The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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langster said:


Expert analysis (apparently). Wow, just wow!
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I thought about this, it seemed as though it's a way of twisting reality and the standards this presidency expects from the media.
He wants to control the image of him and his presidency, and anybody who disagrees or paints him negatively is 'dishonest' or 'corrupt'
It will appeal to his base because when people are reporting facts, they will just see this as 'fake news' 'libtardism' 'triggered snowflakes' etc.

Unluckily for him, this isn't North Korea
 
Randall Flagg said:
Well cmon

You apparently scour twitter 24/7 looking for anything and everything negative.

You must see that both left and right side in the media are very guilty of shite and bias journalism?
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Not really no. I spend some evenings on here and on Twitter and post stuff that comes in my feed, I don't actively search for negative stories, and I tend to only post from reliable sources. There simply is no need for fake news coverage or stories about the man because of how much real stuff there is on him. Of course both sides have been guilty of awful journalism, I just hope they are learning their lesson from this and revert back to more traditional and responsible ways of reporting.

Fake stories only go to help The Moron's cause and help create mistrust in the media which in the end helps nobody on either side. However, his ultimate goal (he has said this numerous times) is to bring laws in for the Press to follow, similar to what we have here in the UK, he has commented on our laws previously too. Firstly that will never happen because the first amendment is untouchable in US law, but secondly, the man is so dim and short sighted that if he did get his way then the only person it would end up hurting is HIM, simply because the stories against him would be true and he would have to prove otherwise in court, wo that makes responsible journalism absolutely imperative from here onwards.
 
Randall Flagg said:
Mmmm

See this is what we need to be careful off. While Trumps team will attempt to spin everything in their favour there will still be certain bits that are actually fake. But loads like @langster will still lap it up.

I'm taking the take everything with a grain of salt approach
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Yeah it's not ideal, but the press is allowed to make honest mistakes. The important thing here was he readily admitted he was wrong and put out a correction/apology. With fake news, they often double down and refuse to admit any wrong doing.
 
vi1lain said:
I thought about this, it seemed as though it's a way of twisting reality and the standards this presidency expects from the media.
He wants to control the image of him and his presidency, and anybody who disagrees or paints him negatively is 'dishonest' or 'corrupt'
It will appeal to his base because when people are reporting facts, they will just see this as 'fake news' 'libtardism' 'triggered snowflakes' etc.

Unluckily for him, this isn't North Korea
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That tweet (and your post) is giving him credit for a cunning I don't think exists. He's just a very thin-skinned person who can't take any criticism at all and his standard response to adversity is to go on the attack and/or try wriggle his way out of trouble with transparent lies and bullshit. All the subtlety and strategic thinking of a primary school bully.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That tweet (and your post) is giving him credit for a cunning I don't think exists. He's just a very thin-skinned person who can't take any criticism at all and his standard response to adversity is to go on the attack and/or overwhelm people with lies and bullshit. All the subtlety and strategic thinking of a primary school bully.
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Thing is, intentional or no, things will work as outlined.
 
He's going to get away with whatever he wants. Lesson learned from the misdemeanours of the Bush era: the media, intelligence services, and the military are not here to serve us but, instead, their own interests. For "patriotism", read "be prepared to be called a traitor if you don't support every mad scheme Trump initiates".
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That tweet (and your post) is giving him credit for a cunning I don't think exists. He's just a very thin-skinned person who can't take any criticism at all and his standard response to adversity is to go on the attack and/or try wriggle his way out of trouble with transparent lies and bullshit. All the subtlety and strategic thinking of a primary school bully.
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I think he managed to get into the office of presidency by people not taking him seriously or asking the right questions until it was too late.
He may not have the foresight to have come up with a plan as detailed or well thought out, but I do believe he does expect the media to portray only positive news about him and about his presidency.
 
ArmchairCritic said:
This kind of sounded like a threat also:

"You know, the military and the law enforcement, generally speaking, but all of it -- but the military gave us tremendous percentages of votes. We were unbelievably successful in the election with getting the vote of the military. And probably almost everybody in this room voted for me, but I will not ask you to raise your hands if you did. (Laughter.) But I would guarantee a big portion, because we're all on the same wavelength, folks. (Applause.) We're all on the same wavelength, right?"

The military voted for me, so we're on the same wavelength right?
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The fecking illiteracy of that one paragraph, jesus christ.
 
So when is the next episode out? Do we know roughly what time he gets out of bed?

Netflix has ruined me :/
 
langster said:
Ooh, that's the million dollar question isn't it? I really don't know, but if I had to have a guess I should think they will do pretty much anything they can to help get him either removed from office and/or sent to prison but obviously behind the scenes. I would absolutely love to have been a fly on the walls of both the CIA and FBI over the last few months and to be there over the upcoming few too.

The trouble is this is uncharted territory so nobody really knows. I suppose he should be extra careful though because the CIA especially like to remove problems, and if you believe the conspiracy theories, it wouldn't be the first time they helped remove a President they felt was a severe threat to national or world security. It's just so surreal to be honest, and the more you think about it, the more it's like a cross between a Tom Clancy novel and The West Wing and a satirical comedy like Team America or The Dictator.
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The Manchurian Candidate
 
GhastlyHun said:
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

-Hermann Göring
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Also a bit sad that regardless of how educated the population is, it always works.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Interesting but probably gives team Trump far too much credit. Much more likely IMHO that he threw a massive tantrum and sent your man out with a flea in his ear to give the press a good slapping for daring to publish anything even slightly critical. Spicer had that sweaty, shaky look of a man who's just been screamed at by his boss. There's no machiavellian plot here. Just a very childish man forcing harassed underlings to bullshit on his behalf
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Bannon definitely has some cynical grand plan around media manipulation and disinformation. It's basically his whole m.o.
 
Why isn't he using the POTUS twitter, his last three tweets have been real doozies.
 


"Why didn't they vote?" says man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent.
 
Oh great. He's going to run two Twitter accounts.
*cries*
 
Untied said:


"Why didn't they vote?" says man who received almost 3 million fewer votes than his opponent.
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He still has a point there. At less than 40% approval ratings you simply have to ask: where the f*ck have you people been on election day? You could have averted Prime Moron Trump.
 
He has no point, because he'll say anything. If celebs had come out in droves for Trump, he'd be telling us that they're "wonderful people who we should all aspire to be like."
 
GhastlyHun said:
He still has a point there. At less than 40% approval ratings you simply have to ask: where the f*ck have you people been on election day? You could have averted Prime Moron Trump.
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Totally agree. As Obama said. Don't boo. Vote.

Anyone who didn't vote in close states, and there are huge numbers, should hang their heads in shame.
 
The protests were less about him being elected, and more to raise a message about women's rights, planned parenthood.

Nobody was protesting his election results, but sending a message to the White House that Government shouldn't control or put laws on women's bodies.
 
How unusual for Trump to think that it's all about him...
 
SteveJ said:
How unusual for Trump to think that it's all about him...
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It's dangerous, because people will genuinely think the march was about the election and it's not.

Plus his narcissism knows no bounds
 
There is a sort of hysteria about Trump that is getting egged by social media (admittedly similar to what we are doing in this thread, myself included). The more one observes objectionable tweets the greater the worry, and predictably negative feelings about the world.
 
GhastlyHun said:
He still has a point there. At less than 40% approval ratings you simply have to ask: where the f*ck have you people been on election day? You could have averted Prime Moron Trump.
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This argument is tiresome. He lost the popular vote; it was just a few key states that got him in.
 
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