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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-claims-over-half-of-womens-march-were-trump-supporters/ar-AAm9cMDPence claims 'over half' of women's march were Trump supporters
CAMERON JOSEPH
18 hrs ago
Vice President Mike Pence is getting in on the "alternative facts" fun.
Pence or his team made the claim that "well over half" of the huge crowds out protesting Trump's inauguration during Saturday's Women's March in Washington were actually fans of the new president in a Facebook post, the latest example of top Trump administration representatives choosing to misstate basic facts.
"Our Administration is proud to stand with American women and of our supporters' significant role in this cause. Despite the misleading Liberal Media's claims, we clearly saw that well over half of the participants in yesterday's march were Trump supporters," reads a post on Pence's official Facebook page posted on Sunday.
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pence-claims-over-half-of-womens-march-were-trump-supporters/ar-AAm9cMD
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)did he?
jmg257
(11,996 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)and have been doing it for decades. They took over just about all of the radio stations and all of the host spout the same message with adifferent twist on it,whatever the it is. they even have the same thing broadcasting at the same time on 2 or 3 stations like sports or some other nonsense. Lie,lie,lie,lie,LIE! just like their President.
bdamomma
(63,928 posts)you can forget that, those women were all not supporters of tRump.
up is down, down is up.
Cha
(297,774 posts)stories straight.. kac was pushing the lie that they were protesting President Obama on Sunday.
sinkingfeeling
(51,478 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,445 posts)Why, it's just.....umm.......just....I don't know where the hell it is.
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)See, it's the 200,000 strong 'wall of meat' (This, indeed, was taken on Saturday in D.C.).
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)What are they doing? Waiting for the next wave of diarrhea?
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)hvn_nbr_2
(6,490 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,227 posts). . .that it might actually equate to a negative number!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)So clever of them!
Cha
(297,774 posts)turnout @ the inaugural.
tanyev
(42,632 posts)*snort*
Cha
(297,774 posts)mollify their big dumbshit blotus.
woodsprite
(11,929 posts)Demsrule86
(68,703 posts)It really is.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Croney
(4,671 posts)There were hundreds of thousands of pro-Trump signs at the marches world-wide! Oddly, none got in any pictures. Conspiracy I'm sure.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)both work for the biggest dick in town.
shraby
(21,946 posts)rest of the ninnies.
Tanuki
(14,923 posts)Docreed2003
(16,878 posts)Unbelievable bullshit...it doesn't help that the media, in some cases, failed to call this a protest march against Trump. I saw protests across the world and I didn't see anyone in those crowds who was marching in solidarity with Trump or his fucked up agenda.
Generator
(7,770 posts)Wondering if Pence is also under Trump's thumb? Tell the lies or else???? I feel more fear every day.
Docreed2003
(16,878 posts)haele
(12,682 posts)If he believes half the marchers in DC were Trump supporters, Trump can tell himself that he had a majority of supporters showing up over Friday and Saturday.
The other reason he said it was that as Goebbels said "If you repeat a lie enough times, it becomes the truth".
Pence was just being his usual hypocritical mealy-mouthed self.
Haele
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)Cha
(297,774 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)These self righteous, lyin' Christians are beyond redemption.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)to be rejected by that many women in one day.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)this is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,014 posts)Condemning Trump--what, were they undercover?
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)because their pants seem to be on fire constantly from all the lies.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)He's fucking insane.
Of course, the tRump voters will believe this lie.
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Some enterprising entrepreneurs were selling red hats with "WTF America" on them. A lot of people were sporting those.
wishstar
(5,272 posts)Maybe this blatant lie from him will open some eyes including with the media, that he is dishonest too. In the VP debate he deflected and would not answer truthfully when Kaine confronted him over Twitlers' hateful remarks.
Also, R's don't like that many marchers exhibited patriotism and support for friendly National Guard who were there and we know the Repubs like to think only they are true patriotic Americans.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)"State Department officials actually directed contracts for the Haitian recovery after the earthquake to friends of the Clintons."
Says Donald Trump "hasnt broken his promise" to release his tax returns.
"10 cents on the dollar from the Clinton Foundation goes to charitable causes."
"Donald Trumps been completely consistent" about his plan for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.
Says Hillary Clinton "took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire" during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.
"Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues."
"Should Democrats get their way, every income tax bracket will increase on Jan. 1, 2011. Every single one."
"This administration and this Congress have been systematically cutting funding to border security since the Democrats took control."
The Democrats propose "a government-controlled health care plan that will deprive roughly 120 million Americans of their current health care coverage."
The stimulus has "$30 million in there to protect mice in San Francisco."
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,763 posts)Didn't the organizers omit anti-abortion organizations? I know a couple of my Facebook friends felt excluded. They didn't completely understand the political purpose behind the march. One even posted a meme "Let's be clear, this isn't all woman."
Demsrule86
(68,703 posts)They could march and a few did. However, they were not allowed to plan the march...and I tell you women who don't support choice regardless of how they feel about abortion do not belong at a woman's march. If I had my last miscarriage with the current laws, I would be dead. As it was the right to life docs in Georgia let me bleed out and I nearly died...waiting for hormonal proof I had miscarried even though the ultrasound clear showed I had. This is a healthcare issue...and women who don't support choice are not on our side.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)So that they could obfuscate the true size of their movement. And this is exactly what Pence is trying to do.
Demsrule86
(68,703 posts)I saw three. who shouted about save the babies but of course after they are born, let them die by denying health care..and they were shouted down...I saw no one that liked Trump based on signs or rhetoric.
Freethinker65
(10,064 posts)malaise
(269,201 posts)They live in an alternative universe - fucking LIARS.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)Looks like 1.5 million Trump supporters turned on him pretty fucking quickly.
