The Trump Presidency – 2016

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

Actually, I think the first thing they refer to makes a lot of sense. The second one, not so much.

Except that yesterday the reporter tweeted an apology and Spicer tweeted back that he accepted the apology.

[larrymcg421]

Man, Trump is really obsessed with that inauguration attendance number. What's the over/under on how many inauguration attendance jokes SNL does tonight?

[cuervo72]

Spicer is going to die of an aneurysm up there at some point.

[Easy Mac]

If the Press Corps had any balls, they would have just walked out during Spicer's rant.

[CraigSca]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Except that yesterday the reporter tweeted an apology and Spicer tweeted back that he accepted the apology.

Not to be a nitpicker here - but even so - to post that on your twitter feed as a reporter is irresponsible, isn't it? Don't we expect more from the media? I don't care if you apologize afterwards, you've fed the masses exactly what they are expecting to see, truth be damned.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by cartman

For me, I'd put more stock in the numbers of people that showed up today versus yesterday than I would likes on a comment.

Those folks have to come back to reality soon ... although frankly a lot us are hoping they'll just stay in DC.

We'll tolerate one weekend of idiotic foolishness, we've had a lot of practice at that unfortunately ... I'm simply not sure how much longer that's going to be true.

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

Not to be a nitpicker here - but even so - to post that on your twitter feed as a reporter is irresponsible, isn't it? Don't we expect more from the media? I don't care if you apologize afterwards, you've fed the masses exactly what they are expecting to see, truth be damned.

Maybe its because I'm old, but i don't assume that anything posted on twitter is true, or is an official source of news.

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by larrymcg421

Man, Trump is really obsessed with that inauguration attendance number. What's the over/under on how many inauguration attendance jokes SNL does tonight?

Outside chance at a Baghdad Bob reference as well.

[JPhillips]

A simple correction and a message to double check would have been appropriate. The rant delivered by Spicer was ridiculous. They're going to go crazy if they think this is a proper response to every error reported.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

A simple correction and a message to double check would have been appropriate. The rant delivered by Spicer was ridiculous. They're going to go crazy if they think this is a proper response to every error reported.

Trump and the Media - YouTube


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[mckerney]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

They're this unhinged on day 2?

[digamma]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

I don't get the last one - are you saying the Bush years had or did not have personal and salacious scandal?

Also - to #1, Obama was anti-gay marriage upon being elected. I think we ALL grew up as a country in the past 8 years, though I'm not sure Obama can take credit for that one.

Poor writing, but we've had 16 years without a personal scandal at the Presidential level. I disagreed with a lot of Bush policy, and some Obama policy, but I believe they're both fundamentally decent people with the best interest of the country in the forefront of their thoughts.

On your second point, I wasn't really trying to give Obama credit, but it did happen on his watch with his support, though he was admittedly late to the game.

[RainMaker]

I didn't expect him to get that butthurt over turnout. Why does he care so much?

[Brian Swartz]

I don't think he does. It's sound and fury, signifying nothing. I think the point is to be constantly inventing small issues for people to laugh at and be sidetracked by. To an extent, it works. Whether it keeps working as well remains to be seen, but I think it's a mostly intentional distraction technique.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I didn't expect him to get that butthurt over turnout. Why does he care so much?

Continued attacks on the media. Everything is fake news.

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Atocep

Continued attacks on the media. Everything is fake news.

+1

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by Atocep

Everything is fake news.

Sadly this will have the biggest and longest impact on America well after Trump is gone.

[EagleFan]

What's funny is that most of the people saying he cares about the turnout numbers actually care just as much as he does... just pull out your cocks and measure them already so we can move on...

[Butter]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'd advise those determined to "make a stand" to choose wisely where they do so, otherwise they may just find themselves run over.

I'd advise those attempting to run me over, you better be sure you can get me the first time... Because I'm not going down easily, and what may look like an easy target from behind is actually a brick fucking wall from up close.

Enjoy the four years your going to get now. Because once they're over, as miserable as you thought you were before? You ain't seen nothin yet.

I'm talking interracial gay couples smoking pot, stealing music, and fucking on your front lawn while they're serving the warrant to take away your guns. Oh yeah. It's gonna happen.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Butter

I'd advise those attempting to run me over, you better be sure you can get me the first time

Yawn. Easy, difficult, really not an issue. When a job needs doing, Trump supporters are the sort of people that will get it done. I actually appreciate the easiest nails to spot, they get hammered first.

We've looked the death of a nation squarely in the eye and none too soon pulled back from the brink. Now it's time to regain ground, begin to rebuild ... and leave no enemy standing.

