“We offered them a disarmed, unprotected Bantustan needing the green light from Tel Aviv to wipe its own ass, backed by oral guarantees of a rogue state which famously shits all over its own agreements that even acknowledged they wouldn’t have removed settlements (and even then killed its own prime minister for even pretending to “capitulate”), and the Palestinians didn’t take it from the get-go? Clearly it’s because they’re crazed Islamist fanatics with a five-thousand year gene compelling them to kill members of a specific tribe and absolutely nothing else.”

• Man famously known for sexually coercing an intern and lying about it on television, with a wife currently bragging about pushing for the latest bloodbath in Lebanon beforehand

(Here’s a more detailed takedown. I know folks here tend to be more educated on this in particular but it helps to read up still.)

Many people are able to (correctly) point out that Trump and his confidants are near-pathological liars but miss that they are just sloppy about it and that the US’s ruling class is virtually all like this. Whether in service of Empire or their own legacies, they will lie through their teeth to reach a desired conclusion, only to then project it on le perfidious See-See-Pee and now the Eye-Are-Gee-See.