Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA

Oh, is it a day that ends in 'y' again already?
- People act like every lie is just a flesh wound, but if you stab the body of the truth every day, every day will be worse than the previous one.
- We don’t need this karma farming comment every single thread about this administration. Yes they lie a lot. Yes we still need to document and report on it.

In his deeply partisan speech at Fort Bragg, Trump made the baseless claim that the protests against immigration raids in LA are being led by paid “rioters bearing foreign flags with the aim of continuing a foreign invasion”.
And he's using this wording very intentionally; he's going to use this "foreign invasion" to justify martial law.
- It's Canadians trying to start a civil war, hoping to contain Trump's thirst for mayhem within the us border, and he's biting hook line sinker.
  
  You know, if you happen to burn the white house down again, we'll just look the other way. This bag of money? Ohh, it's not a payment or a bribe. It's a thank you gift. Giving people money/gifts after the fact is OK according to this administration.

Oh, and by the way,
source: https://bsky.app/profile/lethalityjane.bsky.social/post/3lrbsbfp6i22b (I have no way to check if this is real myself, though)
- I'm not sure about that, but the reply a little down that says people will get voluntold to attend if not enough are willing sounds probable. I served under Dubya and had a similar experience. I usually just volunteered for watch when something like that happened lol

I love that we continue to fact check his speeches. He is just saying shit to people that will only believe him. If they are reading the fact check then they are already against him.
- A person in this thread above here was talking about being politically unaware of Greta Thunberg. It is valuable to continue fact checking, both so we don’t normalize the lies and to catch any unaware people

But we get a bigly parade in his honor! Panem et Circensis.
- Except that we are getting neither.
  
  He is the circus.
- He hasn't got his fiddle out because the fires haven't broken out yet

Frankly, the thing that scares me the most is that you can hear the soldiers in the audience loudly booing at residents of LA on behalf of Trump, when prompted by Trump. That’s disgusting behavior, and should get them all reprimanded or discharged.
While I don’t necessarily have the default unchallenged respect/reverence for the military that most people do, at the very least I expect them to act professionally and respectfully in their own country (since we know that’s often way too much to ask when they’re sent abroad). Fuck any solider who openly acts on their political views, and fuck every soldier that doesn’t refuse an illegal order. You volunteered to do this, so you better do it right.
- They swore an oath to the constitution and not to the president. They should have been pan-faced. Then again honor does mean much these days.

This shit is getting dark.
- We knew it would. It's just happening very quickly because they had four years to plan.
  
  It's happening too quickly, actually, these bozos do not have the patience nor the discipline, they are following the dictator playbook quite closely, but even putin took decades. If they keep pressing this hard, they are not going to get their fascist takeover, they are going to get a civil war, which is probably more useful to China and russia and will probably drag them and allies in.

And here’s the setup. Start counting down the day until a misguided Gavin Newsom turned himself in.

The dichotomy of people falling asleep and the guy who thought he'd be so entertained he brought popcorn is wild

The lies only work if there are enough idiots around to believe everything that is said
Trump is only part of the problem .... an entire chorus of idiots surround him and enable everything he says ... while at the same time an entire audience of people are willing to believe everything ...
... and at the same time a vast throng of people everywhere just watching it all without saying a word or lifting a finger to do anything about it. I'm not saying they should violently revolt but at the very least, everyone should be out in the streets wanting to get their country back to what it was.

- I remember that one! I was in grad school at the time, and my then-GF now-wife had just finished. We laughed for 15 minutes.
  "Journal Of DUH"
  
  RIP Norm

If there's a civil war, I have so many degrees, they'd have to make me an officer. Trust me, no one wants that.

all the hats off to the people who have to sit there and listen to that fucking thing talk every fucking day and then report on it

Those soldiers look like they are falling asleep while waiting for an action movie to start….
- I see at least one dude who is %100 percent checked out. It's the dude with the sunglasses sitting relatively straight.