In an article titled ‘Fact-checked: Republican national convention and Trump’s speech‘ a Guardian supposed ‘journalist’ claims to be: “Unpacking false claims made by former President and other speakers as he formally accepted Republican nomination.”
There are a couple of problems with the Guardian’s ‘fact-check’. Firstly, all politicians lie. Pretty much everything the Tories promised when Boris Johnson won his 80-seat majority was a pack of lies – getting Brexit done, reducing immigration by protecting our borders etc. etc. Almost everything Starmer promised in the lead-up to his recent win – reducing immigration by “smashing the evil people-smuggling gangs”, reducing energy costs by replacing cheap and reliable gas power stations with ludicrously-expensive and mostly-useless wind turbines and solar farms, growing the British economy while asphyxiating British companies with the world’s highest energy prices and crushing new labour regulations, and so on – were lies.
Now let’s look at a couple of specific ‘fact-checks’ made by the Guardian:
Trump claims the U.S. has seen the worst inflation ever under Joe Biden
During his speech, Trump claimed that the country has had the worst inflation ever under the Biden administration.
Here’s how the Guardian supposedly debunks Trump’s claim about high inflation under Biden:
This claim is misleading. Biden was in office for record-high inflation in June 2022, when it stood at 9.1% – the highest since 1981. But inflation has also since come down in the past two years.
As far as I can see, the Guardian actually admits that at 9.1% inflation was at a record level under Biden even though it did fall from the record high 9.1%. So, Trump was right.
Now let’s look at another ‘fact-check’ made by the Guardian:
Trump displayed a chart he says shows record-low illegal immigration
Trump pointed to a chart – the one he said he was looking at while a gunman fired shots at the stage during his Pennsylvania rally last Saturday and that he says saved his life – to show that illegal immigration was at record lows in 2021 during his Presidency.
Here’s how the Guardian disputed Trump’s claim:
The chart reportedly comes from a graphic created by the office of Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson’s office, and purports to show monthly encounters with migrants on the U.S.’s south-west border. The claim is misleading. According to Politifact, an arrow on the chart pointing to a low point in encounters is falsely labeled “Trump leaves office”. In fact, this low point was recorded in 2020 at the height of Covid lockdowns. Later, encounters rose. Trump left office in 2021.
First problem is the Guardian claim that “Trump left office in 2021”. In the U.S., the new President is sworn in on either January 20th or 21st. So effectively Trump ceased to be President at the end of 2020. The Guardian is slightly muddying the waters by claiming “Trump left office in 2021” and was therefore partly responsible for the massive rise in immigration in 2021.
The second problem is that the Guardian doesn’t give any figures of annual immigration into the U.S. by year to disprove Trump’s claim oof record-low immigration. So, here’s a chart of ‘Southern Border Apprehensions’:
As you’ll see, there was a massive increase once Biden took office in January 2021. Oops! Looks like the Guardian is lying and Trump is telling the truth.
We all know that Trump often deviates from what’s on the teleprompter and launches into long digressions with a tendency to massive exaggeration. After all, he’s a salesman, not a politician. But I get the feeling that the Guardian‘s supposed ‘fact-check’ is even less truthful than Trump’s claims.
You can have a look at the other ‘fact-checks’ in the Guardian article. But it seems as if the Guardian‘s supposed ‘fact-check’ follows similar high standards of journalistic excellence as the totally discredited BBC Verify.
Many readers will be familiar with the Latin phrase: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? This is usually translated as “Who will guard the guards themselves?” or “Who will watch the watchmen?” Perhaps a modern translation could be something like: “Who will guard us against the garbage spouted by the Guardian?”
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Why don’t they write to their school administration and o their teachers, who are the ones pushing this lunacy?
Better still why don’t they have a word with the boys and girls in their schools pretending they are a different gender and tell them to stop acting up like mental patients.
The solution to these or any of our problems isn’t coming from the government. If we look to government to solve our problems we’re completely screwed.
School Administrators don’t make education policy. It is government who do that. Tyranny is a top down one. Administrators did not remove leather straps. Social Justice people did that and they are now all in government.
“Mixed Loos are ‘Intimidating, Humiliating and Downright Dangerous”
Well knocka me down with a feather! Who knew?
Another day in
world..who the hell would have thought girls would be having to beg and plead to have their own toilets? Who thinks this is a good idea…and why?
