press conference to announce an evidence-free claim that pregnant women taking acetaminophen causes autism in children. Trump's rambling speech provided no evidence other than his repeated assertions that pregnant women should not take the painkiller commonly sold under the brand name Tylenol.

BILL MAHER: Okay, first question is for you, professor. What did you make of how the rumor that Trump was dead spread around the I guess this is apropos to your theme of the book, whenever, but this was just a rumor. I mean, you should answer this too, because this is your beat in Washington. There was a rumor that, because to me it just shows how much he's in our heads, that when he doesn't appear for a day

On Election Day last November, supporters of reproductive rights in Missouri were quietly hopeful. For more than two years, abortion had been all but illegal in the state, owing to a trigger law that went into effect minutes after the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs v. Jackson decision, overturning Roe v. Wade. Only in the case of a medical emergency could a woman get an abortion of a viable fetus, and anyone who provided an abortion under other circumstances would be guilty of a felony.

Kessler became best known for his meticulous tracking of President Donald Trump's false and misleading claims, documenting more than 30,000 statements during Trump's first term.

In a presser at the White House yesterday, Tulsi presented the contents of the HPSCI report without context, focusing closely on a section that cites a cherrypicked selection of Russian intelligence reports purportedly based on documents stolen from Democrats.