Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This charge:
“US supply flights to Israel contributed to 133,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.”
– Voice of America’s Anita Powell, Tuesday
We say: Voice of America reporter Anita Powell was asking spokesman John Kirby how Team Biden balances its “desire to protect the environment” with its “desire to protect” allies like Ukraine and Israel when shipping supplies.
Does Powell really want to end all flights — including those to help nations facing existential threats?
And is there any better evidence climate warriors have totally lost their minds?
This tweet:
We say: What an ugly charge by The New York Times’ Krugman.
There’s zero evidence Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ vax policies “killed thousands.”
For starters, his policies merely aimed to leave decisions to individuals: He neither banned nor mandated vaccines.
Moreover, vax-mandate-loving states like New York (325 deaths per 100,000) and California (418 deaths) saw higher age-adjusted COVID death rates than Florida (313).
This claim:
“[Billionaires’] federal tax rate is 8.5%.”
— President Biden, Jan. 18
We say: Biden keeps repeating this grossly misleading stat, suggesting middle-class taxpayers — cops, firefighters — pay more.
Yet the actual top federal income-tax rate is 37%, and per Treasury data even the “effective” rate (after deductions, etc.) for the richest 1% is more than 20%.
Biden gets his 8.5% figure by counting on-paper increases in asset values as income. But such unrealized gains aren’t subject to taxes in America — or in any of the 38 OECD nations.
This slur:
“[Trump’s] proud that women are silently suffering.”
— VP Kamala Harris, Monday
We say: Turns out even Harris’ seemingly coherent sentences are nonsensical.
Monday, she claimed Donald Trump is “proud” women are “silently suffering” after the Supreme Court justices, including three he nominated, tossed Roe v. Wade.
Yet it was the court, not Trump, that made the ruling — based on actual constitutional language. And in any case it simply left the abortion question to the states.
Finally, it’s hardly likely vast numbers of women are “silently suffering,” but even if so, why would Trump take “pride” in that?
Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
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