US Election & Presidency

(18-02-2017 02:00 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Trump continues with his hostility to the media.

You don't take the view that it takes a scumbag to spot other scumbags then?

The idea that the media are all sweet and innocent is ludicrous.

With his twitter rants he is fast making HIMSELF an enemy of the US people IMO

(18-02-2017 03:47 )wackawoo Wrote:  Stuff

Ever thought of using your vast political acumen on say, a Politics forum. rather than a wank forum?

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(18-02-2017 09:07 )Doddle Wrote:  

(18-02-2017 02:00 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Trump continues with his hostility to the media.

You don't take the view that it takes a scumbag to spot other scumbags then?

The idea that the media are all sweet and innocent is ludicrous.

Of course they're not all sweet and innocent. I doubt anyone thinks that.

Scumbags is just name-calling, but The US President branding them 'the enemy of the American people' is moving on to dangerous territory. How long before some nut-job with an AK47 takes that seriously...

He is all wind he just wants everyone to watch Fox News and let the brain washing commence. They will attack Obama and support Trump no matter what. It's a dictatorship tactic. He may have to write an order for it.

(18-02-2017 09:12 )Sm© Wrote:  Ever thought of using your vast political acumen on say, a Politics forum. rather than a wank forum?

Bizarre comment, since this is a political thread, even within a wank forum.

(18-02-2017 14:45 )wackawoo Wrote:  Bizarre comment, since this is a political thread, even within a wank forum.

The majority of your posts (at least with this latest account) are in the news and Tv sections. If all you are interested in talking about is politics and reality TV shows, maybe DigitalSpy would be a better place for you.

(18-02-2017 02:00 )Glenn Miller Wrote:  Trump continues with his hostility to the media.

Trump's real nemesis isn't the media, it's the truth. By attacking the media, he opens up a new line of attack against facts, his true target. He's trying to confuse the public so that they will not believe inconvenient truths.

What he wants is to manufacture his own pseudo-truth; to create a reality where he always wins. Where the only polls that count are the ones where he's doing great. Where the only comments about him are compliments, and where anything negative is false, the work of an out-of-control media.

During Thursday's press conference, Trump unleashed torrents of lies, distortions and fabrications. When he said he won by the biggest Electoral College victory since Ronald Reagan, it took a reporter to point out that the last 3 presidents, Obama, Bush and Clinton, won by larger margins. He dismissed it all with a flippant, "Well, I don't know, I was given that information."

As the scandal surrounding his campaign's ties to Russia grows, Trump wants the public to think it's all the doing of the dishonest media. But journalists are not letting up, and the vast majority of Americans are not going to fall for Trump's tactics for very long. Even on Fox News, Shepard Smith called him out. "It's absolutely crazy," Smith said. "He keeps repeating ridiculous throwaway lines that are not true at all and sort of avoiding this issue of Russia as if we're some kind of fools for asking the question."

Trump wants America to think that it is the media that is out of control, because he wants to control what people view as true and false. It seemed like a good plan, but it has a fatal flaw. People are learning the difference between good journalism and bad. Trump's tactic may work for dictatorships. It won't work in the United States.

(by Frida Ghitis, CNN)

(18-02-2017 15:11 )Sm© Wrote:  The majority of your posts (at least with this latest account) are in the news and Tv sections. If all you are interested in talking about is politics and reality TV shows, maybe DigitalSpy would be a better place for you.

Well it's not really for you to suggest what sites I attend.

I have been on this Forum right from the start, something like 15 or 16 pages in from the start. I have commented on models, I have even uploaded pictures and vids. I have thanked and even repped other members, including the most hostile members to me, because nothing is personal to me, I do not know any of you personally, I have never personally insulted anybody (unless to make a point) nor broken any forum rule. I have even pointed out post that might get this forum into trouble, most recently the under aged pictures of Helen Skelton

The reason I have posted a lot lately on political matters is Brexit and Trump are world important on going issues at the moment. Of course, unless you are on on these threads, it will not affect any other member who do not read them whatsoever. I even advised poeple to put me on ignore if my oppnions are that offensive, but that's it, they are just my opnions.

Moreover, most of my post on these threads have pretty much been responding to the huge amount of hostility on here to my posts, constantly trying to say to them, hang on here, I've not said what you are accusing me of saying.

Unfortunately, there have been a very small (incomparison to how many members this forum has) that are very intolerant of people looking at a situation in a different way to them, even if fundamentally I'm not disagreeing. I could of course just ignore these people and say nothing, like a lot of people do, including those that have told me they agree with what I have put, which is fine, that is their right, but I don't cower to cliques, little gangs and bullies who have a totally irrational dislike of a forum member to the point they don't even read what i am putting, or abandon any pretence and merely resort to invention. The problem with them though, they jump on my posts and then things tend to snowball disproportional to the original post, which was their MO to get me banned.

The Mr Perfect thing being used as an example of this, constant hostility, lies from some body with my not insulting them (unless by example), resulting in unchallanged abuse. But they thoguht they were more intelligent than they actually are and didn't realise I have not actually been disagreeing with what anybody on here has said about Trump and agreed with a lot; just looked at the situation from a more objective view point. This time though, I was not banned and the situation run it's natural course and blew up in the face of Mr Perfect, as it would have done in the past with the others.