tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2122789031750121950..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Game on in WashingtonStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32212754266042748642017-01-29T06:13:14.456-08:002017-01-29T06:13:14.456-08:00Dennis: "urban feed lots"
Nice turn of ...Dennis: "urban feed lots"<br /><br />Nice turn of phrase. Resonance.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9709524401971158892017-01-29T05:16:12.798-08:002017-01-29T05:16:12.798-08:00I am beginning to really enjoy a lot of what is ta...I am beginning to really enjoy a lot of what is taking place. Trump does a version of what Obama did with a shorter time frame and the always offended turn out to condemn and too make terrorism easier. Where were they when Obama did that to Iraqis for the basic same reason and for a longer time period? Maybe the media was spending so much time lauding Obama to do their jobs? The media is almost a joke in that it condemns itself. http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/01/28/whoops-wapos-glenn-kessler-explains-difference-between-obama-trump-bans-accidentally-indicts-msm/ So it seems that the incompetence of the media is the excuse. Why would anyone trust a media that is this incompetent and desirous to create "Camelot?"<br />What is interesting is that it is so easy to tie Soros, CAIR, et al to these useful pretenders. I would not be surprised if Iran is not helping to finance these so called protestors with money Obama paid them. Anyone ever notice that most of these protestors seem to come from the inbreeding of the urban feed lots of "blue" malcontents? The takers in this culture.<br />It would seem that Trump picks his enemies in a manner that exposes them for the hypocrites they are as people. Trump throws a shiny object and they go slobbering after it like Pavlov's dogs mewling "We got him now." Or better yet having the opposition represented by Madonna, Ashley Judd, SJWs, et al.<br />Again this is beginning to be fun to watch.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-80033164080091063102017-01-28T06:43:17.800-08:002017-01-28T06:43:17.800-08:00I generally never comment on Ares because he does ...I generally never comment on Ares because he does more damage to himself and his causes than to anyone else. The perfect leftist who tends to alienate far more people than he would ever convince. The definition of "brain freeze." Though sometimes I am amazed at how little Ares actually knows.<br />Keep up the good work and someday you may find your self all alone in a room with no one to rage agains't.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4721767101269110122017-01-28T04:03:21.538-08:002017-01-28T04:03:21.538-08:00Ares said: "I admit when I first read the req...Ares said: "I admit when I first read the requirement that building materials for the pipeline had to be US made, I imagined Trump was smart enough to ask the pipeline companies if that would be <b>convenient</b> for them or not, but now I'm not so sure." (my emphasis)<br /><br />What? That's not exactly how business works. "Hello, Ford? Would it be convenient for you to make a car for me today?" Companies make goods, consumers consume them. Convenience doesn't really enter into the equation unless you just really need a Slurpy. <br /><br />Good news, though. If it isn't currently 'convenient' for them, it soon will be.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-25579781849262830812017-01-27T16:38:26.352-08:002017-01-27T16:38:26.352-08:00Ares, you sound upset.
You're meager intelle...Ares, you sound upset. <br /><br />You're meager intellect is clearly becoming unglued. You're concerned about corporate interests AND patriotism. This is new for you. <br /><br />I find your "bromance" comment about the Trump-Putin rather funny in light of British Prime Minister May's remarks today. Perhaps you've been reading too many "what, who, where, when, why?" journalism because I assert there have been too many media speculations as to WHY things can and do happen, informed by their own Leftist prism. <br /><br />You say Trump has "capricious demands." You are hilarious. That's what sovereignty is all about. Making demands. Making decisions. And not having to answer to phony, illegitimate and impotent multilateral bodies. Perhaps you are too wrapped up in all these caveats and considerations that you cannot make a decision. Trump can. It is an advatntage. <br /><br />The pipeline is being built. The wall is going up. Visits are welcome, and visits are canceled. Very amusing to watch the Left (the media) react to these things. <br /><br />So Ares, can we do to console you?Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-43618151878001014682017-01-27T11:10:50.547-08:002017-01-27T11:10:50.547-08:00I don't think the mainstream media is paid to ...I don't think the mainstream media is paid to "understand". Call me cynical, but they have to shill an agenda, like Hollywood "stars". Shaun Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17425084501514329529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21990136806269635852017-01-27T10:10:19.229-08:002017-01-27T10:10:19.229-08:00Trump's outrunning the media.
