The Special Counsel's investigation seems to be uncovering a lot of, um, liars around pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump. Who knew?
One lied about his knowledge of Russian-hacked emails [George Papadopoulos], another about a Russian real estate deal [Michael Cohen], a third about dialogue over sanctions with a Russian ambassador [Michael Flynn].
A pattern of deception by advisers to President Donald Trump, aimed at covering up Russia-related contacts during the 2016 campaign and transition period, has unraveled bit by bit in criminal cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.
The lies to the FBI and to Congress, including by Trump’s former fixer and his national security adviser, have raised new questions about Trump’s connections to Russia, revealed key details about the special counsel’s findings and painted a portrait of aides eager to protect the president and the administration by concealing communications they presumably recognized as problematic.More and more they're resembling an incompetent mob family.
There's almost no better example of the complete submission of the Republican/ Stupid Party to Rump than in its global climate change denialism:
Sen.-elect Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said falsely in the lead-up to her campaign that the Earth has started to cool, and argued inaccurately that scientists have not reached a consensus on climate change.
In Florida, which has been pummeled by hurricanes, Sen.-elect Rick Scott has acknowledged rising and warmer seas could be harmful to his state but won’t attribute it to human activity.
And Sen. John Neely Kennedy, who is expected to announce Monday whether he will run for Louisiana governor, told reporters last week that while the Earth may be getting hotter, “I’ve seen many persuasive arguments that it’s just a continuation of the warming up from the Little Ice Age.”Voters in Tennessee and Florida had a chance in November to cauterize themselves from denialist Republicans, but they chose to, literally, reap the whirlwind. Voters still have a chance to retire that homespun goober in Louisiana. Of course, their ignorant hero was alone at the G20 Summit this weekend in failing to support the Paris Climate Accords in a joint communique signed by 19 other nations. But, as Steve M. points out, denialism long preceded the arrival of Rump. Through their malicious inaction today, this Rump- led mob of sociopaths and morons will be responsible for the misery and deaths of millions of people around the world over the coming decades.
Don't expect any self- examination from this Trump cult, either:
With a brutal finality, the extent of the Republicans’ collapse in the House came into focus last week as more races slipped away from them and their losses neared 40 seats.
Yet nearly a month after the election, there has been little self-examination among Republicans about why a midterm that had seemed at least competitive became a rout.They've forever hitched their wagon to Trump. May their demise be rapid and complete.
For the civilized world that isn't science- phobic, some interesting news:
The universe shines with the light of some billion trillion stars. A team of astrophysicists recently used a satellite to sum up all these stars' light, measured in particles called photons. Let there be numbers: By their estimate, over the history of the universe, stars have emitted 4 times 10-to-the-84th-power photons into the visible universe (that’s a 4 followed by 84 zeros).
But their work was more than counting sunbeams. The technique allowed astrophysicists to construct a history of star formation: Star births peaked about 3 billion years after the big bang, as members of the international Fermi-LAT Collaboration reported Thursday in the journal Science. This spurt has slowed dramatically in the 10-plus billion years since."4 followed by 84 zeros."
Finally, we recommend you taking time to check out Infidel 753's link round- up to various items of interest he discovered searching the internet. We always get a new appreciation about something from a visit (like, for instance, the dystopian capitalism of self- checkouts).
