The Swamp

mister d wrote:Never a wrong time: http://gawker.com/5890660/andrew-breitb ... big-corpse

sancarlos wrote:https://twitter.com/wrdcsc/status/950087659103379461

Steve of phpBB wrote:As far as I can recall, Andrew Breitbart's thing was to do anything he could - truth or honor be damned - to fight liberalism.

Johnnie wrote:


Also, Oprah makes one fucking speech at the Golden Globes and liberals are all like "YAASSSSS QUEEN! BE PRESIDENT NOW!" Soooo fucking dumb.

(But that line Natalie Portman dropped when announcing best director, the award after Oprah's speech, was dope.)

mister d wrote:Like ... I can't take the step to "I'd prefer a serious Republican politician to Oprah", but I'm toeing that line. Its idiotic.

govmentchedda wrote:You guys are flipping out about some dumb shit that like.0000001% of the country thinks.

A_B wrote:

govmentchedda wrote:You guys are flipping out about some dumb shit that like.0000001% of the country thinks.

Fuck yes. Chedda for POTUS!!!!!!!!

Rex wrote:That's .3 people. Browns should stick with Kizer?

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

I also don't see what was so great about Oprah's speech. She is saying that black girls will rise up because she won a lifetime achievement award? I think they would be inspired by other firsts like Michelle Obama or Beyonce or the Williams Sisters. And the 1944 Alabama rape story. Is she really comparing 1944 Alabama to #metoo? How was any of this Presidential? Hollywood just wraps itself in its self-importance.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:54 am Degen, do you see nothing wrong with a president who grandstands about black people not standing for a national anthem that he apparently can't sing himself?

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:15 amMy theory: We're being played. Constantly, collectively, and wholly. All of these television media organizations are intentionally deceiving us.

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:40 am

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:15 amMy theory: We're being played. Constantly, collectively, and wholly. All of these television media organizations are intentionally deceiving us.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. I think most news orgs would rather not be doing this, just not enough to sacrifice the easy clicks. Like if they could keep their numbers with President Hillary, they'd be all in.

Shirley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:33 am The national anthem thing is stupid. He didn't sing along with the whole song. That's hardly proof that he doesn't know the words. I think the man's a moron, but he hears that song ALL THE TIME, and there are other videos of him singing along.

Focusing on stupid shit like this when he shows greater stupidity and/or incompetence every single day is part of what allows Trump supporters to ignore his true failings. It just makes him stronger.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:43 am

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:40 am

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:15 amMy theory: We're being played. Constantly, collectively, and wholly. All of these television media organizations are intentionally deceiving us.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. I think most news orgs would rather not be doing this, just not enough to sacrifice the easy clicks. Like if they could keep their numbers with President Hillary, they'd be all in.

But, but I thought we were on the same level of cynicism in this thread. :(

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:36 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

the fucking news alert was "Trump stands for national anthem"

THE FUCKING NEWS ALERT WAS "TRUMP STANDS FOR NATIONAL ANTHEM"

it's simple-minded bullshit to view "the media" in a prism of positive/negative. this is a fucking campaign that's being investigated for possibly colluding with Russians and somehow the implication is the media is looking for anything bad to say about him?

get the fuck out of here with that trolling garbage

The minute the media stops, his propaganda goes unchecked, and becomes accepted truth. Every single day Trump says or does several things that would have been unconscionable coming from any other President, and the day the media stops calling him on it is the day it becomes normalized.

He (Hoekstra) speculated that some 10-15 percent of the Muslim community in the world — 270 million people — were radical Islamist militants and appeared to imply that Huma Abedin had “egregious” ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim that The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler, and other publications, have determined as “bogus.” On another far-right show, Hoekstra said he had considered the possibly that President Barack Obama might be intentionally aiding the rise of Muslim extremists.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:51 pm

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:45 am If you watched TV you will also have seen the media ripping Trump for going to the National championship game, getting booed, standing for the National anthem and not knowing the words.

They will find anything bad to say about him.

Yep, no reason at all for the media to bring this up and make fun of Trump for not knowing the words to the Anthem... Trump made a huge deal attacking Kaepernick and other NFL players for their lack of respect during the anthem, even calling on owners to "fire the SOBs"* so I don't think it is a stretch at all to make fun of him for looking lost and confused while trying to sing the song he holds so dearly. Trump is constantly pushing himself as a patriotic man of God in order to control his base, when clearly he doesn't give a fuck about anything other than himself, so the media needs to call him on this.

I also see a huge difference between what I've seen, which is mostly jokes, versus holding this out as a scandal. Trump is a pathological liar, and being in the Greater New York media area my entire life, I've watched his lying and shameless media whoring my whole life. He is, and always has been a sociopathic conman, and it's essential that the media calls out his Propaganda Machine. The minute the media stops, his propaganda goes unchecked, and becomes accepted truth. Every single day Trump says or does several things that would have been unconscionable coming from any other President, and the day the media stops calling him on it is the day it becomes normalized.

I keep seeing Trump supporters citing the statistic that 90% of news coverage about Trump is negative. I have no idea how that was measured or by whom, but accepting that number as accurate, it isn't proof of a media bias when the President says and does shockingly horrible things every single day. While an impartial media is crucial, that doesn't mean they should give 50% positive coverage to a President who is calling for the imprisonment of his opponents, ordering his crowds to commit violence, threatening the Free Press, obstructing justice, laundering money for criminal organizations, possibly colluding with hostile foreign governments to sway the Presidential Election...

*The President calling on business owners to fire employees for political speech is the absolute definition of violating the First Amendment. The President demanding punishment for peaceful political protests FFS!

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:42 am New American Ambassador to the Netherlands Had A Rough Day

Peter Hoekstra, a former Congressman that a properly functioning State Department would not have allowed within 200 miles of a foreign country let alone allow to become an Ambassador.

He (Hoekstra) speculated that some 10-15 percent of the Muslim community in the world — 270 million people — were radical Islamist militants and appeared to imply that Huma Abedin had “egregious” ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim that The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler, and other publications, have determined as “bogus.” On another far-right show, Hoekstra said he had considered the possibly that President Barack Obama might be intentionally aiding the rise of Muslim extremists.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:11 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 6:42 am New American Ambassador to the Netherlands Had A Rough Day

Peter Hoekstra, a former Congressman that a properly functioning State Department would not have allowed within 200 miles of a foreign country let alone allow to become an Ambassador.

He (Hoekstra) speculated that some 10-15 percent of the Muslim community in the world — 270 million people — were radical Islamist militants and appeared to imply that Huma Abedin had “egregious” ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, a claim that The Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler, and other publications, have determined as “bogus.” On another far-right show, Hoekstra said he had considered the possibly that President Barack Obama might be intentionally aiding the rise of Muslim extremists.

Someone doesn't read the Random Politics thread.