The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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Will Absolute said:
I was comparing O'Reilly's credibility with that of his liberal peers, saying that, in my experience, he doesn't tamper with the facts. Whereas the King case showed liberal journalists doing exactly that - tampering with the facts.

I don't have an opinion about the use of excessive force by the cops - the first jury ruled that they didn't but their verdict was set aside. Whether the force used was excessive or not, the media didn't report the incident accurately or with integrity.
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You can't tamper with facts, just omit some and present others in a certain way to suit your agenda. That's what O'Reilly does masterfully
 
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article127809279.html
New ‘sheriff’ has a badge, but doesn’t have a clue

It was, arguably, the most telling moment of Donald Trump’s inauguration speech.

People want good schools, neighborhoods and jobs, said the incoming president. “But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

“This American carnage,” promised Trump, “stops right here and stops right now.”

Leave aside the dubious veracity of painting our admittedly challenged nation as a hellish doomscape — “American carnage?!” Really? — and ponder instead what he actually said there. Poverty, unemployment, miseducation, crime and drugs, issues that have bedeviled every nation and all generations, came to a screeching stop “right here ... and right now” at noon on January 20th.

Why?

Because there’s a new sheriff in town, pardner. Because he’s putting his foot down. Because he says so. If Trump gave any other reason — if he has ever given any other reason — it escaped notice. No, once again, we are promised a magic solution through the sheer force of his will.

It’s silly enough that you want to laugh until you remember that 63 million Americans didn’t get the joke, that they took this stuff seriously. Indeed, they took it seriously enough to make him leader of the free world.

Donald Trump addresses Americans for the first time as the 45th president of the United States. In his brief inaugural speech, the president declares there will be a new America led by the people.

Never mind that Trump is really just that guy at the end of the bar who, with beer-lubricated certainty and megaphone volume, tells you how to solve humanity’s most intractable problems. And maybe as he’s speaking, as you’re under the spell of it, it sounds like wisdom. But the next morning, you sober up and see it for the hogwash it is.

Unfortunately, America has not sobered up yet.

It will soon. If the country is even halfway serious about resolving its challenges, it has no choice.

The magical thinking embodied in Trump’s speech is not a recipe for fixing problems, nor even for addressing them. It is, rather, a primal scream, viscerally satisfying in the short term but masturbatory and useless in the long term. At some point, in the not-distant future, after poverty, unemployment, miseducation, crime and drugs have not magically disappeared, one hopes the people who fell for this act will realize that.

Lasting change does not come because you yell at a problem. Lasting change comes because you work at it, because you commit to using the best ideas and the best minds to produce the best results. It’s not perfect, but it’s the process we have.

In the meantime, if there is a silver lining here, it is that the GOP now has the White House, the Congress and no excuses. So the rest of us would like to know when we can expect America to be “great again?” Is there a date the party would like to share?

Yes, the question is tongue in cheek, but it is also meant to point out what has always been painfully obvious and became even more so after the new president finished ordering poverty to get out of town by sundown. Namely, that it was all always an act, a fake, a con, even if voters have been slow to figure that out.

Bluster is not governance and the world doesn’t stop being complicated because you tell it to. Maybe even Donald Trump doesn’t know that yet.

But he’s about to find out.
 


Amazing, and very clever. I think the only positives I can see from the new administration so far is the possibility for humour, comedy shows, sketch artists, satirical writers, stand up comedians, panel shows, all of them are going to have a field day and that can only be good for us all who enjoy comedy.
 
Was this stuff about Flynn being investigated by US intelligence already known, or is that new?
 


:lol: Oh my, so cute. She's adorable, although i'm not a fan of using kids for things like this, I can let this slide because it's pretty funny. Anyway, last one before bed, my insomnia has finally given in.
 
Just saw a 30 second take of the Narcissist in Chief announcing he's going to re-negotiate NAFTA. Jesus, is this moron illiterate. He speaks like a mentally impaired person. I've been very well aware of it and yet it amazes me every time he opens his mouth.
 
The sad thing with all this is that it is easy to forget our own country (UK) just as easily got seduced by stupid empty promises from Farage et al.
 
Will Absolute said:
If I were a Fox executive I'd be rubbing my hands in glee right now. As the mainstream media positions itself as the not so loyal opposition, setting itself for four years of constantly attacking the President and his administration, the alienation of conservatives, and even many independents, is bound to increase.

Where else are viewers disgruntled by the bias of other media outlets going to go except to Fox News? Happy days for them.
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Yes, I was thinking this too. During the election campaign, I happened to watch some Fox shows like Megyn Kelly's show and Outnumbered, and was surprised to see the coverage more neutral than it usually is. They didn't really like Trump, but they hated Hillary, just like a lot of people in the US.
 
