Trump MAGAThread XII: A Tarriff-ic Thread!

[Cekoviu]

CNN let their disdain for Trump colour their view, there's no doubt on that, but for the most part one can believe what they report. For the most part.

Fox News have been shilling for the Right since Bush was in office.

Yea.
My main dislike of CNN comes from John Stewart
Just watch the video in this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/ ... 63194.html

>I don't like CNN because it's biased and not always factual
>links to HuffPo

[Valgora]

Yea.
My main dislike of CNN comes from John Stewart
Just watch the video in this article: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/ ... 63194.html

>I don't like CNN because it's biased and not always factual
>links to HuffPo

The point is the video. Plus, that article is labeled as Comedy.

[The East Marches II]

Who would trust CNN over Fox? And who the hell would want to trust Fox over CNN?
Actually, who would want to trust either one of them?

CNN are way more trustworthy than Fox.

The whole 'mainstream media are evil' thing is rather overblown, imho. They're certainly not worse than the so-called 'alternate' news sources.

I'd like to dispute that. Screaming of panel members is worse than screeching in written form.

[Albrenia]

CNN are way more trustworthy than Fox.

The whole 'mainstream media are evil' thing is rather overblown, imho. They're certainly not worse than the so-called 'alternate' news sources.

I'd like to dispute that. Screaming of panel members is worse than screeching in written form.

I find the former more entertaining than the smug and self-assured tripe that the alternate media often peddles. That's not even including the outright lies they push.

[Jerzylvania]

So it turns out that in spite of everything Trump has screamed over Twitter more people trust CNN than Fox to report news accurately.

Not that Fox wants to admit that.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!
Faux News more like!

Lets even go further and use language the Donald clearly will understand. Call them Fucks News as they clearly have fucked themselves hard.
This is an example of the old adage even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile. With that acorn symbolizing truth in Fucks News case.

[Hittanryan]

I agree the whole "mainstream media is evil" thing is overblown; however, CNN ain't that much better than Fox.
However, CNN ain't propaganda like Fox is.

CNN let their disdain for Trump colour their view, there's no doubt on that, but for the most part one can believe what they report. For the most part.

Fox News have been shilling for the Right since Bush was in office.

The difference is this: CNN I always try to fact-check with another source, especially with anything breaking. They're too quick to post without verifying, not very rigorous, and they want sensational headlines to get ratings.

Fox News isn't even worth turning on in the first place.

[Jerzylvania]

CNN let their disdain for Trump colour their view, there's no doubt on that, but for the most part one can believe what they report. For the most part.

Fox News have been shilling for the Right since Bush was in office.

The difference is this: CNN I always try to fact-check with another source, especially with anything breaking. They're too quick to post without verifying, not very rigorous, and they want sensational headlines to get ratings.

Fox News isn't even worth turning on in the first place.

At one time back when I was in my mid thirties there wasn't a Fucks News and we weren't in such a damn divided mess as a nation.
In the intervening thirty years we have descended into this dark place we find ourselves now and I place most of the blame squarely on Roger Ailes, originally a Nixon sycophant.

[Valrifell]

The difference is this: CNN I always try to fact-check with another source, especially with anything breaking. They're too quick to post without verifying, not very rigorous, and they want sensational headlines to get ratings.

Fox News isn't even worth turning on in the first place.

At one time back when I was in my mid thirties there wasn't a Fucks News and we weren't in such a damn divided mess as a nation.
In the intervening thirty years we have descended into this dark place we find ourselves now and I place most of the blame squarely on Roger Ailes, originally a Nixon sycophant.

Wow, we can literally root all of the ills of modern America to Richard Nixon, can't we?

[Jerzylvania]

At one time back when I was in my mid thirties there wasn't a Fucks News and we weren't in such a damn divided mess as a nation.
In the intervening thirty years we have descended into this dark place we find ourselves now and I place most of the blame squarely on Roger Ailes, originally a Nixon sycophant.

Wow, we can literally root all of the ills of modern America to Richard Nixon, can't we?

Tricky Dick spawned a plenty of them no doubt and even wrote a letter to Trump in 1987 telling him he'd make a great presidential candidate.

Now Trump is acting like Nixon on steroids with a serious meth problem. Murica, what did you do

[Farnhamia]

Wow, we can literally root all of the ills of modern America to Richard Nixon, can't we?

Tricky Dick spawned a plenty of them no doubt and even wrote a letter to Trump in 1987 telling him he'd make a great presidential candidate.

Now Trump is acting like Nixon on steroids with a serious meth problem. Murica, what did you do

Except for the EPA, that's one Nixon creation Trump doesn't approve of. But hey, he'll pivot any day now and become amazingly presidential.

[Bombadil]

Oddly it's made me more aware of the biased effects of the media, especially how headlines are written that then dictate the tone of the article. I generally read The Guardian, I know it's a quinoa-munching liberal rag.. but I like the writing style and their focus on breaking big stories.

