malchior wrote:Basically the President had his friend at the National Inquirer harass them to blackmail them into apologizing to him personally. (HE IS A PSYCHO)
National Inquirer? Sounds like a great publication, where can I find it?
I'm surprised the National Enquirer hasn't sued them.
But Rip promised Trump's behavior as a private citizen would TOTALLY change once he was working for America, not himself.
Face eating leopard party.
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Albert Einstein "I don't stand by anything." - Trump “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867 “It is the impractical things in this tumultuous hell-scape of a world that matter most. A book, a name, chicken soup. They help us remember that, even in our darkest hour, life is still to be savored.” - Poe, Altered Carbon
My friend in Germany asked me today - how did Trump respond to Germany legalizing same-sex marriage? Like, what was the official U.S. response, how did they cover it from the White House, that sort of thing?
I had to laugh...and then explain to him that Trump was too busy waging a Twitter war against a morning-show host to pay attention to some silly little vote in Germany.
Morning news political commentator with my favorite quote of the week regarding the theory that Trump's twitter antics are meant to distract from other things:
Some people believe that he's playing a game of chess, but the reality is that he's playing checkers.
tjg_marantz wrote:Your morning briefing from Clockwork Orange.
A constant, continual embarrassment to both the office and the country.
Equally as embarrassing are the hordes who continually cheer this behavior on because it (somehow) indicates that Trump is "fighting back" against the big, bad media.
Utterly pathetic, every single one of them.
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
Obviously we can only speculate about what the investigation knows and is looking into, but it's hard not to notice that this is some of the kind of info that Russian hackers were after on the voter-role side of their operation. And this is also stuff that was spilled when the GOP-aligned consulting firm accidentally (or "accidentally") spilled its info on 200 million voters a few days back.
Having all this data out in the wild could complicate attempts to trace what the Russians and the Trumpkins had when and had together.
Skinypupy wrote:
Equally as embarrassing are the hordes who continually cheer this behavior on because it (somehow) indicates that Trump is "fighting back" against the big, bad media.
Utterly pathetic, every single one of them.
Worse than pathetic; they are unmoored from reality. I doubt that they can be deprogrammed, not as long as they have alt-media to reinforce their alt-reality. And their media will persist for as long as its audience does. Hard to see how you can ever break that loop and bring them back to actual reality.
Holman wrote:
Discuss.
I was thinking earlier today that, thanks to Trump, future historians are forever going to have to explain what Twitter was.
Buzz looks like he just wants to smack him, doesn't he?
“At some point in the future, we’re going to look back and say, ‘How did we do it without space?’”
“We know what this is, space. That’s all it has to say: space,” Trump said as he prepared to sign his executive order. He then turned to Aldrin and asked, “There’s a lot of room out there, right?”
“This is infinity here. It could be infinity. We don’t really don’t know. But it could be. It has to be something — but it could be infinity, right?”
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
I spent 90% of the money I made on women, booze, and drugs. The other 10% I just pissed away.
I can't imagine, even at my most inebriated, hearing a bouncer offering me an hour with a stripper for only $1,400 and thinking That sounds like a reasonable idea.-Two Sheds
Wait--so he's saying his attacks on CNN are fake like wrestling is fake? Does he believe wrestling is real? How do you tweet an anti-Fake wrestling meme that makes any sense whatsoever?
It's cool that he thinks the leader assaulting the press is the way to celebrate July 4, though. That's MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL, people! George Washington can suck it!
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I think this week's twitter has been 100% theater. His handlers know keeping the focus on his outrageous output is a way to keep the news off real stories like Russia, Health Care, and the Voter Suppression Commission.
Trump might not know this is what he's doing, but you can be sure Bannon does.
edit: on mobile, not sure it's showing up the way it's supposed to.
As we inch ever closer to Idiocracy being a true documentary.
I expect tomorrow's tweet to read, "I know shit's bad right now, with all that healthcare bullshit, and the fake news, and we're running out of taco bowls and burrito coverings. But I got a solution."
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
Holman wrote:
I think this week's twitter has been 100% theater. His handlers know keeping the focus on his outrageous output is a way to keep the news off real stories like Russia, Health Care, and the Voter Suppression Commission.
Trump might not know this is what he's doing, but you can be sure Bannon does.
Read a Carl Sagan quote today (from his 1995 book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark") that is particularly apt and/or prophetic for the current situation:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
When darkness veils the world, four Warriors of Light shall come.
Holman wrote:And here's a new Trump tweet with two and a half minutes of declaring the media the enemy of the American people.
We are living a nightmare.
By "dishonest" he means "free" and "media" he means "press."
Still trying to figure out "GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE." "IMMEDIATE FAMILY" maybe?
" Hey OP, listen to my advice alright." -Tha General "No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer." -Stigler's Law of Eponymy, discovered by Robert K. Merton MYT
