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And just in case you think he meant Snopes, he did not. He said Snopes and then a separate website that he's never heard of before since he just made it up called Snoops.

“She talked about the Charlottesville hoax,” Trump said while complaining that the debate moderators did not fact-check Harris. “And these people did nothing about it, which has been totally debunked, as they say, by Snopes and snoops and everybody else. Hey, go look it up. Go to snoops, whatever the hell that is. No, I hear that’s a liberal site and they came out totally in favor of me. That’s got to be a bad thing, but they said they gave you a total phony stories.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-urges-supporters-to-visit-nonexistent-site-go-to-snoops-whatever-the-hell-that-is/

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can we skip to the part where he shoots someone in the middle of 5th Ave and nobody cares?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plot twist- its Vance, and nobody cares

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is it really a twist when it's a part of the script?

[–] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Believe it or no, plot twists are scripted 65%.

This is totally true. I read it on snoops

[–] Corgisocks@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I think Trump would be too scared to actually fire a gun.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

To be fair, if you do go over to Snoop's he WILL set you straight.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My great aunt also called it Snoops, and it irked me that she saw the logo a million times and never once questioned her pronunciation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But he's not even calling Snopes that name. He's saying it's a completely different website!

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, somehow I glazed over that part.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's what elevates this from stupid mistake to weird.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is definitely what he means and they got a ton of shit for that article because it's a bunch of "well this didn't literally happen this specific way so it isn't true." That's why they had to put that note at the beginning.

[–] mattd@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah it’s bullshit. One side was entirely white supremacists because that’s what the Unite the Right rally was

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Oh, good, all the reddit-brained morons I used to argue with on /r/politics will finally accept that DJT thinks people who say snopes.com is a liberal website are wrong. For once, we agree.

[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Reading that quote just gave me an aneurysm.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why are "make housing affordable again" and "no tax on tips" the only two policies important enough to print on the background behind him? Is AZ overly concerned with the pay structure of restaurant employees?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't understand the "no tax on tips" angle, like everyone on yhe US is tired of being asked for tips everywhere, how many people they think are going to be engaged by that?

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a tax loophole for the rich to use tbh.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could see how consulting firms and lawyers become tipping professions eventually, where every job is below minimum wage while getting the rest on untaxed tips.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's also a loophole for people like Trump to take advantage of because a tip isn't owed, it's voluntary. So he'll be able to get away with not paying his bills by promising some tip and then reneging on that promise for whatever reason and then only take the reputation hit rather than that plus maybe a lawsuit if they pursue it.

[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

“And don’t listen to that koomaloo woman!”

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We all listened to the press conference, it can't be debunked when everyone witnessed it

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Inb4 "She wouldn't debate me a second time. Cowardly kamala"