Lie repellent phrases for use on Republicans

[gulliver]

Who told you that? (Forces them to point the finger at someone or admit they made it up themselves.)

Give me an example. (Forces them to be specific and enter the fact-based realm where they are often helpless.)

Can you show your work on that answer? (Lets you see that they didn't give due diligence, or made a dumb mistake in their work, or even reported a lie when their work showed them the true answer.)

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Are there others?

[Phoenix61]

1. Source, please.

Use it all the time on FB. Seems to be pretty decent troll repellent.

[Disaffected]

11. Works here too (at least sometimes)

for republican trolls, UFO believers and alternative medicine advocates.

[onecaliberal]

2. Used the first two on CRT question from MIL.

I could see my questions were making her think about it. I asked her to give me an example of it happening in classrooms. She was unable to give me even one example. Like everything else coming from the GQP nothing they say can hold water. Very easily debunked.

[blm]

3. Prove it.

[Ocelot II]

4. Can you prove that?

What do you know about your sources, and why do you trust them?

But seriously, I don't think anything will work on a lot of them. People get emotionally invested in what they believe to be true, and the harder you challenge them the more they dig in. Nobody wants to be proven wrong, and if especially if someone has acted in accordance with erroneous beliefs, accepting that those beliefs were incorrect can be so uncomfortable and embarrassing that they will try harder than ever to avoid changing their minds.

[The Magistrate]

8. Unfortunately True, Ma'am

As someone said: "You can't reason a man out of a view he didn't reason himself into."

I do enjoy an approach along the lines of 'Hey, if you were right, sweetheart, you'd be dead in a swamp.'

[gulliver]

13. If they make a mistake and can blame it on their source...

...it increases the odds that they'll accept the truth, imo. For Republican leaders, the underlying assumption is that they know they're lying. They've more than lost the presumption of good faith. So they're fair game and cornering them is not only satisfying but almost a duty.

For others, especially friends and family, I think the assumption should always be that they were misinformed or trusted someone they shouldn't trust in the future.

[lame54]

5. Pull your head out of your ass...

Or is that where your graphs and charts are?

[Mister Ed]

14. I tell 'em to pull their head out of the Foxhole. n/t

[GoodRaisin]

6. "How do you know?"

My favorite.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. "Cite your sources"

That's my favorite, followed by "And fox and Breitbart don't count."

[Atticus]

9. Saw this one yesterday in an article recommended by our Hortensis:

"If they put your (source's) brain into a bumblebee, it would fly backwards and land upside down in a tar pit!"

[Rorey]

10. I just tell them

I get my news from legitimate news sources, not entertainment television like FoxNews and the like.

[marble falls]

12. Yes ...

Before I respond, you tell me who really won the November election.

Better to live in fear than to die in stupidity.

From which University did (MT Greene, Matty Gaetz, Ron Johnson, etc.) get their immunology education?


The 'where did you hear that' is a great showstopper. Shut my loud mouth brother up. He's threatened to send his son to live with us, said he was sounding too much like my wife and myself. He's a good kid, and I got a good room for him, anytime!

[FSogol]

15. I often use, "do you REALLY believe that?"

[Leith]

16. Thanks for this thread

It's a true public service.

[Funtatlaguy]

17. Are you purposefully lying 🤥 or just making it up for fun.