Fact check: Paul Pelosi and alleged attacker were both clothed when police arrived

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

David DePape, accused of attacking Paul Pelosi on Oct. 28, has been charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary, among other counts.

Following the attack, social media users have shared a variety of false claims regarding the incident. One of these claims is that Pelosi and DePape were in their underwear when police arrived at the scene.

"Paul Pelosi & his attacker were half naked when the police showed up," says an Oct. 28 Instagram post. "They were both in their underwear."

The post garnered more than 60,000 likes in the first four days. Similar iterations have been shared on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fact-check-paul-pelosi-and-alleged-attacker-were-both-clothed-when-police-arrived/ar-AA13Fq6c

Republicans are sexually repressed perverts who will believe anything.

[blm]

1. Perverted control freaks

Every one of them.

[cilla4progress]

2. "I know I am but what are you?"

Stupid playground bullies.

Fueled by their adherents' desperation.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Wouldn't be at all odd if Paul was in his underwear ... given that he was, in fact

in his own fcuking home, at night, and not expecting anyone.

Derp.

[FBaggins]

4. Why do we care re: Pelosi?

Wasn't it 2am in the morning and he was in bed when the event began?

[whathehell]

12. 2:30 am in a pajama top and underpants.

not exactly surprising.

[sop]

5. Facts and the truth no longer matter.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. If it had been me, I would have been naked, so I think underwear is great evening attire

in your own home at 2 in the morning.

[sanatanadharma]

7. Republicans are choosing the path of karmic-de-evolution

Republicans are actively choosing the path of karmic-de-evolution.
One doesn't achieve a state of brutish, mean, nasty derangement syndrome without practiced habits of self-hate projected upon the world of 'other'.

As individuals, they do not rise to the plane of plain humanity.

[kacekwl]

8. Are we really going to address this ?

Those saying otherwise are liars and slime. Please don't.

[Hope22]

14. Agree!

It just plays to a sick talking point that has already been soundly disproved.

[LakeArenal]

9. Don't know about underwear, but a MAGA nut put a hammer in Paul's head.

That is what we do know.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

10. They always accuse us of what they, themselves are up to.

[summer_in_TX]

11. "Fact checking this is like shooting spitballs at a balloon."

Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
People are missing a key point about the right's lies about the Paul Pelosi attack. Shaming and fact-checking have no chance of working, because the whole point is that the lying and the deranged cruelty are a naked assertion of power in their own right.

Link to tweet

Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
The whole point of the lying is to assert the power to manufacture an alternate story *in the face of* easily demonstrable facts and outrage — and to assert that power unabashedly and defiantly.

Fact checking this is like shooting spitballs at a balloon.

Link to tweet

“The ability to assert a false reality in the face of empirical evidence is itself an act of power."

@ruthbenghiat
, quoted in this piece. As she notes, at the core of this type of politics is a declaration of total impunity:

https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/02/paul-pelosi-attack-david-depape-gop-authoritarian/

[LudwigPastorius]

13. MAGAts are such stupid fucks, they'll believe anything.

Will the Social Media barons ever do something about the bald-faced lies that are eroding our democracy and tearing our society asunder?

[CaptainTruth]

15. I have finally reached the point where I'm going to start doing the same.

Do I like it? No.

But I'm sick & tired of Republicans changing the rules of the game, & playing a new game while we play an old game by the old rules.

Everyone here should remember what Karl Rove said about that so many years ago. Karl gave us their strategy in a nutshell, it was a bright flashing red light, & every Democrat should remember it or have learned it.

His words, talking about the GOP:
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out."

Our folly, our downfall, will come if we allow ourselves to be consumed by studying the GOP's last "reality," & we fail to recognize the new "reality" they're creating right in front of our eyes.