Posted on 09/07/2018 1:19:08 PM PDT by davikkm
The degeneracy of mainstream media has been immense. Nowhere has that been so evident than at the New York Times. You may remember that about a month ago, the NYT hired an overt racist by the name of Sarah Jeong. If that didn’t damage their credibility enough, this month, they published an anonymous opinion piece that supposedly detailed the innerworkings of the Trump administration.
But the piece went further than that. The author claimed to be resisting Trump while deeply imbedded within his administration, a senior official. This, of course, evoked strong emotions from the millions of resisters that want Trump impeached. To them, it was further evidence of his corruption and incompetence.
However, the article wasn’t earth-shattering at all. It told The Resistance what they wanted to hear, or what they already thought they knew. So, why publish it at all? First, let me say that this article could be a complete fabrication, but let’s assume it’s real.
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I may be in the minority, but I think this editorial was brilliant. For the first time, perhaps, the corrupt MSM has openly admitted, and without any doubt, that they are in fact advocates for leftwing, Democrat Party and not honest brokers of information.
I think this editorial crystalizes in the remaining skeptics that the media are biased to the point of advocacy. Through this editorial they have thrown away any remaining credibility they had. People now has the corrupt MSM’s letter of confession via this editorial.
If it’s possible for public opinion to go lower than a child rapist, then I’m guessing the media’s reputation will fall below that.
As we keep seeing; no low is too low for the morbid radicalized left.
They have been losing, politically, since 2010 except for obammy winning in 2012. In all other ways the republicans have been winning for the most part.
My guess is they are beaten down to the point to where they believe they have nothing left to lose so it’s all or nothing. They have been given the go-ahead to be as disgusting as they like without recrimination from their side. More likely to get support.
All the more reason we must maintain the House and Senate this Nov.
They are about one inch from turning into blobs of jelly. I really want to see that happen. It’ll be like the end of The Wizard of Oz when the evil witch gets a bucket of water thrown on her then she melts away. Yeah; I really want to see that.
An interesting theory from Professor Matthew LaPlante was discussed on Glenn Beck’s show. Ian Bremmer who works for the administration, who is also a neighbor of Jon Huntsman...
Either one is a good possibility.
This coming election may determine the future.
I believe the NYT just made it up.
They also confirmed that there is a deep state, working covertly to prevent the person who was elected President from doing what the people who sent him to Washington wanted him to do.
That free minds thing sounds awfully familiar, like the tag line of some old Libertarian rag, then the rest reads like a hash of broadstroke characterizations, like a high school book report really. This isn’t even a Republican who wrote this.
I think it was Bob Woodward, hyping his book.
My take on it is that the NYT wrote this and claims it’s from someone in the administration.
Just like “advice” columnists write the letters they claim to receive.
This seems conveniently coordinated — things falling in to place — right after McCain died (or, as John Kasich said in a CNN interview, “put to death”).
McCain “put to death”.
Woodward’s book.
NYT’s fake news story.
“Give me an asshole who can play... “
This is a famous quote from iconic drummer, Buddy Rich. Buddy only wanted the best on stage with him. He didn’t care about their “moral character” or if they were pleasant to be around. He didn’t even care if he, himself, liked them. He hired only guys who could burn the room down with him …not boy scouts who were mediocre. Hence, the famous quote.
President Donald Trump appears to be in trouble. A series of confessions and convictions, of and by people around him, are casting a strange, dark light on his presidency at the moment. There is a perception (at least) that shady stuff has gone on around this guy. And when shady stuff constantly goes on around someone in charge, you have to conclude that the guy in charge is okay with shady stuff.
Has he hung around tax evaders and money launderers? Clearly. Did he pay off porn stars and Playboy Playmates to keep their dalliances quiet? I think we can safely conclude that he did. Is he a petulant child in the Twitter-verse? One hundred percent. Does he say things in public my mother would slap me for saying? Literally, everyday. Did he conspire with a foreign power to win an election? Maybe. Will any of this make a difference to his supporters? That’s a complicated answer. Let me explain …
I have a theory that all presidential elections are reactions to the sitting president at the time. I’m old enough to remember Jimmy Carter getting elected (in large part) because he was a wholesome, moral breath of fresh air in an atmosphere of corruption and scandal created during the Nixon years. I was only a kid, but I distinctly remember entire churches being excited to go out and vote for an openly Christian man for president. Then, after four years of that disaster, I remember those same people breaking speed limit laws to get to the polls to vote for Reagan as fast as they could.
The conditions that created a “president Trump” kinda started with Bill Clinton, who led to George W Bush …who led to Barack Obama.
