On Wednesday the WH called the media the
opposition party.
Today it is the
enemy of the American people.
We have met the Enemy, and He is Us
Pogo
When the Maine Maniac says you've run off the rails you know you're in trouble.
Even Maine Gov. Paul LePage thinks President Trump needs to take charge of his administration
Last year he came under fire for claiming that heroin dealers with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty — these types of guys — they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we have to deal with down the road.”
This just isn’t going to last long because he just doesn’t have control of reality.
“Morning Joe” reveals the secret panic of GOP lawmakers after Trump’s unhinged press conference
“The No. 1 story is the stability of the president of the United States. The first 35 minutes of that press conference was watching a president of the United States who has lost a grip on reality. It was as if he performed for himself because he needed to perform like that because he needed to convince himself he was president.”
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling tweeted: “Up until an hour ago, the scariest thing I’d ever watched was Psycho.
Was it more like 'SNL' or 'Dr. Strangelove'?
Trump referred to his Cabinet — from which National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was just fired — as a “fine-tuned machine,” called it the greatest Cabinet ever assembled (though it’s not fully assembled), asked an African American reporter if she could arrange a meeting between him and the Congressional Black Caucus, and accused Hilary Clinton of giving uranium to the Russians.
It’s doubtful if even Peter Sellers, who played President Muffley in “Strangelove,” could duplicate the sheer absurdity of the unscheduled, seemingly unending, presser.
Could one of you wingers go by the WH and take the popular vote loser out for lunch or a beer?
The Summary: Hair Führer vs. The Media
A Trump adviser tells us the president is experiencing acute “cabin fever” in the White House — hemmed in by headaches, unable to easily pop out to a restaurant the way he could in New York.
You look at what's happening last night in Sweden! Sweden! Who would believe this, Sweden!
---Popular Vote Loser
This happened in Sweden Friday night, Mr President
3:24 PM (local time): A man set himself on fire at Sergels torg, a plaza in central Stockholm. He was taken to the hospital with severe burns. There is so far no information on his motives but the intelligence service is not part of the investigation.
6:42 PM: The famous singer Owe Thörnqvist had some technical problems during rehearsal for the singing competition ”Melodifestivalen”. (However, the 87 year old singer still managed to secure the victory the very next day.)
8:23 PM: A man died in hospital, after an accident in the workplace earlier that day in the city of Borås.
8:46 PM: Due to harsh weather in the northern parts of Sweden the road E10 was closed between Katterjåkk and Riksgränsen. Due to strong winds and snow in the region the Met office also issued an avalanche warning.
12:17 AM: Police officers initiated a chase for a fleeing Peugeot through central parts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The pursuit ended in police officers ramming the suspect at Engelbrektsgatan. The driver is now accused of driving under the influence, traffic violation and car theft.
IN LIGHTER NEWS:
11:23 AM: Ok, let’s not be fake news, this story took place in the autumn, but was reported Friday before lunch and we thought you would like it. A wooden moose got the attention of a lovesick moose bull. It all happened in 79 year old Ove Lindqvist’s garden in Byske outside Skellefteå, northern Sweden. ”I thought it was going to start a fight, instead it humped the wooden moose thrice”, he said.
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This morning the survivors of the Bowling Green massacre announced they will be journeying to Sweden to show support for what is happening in that country. The trip came together quickly, soon after the president highlighted the terror that is occurring in Sweden because of their immigration policies. It was for the Bowling Green group nothing less than a call to arms to help and support their Swedish brothers and sisters in their hours of need.
“The parallels between the Bowling Green massacre and the terror in Sweden are extraordinary,” said one member of the Bowling Green group.
“I feel as the terror victims of Sweden and I exist in the same small universe,” said another.
The group expects to be welcomed by the Swedish government. “I have contacted them and they said we could get together and smoke a little something,” said the leader of the group. “An activity that I hope will bring us together in important ways. We share so much, we are in many ways the only ones who can understand each other.”
