POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

[Rover]

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The serious pundits are so worried about finding the magic "middle ground" that doesn't exist at the expense of calling a spade a spade and having any integrity. Chuck Todd being a great example but there are plenty others.

Gotta agree here. There's an old quote by maybe Molly Irvins about how the media thinks that if they have one guy on saying that Hitler was a swell guy and another saying he wasn't, then they've done their jobs. This is why the media is now about as popular as payday loan vendors and used car salesmen.

[SJHovey]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

"Trump made a racist tweet", is also entirely factual and doesn't require nearly as many words or beat around the bush as much.

I get that we live in a society where many (the majority of?) white people have been conditioned to claim that someone is, "playing the race card", every time the the subject is brought up but that's also part of what's gotten us to this point in my estimation.

I certainly have no objection to people expressing opinions on the tweet. I love reading people's opinions on things. It's part of the reason I hang out around here. I suspect a significant majority of people in this country found the tweet to be xenophobic, hateful, racist, stupid or some combination of all four.

I just think it's nice to have location where you can go and read the unvarnished facts about what occurred.

This issue, by the way, is certainly not new or unique to this story. I suspect they discuss this issue in journalism school and complaints about opinion creeping into news stories have probably been around as long as people have been reporting on the news.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Seriously?

I try not to pile on you like everyone else but you're making it difficult.

I wasn’t convinced on her when I got her anti Jew mailers. It was the make incest great again door hanger that convinced me to vote for her.

[SJHovey]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

The serious pundits are so worried about finding the magic "middle ground" that doesn't exist at the expense of calling a spade a spade and having any integrity. Chuck Todd being a great example but there are plenty others.

I've never viewed shows like Chuck Todd's or Maddow's or any of the others to be "news reporting." They are really just Maury or Phil Donahue, gussied up a bit. They are there not to give you a factual account about what happened, but to attract eyeballs.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Though it was brief, I struggled with the “send her back” chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing that’s painful to our friends in the minority communities.

— Rep. Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) July 18, 2019

At this rate Israel will get statehood before PR and DC.

[SJHovey]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

Gotta agree here. There's an old quote by maybe Molly Irvins about how the media thinks that if they have one guy on saying that Hitler was a swell guy and another saying he wasn't, then they've done their jobs. This is why the media is now about as popular as payday loan vendors and used car salesmen.

The problem isn't with the "media." The problem is with people who think they all need to act the same.

Molly Ivins was an opinion writer. It's the job of opinion writers to call people like Trump a racist. It's the job Hannity to call AOC a communist. They are trying to make people angry. They are trying to attract eyeballs.

But you lump them in with the guy from the New York Times whose only job is to report the facts and you call them all "media."

[First Time, Long Time]

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They really are a racist cult.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

Though it was brief, I struggled with the “send her back” chant tonight referencing Rep. Omar. Her history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel. That should be our focus and not phrasing that’s painful to our friends in the minority communities.

— Rep. Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) July 18, 2019

Has he listened to President Trump's Inaugural Address?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...gural-address/

That guy can go **** himself.

Bradley Mark Walker is an American politician and pastor from the state of North Carolina

Yeah, North Carolina. Another White Whale for the DNC.

[WeAreNDHockey]

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I’m beginning to think he’s pretty worried about Epstein. He basically said he’s enjoyed the hubbub over the racist tweets and I’m pretty sure that was the point.

trump is not worried about Epstein. He has no reason to be. For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone thinks rules and norms apply to trump. The Steele dossier. The Billy Bush tapes and grabbing women's privates. Stormy. Cohen. McDougal. The Mueller report. Crapping on a prisoner of war that even a good number of liberals thought was a hero and a patriot. And what of the likely reams of things that haven't YET surfaced?

trump is a lazy, entitled rich dude in a culture that worships rich dudes to the extent that many are willing to trade their dignity and even personal safety to get a 15 minute taste of it. My guess is he's forced himself on more women than I've dated and I'd bet a good number of them may have been underaged. He's probably committed rape on multiple continents. The law will not touch him. The congress doesn't have enough democrats in it to do anything. Epstein could right now be sharing photos of trump in a threesome with a dog and a 14 year old girl and his poll numbers among republicans might take a one or two point hit and maybe a couple extra republican representatives might vote on the next message of condemnation.

