Octopus Overlords

Smoove_B wrote:This is his Easter Sunday message on social media? Bloviating on NAFTA, the Mexicans and DACA? Who on earth still defends and supports this clown?

$iljanus wrote: Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:19 pm He’s America’s pure unadulterated id, saying the things that some Americans think but were either embarrassed or afraid to say out loud. But if the President says these things he’s telling it like it is and they finally have the freedom to tell it “like it is”.

Smoove_B wrote:I feel like we're at the point where even if you completely ignore anything he's done politically while in office, if you are a Trump supporter that thinks spending ~21% of your time golfing is terrific, then you're an idiot.

I am hoping some day there's a true accounting of how his time was spent, because it feels like maybe he's working 20-25 hours a week in his official capacity. The rest of the time is spent Tweeting, golfing and watching Fox news.

Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large “Caravans” of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws.....

Pyperkub wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 1:20 am

Smoove_B wrote:I feel like we're at the point where even if you completely ignore anything he's done politically while in office, if you are a Trump supporter that thinks spending ~21% of your time golfing is terrific, then you're an idiot.

I am hoping some day there's a true accounting of how his time was spent, because it feels like maybe he's working 20-25 hours a week in his official capacity. The rest of the time is spent Tweeting, golfing and watching Fox news.

Hey, I'd love to spend 21% of my time golfing!

President Donald Trump's presidential campaign spent more than $150,000 on purchases from Amazon, the company now facing his ire amid claims it doesn't pay its fair share of shipping costs and taxes.

A report by CBS News digging into Federal Election Commission records found that in 2015 and 2016 the campaign spent $158,498.41 in 379 transactions classified as office supply purchases. The committee continued after the election to spend money on the website, purchasing more than $2000 in 2017.

Zaxxon wrote:He really is a two-bit dictator in toddler form. Only given our current barely-functioning government, two-bit might be enough to pull it off.

Smoove_B wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:26 am $158K+ in "office supplies"? Does that include tarps and rags for mopping up, err dusting?

Smoove_B wrote:I just want to say I feel honored to be in the same company as Pope Francis and President Roosevelt.

Glenn Kessler wrote:Why would this White House let the official Russian news agency announce a presidential invitation to a summit?

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:38 am One of these days, I'm going to read a $iljanus post without continuing into the signature and trying to figure out the relevance of the Pope to the discussion.

David Frum wrote:So it was true. On his "do not congratulate" congratulations call to Putin in wake of nerve agent attack in UK, when all NATO was imposing sanctions, Trump invited Putin for a White House visit. "Nothing further to add"! https://

malchior wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:39 am Also did anyone catch that the Russian news service broke a story that Trump invited Putin to visit him at the White House?

malchior wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:39 am Also did anyone catch that the Russian news service broke a story that Trump invited Putin to visit him at the White House

Sepiche wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:57 am

malchior wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:39 am Also did anyone catch that the Russian news service broke a story that Trump invited Putin to visit him at the White House?

Drumpf and his lackeys at least seem to understand that the the optics of Drumpf constantly rewarding Russia and cozying up to Putin look really bad, but rather than not doing those things they just choose to keep them from the public. One wonders why they think these things are worth doing given those optics.

Zaxxon wrote:

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:38 am One of these days, I'm going to read a $iljanus post without continuing into the signature and trying to figure out the relevance of the Pope to the discussion.

Ditto!

Videos of local news anchors reading the seemingly same script in a segment decrying "biased and false news" on Sinclair-owned TV stations is raising questions about the media company after the videos attracted attention online.
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Many viewers saw similarities in the language used in the various segments that aired on the local stations over the past few weeks with the rhetoric that President Donald Trump has used to slam the mainstream media.

Trump is now wading into the debate himself, voicing his support for Sinclair this morning on Twitter.
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The practices by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the country's largest broadcaster, have been subject to media scrutiny in the past weeks and months over what critics say are efforts by the company to promote a conservative agenda. Sinclair currently owns 31 stations affiliated with ABC.
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CNN first reported on March 7 that Sinclair called for stations to air an "anchor delivered journalistic responsibility message."

The segment prompted local anchors and individuals who work at the stations to anonymously tell CNN senior media correspondent Brian Stelter how they found it "manipulative" and that people were "uncomfortable doing it."

Livingston responded to CNN about the promo message, saying that such messages "are very common in our industry" and that this particular promo "addresses the troubling trend of false stories on social media, and distinguishes our trusted local stations as news destinations where we are committed to honest and accurate reporting."

The segments were slated to air in March after the publication of the CNN story.

When they did, a video director at website Deadspin made a supercut of various local anchors at different Sinclair stations reading the near-identical script.

https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/980175772206993409

The anchors conclude the 60-75 second segment by encouraging viewers to comment on their website if they see a segment on their channel where “our coverage is unfair.” The CNN report stated that internal documents noted how Sinclair corporate would “monitor the comments and send replies to your audience on your behalf.”