POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

Everything I've seen reported from Fox News to MSNBC indicates that we do not have a crisis on the border.

I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2019

Lies. All lies.

[bronconick]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

One way out of this impasse is for Trump to invent some dubious unilateral authority to "build the wall" or whatever, end the shutdown having saved face, and then the courts stop the whole thing in its tracks and everyone just moves on.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 7, 2019

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

One way out of this impasse is for Trump to invent some dubious unilateral authority to "build the wall" or whatever, end the shutdown having saved face, and then the courts stop the whole thing in its tracks and everyone just moves on.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 7, 2019

Works for me.

[rufus]

Can he ever stop lying?

The Failing New York Times has knowingly written a very inaccurate story on my intentions on Syria. No different from my original statements, we will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and doing all else that is prudent and necessary!.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2019

Lies. All lies.

Thought ISIS was gone from Syria. Beaten.

[rufus]

Everything I've seen reported from Fox News to MSNBC indicates that we do not have a crisis on the border.

I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2019

Lies. All lies.

With so much talk about the Wall, people are losing sight of the great job being done on our Southern Border by Border Patrol, ICE and our great Military. Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn’t get through and none are forming or on their way. Border is tight. Fake News silent!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018

Border is tight. Don't need a wall.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

Well, he is the authority on the proper use of the term...

Samuel L. Jackson praises Tlaib use of "motherf-cker" to describe Trump: "Calling that Muthaf-kkah a Motherf-cker is not an issue" https://t.co/9CVWES3SNE pic.twitter.com/n8p8bPKpFg

— The Hill (@thehill) January 7, 2019

[bronconick]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

Israel Channel 10 cuts away in the middle of Netanyahu's "dramatic announcement" once it becomes clear he's just complaining about minutiae of the investigations against him.

— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) January 7, 2019

Heh. Where have I heard this before?

[aparch]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

TV exec texts: "He calls us fake news all the time, but needs access to airwaves… If we give him the time, he'll deliver a fact-free screed without rebuttal. And if we don't give him the time, he'll call every network partisan. So we are ****ed if we do and ****ed if we don't."

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2019

The media is the abused wife who swears her husband won't hit her again.

[aparch]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

He repeats a lot of them, so outlets should be prepared to respond to those right away. But there's really no way to counteract a barrage of live-to-air Trump immigration lies with fact-checking, even if live-TV-fact-checking were a common thing - you can't do it fast enough.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 8, 2019

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

He can get his TV time during the SOTU at the end of the month.

[Rogie21]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

Trump supporters spread the news about the national emergency.

[rufus]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

TV exec texts: "He calls us fake news all the time, but needs access to airwaves… If we give him the time, he'll deliver a fact-free screed without rebuttal. And if we don't give him the time, he'll call every network partisan. So we are ****ed if we do and ****ed if we don't."

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2019

The media is the abused wife who swears her husband won't hit her again.

So don't.

[aparch]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

Hey has anyone heard from our good little Germans around here lately?

Worth pointing out that political deadlock followed by someone claiming "emergency powers" has been one of the most common patterns of modern democratic breakdown (e.g., Peru, India, Thailand, Argentina). Even the threat is dangerous. https://t.co/rmznvQMkbC

— Authoritarian Warning Survey (@authwarning) January 8, 2019

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Re: POTUS 45:46: New Year, Same 'Ol Crap.

A classic.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” a federal prison employee who voted for President Trump said. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...rnd=1546917975

[rufus]

Hey has anyone heard from our good little Germans around here lately?

Worth pointing out that political deadlock followed by someone claiming "emergency powers" has been one of the most common patterns of modern democratic breakdown (e.g., Peru, India, Thailand, Argentina). Even the threat is dangerous. https://t.co/rmznvQMkbC

— Authoritarian Warning Survey (@authwarning) January 8, 2019

But it can't happen here. Our institutions will protect us.