我们的土地 在唐纳德·特朗普最近一次在红州竞选集会上发表的疯狂、躁狂、种族主义的言论中，他为帮助处境危险的共和党候选人造势——这个吹牛大王在谈论人们的臀部和吹嘘自己所谓的伟大之间，声称自己将华盛顿特区从犯罪的地狱变成了安全的堡垒。他嚷嚷道，那是一个彻头彻尾的谎言。对特朗普来说，撒谎就像呼吸一样。从不停止。
Our Land During one of the recent frantic, manic, and racist rants Donald Trump has delivered at red-state campaign rallies to boost imperiled Republican candidates, the bloviator-in-chief—in between comments about people’s asses and boasts of his own purported greatness—claimed credit for turning Washington, DC, from a hellscape of crime to a citadel of safety. He brayed That’s an absolute lie. For Trump, lying is like breathing. It never stops.
特朗普是个惯于撒谎的人，停不住口地胡说八道。在他第一次竞选白宫期间，（华盛顿邮报）记录了他发出的30,573条虚假陈述。（如今，（华盛顿邮报）在亿万富翁老板杰夫·贝佐斯热情拥抱特朗普之后，不再系统地追踪他的欺骗行为。）但我要强调这个特定的谎言，因为它如此愚蠢，如此明显不真。作为大华盛顿特区地区的居民，我可以说，在特朗普无谓地派遣国民警卫队之前，当地人并不害怕外出就餐，而且“整个”餐馆也没有被不法分子洗劫一空。
Trump is a serial prevaricator who cannot stop spouting falsehoods. During his first run in the White House, cataloged 30,573 false statements that he emitted. (Nowadays, the , following billionaire owner Jeff Bezos’ loving embrace of Trump, doesn’t bother to systematically track his deceptions.) But I am highlighting this particular fib because it is so idiotic and so transparently untrue. As a resident of the metropolitan DC area, I can say that folks here were not afraid to go out to dinner prior to Trump’s pointless dispatch of National Guard troops and that “whole” restaurants were not being pillaged by malfeasant marauders. For Trump, lying is like breathing.
对特朗普来说，撒谎就像呼吸一样。从不停止。它自动发生，无需思考。曾几何时，如果政客的宣传偏离现实太远，我们会斥责他们。他们被允许大肆吹嘘自己所谓的成就和政策提议，攻击对手的弱点和意图。对歪曲事实有很大的宽容度。但公然撒谎被认为是越界之举。
It never stops. It occurs automatically, without thinking. Once upon a time, we rebuked politicians if their spin deviated too far from reality. They were afforded much license to hail their supposed accomplishments and policy proposals and assault their rivals’ liabilities and intentions. There was tremendous leeway for stretching the truth. But outright lying was considered a step too far. During the 1988 GOP presidential primary contest, the campaign of Vice President George H.W.
在1988年共和党总统初选期间，时任副总统乔治·H·W·布什的竞选团队播出广告，指责他的主要对手、参议员鲍勃·多尔在税收政策上摇摆不定。在一次采访中，当被问及是否对布什有什么话要说时，多尔咆哮道：“是啊，别撒谎说我的记录。”那被视为一件大事。
Bush aired ads accusing his main rival, Sen. Bob Dole, of being wishy-washy on tax policy. In an interview, when Dole was asked if he had a message for Bush, he growled, “Yeah, stop lying about my record.”
如今，谎言更加厚颜无耻和公然，而指责某人撒谎几乎在任何新闻报道中都不值得一提。
That was considered a big deal.
他领导的共和党中期选举行动——就像他过去的总统竞选一样——首先是一场虚假信息行动。特朗普从不停歇地大量散布极端虚假言论。
These days, the lies are far more brazen and blatant, and an accusation of lying barely rates a mention in any news story. The GOP’s midterm effort that he’s leading—like his past presidential campaigns—is foremost a disinformation operation.
这在一定程度上——或者说在很大程度上——是因为特朗普已经把共和党和MAGA运动变成了一个庞大的虚假信息机器。他不是在“spin”（做有利于自己的倾向性解读）。他一次又一次地撒谎，而他的政党和狂热追随者则欣然接受并为他的欺骗喝彩。他领导的共和党中期选举行动——就像他过去的总统竞选一样——首先是一场虚假信息行动。特朗普从不停歇地大量散布极端虚假言论。
Trump never stops pumping out extreme falsehoods. That’s partly—or largely—because Trump has turned the Republican Party and the MAGA movement into one big disinformation outfit. He doesn’t spin. He lies over and over, and his party and cult happily go along with and cheer on his deceit. The GOP’s midterm effort that he’s leading—like his past presidential campaigns—is foremost a disinformation operation.