Sad.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)When his name was mentioned, HUGE boos. Anti-Trump signs everywhere.
I did not see a single pro-Trump sign, shirt, whatever. Not one.
Fucking liars and the lies they tell!
Denzil_DC
(7,278 posts)That is all.
Demsrule86
(68,703 posts)There were many issues looking at the signs...but as far as I could see...everyone hated Trump with a passion. There were no Trump supporters.
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)but they were wiped off the shithouse website immediately after posting.
bigtree
(86,006 posts)...who is really swayed by this nonsense of his.
There's a line which the Trump folks have crossed some time ago between opinion and reality. They really don't seem to recognize the difference.
babylonsister
(171,099 posts)repeat a lie often enough, it becomes truth (to them). This is a biggie though; too many people know better.
bigtree
(86,006 posts)...where actual truth out of their mouths would shock most folks.
I do think the right wing relies on that tactic for talking points, but their game is growing stale and predictable, more folks than ever calling them on it immediately.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Thanks for acknowledging this Pence.
spanone
(135,891 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)In NYC, one of the chants was 'Build a fence around Mike Pence"
I doubt they support you.
cilla4progress
(24,782 posts)Every day. Unbelievable
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)so many rally speakers made statements that backed drumpf's initiatives up. I was especially moved by the dRumpf inspired statements backing Black Lives Matters, Women's Rights, Moslem Rights, LGBTQIA Rights, Immigrant Rights, etc.
Pence is a bircher nazi weasel.
JDC
(10,135 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)I'm rather surprised that they're just lying their asses off and destroying their credibility so quickly. Shouldn't be , but I'm flabbergasted.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)I suppose this is going to be routine. Something happens that everyone can see for themselves, and then The TA says the exact opposite of what is obviously true. Uff da!
TNLib
(1,819 posts)He was wearing a silly red baseball trump hat and screaming USA as he ran by the marchers. He looked like a cartoon character.
He was the only counter protester I saw. I was very worried about counter protest since I live in Southeast TN. Needless to say I shouldn't have worried.
catbyte
(34,472 posts)I can't help but think how much it must suck to be him. Can you imagine? To have all that he has and it's still not enough. Like I said, how goddamn pathetic.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)anniebelle
(899 posts)Where the hell do they get these "alternate facts"? This whole dRump fiasco is making my head swim.
-Steph-
(409 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)Wouldn't doubt it if Mike says so.
DemoTex
(25,405 posts)It is called the Lie.
Crunchy Frog
(26,659 posts)The're in the testing phase of seeing just how brazen they can be and get away with it.
An interesting social experiment, I guess.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)YouTube is full of nazi/Hitler defenders that deny the Holocaust ever happened as well.
Now the lies are coming straight out of the Oval office and the halls of the Republican controlled Congress.
Are we f**ked or what?
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)therefore over half were Trump supporters!
Come on, thought liberals were supposed to understand logic and facts.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)Liar, liar, liar.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)"There are three four kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, statistics, and alternative facts." - Mark Twain
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,803 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)I only saw two. One was very nice and the other very nasty.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)You are not only a liar, your lie does not make any sense. If you are going to lie, at least try something that is plausible.
longship
(40,416 posts)IronLionZion
(45,547 posts)since women love Trump and Pence so much it hurts, literally. That they flew and drove many miles to show their support.
The lackluster Friday activities with low turnout were the liberals and feminists being triggered from leaving their safe spaces.
The violence on Friday was also caused by liberal women and feminists masquerading as white male anarchists. Smashing windows and pulling bricks out of the sidewalk and throwing them is a long standing feminist tradition that comes from not spending enough time barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen.
How's that for some alternate facts?
On a related note, we just had a dude at work go on paternity leave. Some of my coworkers are like WTF, what sort of man takes paternity leave. But I was like you go dude, be a dad!
louis-t
(23,297 posts)What the fuck is wrong with these people?
mommymarine2003
(261 posts)I marched in the LA March. I did not encounter any Trump people, not even along the parade route. Someone did fly over with a banner supporting Trump. This new administration spreads nothing but propaganda.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)What a fragile little snowflake they've elected.
Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)It's statistically impossible for Pence's statement to be true.
FACTS DONT MATTER ANYMORE.
dhill926
(16,370 posts)in case he has to assume the office of potus....
Gothmog
(145,631 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)Did the Ministry of Truth decide on new alternate facts today?
saditurn
(3 posts)I had a friend who forwarded this on yesterday also and my knee jerk reaction was the same - but then I looked at the source Facebook account which was definitely fake (satire? malicious?).
Looks like it's gone today (it was like VPMikePence instead of just MikePence), and the article above has also been removed.
I'm sure there are people on the right will justify the marches to themselves this way (trumP easily would), but we need to be careful about what we chase after.
Pence, to his credit (and our discredit?) will be well-spoken and smooth, and his delusions will not be so obvious. Unfortunately.
Vinca
(50,313 posts)japple
(9,844 posts)scrubbed. Did anyone see the Pence fb post that "well over half" of the huge crowds out protesting Trump's inauguration during Saturday's Women's March in Washington were actually fans of the new president."
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)And anyway, if that many Trump voters had changed their minds in that short a space of time, all the better!!!
Linc13
(59 posts)And that dance party outside your house was all straight people.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)Hestia
(3,818 posts)voted for. That you can't quibble about!
caraher
(6,279 posts)Snopes says that account isn't Pence's
japple
(9,844 posts)site.
JI7
(89,276 posts)oasis
(49,426 posts)Lying sack of shit.
blue neen
(12,328 posts)Just like the Groper in Chief.
tandem5
(2,072 posts)not that I would put it past them to attempt such a claim.
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)media repeats it as fact. This is how we get parallel universes that never intersect.