Is DealDash a Scam?
Updated for 2023. I’ve always been fond of online auctions, until I found DealDash several years ago. I’ve also seen a number of people who have complained about DealDash and how it operates. Let’s explore if it’s a scam.
Auctions and Bidding
In a traditional auction, you’re actually buying from a seller who has put an item up for consignment to the auction house. This is how eBay works it. The seller uses the eBay platform to pay for their auction. If the item sells, eBay gets a cut of the profit. This is a typical auction from a typical auction house.
Bidders pay nothing to bid at eBay. You simply join the platform and off you go on your merry bidding way. You will pay for any auctions you win or any Buy-It-Nows you buy, but if you bid and don’t win, you pay nothing. This is important when understanding the difference between a site like eBay and DealDash.
At eBay, auctions have a finite end. If the auction closes at 6PM today, then it’s over at 6PM. Whomever was the highest bidder at 6PM is the winner of that auction.
DealDash Auctions
With DealDash, the auctions here work a bit differently. Instead of joining and bidding for free, you must pay for your bids. The bid cost can range between 12¢ and 60¢ per bid. In order to get started on DealDash, you’ll be required to pay for some initial bids. Sometimes DealDash offers bid sales for as low as 12¢ per bid.
As for the auctions themselves, they work quite a bit differently from eBay. Unlike eBay’s fixed close time, DealDash has no fixed auction close. Their auctions infinitely run and continue to extend until the 10 second countdown timer runs out without any further bids. As long as even one bid happens within that 10 second countdown, the auction extends with another 10 second countdown timer. Basically, an auction can run infinitely or until no one else places a bid. Bids also increment the item cost at 1¢ per bid. You spend 12-60 cents to raise the bid on an item by 1¢. Admittedly, that means the item cost goes up very slowly, but it also means that the bidding can go on for days with enough bidders.
Bid Extensions
You’re probably wondering about how people can manage to bid within 10 seconds. To answer your question, they don’t. Bidders use a feature that DealDash offers known as Bid Buddy. See below for more details. Suffice it to say that DealDash’s automated system continues punching in those bids in an automated way so users don’t have to. You’ll also notice that many of those bids are made right at the last moment of second 9. There’s no way a human could time a bid that precisely.
However, there has been some speculation that some of the bidding is rigged by DealDash. That speculation alleges that DealDash itself has its own set of automated bidders driving up auction prices and bringing attention to those auctions. I can’t tell one way or another if this is true. I’ll leave that speculation alone because of Bid Buddy and how it works.
Buy-It-Now
Both eBay and DealDash offer a Buy-It-Now option. However, these work entirely differently between DealDash and eBay. The eBay Buy-It-Now feature can be standalone or attached to an auction. If it’s standalone, you can only buy that product through Buy-It-Now. If it’s attached to an auction, you can only use Buy-It-Now before the auction begins. Once an auction has a first bid, the Buy-It-Now option disappears for that item.
With DealDash, if you bid on an auction, you are eligible to Buy-It-Now when the auction finally closes. You’ll buy the item at whatever price that DealDash offers, which they claim is usually at a substantial discount. In addition to buying the item, you’ll also get all of your bids back for free. This means you can reuse those bids again on future auctions. It’s not a bad deal if you really want that item. However, if you decline the Buy-It-Now purchase, you lose all of your bids. There’s a big incentive to bid on items where you are likely to buy it when the auction closes no matter the price.
Bid Buddy
DealDash offers an automated bidding service called Bid Buddy. It continues to bid on your behalf even when you’re not around to do so. eBay also has a similar feature, but it’s tied to the actual bidding process and doesn’t have a name. If you put in your maximum bid on an eBay auction, eBay will continue to bid on your behalf at the current bid increment until your maximum bid is reached. After that, you’d be responsible for upping your maximum bid or bidding manually.
Bid Buddy works in a similar way. It continues to bid on your behalf until you’ve run out of bids or reached the maximum number of bids set on that auction. The reason to use Bid Buddy is clear. Those who are using Bid Buddy get priority over those who are manually bidding. It is in your best interest to set up and use Bid Buddy rather than manually bidding. Otherwise, your manual bid will always be last in line.
So far, So good
So far, there’s nothing here extraordinarily bad about how DealDash works. Other than the infinitely open auction which I don’t personally like, it’s pretty straightforward in how it all works.
