Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Oh Yeah . . .


. . . the truth . . . 

". . . Claim: The U.S. has conducted 'over 50 million tests'
According to the graphics displayed behind Trump during his remarks, the U.S. has conducted more than 45 million tests. This requires context, because the president is citing the data point as a measure of the U.S.'s success in combating the virus. Public health experts say the number of tests that have been conducted doesn't on its own indicate a country's success in controlling an outbreak. He said the rate of positive tests indicates that far more people are being infected than are being tested, and he pointed to Arizona, where 1 in 4 tests are positive, as an example. "Right now, our pandemic is out of control," he said.

Claim: 'Our case fatality rate has continued to decline' and is lower than 'almost everywhere else in the world'  
This is misleading. Trump is trying to make the U.S. look better by emphasizing the ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases — known as the case fatality rate — over the more telling mortality rate. The former lowers as testing expands and detects more mild cases, while the latter reveals how many deaths a country has had relative to its population. According to Johns Hopkins University data, the U.S. mortality rate is one of the highest in the world, thanks to the large outbreak. The case fatality rate has fallen, but it isn't lower than "almost everywhere else in the world."

Claim: 'We're closely monitoring hospital capacity' in states with surging cases. 'All of the governors we've spoken with say they have enough bed capacity.'
While we can't verify what governors have told the Trump administration, U.S. hospital capacity appears to be strained.  Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, raised the alarm Monday over COVID-19 hospitalizations, saying the state's caseload had the potential to strain hospital resources and staff. Last week, NBC News reported that 54 hospitals in Florida had no available beds in their intensive care units and that 40 more hospitals had less than 10 percent availability. NBC News reported this month that Houston hospitals have been forced to treat hundreds of patients in their emergency rooms — sometimes for several hours or multiple days — in their scramble to meet the pandemic's rising numbers.

Claim: 'We again have tremendous amounts of supplies, we're in very good shape, and we can move them quickly'
Not according to internal administration documents obtained by NBC News, which showed that the federal government may not have the capacity to supply medical professionals with personal protective equipment.

Claim: The Trump administration inherited 'very, very empty cupboards'
This is a false claim we've fact-checked previously. Both former Obama administration officials and previous news reports dispute it. While Trump didn't inherit empty shelves, congressional budget cuts might have depleted parts of the Strategic National Stockpile during the Obama administration. However, Trump didn't do anything to change that during the first three years of his administration.










Saturday, April 18, 2020

Prescience? . . .



(from Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken)
". . . I really think that if we don't start caring about whether people tell the truth or not, it's going to be literally impossible to restore anything approaching a reasonable political discourse. Politicians have always shaded the truth. But if you can say something that is provably false, and no one cares, then you can't have a real debate about anything. . . I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. . . "





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Friday, March 27, 2020

Honesty . . .



(from LIES And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them; A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
by Al Franken)
". . . If you listen to a lot of conservatives . . . conservatives love America and liberals hate America. . . They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America in the way a four-year-old loves her mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a four-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow.  Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. . . When liberals look back on history, we see things we're proud of. And we also see some things, which might have seemed like good ideas at the time, bur turned out to be mistakes. And some things we did, well, they were just bad. That doesn't keep us from loving our country - it's part of loving our country. It's called honesty. . . "





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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Hunters . . .

. . . and Gatherers . . .



Everyone is searching for the truth
Why and what's the meaning of this life
And are we living proof of anything
Long ago we lost our tribal ways
Centuries have passed so much has changed
But time and time again we think the same
Like hunters and gatherers

Big machines and tiny circuitry
Airplanes buildings bridges fill the sky
Just look what progress brings to you and me
Scientific wonders do abound
Medicines cure many maladies
There's progress all around yet in some ways
We're hunters and gatherers

And after only these few thousand years
We've ceased to look for answers in the sky
We can no longer live with all these lies
So long accepted without asking why

Whether we approve or if we don't
Everything we know and love will change
There's just no way they won't it has to be
Ours is not to run or disbelieve
Time to face the facts don't be deceived
By people clinging to the past
Like hunters and gatherers


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Monday, June 3, 2019

Home . . .


(from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-calls-london-mayor-stone-cold-loser-start-u-k-n1013066
". . . “It’s so un-British to be rolling out the red carpet this week for a formal state visit for a president whose divisive behaviour flies in the face of the ideals America was founded upon — equality, liberty and religious freedom,” wrote Khan (Mayor of London Sadiq Khan), who is the son of a Pakistani bus driver. . . At what point should we stop appeasing — and implicitly condoning — his far-right policies and views? Where do we draw the line?" he continued.". . . "





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Saturday, April 20, 2019

View . . .

. . . from the vantage point of the Mueller report . . .



(from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/mueller-report-reveals-sarah-sanders-lied-trump-it-s-time-ncna996181)
". . . if we cannot trust (Sarah Huckabee) Sanders to tell us the truth about things like the firing of the FBI director, how can we trust her when she’s briefing the American people about a school shooting or a hurricane or an adversarial foreign power’s efforts to undermine our elections? Why should any reporter believe any statement she gives ever again? . . . Sanders isn’t the White House press secretary as much as she is America’s main minister of propaganda. Make no mistake about it, Sanders isn’t a “complicit” bystander to the “porn star presidency,” she is a partner in it. . ."






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Monday, April 1, 2019

Other . . .

. . . wise



Foreclosing on widows homes
Is one thing I’ve not done
But if truth be told
That’s only one
The life that I led before
Left nothing to be desired
High on the hog
Until I was undone

Otherwise blameless
Upstanding citizen true

So exemplary am I
How upright I stand
One lie here
There one little fraud
I’m just a man






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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Aren't We All . . .

. . . otherwise blameless?



Foreclosing on widows homes
Is one thing I’ve not done
But if truth be told
That’s only one
The life that I led before
Left nothing to be desired
High on the hog
Until I was undone

Otherwise blameless
Upstanding citizen true


Otherwise
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Truth . . .




(from https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/4/sarah-huckabee-sanders-democrats-trump-probe-disgr/)
". . . Ms. (Sarah) Sanders said. “The Democrats are not after the truth, they are after the president.”. . ."


But Sarah, one cannot be pursued without the other since he lies (8,158 false or misleading statements as of January 21, 2019) constantly.





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Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Careful . . .

. . . thought


(from Thomas Jefferson; The Art of Power by Jon Meacham)
". . . Later he told his nephew that religion required careful thought, not reflexive acceptance. "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.". . . "





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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

More Facts . . .


(from https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/08/facts-donald-trumps-border-wall-address-nation-immigration-shutdown-column/2503981002/)
►Illegal border crossings are down. Significantly.
In 2000, 1.6 million people were apprehended trying to cross the southern border into the United States. In 2001, 1.3 million were apprehended. In 2018? Less than 400,000.

►The counties along the southern border are among the safest in the United States.
According to data from the Wilson Center, as summarized by The Washington Post, “The crime rates in U.S. border counties are lower than the average for similarly sized inland counties, with two exceptions out of 23 total.”

►Most undocumented immigrants don’t “sneak” across the border.
The majority of immigrants in the USA without authorization first entered the country legally, and then overstayed their visas. Even the anti-immigration Center for Migration Studies said in a 2017 report that crossing the border is not the way “the large majority of persons now becoming undocumented.”

►The White House is lying about terrorists crossing the southern border.
In an interview on Fox News this weekend, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' careful wording suggests she knew she was more than bending the truth. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace fact-checked Sanders: “Do you know where those 4,000 people come, where they are captured? Airports.”

►Migrant caravans aren’t “sneaking” across the border, either.
It’s important to distinguish between illegal border crossings and migrants lawfully presenting themselves at southern ports of entry in order to apply for asylum.

►Drugs entering the USA across the southern border are most often hidden in legal shipments.
While 90 percent of heroin enters through the southern border, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, “illicit drugs are smuggled into the United States in concealed compartments within passenger vehicles or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor trailers. . . A wall wouldn’t stop most heroin from entering the country.

►Conservative political figures and think tanks think Trump’s wall is pointless.
(The) reason Trump couldn’t get funding for his wall during the past two years of his presidency when his own party completely controlled both houses of Congress: They didn’t want it.

►There are already 654 miles of border fencing.
The U.S.-Mexico border is 1,933 miles long. Of that, 34 percent already has a wall or a fence — in particular, parts along the areas of the border that are most easily accessed by people traveling by car or on foot.

►Americans do not support Trump’s wall.
“The people of our country want it,” Trump said recently. No, they do not. A mid-December poll found that 54 percent of respondents opposed Trump’s wall.


Facts of Life

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Sunday, December 9, 2018

Worry? . . .

Norman Mingo

(from https://www.newsweek.com/why-does-president-trump-get-away-lying-opinion-1222478?utm_campaign=NewsweekFacebookSF&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2TG5CfwwGXFOcVizXhnCoKrqevy0P9xcMqxNqKzb9m2NJRUUMkfhENmOo)
". . . Should we be worried about this flight from mere lying to post-truth? . . . Even if all politicians lie, I believe that post-truth foreshadows something more sinister. In his powerful book On Tyranny, historian Timothy Snyder writes that “post-truth is pre-fascism.” It is a tactic seen in “electoral dictatorships”—where a society retains the facade of voting without the institutions or trust to ensure that it is an actual democracy, like those in Putin’s Russia or Erdogan’s Turkey. . . In this, Trump is following the authoritarian playbook, characterized by leaders lying, the erosion of public institutions and the consolidation of power. You do not need to convince someone that you are telling the truth when you can simply assert your will over them and dominate their reality. . ."




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Friday, October 19, 2018

Facts (again). . .


(from https://www.boldprogressives.org/ronald-reagan-in-1984-social-security-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-deficit/)
". . . Social Security, let’s lay it to rest once in for all…Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund to reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security trust fund. So Social Security has nothing to do with balancing the budget or erasing or lowering the deficit. . . . "






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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

If . . .

. . . anything humorous (and apparently true) can be gleaned from recent events . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/what-trump-got-wrong-about-brett-kavanaugh-n915476)
“I'm not a drinker. I can honestly say I never had a beer in my life, OK. It's one of my only good traits. I don't drink,” Trump said. “Can you imagine if I had, what a mess I'd be? I would be the world's worst.” . . . Indeed, there is no evidence that the president has ever indulged in a drink. . ."




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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Virgins . . .

. . . church . . .
. . . and 'talk'. . . from a character standpoing, is this compelling?


(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kavanaugh-truth-i-ve-never-sexually-assaulted-anyone-n912701)
". . . "The truth is I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone, in high school or otherwise," (Supreme Court nominee Brett) Kavanaugh said in an interview with Fox News. . . Kavanaugh also said in the interview that he was a virgin "in high school or for many years thereafter.". . ."I never sexual (sic) assaulted anyone," he said. "I did not have sexual intercourse in high school or for many years thereafter. The girls from the schools I went to and I were friends.". . . "I never saw any such thing. Any such thing," he said. "I certainly never participated in any such thing. I never saw or heard of any such (sic) I was focussed on trying to be in number one in my class and captain of the varsity football team and going to church.". . .Kavanaugh has denied the allegation, saying . . . that "it would have been the talk of campus" if it had happened. . . "





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Monday, August 20, 2018

Truth . . .



. . .  ISN'T TRUTH???!!!!



W T F ?







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