cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/23108955

“I was prepared to go on stage to craft a statement, saying he decided not to go on stage because of fact-checking… we couldn’t compromise on that.”

As [NABJ president Ken] Lemon was preparing that statement, Trump walked onto the stage.

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        It’s a small thing, but when you watch it he stopped himself from saying “went black” and instead said “turned black”. They’re both pretty bad, but I just think it’s funny that in his mind “turned black” was the way to say it.

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          I suspect the guy is so old, racist, and dementia riddled that he can’t tell Nikki Haley and Kamala Harris apart. That would somewhat explain the “turned black” comment.

  • @[email protected]
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    Refuses to go if fact checked. Provides a bullshit excuse for not going, gets immediately fact checked about it.

    Suck it, Damn Old Trump

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      It’s so fucking annoying that the propagandists have already brainwashed his base into believing that fact checking is just “media lying” so they actively want Trump to refuse any fact checking…

      We see it for the shit it is, and they like it. It doesn’t hurt him at all.

    • @[email protected]
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      Trump won over a sizeable amount of black voters (or arguably Biden lost a historical amount; likely both) as well as Hispanic voters. Racists are not likely to change their vote from Trump. Racialized people who began leaning towards Trump might if his racism is spotlighted, and that seems to be exactly what’s happening.

      Trump is the leading candidate for president of the United States. He already has a platform and is going to make the front page. Stop being obtuse.

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    Kinda off topic, but I appreciate how nice and clean Axios is without an adblocker, and how concise and bait free the articles (mostly) are.

    I don’t know how they stay sane and still make money, when the rest of the internet is worse than the Idiocracy TV.

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      It’s not quite the self-report that you think it is. Refusing to accept fact checking is a rational decision in the hypothetical framework that the participant is being honest and the checker is unreliable or dishonest.

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        33 months ago

        I doubt he’s capable of such a complex thought

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            33 months ago

            Sure, but I was referring to how I doubt he’s capable of thinking of others beyond himself.

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          “I’m right. Everybody who disagrees with me is wrong. ‘fact checkers’ disagree with me, so they must be lying.” Is well within the person woman man camera TV brain.

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    I can find some comfort that at least inviting both candidates was the norm and the invite extended to Trump wasn’t a special one.

    However, if anyone there was expecting anything other than the Trump campaign causing problems and blaming the hosts for it, I don’t know what to say to them.

  • @[email protected]
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    He should’ve just taken the L and 2hrs of news saying he refused to go on due to fact checking, but here we are lol

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  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    Huh. “Audio issues” must mean " I said things and they didn’t instantly accept them as facts".

    What a way that live.