The group will then stop at Maro-Lago on the way home. “We won’t be able to get in of course,” the leader of the group said. “But we will hold a candle light vigil outside, across the water, eating Subway sandwiches. We just want the president to know we are there and we exist….at least in his own mind.
Do you understand why I'm laughing Hullflyer1?
Is Red State the bible for literate wing nuts? If it is there must be a few tin foil hats spinning.
And there is nothing more concerning than seeing all the rabid Trump fanatics, eating up this unconstitutional load of steaming horse crap that he’s feeding them, in small, manageable bites.
Trump’s Feud With The Media Needs To Stop Now
“I want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news,” Trump said to huge cheers.
Translation: I want to ladle raw sewage directly into your ears.
“The dishonest media, which has published one false story after another with no sources, even though they pretend they have them – they make them up in many cases. They just don’t want to report the truth.”
Almost as dishonest and false as promoting a story of a political opponent’s multiple affairs, with no sources. Or that part about all but directly accusing that same opponent’s father of being involved with the murder of a U.S. president. Also dishonest, false, and meant to harm a man’s family and their reputation.
“Many of our greatest presidents fought with the media and called them out,” Trump said, mentioning Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln.
I know Thomas Jefferson had a rancorous relationship with the press, but rather than whine about “fake news,” he remained stoic and moored in principle.
“When the media lies to people, I will never, ever, let them get away with it. I will do whatever I can that they don’t get away with it,” he said. “They have their own agenda and their agenda is not your agenda.”
Their agenda is to report the news, so of course it’s not the same agenda. People have different jobs. Stop trying to work up an army of Brown shirts to burn down newspaper and cable news offices.
“But despite all their lies, misrepresentations and false stories they could not defeat us in the primaries or general election and we’ll continue to expose them as what they are and most importantly we’ll continue to win, win, win,” said Trump.
Because the media that you demonize now gave you several billion in free air time during the run up to the election. They couldn’t defeat you because they were working for you.
I don’t know about the win, win, win, but I am convinced that you will continue to be a fool, fool, fool until you get bored or Steve Bannon fires you.
Apparently there isn't more to do.
I've had him on ignore for years. I only see mikeys posts when I want to. It's a much more pleasant experience.
How do you add someone to your ignore list?
I couldn't find the option looking for it now, but it's on here somewhere. It's worth the time spent searching
Found it! Ah... the peace. I can start thinking of sailing again.
Of course not- the mainstream media IS the democraptic party, and wont publish/discuss it.
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and, many times, adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time.
That's how dictators get started. They get started by suppressing free press.
In other words, a consolidation of power. When you look at history, the first thing that dictators do is shut down the press. And I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history.
---Sen. John McCain
Another day, another entry into the seemingly unending list of stories about Trump supporters being delicate little flowers who demand America's respect but are too damn stupid to earn it.
Those who journeyed to Trump’s Saturday evening event on Florida’s Space Coast said that since the election, they have unfriended some of their liberal relatives or friends on Facebook. They don’t understand why major media outlets don’t see the same successful administration they have been cheering on. And they’re increasingly frustrated that Democrats — and some Republicans — are too slow to approve some of the president’s nominees and too quick to protest his every utterance.
Are you a delicate flower Schwantz? Todd is.
Just as a curiosity mikey, why weren't you all up in arms when Barry was showing his true neo-con colors?
Btw, the rhetoric you post is exactly why the the psychopath in red was elected instead of the blue one.
Karl
Forget the headliners... Republicans under Obama have obtained bullet proof margins in many states. The question is why?
What message do you hear that gives republicans these bullet proof advantages in state legislatures, house and senate?
I don't have an answer as to why. It baffles me that anyone would cast a vote in the Republican or Democrat way after the amount of fuckery that has taken place over the last could of decades.
in many cases, those were the only two choices. My ballot card is pretty slim for all but the highest offices...