Products and Quality
Here’s where this site falls down hard. Do you go to DealDash to buy merchandise for a great deal or to spend time gambling to win? If it’s the former reason, then you might run into problems considering all of the below. If it’s for the latter reason, you might want to seek gambling help.
DealDash claims to offer overstocked products at “discount” prices. The difficulty with this business model is that DealDash is in this business to make money off of bidding with the side effect of an eventual sale of a product. They are not a retailer, not a discounter and definitely not in any way a reputable store. They are an auction house and that’s how they run it.
As a buyer, you’ll notice there’s nothing mentioned about a Return Policy or what to do if you receive damaged or unacceptable goods. Indeed, there’s nothing on any of DealDash’s auction listings that even mention the quality or authenticity of the merchandise that you will receive if you buy or win the bid.
The products purport to be genuine, but are they? Also, unlike eBay where there’s a seller behind each and every product, with DealDash, DealDash is the seller. This means that if you have a question about the sale of a product, you have to go to DealDash to get it answered. Worse, buyers have tried doing this with no response from DealDash.
If you’re actually wanting the product you’re bidding on, you might want to consider that what you’ll receive may entirely differ from the listing. In other words, the trust level with DealDash’s merchandise is very, very low. If you really want that merchandise, you can probably find it cheaper from a more reliable seller on eBay or Amazon without the bidding fees. On eBay, both the sellers and the products themselves have a reputation score. You can see what buyers are saying about both the product in the listing and of the seller’s reputation. You’ll notice that on DealDash, there is no reputation information about the seller nor reviews from buyers about the product or what they received. DealDash is a black box.
Being the black box that it is, unfortunately, DealDash is about as scammy as it can get from a site like this. If you can’t readily see what other buyers have received from a listing, then how do you know that you’ll receive anything of value? You don’t.
Additionally, because DealDash is not a traditional store, returning any merchandise may be next to impossible, particularly when you can’t get in touch with anyone at DealDash. If the item you receive is damaged, misrepresented or outright garbage, you’re stuck with it. Otherwise, you’ll have to dispute the credit card charge. The only other thing you can do is complain about DealDash… and many people have done exactly that on RipOff Report. However, other than venting your frustrations to the world or forcing a chargeback, you may not be able to get your money back.
Jumpers and No Jumper Auctions
Here’s where DealDash also gets just a little bit more scammy with their auction site piece. A jumper is a person who jumps in at the last minute and begins bidding on an auction when they think the auction time is about to run out. Unfortunately, jumpers on DealDash effectively mean nothing. A “No Jumper Auction” is simply a way to allow early bidders not to be outbid by someone who wants to jump in at the last minute. With DealDash, there is no such thing as a ‘last minute’. On eBay, there is a ‘last minute’ because auctions have a hard close time. On DealDash, the auction is infinitely extended so long as even one person continues bidding.
A “No Jumper Auction” sets a minimum bid point that after that no new bidders are allowed to enter the auction. If the no jumper point is set to $5, that means new bidders attempting to bid after $5 will be unable to do so. Only bidders who placed at least one bid below $5 will be able to continue bidding on that auction.
This then excludes users from auctions after the no jumper bid price has been met. On eBay, this is called ‘sniping’ or ‘snipers’. A sniper is a little different from a jumper in that because the auction close time is finite, snipers join in during the last 30 second countdown to try and outbid the current high bidder. With DealDash, a “No Jumper” feature is entirely pointless and just gives DealDash a way to manipulate auctions and who can bid. This feature only serves to force people into auctions early or wait for another one to start. This feature is simply a way to lower competition and allow early birds to win the auction more quickly without extra folks jumping in and keeping the auction open much longer. That seems to go against the idea of DealDash making more money. It’s kind of a weird feature for DealDash to add such a limit to their auctions and prevent even more bidding, losing DealDash even more money in this process. As I said, it’s weird.
The scammy part of this is that apparently these “No Jumper” auctions don’t work properly, or DealDash is able to manipulate the “No Jumper” price randomly against would-be bidders. Some bidders have claimed to join in on standard “No Jumper” auctions with the default threshold set to $5. Yet, the auction price never reached $5 and they were unable to bid with DealDash claiming they were a jumper. Fishy. It seems this feature is being manipulated by DealDash in a way that prevents certain bidders (new or not) from bidding on that “No Jumper” auction.
