Category: Fake News

Twitter’s Unlevel Playing Field

If you follow politics, you must surely know of Alex Jones and his Infowars platform.  He brought to the forefront Twitter’s refusal to enforce their own rules.  I once had a boss who was convinced that almost every far-fetched conspiracy theory was real.  Everything from the moon landing being faked to 9/11 being carried out

I hereby demand . . .

The rest of the title goes; “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”  This was the

Stephen Colbert, like a real genius

Thank you, Stephen.  You are one of the reasons I have any sanity left at all.  I’m sure the Republicans out there if you haven’t left yet are doubting that I have any. As hard as it is to believe I never heard of Colbert until he started taking pot shots at Trump.  Apparently, I

Donny and the Trumpettes

It is interesting all the names that the press and social media have come up with for that segment of America that blindly follows Trump, regardless of what he says or does.  I’m sure someone has made a list of all of them. A few of my favorites are Trumpers, Trumpist, Trumpet, Trumpkin, Trumpista, Trumpian, Trumpnik, or for

Ministry of Truth

I made a reference to George Orwell’s 1984 and the Ministry of Truth in my blog post Over the Top.  Today I feel is an important one in the history of our democracy because I actually witnessed the government altering the facts.  I should clarify that I don’t think it is the government as a whole