The Shit Show part 2. Aka The Presidential debates
The Shit Show part 2
Aka The Presidential debates
So if you watched the shit show part 2 last night it was better than the first one but still didn't answer the direct questions we wanted and needed to know.
So here are some fact checks from The New York Times from last night.
"We have the trillion trees program; we have so many different programs.”
— Trump
This is misleading.
Begun by the World Economic Forum, the plan to preserve one trillion trees and sequester carbon is considered helpful to address climate change — but useless without also drawing down fossil fuels.
Earlier this month, Mr. Trump signed an executive order establishing an interagency council to oversee the United States’ involvement in the Trillion Tree Initiative. Mr. Trump’s order does not actually include any funding or the planting of any trees.
By Lisa Friedman
“They did it. We changed the policy. They built the cages.”
— Trump
This is misleading.
This statement came as Mr. Trump was pressed on his administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that resulted in the separation of thousands of children from their parents and the more than 500 children who have still not been found. The Obama administration only broke up families at the border in rare circumstances — for example, in cases in which there was a doubt about the familial relationship between a child and an accompanying adult. But the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy called for criminal prosecution of everyone who entered the country illegally. After widespread condemnation from lawmakers in both parties, immigration activists and the United Nations, Mr. Trump signed an executive order that attempted to end the practice of family separation.
By Jim Tankersley
Economics Reporter
“He never did a thing except in 1994 when he did such harm to the Black community, and he called them super predators, and he said it, super predators.”
— Trump
False.
Trump has said repeatedly that Mr. Biden used the term “super predators” in reference to criminals during debate over the 1994 crime bill. Mr. Biden never used the term, however. It was used by Hillary Clinton, then first lady.
By Thomas Kaplan
Politics Reporter
“Nobody has done more for the Black community than Donald Trump. If you look, with the exception of Abraham Lincoln, a possible exception, nobody has done what I’ve done.”
— Trump
False.
Not according to historians. Among modern presidents, historians agreed that the most significant legislative achievements belong to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who shepherded the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.
A 2017 study that assessed modern presidents based on the analysis of editorials published in Black newspapers ranked Mr. Johnson at the top. Mr. Trump would place in the bottom third, the study’s co-author told The Times.
By Jeanna Smialek
Economics Reporter
“We should be bailing them out, now, those small businesses. One in six are going under. They are not going to make it back.”
— Mr. Biden
True.
It’s not clear exactly what data point Mr. Biden is referencing here, but it’s in the ballpark of what small business surveys have suggested could happen if the coronavirus persists and prevents normal activity from resuming.
For instance, a National Federation of Independent Business survey in August found that one in five small businesses said that they would have to close their doors if economic conditions do not improve over the subsequent six months.
Economic conditions have improved along some dimensions since then, but the service sector in particular remains hard-hit amid the pandemic.
By Jim Tankersley
Economics Reporter
“What has been proven to happen is when you do that, these small businesses fire many of their employees.”
— Trump, on raising the minimum wage.
This is false.
Economic research has not “proven” that when governments raise minimum wages, small businesses lay off workers.
“We have the best testing in the world by far — that is why we have so many cases.”
— Trump
This is false.
The United States has performed more than 128 million tests since the pandemic began, according to the Covid Tracking Project. But the total does not reflect a successful testing effort, which public health experts consider a crucial part of the tool kit needed to track and contain outbreaks.
More than 8.4 million Americans have been infected with the virus, and more than 222,000 have died, outstripping any other country, including several that dwarf the United States in population.
Trump also makes a misleading and false statement about case counts, a sentiment he has expressed before. Cases are not driven by adequate testing; they are identified by it. Several federal officials have in recent months attempted to curb testing in the United States, or dismissed it as unnecessary or even harmful, for fear that ever-increasing case counts identified by testing efforts will reflect poorly on the administration.
When testing increases, more cases of the virus will be caught. But it will also identify individuals who are not infected — an essential metric for public health experts to monitor the virus’s spread, limit budding outbreaks and empower healthy people to safely interact. In New York, for instance, expanded testing has been credited with keeping case numbers relatively low for months.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Health Reporter
“We have 180 million people out there that have great private health care, far more than what we are talking about with Obamacare. Joe Biden is going to terminate all of those policies.”
— Trump
False.
Mr. Biden does not argue for the single-payer government run health care system often called “Medicare for All.” He is in favor of a “public option,” which would allow the government to compete with private insurers in the healthcare marketplace.
A public option was the subject of intense debate when lawmakers were writing the Affordable Care Act. The idea did not prevail, but many Democrats including Mr. Biden now want to bring it back.
Public-option plans would allow middle-income, working-age adults to choose a public insurance plan — like Medicare or Medicaid — instead of a private insurance plan. More people — maybe many more — could get government insurance.
Here's the thing people we need to do fact checks because anybody can say anything that doesn't make it true. With all the mudslinging at each other we need to really do our homework, this isn't like school where you can cheat off someone or listen to them for an answer, because our very lives depends on this vote!
We need to be informed, we need to look at where our country is today from 4 years ago. We need to think of where this man wants to take our country, divide our country and poison the country with hate and lies.
We need to have our voices heard, to step up for change. Look, even the Pope has spoken out about the LGBT community and how horrible it is to tear children away from their parents, this is going on right now. Even from the catholic church who is denouncing these things, so maybe we might have hope of change.
The choice is ours, everyone's vote counts, we have a voice that needs to be heard, so be informed and vote people, vote like your life depends on it because it does!
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