29th August 2024, 4:30 PM
Yeah, the overt patriotism, the 'USA' chants, and the quite a few Republicans speaking for Harris because of Trump's threat to our democracy were great to see for sure! It's really important to defeat him for our democracy, and it's fantastic that a few Republicans realize that. I read that somehow Fox News avoided showing even a single one of those speeches... can't imagine why.
Meanwhile, I'm not sure if you saw this, but the so-called "fact checkers" seem to have decided to openly support Trump with false fact checks of Democrats in his favor, as the number of times during the convention that multiple different fact checkers wrote articles making openly false claims in the name of "fact checking" the Democrats is insane. Here are a few examples:
- You can't say that Trump will refuse to accept the results of the election, we don't know that. "He just hasn't said that he would accept. And he has previously said the only way he loses is if the Democrats cheat", to quote the fact checker.
- You can't say that Trump said that women who have abortions should be punished even though the words are a direct quote, that is misleading because his campaign retracted the statement later that day.
- Biden was misleading when he said that during his 4-year term Trump added more to the national debt than any other four-year term because more money was added to the debt than that during Obama's eight-year term.
- It is unclear how much of Project 2025 Trump supports and how much he doesn't. (This is true, but we all know he would sign anything that comes to his desk so it doesn't matter.)
- Bill Clinton said something true but left out important context when he accurately said that Democratic administrations have created 50 million jobs total since 1989 while Republican administrations have created 1 million jobs total. What is this context he left out that is oh so important? Well, that most of the major job-losing events since '89 have happened during Republican administrations, mostly. I'm sure there is no reason for this beyond luck, implies the fact-checker. Also the labor market is affected by factors beyond just who is president, surely this is all just a coincidence! It's only a margin of 50 to 1, Republicans do just fine on the economy, vote Trump!
https://presswatchers.org/2024/08/fact-c...ace-plant/ This article covers a bunch of these examples and some more.
Meanwhile, I'm not sure if you saw this, but the so-called "fact checkers" seem to have decided to openly support Trump with false fact checks of Democrats in his favor, as the number of times during the convention that multiple different fact checkers wrote articles making openly false claims in the name of "fact checking" the Democrats is insane. Here are a few examples:
- You can't say that Trump will refuse to accept the results of the election, we don't know that. "He just hasn't said that he would accept. And he has previously said the only way he loses is if the Democrats cheat", to quote the fact checker.
- You can't say that Trump said that women who have abortions should be punished even though the words are a direct quote, that is misleading because his campaign retracted the statement later that day.
- Biden was misleading when he said that during his 4-year term Trump added more to the national debt than any other four-year term because more money was added to the debt than that during Obama's eight-year term.
- It is unclear how much of Project 2025 Trump supports and how much he doesn't. (This is true, but we all know he would sign anything that comes to his desk so it doesn't matter.)
- Bill Clinton said something true but left out important context when he accurately said that Democratic administrations have created 50 million jobs total since 1989 while Republican administrations have created 1 million jobs total. What is this context he left out that is oh so important? Well, that most of the major job-losing events since '89 have happened during Republican administrations, mostly. I'm sure there is no reason for this beyond luck, implies the fact-checker. Also the labor market is affected by factors beyond just who is president, surely this is all just a coincidence! It's only a margin of 50 to 1, Republicans do just fine on the economy, vote Trump!
https://presswatchers.org/2024/08/fact-c...ace-plant/ This article covers a bunch of these examples and some more.
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