President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

MisterCreosote · Jan 26, 2017

I'll bet he "watches" cable news solely to count the amount of times they say his name.

Dick Whitman · Jan 26, 2017

YankeeFan said: ↑

He's been mocked for watching too much cable news, including in yesterday's Times:

His mornings, he said, are spent as they were in Trump Tower. He rises before 6 a.m., watches television tuned to a cable channel first in the residence, and later in a small dining room in the West Wing, and looks through the morning newspapers: The New York Times, The New York Post and now The Washington Post.
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Mr. Trump’s wife, Melania, went back to New York on Sunday night with their 10-year-old son, Barron, and so Mr. Trump has the television — and his old, unsecured Android phone, to the protests of some of his aides — to keep him company. That was the case after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, when Mr. Trump appeared to be reacting to Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News, which was airing a feature on crime in Chicago.

At 9:25 p.m., Mr. Trump posted on Twitter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html

So, he watches cable news morning and night, but doesn't know where Benghazi is? No chance.
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I bet a very significant percentage of regular Fox News viewers do not know where Benghazi is.

YankeeFan · Jan 26, 2017

Dick Whitman said: ↑

I bet a very significant percentage of regular Fox News viewers do not know where Benghazi is.
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OK.

doctorquant · Jan 26, 2017

Riptide said: ↑

Something for the faithful flocks on the far right ...

Mainstream Christianity in America
has failed. It looks nothing like Jesus.

For the last few years Christians have been singing worship songs that include lyrics like “ keep my eyes above the waves, when oceans rise …” and yet have rejected refugees who’ve seen loved ones die beneath waves, who themselves have literally struggled to keep from drowning in oceans. Those American Christians — particularly white evangelicals — continue to sing the words: “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders …” but fail to realize the shameful irony that they’re largely responsible for refusing shelter and opportunity to some of the world’s most helpless and oppressed people.

This represents a predominant theme of Westernized Christendom: proclaiming Christian rhetoric while actively — or passively — practicing the opposite in reality.

Because while the gospels instruct followers of Christ to help the poor, oppressed, maligned, mistreated, sick, and those most in need of help, Christians in America have largely supported measures that have rejected refugees, refused aid to immigrants, cut social services to the poor, diminished help for the sick, fueled xenophobia, reinforced misogyny, ignored racism, stoked hatred, reinforced corruption, and largely increased inequality, prejudice, and fear.

If Christians refuse to help and actually use their political advocacy and opinions to further hurt refugees, immigrants, women, foreigners, minorities, the poor, the oppressed, the persecuted, the sick, the LGBTQ community — and aren’t abiding by the golden rule of loving their neighbors as themselves, then who exactly are Christians supposedly loving?

American 'Christianity' Has Failed
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These hot takes on how Christians aren't Christian are just the bestest ...

RickStain · Jan 26, 2017

doctorquant said: ↑

These hot takes on how Christians aren't Christian are just the bestest ...
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The people pointing out the problem are the real problem

Songbird · Jan 26, 2017

"The notion that a Mexican tariff of 20 percent represents the Mexicans paying for the wall is a flawed understanding of how tariffs work," said David French, a senior vice president at the National Retail Federation. "That would be a huge increase on prices paid by U.S. consumers."

White House floats tax on Mexican imports that would force Americans to pay for wall | Donald Trump | Dallas News

Starman · Jan 26, 2017

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Good. Fuck the people who are actually pinching pennies on the food budget. Fuck them right in the ass. They should buy Trump Steaks instead.

Riptide · Jan 26, 2017

doctorquant said: ↑

These hot takes on how Christians aren't Christian are just the bestest ...
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It's not your fault, of course. You were raised in South Carolina and bathed in Texas.

doctorquant · Jan 26, 2017

RickStain said: ↑

The people pointing out the problem are the real problem
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Nah. They're just stupid.

dixiehack · Jan 26, 2017

Dick Whitman said: ↑

What are the odds that the sitting POTUS could tell you what country Benghazi is in?
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I'm not 100 percent certain he could tell you Binghamton is in his home state.

doctorquant · Jan 26, 2017

Riptide said: ↑

It's not your fault, of course. You were raised in South Carolina and bathed in Texas.
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Indeed. Ridiculously good fortune made me the wondrous being I am today.

Starman · Jan 26, 2017

Riptide said: ↑

Something for the faithful flocks on the far right ...

Mainstream Christianity in America
has failed. It looks nothing like Jesus.

For the last few years Christians have been singing worship songs that include lyrics like “ keep my eyes above the waves, when oceans rise …” and yet have rejected refugees who’ve seen loved ones die beneath waves, who themselves have literally struggled to keep from drowning in oceans. Those American Christians — particularly white evangelicals — continue to sing the words: “Spirit lead me where my trust is without borders …” but fail to realize the shameful irony that they’re largely responsible for refusing shelter and opportunity to some of the world’s most helpless and oppressed people.

This represents a predominant theme of Westernized Christendom: proclaiming Christian rhetoric while actively — or passively — practicing the opposite in reality.

Because while the gospels instruct followers of Christ to help the poor, oppressed, maligned, mistreated, sick, and those most in need of help, Christians in America have largely supported measures that have rejected refugees, refused aid to immigrants, cut social services to the poor, diminished help for the sick, fueled xenophobia, reinforced misogyny, ignored racism, stoked hatred, reinforced corruption, and largely increased inequality, prejudice, and fear.

If Christians refuse to help and actually use their political advocacy and opinions to further hurt refugees, immigrants, women, foreigners, minorities, the poor, the oppressed, the persecuted, the sick, the LGBTQ community — and aren’t abiding by the golden rule of loving their neighbors as themselves, then who exactly are Christians supposedly loving?

American 'Christianity' Has Failed
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And their new golden god is a pervert who fucks his daughter. Hallelujah.

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