From this survey - https://www.scribd.com/document/336802189/Post-Election-Gender-Equality-Topline-FINAL-0116

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Nikhil said:
Yes, I was thinking this too. During the election campaign, I happened to watch some Fox shows like Megyn Kelly's show and Outnumbered, and was surprised to see the coverage more neutral than it usually is. They didn't really like Trump, but they hated Hillary, just like a lot of people in the US.
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And where is Megyn now?
 
No surprises in this development, but its been reported Flynn is one of the people being investigated. I'd wager he is one of the guys who the FBI have been monitoring when they got a FISA warrant.

 
Is Pence advocating for elements of Islamic Sharia law to be implemented into USA culture?

“I can’t tell you how let down I feel by the heads of these households who did not simply give their wives and daughters a firm, decisive ‘no’ when they asked to participate in today’s demonstration,”

said Pence, noting with frustration that many of the protesters had been granted permission to travel across the country alone and stay for several days in a faraway city with no male chaperone whatsoever to guide and look after them.

“There are a few men marching as well, so they must be the ones supervising this whole thing, and thank God for that. But I can’t help but feel that these ladies’ custodians—the ones who were supposed to be providing a masculine voice of reason on these sorts of matters—have really come up short today.”

http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-disappointed-200000-husbands-and-father-55116
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I can't believe that Trump bored the arses off the CIA people yesterday with the totally irrelevant topic of inauguration numbers. And then claimed that God was responsible for stopping the rain(!); why the beggar did He make it rain in the first place then?
 
langster said:


Amazing, and very clever. I think the only positives I can see from the new administration so far is the possibility for humour, comedy shows, sketch artists, satirical writers, stand up comedians, panel shows, all of them are going to have a field day and that can only be good for us all who enjoy comedy.
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A small silver lining. The Colbert Report during the Bush years was incredible.
 
I wake up each morning wondering, what's the scandal going to be today?

This presidency rarely disappoints.

Has a day gone by when something that would have sunk a less Teflon person hasn't emerged? It speaks to how all-in his supporters are (although I realise his approval rating is appalling).
 
I think its already clear that tRump wont/cant change his style because thats who he is and its the approach that swept him into power.

Neo Liberals and Democrats make a mistake in complaining that the losing of the popular vote somehow delegitimises Trump's belief in his victory: from his point of view, his movement grew from nothing into a 47% vote winning idea and his President approval rating has grown from zero wo what it is now: he can rightly claim that he is a growing phenomena from which he gains his confidence and mandate.

It also seems that tRumps media opponents have learned nothing from their election campaign defeat: ever since the inauguration, we have seen the same intellectually condescending echo chamber reporting against him which is simply narrative that talks to people already against tRump: my own social media feeds remain as outbursts of moral indignation from people who oppose tRump and lost in the election.

I dont any of this will convert the hearts and minds of the 47% who voted for him. At some point very soon, the democratic think tanks will have to dramatically change narrative, to stop abusing these 'despicables' and treat them with some respect. Nobody likes to admit they are stupid or intellectually inferior, that they were wrong or have been hoodwinked.

They are falling for the biggest mistake in communications: Telling people what you want to tell them, and not what people want to hear.
 
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unchanged_lineup said:
I wake up each morning wondering, what's the scandal going to be today?

This presidency rarely disappoints.

Has a day gone by when something that would have sunk a less Teflon person hasn't emerged? It speaks to how all-in his supporters are (although I realise his approval rating is appalling).
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Well it's only been two days ;)
 
The guy who got punched yesterday coined the term alt-right, and is associated with the website that produced this gem:

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Full article is here, and it includes these gems:
n the changing nature of the New South Africa, which is still essentially a collection of White-created-and-maintained institutions being gradually but inexorably Africanized – i.e. corrupted, ground down, and barbarized – we see the true nature of the society that will emanate from the continuing exaltation of the Black man; a world of savagery, disease, and death, replenished by a wild, thoughtless fertility; a world that will set no store on the higher values that have characterized the civilizations created by other races.

Although there are doubtless many South African Blacks who behave in ways that we could call decent, we have to wonder how much of this is real and not affected, when savagery of the worst possible kind seems to constantly lurk under the surface in even the most banal of situations.
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This is the race that history and the present example of South Africa proves is least able to take care of itself; a race that has contributed almost nothing to the pool of civilization and which even shows little inclination to stay within the bounds of that civilization; a race that also seems to harbor a potent inferiority complex and savage hatred towards the creators of that civilization
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berbatrick said:
The guy who got punched yesterday coined the term alt-right, and is associated with the website that produced this gem:

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Full article is here, and it includes these gems:
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This kind of fear mongering is unfortunately a full time business. This is the new dressed up, hoods off version of KKK.
 
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