There are all sorts of lies in this world. Little white lies all the way to Bernie Madoff-sized piles of them.

Some lies don't hurt at all, some lies only affect one or two people, and some lies cover vast swaths of lives.

There are deadly serious lies with equally awful consequences, and then there are hilarious lies that only get funnier the more desperate they get.

Then there are the lies in politics, which are both, to a certain degree, expected and potentially devastating.

That's why the self-anointed, "unbiased" truth sniffers class, like some of the bigger 'fact checkers,' are "supposed" to be so important.

They root out the truth, protecting justice and the American way for all the non-savvy believers of everything they read types.

The most august in reputation of these used to be Snopes before a spectacular progressive flameout - plagiarism, coke, and prostitutes, (wheee!) - brought it down off the pinnacle in a fiery ball like a satellite returning to Earth.

The gold standard "Snopes-checked" is now met with snickers or "Who?"

So we are left with industry-leading - you'll notice I didn't mention quality - Politifact, another organization with whom one could take up any number of questionable issues.

But every year, it is sort of entertaining to see what the progressives who run the site decide what the "Lie of the Year" will be after magnanimously calling for suggestions from the public. The Politifact staff then spends countless hours reportedly agonizing over choices during the waning weeks of the year.

This year is no different although I would say as far as big fat whoppers go, there has been a wealth of material to choose from.

Right off the top of my head is one repeated by everyone from the Vice President of the United States on down: that this obvious vegetative mass is 'sharp as a tack.'

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Just pick a name and put "Lie of the Year" next to their quote. It's a target-rich environment in a single article alone and there are dozens.

"...And I’m telling you, this guy is tough. He’s smart. He’s on his game,” Landrieu said."

...Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered a similar defense, calling Biden “sharp.”

“The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused,” Mayorkas told “Meet the Press.”

That's the most obvious big fat one, affecting the entire world.

The most recent whopper in the public eye is also pretty obvious and caused a whale of a brouhaha. Weirdly, it didn't even rate a 'false' from Politifact, much less mind one of their iconic screaming "Pants on Fire" Truth-O-Meter readings.

You remember - that one about Biden not pardoning Hunter? And then he did?

To the non-biased fact-checkers at Politifact, that was a 'flop,' not a 'lie.'

President Joe Biden and his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said on multiple occasions over several months that Biden would not pardon his son Hunter. Then Joe Biden issued a pardon anyway. We rate that a Full Flop. https://t.co/dtGlW1X2Sn

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 3, 2024

HOLY SMOKING DOPE

GTFO of here with that, ya bums.

So if Biden's absolute mental incapacity with testimony to the contrary is not the biggest whopper of the year, and his pardoning of the crack-addicted, tax-ducking, prostitute banging bad boy doesn't even rate a "lie" label, then I guess claiming to work at McDonald's, being an Iraq war veteran/firing a weapon in war, and 'the border is secure' are off the table as far as finalists go.

I mean, you have to ask yourself what in the Sam hell could be worse than any of those?

Well, what's worse is you'd also have to think like a progressive Democratic operative.

ONLY THEN you could come up with this as the LIE OF THE YEAR winner.

They doubled down on it later, no doubt after several thousand reminders that Springfield residents were the ones who told the Trump team what was happening, not the other way around.

A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats. https://t.co/tNXV83hk3T

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) December 17, 2024

ABSURD! CONSEQUENTIAL!

I'll give Politifact both of those adjectives but not how they mean them.

The Trump memes and music videos were pure gold absurdity. 

Cats in Springfield are on the run. ..... pic.twitter.com/NsEbBoqCba

— Mark Lewis (@Maga4liberty) September 11, 2024

All free. All viral.

Talk about consequential! 

Nothing the Harris campaign blew through almost two billion dollars for came close.

It also flipped the national discussion back to immigration. Focused it like a laser beam.

Cats for Trump
Rumors about Haitians may change everything

Springfield is a town about midway between Columbus, Ohio, and Richmond, Indiana. The town may become the key in the first presidential race to show Trump in the lead in a major national poll two months before the… pic.twitter.com/tZGcqh1vpz

— DonSurber.substack.com (@donsurber) September 10, 2024

That's probably what pissed Politifact off more than the rumored gruesome demise of any domesticated house pets.

I swear, with this mentality, the entire staff must still live with their retired parents - they are such petty, fractious children.

I think the Politifact fact-checkers rate a big fat whopper award for lying about the story so they could throw a tantrum.

I'll think of something right after I get done boppin' away here...

THEY MADE A SONG!!!🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/r76tVP7jIJ

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) September 12, 2024

The idiots should have left well enough alone.

BEEGE UPDATE: I had to share this one. David sent it to me after this had already been published. 

These adolescent tools are such MAH-ROONS

This is why PolitiFact can't go with that one. https://t.co/RXt6D3dYeo pic.twitter.com/vBDaHeVPrP

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 17, 2024