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Turns out reality itself is a hostile and political concept if your political leadership is incompetent enough.


That's why there's such a strong push towards "alternative facts"


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Reality loses elections? What a surprise! How many politicians have so far sold bullshit lies like greatness again, which the desperate voters keep buying? Freaking planet has double the people (4 extra billions) compared to the 1970's and effects of burning the resources are now more and more apparent, but oh hey, that politician promises a return the prosperity of those times when you didn't even need condoms to fuck, do I want to face reality or do I want to vote for fake hope?


> proves not to be true

Perhaps. It's not black and white of course, more like black and grey.

Majority of all things Cheeto says are either outright lies or just incoherent rambling which is too hard to decipher.

I mean you do have a point about tribalism and the danger of blindly supporting anyone. However that's almost entirely tangential in this specific case. Just stating the fact that Trump and his cabinet are extremely (purposefully or not) incompetent and corrupt is not partisan in any way whatsoever.


It was Trump whobrefused to accept election results, not democrats.

And yes, conservatives base their policies and electoral successes on massive amount of lies.


Russiagate.


… was not Democrats refusing to accept election results. Thats a talking point by republicans trying to downplay Jan 6 and the false electors plot, not actual fact.


And, to be fair, as time goes on allegations of Russian allegiance on the part of Trump seem less and less far-fetched.


Mueller’s findings were not exactly a ringing exoneration despite how the right likes to frame it. A lot of people went to jail and he specifically said that he couldn’t exonerate and only stopped the investigation due to DoJ policy, and noted that congress could continue.


I mean... what's undoubtedly true is that Trump actively called for foreign intelligence services to attack his political adversary, and then they did that with the express goal of helping Trump win.

The fact that Mueller couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a specific deal had been made is pretty much immaterial.




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