As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.
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If his biology of accelerating cognitive impairment, impulsivity & emotional dysregulation gets any brighter it will rival the sun.
All of the above can & have been objectively observed (some even quantified) & described by clinicians.
This isn’t Goldwater personality stuff.
POTUS has brain disease.
started to watch but - after seeing so many assholes in one room- i decided i would go shopping and load up on hemorrhoid cream - maybe i can resell it back to republicans and trumpstres with 35% tariff imposed
I don't plan to watch. If my Sicilian intuition is correct, Musk will either be invited on stage or will just show up and start talking. He'll wear sunglasses to hide the Ketamine high.
Both men will lie a lot.
Dems should have Boycotted it.
The Dems should have their own state of the union on the Capitol steps tonight and take the attention away from Trump!
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Might as well just post: "THAT WAS A LIE...THAT WAS A LIE...THAT WAS A LIE..." on a scroll at the bottom of the screen during the whole rant...I mean speech.
Fact-checking doesn’t mean shit to people who don’t give a shit about facts. You’re preaching to the converted, and the MAGA idiots will remain unmoved.
Fact checkers are going to be busy. PS recall this:
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, enacted on December 22, 2023, prohibits the President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO without approval of a two-third Senate super-majority or an act of Congress.
@npr.org while you fact check please call a lie a lie. I need to see all of your journalists use the English language accurately and boldly. Thank you for reading this, and good luck as we all move towards a better world.
Yes, but fact checking him is a waste. He’s going to lie. Spend time writing the piece about what the lie is and then the truth. However many journalists are going to be used to fact check. Take turns and then write the story on each one. Too many? Pick the most egregious ones and go from there.
Writing what the lie is and then explaining the truth is fact checking. So you're saying that it's a waste and then describing fact checking as what you think they should be doing.
They did plenty of fact checking the first time. It’s at best a paragraph saying why it’s not true, or misleading. So much space is wasted when you know everything will be a lie. It’s exhaustive work for the reporters because it’s a firehouse of nonsense and no one really gets anything out of it.
Why bother fact checking? The current administration is going to call it fake, kick you out of the Oval Office, whitewash it, or try to take your jobs!🤬
Boycott the Nazi SOTU. Deprive the fat, fascist traitor of all attention and give it the lowest ratings in modern history. Make it sky scream out it's pathetic derangement on Lies Social for all to see.
Hold the effing “context“, will you? Report what he says. Then, if the spirit moves you, report how effed up this is going to be for the average Americans
Democrats should not attend Trump’s joint address to Congress tomorrow. No way. Trump is siding with Putin & siding against the free world. Trump & Musk are defying the Constitution daily. Democrats must make a statement that NONE of this is acceptable. They must boycott his speech.
I can save NPR lots of money…send all your employees home to enjoy their evening, maybe catch up on some laundry or perhaps watch a new show on Netflix…because everything Trump will say is a lie!! He will twist and distort common sense and it will be just a hate filled MAGA rally rant!
Fact check the President? What for? It’s not like Trump lies each and everytime sounds come out of his mouth!! Sometimes, he’s just lip-smackin’ on a hamburger.
WE don't need fact checking, THEY need to accept facts. We know he's a liar and "everything is someone elses fault!" ... I'm not watching that shit show but I DO LOVE NPR.
Lemmy save y'all some work: the context for everything is a deranged dictator is lying about everything to feel important, make money for himself & his false friends while his technazi handler works on building a 'master race' by killing off millions - all with Master Putin's blessing.
The Trilateral Statement,signed in Jan.1994,under which Ukraine agreed to transfer the nuclear warheads to Russia for elimination.In return,Ukraine received security assurances from the United States,Russia and Britain.
What Happened To Ukraine Security Assurances for giving up their nuclear power?
There will be facts? Don't bother. Interview people hurt by his callus disregard for others. He thrives on attention, even negative attention. Don't give it to him.
Nah. You guys will pretend his promises mean something and sanewash his statements. Remember when you called his mass deportations a “housing policy” and said RFK will fight “chronic diseases”?
Thank you and good luck. I'll check for the article/info tomorrow. 9 pm is past my bedtime, and even if it wasn't, I'm absolutely not going to stroke his ego by watching him on tv.
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All of the above can & have been objectively observed (some even quantified) & described by clinicians.
This isn’t Goldwater personality stuff.
POTUS has brain disease.
Both men will lie a lot.
Dems should have Boycotted it.
@aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXVTYS3R
From Don the convict will tell lies, every god damn word will be a lie!
There!!
I wish that wasn't true and I support you doing the People's work.
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, enacted on December 22, 2023, prohibits the President from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO without approval of a two-third Senate super-majority or an act of Congress.
Suck it,Cheeto
Every word is a lie.
Done!
I need “a quantum of solace”.
come fast and furious. One right after the other.
Not even the fact checkers can’t keep up.
“Why can’t American families be more like the Goebbels and less like the Simpsons”
Very busy.
The article, along with extra links, is in this Bluesky thread. Tap above the 'article pic' and scroll ⏬
INTEGRITY
ACCOUNTABILITY
EMPATHY
VISION
COMMUNICATES CLEARLY
SELF AWARENESS
HUMILITY
PASSION
FLEXIBILITY
OF WHICH, TRUMP DOES NOT POSSESS EVEN ONE QUALITY.
General disorder
turmoil, mayhem,
anarchy, pandemonium,
bedlam, havoc
disarray, confusion,
mess, jumble, shambles
upheaval, instability,
turbulence, frenzy, commotion
What Happened To Ukraine Security Assurances for giving up their nuclear power?
I’m willing to bet that even Grok will start smoking after the first few words.
A MASS WALKOUT, LEAVING ONLY ONE PERSON STILL LISTENING
https://americareformed.substack.com/p/breaking-democratic-plan-for-trumps
I would love to be wrong.