Help me to understand? wrote:
agip wrote:
you'd think that right wingers, after seeing their Facebook memes and right wing sites fact checked and corrected, would stop citing them as truth.
But no, right wingers keep citing the same sources and people who have been lying to them for years and years.
People are funny.
They prefer being lied to... if the lies support what they want to think.
Well I'm not a right winger, don't use facebook and I'm not sure what these lies are you are speaking of? Could you list a few?
you seem to be sticking with a right wing claim that only 9% of the bill is covid relief.
that is a right wing claim that is not true.
"Our ruling: False
We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by our research. There’s room for debate over exactly how much of the $1.9 trillion is related to the pandemic. It's surely not all of it. But this claim bungles a widely circulating 9% stat.
More than 99% of the American Rescue Plan is going to Americans, though some of that falls in the category of political “pork.” An analysis by a nonpartisan group found that about 85% of the bill is related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 9% figure is actually what is going to fund direct disease containment measures such as vaccines, testing and tracing, and other public health initiatives."
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/01/scott-fitzgerald/fitzgerald-overstates-claim-pork-covid-19-relief-b/