Can someone define "Alternative Facts" for me?

[workinclasszero]

Because that's what we will be getting the next four years from Comrade Trump and his minions.

[hexola]

1. http://alternativefacts.com

http://alternativefacts.com

[gollygee]

2. Bullshit. Nt

[skylucy]

3. Alternative Facts equal Propaganda and Lies.

[spanone]

4. 'Lies'

[csziggy]

6. THIS nt

[NastyRiffraff]

17. Yep. Keep it simple! n/t

[Orrex]

5. FACT: Depeche Mode was better in the 80s than they are now.

[malaise]

7. Made up shit

aka ReTHUGspeak

[catbyte]

8. Alternative facts equals lies.

Edited because equal sign won't work (?)

[C_U_L8R]

9. It's the alt-fact propaganda wing

of the alt-nazishithead party.

Punch those liars in the face.

[Frogg]

10. Putin Speak

[frazzled]

11. Facts that obtain in alternate universes

I guess.

[roamer65]

28. Like antimatter?

Antifacts?

[onecaliberal]

12. Lies.

There is NO such thing. Facts are NOT open to interpretation.

[shraby]

13. Last night when Bagdad Bob came to the podium to let people know there were more

people at the inauguration than at Obama's, I told Mr. Shraby that's what propaganda sounds like.

[KentuckyWoman]

14. Stickily Lies...

to quote a Republican in times of old.

[workinclasszero]

15. Hey who could have seen this coming with father of all lies Bannon scuttling around the White House?

[DBoon]

16. try the NewSpeak dictionary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words

[Drahthaardogs]

18. Next time you go the bathroom, after you finish, look down

there ye shall find Alternate Facts...

[workinclasszero]

19. LOL

[beachbum bob]

20. A lie

[Runningdawg]

21. Alt-facts

"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
--from "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell

[ALBliberal]

51. Eerie. Prescient.

[TrekLuver]

22. Merriam Webster said there is no such thing because facts are facts and alternative facts

are lies.

[Takket]

23. in mathematical terms.......

alternative facts are like trying to divide by zero

[Jamaal510]

24. "Alternative facts"

is to normal facts what FOX News/InfoWars/RT/etc. are to journalism.

[roamer65]

25. LYING.

[C_U_L8R]

26. Specifically, Trump lies

[logosoco]

27. They are for folks who live in alternative reality.

The place where people think giving taxes breaks to the rich will enrich the whole of the country.
Where cars and trucks and buses and planes have combustible engines spewing out carbon dioxide but it will have no effect to the air and water.

Those kind of "facts".

[SamKnause]

29. Fucking Republican lies.

[Iggo]

30. Lies. (n/t)

[handmade34]

31. propaganda

lies that are destructive

[AgadorSparticus]

32. A LIE. To quote Dan Rather, "a lie is a lie is a lie".

This just needs to be repeated over and over.

[struggle4progress]

33. "Newt thinks that we shouldn't say Don, Sean, Kellyanne, and Reince live

in an alternate universe: we should just say they have alternative facts"

[Donkees]

34. Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation through persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying in an attempt to destabilize and delegitimize a target. Its intent is to sow seeds of doubt in the targets, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity

.

[3catwoman3]

35. Well, teachers will no longer have to grade tests...

...if there are alternative facts. Any answer could be correct if students claim to be using alternative facts.

Why weren't there alternative facts when I was taking high school history?

[smirkymonkey]

36. Umm, I am pretty sure that is Trump speak for "Lies"

They can spin it any way they want to, but it is still lying.

[frazzled]

37. This explains it so almost anyone can understand

?noredir=1

[longship]

55. Pancakes!!!

[pnwmom]

38. The Urban Dictionary has two definitions.

1) When truth is so unfavorable to a pathological liar, that they must invent a whole new category of lies to describe their nakedly intentional acts of deception.

2) A fancy way to say bullshit.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Alternative+facts

[SoCalDem]

39. L I E (nt)

[Hekate]

40. It means George Orwell's "1984" needs to be required reading in high school and college, along with

...the US Constitution.

Hint: Bannon and Kellyanne think it's a textbook, not a cautionary tale, but that's what makes it a cautionary tale.

[workinclasszero]

42. I think we are living 1984 now

in 2017.

[Solly Mack]

41. Short answer - it means lies.

A Trump mouthpiece said there was no such thing as facts anymore.

Trump minion

You know how too many people think their opinions are equal to facts?

Now think of that on a grand scale - where government is now saying facts not only do not exist, but now what you believe to be the truth is the truth even if facts don't support your belief, because there are no facts, just different ways of seeing the same thing. Different ways of seeing a fact.

They are taking the glass is half full/half empty perception and claiming that means since both are true, depending on how you see the water in the glass, then the crowd was 1.5 million if you believe that is what 1.5 million looks like.

So if you think a lie is the truth, then it becomes the truth because you believe it to be true. Regardless of evidence to the contrary.

The same with a fact. It will only be a fact if they agree with it.

It's a perception game.

It's a con.

[Cha]

48. George Orwell Quote 1984

[Solly Mack]

58. Yep

[Skittles]

43. they're fucking LIES

and this FASCIST BASTARD had the GALL to call Hillary "CROOKED"

[workinclasszero]

44. Herr Dump will be the most corrupt/predatory/evil president in history

Alternate facts: Trump will be a beloved President of the people and replace Lincoln on the five dollar bill

Thank God we are safe from Hillary's emails though.

[Cha]

45. George Orwell 1984..

[workinclasszero]

46. That nails it good Cha

[Cha]

47. I just saw it over on a tweet page and came

here looking for a place to post it and saw your OP as well as another.

I see you and Hekate have the same idea.. it is very much 1984 and those ******* brainwashers think they're going to take a page from Orwell and pull it off on us.

I hope they get what's coming to them in the end.. sooner than later.

Thank you, working.

[JHB]

49. No, because that's the whole point of it...

There is no definition, just what's in the script of The Kremlin Don Show.

[Glimmer of Hope]

50. Fake facts.

[itsrobert]

52. It is something the deplorables will say about media

Just like they label sources like CNN and WashPost as #fakenews they will tag them with #AltFacts

[JustAnotherGen]

53. Well - for example

We get to you use Alternative Money to pay our taxes


If Betsy Devos is the Sec of Education -
Children will get to use alternative answers on tests.
Example - 2 +2 = 5 will be acceptable.


Donald is an alternative to a President.

Putin is an Alternative to Donald.

See?

[workinclasszero]

56. Fact: I like your examples

Alternative fact: I don't get it.

[JustAnotherGen]

57. I don't get it either

But hey - baby fists seems to like this 'world' he is creating so I'm thinking I'm just going to go with it.

[samplegirl]

54. Same thing

As mis-spoken!!!!