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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 01:03 AM Aug 2017

MSM Please STFU

I realize that media bobbleheads are not about to blurt out the obvious fact that Donald Trump is an idiot. Fine. It’s apparent to everyone, so we really don’t need this particular piece of late-breaking news.

But for fuck’s sake, could they at least stop the pretense that he is anything other than an Idiot?

Day-in/day-out, the news networks opine on “Trump’s agenda, Trump’s plans, Trump’s strategy, Trump’s thoughts” – as though such things exist.

Here’s a newsflash for the news media: Trump has NO agenda, NO plans, NO strategy, and NO thoughts about anything to do with his responsibilities as pOTUS – none, zip, zero, nada.

Since his election, Trump’s “agenda” has been denying his collusion with the Russians, along with denying that the Russians interfered in our elections in any way. He has furthered that agenda 24/7 – even as he handed over highly classified information to Russian operatives in a “secret meeting” held in the Oval Office. His agenda – as with everything else – is focused on making himself (and by extension, his family and close advisors) look innocent of wrongdoing, especially as the evidence of their guilt reaches monumental proportions.

That “agenda” is not about the well-being of the country or the citizenry – never has been, never will be. It’s about a self-serving blowhard whose only “agenda” is promoting his own “brand” and lining his own pockets while calling the truth “fake news”, and trying to distract the country from his oh-so-obvious treasonous behaviour.

Trump’s supposed “strategy” has only one purpose: to cover his own ass as he takes credit for things he never accomplished, as he speaks incomprehensible gibberish while pretending to know what he’s talking about, as he spends his days trying to distract from the fact that he’s not only an Idiot – but a treasonous idiot who is desperately trying to convince the country that what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears is “fake news”.

His “plans” have been focused on scheduling his day around watching TV, tweeting, and lining-up his next golfing weekend. His “plans” are always all about him. No one else matters – no one else counts. He has spent more time “tweeting” absolute bullshit than he has addressing the actual concerns of a nation; he has spent more hours on the golf course than he has addressing the economy, healthcare, tax reform, and all of the other challenges we face as a country.

To discuss Trump’s “thoughts” is to accept that he is a thinking man – which we all know he’s not. His “thoughts” are rambling, incoherent covfefe – an endless spewing of lies, non-facts, and self-aggrandizing bullshit. His only “thoughts” are about himself and using the power of his office as a means to denigrate his perceived enemies – from Rosie O’Donnell to Meryl Streep to food critics who panned the fare at his hotel restaurants.

As we saw in the past week, while his ire knows no bounds when stores refuse to carry Ivanka’s clothing line, his anger does not extend to the KKK and white supremacists. Even his alleged devotion to his family didn’t prompt him to denounce the anti-Semites who denigrated his own Jewish daughter and grandchildren. Let’s remember that the man who has insulted our allies and accused Obama of (a) being a non-citicizen and (b) committing a felony by wire-tapping him, lost no time pointing out that the KKK and white supremacists included “fine people”.

All of the above is known, indisputable fact. The idea that the MSM persists in discussing Trump’s “plans, agenda, strategy and thoughts” is nothing more than an attempt to “normalize” the abnormal, and tart-up absolute bullshit as something other than what it obviously is: absolute bullshit.

It’s bad enough that throughout the 2016 campaign, the MSM ignored Trump’s provable lies, his history of cheating people out of their money, the fact that he used funds from his “charitable foundation” to pay personal debts – the list goes on.

Now that Trump has declared the MSM “fake news”, you’d think they’d at least stop discussing his “plans, agenda, strategy and thoughts” as though such things actually exist. They don’t. Honest journalists should be exposing them as what they are: figments of the Idiot’s imagination that have no basis in fact, and no connection to reality.

Listening now to the MSM trying to 'splain Trump's meandering, incoherent speech tonight is like listening to a bunch of eight-year-olds trying to explain quantum physics - without the cute factor that children invariably invoke when they try to describe something they obviously don't understand.

The "pResident" is an Idiot - everyone knows it. Isn't it time that the mainstream media acknowledged the obvious, and stopped trying to be "cute"?

