Merriam-Webster poked at the Trump administration through its Twitter feed, appearing to take senior adviser Kellyanne Conway to task for saying that press secretary Sean Spicer was offering up “alternative facts” about the crowd size at the inauguration.
“A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality,” the dictionary company said in a pinned tweet that linked to a Merriam-Webster posting about how lookups for the word “fact” spiked after Conway’s comment.
Conway, counselor to Trump, told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Sunday morning that Spicer was offering “alternative facts” when he told reporters Saturday night during an impromptu briefing that “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period.” (Aerial footage and Metro ridership statistics show that attendance was down significantly from President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009.)
“Alternative facts are not facts,” Todd responded. “They’re falsehoods.”
Merriam-Webster also noted on Twitter on Sunday that the word “feminism” was getting a lot of attention in the wake of the Women’s March on Washington on Saturday.
“’Feminism’ is our #3 lookup right now. It’s been trending all day,” the company wrote.
After someone asked on Twitter why the company is pointing out its No. 3 lookup, and not its No. 1 lookup, Merriam-Webster had a ready comeback:
“Our #1 lookup is ‘fascism’, which has been trending consistently for the past few months. We report trends when they’re new.”
When you have to remind the fucking president what a fact is.
Vote 👏🏼 in 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 2018 👏🏼 Midterm 👏🏼 Elections 👏🏼
SERIOUSLY
If you vote in Democrats, they’ll be able to block Trump’s policies
It’s not just that they’ll be able to block Drumpf’s policies for the (hopefully only) remaining two years: the
entire House of Representatives is up for re-election in 2018. Whoever
wins the House in 2018 will still control it in 2020, when we have our
next census. This means we voting districts will get to be redrawn and if Republicans retain control of the House in
2020, they will make gerrymandering even worse than it is now, which
already favors them.
But the odds are severelyin favor of Republicansfor 2018. The election is ridiculously lopsided:
23 Democrat seats and both (there are only 2) Independent seats (who
Caucus with Dems) will be up for the taking compared to only 8
Republican seats.
Not to mention midterm election turnout is always far less than POTUS elections and Republicans consistently turn out for midterms while non-Republicans fail to show up worse than they normally do.
It gets worse. This is the Senate race in 2018:
Arizona – Currently Republican
California – Currently Democrat
Connecticut
– Currently Democrat
Delaware
– Currently Democrat
Florida
– Currently Democrat
Hawaii
– Currently Democrat
Indiana
– Currently Democrat
Maine
– Currently Independent
Maryland
– Currently Democrat
Massachusetts
– Currently Democrat
Michigan
– Currently Democrat
Minnesota
– Currently Democrat
Mississippi
– Currently Republican
Missouri
– Currently Democrat
Montana
– Currently Democrat
Nebraska
– Currently Republican
Nevada
– Currently Republican
New Jersey
– Currently Democrat
New Mexico
– Currently Democrat
New York
– Currently Democrat
North Dakota
– Currently Democrat
Ohio
– Currently Democrat
Pennsylvania
– Currently Democrat
Rhode Island
– Currently Democrat
Tennessee
– Currently Republican
Texas
– Currently Republican
Utah
– Currently Republican
Vermont
– Currently Independent
Virginia
– Currently Democrat
Washington
– Currently Democrat
West Virginia
– Currently Democrat
Wisconsin
– Currently Democrat
Wyoming
– Currently Republican
All of the states in bold were awarded to Drumpf, 11 of which are currently held by Democrats. Republicans hold a 52 seat majority right now. If they can maintain the 8 seats they have to defend, they only need 8 Democrat and/or Independent seats to have a 60 seat supermajority and the power to pass basically anything they want under Trump for two years.
If you think it’s catastrophic now (and it is), imagine Drumpf and the Republicans with a 60 seat supermajority for two years plus a Republican House with the power to redistrict in 2020.
And that is why organizing now is critical. Getting people to run against every GOP House Member and tying every action by Trump to them. Make the 2018 elections ALL ABOUT TRUMP. This is also about taking back Governor’s Mansions.
It is NOT impossible, but it requires effort. 2018 elections efforts SHOULD ALREADY BE UNDERWAY!
@ all my american followers
Congress is who we should all give af about and after this election I’ll never JUST vote for the presidential election again.
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