What's Trump Done Now?
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State Department Says No To Flying Rainbow Flag At Embassies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...equests-to-fly-lgbtq-pride-flags-on-flagpoles
MAGA
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...equests-to-fly-lgbtq-pride-flags-on-flagpoles
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Media's Russiagate Obsession Smears Black Activists
The Real News Network
Published on Jun 9, 2019
Specious claims that Russians plan to use disaffected African Americans in a covert war against the U.S. reveals the long history of corporate media blaming “outside agitators," dismissing the Black freedom struggle
Naw, the problem is you racists...who make someone else do all the actual fighting and dying...after you fakenews all about how while running the plantation, you are for their freedom.
Counting Trump's lies: Daniel Dale's relentless quest to fact-check the president
Dale has documented 5,276 false statements since Trump's inauguration
What was the moment when you decided that you needed to publicly fact-check Donald Trump?
It was September 2016 ... and there was a day when I just became frustrated that Trump was saying so many things that weren't true, and this wasn't being treated really as an important story.
Reporters were sometimes fact-checking him on Twitter, but if you were to read their story online or [in the] next day's paper or watch the news, people weren't being told that one candidate in this race was being overwhelmingly, serially, frequently dishonest.
So I thought I'd just do it informally, take a little screenshot, make a list on Twitter, and the response was just so big. I had no idea that there would be a reception like this.
But Trump — and Rob Ford before him — doesn't care when he's caught in a lie. There's some evidence that his supporters don't care. And the people who don't like him already think he's lying all the time anyway, so what do you think you're achieving by documenting all of them?
Those are fair points and I think it's hard to know with any certainty what I am achieving.
I'd say a couple of things: One, I think we can be overly fixated on the existence of his base. People will say, well 35-40 per cent of people still love him, so facts don't matter. Well, a larger percentage of people don't love him. That's shown in every poll.
So if that's how we're judging, there is a larger constituency for facts than non-facts, about the people who already think he's a liar. They may generally think he's a liar, but they may not know how they're being deceived on a particular subject, whether it's NAFTA or immigration or tariffs on China.
People are not experts on everything, and a lot of people simply want the information. It's not just being told Trump is a liar, it's ... how can I educate readers so that they're better informed on a particular matter.
More: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/ryan-...s-quest-to-fact-check-the-president-1.5165189
Dale has documented 5,276 false statements since Trump's inauguration
What was the moment when you decided that you needed to publicly fact-check Donald Trump?
It was September 2016 ... and there was a day when I just became frustrated that Trump was saying so many things that weren't true, and this wasn't being treated really as an important story.
Reporters were sometimes fact-checking him on Twitter, but if you were to read their story online or [in the] next day's paper or watch the news, people weren't being told that one candidate in this race was being overwhelmingly, serially, frequently dishonest.
So I thought I'd just do it informally, take a little screenshot, make a list on Twitter, and the response was just so big. I had no idea that there would be a reception like this.
"The thing with Trump is that he says some of these things so many times that once you fact check it five or 10 times, you just know it."But Trump — and Rob Ford before him — doesn't care when he's caught in a lie. There's some evidence that his supporters don't care. And the people who don't like him already think he's lying all the time anyway, so what do you think you're achieving by documenting all of them?
Those are fair points and I think it's hard to know with any certainty what I am achieving.
I'd say a couple of things: One, I think we can be overly fixated on the existence of his base. People will say, well 35-40 per cent of people still love him, so facts don't matter. Well, a larger percentage of people don't love him. That's shown in every poll.
So if that's how we're judging, there is a larger constituency for facts than non-facts, about the people who already think he's a liar. They may generally think he's a liar, but they may not know how they're being deceived on a particular subject, whether it's NAFTA or immigration or tariffs on China.
People are not experts on everything, and a lot of people simply want the information. It's not just being told Trump is a liar, it's ... how can I educate readers so that they're better informed on a particular matter.
More: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/ryan-...s-quest-to-fact-check-the-president-1.5165189
You've never know an "actual fact".LOL, had your silly a$$ kicked by the actual facts again didja?
Insanity is like that.
I'm sure that you have deep expertise with all aspects of insanity.LOL, nose typing again?
I've been told insanity is like that sometimes.
As usual, the president’s bizarre outburst was prompted by something he saw on FOX News. inspired the President to immediately fire off whatever deformed and premature thoughts that manage to work its way out of his grease-strangled and apparently rotting cerebellum.
Trump just attacked the Moon and then claimed it was part of Mars in bewildering Twitter attack
The president of the United States left the nation equally bewildered and amused this morning when he appeared to launch a Twitter attack against the moon and falsely asserted that the moon was somehow “part of Mars.”
Trump just attacked the Moon and then claimed it was part of Mars in bewildering Twitter attack
The president of the United States left the nation equally bewildered and amused this morning when he appeared to launch a Twitter attack against the moon and falsely asserted that the moon was somehow “part of Mars.”
For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2019
More: https://washingtonpress.com/2019/06...as-part-of-mars-in-bewildering-twitter-attack
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 7, 2019
More: https://washingtonpress.com/2019/06...as-part-of-mars-in-bewildering-twitter-attack