The recent VP debate was marked not only by a vehement exchange of jabs between Senator Kamala Harris and Donald Trump’s right-hand man Mike Pence: eagle-eyed viewers also discerned a fly sitting for a couple of minutes on the vice president’s head, however awkward it may seem. Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate is sure to go down in history as the sparring involved a third active participant, albeit a silent one – a fly that sat for several minutes on Mike Pence’s head during the prime-time exchange. The fly immediately landed on debate memorabilia, namely themed fly swatters, t-shirts, and mugs. […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The chief of staff to Vice President Pence on Sunday defended the administration’s decision to ignore the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s deathbed request not to fill her seat until after the election, telling CNN that it was not Ginsburg’s choice to make. Shortly before dying Friday, Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be […]
Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR hide caption toggle caption Laura Sullivan/NPR Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is […]
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs blasted his own network and colleague on Tuesday over Fox News’ corroboration of The Atlantic’s eye-popping report that President Donald Trump called fallen military heroes “losers” and “suckers,” claiming Fox had no “evidence whatsoever” to back up the story. Dobbs, an informal presidential adviser who former Trump officials say acts as a “shadow chief of staff,” began Tuesday’s broadcast of his Fox Business program by tearing into The Atlantic’s report and media outlets who have confirmed all or parts of the story. Calling it a “coordinated attack” by Democrats and the media, the pro-Trump host groused […]
On Thursday night, US President Donald Trump delivered a fiery acceptance speech after being nominated by the Republican Party to run for a second term in November. A journalist told Sputnik that Trump is given space to spin lies about an imaginary adversary by a mainstream media that long ago gave up its duty to be critical of politicians. In a speech at the White House on Thursday that lasted more than an hour, Trump presented himself as a defender of the United States against forces threatening to destroy it – forces that would be mobilized if Democratic nominees Joe Biden […]
What can definitively be said about the Republican National Convention’s weaponizing of Blackness and poverty to spout predictable American mythology? Trump and his cronies say again and again that he has “done the most for black people.” In fact, every U.S. government has failed and brutalized Black Americans and countless racialized people in the country and outside of it. The most significant positive change to Black life has been made through grassroots activism. Not even Lincoln himself is responsible for the movement that would eventually lead to the eradication of slavery, yet U.S. politicians would have you believe otherwise. Historically, both […]
Dr. Stephen M. Hahn, the F.D.A. commissioner, erroneously said on Sunday that convalescent plasma would have saved 35 percent of coronavirus patients this year.Credit…Oliver Contreras for The New York Times “For the first time ever, I feel like official people in communications and people at the F.D.A. grossly misrepresented data about a therapy,” said Dr. Walid Gellad, who leads the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh. It is especially worrisome, he said, given concerns over how Mr. Trump has appeared to politicize the process of approving treatments and vaccines for the coronavirus. Over the next couple of months, […]
The notion that the United States observes a separation of church and state is a lie, according to President Donald Trump’s senior campaign legal adviser. “The left is going to tell you there’s this separation of church and state, and that’s just nowhere in the Constitution, nowhere in American law,” Jenna Ellis declared Monday evening during a Zoom event hosted by Asian Pacific Americans for Trump. “That’s nothing that our founding principles ever, uh, derived whatsoever.” The concept of a firewall between church and state authorities, Ellis claimed, is a mere “twisting a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Church […]
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in January 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., in January 2019. Jose Luis Magana/AP The body of civil rights icon and longtime congressman John Lewis will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol next week, with a public viewing that will take place outdoors because of the coronavirus pandemic. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the announcement in a joint press release Thursday. They said an invitation-only arrival ceremony will be held in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday at 1:30 p.m., and members […]
There’s no doubt where Donald Trump is going campaign-wise. Race race race. Getting smoked by Fox News and Chris Wallace over the weekend obviously won’t shame him. He’ll just get worse and worse. My bet is he’ll overplay the race card. I remember Lee Atwater once saying something like yes, you can get many white people to vote based on racial fear, but you have to be subtle about it because most white people don’t want to think of themselves as racist. Given where public opinion has settled since George Floyd’s murder, Trump’s all but overt racism might actually be a […]
One Way To Deal With Cops Who Lie? Blacklist Them By Justin George and Eli Hager, The Marshall Project. June 9, 2020 One Way To Deal With Cops Who Lie? Blacklist Them2020-06-092020-06-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/kim-gardner-da-st.-louis-ap-e1591670076934.png200px200px Above photo: Kim Gardner was elected as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2017. Jef Roberson/AP. Newly elected prosecutors won’t take cases from unreliable officers—but are these no-call lists fair? In the racially divided city of St. Louis the chief prosecutor has embraced a controversial tool to hold police accountable: blacklisting cops who she says are too untrustworthy to testify in court. So far, Kim Gardner has dropped more than 100 cases that relied on […]
On Contact: Trump And The ‘Permanent Lie’ June 8, 2020 On Contact: Trump And The ‘Permanent Lie’2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/5edc885220302715c129255e-e1591637163250.png200px200px Chris Hedges talks to Mark Green, former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner and Public Advocate, about the “permanent lie” used by US President Donald Trump to cancel out reality. Mark Green is co-author, with Ralph Nader, of “Fake President: Decoding Trump’s gaslighting, corruption, and general bullsh*t.” YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with Joe Biden? Biden on Friday delivered remarks on the economy and falsely claimed he didn’t trust China back in January. Joe Biden repeatedly claims he called for a Coronavirus lockdown before President Trump took action. This is a blatant lie and even the Washington Post fact-checker has already debunked this claim. TRENDING: EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Is Censoring The Gateway Pundit Writer Joe Hoft’s Latest Book “In God We Trust: Not in Lying Liberal Lunatics” … UPDATE: Amazon Just Removed Censorship! Biden tried to lie about the Coronavirus and he ended up making no sense whatsoever. […]
It’s a cult. Thousands of George Floyd protesters were lying on the hot pavement in extreme heat and humidity — baking underneath their masks in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures soared into the 90’s in DC on Wednesday. But these protesters are committed to the cult. TRENDING: “Wealth Transfer Is Exactly What’s Needed” – BET Founder Calls for $14 Trillion in Reparations to 42 Million African American Including a $350,767 One-Time Payment WATCH: Stunning scene in downtown D.C. as the sun begins to set. Thousands are lying on the hot pavement in extreme heat and humidity — baking underneath their […]
Congressman Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the original Flynn FBI 302 report used to brief Congress is still ‘missing.’ It was revealed in October former FBI lawyer Lisa Page EDITED General Mike Flynn’s 302 report, then lied to the DOJ about the edits. A 302 summary report consists of contemporaneous notes taken by an FBI agent when interviewing a subject. General Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell filed a motion in October, 2019 revealing that General Flynn was indeed set up by the FBI with an ambush, damaging leaks and altered 302 reports. TRENDING: NOW WE KNOW: John Podesta Admits in […]