copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2023-08-31): Yes, my friends there is a book called Becky: The Throat Goat (Rejected Children’s Books). Brad Gosse is the author. But something tells me that might not be their real name. Or even one person. After all, would you admit to writing a book about a goat named Becky who has a long throat and can take anything large or small? Who is a tease at parties and oh boy, I leave the rest up to you. And Brad Gosse has other things (of course they do) and as said I’m assuming they are hiding their identity as would you admit to writing Sex Toy Story? Or Meet The Karens: They’re Angry And They Want Attention? Or that classic, Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party? I mean, I am warped, but even my "poem" Roll a Big Fatty and Lead Paint and Whores is Mother Theresa level compared to these not too subtle innuendo books.
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2020-01-01): This is a difficult book to read. It is told from a young girls perspective but is not a book for teens or young readers. There is incest, swinger parties, molestation. The author states that it is based on a true story from her own hometown but I didn’t see information about that case. [...] What an interesting read...It was borderline uncomfortable at times. The title really has this story pegged. A lot of what happens is very unspeakable. This story should really come with a trigger warning. There is incest, molestation, abduction, and swingers parties. [...] This is a dark, uncomfortable read about abduction, incest and swinger parties, all told through the eyes of a young girl.
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-05-08): Carney: Well, in a few ways. Again, I’m from Greenwich Village, I wanted to think that there was a conservative real America, where people get married and go to church and have babies and are pro-life and all of that stuff. And that there was a liberal, elite, decadent America where they’re probably all swingers like in some of those movies. I kind of knew that second part wasn’t true, but finding out the brokenness of a lot of real America was one thing. Another thing was a more sober understanding of free trade in the 20th century and what it did, that these factories down and the manufacturing went overseas.
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2022-07-18): Swinger lifestyle is "let’s fuck". Poly lifestyle is "let’s get to know each other". [...] After experiencing a swinger party called Bliss in Las Vegas, Neil believes the swinger lifestyle is a step in the right direction, because womens’ feminine side is amplified and men’s masculine side is more relaxed. Both parties in the relationship feel more freedom to have sexual and emotional desires for other people, and once they get approval from their spouse, they can sleep with other people.
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-06-28): This "children's book" really exists, but its content was satirical and it was written and published for adults, not children. On June 24, 2024, an X user posted a video of a woman reading aloud a purported kids' book titled "Mom and Dad's Swinger Party" and suggested the publication proved the queer community is "filled with pedophiles." [...] The claim also appeared in numerous X posts in June 2023, where one user wrote: "Unreal. This is a "childrens" book explaining "Mom & Dad's Swinger Parties". If this isn't grooming a child into adult perversions…I don't know what is. It's probably available at your local school library!"
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Mom and Dad's Swinger Party Rejected Children's Books Paperback – January 9, 2023
Claim: There's a children's book titled 'Mom And Dad’s Swinger Party' (Viral Video, 2023-06-02)
Evidence (2024-10-09): AAP FACTCHECK – A picture book called ‘Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party’ is being used as evidence that children are being targeted with sexualised reading material. [...] "Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party book, American children’s literature now looks like this," one post claims. [...] Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party is one of more than 120 "dark humour books" that he has authored since 2019.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2019-06-16): Madison did not author this quote. It may be a paraphrase of a statement by Presbyterian minister John Witherspoon.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-26): ...one of the most erudite of the Founding Fathers, James Madison, said that "we have staked the whole future of our American Political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government" This corresponded to the actual Madison quote: [...] In the very beginning of our history James Madison put a very significant statement in writing. Madison said, "We have staked the whole future of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government."