This is what we get when a world with "alternate facts" has been allowed to exist.

[Rover]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

The problem isn't with the "media." The problem is with people who think they all need to act the same.

Molly Ivins was an opinion writer. It's the job of opinion writers to call people like Trump a racist. It's the job Hannity to call AOC a communist. They are trying to make people angry. They are trying to attract eyeballs.

But you lump them in with the guy from the New York Times whose only job is to report the facts and you call them all "media."

So in your opinion where does it end? Should the media give a platform to....anti-vaxxers? climate change deniers? Ponzi-schemers? Holocaust deniers? Terrorists? Mass murderers?

[ScoobyDoo]

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trump is not worried about Epstein. He has no reason to be. For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone thinks rules and norms apply to trump. The Steele dossier. The Billy Bush tapes and grabbing women's privates. Stormy. Cohen. McDougal. The Mueller report. Crapping on a prisoner of war that even a good number of liberals thought was a hero and a patriot. And what of the likely reams of things that haven't YET surfaced?

trump is a lazy, entitled rich dude in a culture that worships rich dudes to the extent that many are willing to trade their dignity and even personal safety to get a 15 minute taste of it. My guess is he's forced himself on more women than I've dated and I'd bet a good number of them may have been underaged. He's probably committed rape on multiple continents. The law will not touch him. The congress doesn't have enough democrats in it to do anything. Epstein could right now be sharing photos of trump in a threesome with a dog and a 14 year old girl and his poll numbers among republicans might take a one or two point hit and maybe a couple extra republican representatives might vote on the next message of condemnation.

This is what we get when a world with "alternate facts" has been allowed to exist.

That's the problem. Americans worship the rich and they all think they'll be rich someday so let's not tax them.

****ing morons.

[Kepler]

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Has he listened to President Trump's Inaugural Address?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...gural-address/

That guy can go **** himself.

Yeah, North Carolina. Another White Whale for the DNC.

He's a Republican Member from a Slave State. Of course he's a dipsh-t.

[Rover]

Re: POTUS 45:55: Wow, @CNN RATINGS HAVE CRASHED. LOST ALL CREDIBILITY!

trump is not worried about Epstein. He has no reason to be. For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone thinks rules and norms apply to trump. The Steele dossier. The Billy Bush tapes and grabbing women's privates. Stormy. Cohen. McDougal. The Mueller report. Crapping on a prisoner of war that even a good number of liberals thought was a hero and a patriot. And what of the likely reams of things that haven't YET surfaced?

trump is a lazy, entitled rich dude in a culture that worships rich dudes to the extent that many are willing to trade their dignity and even personal safety to get a 15 minute taste of it. My guess is he's forced himself on more women than I've dated and I'd bet a good number of them may have been underaged. He's probably committed rape on multiple continents. The law will not touch him. The congress doesn't have enough democrats in it to do anything. Epstein could right now be sharing photos of trump in a threesome with a dog and a 14 year old girl and his poll numbers among republicans might take a one or two point hit and maybe a couple extra republican representatives might vote on the next message of condemnation.

This is what we get when a world with "alternate facts" has been allowed to exist.

Chump is playing a high stakes and dangerous game here. Its entirely possible that he will incite racial hatred enough to narrowly win re-election. Its also just as likely that he will get crushed. The problem in 2018 for Trump and his fellow cult wasn't that Republicans didn't show up for the mid terms. The problem was that they did and he still lost big. The GOP had two things that saved them last year. 1) Florida where they narrowly prevailed in two races, and 2) the most favorable Senate map in living memory. Perhaps he wins again in Florida (and he'd better or the math doesn't work for him to get to 270 otherwise) but the Senate is vulnerable if he starts losing swing states.

I'd also say he's absolutely united Democrats against him across the spectrum. At this point who gives a fuk if the nominee is Bernie or Biden? Just get Chump the h ell out of office already.

[unofan]

That's the problem. Americans worship the rich and they all think they'll be rich someday so let's not tax them.

****ing morons.

America doesn't have poor people, just temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

[Kepler]

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I'd also say he's absolutely united Democrats against him across the spectrum. At this point who gives a fuk if the nominee is Bernie or Biden? Just get Chump the h ell out of office already.

He also killed the "Biden is a racist" meme. The answer to that from now until... well... forever, is just to quote the Beer Hall Putz.