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1 hour ago, Elias Pettersson said:

@nuckin_futz That ski slope is going uphill now….  😊

 

25 million shares traded today and the price has been going up the last 2 days. Gotta figure some people are getting in now at the lower price. 

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Click one of those other timeframes at the top if you want the toboggan run back. One or 2 days is not a trend. 

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Speaking of Trump/Vance lies, a local city manager in Pennsylvania has debunked another one.....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/pennsylvania-official-burst-out-laughing-when-asked-about-recent-trump-falsehood/ar-AA1rbOGr?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=76163f1355834f75a333da8e30360882&ei=25

 

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The New Republic's Greg Sargent recently reached out to Charleroi Borough Manager Joe Manning to ask him about some of former President Donald Trump's claims about Haitian immigrants in his town of Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

It turns out that some of Trump's claims about immigrants in the town were so ludicrous that Manning at one point "burst out laughing" while trying to debunk them.

In particular, Manning was amused by Trump's claim that Charleroi, a town of just 4,000 people, "has seen a 2,000 percent increase in the population" thanks to Haitian immigrants.

n reality, said Manning, the number of Haitians living in the town is "between 700 and 800" and a 2,000 percent increase in population would have put the town's total population closer to 100,000.

Additionally, Manning debunked Trump's claims that the Haitian immigrants were stealing jobs from Americans.

"Many of the Haitians work at a local packaging plant whose owner could not find workers, and went to an employment agency for help," writes Sargent. "That agency got Haitians to come work in the borough."

Manning emphasized that the plant owner is still looking for more workers and that the Haitians who have come to work there "ain't taking anybody's jobs."

What's more, said Manning, the Haitian immigrants have helped revitalize the town as "they have occupied places that were vacant for years because a lot of people moved out of here."

 

 

Straight from the horse's mouth....debunking a lie from the horse's ass.....

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5 minutes ago, RupertKBD said:

Speaking of Trump/Vance lies, a local city manager in Pennsylvania has debunked another one.....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/pennsylvania-official-burst-out-laughing-when-asked-about-recent-trump-falsehood/ar-AA1rbOGr?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=76163f1355834f75a333da8e30360882&ei=25

 

 

Straight from the horse's mouth....debunking a lie from the horse's ass.....

Debunking the lies are easy. The problem is they come so fast and numerous that it's impossible to keep up. Takes 10x the effort to disprove a lie than to say it. 

 

If only more people were intelligent enough to be able to figure it out themselves. 

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3 minutes ago, Duodenum said:

Debunking the lies are easy. The problem is they come so fast and numerous that it's impossible to keep up. Takes 10x the effort to disprove a lie than to say it. 

 

If only more people were intelligent enough to be able to figure it out themselves. 

 

My favorite characterization is this one from Jonathan Swift:

 

Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect…

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1 minute ago, Duodenum said:

Debunking the lies are easy. The problem is they come so fast and numerous that it's impossible to keep up. Takes 10x the effort to disprove a lie than to say it. 

 

If only more people were intelligent enough to be able to figure it out themselves. 

Lying is just part of the process now (though more for some than for others).

 

Why lying by politicians is generally legal

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/09/24/politicians-lying-legal-cases-2024-election

 

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true" U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy 

 

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1 hour ago, RupertKBD said:

 

Vudu? :classic_huh:

 

What is it with these racists and spelling?  I almost spit my covfefe out.....

Time to deport these pieces of shit to Haiti and let the locals deal with them.  I don't care if they have US citizenship, when they spew garbage like this, they lose any right to be treated like actual people in a civilized country.

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