If, like the AltFacts team, you’ve been thinking the current national administration resembles Lord of the Flies, nature may agree. If you missed that William Golding novel in high school, it’s about an island where pre-adolescents have been left to fend for themselves. They start out resourceful, but quickly disintegrate into pig-worship and all sorts of […]
Alt facts would like to celebrate the new protest zone by encouraging a protest-zone protest in which protesters will circle the protest zone. It’s not like there’s anything more important going on. For those who didn’t notice, the summer meeting of state governors (the National Governors Association) took place in Rhode Island this year – governors […]
Now let’s play two truths and a lie: NASA has officially issued a press release denying allegations that it has been abducting children and using them to populate experimental work colonies on Mars. Bill Cosby has begun teaching seminars for celebrities, supervisors and high-income individuals on how to avoid sexual harassment and assault suits. The […]
I pledge allegiance To the Donald, Of the united holdings of Trump International. And to the philosophy, for which he stands One dollar, under investigation, diversified, With profit and tax fraud for all. The real pledge of allegiance was first recited by school children in 1892 as part of a Columbus Day celebratory / educational […]
The advent of citizen journalists documenting news as it happens was supposed to usher in a new era of transparency and truth. Aliens land in Roswell? Somebody whips out a cell phone, and cover-up becomes an undoable thing. Yay, score one for our little green friends (who are, in fact, still being illegally detained somewhere […]
The core concepts deployed when using alternative facts as a political weapon are far from new (The Rosetta Stone was a multi-lingual piece of ancient propaganda, attempting to get the Egyptian public to accept a Roman conqueror as a manifestation of a local god). But the particular spin lent to the practice by recent events […]
The only Rhode Island city that went to Trump in the last election was Johnston, an historically democratic community. Puzzled pollsters pondered this unpredicted preference, and further study has revealed that the deciding factor was that by Johnston’s standards, Trump hair is a positive accomplishment. “I just think it’s time we had someone in office […]
Fox Television has significantly raised the rates to advertise on programs that President Trump has acknowledged watching. This might be because the audience is expected to grow, picking up viewers who want to see what their head of state is viewing. But we suspect it’s also because advertisers now see an opportunity to reach and […]
Honest Abe: I cannot tell a lie Donald Trump: I cannot tell if what I just said was a lie. HA: I stole that line from George Washington DT: I didn’t steal that line from Bane. Or Michelle Obama. HA: A house divided against itself cannot stand DT: If you have a house divided against […]