Yeah. It should be beyond easy to add an additional sentence “Gaetz did not provide any names of those he alledged were punished, and CNN was not able to independently confirm that any punishments occured”
Bingo bango you have now done good journalism and reported the facts without directly calling him a liar.
I mean that’s fine but that’s really the minimum and that was the minimum 10 years ago before all these tools showed up. If I was mr cable news network the conversation and story would go like this imo:
CNN: We’re doing a story about gaetz, any comment?
Gaetz team: “Those allegations were not true, have never been true, and the people who spread those lies have been exposed, indicted, and imprisoned”
CNN: Sounds good, we’ll print that but we just need the names of at least 2 of the people that have been indicted and imprisoned for lying about matt gaetz, who are they?
times passes
CNN: prints story, instead of printing the above, print
"The gaetz team denies the allegations and claims that people have been indicted and imprisoned for lying about gaetz allegations, and when asked for names, the gaetz team stopped responding.
The gaetz team response is a lie. No one has been indicted and imprisoned for any of the 158 allegations of misconduct against mr gaetz. The gaetz team also lied about previous allegations on xxx, yyy, and zzz dates."
The media includes that kind of disclaimer now a lot more than they did 10 years ago.
Iowa sees you, Ohio. And theyve put in a raise
He’s just saying what we are all thinking
Do you need some help, Trolly?
It’s amazing how obsessed Republicans are with sex
They’re obsessed with controlling women. The sex part is incidental.
I’ll say this, if I thought women were supporting DEI as a means to “get access to more sperm” or whatever, I’d think they were batshit crazy, too.
We got a thread on this Texas border situation? Just political grandstanding I assume but seems like a potential flashpoint for state/federal conflict
We need an immigration thread imo
Could probably use this one:
They’ve really transitioned from CRT to DEI extremely smoothly. One person tweeted something about DEI, Musk thought it was interesting, and they were off to the races.
Do you think this DEI thing is going to backfire?
No one knows what the fuck CRT is.
Lots of people have exposure to DEI and know it mostly as rainbow cupcakes and women’s events in the work cafe… Seems harder to demonize.
Doesn’t work as a slogan, awkward to say, only really online people know WTF “DEI” even means. I’m not even sure what it stands for, Diversity, E-something, Inclusion?
also people know that DEI is absolutely toothless at their own workplace, hard to think of a shadowy cabal crashing planes from that
Right. I mean, if I were the type of woman who wanted to date guys, I think I would just enroll in male-dominated classes or get a job in those fields and STFU about DEI. Why would I want my company to recruit more competition for me?