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MSM Please STFU (Original Post) NanceGreggs Aug 2017 OP
KnR, dear Nance Hekate Aug 2017 #1
All true but they must pretend it isn't Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #2
"The Emperor has no clothes", yep you nailed it as usual steve2470 Aug 2017 #3
Gotta love a smart women with a keyboard. Great thread Nance. Thx. n/t MLAA Aug 2017 #4
"Trump's 'thoughts' are a rambling, incoherent covfefe"---NanceGreggs: You are the best! skylucy Aug 2017 #5
Definitely a phrase to savor and pass along. nt eppur_se_muova Aug 2017 #7
Absolutely. Spot. On. iluvtennis Aug 2017 #6
PREACH IT, SISTER Skittles Aug 2017 #8
the MSM helped him get elected. DesertFlower Aug 2017 #9
K&R. nt TexasTowelie Aug 2017 #10
seems to me the MSM's role is to put experts on that state he is unqualified, without a plan, etc DrDan Aug 2017 #11
Great post Nance Gothmog Aug 2017 #12
k and r, and spot on, as always niyad Aug 2017 #13
K&R ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #14
Trumps agenda, Trumps plans, Trumps strategy, Trumps thoughts are all about running a con mnhtnbb Aug 2017 #15
The main stream media The Wizard Aug 2017 #16
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2017 #17
+1, "Trump has NO agenda, NO plans, NO strategy, and NO thoughts about anything" uponit7771 Aug 2017 #18
And Do It ASAP colsohlibgal Aug 2017 #19
Kick dalton99a Aug 2017 #20

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)
2. All true but they must pretend it isn't
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 01:07 AM
Aug 2017

You are right - it is ALL about him and there is no coherence to anything he does other than that fact. The MSM should just say that over and over, then they would be speaking truth to power. But they can't.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
3. "The Emperor has no clothes", yep you nailed it as usual
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 01:09 AM
Aug 2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

When the emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, no one dares to say that they don't see any suit of clothes on him for fear that they will be seen as "unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent". Finally, a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!"

DesertFlower

(11,649 posts)
9. the MSM helped him get elected.
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 03:09 AM
Aug 2017

they covered him constantly while giving little time to hillary. i would hear "hillary at an event now". sometimes they went to it for a few minutes. people didn't see or hear her enough to realize she was a great candidate.

DrDan

(20,411 posts)
11. seems to me the MSM's role is to put experts on that state he is unqualified, without a plan, etc
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 05:45 AM
Aug 2017

Last edited Tue Aug 22, 2017, 06:22 AM - Edit history (1)

that is the role of the host. They should just ask the questions and allow the experts to speak.

mnhtnbb

(31,388 posts)
15. Trumps agenda, Trumps plans, Trumps strategy, Trumps thoughts are all about running a con
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 03:05 PM
Aug 2017

on the American people and so far he's doing a pretty damn good job.

Look at the Secret Service running out of money! A lot of their budget has gone in Trump's pocket because funds have
been spent to protect him at his many residences or golf clubs. Damn good con. His newly opened DC hotel, under lease from the
US Government, is raking in dough as it is being used as the "hot spot" in town for foreign dignitaries, lobbyists,
and sycophants to cozy up to Trump family and the Republican party. According to that lease, as an elected government
official, he is not supposed to profit! Huh. The Republican Congress refuses to hold him accountable to the terms of
the lease. Damn good con, so far.

The MSM needs to focus on the fact that ALL of “Trump’s agenda, Trump’s plans, Trump’s strategy, Trump’s thoughts” are all
about running a con on the American people.

The Wizard

(12,545 posts)
16. The main stream media
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 08:15 PM
Aug 2017

won't call him out for the same reason they refused to call out the Bush cartel for its lies. They're too lazy to do real reporting and prefer to be stenographers so as to not lose access . It's easier to go along and not ask serious questions. It's as if the Fourth Estate has become a fifth column, enabling a criminal un American enterprise to loot the Treasury.

Response to NanceGreggs (Original post)

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
19. And Do It ASAP
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 09:52 PM
Aug 2017

This is not normal, he is not normal. He is not my president and millions agree.

MSM call him Trump if you have to refer to him. This is different than being against Nixon, Ford, Poppy Bush, I disagreed with a lot of what they did but they were competent and not carnival barker frauds.

I am not sure of anything anymore...just heard Trump's number went up some places after his comments saying some Nazis were "good people". Hang on folks, we are at a strange weird place in this Nation.


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