[cuervo72]

So they can get a job done, they just can't find one?

[cuervo72]

I also, again, find it rich that folks will say others need to come back to reality after a weekend while still flying a flag representing a fake country from 150 years ago.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Yawn. Easy, difficult, really not an issue. When a job needs doing, Trump supporters are the sort of people that will get it done. I actually appreciate the easiest nails to spot, they get hammered first.

We've looked the death of a nation squarely in the eye and none too soon pulled back from the brink. Now it's time to regain ground, begin to rebuild ... and leave no enemy standing.

Yawn. You bloviate all the fucking time. The importance of your particular views, in this case, the non-specific threatening (again?) of an entire population of Americans (your real enemy), are pretty weak. When Trump talks about America first, you get excited thinking he means who's up first for the firing squads.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

So they can get a job done, they just can't find one?

Ok this was good.

[Ben E Lou]

Early nominee for "Most Shade Thrown In A Non-Deadspin Headline"

White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds - Jan. 21, 2017

[Butter]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

Yawn. You bloviate all the fucking time. The importance of your particular views, in this case, the non-specific threatening (again?) of an entire population of Americans (your real enemy), are pretty weak. When Trump talks about America first, you get excited thinking he means who's up first for the firing squads.

I don't know man, I mean he got 100 likes on a blog post. 100 LIKES!!!!

That alone should tell you how serious this is.

[PilotMan]

This might be the most important takeaway from the inauguration:

Donald Trump’s Inauguration Cake Was Plagiarized, Too

MacIsaac also told the Post she was surprised her “cake” ended up getting so much attention because it was made almost entirely of styrofoam (only the bottom three inches of it were edible). Goldman’s cake, in contrast, was composed of nine differently-flavored layers of cake, because it was an actual cake.

[QuikSand]

What a dummy, agreed. Spending time talking about how many people attended the inauguration...and cakes...and busts. Totally agreed there's no point at all to discussing these things so much. They are obviously a bunch of fools.



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Cabinet nominees? Conflicts of interest? Grizzly bears? Mortgage insurance?

Hmmm... haven't heard about any of that lately, nope.

Coincidence, I'm sure.

[cartman]

School would have been so much easier if I would have known I could use "alternative facts".

[larrymcg421]

Originally Posted by CraigSca

Also - to #1, Obama was anti-gay marriage upon being elected. I think we ALL grew up as a country in the past 8 years, though I'm not sure Obama can take credit for that one.

We didn't ALL grow up, though. In fact, Obama's opponent in that election is still anti-gay marriage and anti-gays in the military. It's still included in the Republican party platform. I think Obama deserves some credit because: 1) He pushed for the passage of and signed the bill that repealed DADT. 2) His justice department participated in the cases that that overturned DOMA and overturned gay marriage bans. 3) He nominated two of the justices who were in the majority of those 5-4 decisions.

He played politics in 2008 because he didn't think the public was ready to accept a pro-gay marriage candidate. We could argue about whether that was the right thing to do, but he does deserve credit for the actions he did take, all of which he did despite significant opposition.

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

Love these gigapixel photos. So cool how you can zoom in with so much detail despite things being so far away.

Gigapixel: The inauguration of Donald Trump

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by PilotMan

Yawn. You bloviate all the fucking time. The importance of your particular views, in this case, the non-specific threatening (again?) of an entire population of Americans (your real enemy), are pretty weak. When Trump talks about America first, you get excited thinking he means who's up first for the firing squads.

I didn't say anything about firing squads.

My initial reference was that, at some point, I believe that in the absence of adequate action by law enforcement or the military, we the people are finally going to put an end to animals rioting in the streets. And most likely the end to morons blocking traffic and lunatics screaming unintelligibly. In short, I believe all the overdone tolerance of the intolerable is about to end.

And, yes, that will be a beautiful beautiful thing.

Fuck a firing squad, I'm saying that the sane voters that put in the new administration are feeling more empowered, having actually HOPE for the first time in a long time. Things never should have been allowed to reach the point they have, but I believe a significant and long overdue course correction is coming.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan

Love these gigapixel photos. So cool how you can zoom in with so much detail despite things being so far away.

Gigapixel: The inauguration of Donald Trump

This is pretty cool. How much do these cameras cost?

[cartman]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

This is pretty cool. How much do these cameras cost?

They use normal DSLRs, but take many photos and stitch them together.

