@return2ozma to politics • 1 month agoTrump says military 'turned on the water' in California. State officials say that's false.www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square10arrow-up196arrow-down14cross-posted to: news
arrow-up192arrow-down1external-linkTrump says military 'turned on the water' in California. State officials say that's false.www.usatoday.com@return2ozma to politics • 1 month agomessage-square10cross-posted to: news
minus-square@Ensign_CrablinkEnglish22•1 month agoSo the complicit press is back to tapdancing around calling the lies he tells lies, I see.
minus-squareShadowRamlinkfedilink12•1 month agoThat’s always been the case. They can’t say he lied, because that would be libel and they’d have to prove that he lied. Which is basically impossible unless said person has it documented somewhere that they confess to lying.
minus-square@Ensign_CrablinkEnglish10•1 month agoThis is how we got the Iraq War. No one called gwb a liar when he lied.
minus-square@thallamabondlink9•1 month agoMaybe nobody in america, but that’s how we got freedom fries! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq_War)
minus-squareShadowRamlinkfedilink2•1 month agoI mean the entire UN said they didn’t believe him. It had already came out before the start of the war that Colin Powell’s presentation was plagarisized by some kids school report That’s why Canada told US to pound sand on invading Iraq. No one was fooled except for the US and British people.
minus-square@Ensign_CrablinkEnglish2•1 month agoI was talking in the context of the American press. More broadly than that context and I agree.
So the complicit press is back to tapdancing around calling the lies he tells lies, I see.
That’s always been the case.
They can’t say he lied, because that would be libel and they’d have to prove that he lied.
Which is basically impossible unless said person has it documented somewhere that they confess to lying.
This is how we got the Iraq War.
No one called gwb a liar when he lied.
Maybe nobody in america, but that’s how we got freedom fries!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing_(Iraq_War)
I mean the entire UN said they didn’t believe him.
It had already came out before the start of the war that Colin Powell’s presentation was plagarisized by some kids school report
That’s why Canada told US to pound sand on invading Iraq.
No one was fooled except for the US and British people.
I was talking in the context of the American press. More broadly than that context and I agree.