However I'm more bothered than before about headline bias.. part because it doesn't help to create examples where people can point to it and be all 'see the left is just as biased'..

A book has come out of collected essays..

Power provides extremely useful history on Russian efforts to interfere with US elections, which go back at least to 1984, when the KGB secretly campaigned against Ronald Reagan’s re-election. Just as they did during the 2016 election, the Russians spread all kinds of false stories, including the idea the CIA was plotting to give nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa.

Then Power pinpoints why the Russians were so much less effective back then: “During the Cold War the vast majority of Americans received their news … via mediated platforms.” This meant that what they read or saw on television “had to get by professional gatekeepers”.

As far as the dissemination of news is concerned, that is the crucial difference between the pre and post-internet worlds: the gatekeepers have disappeared.

Add to that the fact that bots accounted for 3.8m tweets in the final weeks of the 2016 election and that 38m false stories were shared on Facebook in the last three months of the campaign, and you get some idea of the damage the internet has inflicted on American democracy.

Fox News routinely “amplified falsehoods” that discredited Hillary Clinton. All in all it’s no surprise, as Power points out, that “large numbers of Americans now view as opinion what were once seen as verifiable facts” – everything from global warming to the utility of vaccinating children.

I think the difference is here.. that both media, and there's little debate that FOX is a serious culprit, and non-media are deliberately amplifying direct falsehoods. While one can detect bias in tone it's hard to have to fact check simple false news.

[Petrasylvania]

Wow, we can literally root all of the ills of modern America to Richard Nixon, can't we?

Tricky Dick spawned a plenty of them no doubt and even wrote a letter to Trump in 1987 telling him he'd make a great presidential candidate.

Now Trump is acting like Nixon on steroids with a serious meth problem. Murica, what did you do

And now, Stupid Watergate.

[Albrenia]

I wonder if Trump has read Beef and a Chief.

[The East Marches II]

I'd like to dispute that. Screaming of panel members is worse than screeching in written form.

I find the former more entertaining than the smug and self-assured tripe that the alternate media often peddles. That's not even including the outright lies they push.

You are a brave man then. I lose brain cells when ever I watch panel shouting hour. Jeff Zucker nuked their crediability, ratings and format.

[Ifreann]

I wonder if Trump has read Beef and a Chief.

Trump doesn't read.

[Bombadil]

I wonder if Trump has read Beef and a Chief.

Trump doesn't read.

What a depressingly true rebuttal.

[Vassenor]

Trump fought against fitting of sprinklers in apartment where man died

So it seems the reason there's no absolute requirement for sprinkler systems in the NYC building code is because Trump said it would be expensive to refit the tower with them and so pushed against it.

[Ifreann]

Trump fought against fitting of sprinklers in apartment where man died

So it seems the reason there's no absolute requirement for sprinkler systems in the NYC building code is because Trump said it would be expensive to refit the tower with them and so pushed against it.

Very well built. Believe me.

[Sovaal]

I wonder if Trump has read Beef and a Chief.

Trump doesn't read.

That people can get through life without reading recreationally at all bothers me. Sure, I’ll take breaks of several months from it, but I always go back...

[Post War America]

Tricky Dick spawned a plenty of them no doubt and even wrote a letter to Trump in 1987 telling him he'd make a great presidential candidate.

Now Trump is acting like Nixon on steroids with a serious meth problem. Murica, what did you do

Except for the EPA, that's one Nixon creation Trump doesn't approve of. But hey, he'll pivot any day now and become amazingly presidential.

I mean, any day now monkeys will fly out of my butt, and pigs will construct their own space rockets, doesn't mean that day is any time soon.

[Thermodolia]

Trump doesn't read.

That people can get through life without reading recreationally at all bothers me. Sure, I’ll take breaks of several months from it, but I always go back...

Hi there.

[Ifreann]

Trump doesn't read.

That people can get through life without reading recreationally at all bothers me. Sure, I’ll take breaks of several months from it, but I always go back...

Don't look down on the illiterate.

[Sovaal]

That people can get through life without reading recreationally at all bothers me. Sure, I’ll take breaks of several months from it, but I always go back...

Don't look down on the illiterate.

>not knowing why people don’t like what I like because I’m not them
> Looking down on them.
I can see how it came off that way but that’s not what I meant.

Although if Trump is illiterate there are bigger problems then him simply not reading books.

[Ifreann]

Don't look down on the illiterate.

>not knowing why people don’t like what I like because I’m not them
> Looking down on them.
I can see how it came off that way but that’s not what I meant.

Calm down, citizen, I'm just poking fun at Trump's inability to extract meaning from the written word.

[Northeast American Federation]

>not knowing why people don’t like what I like because I’m not them
> Looking down on them.
I can see how it came off that way but that’s not what I meant.

Calm down, citizen, I'm just poking fun at Trump's inability to extract meaning from the written word.

Well, frankly, he knows the best words, you know. The best. So many words. Big words. Some big words. Little ones too. And, he likes to make great contributions to literature via Twitter. Great site, so many followers. Really folks, the best.