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Arkansas Granny

(31,516 posts)
1. It would take less time to enumerate the times Trump told the truth than to list his lies.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:18 AM
Dec 2016

As far as he is concerned, the truth is what he wants it to be, not what it actually is.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
3. The "liberal" media failed
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:26 AM
Dec 2016

to run the obvious above the fold headline,

"Trump falsely claims the murder rate is at a 45 year high"

Too busy running the upteenth email story (emails have been found, we don't what they say, but obviously Clinton was doing something illegal).

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
9. I agree
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:32 AM
Dec 2016

It is ticked up slightly but per capita rates are at a 51 year low (which is kind of ironic).

https://mises.org/blog/fbi-us-homicide-rate-51-year-low

I can't believe any conservative would question this publication.

 

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts)
5. to a lot of racists, movements like BLM represents threat of crime
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 11:28 AM
Dec 2016

so even if not true. probably FEELS true to them.

procon

(15,805 posts)
10. I heard that too.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:05 PM
Dec 2016

Its scarey to think that this cretin will be making decisions that affect the whole country (and the world) based on some cockamamie disinformation he picked up from trolling through his favorite collection of fallacious Internet websites.

Javaman

(62,528 posts)
11. and the right wing fear machine continues.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:16 PM
Dec 2016

got to keep them scared because if they aren't, the prols start paying attention to reality.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
12. Republicans plan on stuffing millions more in 'for profit' private prisons. undocumented kids too.
Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:20 PM
Dec 2016

11/6/2016The largest private prison contractor, CoreCivic ― which recently changed its name from Corrections Corporation of America ― saw its stock shoot up by more than 58 percent shortly after morning trading began. Stocks for the second largest contractor, GEO Group, rose by more than 28 percent. Over the next few hours of trading, both stocks came down somewhat from those peaks, but remained strong.

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