In 'media vs. Trump' battle, the president has the people on his side

[FakeNews]

It’s safe to say that nobody alive today has ever seen anything like it: A newly elected president who, so far from being a professional politician, says off-the-cuff things in conversation or midnight tweets that positively invite indignant responses — and a media and entertainment industry that has been loudly marching against him ever since he won the nomination.

The consuming question in these parts is less how it began than how it will end, and with what consequences. It’s pretty clear now that it’s open warfare between the White House and the mainstream media (MSM) — the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN in particular — and Hollywood.

If, because of unremitting and over-the-top political opposition by the media, Trump were somehow drummed out of office, or so beleaguered that he may as well be, two things would follow: An already divided nation would become even more deeply divided, and perhaps violently so, and the media, whose primary societal value lies in reporting the news fully and objectively, would lose any chance to reclaim their credibility for at least a generation.

This, because until now the tactics that flow from identity politics and political correctness have come almost exclusively from the left. But let those people who are so cavalierly dismissed in the regnant narrative (heterosexuals, whites, Christians) themselves become activists, and employ the same kind of tactics as the left, and the wheel will have turned full circle. Not only will every race, tribe, and faith field armies of spinners and speech police against one another, but there will then be the shared conviction that the democratic system itself is corrupt.

However politically virtuous the MSM see themselves, and however important they truly are, Donald Trump has something that none of them possesses, and that is the will of the people who voted him their president. Think about it.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-bl...ttle-the-president-has-the-people-on-his-side

 

[Que]

His constant and successful trolling of the media is (probably unintentionally) brilliant.

I think the real reason he does it is because he's petty and spiteful, but because of the constant war with the media- when there ever is something worth reporting on that does reflect badly on him it simply gets lost in the noise.

 

[water505]

The media is furious because Trump cut out the middleman and doesn't need them anymore.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

His constant and successful trolling of the media is (probably unintentionally) brilliant.

I think the real reason he does it is because he's petty and spiteful, but because of the constant war with the media- when there ever is something worth reporting on that does reflect badly on him it simply gets lost in the noise.

Really? Like what? Give me an example where this unintentionally brilliant strategy has derailed or deflected worthy substantive criticism that was far worse than the public outrage directed at his spiteful pettiness.

The President is doing nothing more than making it easier for his critics to double down on their efforts and giving credibility to them. Not to mention increasing their resolve to miss NOTHING of substance going forward.

There is nothing "brilliant" about this man's vitriol.

 

[doowdniw]

He's dumb like a fox. A really, really dumb fox. The kind of fox that turns the light on in the chicken coop.

 

[about_average]

Donald Trump has something that none of them possesses, and that is the will of the people who voted him their president. Think about it.

Obviously you failed to think about it, otherwise your thread title would have been:
"In 'media vs. Trump' battle, the president has 46% of the people on his side"

Actually 44%, since 3% of people who voted for him regret it

 

[Que]

Really? Like what? Give me an example where this unintentionally brilliant strategy has derailed or deflected worthy substantive criticism that was far worse than the public outrage directed at his spiteful pettiness.

The President is doing nothing more than making it easier for his critics to double down on their efforts and giving credibility to them. Not to mention increasing their resolve to miss NOTHING of substance going forward.

There is nothing "brilliant" about this man's vitriol.

How much air time was devoted to major set-backs to liberal priorities? Nearly everything that Obama "accomplished" with a pen and a phone, except for the dreamers is gone. Obama's illegal climate "treaty" is gone.

The VA <may> be able to fire employees soon. If that happens, no one in the federal government is safe.

None of his pettiness is even risen to the Rosie O'Donnell phase as of yet. We knew who this guy was and he was still preferable than the very best hope of the Democratics.

I can't give you an example of anything that was overlooked that was actually substantive because none of the criticism of him is. But for the sake of discussion, he could be caught with a dead hooker next week and nobody that voted for him would buy it, coming from these outlets.

 

[someoneyouknow]

You can't fix stupid. That people are happy he's calling for removal of the First Amendment truly shows the mindlessness of the uneducated deplorables.

The real reason he's doing this is because it makes himself feel better, and he thinks people want to see it because then it makes them like him. He needs to feel liked. It's that simple. Every time, without exception, someone, anyone says anything bad about him he either a) sues them or b) attempts to get back at them. The more factual the comment, the more he goes after them. He hates being shown in a bad light.

He's sort of like Fred Phelps. Remember him? All he did was talk about gays. Day in and day out, gays this and gays that. His incessant whining eventually led to people using the comment that he was so fixated on gays he must be a closet gay.

