The Hill of Lies: Refuting the Lies Coming from Members of the House, the Senate, and Left-leaning “news” programs

American Thinker ^ | 04/07/2025 | Blaine L. Pardoe

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Earlier this week I was called a “Nazi” online. This isn’t new. I get this at least once a week. As a published historian, I find the misuse of that label a mark of ignorance. I found that a few of my colleagues also had been called the same thing. It got me thinking; how many lies are out there that the Left has used?

As it turns out, there are a lot of lies being spewed. This isn’t the usual self-proclaimed social justice warriors leveling these baseless accusations. In many cases this is coming from members of the House, the Senate, and left-leaning “news” programs.

I’ve compiled a far from complete list, focusing on the big ones. Tracking all of them could be a full time job.

• Trump is cutting Social Security, or the variant, Social Security is at risk. Not once as the President said that he was going to do this. He did say that DOGE was going to look for waste at Social Security. What they found was the illegals were given social security numbers, that there was indeed waste and possibly fraud in the agency. Cuts though? No. If anything, DOGE’s actions might have bought the funds there more survival time.
• Elon Musk is stealing. This one, while laughable, is one of the most frequent. What is he accused of stealing? Personal data, social security numbers, money…the details (or facts as we call them) don’t seem important. Not a single bit of evidence exists to support this whopper. Frankly, I find it hard to believe that the richest man in the world would bother with a paltry $2,600 social security payment.
• President Trump is going to cut Medicaid/Medicare. To date, no one in the Administration has proposed cuts to these programs. Waste cutting? Absolutely!

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Here's another you'll hear floating around:

• Cuts at the NIH may deprive us of a cure for cancer or other diseases. The NIH doesn’t develop cures, but works with pharmaceutical companies to develop cures. They have been working to cure cancer since their formation in 1937.
  
  If you believe they are on the cusp of a cure, I would like to see the study that shows that… I haven’t found one. The reality is that the NIH has been involved in a lot of work that was duplicative or wandered far from their mission.

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Here's another you'll hear from your gay, liberal friends ( if you have any ):

• Trump has taken away LGBTQ rights. .
  NOPE. President Trump has said that the federal government officially will recognize two sexes, male and female. He has also said that biological males should not compete in women’s sports, and has threatened to cut off Title IX funding for those states/schools that refuse to comply. Pete Hegseath has said that the DoD will stop funding sex-change surgeries and that military personnel cannot serve in combat roles.
  
  Lost rights? No. Not wanting to participate in sexual fantasy does not mean your "rights" have been taken away. If you want to imagine that you're of a gender that you're not, KNOCK YOUSELF OUT. Just leave me out of it and don't force me to join you. That has nothing to do with your "rights".

[sauropod]

For further study.

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RE: “STEALING SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS:

How many people EVERY YEAR walk into Wal-Mart of similar & go to an open cubicle & engage a TOTAL STRANGER to prepare their tax return???

SAME FOR ONLINE SERVICES for the same thing.

THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR YEARS & YEARS.

HOW easy is it for an unethical person to steal the SOC SEC NUMBER & SELL IT ????

[Dick Bachert]

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