by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, November 28.
- 4 Pinocchios for Trump’s bogus assertion about voter fraud (The guy is completely unhinged. Hello Electoral College, do you REALLY want to give a lunatic control over U.S. nuclear codes?)
- Trump makes baseless claim that millions voted illegally for Clinton (We’re basically making 9/11 and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones president. Brilliant, everyone who voted for this #@#$#@$!)
- Trump’s baseless assertions of voter fraud called ‘stunning’ (It should be disqualifying for the Electoral College; the guy is seriously not well.)
- Krugman: Why Corruption Matters (“So how bad will the effects of Trump-era corruption be? The best guess is, worse than you can possibly imagine.”)
- An ethical double standard for Trump?
- The Risks Of Normalizing The So-Called Alt-Right
- The White Nationalist Origins Of The Term ‘Alt-Right’ — And The Debate Around It
- Fake News and the Internet Shell Game (“Faced with so much conflicting information, many people are prone to think that everything is biased, everything conflicts, that there is no way to get out of the Library of Babel we find ourselves in, so why try?” That’s the big problem, very scary…people can simply believe their own set of facts.)
- How the Kochs won 2016 (“The Koch brothers sat out the presidential election. But the Trump administration is stacked with their allies.” As if Trump weren’t bad enough…)
- Conway unloads on Romney (This is bonkers too, not to mention wildly unprofessional.)
- Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won (“This tweet is an example of Trump’s most dangerous quality: his tendency to mobilize against a threatening, sometimes imaginary Other whenever he himself is under siege.”)
- Democrats look to 2018 governor’s races for rebuild (Actually starts in 2017 with NJ and Virginia.)
- ‘Stunning and troubling’: Election experts aghast at Trump’s baldfaced lie about people voting ‘illegally’ (Trump is viciously attacking our democracy itself.)
- Trump seems ready to fight the world on climate change, and it could cost the US (Disastrous; 180-degrees opposite of what we need to be doing, according to the science.)
- Mark Hamill Blasts Trump’s Cabinet: ‘It’s a Who’s-Who of Really Despicable People’ (Correct, “Luke!”)
- A perversion 227 years in the making: Donald Trump has shown us the Electoral College is now as corrupted and anti-democratic as he is (“The institution Alexander Hamilton believed would protect us from dangerous demagogues, now empowers one”)
- Don’t believe Donald Trump: He spun climate denial to The New York Times, and a lot of people fell for it
- Now Trump gets the Supreme Court — and the damage may be irreversible (“Conservatives cared about the court this year, while many liberals didn’t. The damage will last for generations.”)
- Relief for I-66 riders, at last (“Major widening and tolling is on the horizon for one of the region’s most jammed commuter chutes.”)
- Trump’s lies have a purpose. They are an assault on democracy. (“Donald Trump is winning the war on reality. Welcome to the age of nightmares.”)
- Recounts Rarely Reverse Election Results
- Auto dealers sound alarm as Tesla pushes for second Virginia store (Anyone who supports the auto dealers over Tesla is anti-competition, anti-free-enterprise.)
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Nothing zany about effects of melting Arctic
- Four Republicans, one Democrat declare candidacy for governor (“A look at the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial race”)
- After switching parties, Wolfe still wins reelection to Manassas City Council (“The former Republican cites current divisiveness in the GOP as a reason for his defection.”)
- Finally, some needed rain this week — which begins on the mild side