The con artist is the same. Because CNN, in particular, has been so insistent on showing the truth about the con artist, that they take the high ground of facts, he has to do something. His soap bubble ego will not let facts about his collusion, corruption and failures go unchallenged.

Thus, he acts out like a mentally deficient two year old instead of an adult who is supposed to be president.

It's that simple. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself. He doesn't care about being president. It's all about him. Malignant narcissism is the term being used. It's so bad he denies his own words, even when shown video of him saying them. He is a case study in the affliction.

 

[Que]

Obviously you failed to think about it, otherwise your thread title would have been:
"In 'media vs. Trump' battle, the president has 46% of the people on his side"

Actually 44%, since 3% of people who voted for him regret it

Which means he has 97% of the people who voted for him and would voting in places that matter, (to his re-election) supporting him.

Democrats and their media synchophants poll lower than Trump.

Hillary is the first runner-up in a Presidential race to experience no positive, sympathy bump, post-election. She is as equally unelectable now as before. Trump is just as electable now, as before when you factor in the benefit afforded by incumbency with independents, and the benefits of an actually improving economy.

 

[about_average]

Which means he has 97% of the people who voted for him and would voting in places that matter, (to his re-election) supporting him.

Democrats and their media synchophants poll lower than Trump.

Hillary is the first runner-up in a Presidential race to experience no positive, sympathy bump, post-election. She is as equally unelectable now as before. Trump is just as electable now, as before when you factor in the benefit afforded by incumbency with independents, and the benefits of an actually improving economy.

Nice partisan spin on a thread with a very misleading title.
Well done.

 

[someoneyouknow]

and the benefits of an actually improving economy.

Yes, thanks to Obama. The first year of any presidency is still on the previous guy.

As the facts show, the economy has been growing for years thanks to Obama, ever since the financial collapse under Bush. Since the con artist hasn't signed a single spending bill, or done anything in general, that improving economy falls squarely on Obama.

 

[Que]

Yes, thanks to Obama. The first year of any presidency is still on the previous guy.

As the facts show, the economy has been growing for years thanks to Obama, ever since the financial collapse under Bush. Since the con artist hasn't signed a single spending bill, or done anything in general, that improving economy falls squarely on Obama.

That's interesting because those that were screaming it was all Bush's fault (for eight years, not "the first year") like Krugman, first assured us that only Hillary could capitalize on the "gains" of the "green energy economy" and that candidate Trump would be an unmitigated disaster to the economy.

After Trump was actually elected Krugman predicted a stock market that would immediately plummet and never recover.

 

[Que]

By the way...

Which of the Obama Administration's specific policies or programs are paying dividends today in this growing economy?

I've got other questions, too.

For example, why did it take the consumer confidence index 8 years and a couple of months to realize how good Obama was for the economy?

With the price of copper at only a little over two dollars a pound why did mining companies decide to ramp up production ahead of actual demand after Obama was out of office? Is it the Russia thing? Maybe Trump and Pence are impeached, SCOTUS orders a do-over and Hillary is at tge helm for the third term of Obama policies. Is that why they are forcosting grouth in housing and manufacturing? Because of who used to be in office?

 

[Que]

Nice partisan spin on a thread with a very misleading title.
Well done.

Thank you.

A shame that your attempted partisan spin was both inaccurate and irrelevant. Better luck next time.

 

[phrodeau]

That's interesting because those that were screaming it was all Bush's fault (for eight years, not "the first year") like Krugman, first assured us that only Hillary could capitalize on the "gains" of the "green energy economy" and that candidate Trump would be an unmitigated disaster to the economy.

After Trump was actually elected Krugman predicted a stock market that would immediately plummet and never recover.

The stock market is doing OK. However, the health insurance market….

 

[Que]

The stock market is doing OK. However, the health insurance market….

Lemme guess.

...is totally not in any way due to the guy whose name is associated with the takeover of the requirements for that entire market.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If a candidate won’t defend his own interests, using all weapons at his command, why should the public think he will zealously defend their common interests, especially against pseudo-aristocratic racial/ethnic claims of privilege? It is scarcely egomania, let alone “white nationalism,” to defend oneself from fire coming at one from a safe space. Why are low blows and insults tolerated when they are directed at Republicans, but “unpresidential” and “beneath the dignity of the office” when they are repulsed in equal measure? In fact, Aristotle makes it clear that permitting an injustice to oneself is a vice. [snip] Just as the left makes every attack on the administrative state an attack on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, so every Republican Administration becomes for the media and Democrats a replay of Nixon and Watergate. Nixon tried to rollback the Democrats’ successor to the New Deal, the Great Society. Republicans still haven’t learned the meaning of Watergate, which was far more a political crisis engineered by partisan Democrats than a constitutional crisis brought about by Nixon. Republicans have yet to recognize that their Machiavellian enemies in the bureaucracy, media, and politics brought about Nixon’s demise. Trump has seen that crisis early on in his presidency, embodied in James Comey, and is gamely fighting it.
Ken Masugi, American Greatness​