How to Shoot an Ultrahigh Resolution 7-Gigapixel Photo ---- Tutorial | Chase Jarvis Photography

[digamma]

Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway stated today that Trump will not release his tax returns. Send them to: https://t.co/cLRcuIiQXz so we can.

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) January 22, 2017

[JPhillips]

McCain and Graham both say they will vote for Tillerson.

But I'm sure they're concerned.

[MIJB#19]

Looking from the outside, it's quite scary to hear the president of the USA talk about journalism like that. Because it basically means the media in the USA is collectively downright lying to the public, or the three days in function president is. Even if it's just about attendance figures.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

Because it basically means the media in the USA is collectively downright lying to the public

Wait (and I'm being serious in asking this) ... you mean that isn't something that's widely realized elsewhere?

While the American public is still pretty gullible, I'm not sure that there are many people here that wouldn't say that at least some subset of the media (be it FoxNews or the leftwing consortium of other networks) is routinely spinning things to the point of lying on a regular basis. And that's on top of the percentage that would say all of them are lying routinely.

In other words, I imagine most Americans think at least some of the media are frequent liars.

Not sure I ever thought much about the issue of whether people elsewhere realized that situation, but your comment raised an interesting point that I'd never really considered.

So, I'll ask: are the leading Dutch news outlet(s) considered believable/trustworthy, or are they viewed at home the same way we view ours here?

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Wait (and I'm being serious in asking this) ... you mean that isn't something that's widely realized elsewhere?

While the American public is still pretty gullible, I'm not sure that there are many people here that wouldn't say that at least some subset of the media (be it FoxNews or the leftwing consortium of other networks) is routinely spinning things to the point of lying on a regular basis. And that's on top of the percentage that would say all of them are lying routinely.

In other words, I imagine most Americans think at least some of the media are frequent liars.

Not sure I ever thought much about the issue of whether people elsewhere realized that situation, but your comment raised an interesting point that I'd never really considered.

So, I'll ask: are the leading Dutch news outlet(s) considered believable/trustworthy, or are they viewed at home the same way we view ours here?

There's no doubt media, in general, spins things and some outlets blatantly lie. The Trump administration attacking minor things, including things the media has correct, is what's worrisome.

[Easy Mac]

psshh, these things are useless anyway. The UN couldn't even protect us from Ebola.

Bill introduced to remove US from United Nations

[Julio Riddols]

Just waiting for any world leader to drop the "Yo mama so fat" joke that starts world war III.

[RainMaker]

I don't know why it has to be one or the other. The media is slanted and has been poorly reporting news or sensationalizing it for decades now. Trump is also a pathological liar with a personality disorder.

[Young Drachma]

Sean Spicer on Twitter: "the first official Trump Administration press briefing will be tomorrow at 1:30pm"

[RainMaker]

I am happy to see that TPP will not be going through. The whole trade agreement seemed sketchy from the start.

[Easy Mac]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Sean Spicer on Twitter: "the first official Trump Administration press briefing will be tomorrow at 1:30pm"

At least they admit that performance art from Friday wasn't an actual briefing.

[TroyF]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I don't know why it has to be one or the other. The media is slanted and has been poorly reporting news or sensationalizing it for decades now. Trump is also a pathological liar with a personality disorder.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by Atocep

There's no doubt media, in general, spins things and some outlets blatantly lie. The Trump administration attacking minor things, including things the media has correct, is what's worrisome.

Why? Are you incapable of posting you're thoughts here AND doing your job? Is this consuming you? I seriously doubt it. Trump is just advertising and he can speak his mind and do his job. It's not one or the other. A lot of people have been waiting for the press to do a better job and I hope this helps.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Dutch

Why? Are you incapable of posting you're thoughts here AND doing your job? Is this consuming you? I seriously doubt it. Trump is just advertising and he can speak his mind and do his job. It's not one or the other. A lot of people have been waiting for the press to do a better job and I hope this helps.

You're missing the point. It's not about the size of the inauguration crowds or anything else like that. It's the fact that they appear to be serious about their attacks on the media and possibly limiting the access of certain news organizations.

Its not the government's job to keep the media in check nor should it be. Every administration should be subject to criticism from the media and its people. Trump and his administration seem to think they shouldn't be.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Dutch

A lot of people have been waiting for the press to do a better job and I hope this helps.

I think that's probably overly optimistic.

It'll take more than something this minor to snap CNN back into reality.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Easy Mac

psshh, these things are useless anyway. The UN couldn't even protect us from Ebola.

Bill introduced to remove US from United Nations

Is the U.S. Pulling Out of the United Nations? : snopes.com