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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Regardless of who is doing it, if there’s any hope for us we need to rid ourselves of notions like “fact checkers”, or at least the notion that they are “authoritative”. Always caveat emptor, and ask yourself cui bono?
If anything appears in the media with a label attached declaring it has been fact-checked I immediately ignore the fact check. Nowadays the chances of anything in the MSM being accurate or true are remote which is why I don’t bother with it.
Infact it is likely to not only not be true, it is liable to be the opposite of what is true.
Absolutely
increasingly, it seems, ‘fact checks’ are simply a means to bolster a lie…
Indeed.
The World Health Organisation doesn’t even understand what a fact is:
“FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.
The #coronavirus is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks.”
https://x.com/WHO/status/1243972193169616898?lang=en
It was never a fact that “COVID19 is NOT airborne”. The WHO made this claim in March 2020, so it’s understandable that their theory turned out to be wrong, but what’s not understandable is that they claimed their theory was a fact. It was never a fact that “COVID19 is NOT airborne”. The WHO doesn’t know the difference between a theory, or a belief or opinion, and a fact.
Flying viruses don’t exist. Fact checked by reality.
Well I sadly suspect that the WHO knew very well they had no basis for saying that, but it suited them to do so. As soon as it’s “airborne” then the whole “pandemic” game changes.
Dr Mike Yeadon explaining that viruses don’t exist and what was allegedly causing the “pandemic” was nothing more than re-badged ‘flu.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-pfizer-vp-michael-yeadon-explains-why-theres-no-evidence-for-the-existence-of-any-viruses/
Correctly – SARS CoV 2 like all respiratory viruses are transmitted by airborne aerosols.
Droplets in any case are airborne.
The difference is, aerosols linger suspended in the air – and don’t rely just on sneezing and coughing – for hours and can circulate and can accumulate (Indoor spaces), whereas droplets quickly fall to the ground under the effect of gravity.
Respiratory viruses have evolved this way because it makes them more successful.
Galileo Galilei was once fact-checked, too.
…eppur si muove
Back then Galileo with his new fangled science and his dodgy telescope threatened the authority of the Church. Ironic then that today it is science that is King, and it is Government and their “scientists” whose authority is threatened.
Scientism. Comte’s unholy ‘Church of Science’ realised.
Galileo was more fraud than ‘the science’. He proved nothing. He recanted before he died. The Church simply asked for proof. None was forthcoming.
391 years ago. Give the guy a break. As we know, challenging the orthodoxy is tough and those in charge had nasty methods at their disposal.
Which of us is completely sure of all our facts. He was correct on a great many things.
Odd that, because he wrote a note to a friend complaining he offered evidence and nobody would look at it – not even look down his telescope at the Moon.
The Church knew he was correct- they had their own scientists. It was about maintaining authority, not truth.
“There is no Climate Crisis”. ——–Yes I read that earlier in the year. Just as I read everything on the climate fraud. It seems that if Government Bureaucrats in conjunction with the data adjusters that they fund say there is a “climate crisis” then somehow it must be true, because all “scientists agree”. But things are never true because a bunch of people all agree. They are only true if they can be demonstrated to be so and at present there is no increase anywhere in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. So where is this “crisis”?———–PS All scientists do not agree anyway, far from it.
There is a climate crisis. It is late July and I am sat here in a sweater, cold, 18c, with strong winds. Where is the boiling we were promised?
Activists will tell you that the UK is not the globe.
If so-called climate change is indeed a global phenomenon, its effects must occur globally. And this means really globally, ie, there must be local effects everywhere, not just mathematically globalized fake effects like averaged temperature measurements.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? comes from a satirical poem about female maritial infidelity: It’s useless to post a guard to the entry of the rooms of the woman in question because this just gives both a golden opportunity to do exactly what posting the guard was supposed to prevent. Posting the Guardian to a woman suspected of a fondness for extramaritial affairs ought to be harmless in this respect. But it might count as cruel and unusual punishment.
