Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants
    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
      429·
      2 months ago

      Is this why everyone is downvoting the fact checker? Because they don’t like it saying their preferred outlets have a bias?

      The Guardian does have a left bias, its pretty obvious. That’s not a bad thing.

      • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        2 months ago

        It says center and center-right outlets have a left bias. It’s a blatant limp-dick attempt to make republican extremism (or “republicans”, for short) seem normal. Or just as bad, the dopey, hapless, and vocal victim of such a campaign.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 months ago

            MSNBC, CNN, NYT, WaPo and Politico, to name just a few examples, are usually joined at the hip with the Center Right to Right wing Dem leadership and when they disagree with them, it’s usually to go further right.

            I haven’t checked MBFC, the hobby of a right wing Zionist masquerading as an authority i bias and fact checking lately, but I’d be very surprised if it didn’t still pretend that all of those are center Left to Left.

            • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 months ago

              I’m sorry, but Democratic leadership, the Washington Post, and the New York Times are not “right wing.” The last Republican presidental candidate thje NYT endorsed was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.

              They’re right wing to you and Lemmy, but Lemmy is not the center of America’s political compass. And I’m speaking as a rabid DJT hater who votes straight ticket Democrat, bar one primary I registered republican in just so I could vote against DJT.

              • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                21·
                2 months ago

                The only way that they’re not right of center is in relation to the GOP. Do you have ANY idea how much farther right than the policy positions of the greater population the media’s Overton window has drifted in recent decades?

                One party’s LITERALLY fascist and the other one’s close enough to willingly negotiate with it on everything.

                The Dem leadership is DEFINITELY right of center and so is the pro-cop pro-Israel pro- corporate billionaire-owned media.

                Just because conservative Democrats are the leftmost option offered in elections where the other candidate is a fascist or an anarcho-capitalist doesn’t mean that they’re left of center.

      • pubquiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        192·
        2 months ago

        It’s not a bias, though, they call idiots: “idiots”. That’s not a bias, it’s reporting a FACT. Bias is sanewashing Herr Drumpf’s verbal diarrhoea.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    These dudes contribute nothing but division to society and somehow they are deemed more worthy of a commidating existence than a lot of us who work their ass off every day? Fuck these people and this system that props them up. We factually do not need people like this to run a society.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        Sometimes it feels like the tribe mentality is the solution and the problem. Probably because consensus reality does not exist anymore.

    • dirthawker0@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Not only does the Republican presidential candidate have no ideas about running the country, the existing senator of Ohio, someone presently in power, is busy making up stories for the media to illustrate “white Americans’ plight” rather than actually working on legislation that will help his constituents.

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    281·
    2 months ago

    But the hundreds of constituents who called him to report their dog being eaten by Haitians but not the cops are real, right?

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
      111·
      2 months ago

      To be fair I’ve called his office like 50 times to complain about eating dogs. Of course I don’t live in Springfield and dont have any pets.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 months ago

    The admission is what sets him apart from Donald. I don’t know why other Repubs are unable to just double down on a lie the way Donald is. They have seen how effective it is with their dimwitted voters, what’s the incentive to own up? Just draw the hurricane path you want with Sharpie.

  • hohoho@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 months ago

    Everything they say is to distract from the fact that they have no policies that improve the lives of the vast majority of their constituents.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      There’s that problem and the problem that people who vote for them often think they will be rich one day so it’s only logical to vote for the guys who help the rich. Or they’re in poverty but think they’re middle class so they look down on helping the poor. Mental illness on a scale never seen before.