Is DealDash worth it?
DealDash is ultimately an addictive form of legalized gambling, but it actually feels much like playing slot machines in Vegas. Mostly you lose, rarely you win and you spend a lot of money doing it…. which is how DealDash likes it. It’s what keeps them in business. If you’re willing to Buy-It-Now, you can buy back some of your bids at the cost of the product stated in the listing. But, don’t expect the price of the Buy-It-Now merchandise to be any less expensive than what you’ll find in a retail store, according to many who have done this.
Some complainants who’ve used the Buy-It-Now option have been quite disappointed in the process. One user claimed that instead of getting their bids back as promised, the “total value” of the bids was deducted from the price of the Buy-It-Now item. However, the “total value” of the bids applied to the reduction in the item’s cost were substantially lower than what the user paid for the actual bids. They might deduct at 12¢ per bid when the user paid 60¢ for the bids. Assuming you can actually get your bids back instead of this deduction thing, that’ll buy you a little more time to bid on new items and addict you further to this form of legalized gambling. This getting-bids-back idea is a little like losing $500 at BlackJack and then winning back $100. You’ve still lost $400. It’s simply a way to make you feel a little better about having lost $400 instead of $500.
If you get a high off of gambling, DealDash may be worth it… particularly if you don’t care about whatever it is you might win.
If you do happen to win the bid on item, then you’ll lose all of your bids plus whatever the winning cost of the item. If you happen to win a bundle of bids, then you’ll lose your bids only to gain some back. If you win the bid on a pair of earrings, you’ve lost however many bids it took to win that bid plus the cost of those earrings.
Consider if you don’t do Buy-It-Now often and you continually keep losing bids, you need to keep track of how much money you’ve spent there. You need to keep track because all of your lost bid money adds up when you finally do win a bid. For example, if you’ve spent $500 buying and losing bids for a while, then win a $50 coffeemaker, technically you’ve spent $550 for that coffeemaker. That’s not such a great deal. You could have bought 11 coffeemakers for the amount of money you spent to win that bid at DealDash. You simply can’t ignore all of the money you’ve spent on bids as non-existent. Those bid costs add into the cost of any items you bid and win. This means you can’t claim you got a toaster for $5. It was $5 plus the cost of however many bids it took you to get there.
Scam or Not?
The idea behind the site is fine, the execution of it is poor. If DealDash had partnered with legitimate sellers to back each of the auction products and if DealDash had allowed buyers to review the product listings for quality and authenticity and if DealDash offered a buyer’s protection plan and an actual Return Policy like a legitimate store, I might be more inclined to say it’s not a scam.
As it is, because DealDash doesn’t act like a legitimate store and also doesn’t offer feedback from buyers nor is there a buyer and seller relationship to ask questions, I cannot recommend the use of this site for any purpose… not for buying products and definitely not for getting a gambling fix.
There’s too much of a chance to lose far too much bid money and very slim chances you’ll actually win a bid. Of course, you’ll be given the option to Buy-It-Now and get your bids back on auctions where you lost the bids, but that’s of little consolation if the merchandise you receive is trash, assuming you receive anything at all. Between the bids you pay for and the Buy-It-Now, this is how DealDash makes money. The rest is all an addictive game.
Testimonials in TV Ads
DealDash has been recently running heavy TV advertising for their site in 2023. Don’t be fooled by those advertisement folks holding up a piece of merchandise that they claim to have received from winning an auction at some insanely low price. There’s no guarantee those “winners” are legitimate. You also have no idea if the merchandise received is legitimate, counterfeit, refurbished, used, hot or in any other condition.
Even if the “winners” are legitimate and not just staged by actors, you don’t know how much those people actually spent in buying DealDash bids over many months or years to “win” the privilege of buying that item at that price. They could have been bidding for years and may have already spent a ton on bids before they finally won that iPad for $35. In fact, they could very well have spent more money in bids + cost of product than simply going to the Apple store and paying full price for an iPad. Even then, when buying from the Apple store, you know you’ve purchased a legitimate iPad backed by an official Apple return policy. Getting that same device from DealDash, you don’t know what you might get; it could even be an old generation iPad from years ago.
DealDash is just like being in a Casino. When you hear the bells ring and see the lights flash on a machine because someone has hit the jackpot, you really don’t know if that’s a true win or if someone is simply making back a little money towards money they’ve already lost.
