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malaise

(268,931 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:14 AM Jan 2017

My dear DUers - there are no alternative facts

The sun rises in the East - any other view is bullshit - it's alternative reality.

Joy Reid is nailing it this morning

fact
fakt/
noun
noun: fact; plural noun: facts

a thing that is indisputably the case.
"the most commonly known fact about hedgehogs is that they have fleas"
synonyms: reality, actuality, certainty; More
truth, verity, gospel
"it is a fact that the water is polluted"
antonyms: lie, fiction
used in discussing the significance of something that is the case.
noun: the fact that
"the real problem facing them is the fact that their funds are being cut"
a piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article.
synonyms: detail, piece of information, particular, item, specific, element, point, factor, feature, characteristic, ingredient, circumstance, aspect, facet; information
"every fact was double-checked"

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My dear DUers - there are no alternative facts (Original Post) malaise Jan 2017 OP
Seriously!!! bravenak Jan 2017 #1
Ridicule their bullshit malaise Jan 2017 #2
AM Joy is good today. She is teaching about 'reality' and 'facts'. :) bravenak Jan 2017 #4
Well needed malaise Jan 2017 #7
All the talking heads need to take note... AuntPatsy Jan 2017 #3
Indeed there are not. MineralMan Jan 2017 #5
I keep telling people that there is no such thing as Republican SamKnause Jan 2017 #6
You are correct malaise Jan 2017 #10
Yep, sunrise is in the East. You can't be fair and balanced and split the difference either. dalton99a Jan 2017 #8
I can't take this crap malaise Jan 2017 #11
There's some Republican voters out there who think EVERYTHING is an opinion. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #9

MineralMan

(146,286 posts)
5. Indeed there are not.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:20 AM
Jan 2017

We are not using Newspeak in the United States yet. Trump wants us to, of course. We must resist.

SamKnause

(13,091 posts)
6. I keep telling people that there is no such thing as Republican
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:20 AM
Jan 2017

facts and Democratic facts.

There are only facts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Republicans wouldn't know a fact if it slapped them in the face.

Republicans are EVIL !!!

They destroy everything they touch !!!!

They want to turn the America into a police state Theocracy controlled by Wall Street.

Fuck them all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
9. There's some Republican voters out there who think EVERYTHING is an opinion.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:23 AM
Jan 2017

At least among their "useful idiots."

I've heard comments like, "I don't believe in the myths of science."

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