Dragonlady
Designing Woman
You're a good poster, and while I don't agree with jack I do not think he is an idiot, he has his opinion and we have oursNo he didn’t. He showed he's an idiot.
An "opinion" is something along the lines of "I like the house with the swimming pool, not the one without". A denial of facts and reality and labelling it a "hoax", is not an "opinion". It's a baseless conspiracy theory.
We are all allowed our own opinions, but people can't function if they don't have a basic consensus on the facts. That's the root problem in America today. One party has consistently fed their voters mis-information and lies which have no basis in fact. This has been going on since Reagan's "welfare queen" lie.
Republicans can't run on their record of having crashed the economy 3 times in the past 40 years. Their idea of "law and order" is to lock up black and brown men for possession of pot. The USA has become a police state after 40 years of "law and order" policies. 1000 people shot and killed by police every year for the past five years. #2 - France, shot and killed 26 last year. The USA now has more people incarcerated than Russia and China COMBINED.
The Trump Administration has tried to label these "differences in basic information" as "alternative facts". We call them what they are: "lies and disinformation". Trump has used lies and disinformation to try to confuse the American people as to what is true and what isn't. He's doing this because facts don't support his narrative.
There is no time in history when the nation has need facts more than right now. The OP is an example of what happens when you can no longer rely on your leaders to tell the truth. During the 2016 campaign, the media failed to call Trump on his lies, and since his election, the lying has only increased. Right wing media has backed up Trump's lies by parroting many of them.
Trump's current big lie is the "law and order" agenda he's pushing. All while getting all of his friends out of jail. And sending Michael Cohen back to jail because he wants to write a book. Last night, his storm troopers tear gassed the Mayor of Portland.
This is not going to go over well. This is authoritarian dictator bullshit.
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