Trump Presidency and the Consequences

Georgia congressional race set for runoff election as no contender received 50% of the vote despite the democrats HUGE war chest mainly from out of state donations.

Peter
 
There are some folk here for whom Trump can do no nothing wrong.
There are some lefties here for whom the US can do nothing right.

Objectivity doesn't exist for many, only perception and prejudice.
 
Mr. Charts said:
There are some folk here for whom Trump can do no nothing wrong.
There are some lefties here for whom the US can do nothing right.

Objectivity doesn't exist for many, only perception and prejudice.
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You must surely be Sauron the holder of the all seeing and knowing One Ring who is able to judge with perfect 20-20 vision.

FGS get off that pedestal and throw away that ring tone before you start looking like this guy...


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Exxon Mobil (XOM, -0.59%) on Wednesday declined to comment on a media report that it is seeking permission from the U.S. government to drill in several areas of the Black Sea banned by U.S. sanctions on Russia.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Exxon had in recent months applied to the U.S. Treasury Department for a waiver to drill with Russian oil producer Rosneft. Any such request is likely to draw attention because Exxon 's former chief executive, Rex Tillerson, is now U.S. secretary of state.

So here we go . . .
 
They are constantly laying land mines to blow up the press so that the press gets it wrong, so they could call them on it, as opposed to attempting to get their message out as accurately as possible, which is bizarre. It's the inverse of what White Houses usually do. Usually White Houses will try to work with you to be like, "I just want to call you ahead of time. We're putting up this executive order. Here are the things it does and doesn't do." But Trump just throws the executive order at you, waits for you to go on air and get it wrong, then says you got it wrong and calls it “fake news.”

Part of what he has done, which is both brilliant and loathsome, is turn the press into an adversary, a mirror of the polarized existence we live in, which is a way of discrediting them to half the country, which is obviously a very old trick, but he has taken it to this incredible performative extreme. Sometimes it feels like you are being cast as the heel to his face, or the face to his heel, in a wrestling match that you're performing even as you're trying to do your job.

--Chris Hayes
 
Exxon Mobil (XOM, -0.59%) on Wednesday declined to comment on a media report that it is seeking permission from the U.S. government to drill in several areas of the Black Sea banned by U.S. sanctions on Russia.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Exxon had in recent months applied to the U.S. Treasury Department for a waiver to drill with Russian oil producer Rosneft. Any such request is likely to draw attention because Exxon 's former chief executive, Rex Tillerson, is now U.S. secretary of state.[/I]

So here we go . . .
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Trump administration today said they will NOT be issuing drilling waivers to any US company.

Peter
 
That 30 ton bomb drop on ISIS position in Afghanistan worked well then???

Taliban fighters attack Afghan army base, 'killing 140'

Anybody would think the Taliban would be thanking the military for a successful strike to get rid of foreigners from their country.


Can add to that previous list.

5. Bunker busting bomb drop was to show N.Korea US means business.

6. US drops bombs mistakenly on Taliban, labelling them ISIS fighters adding further insult to injury.



Lot of murky stuff going on here. Go figure! :whistling
 
Political scientists and other researchers have repeatedly documented that the American public does not have a sophisticated knowledge on political matters. The average American also does not use a coherent and consistent political ideology to make voting decisions. As Larry Bartels and Christopher Achen demonstrate in their new book “Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government,” Americans have identities and values that elites manipulate, which voters in turn use to process information — however incorrectly.

While some groups of voters may apply decision-rules based on community concerns (African-Americans fit this model), American voters en masse are not rational actors who seriously consider the available information, develop knowledge and expertise about their specific worries and then make political choices that would maximize their goals.

These matters are further complicated when considering right-wing voters. While Trump may have failed in most of his policy goals, he has succeeded symbolically in terms of his racist and nativist crusade against people of color and Muslims. Given the centrality of racism and white supremacy in today’s Republican Party specifically, and movement conservatism more generally, Trump’s hostility to people of color can be counted as a type of “success” by his racially resentful white voters.

American conservatives and right-leaning independents are also ensconced in an alternative news media universe that rejects empirical reality. A combination of disinformation and outright lies from the right-wing media, in combination with “fake news” circulated online by Russian operatives and others, has conditioned Trump voters and other Republicans to make decisions with no basis in fact. American conservatives do, however, possess a surplus of incorrect information. In that context, their political decisions may actually make sense to them: This is a version of “garbage in, garbage out.”

Republican voters also tend to be have more authoritarian views than the general public. As a type of motivated social cognition, conservatism is typified by deference to authority, groupthink, conformity, social dominance behavior and hostility to new experiences and new information. These attributes combine to make Trump voters less likely to regret supporting him and in some cases — because of a phenomenon known as “information backfire“— to become more recalcitrant when shown that Trump’s policies have failed in practice.

--Chauncey DeVega
 
Mike Flynn under formal investigation by Pentagon over payments from Russia

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is under formal investigation by the Pentagon for his apparently undisclosed paid speaking engagements in Russia, it emerged on Thursday.

Retired army lieutenant general Mike Flynn, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief, has attracted the official scrutiny for potentially failing “to obtain required approval” for a Moscow speech to RT, a state-controlled news channel that US intelligence considers an arm of Kremlin propaganda.
 
"This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

--Donald Trump

Putz
 
Just heard a man on Sky News prog about Trump's 100 days in office state the following.

"I believe God heard people's prayers and sent us Trump!" :eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
 
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