• Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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      It’s Kellyanne Conway, the former senior advisor for Trump. Her job was basically to hold the press releases and try to keep the good PR going.

      She’s the one that coined the term “alternative facts” when pressed about Trump’s team being proven to have lied about key topics.

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        Thank you for your actual response. Some people are too immature to subjectively help others understand.

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          You bet. And to be more specific, the “alternative facts” part came from a discussion about the size of Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer repeatedly touted that Trump had the largest inauguration in history. When that was proven false, (Obama’s had a bigger crowd,) the reporter mentioned something along the lines of “well the facts say that Trump’s wasn’t the largest. Why would Spicer (the press secretary at the time) utter known falsehoods?” And Kellyanne retorted with something along the lines of “He wasn’t lying; He was simply giving alternative facts.”

          It was one of the big times that democrats realized the White House would just straight up lie through their teeth about anything and they didn’t care if people believed it.

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      I don’t know much… But I imagine after alternative facts and whole lot devious claims that made the audience believe that storming the capitol was going be without consequences… or that Trump would never face judgement…

      This is how they would explain the sentencing or Trump’s trial…

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      Consider contacting your third grade teacher to complain about their ineffectiveness at teaching you cognition, provided you got that far in school.

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        Not everyone watches US politics, or Fox News. I live in the US and don’t know her. I am sure there are famous faces you don’t know because it’s not your field of interest. Can you identify famous contemporary painters by face? Physicists? Composers? Game designers? Belittling someone’s education because they don’t know something you do is pathetic and says a lot more about you than it does the person you were mocking.

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              An assumption that one is dealing with assholes and morons when dealing with republicans is always the safe one. I’ll allow that the oblivious one didn’t know who Kellyanne Conway was is possible, but I more firmly believe otherwise.

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                Believe it or not, but there are also people from outside the USA roaming the internet. They’re usually way more out of touch when it comes to US American politics, and only know the very few biggest players. You can expect a foreigner (who’s not entirely politics ignorant) to know who the president of the US is. That is basic, surface level knowledge. But even important people like the vice president, are far less relevant for people not living in the US.

                You most likely also don’t know about the intricacies of the political systems of other countries. nor their sub-surface people doing their job and contributing to the system. These people are relevant and sometimes important to anyone living there.

                So, why the hell should they be expected to know who some employee/hired person for a US president was?

                …that aside, mocking someone for something they don’t know is just childish and counter productive. If you already put in the energy, why not use the energy to educate, instead of trying to make them feel bad?