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2003-01-01): From their perspective Madison was offering up, much as our politicians of today are wont to do, sweet-sounding maxims designed to enlist popular support: rather than offering an "operational" theory, he was presenting an attractive and appealing rationale for minority rule. [...] At least one claim advanced by Madison on behalf of a system of representation in the context of a large republic seems self-evident. He observes that there must be an upward limit to the size of a representative assembly. The reasons for this are twofold: the assembly cannot be so large as to constitute a tumultuous mob incapable of conducting its assigned business in an orderly fashion; nor, by the canons implicit in republicanism, should it be so large that strict oligarchic internal rule is needed. Quite obviously, the larger the republic in terms of population, the more fit characters there will be to choose among for the limited number of positions in the legislature (10:47). To put this point in a familiar context, we can be reasonably certain, all things being equal, that a high school with 5,000 students will be able to field a better football team than one with but 500 students.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2023-10-18): Madison was a sickly and slightly built man who stood just 5 feet 4 inches tall and rarely tipped the scales at much more than 100 pounds. His voice was so weak that people often had difficulty hearing his speeches, and he was plagued by recurring bouts of "bilious fever" and what he described as "a constitutional liability to sudden attacks, somewhat resembling epilepsy." While contemporaries praised Madison’s fierce intelligence, many also made note of his small size and timid demeanor. The wife of a Virginia politician once labeled him "the most unsociable creature in existence." [...] Following a stint in the Virginia Convention in 1776, a young James Madison lost a 1777 bid for election to the state’s House of Delegates. He would later write that the defeat was the result of his refusal to provide free liquor to the voters on Election Day, a common custom then known as "swilling the planters with bumbo." The future president believed that bribing electors with booze was contrary to republican principles, but one of his opponents—who also happened to be a tavern keeper—simply "adhered to the old practice" and raked in the votes. Despite the setback, Madison was soon chosen for an open seat on Virginia’s Council of State. By 1780, the 29-year-old was serving as the youngest delegate to the Continental Congress.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2018-09-18): James Madison traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 with Athens on his mind. He had spent the year before the Constitutional Convention reading two trunkfuls of books on the history of failed democracies, sent to him from Paris by Thomas Jefferson. Madison was determined, in drafting the Constitution, to avoid the fate of those "ancient and modern confederacies," which he believed had succumbed to rule by demagogues and mobs. [...] James Madison died at Montpelier, his Virginia estate, in 1836, one of the few Founding Fathers to survive into the democratic age of Andrew Jackson. Madison supported Jackson’s efforts to preserve the Union against nullification efforts in the South but was alarmed by his populist appeal in the West. What would Madison make of American democracy today, an era in which Jacksonian populism looks restrained by comparison? Madison’s worst fears of mob rule have been realized—and the cooling mechanisms he designed to slow down the formation of impetuous majorities have broken.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2022-03-22): James Madison (1751-1836) was a Founding Father of the United States and the fourth American president, serving in office from 1809 to 1817. An advocate for a strong federal government, the Virginia-born Madison composed the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights and earned the nickname "Father of the Constitution." [...] James Madison was born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia, to James Madison Sr. and Nellie Conway Madison. The oldest of 12 children, Madison was raised on the family plantation, Montpelier, in Orange County, Virginia. At age 18, Madison left Montpelier to attend the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). [...] James Madison, Secretary of State: 1801-09
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2017-05-01): James Madison Jr. was an American statesman, diplomat, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. This James Madison quotes on democracy, liberty, the government will motivate you. [...] A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." ~ James Madison, James Madison quotes on government - "The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect." ~ James Madison - "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." ~ James Madison - "A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty." ~ James Madison - "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." ~ James Madison - "The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act." ~ James Madison - "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned." ~ James Madison - "Our country, if it
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2011-01-30): Yet Another Christian Fake Quote "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." [...] "Home-schooled as a child, Madison attended Princeton University under the direction of Reverend John Witherspoon, one of the nation's premier theologians and legal scholars. The University's first president, Jonathan Dickinson, had declared: 'Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.'" [...] "Mistake me not, my brethren: I am not speaking against learning in itself; it is a precious gift of God, and may be happily improved in the service of the gospel; but I will venture to say, in the spirit of the apostle Paul's writings in general, and of this passage in particular, Accursed be all that learning which sets itself in opposition to the cross of Christ! Accursed be all that learning which disguises or is ashamed of the cross of Christ! Accursed be all that learning which fills the room that is due to the cross of Christ! and once more, Accursed be all that learning which is not made subservient to the honour and glory of the cross of Christ!"
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2024-08-28): No. 10 addresses the question of how to reconcile citizens with interests contrary to the rights of others or inimical to the interests of the community as a whole. Madison saw factions as inevitable due to the nature of man—that is, as long as people hold differing opinions, have differing amounts of wealth and own differing amounts of property, they will continue to form alliances with people who are most similar to them and they will sometimes work against the public interest and infringe upon the rights of others. He thus questions how to guard against those dangers.[2] [...] Like the anti-Federalists who opposed him, Madison was substantially influenced by the work of Montesquieu, though Madison and Montesquieu disagreed on the question addressed in this essay. He also relied heavily on the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, especially David Hume, whose influence is most clear in Madison's discussion of the types of faction and in his argument for an extended republic.[20][21]
