More B.S. on Facebook (another reason I’m not on social media; this story had my B.S. needle all the way into the red part and wrapped around the meter post).
In typical Trumpian fashion, a message posted on Facebook today will probably come full circle when Trump reads it and then goes on Fox News claiming it to be fact – like that ridiculous claim by Mr. Sweet Potato Head that “someone” saw sinister-looking thugs and looters dressed in black and armed to the teeth and “this and that” board a plane bound for Washington, D.C. “looking for trouble.” (Question, Tangerine Toddler: if they were able to board a commercial plane fully armed, then they must be law enforcement personnel. Otherwise, don’t you think TSA might’ve stepped in before they got that far?)
That same claim was posted by an Idaho man who said he saw those same thugs and looters on a plane bound from Seattle to Boise but no “this and that.” No matter, Trump just adopted the story as his own – for his own political agenda.
The latest Facebook post, like the thugs and looters on the plane, also turns out to be pure meadow muffins put out there by someone with an IQ approaching 3 who’s been smoking too many mushrooms.
Now that I have your curiosity burning up, here’s the message involving hurricane recovery efforts in Southwest Louisiana:
“Governor Edwards refused to let linemen in from other states because of Covid19 (sic). Trump overrode him. Trump trumped him and let them in! We have workers from all over (the) U.S. working on our power. Thanks to OUR president! Y’all need to remember that when y’all go vote!”
This mouth breathing, booger-eating moron even writes in redneck.
A quick call to Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office was all it took to dispel this rotgut bit of fabricated fertilizer that would require a dozen gold-plated porcelain toilets to fully flush.
“There’s all kind of misinformation floating around out there,” said the person who answered the phone at the governor’s office before transferring me to Chief of Staff Mark Cooper’s office.
Chancely Coursey, assistant to Cooper, was quick to put the kibosh on the report. “We’re trying to get people in here to work,” she said. “We’re not turning anyone away.”
She said there was another story that probably gave birth to that one. “There was another report that we were quarantining everyone from out of state for two weeks,” she said. “That’s not true, either. We do require that they wear masks, but we’re not quarantining or turning anyone away.”
The immediate question is where in the world do these wild-eyed stories originate? Why don’t these idiots conduct a minimum amount of verification before putting it out there for all to see when it’s so easy to check out?
And what’s worse is Trump will probably see that post and adopt the story as his own and go on Fox and Friends to say that he overrode the Louisiana governor, a Democrat, who didn’t want to allow outside assistance in hurricane recovery. And his base, so dependent on someone doing their thinking for them, will take it as gospel.
“Y’all need to remember that when y’all go vote!”
Louisiana Voice 
Oh, we will. Well, at least some of us.
As we all know, anybody can put anything they want on Facebook and it is up to us to decide if its true unless one of Facebook’s algorithms or contract employees happens to catch it and happens to know it to be untrue – imagine how many things can slip through those cracks.
The saddest thing about this particular story is that one doesn’t have to be a moron to believe it is true. In addition to wild excrement like dark shadows people flying into various cities to undermine the President, there are things out there that most people would be inclined to believe unless they actually did a little research – which most people aren’t willing to do – if something fits what a person wants to believe that’s all that’s required. So, we, as always have to find our own truth and God help us.