More "Trump is almost never wrong" - The Medias are wrong re-direct. How Novel. God Forbid an elected official is fact checked. They're supposed to be account... something... accounts-payable? Accountable? I forget... Man, the media must really hate him, doing what they've been doing for centuries to that guy.
As far as unreliable claims, he's a natural champ. The very best. If it weren't for the office he holds, he wouldn't have any credibility left whatsoever.
People blindly defer to it and get fed lies from the firehose. Go ahead, try to re-frame or salvage an inaccurate statement or two if it makes you feel better. Going on the balance of probability, I'd say it's a fool's errand. Being "right on something else" is a very interesting approach to being wrong.
You're whitewashing constantly misrepresenting the realities of trade between two allied countries in the course of NAFTA negotiations.
Numbers are pretty objective. It's hard to agree to disagree on something so factual. It's not a matter of sunny vs overcast or perspective. It's flat out inaccurate and in the context of trying to rake an ally over the coals, it's pretty despicable.
You chose to put all your eggs in the same basket. The captain goes down with the ship, but you don't need to. Looks like you chose to go along for the ride. Will you be playing the violin in the final moments?
It's pretty screwy when your former sec. of defense is concerned that you're a threat to the constitution and that countries with despicable records on human rights will "dominate" their next protests "Just like Donald said".
This went from a discussion to argument and I don't intend to lower myself to internet special Olympics but I will afford you one final response.
How you cannot see the blatant bull shit tactics is beyond me. I have to conclude one of two things. You either have low level TDS that clouds your judgement or just don't have the mental capacity to reason through it.
You can't get a more clear cut recent example as the LIE that was "Trump directed police to clear protestors with teargas for a photo op". Instead of admitting they were wrong these shills in media doubled down on their lies. Had Trump said it, guaranteed it would be branded as a lie but because they said it, they're justifying it wasn't "tear gas" tear gas, but the technical definition is an irritant so the pepper balls being an irritant = tear gas.... so they weren't lying. They then use that semantic "clarification" to forget completely about the more important part of the argument, their attempt to make Trump look bad by saying that it was him who directed it.
The reality is that there was a curfew and the park police started to push back
to enforce curfew on their own accord. NOBODY should have been there, peaceful or not, but the media, *cricket chirps*.
Now here's the crazy part. The few times Trump is using mistruths, they DON'T call him out on it. A perfect example is the Jobs report. That shit stinks to high heaven with 2.5m jobs while still in lockdown/riots but Trump is using it to pump up his appeal. If they targeted him on that, fair game, I wouldn't say a word in defense. But guess what, they don't. Instead the bitch that is Nancy Pelosi also tries to take credit for the fake numbers so it just goes to show you further how this is a game of political optics, nothing more.
About the Sec of Defense, I've explained this before but I'll do it one last time. After this I will have to conclude you're incapable of comprehending. The "swamp" or whatever you want to call it is comprised of both left(blue) and the right(red) creatures. When people with TDS make a messiah out of a person who opposes Trump like Romney, all I see is a red swamp creature joining team blue swamp creatures because "the enemy of my enemy". Also, how you can hold a disgruntled former employee's opinion about his previous boss/employer in high regard with no scrutiny, screams naive.
Very simple logic. If you can't tell a swamp creature until they act, is it possible you hire a few and need to get rid of them once you realize who they are? In that regard "mad dog" seem to fit the bill. Looked like an ally from far, joined to praise, exposed his swampiness, was fired and now shills against Trump. The fact he was part of the team doesn't make it more pertinent, all he was is an enemy temporarily behind the lines.
By pointing these things out, I'm hoping to get people to see the trick that's being played on them. I describe the media's "slight of hands" techniques and a reasonable person should be able to then see it but also understand variations of it without a specific explanation. I've posted a literal sleight of hand video below as an analogy. Reading Fake News articles (asleep) is like watching on normal speed. If you take the time to slow it down, i.e. stop to think about what they're saying and contrasting it to other view points, you then see what's really happening. Once you know, you can watch it at normal speed and know what's happening.
In conclusion, why the hell do I care, because it affects
everyone. I'm sure that guy who had his guitar stolen (and thankfully returned) wasn't thinking, "the lies propped up by fake news to make Trump look bad will cause international unrest which will lead to Steve's music shop to be looted and my guitar stolen" but here we are.
Wake the fuck up people, you are being lied to by the establishment and some of us are trying to warn you we're on the same sinking boat. First step is to get people to realize we're sinking, and once woken up, help us bail. The cosmic irony:
https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/16/world/asia/south-korea-sinking-ship-students/index.html