bronnt wrote: ↑Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:11 am
Worffan101 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:38 pm
His campaign manager was paying for millions of dollars in designer clothes with Russian wire transfers. His minions with official White House jobs openly promote his business interests (ranging from Ivanka trying to hock her clothing lines to Kellyanne Conway shilling for Trump's crap).
He certainly seems more corrupt than the last two, though he could just be really stupid and not very good at hiding it, there's evidence to support that. Either way, it doesn't change the fact that ranting about the press is a VERY bad thing, especially when there's so much "alternative media" like Breitbart and Daily Kos spouting nonstop propaganda and outright lies (Breitbart for the Nazis and Daily Kos for the left). It's simply unacceptable to equate the NYT and other serious news outlets with fucking Breitbart.
You need to stop letting news sources tell you that Trump is anything new. He's really not. They dislike him a lot more because he's rather crass and confrontational and doesn't like major news outlets. I see you've bought into the idea that Ivanka is somehow using her position to advertise her clothing when all she's doing is wearing clothing she already owns. That's not a conflict of interest.
I think he's highly unqualified for the position he holds, but that doesn't make him evil or a nazi. He dislikes CNN but CNN dislikes him just as much and are happy to latch onto any story that indicates something negative about him. Unfortunately, their eagerness to believe anything about him as long as it's negative, and then to report it without proper vetting, has actually hurt the media much. Trumps approval ratings aren't very good, but the polls by the same outlets show that the media is just as unpopular.
That story about Trump's Campaign manager committing potential tax evasion? (not yet convicted, only accused, and there's no Russian connection) Again, I can't think of a President who wasn't connected to someone who was doing something fishy with their taxes. This shit is old and tired.
Oh please. He wouldn't even put his business interests into a blind trust! He said that Nazis were "very fine people"--actual Hitler-hailing swastika-waving Nazis who murdered a woman by ramming a car into a crowd! That is ABSOLUTELY new. He's crass, confrontational, and he loves media outlets that fellate him (like Fox and Breitbart), and if you tell me Fox isn't a major news outlet I've got a bridge to sell you.
He's a petty, cruel imbecile who has one of the biggest inferiority complexes in the world and is motivated by a craven, base need to be constantly told by an ever-increasing swarm of new people that he is the best and the most special boy on the planet--hence why he keeps doing random evil things because somebody sucked up to him. He loudly declared that he'd love it if a foreign power tried to swing the election in his favor, he promotes Nazi conspiracy theories, and he's a racist, sexist idiot on top of that.
He handed the DPRK and unprecedented propaganda victory, failed to do anything about actual, murderous Nazis, and put a KKK-linked creep in charge of the Department of Justice. The only halfway decent thing Trump's ever done is put Mattis in charge of Defense, and that's only because Mattis has the balls and the brains to play that immature thug like a harp.
He is absolutely the worst President we've had in at least a century, even the right-wing Cold Warrior who I'm acquaintances with thinks so, and every time we talk that fellow inevitably calls me naive for not thinking that Ronald Reagan's economic policies were the best ever.
