The Trump Presidency

sturg33 said:
But you check things that are uninformed.
Most everything I post is linked or quoted

You post a tweet saying the WH was demanding someone get fired... That was uninformed.
taking for granted nuance / reading between the lines weren't taught at Trump university

You posted a tweet saying the only reason Trump is President is because Putin wanted him to be. That was uninformed.
ah ...

You think that antifa only fight Nazis. That is uninformed.
please quote where that was what I "think"

You should adjust your sources
I have. I regularly check and read South Korean reporting and opinion
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y'all spend an inordinate amount of time on what I read
 
I have a 34" widescreen monitor dedicated exclusively to Twitter. It's the best news aggregator I've ever come across.

But sturg is entirely right ... it's all about sources (although I do have a junk column for tweets from less than reputable people/organizations).
 
sturg33 said:
But you check things that are uninformed.

You post a tweet saying the WH was demanding someone get fired... That was uninformed.

You posted a tweet saying the only reason Trump is President is because Putin wanted him to be. That was uninformed.

You think that antifa only fight Nazis. That is uninformed.

You should adjust your sources
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Yep. Twitter is a great way to get news. I had to uninstall it because I was reading it far too often, but certainly it can be a positive influence on society when used correctly.

But it's also a great way to fall into a very partisan, uninformed echo chamber, as 57 shows us daily. This is how it becomes a negative influence on society, and is how most people seem to use it.
 
perhaps it should be you and/or sturg that needs a source adjustment --- who is President again ?

Tell me more about that wall , "consumer confidence " after 2 weeks in office, Russian complicity in the 2016 election and of course
Fire and fury ?

In real life, when someone threatens "fire and fury" and there becomes no fire and fury --- that is called a "bluff"
Just sayin'
 
57Brave said:
What bothers me most about the electorate is how unaware they (we) are of current events.

Do you realize 30 some % of the electorate still believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11

You can't say you weren't informed.
What you do with the information is your business

So yeah, I check twitter instead of doing crossword puzzles
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That's American Politics in a nutshell. Fear mongering, propoganda, and perpetual war are the pillars of our democracy. We live in a world where an actual honest politician with integrity who is anti war and pro civil liberties is treated like an afterthought even when leasing polls while Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, and Rick Santorum are treated like serious candidates while running fourth or worse in the polls. The only time the media mentioned Ron Paul was to tell viewers he had 0% chance of winning. Heck, the media gave even Trump a 1% chance.
 
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57Brave said:
What bothers me most about the electorate is how unaware they (we) are of current events.

Do you realize 30 some % of the electorate still believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11

You can't say you weren't informed.

What you do with the information is your business

So yeah, I check twitter instead of doing crossword puzzles
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They also think government run hc is a good idea and that capitalism is bad
 
I follow Ron Paul on twitter which was how learned of Rand Pauls amendment that was defeated,
I follow Amash on twitter which is how I learned of his amendment to end government forced property forfeiture

Both of those items were passed on yesterday.
Some things I find interesting and curious how conversations play out.

and too follow a number of (R) congress people besides Mark Sanford, because you know, hiking the Appalachians ...
 
57Brave said:
perhaps it should be you and/or sturg that needs a source adjustment --- who is President again ?

Tell me more about that wall , "consumer confidence " after 2 weeks in office, Russian complicity in the 2016 election and of course
Fire and fury ?

In real life, when someone threatens "fire and fury" and there becomes no fire and fury --- that is called a "bluff"
Just sayin'
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So your response to the suggestion that you modify your source pool is a flurry of canned Democrat talking points?

Lordy.
 
Hawk said:
So your response to the suggestion that you modify your source pool is a flurry of canned Democrat talking points?

Lordy.
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as opposed to ?

and what is the definition of canned?
I read you parroting Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin for years --- would that be one in the same ?
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Bluff was my characterization -- until Bannon inferred the same
Russian complicity is well, documented knowledge. As in , it happened

and consumer confidence after 2 weeks of being President!!!!!
Would be like me taking over for Tito and claiming "my" team won 22 in a row
 
57Brave said:
as opposed to ?

and what is the definition of canned?
I read you parroting Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin for years --- would that be one in the same ?
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Canned: "prerecorded and therefore considered to be lacking in freshness and spontaneity."

And no, you have never heard me parroting Rush Limbaugh or Sarah Palin.

But nice try.

Something something whataboutswhatever.
 
Perhaps I agree with those "canned responses" as you do much of what Limbaugh or Palin or McConnell or Ryan or Trump for that matter.

Me agreeing with Amash and Paul yesterday --- was that too canned ?
My local congressperson rammed through an amendment in Agriculture committee that I much agreed and congratulated him -- was that praise "canned"

Isn't canned a Nixonian term ?
 
Hawk said:
http://blog.anderspink.com/2016/08/...brace-diversity-in-your-sources-and-networks/
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I have seen a lot of commentary this past week on HRC book. Would bet a dollar against a do nut no one here has yet read the book , lots of opinions
non conversational or complimentary.

Can I ask, the origin of these excerpts and opinions ?
Because without reading the book, how does one judge the content.

Conclusion I come to is, either those commenting are fulla **** or they were --- how did Hawk put it ----- "canned responses"
 
57Brave said:
I have seen a lot of commentary this past week on HRC book. Would bet a dollar against a do nut no one here has yet read the book , lots of opinions

non conversational or complimentary.

Can I ask, the origin of these excerpts and opinions ?

Because without reading the book, how does one judge the content.

Conclusion I come to is, either those commenting are fulla **** or they were --- how did Hawk put it ----- "canned responses"
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Or it's the enormous national tour Hilary has been on where's she's talked about the book and already explained why she wrote what she wrote. Which, btw, is what most comment on - the content of the words she has spoke - not the the words she wrote.

I don't have the time to spend reading a book about someone try to justify (mostly to herself) why she wasn't good enough to beat someone she so clearly thought she was superior to in every way.
 
saw the movie didn't need to read the book
Read the review
gotcha

and through what filter did you see her speak ?
who chose which snippet you saw?
Who wrote the critique?

That is my point, it is all "canned " it is all echo chamber

Did you see this week that many of the "corrupt Hillary" stories were actually Russian plants in Facebook and Twitter
Many of the BernieBots on the internet are Russian plants
Trumps $25M settlement over Trump U is in the court record
 
More canned response

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