President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Your even dumber than I thought.

 

You meant to use "your" there. I know you did.

 

I'm not sure what USA Today reported.

MC confused me. I thought it was a WaPo story. MC said it was a USA Today story, and I assumed he was right.

It looks like the WaPo did do the original story. Not sure what USA Today did. Did they have their own reporting or just rewrite the Post?

Either way, once the original story comes out, the same folks who "leaked" it will confirm it to other news organizations.

These are deliberate, approved leaks. It's likely the officials in the press office who are the sources. They've been authorized to speak on it, just without attribution.

 

Let's say that I did.

 

About half of the people who oppose him will be in mental institutions by the time he takes office. It's a brilliant strategy.

 

I just crunched the numbers. Our mental facilities cannot handle half the people who oppose him.

 

We need Shottracker for this, to prove whether the premise of the other thread was true or not.

 

If you didn't mean to, that would certainly impact my opinion of you. The affect would be huge.

 

If Trump wasn't so adept at ditching the pool, I'd say add Doug Ferguson.

 

This is priceless. Thank you, YF, for sharing your ability to get so much wrong in such a simple post.

 

The underlying story is true!

Plus Greenwald's arguments are lost on the many who just see a chance to bash the "mainstream media" and the Post, which distinguished itself this election season with aggressive reporting on Trump's businesses and background. The right-wing blogosphere was united in its take on the Post's initial, inflated reporting, with the Daily Caller's headline reading, "Washington Post Publishes False News Story About Russians Hacking Electrical Grid;" RedState ran "Washington Post Runs Fake News Story on Power Grid Hacking." The Post did irresponsibly overstate the issue by first reporting that "Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid," but the underlying story is true: Malware used by Russian hackers has been found on a U.S. utility computer, which should be a matter of grave concern. No matter—the right-wing army mobilized on Twitter, gleefully throwing around the "fake news" label that was initially applied to blogs that wrote demonstrably untrue stories surrounding the election but has been appropriated as a cudgel against any reporting that doesn't fit their preferred narrative.

 

If the computer was plugged into a wall outlet, it was connected to the power grid.