Tag: “fact-checkers”

Did She Or Didn’t She Say It?

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Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren: not a well-known truth-teller

“Fact-checking” is all the rage on the Internet. But who checks the fact-checkers?

We start with what we are told, at first, is a quote from Sen. Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren: the American people, she is said to have said (beautiful prose!), “have no right to know how we spend their money” (https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/feb/11/instagram-posts/no-warren-didnt-say-citizens-dont-have-the-right-t/).

That’s from Politifact. You can get the same from Reuters and other wandering fact-checkers. All of whom say she never said it.

My problem is, I can’t believe these people. I know they’ll say and do just about anything to protect Democrats and advance their socialist agenda. To me the purported quote sounds fully in character and accurately reflects Democrat behavior. Sen. Warren would, it’s true, have to be a bigger than average chucklehead, to say a thing like this in public. But she is a chucklehead: by their fruits ye shall know them.

Infanticide… Or Not?

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So-called “fact checkers,” Democrat politicians, and sock-puppet “news reporters” are hopping mad over Internet posts that claim that California’s new abortion bill will allow infanticide: babies may be killed seven days, 28 days, six months or whatever… after being born (https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/government-verify/california-bill-doesnt-allow-killing-babies-7-days-after-birth/536-bd069cb5-0db6-4d73-a05d-0254b5ad23aa).

Okay, it doesn’t say that.

What it does say is that if a baby dies shortly after being born, coroners will not be required to investigate those deaths. They claim this is to protect women [what happened to “pregnant people”?] from having hardship piled on tragedy: after all, babies can die of natural causes.

But it also might be read to say, “If your baby dies shortly after birth, we’re gonna look the other way.”

At the very least, they need to rewrite this bill with more care taken as to language. But do we really expect Democrats to restrict abortion in any way, for any reason? Have they not shown us, abundantly, that they love abortion? It’s kind of a sacrament for them.

 

Was Astro World Panic a Satanic Ritual?

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[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip]

I try not to take any notice of certain aspects of pop culture; but the recent “fatal crowd surge” incident at “Astro World”–some kind of rap music festival held in Houston–has the usual “fact-check” crowd in a tizzy (https://www.newsweek.com/priest-compares-satanic-astroworld-gates-hell-travis-scott-1649617).

I don’t think I’d liken the “Astro World” to “the gates of Hell,” as has been done. To me it looks like the kind of thing you’d see at a spook house on the Jersey boardwalk. Displays like that are a dime a dozen.

Anyhow, ten people died when the crowd got out of hand, rapper and organizer Travis Scott is being sued, and investigated by police… and a 9-year-old boy has just died of his injuries. What would possess anyone to take a 9-year-old to a rap festival?

I don’t know about any “demonic imagery and symbolism” involved herein–nor have I ever heard any of this man’s, er, “music.” The fact-checkers are calling the whole “gates of Hell” scenario “a baseless conspiracy theory,” but that’s what they always say, these days. Honk if you believe anything they say on any subject.

I fully agree that certain features of our popular culture are depraved, disgusting, and without value, and probably harm us spiritually. Yes, a city or a nation can contract a spiritual pollution: the ancient Greeks were right about that. But if they locked up every, um, “entertainer” who dealt in corrupt, unwholesome images and evil words, Hollywood would be a ghost town.

If nobody goes to rap festivals, there will be no rap festivals.

 

 

It’s Never a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ When *They* Say It

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Bill and Melinda Gates | National Portrait Gallery

Would you buy a used planet from these two?

By now most of you know that uber-globalists Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage.

And I’m wondering what happened to all those reports, over the years, of Bill Gates saying we gotta use vaccines to reduce human fertility and depopulate the earth, etc. (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56975466). But there’s nothing out there but self-proclaimed “fact checkers” who never fail to “discover” that nobody at Far Left Crazy ever says or does anything bad.

See, I’d have a problem taking a medicine promoted by some guy well-known for saying we have to cut the human race down to size. So suddenly all those sayings have disappeared, except for where they’re brushed off as “conspiracy theories.”

Honk if you have ever seen the Russia Hoax written off as a conspiracy theory only believed in by Democrat wackos.

So now, unless years ago you had the foresight to preserve Bill Gates’ remarks about the need to reduce the population–and I didn’t–you have no way to know for sure whether he ever really said those things. Sorry, but I see no reason to trust the “fact checkers.”

And we are still looking for some reason, any reason, to believe that COVID is the most deadly disease ever to confront humanity, requiring unprecedented, extraordinary, and even bizarre measures to stave off extinction.

They’ve never proved that to us, have they?

If anyone out there, anyone at all, can produce a reason to trust the global government crowd, hey, I’d love to hear it.