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Iowahawk is also on target. David Burge‏ @iowahawkblog June 29

“Washington is now just a bunch of kittens with laser pointers stapled to their heads.”​

They keep chasing that red dot and ignore the fact that the EPA can no longer claim the puddle in your driveway gives them jurisdiction over your property. Your son will no longer have to face a university star chamber if some gal claims he invaded her safe space. The military halted endorsing the recruitment of transgenders. No longer will energy sources be locked up from exploitation, or our allies be left hanging while we send a plane with pallets full of cash to the murderous mullahs. NATO members are paying more of their share of defense costs. Abbas has stopped paying terrorists in Israeli jails.

Clarice Feldman, Like Haman Being Hanged on the Scaffold He Built for Mordechai



http://www.americanthinker.com/arti...old_he_built_for_mordechai.html#ixzz4llWTWRV6

 

[water505]

By the way...

Which of the Obama Administration's specific policies or programs are paying dividends today in this growing economy?

I've got other questions, too.

For example, why did it take the consumer confidence index 8 years and a couple of months to realize how good Obama was for the economy?

With the price of copper at only a little over two dollars a pound why did mining companies decide to ramp up production ahead of actual demand after Obama was out of office? Is it the Russia thing? Maybe Trump and Pence are impeached, SCOTUS orders a do-over and Hillary is at tge helm for the third term of Obama policies. Is that why they are forcosting grouth in housing and manufacturing? Because of who used to be in office?

Humans will become extinct before he answers any of those questions honestly.

 

[Rightguide]

Humans will become extinct before he answers any of those questions honestly.

LOL..

There aren't enough crickets...

 

[water505]

You can't fix stupid.

Because CNN, in particular, has been so insistent on showing the truth about the con artist, that they take the high ground of facts, he has to do something. His soap bubble ego will not let facts about his collusion, corruption and failures go unchallenged.

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Your first sentence is absolute proof your next paragraph is 100% correct.

Which planet do you inhabit? CNN insistent about showing the TRUTH?

Specify "collusion."

 

[Rightguide]

Yes, thanks to Obama. The first year of any presidency is still on the previous guy.

As the facts show, the economy has been growing for years thanks to Obama, ever since the financial collapse under Bush. Since the con artist hasn't signed a single spending bill, or done anything in general, that improving economy falls squarely on Obama.

What facts?

 

[water505]

What facts?

The facts he saw on CNN and read in The NY Times!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yes, thanks to Obama. The first year of any presidency is still on the previous guy.

As the facts show, the economy has been growing for years thanks to Obama, ever since the financial collapse under Bush. Since the con artist hasn't signed a single spending bill, or done anything in general, that improving economy falls squarely on Obama.

I just noticed this thanks to another poster.

He doesn't have to sign anything. In the first place, yes, yes you are right, it did grow, but at a rate that did not keep up with population growth, so you get half a point for that.

Where you lose points is what we pointed out before President Obama was elected and that was his antipathy towards energy and business, especially corporate America (many of whom rushed to fund him in the hopes that he would go after someone else...) and we warned you that in that atmosphere people would be loath to invest and expand and then we got the double whammy of ObamaCare which exacerbated that fear of the future for business people.

When President Trump was elected, the (rational business-orientated part of) nation felt a sense of hope, of optimism, of being able to take a risk without him stepping in GM style to rip off the bondholders...

Since then, he has issued the recall of many of Obama's executive orders and appointed new heads of the ABC bureaucracies whom have reversed the business-unfriendly environment that Obama put into place (in the altruistic name of social justice, saving the planet and saving the world from, well Waterworld...).

In summation, you have picked a false metric, he hasn't signed a bill. Obama didn't need to sign a bill to retard the economy and Trump doesn't need to sign a bill to enable it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The facts he saw on CNN and read in The NY Times!

How DARE you slight the WaPo as one of the leaders of fake news!

 

[FGB]

And Cesar, seeing that the people were deafened, loved the games increased them because the Senate and his real detractors could not be heard.

Thus fell Rome from the inside out, making it easy meat for the barbarians to overrun.

Some fear this will happen to us at this very strange crossroads.

I really have to not dwell on shit in the mornings BEFORE I have my Hot chocolate...