{"id":89438,"date":"2025-03-27T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89438"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:30:23","slug":"fact-check-for-the-feckless-and-factless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89438","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check For The Feckless And Factless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Honestly, with some of these lefty s**tpost farms, I&#8217;m not sure why I bother fact-checking anything.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t care, and they bank on their audience not caring as well.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s always the off chance that I&#8217;ll catch someone who hasn&#8217;t checked <em>all&nbsp;<\/em>of their brain in at the lefty claim check, who&nbsp;<em>is&nbsp;<\/em>looking for an honest answer to a stupid question. <\/p>\n<p>To wit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 let this sink in: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ec5lirzViw\">pic.twitter.com\/Ec5lirzViw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \ud83c\udf2e PrevTsGhost (@prevtsghost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prevtsghost\/status\/1903683627323629888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s get this straight:\u00a0 in the past 60 years, the United States has spent <em>$22 Trillion dollars<\/em> &#8211; more than the annual gross domestic product of China, or about 3\/4 of a year&#8217;s GDP of the USA &#8211; to &#8220;eradicate poverty&#8221; and its effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, on top of all that spending (which is ongoing, and has accelerated well ahead of inflation), taking a small tax onto the small number of billionaires is what it&#8217;ll\u00a0<em>ackshyually\u00a0<\/em>take to fix the problem?<\/p>\n<p>Huh.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been <em>so close<\/em>, all along!<\/p>\n<p>OK.\u00a0 <em>Now\u00a0<\/em>let it sink in.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then press flush.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, with some of these lefty s**tpost farms, I&#8217;m not sure why I bother fact-checking anything.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t care, and they bank on their audience not caring as well.&nbsp; But there&#8217;s always the off chance that I&#8217;ll catch someone who hasn&#8217;t checked all&nbsp;of their brain in at the lefty claim check, who&nbsp;is&nbsp;looking for an honest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89448,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89438\/revisions\/89448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}