Aaron Rupar: "Press Secretary Leavitt said without a trace of irony: 'When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful'."
LeavittLiedAgain #dishonesty #politics #NationalSecurity #military #media
#Dishonesty
"Justice Department Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders."
The dishonest official "Mr. Bove is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a nomination to a federal appeals court":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html
#immigration #ethics #values #dishonesty #politics
Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI | Higher education | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jun/15/thousands-of-uk-university-students-caught-cheating-using-ai-artificial-intelligence-survey
"(RFK Jr.) promised he would not appoint ideological anti-vaxxers to an expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After the new list was announced, infectious disease and vaccine experts immediately accused the health secretary of breaking his word":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-panel.html
#healthcare #extremism #dishonesty #RFKjr
Rep. Jake Auchincloss:
"First: #RFKjr cancels funding that Harvard and MIT use to study the molecular basis of autism.
Then: #RFKjr issues a report on autism with made-up scientific notations."
#extremism #dishonesty #recklessness #healthcare
Kristen Welker (host of #MeetThePress: "Do you have any evidence of Medicaid fraud?"
Speaker Mike Johnson: "There is a tremendous amount of fraud"
but he did not mention any specific evidence of fraud.
John Harwood: "Weird that there's a tremendous amount of fraud, but they still can't find it. Unless he just thinks providing health care to poor people and seniors is, in itself, fraudulent."
#extremism #dishonesty #BigUglyBill #greed #recklessness #politics
Jesse Lee: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio telling people that nobody died because of Trump eliminating #USAID, despite years of Rubio praising USAID for saving countless lives, is *exactly* the kind of infinite shamelessness and corruption that gets you promotions from Trump."
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #dishonesty #politics
Matt Fuller: "RFK Jr.'s office has acknowledged they messed up the citations with the MAHA Report, using studies that don't exist to support its conclusions. They've added new citations, that make more mistakes and that don't support the report's conclusions."
#RFKjr #dishonesty #extremism #healthcare #politics
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (1763-07-14)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2149/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #concern #danger #dishonesty #morality #theft #vice #virtue
"The Trump administration’s 'Make America Healthy Again' report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist":
https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors
#healthcare #extremism #RFKjr #dishonesty #politics #MakeBrainwormsVisitRFKjrAgain
"According to a staffer, Rep. Nancy Mace would allegedly order her underlings to identify criticism of her on social media, and then a slew of fake accounts would then pile on the offending account ... She sets up those fake Twitter burner accounts":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/nancy-mace-ran-bot-army-221333708.html
#dishonesty #politics #ethics
The #GoldenAge of #Scams
How Trump’s second term will unleash #dishonesty and #abuse across the economy
Alex Cole: "Donald Trump said no one wanted to join the #military under Biden, while speaking to an entire graduating class at West Point who joined under Biden."
#Trump #incompetence #dishonesty
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 70 (1955)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16589/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #dishonesty #lying #selfawareness #selfdeception #selfdelusion
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plagiarized small portions of his senior thesis": https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/05/princeton-news-pete-hegseth-senior-thesis-plagiarism-allegations #cheating #dishonesty #politics
The Register: AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals. “Some smart cookies have found that when AI models face a conflict between telling the truth or accomplishing a specific goal, they lie more than 50 percent of the time. The underlying issue is that there’s no right or wrong way to configure an AI model. AI model output varies depending on the settings applied and […]
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2025-04-30A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For the trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1971-11-18), “Lying in Politics,” The New York Review of Books
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/14173/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #baseline #coverup #deceit #dishonesty #lying #truth
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #RobertLouisStevenson #bragging #concern #dishonesty #facade #honor #integrity #suspicion
Jesse Lee: "The #Time magazine fact check of their Trump interview really is the portrait of a sociopathic, compulsive liar":
https://time.com/7280129/donald-trump-fact-check-2025-interview/
#dishonesty #politics #FactChecking
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