他在一次集会上对人群说，美国“98%”的索马里移民“不工作……因为他们偷得太多了。他们人人都有奔驰车……智商低。而且他们过得比你们好。”他一再宣称，在他“继承了美国历史上最严重的通胀”之后，美国正经历一个经济黄金时代，还说通胀已降至1.8%。美国历史上最严重的通胀是1920年的23.7%，而特朗普去年重返白宫时通胀率为3.0%。目前是3.7%。
Trump never stops pumping out extreme falsehoods. tells the crowd at one rally that “98 percent” of Somali immigrants in the United States “don’t work…because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes-Benz…low IQ. And they live better than you.”He repeatedly proclaims that the United States is experiencing an economic Golden Age after he “inherited the worst inflation in American history” and that inflation is down to 1.8 percent. The worst inflation in US history was 23.7 percent in 1920, and it was 3.0 percent when Trump returned to the White House last year.
他把民主党对手和批评者称为“共产主义者”。他们并不是。就连美国民主社会主义者组织的成员也不是共产主义者。他继续散布已被揭穿的MAGA阴谋论，称得克萨斯州民主党参议员候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科离开竞选活动去接受精神疾病治疗。他断言民主党支持“开放边境”（他们并不支持），还称乔·拜登总统让2500万人“涌入边境”，其中包括毒贩、强奸犯和11888名杀人犯。这些数字错得离谱。特朗普——以及他试图煽动起来的MAGA信徒——是否相信学校里设有手术室，这些手术正在那里秘密进行？
Currently, it’s 3.7 percent. He calls his Democratic foes and critics “communists.”They are not. Even members of the Democratic Socialists of America are not communists. He continues to spread the debunked MAGA conspiracy theory that James Talarico, the Democratic senatorial candidate in Texas, left the campaign trail to be treated for mental illness. He asserts that Democrats are for “open borders” (they are not) and that President Joe Biden allowed 25 million people to “pour across the borders,” including drug dealers, rapists, and 11,888 murderers. These numbers are exceedingly wrong Does Trump—and the MAGA devotees he’s trying to stir up—believe there are operating rooms in schools where these procedures are happening in secrecy?
也许特朗普一直在兜售的最令人不安的谎言是，学校正在未经家长知情的情况下对儿童实施性别转换手术。这简直是疯狂——但它助长了反跨性别偏执。如今学校甚至连给学生发一片阿司匹林都需要家长同意。而且没有证据支持这一说法。特朗普——以及他试图煽动的MAGA信徒——是否相信学校里有手术室，这些手术正在秘密进行？在佐治亚州的一次集会上，特朗普深入宣扬了这个谎言：这是他经常插入自己漫无边际的竞选演讲中的一个段落（而这篇演讲越来越多地包含非语言的奇怪声音）。
Perhaps the most disturbing lie Trump has been hawking is that schools are performing gender transition operations on children without the knowledge of their parents. This is batcrap crazy—but it fuels anti-trans paranoia. Schools these days cannot even dispense an aspirin without the consent of a parent. And there is no evidence to support this claim. Does Trump—and the MAGA devotees he’s trying to stir up—believe there are operating rooms in schools where these procedures are happening in secrecy? At a rally in Georgia, Trump went deep
我知道。抱怨特朗普撒谎就像抱怨天气一样。两年前，当2024年竞选冲向终点时，我写了一篇题为《特朗普正在进行一场虚假信息运动，而非政治运动》的文章。（“他们在吃狗……他们在吃猫。”）什么都没变。只是，似乎散布虚假事实的人数量增加了。现在，共和党的虚假信息正在数十场众议院、参议院和州长竞选中传播。
on this lie: That’s a bit he regularly injects into his meandering stump speech (which increasingly includes strange sounds that are not words). I know. Complaining about Trump’s lying is like complaining about the weather. Two years ago, as the 2024 campaign was hurtling to its finish, I wrote an article headlined“Trump Is Running a Disinformation Campaign, Not a Political Campaign.” (“They’re eating the dogs…They’re eating the cats.”) Nothing has changed.
马斯克正在重复特朗普的虚假说法。他本周在X上写道：“塔拉里科将投票夺走你的孩子并对他们进行性别转换。”
Except, it seems, the purveyors of fake facts have expanded in number. Now GOP disinformation is flying in scores of House, Senate, and gubernatorial campaigns.
