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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know why every scandal since Obama took office has been a nothing burger? They made it up!
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That's right - they just made it up! That's why 10 separate investigations into Benghazi turned up nothing. Nothing, absolutely a giant bowl of nothing. An extra large nothing burger. That's why investigations into the border weapons scandal turned up nothing. That's why every single investigation into Hillary's e-mails turned up nothing. That's why Fox News had to apologize when Seth Rich turned up nothing. That's why the Pizzagate shooting showed that the Comet Ping Pong restaurant had no basement. They just made it up!
They made up the Clinton Foundation, they made up Pizzagate, they made up Seth Rich, they made up the e-mail scandal, they made up Benghazi, they made up Fast & Furious, everything they've done since Obama took office has been made up. It's been made up, tweeted, retweeted, parroted 24 hours a day by Fox News, AM hate radio, and RW Christian propaganda. It's all one big, colossal shit show.
That's why their provocateurs like Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh and Milo Yiannopolous repeatedly get their asses kicked. We know they're not journalists. We know they don't have any government experience whatsoever. Because that's all they do - make shit up and hope it sticks. All they need is saps to pin it on, and there's plenty in the GOP base, believe me.
And it will continue to be a colossal shit show for the forseeable future. Everyone has their own channel now, and no accountability whatsoever. You can literally say anything you want about anyone in the government. Will it stick? Yeah probably. Will it turn up absolutely nothing? You bet!
And therein lies the problem. You can't police speech, and I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole. But, in simpler terms, bullshit begats bullshit. Trump would not be in power right now if we could have seen through the bullshit when it started. The GOP is so desperate in their quest for absolute power that they'll do anything to keep it. They are so desperate to dig up dirt on liberals that they'll latch onto any iota of a piece of bullshit propaganda they can find, no matter what the consequences and if it will stick or not.
How do you fight the bullshit? With facts and voting. You may not be able to change minds that easily. But the more we cut through the bullshit the more we will be prepared for 2020 and beyond.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,514 posts)This is something I had not thought of or considered. I think you're right on.
Thank you for your clear message.
I am appalled also that nobody else answered you, till I did.
Initech
(100,027 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,234 posts)moondust
(19,956 posts)Really Devin? Really?
Nobody on planet Earth wants naked pictures of Trump for any reason. Nobody.
Sounds like Devin's Russian friends had too much vodka at their Trump 2020 meeting.
The smell of desperation...
Initech
(100,027 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)Rec
Sugarcoated
(7,716 posts)Obama was so good, morally and ethically there was nothing to go after him for. It's always been my theory that that's why they made everything up, it's all they could do to try to take Obama down. Yeah, they lie about all Democrats but it always looked to me like Cons lost their minds because President Obama was THAT good.
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack#Investigations
Sorry, just trying to be accurate. 6 of them were by Republicans, apparently. If you have a source for 13, let me know.
Initech
(100,027 posts)ancianita
(35,925 posts)rule of law.
True facts beat the "story" every time.
Humans are hard wired for truth.
And 2020 voters will vote accordingly.