It would be rather ironic if there were no terrorist attacks under Trump, due to the terrorist groups abroad being too busy training a huge influx of recruits to worry about planning anything.
New GOP strategy: push policy that drastically increases their membership during GOP administrations, on the understanding that they don't attack until it's a D in office.
The president is basically promulgating a fiction akin to 9/11 conspiracy theorizing that the media is covering up all these secret terror attacks that they don't want the American people to know about, and his minions are happily repeating it. In addition to his attacks on the court, this scares me in the Orwellian sense--it's feeding this paranoia on the right that there is a constant, ongoing internal war between Islam and the west RIGHT NOW that is just being buried by the media because ??? They may not even have to wait for a real terror attack to justify their national security crackdown.
I am pretty sure any supposedly under reported case can be easily explained by the old joke about how many dead foreign people is equal to one dead American in the eyes of the American news media.
Edit: Besides the ones that simply didn't happen.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
I don't buy that the media would fail to report any terror attack, unless maybe the terrorists attacked a Clinton policy speech.
I mean, if they are talking about terror attacks in, like, Africa and the middle east, yeah. They'd have a point. Those are never covered in the US media
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who would have guessed that a tasteless beer that rebranded itself "America" would use clumsy attempts at patriotism to boost sales?
Y'know, right now the press has teeth and is willing to go, if not for the throat, at least throat adjacent.
Now is absolutely the time for Bannon et al to try and make up some "underreported" terrorist attacks, especially this close to national Bowling Green Remembrance Week.
I guess the White House is going to release a list of unreported terror attacks.
They clarified to "under reported" a bit later.
I... I think they're about to make up a whole bunch of terror attacks.
Honestly, I was thinking that Trump was deliberately compromising our national security to create a Reichstag fire scenario. I didn't consider the possibility that he would just make one up out of whole cloth.
Edit: Thinking about it, this is prime red meat for the base. They get their "lugenpresse", excuse for civil rights crackdowns, AND Trump gets none of the blame.
The ACLU is using Trump's Twitter account in their case against the ban, and they marked Trump, in his official capacity as president, as a defendant. The ACLU is specifically citing his regular calls for a "ban" on muslims entering the country and him referring to the Executive Order as a "ban" on his twitter feed. They also cite Juliani's talk, and Breitbart's reporting that the EO is intended to be a Muslim ban.
The new ACLU lawsuit (Al-Mowafak et al v. Trump et al), joins an ever-growing list of cases filed in various federal courts around the country that challenge the legality of the executive order. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday on behalf of a number of California students affected by the order.
What makes the ACLU proposed class action lawsuit remarkable is its creative use of President Donald Trump's tweets against him. The lawsuit points to specific instances in which the president described the executive order as a "ban" on Muslims.
Similarly, Justin Cox, an attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, who is representing plaintiffs in a similar ongoing case in New York (Darweesh v. Trump), told Ars that such lawsuits are usually based on public statements made by more local public officials—like city council members or state legislators.
"Because those are the folks that are usually saying those sorts of things that are on the public record," he said. "The president doesn’t typically say racist things out loud where everyone can see it."
"Politicians aren't dumb enough to capture things in explicitly racist terms," he added. "The case law on these types of claims—you're talking about other types of evidence, deviations from normal procedures. Politicians don’t say stupid shit like this out loud, so [Trump's] bucking that trend."
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I haven't caught up with the thread yet so maybe this has been posted:
WaPo's Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish, in the reporting for their book “Trump Revealed,” asked Trump about friendship. His answer, excerpted below, is totally fascinating:
"Well, it’s an interesting question. Most of my friendships are business-related because those are the only people I meet. The people I meet, really, I guess I could say socially, when you go out to a charity event or something . . . I have people that I haven’t spoken to in years, but I think they’re friends. . . . I mean, I think I have a lot of friends but they’re not friends like perhaps other people have friends, where they’re together all the time and they go out to dinner all the time.”
But was there anyone he would turn to if he had a personal problem, or some doubt about himself or something he’d done?
“More of my family, I have a lot of good relationships. I have good enemies, too, which is okay. But I think more of my family than others."
Fisher relayed to me that Trump named three people, off the record, with whom he had business dealings years before that he considered friends but whom he hadn't seen in recent years. Fisher followed up with two of them, and they expressed surprise that Trump would describe them as friends as opposed to business acquaintances.
