This just in: On Pearl Harbor Day Dec 7 President Trump ready to take up the FDR legacy with some " Fireside Tweets" and get us thru these hard economic times Plus Trump ready to announce at the UN his program called "World Leader Apprentice--Winner Takes All" with contestants coming from the Security Council Putin is already saying he will kick it off with a special appearance riding in on his horse bare chested
"Paul Ryan says it "doesn't matter" when Trump lies on Twitter. That's garbage. The defenses of President-elect Donald Trump’s Twitter feed are all pretty horrible. But of the many baffling and dangerous premises being used to defend Trump’s use of Twitter as a bully pulpit for spreading pernicious lies, perhaps the most baffling and dangerous is this one: It’s just words. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan did a version of this on 60 Minutes on Sunday when he said that the veracity of Trump’s tweets doesn’t matter. All that matters is he won. “It doesn’t matter to me. He won the election,” Ryan told Scott Pelley. This is not simply about technology or trust. This is precisely what happened to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose garbled syntax and extemporaneous speaking style earned him a reputation for being indecisive, confused, and out of touch during a crucial period of the Cold War and the struggle over racial equality. After he left office, revisionists tried to salvage his historical standing by claiming that he had governed with a “hidden hand.” Perhaps, but tremendous damage was done to his ability to lead and effectively govern. For example, asked about widespread local defiance of Brown v. Board of Education, Eisenhower repeatedly denied knowing what was going on. He compounded his verbal errors in July 1957, by musing at a press conference, “I can’t imagine any set of circumstances that would ever induce me to send federal troops ... into any area to enforce the orders of a federal court, because I believe that common sense of America will never require it.” Such statements were taken by Gov. Orval Faubus as license to whip up racist defiance of desegregation efforts in Arkansas and instruct the National Guard to turn away black students seeking to integrate Central High School. Trump runs similar risks with his undisciplined rhetoric. Even if we could believe that Trump’s Twitter feed is merely a jumbled stream of consciousness, what do we do when his followers are stirred up to vilify Muslims or attack journalists? The problem isn’t just in distinguishing which of Trump’s words have meaning and which are mere performance art. The problem is that as president, all of his words will have meaning to somebody, and thus consequences. You don’t get to traffic in racially inflammatory discourse or advocate lawbreaking, and then escape responsibility by saying, “JK!” as Trump did after imploring Russia to spy on his political opponent Hillary Clinton. Loose talk of this sort makes Trump morally compromised when bad stuff starts to hit the fans based on his “meaningless words.”" Ron
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...hen_trump_lies_on_twitter_that_s_garbage.html You telling someone else not to lecture lmfao
https://www.thenation.com/article/north-carolina-a-case-study-for-resistance-in-the-trump-era/ Excerpt from this great piece: "In this year's re-election bid, McCrory's team tried to use HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill,” to once again rally a base around fear—this time, fear of their transgender neighbors. It didn’t work. Our Forward Together Moral Movement pointed out that the bill wasn’t about bathrooms at all. HB2 attempted to codify discrimination, denied all North Carolinians the right to challenge employment discrimination in state court, and overrode the victories of municipal living-wage campaigns. That’s why workers stood with preachers and LGBTQ activists stood with the business community to oppose the bill. This moral, fusion organizing convinced a majority of North Carolinians to make McCrory the first governor in our state’s history to lose a reelection bid." Ron
So a state which has elected a Democrat Governor in 28 of the previous 32 elections elected another Democrat and it is a great victory against the Trump movement. I like how they say he was "the first governor in our state’s history to lose a reelection bid" but didn't bother to mention that the previous Democratic Governor before McCrory was so bad she didn't even attempt to run for reelection.
So the Washington Posts story about the Russian fake news has received an editors note: Sounds like the story about fake news may be fake news.
yes I guess they do. Gallup at least from gallup Obama in November of 2008 - 68% W. in December of 2000 - 59% Clinton in November of 1992 - 58% http://www.gallup.com/poll/197576/t...e=Politics&g_medium=newsfeed&g_campaign=tiles
^ I just heard that on FOX BUSINESS this morning. Varney and Co. They said Trump approval rating is 50% today. That's up from 30% in September. Deplorables.
Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies " Dimitri — who asked NBC News not to use his real name — is one of dozens of teenagers in the Macedonian town of Veles who got rich during the U.S. presidential election producing fake news for millions on social media. The articles, sensationalist and often baseless, were posted to Facebook, drawing in armies of readers and earning fake-news writers money from penny-per-click advertising. Dimitri says he's earned at least $60,000 in the past six months — far outstripping his parents' income and transforming his prospects in a town where the average annual wage is $4,800. He is one of the more successful fake news pushers in the area. His main source of cash? Supporters of America's president-elect. "Nothing can beat Trump's supporters when it comes to social media engagement," he says. "So that's why we stick with Trump."" <---dunces http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...-teen-earns-thousands-publishing-lies-n692451 Ron
