Lies and the Republicans Who Tell Them

While it is certainly not the case that Democrats are always truthful, the Republican Party has been far more egregious in their lying of late, and the media has all but given up on correcting them all.

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The Mysterious Mississippi Delegate

For those who aren’t aware, every pledged delegate in the Democratic primary is awarded proportionally. In other words, winning X% of the vote gets you approximately X% of the pledged delegates. Now, this is slightly complicated by the distribution of delegates - each state is given a number of delegates in proportion with its contribution to the national Democratic vote share in the last three elections along with its electoral vote share; i.e. large states get more delegates, and more Democrat-friendly states get more delegates. Furthermore, 25% of those are set aside for apportioning based on the statewide vote, while 75% are divided up among the Congressional districts to be handed out based on vote shares in that CD. Furthermore, there is an additional 15% added to the total number of delegates given to the state. These are “pledged PLEOs (party leaders and elected officials)”, who are also given out depending on the statewide vote. There’s one last rule as well: if any candidate fails to get 15% of the vote in the state/Congressional district, they receive no delegates from the statewide/Congressional district pools. So this brings me to the mysterious Mississippi delegate. Bernie did not do well in Mississippi. He garnered only 16% of the vote statewide, which just barely allows him to take delegates. He was completely locked out of two Congressional districts - CD2 (he won 11%) and CD3 (14%). Or so I thought. Apparently, somehow, despite receiving only 14% of the vote (below the 15% threshold!), Bernie received one delegate from CD3. I, for one, would like an explanation. Or, at the very least, for there to be the same sort of questioning of the rules as there is whenever Clinton wins. But there won’t be. Because IOKIYBS.

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That Awkward Moment Donald Trump Gets Caught Lying For The 100th Time This Cycle

Donald Trump during the Fox Business Republican Debate

“Taxes are too high, wages are too high”

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The VA AG, Mark Herring, recently announced that the state of Virginia will no longer recognize out-of-state concealed weapon permits from states whose laws were more lax than Virginia’s, meaning that someone couldn’t just go to the state with the laxest laws and get a permit. Let me repeat that: the Attorney General of Virginia announced that the state would no longer recognize some out-of-state concealed weapon permits. The response? Outrage. The effect on the citizens of Virginia is minimal - there are six states which will no longer recognize Virginia’s permits, due to a requirement for reciprocity (none of which border Virginia), but other than that there is no effect on Virginians. Not to mention that Virginia is an open carry state! Anyone over the age of 18 is able to openly carry a weapon (barring local ordinances), even if you’re not from the state of Virginia, without a permit. So this really only affects Virginians who try to carry a concealed weapon without a local license in one of the six states where reciprocity is lost (Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Wyoming - two of these require no license to carry openly anyway) - but that’s not what they’re really upset about, is it? They’re upset because the AG is a Democrat, and this is about guns. And here’s the kicker: the Republican response to this is to threaten to take away the governor’s security detail. The governor’s. Not the Attorney General’s, you know, the one who made the decision, but the governor’s. (Of course, AGs don’t typically have security details.) So they’re not even blaming the right person, they’re just lashing out like a child having a temper tantrum.