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Thomas McAffee's avatar

I know my family bought the denial of 2025 hook, line, and sinker. They bought the idea that only Trump could beat inflation. A son's family was being killed by inflation.

Shockingly, Dems as radical leftists was a story bought by many as well. Trump is a liar through and through.

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Eric Dashman's avatar

Why should anyone expect main stream media, owned by corporate oligarchs, to do anything but what they're doing? The NYT has been owned by Republicans forever, but in the past had some sense of integrity. The regular use of distorted headlines and burying information in the back pages for retractions of scurillous claims is commonplace these days. WaPo has been completely compromised by Bezos. ABC, CNN, and CBC are counting ceiling tiles. The left needs to use alternative media in the way the right has done since the end of the Fairness Doctrine. I appreciate your efforts to get factual information to the public, along with a few others.

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Ruth's avatar

If this kind of info is only in alternative media, it will never reach the people who voted for him. This cannot be the only solution.

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Betsy Groth's avatar

MAGATS are hopeless,Ruth, and we shouldn’t waste resources trying to win them over. Hilary was right about the deplorables.

Remember when the psychopath said he could shoot someone on 5th Ave and not lose any voters?

Probably correct, because his voters hate America, love fascism. And they must hate their children and grandchildren, too, condemning them to dirty air and water, an education that is substandard to put it mildly. They will also be mired in poverty and poor health.

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Ruth's avatar

These are the hard MAGAs, they are list anyway. But what about all the others who do not have any real info, any facts or numbers such as how much taxes the undocumented immigrants pay and they think it is zero? How they can be reached and learn that is it almost 100 billion a year?

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Ann Killalea's avatar

The republicans are running multiple ads that are nothing but lies - lawsuits filed by the left are funded by taxpayer money, if the BBB doesn’t pass taxes will increase, etc. Democrats should be running ads that expose the truth about what’s really in the BBB.

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Jonnymac's avatar

It is in fact true that if BBB doesn't pass, taxes will increase, just mostly impacting the wealthy.

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Betsy Groth's avatar

Yeah!

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Jonnymac's avatar

I think it's weird that nobody seems to care that DJT demanded Iran's "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER" all of 10 days ago, and whatever you think the best course of action (or no action at all) should be regarding Iran, what we have ended up with is far far short of whatever an unconditional surrender would be. I don't know if it's a lie necessarily, but it's an outcome that does not match his stated intent, and as far as I can tell, the media forgot he ever said that.

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Sara Frischer's avatar

Excellent, Thank you Brian.

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David Parker's avatar

Trump plans to run this country standing on the backs of the poorest Americans. This is just wrong.

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Sean Campbell's avatar

I think Democrats struggle to put the focus on Trump’s lying because Democratic Party leaders don’t have a moral foundation that makes them outraged by lying.

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