No, that riot guy didn't die by tasing himself in the genitals while ripping down a portrait of Tip O'Neill

By adamg on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 12:17am

Snopes, which Knows Things, reports Kevin Greeson of Alabama didn't even make it into the Capitol - he was outside when he simply keeled over and died of a heart attack. According to his wife:

Any claims that he “tasered his balls while stealing a painting” could not be “farther from the truth."

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I really wanted this story to be true, but I

By MC Slim JB
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 8:48am

could never find credible confirmation of it anywhere, so did not repeat it.

Trumpies' alternate reality is based on harebrained stories quoted from ridiculous sources that reinforce the insane, hateful things they would like to believe. Their whole world is founded on fairy tales that anyone with a cheap bullshit detector with fading batteries could spot a hundred yards away.

"The election was *rigged!*" Fuck you, assholes: you haven't a shred of credible evidence for that. "We don't care: we don't live in an evidence-based reality!"

It's useful to remember this whenever one is tempted to rebroadcast such a story, however juicily ironic. Stay in the world of verifiable facts from credible sources. Wield Occam's Razor righteously. Stand up for data, for science, for reality.

believe it until proven otherwise

By Ralph
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 8:24am

Of course the spouse would say that. I will choose to believe it until proven that it's fake news. And I will ignore any evidence presented.

It's definitely a much better story

By merlinmurph
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 8:28am

Kinda like when you get hurt doing something stupid, like slipping on ice, and you desperately wish you had a more exciting story to tell, like you were nearing the top of El Cap, ran out of water hours ago, the sun had set, a storm was coming in, your climbing buddy was convulsing, and you just had a fall and whacked your leg.....

But the "Don't Tread On Me woman

By jmeltzer
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 7:15am

trampled to death by the mob" story is true. I think.

I believe the basis for the story was in a joke

By Tim Mc.
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 7:25am

after seeing a picture of the guy posing with a bunch of guns, apparently having received some for Christmas. In the photo, there's a pair of handguns tucked into his belt, pointed at his crotch.

Here's the photo: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/10/02/3774180...

(This *possibly* relates to a thing where some conservatives were trying to "trigger the libs" by posting pictures of themselves intentionally pointing handguns at their own crotches. One of them accidentally fired and blew a hole through his scrotum.)

A conspiracy theory that deserves a name...

By Friartuck
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 7:51am

Pizzagate has been claimed previously, how about Scrotgate?

Testi-lying?

By MrZip
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 8:58am

Or is that already taken?

Long since--it's police slang

By Vicki
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 5:02pm

Long since--it's police slang in some places for what some of them do in court.

More like

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 01/13/2021 - 10:32am

"Testi-frying"

I think this is a situation

By Ann Onymous
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 8:42am

I think this is a situation where we need to consider the source.

If you're already labeled the wife of a moron who went in to the Capitol building armed, and died as a result, would you really want all of that PLUS it's because he took a taser to his boys?

His name was Kevin Greeson.
And he tased himself in his balls.

Reliable source

By Clare
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:01am

The source of the debunking comes from his wife ... who wasn't actually there? If I were a MAGAt whose MAGAt husband tased himself in the balls during an attempted coup, I too would claim it 'couldn't be farther from the truth'.

I will continue sharing memes

By Kenneth Johnson
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:18am

I will continue sharing memes and laughing at the traitor because that's what they deserve. There should be severe consequences for trying to subvert our democracy.

Yeah, tasers aren't accurate

By anon
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 9:28am

Yeah, tasers aren't accurate enough to hit such small targets.

Goddamnit, universe

By erik g
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:04am

We’ve all had a hell of a year, and I really wanted this to be true. I NEEDED this to be true. You don't get poetic irony like this very often, and this story was the best example I'd heard in years. Don’t do me like this, universe.

But in Right Wing Reality

By Brent Jeffries
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:05am

Snopes is most definitely part of the biased left-wing media because they verify stuff the Righties don't like. So if Snopes disconfirms the story, then the story must be true... but they don't want it to be true, so it must be a lie... but Snopes said it was a lie...

I've had that happen

By Gary C
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:18am

I've cited Snopes to refute a post and had the OP tell me that you can't trust Snopes.

It was founded by Democrats,

By Scratchie
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:23am

It was founded by Democrats, you know, so that means that all the research they publish is obviously fake.

Every inveterate liar I know on social media asserts

By MC Slim JB
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 10:38am

that fact-checking sites like Snopes are fake news.

It is in the references

By cinnamngrl
Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:13am

While snopes makes an effort to be objective, there are less objective sites. The real objectivity is the part of the story where snopes tracks down the origin and shows their work. This is how Wikipedia works. You don't just rely on the text, you read the linked references and see for yourself.

Also a fallacy