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On litter box myth, GOP’s Don Bolduc pushes post-truth approach


When Ed Thelander, a GOP congressional candidate in Maine, touted the litter-boxes-in-schools myth, he learned soon after the stories were nonsensical. The Republican then did the obvious thing: Thelander acknowledged his mistake.


Joe Rogan, a prominent podcast host, recently claimed that he has an unidentified friend who’s married to a woman who works at an unidentified school that installed a litter box for a student who “identifies as an animal.” This week, Rogan admitted that the story wasn’t true.


Republican Senate hopeful Don Bolduc, however, is approaching this story in a far different way, and in the process, the New Hampshire candidate is offering a classic example of post-truth politics.


“Guess what? We have furries and fuzzies in classrooms,” Bolduc told a group of voters last week. “They lick themselves, they’re cats. ... And get this, get this. They’re putting litter boxes, right? Litter boxes for that.” He concluded, “I wish I was making it up.”


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