Doctors: We could not create a leader more dangerously MENTALLY ILL than Donald Trump
“If we could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster,” Dr. Gartner said. “we could not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than Donald Trump. He is a paranoid, psychopathic, narcissist who is divorced from reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined enemies. And this is someone as you said who is handling the nuclear codes.”
“I would argue to my colleagues that those who don’t speak out,” Gartner said. “are being unethical. If we have some knowledge and understanding about the unique danger that Donald Trump presents through our psychiatric training and don’t say something about it, History is not going to judge us kindly.”
“He lies because of his sociopathic tendencies that Dr. Gartner was talking about,” Dr. Dodes said. “He lies in the way anybody who scams people does. He’s tried to sell an idea or a product by telling you something that is untrue. … There is also the kind of lie he has that in a way is more serious; that he has a loose grip on reality. We can say that because he lies about things that aren’t;t that important. … I think what that indicates is that he can’t stand an aspect of reality that he doesn’t want. So he rejects it. His grasp of reality, his attention to reality is loose, an extremely dangerous trait in a president. It actually makes him unqualified.”
Where's all my anti-science bone heads?
‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston
“Our colleagues who have been attacked have not been attacked because they did something wrong,” Oreskes continued. “They have been attacked because they did something right” — namely, producing information that proved politically inconvenient.
Where's all my little Vlad lovers?
Vladimir Putin’s popularity is soaring among Republicans
Vladimir Putin is on a bit of a hot streak among Republicans of late. In new Gallup polling, more than 3 in 10 Republicans have a favorable view of Putin — almost three times the percentage who said the same in 2015.
Do you think Schwantz and Todd are attending Young Pioneers classes at former FEMA camps?
Kellyanne Conway got pulled off the air for a week
The counselor to President Trump, one of the new administration's most visible faces, was pulled off the air by the White House, CNN's Dylan Byers reported Wednesday afternoon. It has been more than a week since Conway appeared on television — an eternity, by her standard. The White House continued to trot her out after she coined the phrase
alternative facts,
cited a
Bowling Green massacre
that never happened and promoted Ivanka Trump's products on Fox News, but apparently Trump could not abide statements that undermined the administration's official message.
Maybe Vlad has her is FSB school on how to tell more convincing lies.
Mexico may play some catchup.
Mexico may strike back. Here’s how.
PRESIDENT TRUMP has a good idea of the power the United States wields over Mexico, and the pain it may inflict — the construction of a wall Mexico fiercely opposes; taxes that could be slapped on Mexican imports, wreaking havoc on its economy; deportations of undocumented Mexican immigrants living in the United States, who would be thrust back into a country that would struggle to absorb them. Mr. Trump might have a fuzzier idea of the pain Mexico, its people furious and its pride wounded by his taunts and contempt, might inflict on the United States.
Start with those deportations. At least half of America’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants are Mexican, but many have no documents proving their nationality. For the Trump administration to deport them, it would need cooperation from Mexico, which cannot be forced to accept deportees without certifying that they are Mexicans. As former Mexican foreign minister Jorge G. Castañeda has already warned, Mr. Trump can round up hundreds of thousands or millions of migrants, but without Mexico’s cooperation, they could clog U.S. detention centers and immigration courts — at enormous cost and, conceivably, for years.
Consider, too, the effect on America’s southern border if Mexico were to loosen immigration controls on its own southern border — the one over which Central American refugees are already streaming north in near-record numbers. Even with what U.S. officials say are aggressive interdiction efforts by Mexican authorities, the Border Patrol detained more than 220,000 mainly Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans crossing from Mexico into the United States in the fiscal year ending last fall, exceeding the number of Mexicans apprehended, which has fallen to a 45-year low. If you think the Border Patrol is swamped now, as Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly insists, imagine if Mexico, which last year sent home more than 140,000 Central Americans, simply stepped aside.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!! Get ready suckaahhs!
