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RE: Kellyanne Conway says 2 Iraqi refugees responsible for Bowling Green Massacre
February 3, 2017 at 6:09 pm
We saw this on the news this morning and my wife was asking why she would lie like that when the whole administration is under such scrutiny. I was like, "Since when has just making shit up hurt them at all?"
They've learned it's a valid strategy, and their idiot supporters will just soak it up unquestioningly. If they were concerned with facts, they wouldn't be Trump supporters in the first place.
It's not like we're a nation of critical thinkers. I know a lot of people here are sick of this notion, but we Americans really are pretty fucking stupid as a whole.
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RE: Kellyanne Conway says 2 Iraqi refugees responsible for Bowling Green Massacre
February 3, 2017 at 6:57 pm
It was manicure, not massacre. Check your hearing aids.
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RE: Kellyanne Conway says 2 Iraqi refugees responsible for Bowling Green Massacre
February 3, 2017 at 7:12 pm
(February 3, 2017 at 7:07 pm)abaris Wrote: It's called alternative facts. They made that clear on day 1.
That's the PC name for it, sure. I think, however, that all this PC business is making us soft, and I, for one, am going to tell it like it is.
Which is "making shit up," AKA "pulling stuff out of your ass," AKA "pandering to the Republican base."
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RE: Kellyanne Conway says 2 Iraqi refugees responsible for Bowling Green Massacre
February 3, 2017 at 8:37 pm
Sonny, when I was your age, we didn't have these newfangled "alternative facts". We had out bullshit, and liked it.
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RE: Kellyanne Conway says 2 Iraqi refugees responsible for Bowling Green Massacre
February 3, 2017 at 8:41 pm
CD, when people were our age, 'dirt' was a new idea.
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