1. A central argument of Trump's campaign is that there is a violent crime wave fueled by undocumented immigrants
The DATA shows the opposite is true. Violent crime is plummeting.
So Trump fills his stump speech with anecdotes of crimes committed by migrants, pinning the blame on Biden and Harris.
Trump claims if he wins in November, those crimes will stop.
But there were similar crimes committed during Trump's presidency.
Trump blamed Democrats.
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2. "Our crime rate is going up while crime statistics all over the world are plunging," Trump told the crowd at the Turning Point Action Conference last week in West Palm Beach, Florida. "We have a new form of crime. It's called migrant crime."
3. The crime rate in the United States is not "going up" — it is sharply declining. Violent crime has declined or remained flat every year of the Biden administration. The last time violent crime increased on an annual basis was 2020, when homicides spiked during the last year of Trump's presidency.
1. Robby Starbuck has convinced major corporations to cancel programs supporting LGBTQ employees & customers
He is also a CONSPIRACY THEORIST and ANTI-LGTBQ EXTREMIST
Starbuck has suggested, for example, that CHEMICALS IN TAP WATER ARE TURNING KIDS "GAY"
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2. Starbuck first targeted @TractorSupply, complaining that the company displayed “Pride month decorations in the office,” funds Pride events, and engages in “DEI hiring practices.”
3. Starbuck claims that “[e]vents built around the kind of sex people like to have should not have kids at them and should not be funded with the money we spend at Tractor Supply."
The idea that, in 2024, a Pride parade is a subversive event that requires discussing the “kind of sex you like” is a fringe belief.
But Starbuck has a history of embracing fringe conspiracy theories.
3. According to Lummis, her plan to purchase Bitcoin would "cut our debt in half by 2045."
Even if the federal debt did not grow at all in the next 20 years, the price of Bitcoin would need to increase by 250 times to halve the current debt of $34 trillion.
In other words, the price of one Bitcoin would have to increase from $68,000 to $17,000,000.
1. Are J.D. Vance's views on women and children "weird"
Follow this thread for an overview
Then decide
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2. Yes, Vance said Harris and other leaders who don't have children are "childless cat ladies" who "don't really have a direct stake" in the country. (Harris has two step-children)
A few months later, Vance said that Harris and others who don't have kids "want to take our kids and brainwash them so that their ideas continue to exist in the next generation."
3. In a 2021 speech, Vance suggested that anyone without children should be excluded from leadership positions.
“Why is this just a normal fact of … life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?”
3. Then, on February 26, the Arkansas Times-Democrat reported that Get Loud had successfully registered 358 people to vote across the state.
Following the publication of the article, Thurston flipped on his decision to accept electronic signatures and advised county clerks like the one in Camden County to refuse to accept any registrations that didn’t come with a physical, “wet” signature.
1. Eugene Ramirez, the lead anchor of @WeAreSinclair's national evening news broadcast, resigned this year over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air, three sources told Popular Information.
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2. The sources, one current and two former Sinclair employees, said one of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez's resignation was the mandate to include 3 stories produced by Sinclair's Rapid Response Team each night.
One current Sinclair employee described the RRT as "the right-wing propaganda arm of the national digital operation."
3. Through July 4, 2024, the RRT has produced 147 stories this year that portray Democrats in a negative light and just 7 stories that portray Democrats positively.
Over the same time period, the RRT has produced 57 stories that portray Republicans positively and 22 that portray Republicans negatively.