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2018-08-19): The charge was leveled often in his own time, as it has been ever since: James Madison is and was a hypocrite—a man inconstant in principles; "a mind mired in confusion and inconsistency, or perhaps even one suffering from schizophrenia or tainted by dishonesty."[1] [...] Appalled at this blatant violation of free speech guaranteed in the First Amendment (written by himself), Madison, now retired from Congress, penned the Virginia Resolution in response. In it, he asserted that when the federal government has committed a "deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted" in the Constitution, "the states . . . have the right . . . to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them."[21]The man who had spent months pleading for a national veto on state laws now found himself a decade later arguing that the states essentially had a veto on national laws when those laws violated the Constitution. [...] James Madison was consistent—consistently America’s counterbalance.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2023-12-21): Religion in the Life, Thought, and Presidency of James Madison [...] Munoz, V.P. (2023). Religion in the Life, Thought, and Presidency of James Madison.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2024-09-10): Professor Gordon Lloyd, a Senior Fellow at Ashbrook and Dockson Professor Emeritus at Pepperdine University, decided to restore the story of the convention as Madison wanted it to be told. Lloyd’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, by James Madison, a Member, was published by Ashbrook press in 2014. It is now available at our online bookstore. We asked Lloyd to explain why he restored this version of the Debates. [...] Madison wanted to give posterity a truer account. [...] As for Madison’s dialogue, we know that it actually occurred over the course of 88 days, involving 55 different people, at least eight of whom make extremely important contributions. And Madison’s dialogue, unlike Socrates’, does not conclude with him the winner.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2023-03-23): In the roster of famous last words—from Goethe’s "More light!" to Nathan Hale’s "I regret I have but one life to give for my country" to John Maynard Keynes’s debonair "I should have drunk more champagne"—surely the final utterance of James Madison deserves an honored place. Bedridden with rheumatism at 85, the fourth president had spent 19 years in retirement at Montpelier, the columned brick Virginia plantation house where he had grown up since age nine or ten; where, as a young legislator, he had pored over history and political philosophy to help frame his plan for the United States Constitution; and where, as a 46-year-old ex-congressman, he had brought his wife of three years to live with his parents on their 5,000 rich Piedmont acres. That final morning in 1836, Sukey, his wife’s longtime maid, had brought him his breakfast, as usual; another slave, his valet Paul Jennings, got ready to shave him, as he had done every second day for 16 years; his favorite niece, the widowed Nelly Willis, sat by him to keep him company, as the June sun filtered through the twin poplars in the backyard and warmed the book-filled sickroom.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2019-06-30): FACT CHECK: Did James Madison Say, ‘Cursed Be All That Learning That Is Contrary To The Cross Of Christ’? A post shared on Facebook claims that statesman James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." [...] The quote may be a paraphrase of a similar statement: "Accursed be all that learning which sets itself in opposition to the cross of Christ!" This statement was made in a sermon by Witherspoon, the one-time president of the College of New Jersey, which would later become Princeton University.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2015-03-16): What was the philosophy of an institution that produced so many national leaders? Princeton’s founding statement was, "Cursed is all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Princeton University - Reverend Jonathan Dickson, Princeton’s first president once said, "Cursed be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." Established during the First Great Awakening, the college was a direct result of spiritual revival and a recommitment of the early colonies to further a degree of excellence in education. Later, under President Jonathan Edwards, the school took on a missionary zeal to minister to the American Indians. Early Princeton graduates included James Madison, Aaron Burr, and six members of the first United States Congress.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2023-09-29): James Madison’s example, and the June 1, 2023 letter from the First Presidency together with recent teachings from President Nelson and President Oaks, highlight the point I want to make in this post. It is that we need to live in tension without giving way to contention. In other words: In order to form a more perfect union, we must do the difficult work of holding firmly to what the Lord called "just and holy principles" while we humble ourselves, learn from other children of God whose views differ from ours, and find common ground for the general welfare.
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2013-10-03): This is why every time the church has used civil governments to spread or defend Christendom, the result has been an unmitigated disaster that has shamed the name of Christ (e.g., CATHOLIC INQUISITION & CRUSADES; PROTESTANT PERSECUTION OF CATHOLICS). One of our founding fathers, James Madison, underscored this point: "During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
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Claim: Claims that James Madison said, "Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ." (Viral Quote, 2019-06-16)
Evidence (2024-07-12): - Attributed to Madison by Frederick Nymeyer in Progressive Calvinism: Neighborly Love and Ricardo's Law of Association, January 1958, p. 31. The source is given there as the 1958 calendar of Spiritual Motivation. It subsequently appeared in Rousas John Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 541; Jerry Falwell, Listen America! (1980), p. 51; David Barton, The Myth of Separation Between Church and State (1989); and William J. Federer, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations (1994) p. 411. David Barton has since declared it "unconfirmed" after Madison scholars reported that this statement appears nowhere in the writings or recorded utterances of James Madison.[4] It appears to be an expansion and corruption of Madison's reference (Federalist Papers XXXIX) to "that honourable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government." [...] - Accursed be all that learning which sets itself in opposition to the cross of Christ!
Claim: an FBI raid in Annandale, Virginia, uncovered a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to "destroy America." (Viral story, 2020-03-07)
Evidence (2020-03-07): The Annandale home of a suspected Hamas operative was searched by federal agents in 2004. While materials and documents were taken from the home, the search did not uncover a Muslim Brotherhood plot to “destory America.”
Claim: an FBI raid in Annandale, Virginia, uncovered a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to "destroy America." (Viral story, 2020-03-07)
Evidence (2024-08-16): FBI Raids Home Of Russian-American Political Analyst Dmitri Simes Agents of the FBI have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dmitri Simes, a prominent political commentator and author who hosts a current-affairs program on Russia’s state-run Channel One television, the newspaper Rappahannock News reported on August 16. [...] "This defendant, motivated by [IS], allegedly conspired to commit a violent attack, on Election Day, here on our homeland," said FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Claim: an FBI raid in Annandale, Virginia, uncovered a plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to "destroy America." (Viral story, 2020-03-07)
Evidence (2022-08-09): Given that the raid happened one day ago, is it perhaps premature for everyone involved (except maybe Trump) to be freaking out so much? Let’s run through what we know—and what we don’t. [...] Is there any evidence the raid was politically motivated?