• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    Conservatives are mad that “they only fact checked Trump”, and yeah, there’s some truth to that…

    But they let him tell so many little lies unchallenged. They only fact checked him on the egregious stuff like “Haitians eat pets” and “post-birth abortions”.

    Harris may have said some half-truths or omitted context for a few things, but she never told a single non-truth comparable to the things Trump got fact checked for.

    The worst actual post-debate criticism I’ve heard for Harris was that she continues to say that Trump will enact Project 2025 and a federal abortion ban as president, despite his statements denying support for these things. The thing is, Trump is a huge fucking liar, and a Republican, so yeah, she’s right to keep saying what he will absolutely do as president, despite his lies to the contrary.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Harris may have said some half-truths or omitted context for a few things, but she never told a single non-truth comparable to the things Trump got fact checked for.

      The problem with Harris is that she’s a professional politician who knows how to skirt the line. So you can challenge her on a point and she can clarify it in her favor and then PoliticoFactCheck has to do a 500 word article getting to the nut of the issue (and they’ll get called liars for their biased interpretation too).

      But “Black people in Ohio are eating all your dogs” is much more straightforward and easier to debunk. Same with “infanticide is legal in California”.

      Trump is a huge fucking liar, and a Republican

      He’s ForwardsFromGrandma tier racist. Even as lying goes, it comes across as weird and vulgar.