How will Trump’s return to The White House be stopped.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/how-can-they-stop-trumps-return-to-the-white-house/
The nightmare scenario that I have been warning about outlined by John le Seur at TCW.
This is why Kamala is being “given” the gig – the election won’t happen but Lockdowns will and as I have forecast with a financial crash and a Scamdemic running alongside.
“The pandemic of course will create a lockdown, and the cancelling of elections until it is over. Which it never will be.”
1984 incoming.
John has a pretty bleak forecast. Hard to understand why the ‘elites’ want to crash the US and turn it into Africa. I can’t see Russia, India or Chyna following suit now, given they are allies and that we have a bipolar world heading into WW3. Why would enemies follow your suicide?
We can understand the poison mRNAs, LDs and face anus wraps for the ‘bird flu’ or some other fictitious non-entity to steal the election and last the winter. That is after all what Rona was mainly about. But unlikely they would cancel the election, that would lead to more problems than a solution.
Financial obliteration could happen, but that has been predicted every year since 2008. The endless war is too profitable, along with climate change thingy, why would they destroy that by allowing the financial system to fail? There is prob U$100 trillion in private wealth, they could do a Henry VIII and force a ‘loan’ to stabilise finances and the markets. Christ, Bezos and Kill Gates could float the US gov’t a few lifelines lasting years.
Beyond stealing the election a la 2020,why would the globalists bring down ‘The West’ and leave the rest? Are the elites planning to move to Chyna?
More likely is a dystopia of increased control, more corruption, war, scamdemics and money mongering and laundering. I don’t think the Davos set is intending suicide.
Maybe.
Scamdemic ll is a certainty. Scores of factories have been built across the world for mRNA production and I still believe it will happen before Christmas 2024. The push to jab everyone will be nasty.
A financial crash looks a near certainty. In the UK Labour are threatening to bankrupt the country within twelve months. Technically we are pretty much broke anyway.
And a war is always a good excuse for total control.
Food shortages look like they are being planned. Bliar in particular has form in this respect with his foot and mouth disease. This time it will start with chickens and then on to cattle. A complete freeze on food imports should seal it all nicely.
Deagel forecasts show UK population at 25 million in 2025.
The thousands of illegal immigrants are quite possibly an army as I have posted countless times.
The back end of this year is going to be cruel and tough.
Kneel has been installed as overseer.
I’m sure that I’ve seen somewhere that ‘bird flu’ has already jumped into cattle, so you may well be right… sorry I can’t find the source atm.
Yes H5N1 has “jumped” from birds to cattle but strangely enough the cattle aren’t poorly and only testing reveals they have the “illness.”
Sounds familiar…
I think your “dystopia of increased control, more corruption, war, scamdemics and money mongering and laundering” (which I consider likely) is not far from “bringing down the West” – certainly we will continue the levelling down to 2nd/3rd world levels we are currently engaged in. I guess if you’re an elite you may prefer to preside over a decent country not a shitshow, but you might compromise on screwing up that country enough to enable you to rule it and not be challenged. Why do tyrants in 3rd world countries not seem to be interested in improving their countries?
I think our decline will be long and slow, but not less sad for it.
This just demonstrates that Trump’s supporters are exactly as apocalyptically hysterical as his opponents.
In a democracy, we don’t do differences of opinion among people who could all be wrong anymore! No, no, no, sir! It’s the terminal fight between the forces of light and darkness again and whole world again hangs in balance, no less! Make sure you save it by ticking a box!
That’s obviously sarcasm. More often than not, I wish the whole lot would just vanish.
just how can you state President Trump not a politician? He ran for and elected President of the United States.
You need some fact checking.
But he is not a politician… that’s why he gets so much support. He is a property developer.
Why after years of false information, misinformation, would anyone continue to listen or read msm? Turn it off it serves no purpose.
Because those who listen to or read the MSM don’t listen to or read anything else so they don’t know they are being lied to all the time.