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Making fun of Pravda media “fact checks” is, perhaps, a little too easy at times. 

But doing so is a good reminder of just how distorted their worldview is. Without being reminded, we might fall into the bad habit of taking these people more seriously than they deserve. 

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The Politifact “fact check” on conservative complaints (I’m pretty sure that the complaints are more “common sense” than conservative) that aid to Africa has nothing to do with aid to North Carolina is a perfect example of how the government hypnotized think. 

Having worked in government and around politicians, I can assure you that from the perspective of the bureaucratically minded, the dissociation between spending in one area and that of another is indeed totally disconnected. People in government think in terms of bureaucratic fiefdoms, and the budget of one fiefdom is in a different universe than that of any other. 

Right-leaning accounts and some Republican members of Congress expressed outrage that Biden was giving money to Africans while many in the southeastern U.S. are still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

“What about the Americans affected by recent Hurricanes?” conservative commentator Benny Johnson asked on Instagram. “North Carolina would like a word,” U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., wrote on X.

Former U.N. Ambassador and Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley wrote on X: “This is infuriating. After pardoning his son and fleeing to Africa, Biden gives a BILLION of our tax dollars to rebuild homes in Africa when we still have people homeless from the hurricane! Completely tone deaf and insulting.

But the claims ignore how domestic disaster relief and foreign aid are funded. Congress separately determines funding for each through appropriations or supplemental bills. The claims also ignore the $3.1 billion the Federal Emergency Management Agency has spent so far responding to Hurricane Helene, which left a trail of destruction across six states in late September, and Hurricane Milton, which struck Florida in October. 

“Comparisons between foreign aid and domestic disaster funding often reflect a misunderstanding that aid to other countries reduces resources available for domestic disaster survivors,” said Francis Torres, associate director of housing at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “In reality, these funds come from different accounts, with Congressional authorizations for foreign assistance being separate from appropriations for disaster relief and recovery programs.”

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Stupid people like you and I think that our taxes go to Washington, and policymakers spend it in ways that, at least theoretically, are supposed to best benefit the American people. There are priorities that get evaluated, and the limited resources available are distributed based on sound (or not-so-sound) judgments of how best to meet those priorities. 

How naive! What really happens is that the pie gets divided up into various pots of money determined by political considerations, and each pot of money is treated as independent of all the others. And, as a practical matter, the bureaucrats in charge of any one pot are determined to get as much of the available cash (plus whatever they can from deficit spending) away from the other pots of money. 

If you are part of the blob, that seems perfectly normal, and Politifact is little more than the propaganda arm of the blob. Hence the absurdity of saying that the failure to take care of North Carolinians is a separate issue from raining cash from helicopters in Africa or now Syria. 

They are totally different pots of money!!!! Are you stupid? Don’t you see?!

At least in that fact check Politifact isn’t actively lying, while NBC in its never-ending quest to slander Donald Trump as a liar takes to lying. 

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NBC is still pushing the lie that Donald Trump is deceiving the American public on crime numbers. Following ABC, they push the phony statistic that even the FBI has disavowed that crime has been tumbling under Biden. 

The FBI’s original statistics–which by the way exclude crime stats from major cities–showed a modest decrease in crime. But even with many cities still left out of the stats a revision showed an increase in crime. 

But of course, that fact is inconvenient, so NBC simply lies about the reality in order to take a swipe at Trump. 

Politifact at least has an irrelevant technicality to rely on to justify their “fact check.” NBC, being a bit bolder, just invents facts. 

It’s important to keep pointing out how dishonest the media is because we can’t let them get up off the mat. They have taken a beating of late but haven’t yet been knocked out. Many still believe them. 

I know. That is insane, but such is life. 

Our task is to humiliate them, either driving them out of business or forcing them to reform.