Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I watched the inauguration. I was expecting an earth-shattering kaboom when Trump was sworn in and the world ended, as Liberals have been telling me it would do. Makes me wonder what other lies I’ve been told.
Remember the federal employees who promised to quit and celebrities who promised to move if Trump became President? Can we get an updated head count on that?
Joe Doakes
As Bogey reminds us…
…word of mouth is not always a good guide in life.
How is Trump, the businessman, going to make money off of repealing Obamacare?
I’ll tell you how.
He’s heard about the double occupancy, 150 sq” rooms hospitals charge a thousand dollars a night for.
That’s right, Trump Hospitals.
Remeber, the man is a jumped up innkeeper.
Mr. Trump is planning executive actions early in the week on immigration and trade. Are executive orders only dictatorial when a Democrat President does them?
JD wrote: “Makes me wonder what other lies I’ve been told.”
They’re not lies Joe, they are “alternative facts”.
“Just remember, Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it”
— George Costanza
They are dictatorial when they are intended impose an executive’s will when political processes do not or will not deliver the result he executive desires.
The Dream Act failed to pass congress, so Obama implemented it by executive order. Dictatorial.
Obama ordering the White House chef to never again stock disgusting neapolitan ice cream: not dictatorial.
These were the best of times <– true statement
These were the worst of times <– true statement
What MP said. Second example: on his first day, Trump signed an Executive Order that will make mortgages more expensive for homebuyers. What a hater! Why’d he do that?
Because the day before, Obama signed an Executive Order to make them cheaper by charging less for the federal insurance that guarantees the loans, a move which every in lending knows was an insanely stupid thing to do and most likely unconstitutional. And not during the beginning years of his own administration, when it might have been some good; the Obama cut wasn’t scheduled to take effect until a week After he left office. So why’d he do it?
Because now, headline readers who only get the media’s version of the facts and not the alternative – that is, the full version of the facts – are left with the impression that Trump is an a**hat whereas he simply restored the status quo the prior a**hat upended solely for partisan political gain.
That’s the difference between the proper and improper use of Executive Orders.
If T is going to do battle with the leftist MSM, he’s going to have to step his game up.
These people have been doing alternative facts for more than 100 years. They gather each year to hand out awards to one another. And they have an army of empty headed hamsters out here that consume their product with the grateful gluttony of a heroin addict on needle exchange day, right SSOLSEmery?
The thing to do is challenge the veracity of the MSM’s BS at every step, not to supply one’s own.
I do not intend to be a Trump apologist; he was never my guy and I’m incapable of ignoring the bugger hanging out of his nose.
I’m going to enjoy the pie fight while waiting for him to do the one thing I voted for him to do. Once the SCOTUS is secure, every federal judge he nominates (the federal bench is 12% vacant) is smooth gravy for my biscuits. All the rest is tl;dr
In pre-modern times, reason was considered more important than facts because reason was eternal and unchanging, and facts (then as well as now) changed. A cause always precedes its effect, but the fact that the Earth was the center of the universe was subject to change.
Although I think with the inauguration headcount, Trump was just rolling the press.
Mr. Trump is planning executive actions early in the week on immigration and trade. Are executive orders only dictatorial when a Democrat President does them?
Translation of eTASS’s SFB statement: It is dictatorial for a Republican President to repeal dictatorial Democrat President executive order. In other words, according to eTASS convoluted and tortured logic, Democrat
President dictatorial executive orders cannot be repealed because… Well, I cannot even attempt to justify this line of SFB thinking.
They’re not lies Joe, they are “alternative facts”.
So EVERTHING MSM says is an absolute indisputable fact, right eTASS? Did they post the time stamp on the alReuters photo they used to base their “facts” on? SO how do you distinguish between MSM “facts” and factual “facts”? Maybe you call then “alternative facts.” Too much logic for you, eTASS?
Oh wait, I just asked eTASS a question. I completely forgot he never, ever answers a direct question, only obfuscates and redirects and spews non-sequiturs.
The media in general needs to do its job and call a lie a lie. No more euphemisms. Trump is now in the hot seat. Just wait until he starts leaving his fingerprints on things, we haven’t seen nothing yet.
The media in general needs to do its job and call a lie a lie.
I agree SSOLSEmery. And press conferences should include spitting greasy globs and throwing shoes at each other. Let’s just drop all this faux civility BS and get to it.
Hmm. No answer from eTASS, The only good facts are the ones he gets from his daily Soros download. Got it.
There is truly nothing more unbecoming than the most powerful person in the world, whining about criticism. Perhaps Trump should’ve stayed a heckler.
“Alternative facts” Five syllables
“Lie” One syllable.
Fixed it for you Swiftee
EI, agreed that the media needs to call a lie a lie, but that presumes that they know how to identify one in the first place. From my reading of a recent “factcheck” column, I’m not sure–they more or less argued that the economy was fine based on the official unemployment rate and a bunch of jobs being created since 2008, but ignored the problems of discouraged workers, low work force participation, and job creation being somewhere between 3 and 10 million jobs short of population growth in that period.
In other words, “fact checking” for the media and the left (but I repeat myself) consists of mindlessly repeating statistics they like, but know are flawed.
‘Alternative Facts’: The Media Finds a Meme for the ‘Resistance’
eTASS is Soooo busted… Not that we did not know where he comes from. An original thought indeed never crossed his path.
Maybe I am beginning to figure out this “Trump” person. He does not state facts or lies, he states his negotiation position. He also thinks that other people don’t state facts, they are stating their negotiating positions.
All this stuff about it being a “post-truth” world is nonsense. When were we living in the “truth” world? During the Obama administration?
For everything that Trump has said, there is a contradiction if you go looking for it. How can you know the intentions of a man who changes is mind more often than he changes his socks?
Seeing millions of people gather to loudly oppose him validates everything he stands for, that he is fighting some vast elite conspiracy, and the loud opposition achieves nothing of substance. If, on the other hand, we sit back and let Trump try to be Presidential, he will destroy himself in his own cyclone of chaos, because he has no way to deliver anything to his supporters. If we engage him in his schoolyard name-calling and taunting, he’ll paint a picture of himself as the champion of the working man standing up to the elite. Let Captain Chaos destroy himself. Like a 2-year-old with a tantrum, he is most effectively stopped by ignoring him.
I think you will be surprised at how little Trump accomplishes if left to his own devices.
It is going to be an interesting four years.
Trump is the result, not the cause, of a wider dissatisfaction with the post cold war liberal order.
This last election is a big step that furthers the re-alignment of the two parties. A Trump re-election will complete the process. The Democrats are the party of the educated, the elite, social liberals, civil servants, professionals, and any minority disdained by the white working class. They embrace globalism and environmentalism, and are open to change. The Republicans are the party of the white working and middle class who are less educated, more nationalist, and who believe that interactions with foreigners of all sorts disrupt otherwise stable lives. They wish to dampen and slow the forces of change.
FDR and Eisenhower aren’t coming back. Stop trying to make it happen. The white working class abandoned the Democrats during the civil rights era, long before the Democrats abandoned them. They thought the white working class had become middle class, and would move with them. That was a bad call, but it’s too late to change now.
Wooly one, I think you just may have something there on sTrumpet and negotiation tactic. It is a very interesting lens that lends clarity to most of his positions. Simple and elegant observation. Thank you.