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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Hah, when FOX (GOP-Propoganda-Machine) News of all people start questioning a Republican President like that, that's saying something. Although, it is Chris Wallace, who I remember John Stewart saying is basically the only part of Fox that lends any integrity and credibility to the station...
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."Best quote so far: "We are only a few days in and the Trump administration has already used up its entire quota of weird."
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The thing here is that gaslighting a news organization is a bit more difficult than gaslighting a random person, if they don't want to be. Why? News organizations keep archives. Of everything. It especially sticks out when the president lies the very next day after something everyone reported on.
Even Fox tries to at least look consistent from day to day because they're smart enough to realize that if they constantly try to switch the furniture every single day, people are going to notice.
Trump and his organization are getting increasingly brazen about doing this, and I think they might be approaching some sort of breaking point. I think it's basically guaranteed that Trump will end up telling a lie so huge and absurd that only the die hard supporters will go along with it.
And, of course, Spicer lacks the charisma or confidence required to pull it off. He comes off like an average guy who doesn't really draw your attention. However, if he draws attention because of absurd and blatant lies that are disproven in three seconds, it makes people way more critical of what he says in the future.
Let's list this: just for the simple act of taking over from Obama, he lied about not wanting to have celebrities there (when in fact they did their best to convince them to turn up), about the number of people who attended, had a fake cake (which was also a copy of Obama's cake - except that this one was actually real) and lied about the freaking weather, because apparently he couldn't stand the notion of nature raining on his parade.
The guy has issues.
Save it from what, getting bogged down in another Middle Eastern guerilla war after smashing a functional (if repressive) sovereign nation with an only marginally effective air force? From the corporate interests in government, one of which he genuinely is?
Save it from having to march into the 21st century as primus inter pares?
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Save it from having to march into the 21st century as primus inter pares?
Save it from PC culture, Muslims, and immigrants, of course.
Oh and also to bring jobs back to America, which totally isn't mostly used to downplay the general bigotry in Trump's campaign, nope, no sirree bob.
i'm tired, my friendWe have jobs in America, and if people are so eager to get immigrants out of the job market, I hope they like doing unskilled labor for shit wages. Illegals sure as hell aren't displacing high-tech manufacturing jobs.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Also, in case people missed it - McCain and Graham are going to vote to confirm Tillerson,
despite all their tough talk on Russia. And Rubio seems to be teetering.
Cowards. Just goes to show - the GOP always falls in line.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."![]()
Man, fuck Mc Cain.
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Good luck. Let us know how it goes.
Especially since, when you remember, his choice of Palin as running mate helped pave the way for Trump. Pain was basically Trump-lite in a lot of ways - an incompetent, consummate bullshitter who spouted lies so often people got tired of calling them out.
Yeah, screw McCain. He plays the maverick until the moment when it actually counts, then he quietly falls in line just like the rest of them.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."I don't get Mc Cain, is he that worried about re-election or just that of a toadie?
The GOP probably started leaning on him once they saw he was acting out, and sure enough he buckled.
As for re-election, he's had a death grip on that seat for a while now. But that doesn't mean that the GOP couldn't probably primary him if they put their minds to it.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Ugh, if Tillerson becomes So S, which he almost certainly will..any of the below will be more likely to happen:
1) Russia's sanctions are gone, and Exxon and Putin are gonna make big bucks.
2) Trade war with China. Possible actual shooting war with China.
3) Admittedly this is a long shot given the recent announcement...Trump decides the TPP is great after all and signs it.
Disgusted, but not surprised

Fox News' Chris Wallace
, aka the debate moderator everyone actually liked, smacks down Trump's chief of staff over their lies about inaugeration numbers.
"President Trump said in his inaugural address that every decision he makes will be to benefit American families. How does arguing about crowd size do that?" Wallace asked.
"You talk about honesty. You say this is about honesty. But there's another issue here though, Reince, and that is the president's honest. Two things he said yesterday were just flat wrong," Wallace said.
"Take a look at those pictures," Wallace continued, putting up the pictures of Obama's 2009 inauguration and Trump's on Friday. "Which one is bigger?"
"You're also not saying that that picture was taken before he was even speaking," Priebus replied.
"I was there, I was there on the mall," Wallace interjected.