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This is like when he liked TFA but saw a YouTube video and declared that Disney was evil.

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Jeebus said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Didn’t frevious used to bitch constantly about the right?

Frievous is a troll, he comes and takes a dump in the middle of the thread for reactions. He’ll say whatever it takes for people to respond. And I dare him to prove me wrong.

I dunno. I didn’t know the people of North Korea ever had control over their economy until he told me they’d experienced socialism at some point – I thought it was a dictatorship, which any grade-schooler should be able to tell you is incompatible with socialism. If he’s not a troll, he’s as profoundly well-informed as one.

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http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540783715/lawsuit-alleges-fox-news-and-trump-supporter-created-fake-news-story

The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The explosive claim is part of the lawsuit filed against Fox News by Rod Wheeler, a longtime paid commentator for the news network. The suit was obtained exclusively by NPR.

Wheeler alleges Fox News and the Trump supporter intended to deflect public attention from growing concern about the administration’s ties to the Russian government. His suit charges that a Fox News reporter created quotations out of thin air and attributed them to him to propel her story.

Fox’s president of news, Jay Wallace, told NPR Monday there was no “concrete evidence” that Wheeler was misquoted by the reporter, Malia Zimmerman. The news executive did not address a question about the story’s allegedly partisan origins. Fox News declined to allow Zimmerman to comment for this story.

The story, which first aired in May, was retracted by Fox News a week later. Fox News has, to date, taken no action in response to what it said was a failure to adhere to the network’s standards.

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yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

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DuracellEnergizer said:

generalfrevious said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Didn’t frevious used to bitch constantly about the right?

Venezuela proved me wrong. Now I believe only left wing ideologies are able to harm people.

So the world’s safe from Trump after all!

Unfortunately no. The Venezuela crisis, along with North Korea, will be used to justify his agenda even further.

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TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

Apparently this headline is using the Rasmussen poll (yes, the same Rasmussen all the other pollsters like to point at and laugh). It may still be a useful data point because Rasmussen is always so heavily skewed toward Republicans that it may actually provide a metric of what Republicans are thinking. In other words, Trump’s approval among Republicans may be at its lowest point ever.

That said, trying to ferret out usable data from a crap pollster is at some level hopeless. Man, I wish Mason-Dixon would do more polling, they were great.

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Say it ain’t so!

It appears that the BS Seth Rich conspiracy theory, which was so baseless even Fox News retracted their story on it (Hannity notwithstanding), was pushed to Fox News by Trump himself as a way to fabricate an alternate non-Russia-connected explanation for how Clinton’s campaign data ended up in Trump’s hands. Who’da thunk?

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I followed the link thinking it was an old Fo post pushing the conspiracy theory. Curse you, Frink!

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TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Trump has reached his highest disapproval rating and lowest approval rating yet.

By which metric?

538’s average has him at 38.2% approval, lowest since early June when he was at his true low of 38.0%.

Similarly, RCP has him at 39.2% approval, lowest since mid-June when he was at his true low of 38.6%

You are correct about Trump’s approval rating. I retract that part. We regret the error.

However, you neglected to mention that Trump is in fact at his highest disapproval rating according to the two trackers you cited:


My post was not based on the Rasmussen poll; in fact, it was based on the two above trackers.

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Ah. I tend to only look at the approval rating because I want to know how many adults surveyed are raving lunatics.

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I hope it will all be explained one day when it’s revealed that all surveys had a third of their respondents from the battleground state of Florida–St Petersburg, Florida, to be exact. But, due to a mix-up at the post office… this would also explain why so many respondents said “Da, is werry good President!”

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I don’t see what the big deal is. My wife and I have a similar plan to prevent our four-year-old from eating all the sugar in the house and making holes in the walls with a hammer.

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curious, most curious

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TV’s Frink said:

Is Trump (Finally) Ready for a ‘Pivot’ to Presidential?

Doesn’t he have to pivot to the general first? He’s doing this only because being completely off your nut appeals to Republican primary voters, don’t you know.

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