在得克萨斯州，埃隆·马斯克迄今已花费近2亿美元，以击败塔拉里科并当选肯·帕克斯顿，这位腐败的共和党总检察长，其中大部分资金用于资助跨性别相关的攻击广告。马斯克还在重复特朗普的虚假说法。“塔拉里科将投票夺走你的孩子并让他们变性，”他本周在X上写道。这再次是一个完全虚假的说法。像特朗普一样，马斯克撒谎和放大虚假阴谋论却毫无损失。
Musk is echoing Trump’s false assertions. “Talarico will vote to take away your children and transition them,” he wrote on X this week. In Texas, Elon Musk has spent close to $200 million so far to defeat Talarico and elect Ken Paxton, the corrupt GOP attorney general, with much of that money underwriting transgender-related attack ads. And Musk is echoing Trump’s false assertions. “Talarico will vote to take away your children and transition them,” he wrote on X this week.
（截至10月25日，共和党团体在全国范围内播放了约21.7万条利用跨性别议题的广告——其中约四分之一在得克萨斯州。）我可以一直说下去，关于副总统JD·万斯、卫生与公共服务部长罗伯特·F·肯尼迪 Jr.、得克萨斯州参议员泰德·克鲁兹以及其他特朗普的竞选助手（有没有女性助手？）在竞选路上散布的谎言。（你可以在下面的“本周白痴言论”中找到一些。）
Again, an utterly false statement. Like Trump, Musk catches no flak for lying and amplifying false conspiracy theories. (As of October 25, Republican groups had aired about 217,000 ads nationwide exploiting the trans issue—about one-quarter of those were in Texas.) I could go on and on about the lies coming from Vice President JD Vance, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and other Trump wingmen (are there any wingwomen?) who have hit the campaign trail. (You can find some below in Dumbass Comment of the Week.)
克鲁兹声称，密歇根州民主党参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔赛德“是穆斯林兄弟会成员。”得克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特坚称，他的民主党对手、得克萨斯州众议员吉娜·希诺霍萨支持沙里亚法。这一切都是胡说——这种东西在过去几年里本会让散布谎言的候选人的竞选活动受挫。
Cruz claims Michigan Democratic Senate contender Abdul El-Sayed “is Muslim Brotherhood.”Texas Gov. Greg Abbott insists his Democratic opponent, Texas state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, supports Shariah law. This is all bunk—the sort of stuff that in years past would have derailed the campaign of the candidate spewing it.
现在，这已成为共和党的标准操作程序。两年前的胜利表明，特朗普——一个深度管理失当疫情的骗子式煽动家——能够通过不间断且大规模的虚假信息行动，重新夺回这个国家的最高职位。今年，他依靠同样的策略来维持共和党在国会山的权力。
Now, it’s GOP SOP. With his victory two years ago, Trump demonstrated that a con-man demagogue—who profoundly mismanaged a pandemic—could win back the highest office in the land by running a nonstop and extensive disinformation operation. This year, he’s relying on the same tactic to preserve Republican power on the Hill.
随着特朗普的支持率处于历史低位，而由于愚蠢的伊朗战争导致汽油价格居高不下（特朗普为共和党候选人造势时几乎不提这场战争），兜售所有这些胡说八道是一项更艰巨的任务。然而，这次选举，就像上一次一样，仍然是对美国政治体系的考验。它能否击退一个建立在谎言之上的政治运动？
With Trump’s approval rating at a historic low and gas prices remaining high because of the stupid Iran war (which Trump barely talks about when he’s stumping for GOP candidates), selling all this bullshit is a harder task. Yet this election, like the last one, remains a test for the American political system. Can it beat back a political movement predicated on prevarication?
本次选举将告诉我们，民主倒退是否会被扭转，选民是否会惩罚腐败的骗子、实行寡头政治政策的人以及暴力的支持者，以及种族选区划分和大钱政治（参见马斯克及其数亿美元）等政治伎俩是否能得逞。它还将显示，特朗普的虚假信息运动是否已停滞，他的谎言艺术是否已失去光彩。
This election will tell us whether democratic backsliding will be reversed, whether voters will punish corrupt grifters, practitioners of plutocratic policies, and proponents of brutality, and whether such political chicanery as racist gerrymandering and big-money politics (see Musk and his hundreds of millions of dollars) can triumph. It will also show whether Trump’s disinformation crusade has stalled and his art of the lie has lost its shine.