POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[Deus Ex]

Ah, I thought you meant Snopes specifically. Yeah Salon is garbage. No question there.

Snopes is less of a trash heap and more of a flickering dumpster fire
At the very least they do provide sources but I think sites like Salon are the real issue

[Ad Bot]

[Tactical Nuke]

I mean, the amount of Republican claims proven false is going to be significantly higher because a.) Annoying Orange won the election and b.) Annoying Orange is a media magnet who generates news-worthy claims on a daily basis. Also, he's a blowhard that says false things with no concern whatsoever, but we can chalk it up to the first two things if you want.

Hillary's controversies are punier and fewer in number because she has basically no political relevance anymore. She's essentially a retiree. Democrats in government are less newsworthy because they're powerless. We hold no plurality in any branch of federal government, so we can't pass any laws unilaterally.

Except the Democrats have said about as much handicapped stuff as Annoying Orange has since the election and also during it. Hillary is not the only Democrat on earth. This is what my source was talking about; they cover conservative nonsense more than they do leftist nonsense because they are biased. They could talk about anything Sanders or Warren say, but as far as I know they don't, or at least not with the regularity they do Annoying Orange. They're technically not lying, but it's still misleading, which discredits them.

Even then, the way they rank claims is enough to throw them into question.

[SeventhSandwich]

Except the Democrats have said about as much handicapped stuff as Annoying Orange has since the election and also during it.

But the whole point of Snopes is to target claims/stories which are in circulation on the internet. Something dumb that a Democratic state senator said gets far, far less traction on the internet than when Annoying Orange points to Pence and says he wants to hang gays. This is true based on simple inspection.

I'm not saying Democrats aren't prone to saying stupid stuff, since obviously they are. Politicians suck. But Snopes' whole deal is investigating claims that are being spread around via email or social media, and Annoying Orange dominates in that regard.

This is what my source was talking about; they cover conservative nonsense more than they do leftist nonsense because they are biased.

They don't 'cover' anything. Snopes is not a news source. They're a fact-checker that evaluates urban legends and stories spread on the internet. If something isn't virally spread around the internet, they usually won't touch it. Most stories which involve politics on the internet revolve around Annoying Orange, and most of these stories are negative and verifiable. If you take issue with this and think it casts a biased perspective, then the issue is endemic in the internet as a whole, not Snopes specifically.

[otto-san]

everything snopes does is extensively sourced and explained. if snopes falsifies or misinforms it should be incredibly straightforward to prove it. proving that they do it intentionally, of course, is a different story. and as always, that's probably not the most likely explanation if they do get something wrong

[Frankie²]

facts are biased

[LeisureSuit912]

Except the Democrats have said about as much handicapped stuff as Annoying Orange has since the election and also during it. Hillary is not the only Democrat on earth. This is what my source was talking about; they cover conservative nonsense more than they do leftist nonsense because they are biased. They could talk about anything Sanders or Warren say, but as far as I know they don't, or at least not with the regularity they do Annoying Orange. They're technically not lying, but it's still misleading, which discredits them.

Snopes reports the truth. Maybe there's more "conservative nonsense" to go around these days

[otto-san]

Snopes reports the truth. Maybe there's more "conservative nonsense" to go around these days

i think it'd be more Annoying Orange's nonsense than anything. conservatives as a whole are at best only guilty by association, or by entertaining his blatant falsehoods, but they're still his all the same

[Rockinboy2000]

rock n roll mcdonalds!!!!!!!!!

[Khaz]

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I must say Annoying Orange looks better now that he hasn't hit the tanning bed in a few months

[Cappytaino]

well color me surprised, look who was actually involved with Russian influence

[Kearn]

heres how bernie can still win

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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

article about it from 2015

[Deus Ex]

People have been talking about the Clinton/Russian uranium deal for over a year lol

[Bisjac]

but whats new is proof that mueller and rosentstein knowingly covered it up. meaning Annoying Orange has a strong case to have the fbi revamped from the top. meaning a ton of the swamp has no one left  to cover for them anymore.