Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo — Page 50

Tyrphanax said:

Jeebus said:

https://justicedemocrats.com/platform/

It’s time to face the facts: the Democratic Party is broken and the corporate, establishment wing of the party is responsible. Republicans now hold most state legislatures, most governorships, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency. So in 2018, hundreds of Justice Democrats will run a unified campaign to replace every corporate-backed member of Congress and rebuild the party from scratch.

I’d say I agree with about 90% of the platform. If you’re interested, please do check it out.

Seemed cool until I got to the anti-gun bit.

*sigh*

Can’t be perfect.

Go start your own party.

Hey wait, you already have a government job.

GET BACK TO WORK COMMA SKIN SACK

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

Also depressing.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/paid-political-hacks-are-scum-1791604942

Both those guys suck, Dem and Repub.

Trump has his fingers in his ears over Russia but when it comes to conspiracy theories he’s all over it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/25/politics/trump-calls-for-major-investigation-into-voter-fraud/index.html

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

Oddly, this article contradicts what it says it’s addressing. The picture, of course shows the mall area, which the article is referring to. What they don’t talk about is the “around the globe” part of the conversation. Online media outlets and Broadcast networks are the other part of the numbers and Sean Spicer has said as much yet our media focuses only on the physical presence that day.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

What made this attempt by a Trump staffer to spread misinformation particularly egregious was the abundance of clear photographic evidence proving Spicer’s statements false. So how far are Trump supporters willing to go to accept his administration’s argument?"

This articles only purpose seems to be misinformation which in itself is shitty journalism at it’s finest. I don’t like everything Trump says. It’s clear that the media agenda is clearly evident here.

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

Tyrphanax said:

It sucks. It’s been made basically impossible to lean left in any way and be pro-gun because every time I vote for something, it’s basically a vote for someone who wants to trample one of my constitutional rights.

Sorry for wanting to prevent massacres like Sandy Hook.

The media (in general) helped elect Trump but they’ve (in general) done a pretty good job of reporting the first few days of this administration.

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

It sucks. It’s been made basically impossible to lean left in any way and be pro-gun because every time I vote for something, it’s basically a vote for someone who wants to trample one of my constitutional rights.

Sorry for wanting to prevent massacres like Sandy Hook.

Don’t let guns divide us when our common Trumpian enemies are right in front of us! 😉

This is a thing that exists on the internet for some reason.

Get ready for a return to war crimes!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

They make the assumption that he’s lying without bringing any of their facts about “around the globe” and the only part of the numbers they used were the photo of the mall as proof.

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

It sucks. It’s been made basically impossible to lean left in any way and be pro-gun because every time I vote for something, it’s basically a vote for someone who wants to trample one of my constitutional rights.

Sorry for wanting to prevent massacres like Sandy Hook.

Don’t let guns divide us when our common Trumpian enemies are right in front of us! 😉

Yeah warb what are you thinking, kill, kill, kill da enemy that’s right here.

😉

TV’s Frink said:

The media (in general) helped elect Trump but they’ve (in general) done a pretty good job of reporting the first few days of this administration.

As for this, if you believe everything in print as gospel only because you share their distaste of the person in question, you should go out to the movies more.

😉

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

doubleofive said:

Jetrell Fo said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.6d4b8e87069d

Depressing.

It’s clear even in this quote below that the media addresses only 1 piece of the evidence presented.

"On the first full day of the Trump administration, White House press secretary Sean Spicer admonished the news media for reporting that the crowd that witnessed Trump’s inauguration was smaller than other recent inauguration crowds, claiming, “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”

It’s very clear that he said it was the most people to watch in person AND around the globe. If he didn’t mean physical people, he would have said “around the globe” only and stressed that during the conference. These are people who are supposed to be professional speakers, we’re supposed to believe that their phrasing is very important.

It is the media’s job to report the truth, not disquise the truth to make it look like a lie, I don’t think I misread the article.

It’s also the media’s job to point out that the guy who’s supposed to be telling them the truth is telling them lies about easily observable things.

They make the assumption that he’s lying without bringing any of their facts about “around the globe” and the only part of the numbers they used were the photo of the mall as proof.

You’re saying the Washington correspondents for every major news outlet weren’t looking out their windows or actually at the Inauguration and could PHYSICALLY SEE that it wasn’t the biggest crowd ever?

My problem was, it was only half of the story, I mean even I can see the physical crowd.

doubleofive said:

This hatred or complete misunderstanding of journalism is probably the scariest part of this new world we live in now.

Well, maybe you could become a writer, and use your abilities for the actual truth instead of these places printing half-truths like they’re the gods-honest, hand on the holy book gospel.

SilverWook said:

Since when do people watching an event on tv or online, (but not actually present at said event) factor into attendance numbers? By this logic, if I watch someone stream their weekend at Disneyland, that counts as me having actually gone there myself. And I thought only Hollywood had such creative number crunching. 😉

If the inauguration was a rock concert, that was not a super turnout.

It counts when it comes to how many people witnessed the Inauguration. One does not have to be in physical attendance anymore to do that.