Dan GillmorAug 20, 2024

Big Journalism is engaged in a parody of fact checking at this point.

Trump gets ho-hum corrections -- often granularly parsed to give him endless benefits of the doubt -- and the fact-checkers don't even pretend to get to every lie.

Democrats get granular parsing, too. But the goal is to find falsehoods and never, ever give the benefit of the doubt.

Fact-checking is a sadly broken both-sides (even when one is lying) enterprise.

Show threadU.LancierAug 20, 2024
@dangillmor „…And he has previously said the only way he loses is if the Democrats cheat…“
Well, that is exactly what happened: Everything was going smoothly and then the other party is going with a different candidate! That's cheating if I ever saw cheaters! You can't just change the horse while the race is going on, that's dishonest and stealing the election once again, this time even before the voting! This is illegal… or it should be!
Show threadBrian Stafford
@Ulan_KA, you're taking the piss, aren't you?
Aug 20, 2024 at 6:47pmWeb
Show threadU.LancierAug 20, 2024

@briancs I'm German, so I can sefely mock US Politics. We still have democracy - ironically because US soldiers 80 years ago risked and many even lost their lifes to reinstall democracy here.

Now I see that MAGA-Volk with a dumbed-down version of Führer and an at least as dumbed-down version of Fascism. And wonder If in "1000 years" I or my descendants need to reinstall democracy in the Amercan Reich.