#danieldale

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In a speech on Tuesday night by Donald Trump in Texas, CNN decided to interrupt their live coverage to cite multiple false statements Trump made that needed to be corrected.

Full Story Here: https://uinterview.com/news/cnn-halts-broadcast-of-trumps-border-speech-after-he-makes-multiple-false-claims/

[chubbycaucasianchristiancloseted]

Thank you CNN for reminding us that Joe Biden is the pinnacle of articulation and...

Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy.

Thank you CNN for reminding us that Joe Biden is the pinnacle of articulation and truth. If only we all could string together a sentence like he does. We should all strive to be so morally, ethically correct, open and honest as the Biden family.

Don’t politicians get several days to walk back comments? Seems like it happens frequently these days but it could be just a figment of my imagination? All your fact check leads me to more questions about political leaders, specifically Democrats.

Trump get’s fact checked for a possible rounding error and being two billion off? Good thing Joe Biden gets his numbers RIGHT ON THE BUTTON! With his MSNBC interview he claimed that there was “somewhere between 700 billion and a trillion, 300 million, billion dollars” that people were not paying in taxes, give or take a gazillion.

Why do celebrities and the Obama’s own property right on the water, when they KNOW the sea level is rising and there house will be underwater soon? Why does Joey and CNN not criticize China?  

The gas price and Strategic Petroleum Reserve Fact-Check takes the cake! Maybe Trump exaggerated some numbers when talking about these and shame on him! No Democrat has ever exaggerated anything, ever! According to Reuters the SPR is at its lowest since the early 80s. And from my personal experience two years ago I use to pay about $40 a week to fill up my vehicle now I’m paying about $60 a week which is roughly $80 more a month.

Remember this is the same network that encouraged the 25th amendment with Trump and claimed he was “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”, then turned around and called us ableist when we question Fetterman’s and Joe Biden’s sentence structure and word choice.

Daniel Dale and Paul LeBlanc great spin! Thank you so much for helping us all see the light. Must have had this pent up for over two years! I’ll be praying for you.

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$1.87 (and lower) during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the national average for regular gas on Trump’s last day in office, January 20, 2021, was much higher than that – $2.393 per gallon, according to data provided to CNN by the American Automobile Association. And while there are some remote gas stations where prices are always much higher than the national average, the national average Tuesday is $3.759, per AAA data, not $5, $6, $7 or $8. California, the state with the highest prices as usual, has an average of $5.423.

Democrats in Congress blocked the funding needed to execute Trump’s 2020 directive to buy tens of millions more barrels and fill the reserve to its maximum capacity – but nonetheless, it didn’t get filled.

As CNN’s Matt Egan and Phil Mattingly reported in mid-October, the US reserve remains the largest in the world even though it was at a 38-year low after President Joe Biden released a major chunk of it to help keep oil prices down in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and, coincidentally or not, prior to the midterm elections).

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Dale: Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald Trump - CNNPolitics

Dale: Reflections on four weird years fact checking every word from Donald Trump

I had to email the Boy Scouts to find out if the President had invented a nonexistent phone call from the head of the organization. (He had.

"Lots of politicians lie as a means to an end -- to wiggle out of a scandal or to inflate their policy accomplishments. Trump was willing to lie about everything, all the time, often for no obvious reason. This was lying as a way of life."

[ensignwoah]

#fencegate, humour, masculinity

On Wednesday night, Daniel Dale went to investigate a piece of land Rob Ford wants to buy. I'm not going to get into the specifics because you can read them and a variety of perspectives all over the place, including here, and here. And it just keeps getting weirder.

Anyway, Dale—a Toronto Star reporter—had a confrontation with Ford. He says:

At some point, perhaps 10 or 15 seconds into the encounter, he cocked his fist near his head and began charging at me at a full run. I began pleading with him, as loud as I could, with my hands up, for him to stop. I yelled, at the top of my lungs, something like, “Mayor Ford, I’m writing about the land! I’m just looking at the land! You’re trying to buy the TRCA land!” Instinctually, I also reached into my pocket to grab my dead phone. I then fiddled with my voice recorder, trying fruitlessly to turn it on so that I would have a recording of any physical violence.

At some point, perhaps two metres away from me, the mayor did stop moving toward me, but his face remained menacing, and he continued to cock his fist and shake it. “Drop your phone!” he demanded, shouting louder than I have ever heard him. “Drop your phone! Drop your phone now!”

Every time I tried to sidestep him to escape, he moved with me and yelled at me again to drop my phone. I became more frightened than I can remember; after two or three attempts to dart away, I threw my phone and my recorder down on the grass, yelled that he could take them, and ran.

Can you guess what happened after that? I bet you can.

Dale's fear became the subject of what I thought an incredibly unfunny joke. For whatever reason, people found the idea of Dale running away much more worthy of conversation than the angry, unbalanced public official charging at him. Tweets from people I usually respect started attacking him for being a "wuss" and said that dropping his devices was "embarrassing." #fencegate was born and the most prominent people professed it "comedy gold."

People are always insensitive, this isn't news. I'd say about half my feed was reacting to Ford's behaviour and the other half was mocking Dale's "wussiness." (One of the worst was someone saying that learning Dale was soft spoken and slight made the situation even funnier to her.) But I can't help but explore the root of this comedy gold, which is little more than a man who didn't behave in a stereotypically masculine way, who fled instead of fought. That's it. That's what's so hilarious.

Please. That's embarrassing.

I certainly hope that the people mocking him have never been in similar situations or experienced violence, or the threat of violence. I hope that they've never known the fear of being hit or hurt. In fact, I'll assume they haven't because once you've felt that kind of fear, you find it difficult to laugh at.

I think it's fair to say that when someone much larger than you who has a history of lying and violent behaviour—nicely summarized here—is charging at you, it's reasonable to be afraid. I don't like using examples like this, but if Ford was charging at a woman and she reacted the exact same way, no one would be mocking her. But because Dale is A MAN he needs to behave in MANLY WAYS. He didn't, so he's a wuss. He overreacted. He's lesser.

Just another reminder that one of the worst things a person can be is not a man—in the stereotypical sense, of course.

We could look at this as a one-off opportunity for jokes or we could think about the extreme bullying that non-masculine, queer, and feminine boys and men receive. We could think about all the gay boys who don't fit this world's definition of men and commit suicide. We could think about how we devalue stereotypically feminine traits (such as intuition, emotional intelligence) and cheer for stereotypically masculine ones (such as physical strength). We could think about why so many transwomen are beat up and/or murdered. We could think about why these "sissies" and "pussies" are so often the subject of violence and ridicule, and how that affects them.

But I guess none of that is very funny.