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Jim Meyer
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Retired Tech Writer and/or bass player currently drinking bourbon while making pizzas and sourdough bread. Blocked by David Sirota over at the Bad Place. Trying to make at least 1 person laugh every day.
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JMtheotherjim.bsky.social

FACT CHECK: 8 years is actually twice as long as 4 years.

Fact check in the NY Times claiming that Joe Biden's remark that Trump created the largest debt in 4 years is misleading because Obama created more debt. In 8 years.
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Jjames-lewis.bsky.social

I guess this means we need to re-elect Trump out of fairness, so he can have the opportunity to sort this all out by beating Obama’s 8-year record?

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Ddandwiggins.bsky.social

I also feel that using "rose" in place of "created" is doing some heavy lifting there. Much of the debt increase under Rump (and Biden) can be tracked to the tax cuts he considers one of his signature moves. Rarely is there such a clear line between president and debt.

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TCdeworde.bsky.social

"That's not 4 years though, why not stick with the other figure about a previous Replu... Ah"

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CBcabroome.bsky.social

No one ever said those four years needed to be contiguous. Check mate

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Nthewesterhazys.bsky.social

This is an all-timer.

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Bbearpondboy.bsky.social

WTActualF?

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BCluminosity.bsky.social

This isn't fact checking. It's whataboutism.

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KKkbkorb.bsky.social

That's remarkably dumb of them. Still, percentage of debt is far better than looking at inflated dollars and comparing them to uninflated dollars.

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MRmrl53.bsky.social

Thank you. We can’t count. Numbers are hard. Civilians killed in war. The toughest to count.

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Mmattheeeee.bsky.social

Hell yeah this is awesome. Everyone gets to be Trump with facts these days. It's fun.

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Jim Meyer
@theotherjim.bsky.social
Retired Tech Writer and/or bass player currently drinking bourbon while making pizzas and sourdough bread. Blocked by David Sirota over at the Bad Place. Trying to make at least 1 person laugh every day.
266 followers432 following1.6k posts