Recommendation
Site Recommendation: 👎 Avoid!
Reasons:
- Highly Addictive
- Form of gambling
- Not a store
- No Return Policy listed
- No Product Reviews
- No User Reviews
- No Seller Reviews
- Auction items don’t describe authenticity or condition
- Pay to bid
- Pay to win (separate from item cost)
- Costly
- Difficult to Communicate with DealDash
- Mostly a scam to separate you from your money
- Doesn’t operate like a legitimate store
- May be less costly to shop elsewhere
- Questionable business practices
The bottom line is, DealDash has a very scammy business model.
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Why does anyone watch Fox News Network?
I don’t get it. Why does ANYONE watch Fox News Network? In fact, the Fox News Network channel is honestly more aptly named the Faux News Network. Literally, their news anchors just make shit up on the spot. Let’s explore.
Faux News
I don’t even fully understand how we got here. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, news channels were well respected because the majority of those news networks held themselves to a relatively high standard of journalistic ethics. Today, journalistic ethics has become mostly a thing of the past. While some video news channels (and newspapers) typically hold their reporters accountable to journalistic standards, clearly some of them do not. Fox News doesn’t appear to impose ANY journalistic ethics or integrity on its staff at all.
Fox News, in fact, appears to let their news anchors say whatever they damned well please. In fact, I believe the (mis)management at Fox News encourages these completely unethical behaviors at Fox News Network.
You may be saying, “I don’t see Fox News lying much at all”. To that I respond with, “In denial much?” Fox News Network anchors lie about as often as they possibly can. In fact, Fox News ended up firing Tucker Carlson over his massive voter fraud allegation lies, which those lies cost Fox News $787.5 million. Once a real dollar value ends up being placed onto an anchor’s basket of lies, that’s when the shit really hits the fan… or more specifically, someone gets fired.
Trump gets Indicted for a Second Time
Donald Trump recently released a statement on Truth Social that he had again been indicted for 37 counts under the Espionage Act. Here’s his thread quoted from Truth Social.
Page 1: The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been Indicted, seemingly over the Boxes Hoax, even though Joe Biden has 1850 Boxes at the University of Delaware, additional Boxes in Chinatown, D.C., with even more Boxes at the University of Pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette, and which is “secured” by only a garage door that is paper thin, and open much of the time.
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511161240386878
Page 2: I have been summoned to appear at the Federal Courthouse in Miami on Tuesday, at 3 PM. I never thought it possible that such a thing could happen to a former President of the United States, who received far more votes than any sitting President in the History of our Country [false], and is currently leading, by far, all Candidates, both Democrat and Republican, in Polls of the 2024 Presidential Election [too early to tell]. I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511177469281373
Page 3: This is indeed a DARK DAY for the United States of America. We are a Country in serious and rapid Decline, but together we will Make America Great Again!
Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/110511183630692974
I’m including Donald Trump’s thread here simply for reference and for completion’s sake. I don’t want someone claiming that Randocity is making shit up here. Fact checked information in [brackets] added by Randocity. This is real, folks.
Read the Full Indictment here:
I won’t get into the ramifications of both the above indictment and Donald Trump’s ramblings as this unnecessary rabbit hole goes far too deep for this article. However, I urge you to read the text of the above indictment. If you’re interested in hearing valid legal analysis of Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment, I urge you to watch any OTHER network than Fox News Network, News Max or OAN (One America Network). Such valid news networks include C-SPAN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, NPR and [NewsNation].
Suffice it to say that Trump’s sycophants are not happy with Donald Trump’s latest criminal indictment and are, once again, back on the “Donald Trump as a victim” warpath by making shit up… specifically about Joe Biden. Worse, Fox News Network management is eating up this false garbage about Joe Biden and is choosing (against journalistic ethics) to spew these lies to its viewers. This leads right into…
Why?
I thought that Fox News had given up coverage of Donald Trump entirely? I guess this was just another in so many lies that Fox News continually tells. More than this, why do viewers continue to put up with Fox News’s lying bullshit? How many times can you watch a news program that willfully and intentionally tells you lies straight to your face?
You don’t put up with lies from your co-workers or your friends or your boss or even your own kids! Why are you so willing to be hoodwinked and lied to by your “favorite” news channel?
