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The article, written in that Times deadpan style, is a portrait of a man who is not very slowly losing control of his mental faculties and who is propped up by a bevy of toady courtiers. It's scary as hell.

 

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What liberals are saying about the article: TRUMP WATCHES 8 HOURS OF TV A DAY!!

The truth: It's on in the background -- often muted.

People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.

By this definition, everyone who works in a newsroom watched over 8 hours of TV per day.

 

They're beautiful little girls, and your story doesn't back up your tweet.

These girls aren't "taking a stand" against anything. Stop trying to politicize little kids CBS.

 

Oh, please. At least Trump's toady courtiers get paid for it. You're debasing yourself for nothing except the contempt of others.

 

Thank you for this.

I apologize for implying you wouldn't mind — or would endorse — someone committing violence on Dave Weigel, a reporter I think is one of the best reporters and people working.

Sometimes I don't feel like you grasp the power of the president's words, the responsibility of his office and the importance of how he conducts himself, particularly when it comes to his most fervent supporters. Weigel made a mistake, he opted for snark over verifying the truth, and he apologized right away without ambiguity. The president still chose to attack him yet again and demand he lose his job. Coming from someone (Trump) who lies every single day — on purpose, not accident — this infuriated me. But I should not have implied what I did. I do fear it we are sliding toward something very dark and dangerous, pretending the media is an agent of evil and an "enemy of the people" and will be too late when we cross a line we're racing toward (Rope + tree + journalist: Some assembly required) but I don't believe you are actively rooting for this outcome. Whatever you think about President Obama, he understood the dignity of the office. He did not get into stupid internet fights. He trolling of Trump at the WHCD is probably a great example of why that whole thing should have been canceled years ago. That was fun for liberals, but obviously beneath him and in the end it gave us President Trump, so who is laughing now, Barry?

I was livid about QWFW's garbage response. I didn't see his "apology" because I put him on ignore, and when I was encouraged to look it up and find it, I felt it was pretty half-hearted and pathetic. He made no attempt to clarify it further, in public or private, and that's fine. Through all our years here, I've always been pretty supportive of him, through various personal difficulties. We disagree politically, but I don't think I've ever gotten personal with him. Ever. He, in turn, implied I hated Jews because I posted a piece that showed Ben Fucking Shapiro to be something of an intellectual fraud. A piece that calmly and fairly pointed out that Shapiro has said stuff like Palestinians like to "swim in sewage." That, to me, was a bridge too far. I am a lot of things, but I'm not a racist.

He can stay on ignore, and the only real loss will be I can't read the weekly NFL threads that he so eagerly starts each week.

Enough whining by me. Thank you for the thoughtful reply.

 

Stop trying to prove you have a sense of morality, even if its conservative bullshit morality.
Racism, anti-semtism and misogyny are the 3 legs of the stool sample known as Trumpism and your personal god. Keep trolling, its amusing, if not transparent. But posting like you care what others think is beneath your status as a troll

 

12 Diet Cokes, though. You have to object to that if only out of self-interest. Plus, that's a damn child.

 

I sent you a PM the other day. Maybe you should read it. @YankeeFan, please pass this along to Mr. Double Down.

 

trump’s debt to foreign banks and hard money lenders was known, but it was not as sexy as emails and wolf blitzers’s attempt to be equally breathless with Clinton as with trump. Once again proving that treating each side fairly is not the same as treating them equally. Pre- election coverage by objective media, not republican or conservative biased like Fox, attempted to be equal, but they didnt try to be fair. And we ended up with Adolph trump

 

Implying someone you don't really know is racist is frought with peril. Thankfully it doesn't often happen in modern political discourse.

But you haven't (online) lived until you've been told to die.

BTW, I actually like Gee 95 percent of the time. He's more open-minded than his occasional off-the-railings might suggest. I am glad I didn't reflexively ignore him. Nothing good comes of that.

Unless it's oop.