#Lies Lies and More Lies

[reality-detective]

MORE VOTING ISSUES, yet again out of Schaumburg, Illinois.

Just leave your ballots!! Someone is gonna come fix the issue and these election workers are going to be here “until late tonight” and they will “process them later on tonight”

Who trusts them? 🤔

[socialbutterfly19]

WOW!

[likesomanywrecksdo]

[letmebite-you]

going to the gym cause he said he loves me and my dumbass thought he loved me 🙈 silly meee

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Who lies more: Charlotte, Fouché or Barère?

Frankly I know way too little about both Fouché and Barère to be able to say something really concreate about how much they lie (@tierseta @kocokoala anyone? would you mind adding what you know?) All I really have is that what Barère wrote in his memoirs regarding the way Collot d’Herbois returned from Lyon does not seem to line up with what better, more contemporary sources have to say. In Réponse des membres des deux anciens comités de salut public et de sûreté générale… (1795) Barère, Collot and Billaud-Varennes also claim that the law of 22 prairial had been worked out in secret between Couthon and Robespierre, while the rest of the CPS had had nothing to do with and even protested against it. Only on June 10 1794, when the law was introduced to the Convention, Barère is recorded to have called it ”a law completely in favour of the patriots.”

For Charlotte, I know of the following things, which all originate from her memoirs:

Charlotte writes that before the revolution her older brother gave up his functions as a judge after having had to sentence a man to death. But according to Robespierre (2014) by Herve Leuwers, he actually never resigned from this position.

When writing about having dated Fouché, Charlotte claims this happened during the revolution, which can hardly be accurate given the fact Fouché was already married by then.

Charlotte declares a letter written by her to Augustin dated July 6 1794 had had apocryphal parts inserted into it when it got published after their death. In an inserted footnote, Laponneraye writes that”this letter […], I am convinced, was for Charlotte Robespierre an object of constant torment; the idea that someone could have thought she could have written it the way it is, and that it had really been adressed to Maximilien Robespierre, tantalized her. All the times I saw her, she spoke to me about it. One day we read it together, and I asked her to indicate which passages she hadn’t written and where infamous falsifications had been added; I publish this version in the Pièces justificatives section.”However, an encounter with the fac-simile shows that no alterations has been made to the letter, which is entirely in Charlotte’s hand.

When describing her arrest right after thermidor, Charlotte writes that she, after having been insulted and struck by guards at the Conciergerie on 10 thermidor for begging to see her brothers and been led away by some people moved to pity, she completely loses her reason and doesn’t come back to herself until a few days later, finding herself in prison with a woman who, after yet another few days, convinces her to sign a letter she has written, the content of which Charlotte doesn’t look at (and if even real, has never been found). The letter is sent off, and the next day both are set free. A story which doesn’t line up completely with what official documents tell us about Charlotte’s arrest, which according to them took place on 13 thermidor. An interrogation of Charlotte was held the very same day, in which she disowns both her brothers and the Duplays, denounces a man named Didier and claims she had almost been the victim of the Revolutionary Tribunal. For some reason or another she also gave her age as 28 when interrogated, which is obviously false… The circumstances regarding Charlotte’s release from prison are however dubious here as well, as no order for it appears to exist…

Charlotte claims to have been witnessed meetings both Marat and Pétion had with her older brother. But in both cases, the meetings she alludes to appear to have played out before she even came to Paris in late September 1792…

She also writes that her brother went to visit Desmoulins in prison once he ”learned of” his arrest, but that the latter didn’t want to see him, something which I found unlikely given the fact Robespierre had both already signed Desmoulins’ arrest and prepared his indictment, while Desmoulins in a prison letter to his wife reveals that he is writing to Robespierre, meaning he shouldn’t have repulsed him was he to come visit.

Like I have already written here, I also doubt Charlotte actually tells the whole truth regarding the things she was up to during the revolution and what it was that caused a split between her and her brothers, even if the things she does say about them do not have to entirely dismissed.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Barère and Fouché lie about more/more serious things compared to Charlotte. Though I guess the reveal of fabrications/alterations in her memoirs is still more surprising given the fact Fouché and Barère didn’t really have the reputation of being honest men/reliable narrators to begin with… Then there’s of course also a discussion to be had regarding how much of what they���ve written that is blatant lies and what is simply a partial telling/personal conception of the full truth or honest misremembering.

[chaiaurchaandni]

israel accuses hamas of misusing hospitals. hamas calls for international orgs to inspect hospitals. israel will not allow anyone to enter gaza. i wonder why

Hamas Seeks International Inspections Amid Hospital Misuse Claims (bnn.network)

[nacrelysis]

at this point you could tell someone "you can't kill yourself until haoyixing comes out" as a suicide prevention tactic

[intelligentchristianlady]

All About Tariffs

"Trump claims that foreign countries pay tariff duties and thus putting new tariffs of 20% on all imports, and as much as 60% on Chinese imports, will bring enough foreign money into the country to fund things like childcare, end federal budget deficits, and pay for the tax cuts he wants to give to the wealthy and corporations.

"This is a deliberate lie. Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported products, and they are paid not by foreign countries but by American consumers. Economists warn that Trump’s tariff plan would cost a typical family an average of more than $2,600 a year, with poorer families hardest hit; spike inflation as high as 20%; result in 50,000 to 70,000 fewer jobs created each month; slow economic growth; and add about $5.8 trillion in deficits over ten years. It would tank an economy that under the Biden administration, which has used tariffs selectively to protect new industries and stop unfair trade practices, has boomed.

....

"Trump’s insistence that a tariff wall will make America rich is not based in economics; indeed, it would destroy the current system, which is so strong that modern economists are marveling. Trump is fantasizing about a world without regulations or taxes, where high tariffs permit the wealthy to collude to raise prices on ordinary Americans and to use that money to live like kings while workers, farmers, and entrepreneurs barely scrape by…" (x)

A very small excerpt from a very long and informative post. Highly recommended.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

I was checking Link Click wiki entry about Cheng Xiaoshi and... yeah, sure. Not for long amma right (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

[sayosweeti]

What? Reading into and making the papa louis franchise gay(er) as hell?? Noooo I would never!

🤞🤓

[reality-detective]

Piglosi explains the "Wrap Up Smear" tactic... Now think about how many times they have done this to Donald J. Trump? And, many other people and countries to invade their countries, hell they do it to Putin. 🤔

[filosofablogger]

A Nation Torn Asunder ...

There was a time not so long ago when a natural disaster such as massive wildfires or a devastating hurricane served to bring the people of this nation together.  Even an unnatural disaster such as a mass shooting or … well, remember 9/11 … brought the nation together, even if only for a limited time.  That time is in the past and by all rights, this nation can no longer be called the United…

[trexalicious]

"They need to come because they need to reinforce their royal credentials. They’ve got to be royal, if they aren’t royal they don’t count..."

[justbeingnamaste]

The US Border Is NOT SECURE Anyone that claims otherwise is lying to you.

[antvnger]

rumor has it you killed a roomful of people. though, that may have been a different variant of you.

-@loki-trickster

I don’t really believe that. What variant of me would do that? You’ve got me confused with someone else.

Send “Rumor has it...” followed up by a rumor about my muse!

[jenny-rf-es]

More hugs...