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The Top 20 Lies of the 2020s
American Thinker ^ | 05/30/2024 | Jack Gleason

Posted on 05/30/2024 8:05:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Lying is an epidemic even worse than COVID.

Our president and his press secretaries seem to lie with every word they say and deny facts that anyone with a pair of eyes can see for himself.

Scientists and doctors, formerly among the most trusted members of our society, lie to foster popular environmental theories and get government grants, or to promote Big Pharma and deter people from effective treatments.

Our news media no longer report the news; they shape the news as instructed.

Here is just a sample of commonly promoted lies starting in 2020.

Covid has a 4% death rate.

Masks will keep us safe from COVID.

COVID vaccines are safe and effective.

Oil and natural gas are going to destroy the planet.

Electric cars are going to save the environment.

Electric cars are safe.

Our justice system is fair for all.

Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

Trump stole classified documents.

Boys should compete in girls’ sports.

Men can have babies.

Search engines give honest results.

Protecting Ukraine’s borders is in the interest of the United States.

Our borders are safe and secure.

Israel is guilty of war crimes.

Inflation is under control.

The 2020 Election was the safest and most secure in history.

Lyndsey Stonebridge’s fascinating article in Time from February of this year cited Hannah Arendt, a German-American historian and philosopher who died in 1975.  She lived through the persecution of the Jews starting in the 1930s and often discussed “the big lie.”

She had been interested in how the most outrageous lies get a political hold ever since Nazi lies about the Jews, Communists, and intellectuals drove her from Berlin in 1933 after her arrest by the Gestapo. .


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 21stcentury; climatechange; covid; lies

1 posted on 05/30/2024 8:05:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"2 weeks to flatten the curve".
"safe and effective".
2 posted on 05/30/2024 8:07:09 AM PDT by BipolarBob (it's easier to fool the people than to convince them they've been fooled.)
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To: BipolarBob

The 20’s? Still got 5+ years to go.


3 posted on 05/30/2024 8:13:40 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BipolarBob

One mask good, two masks better, three masks... nirvana!


4 posted on 05/30/2024 8:14:46 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: SeekAndFind

later


5 posted on 05/30/2024 8:18:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Lethal Force Authorized At Mar-a-Lago!)
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To: SeekAndFind

21: Trump is automatically guilty of anything he is accused of doing.


6 posted on 05/30/2024 8:21:40 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: SeekAndFind
non unanimous is actually unanimous in court

unless its a prog or democrat or marxist or jihadi

7 posted on 05/30/2024 9:00:00 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: SeekAndFind

Iraq was not invaded because Sadam refused to accept USD but Euros for Oil, so we invaded.

NATO wrecked Lybia after France discovered Kaddafi was going to use 7B Gold and 7B Silver to issue a African Currency challenging the USD and French Franc.

Ukraine is about US control of financial and trade markets, not about freedom.

Saying NATO is a defensive organization is like saying Ukraine is a democracy.

NATO has become a tool for maintenance of US/European Markets and the use of our money versus Gold Backed Currencies, not a tool for defensive purposes as once was during the time of the USSR.


8 posted on 05/30/2024 9:08:13 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: SeekAndFind

...and the MSM is right there pushing those lies.


9 posted on 05/30/2024 9:27:37 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind

The 4% death rate from Covid is and always was a massive overstatement. Not even Polio had a death rate of that, they were actually comparable though.


10 posted on 05/30/2024 10:22:02 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: SeekAndFind

The 4% death rate from Covid is and always was a massive overstatement. Not even Polio had a death rate of that, they were actually comparable though.


11 posted on 05/30/2024 10:22:04 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Parley Baer

MSM is the government.


12 posted on 05/30/2024 10:22:34 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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