…..and where are the useless parents?? Why aren’t they challenging it?
If they can’t be bothered to sort it out and fight for their own children, I’m beginning not to care….
Every f***ing wrong thing in the world can’t only be a problem, and resolved, by people like us…and they are making me less likely to care by their own bloody lack of a spine….
The parents need to band together & make it clear to the headteacher, citing them by name, that as the man or woman (not person – in law it’s very important that little detail) if any girl is assaulted or comes to harm, then they, the individual named man or woman will be held individually liable.
Nothing like forcing accountability to make someone reconsider their action. At the moment, these folk making the decisions are hiding behind bureaucracy & have no personal skin in the game.
This agenda is being implemented because of fear of loss, use that fear of loss to force responsible behaviour.
..absolutely agree…I’m often bewildered by lack of parental interest…I felt the same over masking…class ‘bubbles’ ..and jabs for kids….
…I can’t imagine having young children at school and not organising or helping to organise strikes, non-attendance…anything to force the issue….
I’m seriously thinking that something has been put in jabs, or something that younger..as opposed to older people have taken to make them so blooming spineless and disinterested!!?
Grandparents, aunts, uncles could also serve notice to these named men & women. We the men & women who are awake to this evil agenda need to take a stand for same sex toilets, changing rooms, age inappropriate sex education & all the rest of it. The vast majority of our fellow men & women are still asleep, but just because they are, doesn’t mean that we can’t protect the children.
A lot of the current crop of parents have been well & truly indoctrinated within the
propagandaeducation system so don’t see any problem with what is going on.Good on you BB for posting this advice.
Five girls writing to their head teacher(s) would not have made it into the Mail.
The point is, men don’t like it either. In fact, no one likes it except for activists and they probably are in a position where they don’t have to use public toilets at all.
I have a suggestion for all girls being forced to be humiliated and discounted by their “educators”.
Vile as this sounds, teenage boys cannot actually cope with the unpleasant reality of periods. I suggest Ladies disgusting as it may sound you leave your used sanitary towels and tampons in the entrance over a line in your bathrooms. better still play the boys at their own game a dump the bins of used goods emptied in their toilets. you might want to consider doing it in your teachers toilets too. They might soon get the message.
I would add. if they want to play girl let them deal with the realty
Firm but fair.
Great idea. Reminds me of the tale of Hypatia of Alexandria, a neoplatonist philosopher of the 4th Century AD. In order to dissuade an unwanted suitor she waved her menstrual rags at him, saying something along the lines of “This is what you really love, my young man, for you do not love beauty for its own sake.” The historian Damascius reports that the chap was thoroughly traumatised and stopped his behaviour immediately!
As a parent who has tried to fight against this for my daughters, it’s practically impossible to turn the tide on this: school leadership and local authorities either stonewall or lie to you, Parent Councils are full of people more interested in ingratiating themselves with school leadership than properly representing families, other parents either prioritise virtue-signalling status, are utterly stupid or lack the courage to raise their heads above the parapet (see Covid for plenty of examples), and when you live under an incompetent devolved administration you get zero support from local elected (not by me) morons who would struggle to hold down managerial positions in McDonalds. In the end, we moved house and schools.
And if you want to take legal action you need deep pockets as LAs are very happy to tie up tax payers’ money in wasteful litigation and appeals.
How many know what “Scunnered” means?
Relevance?
Don’t worry there is nothing suspicious about me asking that question, and I am in no way critical of your sensible comment. The reason I ask is that I am from Scotland and I am wondering how many English and others know what “scunnered” means. —You have a nice day now.
Whever thought back 30 years ago that one day little girls would have to plead to government to not allow men into their toilets?
It’s a shame the girls writing to Sunak weren’t called Fatima, Ayesha, Maryam, Adya, and Leah …… he’d take more notice.
They could post this in the loos –
NHS conslutants will only try to sell this to do you if they think you’re a man. And even this only if you go to the doctor regularly enough for no particular reason that someone sees an easy sales opportunity here. I don’t. Hence, these people don’t molest me.
Incredible we’re having to have this conversation in the first instance. As I keep on saying the madness continues net zero, gene therapy treatments, masks, antisocial distancing, lockdowns the list goes on and on. Anyone twigged what’s going on yet?