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One of the best recent fact-checks (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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tldr: Biden mistakenly said that he was born in Israel. People started making fun of that, saying that he is either a liar or couldn't become the US president. Thus, this brilliant fact-check was born!

While it may have been misheard, the context of Biden's speech and the established facts of Biden's birthplace should have made it obvious that he did not say he was born in Israel.

It is a matter of public record that Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1942. The State of Israel was not proclaimed until May 1948.

Thanks, Newsweek! I guess this is better than their usual "fact checks", where they just lie about left-wing policies.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

no, Russia,

maybe-later-kiddo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Right? How is the amyloid plaque crushing Biden's brain into a walnut Russia's fault?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Boy am I glad the term gaslighting wasn't ruined by stupid bullshit so we could appropriately use it to describe how corporate media and state violence have joined hands to lie to our faces.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

It is a matter of public record that Biden's brain is made out of meat. Human brains cannot be made out of mashed potatoes. We give the claim that Biden's brain is made out of mashed potatoes 4 Pinocchios.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a reminder that Joe was literally born during the battle of Stalingrad.

He's literally so old he spent his childhood on the same earth with the real Joe when he was alive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably reincarnated from one of the dead wehrmacht soldiers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

From pit to biden-troll

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We should demand to see the original birth certificate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Anybody got a clip of the speech?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I won't fall for your ""fact"" checks, Newsweek. Scranton is the city of The Office not a real place. smuglord