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> The guy who thought maybe you could cure Covid by swallowing bleach? He never said that or anything like that and we don't know what he was thinking. You ar

> The guy who thought maybe you could cure Covid by swallowing bleach? He never said that or anything like that and we don't know what he was thinking. You are spreading fakes. In a thread about fakes. > I sincerely do believe Trump is that stupid. When left-wing media does the fact-checking, Trump indeed looks bleak.

jquery 5y ago
Hey look, you fact checked me and nobody got hurt and a misunderstanding was cleared up. Thanks for proving fact checking is a good thing. Indeed, genius Trump only suggested injecting bleach, not swallowing it.
- asteroidbelt 5y ago
  > genius Trump only suggested injecting bleach This statement is still grossly misleading at best. (Especially because this lies about "drinking bleach" was actually spread by Joe Biden and repeated numerous times in left-leaning media.) What he said is he suggested to study it. Which is fine. He never "suggested" injecting it or drinking it. > nobody got hurt American democracy got hurt. People belief in system is reduced.
  - jquery 5y ago
    >What he said is he suggested to study it. Which is fine. He never "suggested" injecting it or drinking it. No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Even Trump later said he was being "sarcastic". Is that an appropriate moment to be sarcastic? Did he sound sarcastic at the time? I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump. There's a million things to hang the guy for, this isn't like Obama and his tan suit or his dijon mustard.
    - asteroidbelt 5y ago
      > No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Maybe. This is topic for another discussion. For now it would be appropriate for you to admit you were wrong. Factually incorrect. > I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump. I don’t defend Trump. I defend facts. > There's a million things to hang the guy for Perhaps you came to this conclusion after trusting fake news.
      - jquery 5y ago
        I came to the conclusion after reading books written by the people who worked with him, or who interviewed him or his staff. People who worked with Trump on a daily basis in the White House, hoping to keep the American experiment going. So I suggest you read some books, that will put your “facts” in a larger context that makes them so you don’t miss the forest for the trees. Trump is a bad person who belongs nowhere near any levers of power except in charge of his grifting operations to sucker “patriots” off their money to pay off his debts. I’ll give Trump this, though. He’s not as crazy as a lot of his followers and fellow grifters. His recent Candace Owens interview where he promoted the vaccine was comedy gold. Trump isn’t dumb enough to think the vaccine doesn’t work.
kristjansson 5y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177: > And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that. 'The president said to swallow bleach' is an uncharitable and inaccurate summary of that line, but so is 'he never said that or anything like that'. At an absolute minimum he spit-balled an idea about internal application of 'disinfectant' live on national television. His manner of self-presentation was more than bleak enough without any additional interpretative efforts.

jquery 5y ago

Hey look, you fact checked me and nobody got hurt and a misunderstanding was cleared up. Thanks for proving fact checking is a good thing. Indeed, genius Trump only suggested injecting bleach, not swallowing it.

asteroidbelt 5y ago
> genius Trump only suggested injecting bleach This statement is still grossly misleading at best. (Especially because this lies about "drinking bleach" was actually spread by Joe Biden and repeated numerous times in left-leaning media.) What he said is he suggested to study it. Which is fine. He never "suggested" injecting it or drinking it. > nobody got hurt American democracy got hurt. People belief in system is reduced.
- jquery 5y ago
  >What he said is he suggested to study it. Which is fine. He never "suggested" injecting it or drinking it. No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Even Trump later said he was being "sarcastic". Is that an appropriate moment to be sarcastic? Did he sound sarcastic at the time? I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump. There's a million things to hang the guy for, this isn't like Obama and his tan suit or his dijon mustard.
  - asteroidbelt 5y ago
    > No, it absolutely is not fine for the President to spitball dangerous ideas like that on live national television. Maybe. This is topic for another discussion. For now it would be appropriate for you to admit you were wrong. Factually incorrect. > I don't understand your reflexive defense of Trump. I don’t defend Trump. I defend facts. > There's a million things to hang the guy for Perhaps you came to this conclusion after trusting fake news.
    - jquery 5y ago
      I came to the conclusion after reading books written by the people who worked with him, or who interviewed him or his staff. People who worked with Trump on a daily basis in the White House, hoping to keep the American experiment going. So I suggest you read some books, that will put your “facts” in a larger context that makes them so you don’t miss the forest for the trees. Trump is a bad person who belongs nowhere near any levers of power except in charge of his grifting operations to sucker “patriots” off their money to pay off his debts. I’ll give Trump this, though. He’s not as crazy as a lot of his followers and fellow grifters. His recent Candace Owens interview where he promoted the vaccine was comedy gold. Trump isn’t dumb enough to think the vaccine doesn’t work.

kristjansson 5y ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177: > And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that. 'The president said to swallow bleach' is an uncharitable and inaccurate summary of that line, but so is 'he never said that or anything like that'. At an absolute minimum he spit-balled an idea about internal application of 'disinfectant' live on national television. His manner of self-presentation was more than bleak enough without any additional interpretative efforts.