Example…
Let me give a concrete example based on the fact that Donald Trump has been federally criminally indicted. Keep in mind, Trump hasn’t yet fully been indicted because he has yet to turn himself in. Apparently Donald Trump, or more specifically his lawyer, has only been informed that an indictment is forthcoming. He’ll be indicted when he actually receives the indictment paperwork. He and his lawyers can read it. Then, only after he’s received the official paperwork will he be officially indicted. Once he’s been told the charges in a federal court, he’ll then have also been arraigned. We digress.
The point in this digression is to try and explain why Donald Trump’s sycophants and MAGA cult followers are now up in arms over HIS federal criminal indictment.
Instead of Fox News Network covering Donald Trump’s pending indictment as more-or-less front page news, just as every other mostly centered news network has done, Fox News has decided it has chosen to parrot a fabricated accusation being levied at Joe Biden about some alleged bribery scheme. Yet, once again with Fox News, no details about that accusation are presented… which means, it’s a lie. Without any details presented, there’s nothing to back up the MAGA alleged accusation.
This accusation, however, gives Fox News a false smoke screen cover story for its front page news so it can avoid having to cover Donald Trump’s actual and factual indictment. Instead of telling the Fox News viewers the truth about Donald Trump’s indictment, a truth that even Donald Trump was willing to tell on Truth Social, Fox News won’t discuss it on Fox News. Instead, Fox News Network is now resorting to telling its viewers to yet more lies about Joe Biden as a diversion to avoid telling you actual news. Why do you watch this made up garbage?
This lie is just the tip of the iceberg at Fox News. Fox News’s lies landed them with a $787.5 million settlement to Dominion… and this iceberg is just getting started. Smartmatic is likely to need a whole lot more of a cash settlement than Dominion, assuming that Smartmatic is even willing to settle. The point here is that the lies that Fox News continues to tell are only digging this news channel into an even deeper monetary hole.
Again, why does ANYONE continue to watch ANY news network that intentionally and willfully chooses to lie to you, to all of us?
Silence as a Lie
At Fox News, it get even worse. Fox News withholds valuable legitimate news from you because they don’t think you can handle it. Actually, they believe that if they tell you the real news, you’ll tune out and find another news network. Instead, they spew fabricated information, usually made up by Republicans, but perpetuated by Fox News as truths. This fabricated news is simply to have a story to tell all while hiding actual news from you.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie
—Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”
By not telling you the news that you need to know, you’re being misinformed (which is another form of a lying). News channel charter is to report on news, not hide it from you. That Fox News is willing to withhold actual news from you tells you just how unethical and morally bankrupt the Fox News Network is. You watch a news channel to become informed, not to be left in the dark about current events. Worse, they withhold truthful, factual information and fill in the gaps with lies. When they withhold that news, they do so by using illegitimate and usually false narratives… blowing that fabrication all so way out of proportion, it looks like satire.
If you want satire, you should visit The Onion. At least The Onion has the decency to tell you that what they write is entirely satire and is intended as comedy. With Fox News, you simply don’t know because Fox News won’t take a stand on their reporting shenanigans. Instead, Fox News Network attempts to make itself look like a legitimate news reporting agency, yet they continually fail to report on legitimate news. To cover that lack of real news, they choose to perpetuate fabricated and unsubstantiated information as truth.
Why would you let this amount of lying into your home? If you’re a conservative evangelical Christian, what would the Bible say about a news channel that intentionally tells you lies? “Wolf in sheep’s clothing”, perhaps?
Lying and Conservatism
These two concepts do not go hand-in-hand any more the lying goes hand-in-hand with liberalism. No political affiliation’s mantra is to lie to you. For some reason, Republicans have recently latched onto lies as their new “Yellow Brick Road”, or so misguided MAGA Republicans think, simply to make all other parties look bad. Yet, if you’re smart (and I know that you are), you’ll see right through that stupidity.
Being a conservative whether evangelical or not, you don’t deserved to be lied to. Likewise, being liberal, you don’t deserve to be lied to. No one deserves lies told to their face. Not conservative, not liberal, not middle of the road. Lying most definitely is NOT the answer. Lying, however, embodies moral and societal decay. It says that as a society, we can’t be bothered to tell the truth anymore; that truth doesn’t matter.