Our credibility is in the toilet. Could you spread some lies for us?
FBI refused White House request to knock down recent Trump-Russia stories
The FBI rejected a recent White House request to publicly knock down media reports about communications between Donald Trump's associates and Russians known to US intelligence during the 2016 presidential campaign, multiple US officials briefed on the matter tell CNN.
White House officials had sought the help of the bureau and other agencies investigating the Russia matter to say that the reports were wrong and that there had been no contacts, the officials said. The reports of the contacts were first published by The New York Times and CNN on February 14.
This pretty much confirms the Popular Vote Loser is a joke.
Witches From All Around the World Will Cast a Spell on Donald Trump Tomorrow
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Throughout much of history, the witch has been cast as a hooked nosed and wart faced harridan, whose primary intentions were to exact evil and cause harm. They skulked about in the dark corners of the world, concocting diabolic brews and spells, waiting for the next victim to come into their purview so that they may stike. This was the stuff of fantasies.
Real witches do exist, and they practice various forms of witchcraft. And we now know that many of these real life modern day witches do not fit within the confines of the stereotypes. In fact many witches practice a form of witchcraft that is meant to do good. Today’s witches are humanists, feminists, healers, supports of equality and diversity, and advocates for the environment.
On the evening of February 24th, 2017, witches will become heroes of the resistance, as witches from around the world will come together to produce a spell that is meant to prevent Donald Trump and his merry band of nihilist from exacting anymore of their evil upon our world. This ritural will be repeated during every waning crescent moon.
Conway is a deadbeat.
Kellyanne Conway is listed as a D.C. Bar member under her maiden name, Kellyanne E. Fitzpatrick, but is a suspended member for not paying her dues, according to the disciplinary filing.
Any thoughts from the chicken hawks? Schwantz? Todd Sparky?
University of Texas System Chancellor William H. McRaven, a retired U.S. Navy four-star admiral, had a strong reaction to the Donald Trump’s tweet calling the media the enemy of the people and he shared it with a crowd at the University of Texas last night.
UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven on Tuesday night said President Trump’s recent description of the media as “the enemy of the American people” must be challenged and “this sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.”
He made the comment during the inaugural event of the Communication and Leadership Speaker Series at UT’s Belo Center for New Media. McRaven, who has served as chancellor for two years, is also a UT journalism alumnus. During his lecture, McRaven said the country needs journalists now more than ever before and they must continue to hold others accountable.
Prior to becoming chancellor, McRaven was the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command during which time he led a force of 69,000 men and women and was responsible for conducting counter-terrorism operations worldwide. McRaven also is a recognized national authority on U.S. foreign policy and has advised presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and other U.S. leaders on defense issues. And his book, “Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice,” published in several languages, is considered a fundamental text on special operations strategy.
McRaven’s military legacy goes beyond strategy and warfare. As commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, McRaven spearheaded the creation of the Preservation of the Force & Family initiative to ensure the mental, spiritual and physical well-being of those who serve, as well as their families. His wife, Georgeann, has dedicated much of her career to playing a leadership role with military families and wounded warriors.
He there everybody!
I was thinking about Rick W., and came back to check the site.
Sorry my thread gave Mike such a dumping ground.
I'm having fun on my Liter Bike these days
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Spoken like a true chicken hawk.
Like Obama?
Ok... what is your definition of chicken hawk?
Why is obama a chicken hawk?
I would have thought you would have called obama a chicken for not rescueing Syria. in contrast to mcain who is a classic hawk.
W proved himself a classic chicken hawk... natl guard service for rich boys and talked like a dove in his first election... only to turn into a classic chicken hawk starting two wars with no worries about other kids skin in the game.
Romeny was ??? (He seemed to lean hawkish in his rhetoric)
I have no idea what you call Trump who rants and raves about Not getting into foreign wars. But talks a big hawk game. ... Given his debilitating injury which got him a deferment when it counted... I have him down as a chicken right now.