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Opinion: Repeating Debunked Accusations About Trump Doesn't Make Them True
MSN ^ | 10/7 | Greg Ganske

Posted on 10/11/2024 1:51:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway

My wife was working near our Trump yard sign. It didn't take long for a bicyclist to to yell, "Trump sucks!" At least he didn't call her a racist, fascist, or a Nazi as he whizzed by.

The same can't be said of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, or any number of members of Congress and the media who disparage Donald Trump with these insults. At a recent hearing, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett called Trump a "would-be Fuhrer." Some neighbors who support Trump are afraid of putting up yard signs for fear Trump haters will allow their dogs to poop on their lawns. Some Trump supporters won't answer polling questions about their support for Trump; that's why polls probably underestimate Trump's support.

There isn't room here to debunk all the false claims brought against Trump. Some, like Russia collusion and the Steele dossier, have already been shown to be Democratic dirty tricks. A few, however, are so untrue that they deserve rebuttal.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: libmyths; r; warontrump
I thought the media thinks it does make them true.
1 posted on 10/11/2024 1:51:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I beg to differ.

Take a stroll through the art community or the lgbtq community (as an academic exercise).

Listen.

They buy it all.

Groupthink = love and all the warm fuzzies that that dopamine offers.


2 posted on 10/11/2024 1:54:46 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: nickcarraway

My sister, an eighty year old conservative, keeps CNN on in the background for company. Occasionally, she’ll parrot some DNC talking point and I’ll ask where she got it. She says she “heard it someplace.” She has heard them so often that she accepts them as fact. I tried to explain if she leaves propaganda on in the background her subconscious is listening uncritically. So, repeating bad information doesn’t make true, but it makes people believe it.


3 posted on 10/11/2024 1:59:07 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: nickcarraway
"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."
Joseph Goebbels

4 posted on 10/11/2024 2:53:05 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--Butler Pa. July 13 "As I was saying..."--Butler Pa. Oct 5)
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To: nickcarraway

So did I.


5 posted on 10/11/2024 2:57:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

Unfortunately in the realm of politics, perception is reality.
That is why such extraordinary efforts are made to quelch alternative media and view points.


6 posted on 10/11/2024 3:30:32 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: nickcarraway

I fly flags, one is The Stars and Stripes, another is the appeal to Heaven, the other two mention Trump directly. Last night someone when out of their way to kick my dog. It was about 8:30PM. My dog has a virtual fence out front. He never goes over the line. Someone walked past, and booted him, I went out to see what was wrong and they scurried around a corner and off. Tonight, I lay in wait. If I catch them, they will shit their pants.


7 posted on 10/11/2024 5:45:58 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: nickcarraway

Of course it does. That’s Liberal Rule of Truth #2.


8 posted on 10/11/2024 7:05:31 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral creulty of the Biden-Harris regime.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Here's the Partisan Media Lyin' & Shillin':

9 posted on 10/11/2024 7:10:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: nickcarraway

However, I am voting for Trump because I agree with him on the issues. Polls indicate that much of the public does, too. Harris has flipped her positions on issues, especially the border. I take her at her word that her “values” haven’t changed. That is exactly what worries me! As Sen. Bernie Sanders says, “I don’t think she is abandoning her ideals. I think she is trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.” And if she is elected I expect her to drop her new positions and revert to her former policies because they are in line with her “values.”


Article concludes with quote from Bernie Sanders.


10 posted on 10/11/2024 7:10:06 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

Excellent article (guest column for Des Moines Register).

I’m surprised MSN ran it.


11 posted on 10/11/2024 7:54:58 PM PDT by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: nickcarraway
"Opinion: Repeating Debunked Accusations About Trump Doesn't Make Them True"


12 posted on 10/11/2024 10:21:51 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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