Once again, Trump tests the limits of my empathy. So much about him and his administration would just be really pathetic and sad, if they weren't also threatening to destroy America and the world. This kills the empathy.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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Apologies, we will revise our headline.
"Spicer Complains POTUS Walks Around Without a Bathrobe"
It depends. Did he have a far away thousand yard stare look in his eyes when he said it?
The top google image result for "Donald Trump Bathrobe" is....
donald trump wearing a bathrobe.
All I see is Mike Rowe looking... Mike-Rowe-face in a Trump bathrobe.
For the same reasons that a three year old will lie about eating a cookie with crumbs on their face and the other half in their hand.
It's a dare for you to call them out on it. How far can Spicer go before someone starts going along with it?
It's that or Spicer has seen the shoggoth and is trying to warn us about what's under Trump's clothes.
It's pretty old photo, but
Multiple different bathrobe in pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3913524/The-extraordinary-intimate-Trump-family-photos-THRIFT-SHOP-showing-Donald-s-softer-side.html
Now, come on. That's an insult to shoggoths.
Oh, shit, I didn't recognize him at all.
I also thought it was a lady.
(It was much smaller in the grid on my phone)
They clarified to "under reported" a bit later.
I... I think they're about to make up a whole bunch of terror attacks.
New GOP strategy: push policy that drastically increases their membership during GOP administrations, on the understanding that they don't attack until it's a D in office.
It's the hair.
it was acceptable in the 80s
it was acceptable at the time
Anyway re: Reichstag event / authoritarian power grab / triggering event:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/donald-trumps-suggestion-that-the-media-is-covering-up-terrorist-attacks-is-genuinely-dangerous/?utm_term=.69fca7158367&hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_trump-media-4pm:homepage/story
The president is basically promulgating a fiction akin to 9/11 conspiracy theorizing that the media is covering up all these secret terror attacks that they don't want the American people to know about, and his minions are happily repeating it. In addition to his attacks on the court, this scares me in the Orwellian sense--it's feeding this paranoia on the right that there is a constant, ongoing internal war between Islam and the west RIGHT NOW that is just being buried by the media because ??? They may not even have to wait for a real terror attack to justify their national security crackdown.
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Edit: Besides the ones that simply didn't happen.
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that image is a mouthful
It's like a mouthful of Bud, in that I don't understand why people like it.
It's cheap and tasteless.
My thought when seeing this: "good, maybe they'll sober up some and realize they're idiots"
And everyone has an uncle that's way too into it.
I can't even drink beer anymore and I want to buy a case.
Are we still talking about the ad?
I mean, if they are talking about terror attacks in, like, Africa and the middle east, yeah. They'd have a point. Those are never covered in the US media
Now is absolutely the time for Bannon et al to try and make up some "underreported" terrorist attacks, especially this close to national Bowling Green Remembrance Week.
Honestly, I was thinking that Trump was deliberately compromising our national security to create a Reichstag fire scenario. I didn't consider the possibility that he would just make one up out of whole cloth.
Edit: Thinking about it, this is prime red meat for the base. They get their "lugenpresse", excuse for civil rights crackdowns, AND Trump gets none of the blame.
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A major theme of the advertising last night was inclusiveness.
This ruffled the feathers of a lot of right wingers.
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Story of how the Budweiser founder came to America as an immigrant. It's an anti-trump ad.
They made an ad about the discrimination their founders faced upon arriving in America and their ability to succeed in the face of it.
So now as far as any Trump supporter is concerned, anti.
Once again, Trump tests the limits of my empathy. So much about him and his administration would just be really pathetic and sad, if they weren't also threatening to destroy America and the world. This kills the empathy.
Anheiser-Busch ran an ad showing that, both Anheuser and Busch were immigrants, as this somehow was not apparent to many people that drank it?
There are plenty of terror attacks that go unreported by US national media.
The question is whether or not they're doing it because of politics or because nobody gives a shit what happens in Jakarta or wherever.
The ad was all "immigrants, like our German founders, make the country better."
So, against the New Truth.
Hardcore anti-Trump
About as anti-Trump as Great Britain is right now.
Donald Trump will not be allowed to address Parliament on UK state visit, Speaker John Bercow says
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden