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Is Sacha Baron Cohen's new character a 12 year old girl.
Sarah Palin could be tricked by reflected light into an empty jar of peanut butter, but I expected better from Roy Moore, America's favorite fascist folk-molester.
No doubt exists in my mind that if you sang Borat's country song "Throw the Jew Down a Well So My Country Can Be Free," that Roy Moore would not only sing along, but harmonize.
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The President of the United States has spent his entire public life, which is now in its 5th decade, habitually and repeatedly making provably untrue statements.

That fact is so important that it should accompany any mention of him in news media.
Yes, all or at least most other politicians have lied. I don't think we've ever had a president whose entire public life has been defined not just by specific lies, but by lying.

Lying as strategy.

Lying as lifestyle.

Lying for the sake of lying.

It's relevant.
There should be no mention of his name without the accompanying context.

"Donald Trump (who has told proveable untruths his entire life, and repeats them after they're proved false), addressed the nation today."

Absent the parenthetical, the whole story isn't told.
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Seriously can’t stop laughing at this.
It’s not just how stupid it is it’s how smart he thinks it is.
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Sage advice from veteran congressperson Whoopi Goldberg, known for the gentle contemplative comedy of her youth.
“Multimillionaire Offers Critique of Politician Who Would Tax Multimillionaires”
Who the hell said she didn’t?
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Wooooah. Maria Butina arrested, charged with conspiracy to act as a Russian agent. Ties to Alex Torshin, the NRA and the Trump campaign.
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Endorse my colleague Hank Steuver's argument about Sacha Baron-Cohen's new show. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

But I'd also point out something else: that these sorts of "stings" pander to partisan biases about our opponents, because we confuse agreeableness with sincerity.
To unpack this a bit (and this is also a critique of James O'Keefe): most people have a hard time disagreeing with others face to face. When people say crazy things, most adults will nod and smile rather than raise a fuss, particularly with strangers.
Maybe it would be a better world if we all went around calling out each and every instance of lunacy or socially unacceptable ideas. But such call-outs are of dubious effectiveness with strangers, and they take a lot of time and emotional energy, so most people don't.
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Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Who Is America” is much more disturbing than the surface-level of officials saying “give children weapons.”

(Brief thread)

“Who is America” opens with Cohen’s Israeli character presenting his case for arming (literal) babies by invoking the paradigm of terrorism.

Interviewees understood the subtext (Palestinians) and reacted accordingly.
It’s not just the US.

This clip shows how American officials understand an entire group of people (Palestinians) as so implicitly threatening — that violence is immediately & uncritically accepted, even to arming literal infants.

The Israel-terrorism paradigm justifies all.
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AMERICA, WE ARE AT THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE.

Yesterday, as Trump was ranting about “shithole countries,” I was in a county courthouse in Georgia looking at a death certificate for a black man who died in 1930. I watched the courthouse employees’ faces... 1/
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had been the focus of national news for weeks back in 1930. “It was a lynching” I explained, pointing to the word scribbled in parenthesis on the document. I had them pull another death certificate; this one for a white 16 year-old girl who had died one day prior to the man. 3/
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"It was 40 years ago," Alabama Marion County GOP chair David Hall tells me. "I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."
Me: "The story said she said he tried to get her to touch his genitals." Hall: "Well, she said he may have TRIED to. But we're talking something that somebody SAID happened, 40 years ago. It wouldn't affect whether or not I'd vote for him."
More Hall: “The other women that they’re using to corrobrate: number one, one was 19, one was 17, one was 16. There’s nothing wrong with a 30-year-old single male asking a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old, or a 16-year-old out on a date."
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