Fact checkers are essential to upcoming debate

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  1. Balto

    Balto Well-Known Member

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    If Trumps RNC speech was a precursor to anything, it proves fact checkers are necessary to dial down the mans exaggerations. We certainly have reason to believe Trump will exaggerate and deny at the upcoming debate on Tuesday night, he has done it for the past 3 and a half years. Just like that healthcare and black community plan that likely will fail to meet expectations. Having fact checkers report in real time is one of the best ideas any campaign could come up with, to properly educate the American People. Imagine if we had fact checkers when Trump debates Clinton. Maybe people would not have voted off of emotion in 2016.

    You know Trump doesn’t want a real moderator when he tries getting Joe Rogan to moderate a debate. A legit moderator will bing for Trump to elaborate, which Trump isn’t good at without a teleprompter. Be ready to fact check yourself come Tuesday night. The country needs it. Don’t allow yourself to be persuaded by emotion and exaggeration, with little detail, like you were in the last election. A tactic for Biden? Let Trump speak, the man shoots himself in the foot when he is allowed to be unhinged. That’s what every rally is. It e won’t be any different a few nights from now.

    I recommend note taking what you fact check as well, even if it is a half truth. The severity of the exaggeration, and how it contradicts itself. Homework is necessary here. This will allow you to counter anyone who takes what Trump says at face value with factual information. This is how you best beat a misinformation campaign like Trumps. Biden will do some of the correcting, but you, yes you reading this, have to as well.
     
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    sure...but we know that the dems want censors...not fact checkers.
     
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    Kal'Stang Well-Known Member

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    Who facts checks the fact checkers?
     
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    What is essential is to cover up for the fact that Biden is severely brain damaged and so anything that will constantly shut down the ebb and flow of the debate is good as far as the DNC and the leftist-loyal Mainstream Media is concerned.

    That aside, though, people already KNOW that Biden is not really running for the Senate this time around and that he's not really 180 years old and that be did NOT attend an all Black college and . . . so forth and so on. Nobody NEEDS to fact check that stuff rolling from Biden's mouth like a constant flow of dead brain cells diarrhea . . . but it would be funny. Or do our leftists think that they could actually get away with ONLY fact checking . . . Trump?
     
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    Please define COVFEVE for me????
     
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    So it should be easy for the President.
     
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    I would not have them during the debate or all the time will be spent correcting Trump and Biden will not get a chane to speak

    trump lies like most people breathe, it takes too much time to fact-check him live
     
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    Response from Trump supporters: Facts too hard. No have facts.
     
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    A better perspective...


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  10. Balto

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    Honestly, no evidence from the medical community has been released to validate any condition Biden has. Until then, it’s simply opinion that Biden is “severely brain damaged.” even though it has been morphed into appearing like it is factual. Saying 200 million instead of 200,000 isn’t proof either, people misspeak all the time. Biden has also suffered from stuttering as well.you can still hear a bit of that stutter. Again, not proof of severe brain damage.

    Of course someone has to fact check. Exaggerators have to be kept in line.
     
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    Balto Well-Known Member

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    When did simply stating the facts become propaganda?
     
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    Balto Well-Known Member

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    A debate is not a place for theatrics. If you consider that censorship, you are only looking for political entertainment.
     
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    I don't honestly understand the purpose of fact checking. People are going to believe what they what to believe regardless of the validity of what they are believing in.

    "The truth" is almost always different than "my truth" or "your truth".
     
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    Sure it is....from Reagan's comment about age, to the guy running for VP against HW Bush, "I knew Jack Kennedy" line.
     
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    No one states that propaganda and truth is not mutually exclusive.
     
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    Balto Well-Known Member

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    If all you got is theatrics and little detail (i.e Trumps 2016 debate), you don’t have much to offer.
     
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    that’s not uncommon for someone running that’s not an incumbent. Looks at al the little details the biden camp has offered
     
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    Balto Well-Known Member

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    To say if something has been fact checked, it has been propagandized is to insinuate that truth and propaganda is mutually exclusive.
     
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    Now talk about Biden and Clintons lying and appeal to emotion. Or do you really think Trump killed over 200k people?

    According to HC we should have nuked someone by now. And let us no forget AOC, how many years before the world ends?
     
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    Biden lies l8ke most people breathe. It takes too much time to fact check him live.
     
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    Biden should have made real time fact checking (revealed at the end of the debate) a precondition for debating. Because we know Trump will lie and we know Trump lovers will believe every lie he tells.
     
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    These fact checkers, are they the ones that say "Trump was technically right, BUT....", or the ones that add an extra word to the sentence that was never said in the first place which makes it not true?
     
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    In a debate, it is the debater's primary job to fact-check his opponent. Reliance on an outside team to call out bullshit indicates weakness in the candidate. I can see why Biden and his followers want them; because he isn't capable of doing it himself.
     
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    Biden has 180 years of experience, how can he not know a lie and the details to debunk any lie Trump might throw at him?
     
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    I doubt Biden knows where he is most of the time.
     
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