Crash Course: Mike Pence's Big Lie campaign trail torture: He's reaping the disinformation he sowed

GOP voters torture Mike Pence with the Big Lie — too bad he was an avid disinfo fan for decades [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvc3l3YTc1djNtcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMveTQ4ZXkzYmZ0ZC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Mike Pence's Big Lie campaign trail torture: He's reaping the disinformation he sowed Campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination is not going well for [Mike Pence](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvM3kxamdxMTdmci8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). The former vice president's pitch to voters is that he stood up for the Constitution in the face of pressure to do otherwise. But even as he avoids saying who was exerting the pressure and for what purpose, Pence finds that Republican voters remember all too well — and they very much do not like all this talk about putting honor and the law ahead of stealing an election for Donald Trump. "Do you ever second-guess yourself? That was a Constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states," [a woman griped at Pence during an IowaÂ](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNjRpMHN6d2VlNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo)meet-and-greet at a pizza restaurant on Wednesday. She was, of course, flat wrong, and Pence told her as much. [Read the rest from Amanda Marcotte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvOXB2MGVkbzRvYi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Who will entitled white people blame now that affirmative action is over? Last week, the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court killed affirmative action in colleges and university admissions. These five men and one woman are political hitmen. They are zealots and ideologues who were and remain totally committed to their [mission](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvODY2aXozYmRvbi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). There was no evidence or facts that likely would have changed their minds; The outcome was a fait accompli. Their decision to end affirmative action was part of a larger political judicial massacre: that same week the right-wing majority voted to void President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and to make it legal to use religion as a justification to discriminate against gays and lesbians (any by implication Black and brown people and members of other marginalized groups) – in violation of the country's civil rights laws. 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Drugs in the White House? Horrors! Guess what: It wouldn't be the first time Hold the phone, Batman! Someone found [Colombian marching powder](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvaTdnYzNnN3Z3My8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) in the White House this weekend. Several reports have noted that a white powder that tested positive as cocaine was discovered two days after [Hunter Biden](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYjg3c2xyOXI4OC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) visited the White House. With the use of Post hoc ergo propter hoc before you could snort that line, the president's son was blamed for it. (Well, in certain quarters.) Just because one thing followed the other doesn't mean the first thing caused the second, folks. Yet it's politically expedient these days to knock people when they're down and engage in logical fallacies in order to con large portions of the public into believing outrageous fictions. [Read the rest from Brian Karem.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvdHgxaGVjeDd6dC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) - "Foot fondler on the loose in Lake Tahoe area, officials warn," [NBC News](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvc3N1ZmQ2ejZlNC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) - "Britney Spears Slapped in Face by NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Security," [TMZ](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvbXcxNWdjbWY3ei8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) - "People vow to boycott Ben and Jerry's after company marks Canada Day as stolen land," [CTV News](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYnphNWNvc2g1cy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) - "Angelina Jolie Pens Op-Ed Pleading for Equality for Domestic Violence Survivors," [Vanity Fair](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYjV0OHBybDV0Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) New study shows a link between food insecurity and cognitive decline in older adults According to a recent study published in in [JAMA](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZGt5dHZqYXFzbi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm5XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), there may be a correlation between hunger and "slightly faster mental decline" in older adults in the United States. The study — which spanned 18 years and was conducted by researchers from Colombia University, the University of California, San Francisco and the University of New Mexico — noted a "longitudinal association between [food insecurity](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvNWtpY2RxZnU2dS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and memory decline, suggesting possible long-term negative cognition function outcomes of exposure to food insecurity in older age," among the 12,609 study participants, aged 50 and older. [Read the rest from Michael La Corte.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvcDRwMWtjYTB1MC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk1aXNmYTRuNm4mbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZKVD8KdkoIVVUVIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (Getty Images/Oleg Breslavtsev) [Unsubscribe from this list](~/AASU4wA~/RgRminVAP0RCaHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL3Vuc3Vic2NyaWJlP2lkPUAzNTQzOTUyVwNzcGNCCmSlQ_CnZKCFVVFSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Copyright © 2023 Crash Course, All rights reserved. 1000 N. 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