A consistent thing that happens when you fact-check Trump is that some of Trump’s defenders dismiss the lie by pointing to some underlying truth that Trump didn’t say and accusing you of ignoring it.
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it's just a mechanism to protect their sense of normalcy (or they're terrible people, depending)
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It's also weird that most of the time they point to something else that's also untrue.
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A modern day Nostrodamus. The gibberish is translated to something meaningful in the mind of the listener.
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Makes me wonder if even they know what he says is often beyond the pale. They’ve just hitched themselves to him so completely that they assume he must have meant something more palatable rather than confront the fact that they support a monster.
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Call is Newspeak, doublespeak or just what is —
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Whataboutism
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Tribalism also is people circulating some half-cocked conspiracy theory. To response with link to <fact-checking source>, they say: "I don't believe <fact-checking source>. They lie." To tribalists, truth = want to hear it; lie = don't want to hear it.
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Confirmation bias
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