By the time we got to him, Mr Obama was going to be the antidote to incompetence and corruption and war mongering and, yes …even racism. But a very strange thing happened during Mr Obama’s presidency. Racism didn’t end. Corruption didn’t end. Wars didn’t end. And incompetence might’ve actually gotten worse. My full day of talking to the customer service agent at the newly created healthcare exchange, did NOT leave me confident.
And what was discovered during Mr Obama’s 8 years, was that in a free market nation, over-taxing, over-regulating and a leader who constantly berates the business community and supports policies that place more emphasis on celebrating the “diversity” of people groups than on law and order for every individual, and foreign policies that take everything but the nation you’ve been elected to lead into account, simply doesn’t work.
What was also exposed in those 8 years was how feckless and weak Republicans had actually become in their opposition to such things. And with candidates literally talking openly about socialism and nationalizing private institutions, a guy like Trump comes along and promises to re-set the foundation of the nation the way Americans understand it …and the way they want it. Is he really that much of a surprise?
I talk occasionally about the fourth revolution. And Donald Trump is the leader of it.
If you’re appalled at the lewd behavior of your president, you’re behind. That ship sailed when one was getting blow jobs by an intern half his age, in the Oval Office …AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was decent and measured and refused to return fire at his critics, you’re behind. We already had that guy and he was called a war criminal, who should be tried at the Hague (Rosie O’Donell’s public announcement) and “retarded” (Chris Rock’s word – DEFINITELY not mine), someone who should force his daughters to go to war (Matt Damon’s suggestion) a monster who deliberately broke the levies in New Orleans to drown black people (Spike Lee’s claim) and on and on and on …AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was upstanding and righteous and said all the right things, you’re behind. Mitt Romney already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
If you wish your president was a humble and honorable true public servant, without moral blemishes, you’re behind. Bob Dole (a man who gave his right hand to his country) and John McCain (?)
(a man who gave both arms to his country) already ran. AND. NOBODY. CARED.
Donald Trump was the last branch to grab before the nation hit the ground. But he has changed the game in some ways. Nobody believes a nice guy can get it done, anymore. We’ve had nice guys …and nothing changed.
Cutting taxes and repatriating a trillion dollars was the right thing to do. And it’s working. And only a guy who doesn’t give crap about what people think of him could’ve gotten it done. Moving the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was the right thing to do. It sends a message to the rest of the middle east and, in turn, creates a stability hard to quantify. Presidents on BOTH sides of the aisle have promised to do it. It should’ve been done decades ago. But only a guy who doesn’t give a crap about what people think of him could’ve gotten it done.
Taking Kim Jong Un on …head on …is looking like it was the right thing to do. But only a guy who doesn’t give a crap about what people think of him would’ve even attempted it.
While Mr Trump’s lawyers and campaign people were perp-walking in and out of ivory towers, a teenaged girl in Iowa – as middle-America a place as you can find – was being murdered by someone in the country illegally. That creates real world fear for Americans everywhere. We have enough fear of our own citizenry, breaking our own laws. And reasonable Americans don’t think it’s UNreasonable to ask people wanting to come to our country …to sign the hell in. They don’t see how that makes them racists. It simply doesn’t compute. And the only elected leader giving them any cover is the flawed president.
So, did Donald Trump collude and conspire with Russians to win an election? What the media and his opponents (and even a lot of Republicans) STILL don’t or can’t or won’t understand is that it doesn’t matter. He didn’t have to collude with anybody. He was going to win either way. He had millions of Americans at “build a wall” and “cut your taxes” and especially at, “I don’t give a crap what people think.”
Donald Trump may get impeached or arrested or disgraced or unseated or whatever. But what people had better realize is that if he’s gone, a large percentage of the population will be looking for something or someone JUST like him …to replace him. There’s too much at stake; too many socialists on the horizon, too many empty suits looking for lifetime political gigs, too many “nice guys” with great smiles and weak spines, to take anymore chances.
We just want an asshole who can play. And with the economy roaring and North Korea neutralized and ISIS basically contained and defeated, it appears that despite all the weirdness that surrounds him, he can, indeed, play.
REGIE HAMM
> You may remember that about a month ago, the NYT hired an overt racist by the name of Sarah Jeong. If that didn’t damage their credibility enough, this month, they published an anonymous opinion piece that supposedly detailed the innerworkings of the Trump administration.
Given the proximity of the two events, a causal relationship can be strongly inferred.
Sarah Jeong is the #1 suspect for author of the piece.
I’m starting to think that one of McCain’s last acts was to collaborate with Flake to compose the NYSlimes op-ed piece...and Meghan took it to them.
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