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kentuck

(111,098 posts)
Mon Aug 20, 2018, 07:37 PM Aug 2018

Alternative facts and truths that aren't truth and who are you gonna believe?

Kellyanne tried to sell us on "alternative facts". Chuck Todd corrected her and informed her that "alternative facts" are not facts...they are falsehoods."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/jan/22/kellyanne-conway-trump-press-secretary-alternative-facts-video

Donald Trump speaking to a group of veterans in Kansas City: "Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening," Trump said.

http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/donald-trump-vfw-speech-kansas-city-what-youre-seeing-reading-not-whats-happening-20180724.html

Yesterday on Meet the Press, Rudy Giuliani said that "truth isn't truth". https://www.cnn.com/videos/cnnmoney/2018/08/19/giuliani-truth-isnt-truth-nbc-rs-vpx.cnn

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Who are you gonna believe? Me or your own lying eyes?

Changing the truth to fit a story or a narrative is not the truth. It is a lie masquerading as the truth. There are certain facts and reality that match the truth that cannot match up with a lie. Even if you believe the lie, it is still not the truth. If you are told that there is a red apple on the table and you believe there is an apple on the table, it does not change the reality if there is no apple on the table.

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