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I realize that media bobbleheads are not about to blurt out the obvious fact that Donald Trump is an idiot. Fine. Its apparent to everyone, so we really dont need this particular piece of late-breaking news.
But for fucks 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 Trumps agenda, Trumps plans, Trumps strategy, Trumps thoughts as though such things exist.
Heres 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, Trumps 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. Its 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.
Trumps 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 hes talking about, as he spends his days trying to distract from the fact that hes 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 Trumps thoughts is to accept that he is a thinking man which we all know hes 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 ODonnell 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 Ivankas clothing line, his anger does not extend to the KKK and white supremacists. Even his alleged devotion to his family didnt prompt him to denounce the anti-Semites who denigrated his own Jewish daughter and grandchildren. Lets 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 Trumps 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.
Its bad enough that throughout the 2016 campaign, the MSM ignored Trumps 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, youd think theyd at least stop discussing his plans, agenda, strategy and thoughts as though such things actually exist. They dont. Honest journalists should be exposing them as what they are: figments of the Idiots 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"?
Hekate
(90,686 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)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)MLAA
(17,289 posts)skylucy
(3,739 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)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.
TexasTowelie
(112,190 posts)DrDan
(20,411 posts)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.
Gothmog
(145,242 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,980 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)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 Trumps agenda, Trumps plans, Trumps strategy, Trumps thoughts are all
about running a con on the American people.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)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.
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uponit7771
(90,339 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)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.