Now, I was having fun here, but this passage, no lie, is probably why I first became opposed to the death penalty.
I was asked recently how to fix this. The solution is simple and has been articulated by many since the start: don’t carry anything he says, live, but record it and report on it with rigorous fact checking from the first coverage.
When people say Trump is a liar, that's not a moral judgment. It's a verifiable fact. A recent speech by Trump included 162(!) misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That's more than two lies per minute. www.npr.org/2024/08/11/n...
A team of NPR reporters and editors reviewed the transcript of last Thursday's news conference and found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes.
If you're worried about brevity in your writing, don't. It took Project 2025 nine hundred pages to say fourteen words.
too many people got this idea into their head that being an ethical and open minded person on the internet means letting a bunch of remorseless blithering assholes screech at you whenever they want
I can't stop rereading this. Two warring monkey gangs, hierarchy charts, arrests. What a time to be alive