The US Treasury Claimed Doge Technologist Didn't Have 'Write Access' When He Did
wired.com100% lying with questions given to journalist: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-06/bessent-p...
You can always count on Bloomberg to do the dirty work...
18 U.S.C. § 1001 is a federal law that makes it illegal to knowingly lie or make false statements. This includes falsifying documents, concealing information, or making fraudulent statements.
The USA also Claimed there were weapons of mass destruction and killed over 1 million Iraqis.
My guess is a lot of people pine for the level of deceit and incompetence from the George W. Bush era. What's happening now is really quite something else...
it seems underappreciated just how much permanent cultural destruction has been caused by this shift by Republicans to just lying about almost everything almost all the time. sure, politicians have lied about stuff in the past, and massaged the truth and spun, but Trump & Co just get up every day and tell you the sky is made of bananas and water is naturally fluorescent pink.
it would be bad enough untangling that, but something like a third of US adults have just completely checked out of consensus reality and either believe all that or just think the banana-ness of the sky and natural luminosity of water is some sort of debatable value that's been hitherto suppressed by woke muslims transes or something.
You can replace republicans with democrats and it’s just as valid if not more.
The thing that paints a clear picture to me is, the Republican party are always on the assault. They have endless bad things to say, blame to cast. They are out for destruction. If the Democrats are lying to defend trans people or immigrants or school lunch or head start... is that really a bad lie?
I think that's extremely telling, about what's a lie and what isnt. But let's just say, both parties are liars: there's still only one party trying to destroy opportunity & excellent, trying to cut the throat of the USA.
Posts like this make me wonder how far the overton window has to shift until someone notices they have left the continent. Maybe take a step back and look around to notice that the destruction you describe after less than a month has been happening to the other side for almost two decades. But the other side is evil and wrong so why even bother.
I understand that people on the right believe that to be true.
But, in fact, things like anthropogenic climate change that the right refused to acknowledge, and believed that the media was lying to them about, are true.
It matters what is actually true. The fact that the two sides may have felt the same isn't relevant. The truth is that it wasn't the same.
Another factor: Republicans think it's authoritarianism when the mainstream media doesn't tell them the things they prefer to believe. But here's another clue for them: It's only authoritarianism when the government uses its monopoly on power to force the media to say what they say. It's not authoritarianism when the media says something because they think it's true, or even when they say it because they are trying to please an audience that mostly thinks it's true.
I can't really fathom how disconnected from reality you have become if you honestly believe this. I do hope you drift back to consensus reality at some point.
be well.