MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

td11 wrote:

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

what's this now?

pacino wrote:

td11 wrote:

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

what's this now?

Trump is throwing this out there as the 'real' unemployment rate. he's including disabled people, retired people, teenagers who put in an application at Taco Bell and showed up to the interview with boogers on their face, everybody.

td11 wrote:

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

what's this now?

smitty wrote:

td11 wrote:

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

what's this now?

Don't worry. Trump will build that 20 billion dollar wall; spend billions more rounding up all the illegals. Build up the military to super strong capability. Cut taxes. Give every household a servant. Make ice cream free. Whatever you want he'll do it. Because he tells the truth.

For reasons I can’t even explain to myself, Carly Fiorina’s big fib at the GOP debate last week truly surprised me. Fiorina claimed a video of a Planned Parenthood clinic showed this: “Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’ ”

The enormity of the fabrication surprised me; the fact that nobody had ever seen this extraordinary smoking gun before stunned me; the fact that not one of the journalists moderating the debate followed up on her claim surprised me. The fact that contemporaneous mainstream media reports of the debate—more theater criticism than journalism—failed to fact-check it surprised me. The people who did fact-check it all immediately agreed that it wasn’t true, and yet Fiorina’s word-picture was touted for days as the emotional zenith of the debate. This all surprised me: the notion that journalism and fact-finding are demonstrably unrelated enterprises.

Watching Fiorina double down and then double down again in the days that followed also surprised me, as did the following exchange with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday:

Wallace: Do you acknowledge what every fact-checker has found, that as horrific as that scene is, it was only described on the video by someone who claimed to have seen it? There is no actual footage of the incident that you just mentioned.
Fiorina: No, I don’t accept that at all, I’ve seen the footage. And I find it amazing, actually, that all these supposed fact-checkers in the mainstream media claim this doesn’t exist. They’re trying to attack the authenticity of the videotape.

Indeed, even Fiorina’s super-PAC’s effort to manipulate the grossly manipulated and misleading Center for Medical Progress videos—videos that have been conclusively debunked—with its own YouTube version of the Fiorina claims surprised me. The video uses spliced footage from the Grantham Collection, an unsourced image of a stillborn, and a CMP image of a Pennsylvania woman’s stillborn baby, used without her permission.

Not even the most robust defenders of Fiorina’s defense can say much more than that some of the images grafted onto the sound bite might not be completely false. And yet there is still no word from Fiorina, her campaign, or her super-PAC to indicate that she misspoke, or misremembered, or confused some other video with a video about Planned Parenthood. There seems to be no place in the middle for Fiorina to just put out a statement saying, “Hey, I misspoke. Sorry.”

This is an extraordinary moment in the annals of political deception. No walk-back, no clarification, just a persistent insistence that a video that doesn’t exist and can’t even be manufactured in the underground labs of political deception is really out there but, like the Emperor’s new clothes, only the virtuous can see it. In Fiorina’s world and the world posited by Goldberg, if people want to believe the big lie about the kicking fetus and the brain harvesting badly enough, who are we to tell them it couldn’t have happened?

For whatever reason—and despite the fact that polling suggests it would be a mistake—shutting down Planned Parenthood has become the magic cure-all for the far right dreamers: that one thing that would fight off ISIS, repair the economy, and restore the American Dream. Fine. The fact that there is simply no evidence that Planned Parenthood is harvesting fetal tissue for profit and that there is abundant evidence that shuttering Planned Parenthood would actually be disastrous should appear in the calculus somewhere. New reports out of the Congressional Budget Office show that permanently defunding Planned Parenthood would end up increasing government spending by $130 million over the next 10 years.

SK790 wrote:

smitty wrote:

td11 wrote:

MoBettle wrote:Guys 42% of people are unemployed

what's this now?

Don't worry. Trump will build that 20 billion dollar wall; spend billions more rounding up all the illegals. Build up the military to super strong capability. Cut taxes. Give every household a servant. Make ice cream free. Whatever you want he'll do it. Because he tells the truth.

No, Smitty, "it won't cost too much" and it'll "big, beautiful, and great". He literally thinks he can will economic growth and that he will be able to "take back jobs from China, Mexico, and Japan."

He's like a teenager running for class president.

His economic policy outline actually sounded half decent, but it's going to be wildly unpopular with his party...