"Ares Oly...Trump's outrunning the media. <br />"Ares Olympus said...<br /><br /> Journalists certainly are better of objectively focusing on the 5 Ws: What happened? Who is involved? Where did it take place? When did it take place? Why did that happen?"<br /><br />Those are things they are not doing objectively. They are doing them subjectively.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-72062913579578869372017-01-27T10:04:08.757-08:002017-01-27T10:04:08.757-08:00p.s. Here's a newest takedown of Trump's t...p.s. Here's a newest takedown of Trump's theater of actions, painting Steve Bannon as play-director mastermind.<br /><br />http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trumps-executive-orders-were-brought-to-you-by-breitbart.html<br />----<br />And as it turns out, governing by Breitbart op-ed has its drawbacks. For example, Trump’s executive order on the Keystone XL was drafted without the consultation of the State Department, despite the fact that the company behind the pipeline is suing the U.S. for $15 billion — and aspects of the order could plausibly strengthen the company’s case: Among other things, the order requires any company building a pipeline to use materials manufactured domestically — a provision that may contravene various trade treaties that the U.S. is bound by.<br />---<br /><br />I admit when I first read the requirement that building materials for the pipeline had to be US made, I imagined Trump was smart enough to ask the pipeline companies if that would be convenient for them or not, but now I'm not so sure.<br /><br />Obviously the best plan for Trump is to ask companies for what they want to do to make themselves look more patriotic and then Trump can publicly demand they do what they already want to do and they'll look patriotic and Trump will look like an effective leader who gets things done.<br /><br />But if he actually is trying to strong arm everyone into capricious demands, all based on his daily bad moods, and doubling down when anyone complains, his 100 day "progress" is surely going to look snail pace very soon.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42171114639809149762017-01-27T09:36:41.490-08:002017-01-27T09:36:41.490-08:00I was delighted to read that the Benghazi/IranDeal...I was delighted to read that the Benghazi/IranDeal/AntiSemite/Pay4Play wingnuts quit the premises of Foggy Bottom. Pity it wasn't a conga line.Trigger Warningnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-28103438791244715932017-01-27T07:01:33.873-08:002017-01-27T07:01:33.873-08:00Journalists certainly are better of objectively fo...Journalists certainly are better of objectively focusing on the 5 Ws: What happened? Who is involved? Where did it take place? When did it take place? Why did that happen?<br /><br />But there's still the open question over priority - which topics are newsworthy and which are not, OR which ones SEEM newsworthy but are in fact meaningless and even distractions from other more important topics.<br /><br />The more I think about the more I realized I don't really know. Obviously "dog bits mans" is more important, than a crazy "man bites dog", but if you want people to pick up your newspaper or click on your headline, which attracts attention?<br /><br />And dry fact checking is simply not that interesting, especially if the conclusion is "man really didn't bite dog".<br /><br />And fact-checking can even be mean-spirited, like fact checking the weather when Trump says the sun came out during his inauguration.<br /><br />You can imagine a married Couple - Papa Trump and Mama Just-the-Facts-News going out to a party, and every time Papa confabulates a story, Mama cuts in and says "That's not true." Poor papa might even admit the story was untrue in private, but once he's committed to it publicly, it just looks bad to be called a liar, simply for trying to be entertaining.<br /><br />Myself I feel convinced that Trump is literally unable to recognize his own lies, and by that I mean that his ability to reflect is so hampered that he doesn't even want to know, since it would be too painful, so he just keeps flying forward, and doubles-down on whatever nonsense he said before if challenged.<br /><br />So you imagine on a whim once he said "We're going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it." And he said it merely to sound tough, and if no one had cheered when he said that, and if no one complained when he said that, and if no one reminded him that he said that, it simply would have ceased to exist.<br /><br />But since some people cheered, and other people were outraged, and others kept trying to get him to admit it is unreasonable, he is DETERMINED to be proved correct - that it is possible and reasonable to bully your neighbor to pay for your wall.<br /><br />And Trump's bromance with Putin stands as a similar fantasyland. Because Putin said something neutrally positive about Trump, and Trump heard that translated that Putin called him a genius, now Trump feels like he has a new best friend, no matter what ever other Republican says, or the history of the Russian and American relationship. Suddenly the Dealmaker envisions a positive relationship with Russia, carried by Trump's genius, and now the hated ISIS can be stopped. Afterall, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, as long as you can figure out which enemy is scarier, and obviously bad people with swords are scarier than bad people with nukes.<br /><br />Yet, this is all the drama right? But is Trump really going to create jobs for us? Republicans have always said the goverment can't create jobs, but that is their plan - saying more jobs will be created if we reduce regulations and let the billionaires manipulate the next market crash to their optimal timing. And every time there is a crisis, use it as an excused to demonize part of the government and outsource or privatize it into the hands of wall street.<br /><br />So I do worry about those things more than Trump's wall or his love of imaginging people calling him a genius. I hope reporters can stay on this track and show where the swamp is really draining into next.Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com