James Jay Carafano, a Heritage Foundation analyst who worked on Trump's transition team believes that seeking deep foreign policy truths in the President's tweets and comments is a mistake.

 

"That public persona is not strategic signaling. That is just Trump being Trump. Pretty soon, people are going to look for other things when they look at what is true strategic signaling," Carafano said.

 

"Trump means exactly what he says, you just have to figure out exactly what he means," Carafano said.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/politics/tru...ging/index.html

 

 

Kanye is dumping Trump. He cleaned his twitter of all his pro-Trump tweets. Too bad, they seem to be made for each other.

 

Maybe they can make up.

Any poll negative towards Trump is fake news per the Donald.

 

lol

 

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.

6:01 AM - 6 Feb 2017

 

I find the whole effort by Trump and Trumpists to spin away "fake news" pretty interesting. The whole thing behind the "fake news" discussion was that there were unquestionably people deliberately and knowingly making things up because they'd get clicks and shares on facebook etc. They weren't even necessarily people trying to push a particular narrative with the fabricated stories but more likely some Macedonia teenagers looking to make some easy money. But Trump/Trumpists seem to be proud of their consumption of deliberately fake news, like there's a knee-jerk reaction to immediately go 100% for whatever 'liberals' are criticizing.

 

Edited February 6, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

Now he's saying the media is not reporting terror attacks.

They're pushing into "big lie" territory. How many times did Conway talk about the "Bowling Green Massacre"? At least three was the last count I saw.

The White House list of "terrorist attacks" that should have gained more press is....amusing.

 

Search -> crimes -> Muslim sounding names

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/06/politics/9th...-ban/index.html

 

Now CNN podcasts (embedded in the story) are providing warnings that some may consider "the Daily DC" to be fake news.

Surreal. So, by definition, Fox and Breitbart should have "real news" stamps on their stories???

 

And still trying to imagine the firestorm had Obama made those same comments about Russia and the US each having "lots of killers." It would be the American flag lapel fake patriotism story all over again.

Edited February 7, 20179 yr by caulfield12

The White House list of "terrorist attacks" that should have gained more press is....amusing.

 

Search -> crimes -> Muslim sounding names

 

They actually included Nice, Brussels, the Bataclan, Pulse nightclub, and San Bernardino on there? Amazing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...m=.fcf0d540d539

 

Lugenpresse

Edited February 7, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

The new head of the FCC has been going to work on undermining net neutrality rules.

 

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/techn...m.facebook.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politic...m=.fcf0d540d539

 

Lugenpresse

 

 

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commenta...-honest-mistake

 

You know things are bad when Texas newspapers are going after Spicer and Conway.

 

 

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2...=BGMenu_Article

Full list of 78 supposedly underreported attacks

Edited February 7, 20179 yr by caulfield12

They're pushing into "big lie" territory. How many times did Conway talk about the "Bowling Green Massacre"? At least three was the last count I saw.

 

 

 

It's such a stupid thing to lie about and really makes them come off as insane, but there are probably now lots of people in this country that believe there was a Bowling Green Massacre and refugees did it and the media just didn't report it.

 

 

Man that article in the Trib about the tiny town in Wisconsin is so sad. It shows how much marketing and slogans can drive votes. They are quite literally even more f***ed the next four years.

It's such a stupid thing to lie about and really makes them come off as insane, but there are probably now lots of people in this country that believe there was a Bowling Green Massacre and refugees did it and the media just didn't report it.

People who get their views from Breitbart and infowars for sure dont believe most of whats going on in reality.

Man that article in the Trib about the tiny town in Wisconsin is so sad. It shows how much marketing and slogans can drive votes. They are quite literally even more f***ed the next four years.

 

I think it also shows the desperation of some people in this country. None of the people interviewed in the article really seem to even like Trump that much. These aren't the MAGA people running around foaming at the mouth for Trump. The people in the article they interviewed just have nothing left to lose. Broke, unpayable debt, sick, no jobs, no future. What do they care if the country goes to s***. They already live it.

It's such a stupid thing to lie about and really makes them come off as insane, but there are probably now lots of people in this country that believe there was a Bowling Green Massacre and refugees did it and the media just didn't report it.

They're not even subtle about how they're trying to recreate the atmosphere of late 1930s Germany.

DeVos gets in, might as well cancel the rest of the hearings as they're pointless.

 

Next Sessions will get in, so the only one able to stop Trump will be the courts. But probably still get 30 hours for him, Price and Mnuchin.

 

 

Trump promising to fight refugee ban to Supreme Court. Sigh.

 

 

 

DeVos gets in, might as well cancel the rest of the hearings as they're pointless.

 

Next Sessions will get in, so the only one able to stop Trump will be the courts. But probably still get 30 hours for him, Price and Mnuchin.

 

 

Trump promising to fight refugee ban to Supreme Court. Sigh.

 

 

Hopefully, people get so angry that they just start murdering politicians in their homes. Won't see any fake tears shed from this guy.

DeVos has got to be the most plainly unqualified Cabinet member ever, right? At least since the modern, post-spoils system reforms in the late 19th century.

Edited February 7, 20179 yr by StrangeSox

The White House list of "terrorist attacks" that should have gained more press is....amusing.

 

Search -> crimes -> Muslim sounding names

 

This appears to be pretty much what they did.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-38893253

 

Hmm wonder what sort of historical analogues there are for an authoritarian regime promoting both complete distrust of the media/any sources of information besides themselves and stoking fear of religious and ethnic minorities?

Goodbye public schools! It's been fun!

 

i cant wait for DeVos to build the Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

i cant wait for DeVos to build the Jesus Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too

 

fyp

 

don't forget she's not just a regular anti-public schools zealot, she specifically wants to subsidize religious education!

This is like having your surgery done at a hospital by a guy who donated money for that wing.

fyp

 

don't forget she's not just a regular anti-public schools zealot, she specifically wants to subsidize religious education!

 

Don't forget private online for-profit schools with no accountability