Donald vs Aaron

Nov 29, 2016 19:02

So it seems that Donald tweeted that Americans who burn the flag should either go to jail and/or lose their citizenship ( Read more... )

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kita0610 November 30 2016, 01:48:10 UTC
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.

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a2zmom November 30 2016, 02:21:53 UTC
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?

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kita0610 November 30 2016, 02:35:08 UTC
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.

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a2zmom November 30 2016, 02:55:19 UTC
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.

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carlyinrome November 30 2016, 01:52:15 UTC

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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a2zmom November 30 2016, 02:22:31 UTC
His ignorance is apparently limitless.

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mireille719 November 30 2016, 02:24:39 UTC
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.)

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a2zmom November 30 2016, 02:28:49 UTC
I can believe it.

Our kids were always taught facts matter, but that no longer seems to be the case.

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mireille719 November 30 2016, 02:34:30 UTC
Apparently not. Facts seem to be irrelevant to anything at all these days.

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a2zmom November 30 2016, 02:56:30 UTC
It's amazing to me. and very scary,

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mamculuna November 30 2016, 05:48:10 UTC
Maybe Trump years are like dog years in reverse--hopefully he'll realize his inability to understand in, oh, 2067...

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a2zmom November 30 2016, 05:56:32 UTC
that's an insult to dogs and giving Trump way too much credit imo.

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mamculuna November 30 2016, 05:57:32 UTC
Yeah, you're so right.

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dlgood November 30 2016, 09:49:34 UTC
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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a2zmom November 30 2016, 12:12:28 UTC
If this is true, this is even bleaker than I thought.

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