Trump's attack on media as 'enemy of the people' is disgraceful and dangerous

[Wells]

Not saying that I agree with his word choice, but showing that a county of 10+ million people (Las Angeles county) can out produce small farm towns doesn't really counter the claim that the city is run down. That's a lot of people.

Of course it counters the claim. If he thinks the places in the US with all the people aren't producing all the wealth he's even more over his head.

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I watched President Trump’s press conference with the alleged “meltdown,” and all I saw was Trump talking the way he normally talks.

Damning praise.

There are two clues that the Huffington Post is hallucinating and I’m not. The first clue is that they have a trigger and I don’t. Reality violated their egos, whereas I was predicting a Trump win all along. My world has been consistent with my ego. No trigger. All I have is a warm feeling of rightness.

Scott Adams is such a cunt.

[Torto]

Have you considered journalism's inherent lean to the left being more a function of being more educated, perhaps?

Educated right wing conservatives tend to gravitate towards jobs that offer the greater wealth. Where as educated left wing progressives move towards jobs that allow them to exercise their moral superiority, and to parade their own self righteousness and piety to the great unwashed. What better way to facilitate your own aggrandisement than becoming a journalist.

[JohnBrown1917]

Of course it counters the claim. If he thinks the places in the US with all the people aren't producing all the wealth he's even more over his head.

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Damning praise.


Scott Adams is such a cunt.

To be fair, he did talk normally... for Trump's standards
Those who still support him after all this are just blind to how insane he is, they are too far gone.


Makes me wonder what his confidence rating is now in my country, it was already at 6% back in mid 2016, but I hope he does more crazy shit, just so Wilders will drop even more in the polls.

[Wyrt]

Saying all 77 minutes of the press conference was a meltdown is probably biased, but there were definitely moments that involved meltdowns. Like when the reporter asked what Trump would do about increasing anti-semitism or when the reporter asked if Trump would work with the Congressional Black Caucus for addressing problems in the inner cities.

Meltdowns certainly happened. The whole thing wasn't a meltdown.

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Educated right wing conservatives tend to gravitate towards jobs that offer the greater wealth. Where as educated left wing progressives move towards jobs that allow them to exercise their moral superiority, and to parade their own self righteousness and piety to the great unwashed. What better way to facilitate your own aggrandisement than becoming a journalist.

Is that why the tech companies in California are largely opposed to Trump?

[Elegiac]

Educated right wing conservatives tend to gravitate towards jobs that offer the greater wealth. Where as educated left wing progressives move towards jobs that allow them to exercise their moral superiority, and to parade their own self righteousness and piety to the great unwashed. What better way to facilitate your own aggrandisement than becoming a journalist.

Bullshit, right wingers have absolutely no difficulty finding employment in areas where they can be superior assholes.

[Blade Wolf]

To be fair, he did talk normally... for Trump's standards
Those who still support him after all this are just blind to how insane he is, they are too far gone.


Makes me wonder what his confidence rating is now in my country, it was already at 6% back in mid 2016, but I hope he does more crazy shit, just so Wilders will drop even more in the polls.

If we held his speech to human standards then it would most likely come across as complete gibberish.

[Queen of Hamsters]

Its fascist dictator talk. Period.

Mao, Stalin, Hitler, the worst of the worst scum of history, all declared x,y,z groups as enemies of the people.

Now we have Trump doing exactly the same. Its not a coincidence. Thank God for the system of checks and balances, even then it might not be enough.

Tbf, as we can see from all the false news websites cropping up and History, if something's repeated over and over long enough, more people start believing it.

It's a very slippery slope when you have sentiments like "don't trust mainstream media" flourishing.

[Wells]

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/1573589...imaginary-news

In case anyone missed it, the argument being presented here is that because his preferred candidate won and HuffPo's did not he's more qualified to evaluate Trump's speeches. Authority by popularity.

The second clue is that the Huffington Post is seeing something that half the country doesn’t see. As a general rule, the person who sees the elephant in the room is the one hallucinating, not the one who can’t see the elephant. The Huffington Post is literally seeing something that is invisible to me and other observers. We see a President Trump talking the way he normally talks. They see a 77-minute meltdown.

"They see an elephant in the room and we say 'hey that elephant is always here'"

[Torto]

Is that why the tech companies in California are largely opposed to Trump?

Meaningless, there were plenty of conservatives opposed to Trump. And most people in California would identify as progressive, and some would own tech companies. There is such a thing as rich left wing progressives, they are more commonly known as hypocrites.

[Elegiac]

Meaningless, there were plenty of conservatives opposed to Trump. And most people in California would identify as progressive, and some would own tech companies. There is such a thing as rich left wing progressives, they are more commonly known as hypocrites.

What about being a rich progressive is hypocritical exactly?

[Kaleredar]

Not really. The media has been lying a lot so people don't trust it. It used to be called cause and effect back in my day.

Trump has no moral platform to stand upon to claim other people are lying.


How many millions of illegal immigrants supposedly voted for hillary clinton again?

[Noxx79]

Meaningless, there were plenty of conservatives opposed to Trump. And most people in California would identify as progressive, and some would own tech companies. There is such a thing as rich left wing progressives, they are more commonly known as hypocrites.

Making money s not a conservative liberal thing. There are a lot of rich left wingers, just like there are a lot of poor right wingers. Are they hypocrites too?

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How many millions of illegal immigrants supposedly voted for hillary clinton again?

About 3-5 million, mostly in California.

[Kaleredar]

About 3-5 million, mostly in California.

See, bold statements usually require things called facts, which prove they have a thing called truth.

If a statement does not have truth, it is a lie.

That statement has no truth.


That statement is, therefore, a lie. Donald Trump lied.

So, as I stated, it's very hollow for a man who does little more than lie to call others out for lying. Especially when he claims that they're lying about him.

[Noxx79]

About 3-5 million, mostly in California.

The fact that you believe that is incredibly sad and makes anything you say questionable. Can I make some statements with no proof to back it up too?

[JohnBrown1917]

What about being a rich progressive is hypocritical exactly?

All left wingers are communists and rich people can't be communists..


....Probably.

[Wells]

About 3-5 million, mostly in California.

Horseshit.

[Queen of Hamsters]

Those are conclusions you are making. None of those were actually expressed by the media. This you, not them.

Yeaah... I have only seen reports on Pewdiepie's problems, not him being reported as a nazi by any media worth following.

[JohnBrown1917]

About 3-5 million, mostly in California.

>Proud member of the Alt-wrong
I'm assuming you mean the alt-right? Becease I could see why you would believe that.

[Deleted]

Considering how much Trump blatantly lies to the American people wouldn't that make him an enemy of the people by the same standards he's using?

Yes, definately.
However I hope we don't share his standards.