Actually, misleading implies that there’s some kernel of truth. DEI had ZERO percent to do with it. Lie is the only appropriate word. Falsehood if you’re nasty.
Oh, I was not defining cockwomble as a lying liar - that’s in addition to: (noun) A person, usually male, prone to making outrageously stupid statements and/or inappropriate behaviour while generally having a very high opinion of their own wisdom and importance.
The most significant point of this is that Trump can't distinguish a plausibility argument from an evidence based opinion, a distinction that children learn around the age of 7. Trump has the reasoning ability of a 5 year old child.
Who doesn't remember all the plane crashes that happened while Biden was president? We couldn't go a week without a plane falling directly on a school. I myself died in the horrific Bowling Green crash.
I basically screamed at NPR on Instagram for calling his disgusting remarks "apparently baseless assertions." Apparently???? The word "lies" seems to be beyond all of them.
As I understand it pilots and tower personell have for many years made the politicians aware that the air traffic in the area is so complex that a disaster like this was inevitable. No matter how competent the people involved, mistakes happen. This was a case of no margin for errors.
It's time to stop being mad about NYT. Unsubscribe, block, don't click.
People from the center-right to all the way left, wide-eyed and clear on what is right, wrong, sane, and insane, need to find new outlets or make them. We don't have time to waste on this; we need to move on and forward.
Trump is racking up a body count. Again. We need to start dealing with that sh*t and stop hoping news media or feckless @democrats.org will do it for us.
Would like to congratulate the @nytimes.com for their help in electing Trump, which lead to the deaths of American soldiers & citizens. Not even Goebbels achieved that!
I am a little bit of a language pedant and get unreasonably annoyed by corporate jargon. “Utilize” as a verb has always bothered me. Why can’t people just use a plain, honest word like “use”. Corporate obfuscation may be a difference in kind and not degree, but I feel a mini moral outrage.
News outlets don’t want to get sued. If they said he lied they’d have to prove he knew otherwise which they don’t want to have to do because lawsuits are expensive and long and they’re unlikely to win.
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Infuriating. Journalism deserves better.
The cockwomble (thank you, Scotland) is a lying liar, also a decades-long habit. Though in his case it’s many more decades.
I'm convinced.
Unfortunate. "What I think he meant by that." DEI. (Not a word, but sick of the obsession.)
If that's still too long, we can shorten it down to an acronym, we can call it a L.I.E.
"macht irreführende Aussagen".
(just a few ideas from Collins dictionary)
Racist old man got real racist again today!
Saying that I’m cutting down on my drinking by not drinking beer - but I put some grain alcohol in my Kambucha - would be misleading.
If I was drinking beer and I told you I was drinking fizzy water - that would be a lie.
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If his mouth is moving, he’s lying.
Most media phrased it as a question rather than a statement.
Pathetic.
Or
Plebicolist: Someone who courts the favor of the common people, a populist, a demagogue.
From: Grandiloquent Words by Jason Travis Ott
People from the center-right to all the way left, wide-eyed and clear on what is right, wrong, sane, and insane, need to find new outlets or make them. We don't have time to waste on this; we need to move on and forward.
I'm sure if I ignore them their influence will entirely disappear overnight and there will be no point in caring about how they frame our world.
we might as well have catalogued those over the PAST 4(0) years
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new-york-times-style-guide-substitutions-for-the-president-lied
That fucker knew what he was doing, stirring up his hate to blame anyone who isn't a white man for the countries issues
Most of our electorate have no idea what DEI even means at this point, just as happened with “woke.”