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Chris Hayes
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This is a perfect example of how the fact checking genre goes off the rails as it moves from fairly straightforward descriptive claims (% of households earning a living wage) to more normative ones ("it's wrong" that Walmart gets a "wealth transfer")

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
The first part is about whether a majority of the country doesn't make a living wage is itself pretty complicated, but the complexity is acknowledged and you end up with a decent sense of the data.
By the third part you get "Economic theory generally assumes..." and you're in extremely contested territory that's just outside what this kind of piece should be doing.
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I haven’t seen the broad conservative coalition as fired up about a story since Kavanaugh. Pretty interesting.
The most vital privilege in American life is due process, second chances and the grace to have your actions read charitably. I understand why people will fight like hell to preserve it, but probably worth thinking about all the people who do not have those privileges at all.
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Chris Hayes
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Trump has shut down the government because he promised Mexico would pay for a wall that of course they won't pay for. Also the idea, as he sold it, is very stupid and unworkable and no one wants it.
Many if not most of Republicans in congress *know this* but they can't say it because they need to pretend the President didn't propose something stupid. So they've all been trying to switch the topic to "border security" in a broad sense.
But border security funding and staffing has been going up *for years*, all that as apprehensions have come down! That's not the issue. That's not why the gov is shut down. The $ the WH wants is a stand in for THE WALL, the very stupid idea the president sold to everyone.
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Serious question: is there actuall proposed legislative language about what "The Wall" is and/or what the 5.6 billion would go towards that the WH has drafted? Like, what does the bill text for that appropriation look like?
OK, so here's the legislative language from the House version. HR 695 SEC 141, ready for this?
"Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, there is appropriated for ‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements’ $5,710,357,000 for fiscal year 2019, to remain available until September 30, 2023."
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#Fact 1 - The Wage Gap is real. People who says it's not haven't read the data.

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