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Stop me if you've heard this one before

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kellyanne Conway shared nude photos of her UNDERAGE TEENAGE DAUGHTER to MILLIONS of people so I understand why Republicans LOVE her!

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

That seemed over the line - even for her. So I checked Snopes. For technical reasons, they cannot issue a ruling, but they say this:

Here is what we know:

It is factual that the photo was shared by Kellyanne Conway's Twitter account. "The photo, in which Claudia was clearly recognizable, was posted as a fleet, Twitter’s version of Instagram stories, in which posts automatically expire after a day" and "appeared to be a photo taken of another phone’s screen displaying the image of Claudia," BuzzFeed News reported. Several other news media outlets reported that cropped or censored versions of the image were shared online.

“I’m assuming my mom took a picture of it to use against me one day and then somebody hacked her or something,” Claudia Conway said in a TikTok video. "Nobody would ever have any photo like that, ever. So, Kellyanne, you’re going to fucking jail.”

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You've got it all wrong. Since it was a black church and all the attendees were white, she was just applying the 5/3 conversion rate clearly established in law.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

In a law they’d love to reinstate.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop me

Ok, please stop.

They don't care that their pies are obvious. Their supporters don't care that the lies are obvious.

The point is to get you to write a story. It doesn't matter if your story is about how much of a buffoon and a failure the candidate is. You wrote a story about Trump's visit to a black church. The more stories you write about it, the longer it is in the news. So they'll find another way to get you to write about it.

Just stop.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obvious Pies? I'd love some. Thank you.

[–] Drusas@kbin.run 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope they're obvious. Once I took a big bite of what I thought was pumpkin pie (my favorite dessert), and it was sweet potato! I was nearly traumatized.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I was nearly traumatized

Sounds like something a Karen would call the cops over 😉

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Trump's clan has been saying things are bigger than they are since... well... since his hands, really...

that's some weird shit!