bigredfish
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See, here's the problem.
Liberals see a headline on Twatter or Farcebook put out by the Junta and/or deranged MSM, and call it fact forever with little or no investigating the actual story themselves. That would require work, effort.
Then a few days goes by and the adults actually look into said headline and find, it might just be bullshit. But the liberal never gets there in his head, because the echo chamber of Twatter and Farcebook must be right, right?
US Official Refutes Arizona Prosecutors' Claims About Rioters Plans To "Capture & Assassinate" Politicians | ZeroHedge
Having already seen DHS refute the FBI's fearmongering over "online chatter", noting that there were in fact "no credible threats," the top Federal prosecutor has just been forced to refute what appears be lies about strong evidence about assassination squads in The Capitol by Arizona state prosecutors.
Having made every mainstream media's news-cycle today, and done a great job of ratcheting up the fear to '11':
Another example
Factcheck anyone? Call the DC Capitol Police, they can confirm (Oh, and Bloomberg)
Rush To Judgment On Trump? Multiple Leftists Arrested For Capitol Riot | ZeroHedge
Even the press is starting to notice that the pieces aren't fitting together. Rather than a picture of all wicked and crazed Trump supporters, charging the Capitol, leftist news outfit Bloomberg reported that its survey of various parties involved, including those who died or were arrested, didn't paint the desired picture. Conclusion?
Many of those shown in news footage had no party affiliation and voted sporadically, if at all.