It also says that news media has now become a perpetrator and facilitator of lies. While not all news outlets lie to you and not all do it all of the time, many lie frequently. Fox News Network chooses to lie to you more often than most, usually under the excuse of parroting top MAGA Republicans, “See, he said it first! 👉” Yeah, that argument didn’t work when you were a child and it doesn’t work now.
Most news outlets don’t typically lie as often as Fox News does, however. Fox News Network, as a video news channel, is the absolute most egregious, most blatant and offers the most outrageous lies of any news channel, bar none… other than perhaps the National Enquirer… and who willfully believes anything written in that rag sheet? For video news, maybe OAN lies nearly as much, but they also don’t get nearly the viewership that Fox News has.
Treachery comes in many forms and Fox News Network has proven that they are as treacherous and as lecherous as they come, lecherous with their news hosts painted to look like street corner hookers. Yes, let’s spout all of these lies from so-called “news anchors” painted to look like common hookers… all with the (lack of) brains to match. Clearly, you must be brainless to work at the Fox News Network.
Why these lies?
Simple answer: Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump is not just a habitual liar, he is pathological. Many have taken Donald Trump to be some kind of anti-role model. Donald Trump is actually the antithesis of a positive role model! No one should model their own personal behaviors after Donald Trump, that is unless you want to land in prison.
No one should idolize Donald Trump as a positive role model, least of all American news hosts. Yet, here we are. Fox News Network practically idolizes all things Donald Trump. When Donald Trump gets a lawsuit thrown at him, in Donald Trump’s eyes, it’s never because of what Donald Trump has actually done to trigger that lawsuit. Instead, it’s always about how the Justice Department (or some other Democrat) is in the wrong for bringing that lawsuit down upon poor, pitiful, little innocent Donald. There is absolutely nothing innocent about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is to blame for Donald Trump
No one can be blamed for Donald Trump’s stupidity and bad conduct except Donald Trump. In fact, Donald Trump could likely have avoided all of this if he had just done what NARA had originally requested… which was to return the documents the first time they asked him to return them. Instead, Donald Trump decided to play games. When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. If lawsuits and indictments are being brought down onto Donald Trump, it’s because of what Donald Trump has done. Yet, Republicans want to blame the DOJ and Joe Biden and every other Democrat for Donald Trump’s actions.
Let me ask some basic questions. Did Joe Biden hold Donald Trump’s hand when Trump decided to foment the insurrection on January 6th? Did Joe Biden coach and egg on Trump when he decided to take documents from the White House upon exiting his role as President? Did Joe Biden tell Donald Trump to remain silent while the Capitol rioters continued their violent rampage? The answer to these questions is an emphatic, “NO!”… he did not.
Joe Biden had no hand in Donald Trump’s conduct, behaviors or decisions. Yet, the MAGA Republicans would have you believe that Joe Biden had some hand in these legal actions against Trump. Joe Biden is the President, yes, but he doesn’t control the Department of Justice. That’s an entirely separate branch of government.
Weaponizing the DOJ
The MAGA Republicans using the Fox News Network as a mouthpiece would also have you believe that Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice against Donald Trump. Just the opposite, in fact. Donald Trump has performed questionable behaviors in retaining and possibly disseminating top secret government documents. The DOJ seeks to determine whether those claims are, in fact, true. If anyone has weaponized the DOJ against Donald Trump, it is Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
The only way to get to the bottom of Donald Trump’s alleged illegal wrongdoings is through the legal system. That’s why we HAVE a legal system. If Donald Trump didn’t want to be indicted, he shouldn’t have performed actions that led to this outcome. The DOJ is not being weaponized by the Democrats. Instead, the legal system is being used appropriately to investigate Donald Trump’s actions after his alleged wrongdoing has been both extensively investigated and uncovered.
The MAGA Republicans would have you believe that this investigation began yesterday and that it’s all unjustified. It didn’t. Donald Trump’s problems began the day he left the oval office. Donald Trump’s actions have led to this outcome. Yet, that’s not what the Fox News Network is telling you.
Fox News Networks Perpetuation of Lies
Fox News Network knows exactly what both Donald Trump and, more importantly, that Fox News Network is doing is wrong. Yet, FNN intentionally and willfully continues its perpetuation of lies on its viewers. The question is, if you’re an avid viewer of this treacherous and deceptive news network, why do you continue to watch? More importantly, do you actually believe the literal shit they are slinging at you every single night?
