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"Election-year spread of misinformation challenges

Mar 15, 2020 2:10PM PDT

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Interesting...this sentence
Mar 15, 2020 4:38PM PDT

"“There is a proliferation of misinformation, capitalizing on the Trump strategy of repeating something until people believe it,”

I think he means like the Dems for 60+ years claiming Republicans are all racists and hate blacks and were against the Civil Rights Act.....and because Republicans were stupid enough to not actually fight back against that, it's become 'truth' to far too many. When in fact, HISTORICAL FACTS prove otherwise....and it started with the Democrats in the South who began importing slaves for their plantations, fought against the North to keep that 'privilege' and their wealth, started the KKK and massacred many, fought against the Civil Rights Act every day, including right up until JFK pushed for it (although Johnson was a massive racist and had to sign the bill into law kicking and screaming), refused to allow blacks to vote or even attend white schools, had a governor shot over it, had many blacks work against their own in order to garner power with the white elites (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al), allow black communities to deteriorate and turn into slums, drug infested, gang slaughterhouses, and not do a damn thing to stop it, allow a KKK leader be voted into the Senate, allow another to win elections to State government, allowed HILL to receive contributions from a KKK leader but tarnished Trump for not denouncing David Duke quickly enough, have Biden lead a Supreme Court candidate public 'lynching' via a televised hearing, etc.

Yep....lots of misinformation out there during elections....but it's been going on far longer than post Trump...…...

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I couldn't find the link to edit my post
Mar 15, 2020 4:52PM PDT

As for the KKK leader voted into the Senate.....HILL has claimed for years that he was her 'mentor'...….and many Congressional leaders praised him when he died. Robert Byrd, that KKK leader, was actually elevated to the Senate leader position of pro tem, putting him third in line to the Presidency, and he filibustered the Civil Rights Act to have it NOT pass.

Another instance of lies becoming truth when enough time goes by and allowing 'memories to fade' into non-existence, is Republican Sen. Trent Lott’s praise of former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond which had crap results because he was forced to resign over it by other Republicans with total silence by Dems when he was only trying to show that both sides could come together and compromise for the good of the country no matter what they personally believed.

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AP ammo for the right,
Mar 16, 2020 3:59AM PDT