Oh forfuckssake. It'd be hilarious if he wasn't say, the leader of the whole free world.
A couple of reporters have expressed their bewilderment about he also seems to think they should just report whatever he tells them to, and not ask questions.
Why it's almost as if he has no basic understanding of civics 101. Surprise.
There have been some excellent articles about the difficulties the press is having. I'll post a link tomorrow. Bottom line is how do you report on someone who just makes shit up constantly?
Frankly I think they're doing a really lousy job of it. They made him. And now they're all falling in line to normalize his autocracy. I guess it sells newspapers.
Read WaPo. They definitely are not. Neither is The Atlantic.
The Times published a huge article detailing Trump's conflicts of interest - the problem is it got buried under all the outrageous other nonsense he says.
I am just stunned at Trump's endless ignorance of US law. (His completely overreacting and deciding to punish citizens based on his own personal beliefs: that is easy for me to believe.) I expect conservative politicians to be self-interested and govern based on their own personal views rather than what is good for the people, but it's kind of shocking to have one that is just so dangerously ignorant. What the fuck.
I was chatting to some people I've been friends with since junior high school, and we all concluded that if our civics teacher (who was passionate about teaching us how to be good citizens, regardless of our actual political opinions when we grew up) were still alive, this would have killed him. (He had heart problems anyway--he died in his fifties, and had nearly died several times before that--and seriously, we think the sheer outrage he would have felt at the idea that someone this ignorant about How America Is Supposed to Work was elected president literally would have given him a heart attack.)
It's not that Trump doesn't know. It's that he doesn't care.
This is what people are missing. It's not really a question of what he knows the laws to be or what our society is. He does not care about that. It's about what he wants the future to be... and where reality and Trump come to conflict - it won't be Trump who bends.
Man A: Man C is dead. Man B: No, he's alive Man A shoots Man C Man A: I can't believe you called me a liar.
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A couple of reporters have expressed their bewilderment about he also seems to think they should just report whatever he tells them to, and not ask questions.
Why it's almost as if he has no basic understanding of civics 101. Surprise.
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The Times published a huge article detailing Trump's conflicts of interest - the problem is it got buried under all the outrageous other nonsense he says.
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I am just stunned at Trump's endless ignorance of US law. (His completely overreacting and deciding to punish citizens based on his own personal beliefs: that is easy for me to believe.) I expect conservative politicians to be self-interested and govern based on their own personal views rather than what is good for the people, but it's kind of shocking to have one that is just so dangerously ignorant. What the fuck.
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Our kids were always taught facts matter, but that no longer seems to be the case.
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This is what people are missing. It's not really a question of what he knows the laws to be or what our society is. He does not care about that. It's about what he wants the future to be... and where reality and Trump come to conflict - it won't be Trump who bends.
Man A: Man C is dead.
Man B: No, he's alive
Man A shoots Man C
Man A: I can't believe you called me a liar.
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