What Fox News is doing is absolutely not news. There’s nothing “newsworthy” about being told lies, deceptions and misinformation. News is telling you fact based truths that exist. News isn’t telling you falsehoods that others have perpetuated. Yet, here we are.
It gets even worse because the Fox News Network regularly invites “guests” onto its programs to not only spew their own lies without basis, they spew them and then the Fox News host fully agrees with those lies and helps spouts even more lies based on those “guest” lies… all without any supporting facts. It is exactly this “without basis in facts” problem that led to the $787.5 million settlement that Fox News Network paid to Dominion voting systems. And yet, that settlement has clearly not changed Fox News Network’s mode of operation to be more upstanding and offer more ethical journalism. In fact, it seems that Fox News Network has paid that $787.5 million solely so the owners of Fox News Network can double down on even more lies.
You must make your own decisions about networks that willfully lie to you. I can’t tell you what to watch. It is your choice to make. If you choose to willfully allow liars to lie to you and then you choose to believe those lies, then what comes out of that is on you.
“A lie begets a lie” –proverb
Instead of these lies, we must fight for truth! Only truth will keep us free.
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Why Lying is Bad for America
Lying, a ubiquitous aspect of human behavior, has been a long-standing issue in societies worldwide. While deception may seem harmless in certain situations, its detrimental effects on trust, democracy, and social cohesion cannot be overstated. In the United States, a nation founded on principles of transparency and honesty, the prevalence of lies poses significant risk to America’s fabric.
This article explores the multifaceted reasons why lying is detrimental to America, spanning political, social, and moral spheres. Let’s explore.
Let’s establish exactly how lying poses a threat to America:
- Erosion of Trust
Trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship, be it personal, professional, or societal. Lying fundamentally undermines trust, making it difficult for individuals and institutions to rely on one another. In the political realm, when elected officials deceive the public, it creates a sense of cynicism and disillusionment among citizens. This erosion of trust weakens the bond between the government and the governed, hindering effective governance. Moreover, mistrust fueled by lies can lead to conspiracy theories and the spread of misinformation, further polarizing the population. - Deterioration of Democracy
Democracy relies on the informed participation of citizens. When lies are perpetuated, the truth becomes obscured, impeding the ability of people to make well-informed decisions. Political campaigns based on false promises and misleading information undermine the democratic process, manipulating voters and distorting election outcomes. Additionally, lying can hinder accountability, as it allows politicians to evade responsibility for their actions. A healthy democracy requires transparency and honesty to ensure the will of the people is properly represented. - Weakening of Social Cohesion
Lying erodes social cohesion, the glue that holds a society together. When lies become pervasive, individuals become suspicious of one another, leading to a breakdown in social bonds. In a diverse nation like the United States, trust and understanding among different groups are vital for societal harmony. When lies and deception permeate the social fabric, it deepens divisions, exacerbates prejudice, and fuels social unrest. Open and honest communication fosters empathy, cooperation, and a sense of shared purpose, all of which are crucial for a united and inclusive society. - Moral and Ethical Implications
Lying carries profound moral and ethical implications. It violates the principles of honesty, integrity, and respect for others. When lying becomes normalized, it weakens the moral fiber of a society. By condoning or tolerating deception, we create a culture where honesty is undervalued, undermining the ethical foundations that guide our actions. Furthermore, lying can have severe consequences for individuals and communities. False accusations, damaged reputations, and shattered relationships are all byproducts of deceit, causing immeasurable harm.
Lying, in all of its forms, is deeply harmful to America. The erosion of trust, deterioration of democracy, weakening of social cohesion, and moral implications of lying have far-reaching consequences. Addressing this issue requires a collective effort from individuals, institutions, and leaders; necessitating promoting a culture of honesty, fostering open dialogue, and holding accountable those who perpetuate falsehoods. Individuals must also cultivate critical thinking skills, fact-check information, and reject deceptive narratives.
Media outlets also have a responsibility to prioritize truth and objectivity over sensationalism and misinformation. Political leaders must lead by example, upholding the principles of transparency and integrity. Finally, education plays a vital role in fostering a society that values truth and rejects deception. By recognizing the detrimental impact of lying, we can work towards restoring trust, strengthening democracy, fostering social cohesion, and upholding the moral fabric of America.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie
—Khaled Hosseini, “The Kite Runner”
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