The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

[Doc Brown]

20 minutes ago, 3rdnlng said:

Didn't that eviction provision include only federally subsidised housing?

Yes.  They left it up to the states with just a blanket recommendation of halting evictions of those who can't pay their rent due to Covid.  In NYS you can't evict anybody until August 20th.

Edited August 9, 2020 by Doc Brown

[BillsFanNC]

 

[RiotAct]

4 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:

 

oh wow.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

PRESS AWAKENS FROM 2009-2016 SLUMBER: 

 

Trump’s ‘Political Masterstroke’ Leaves Press Scrambling to Apply Double Standard.

 

Just think of the media as Democratic Party Operatives with bylines, and their eight year hibernation makes perfect sense.

 

 

 

[RiotAct]

well yeah but Obama’s executive orders were all for righteous causes, whereas this one by Trump is.

 obviously.... well... errr... wait a minute..... umm... anyone have a good recipe for cheeseburgers?

[njbuff]

1 hour ago, RiotAct said:

well yeah but Obama’s executive orders were all for righteous causes, whereas this one by Trump is.

 obviously.... well... errr... wait a minute..... umm... anyone have a good recipe for cheeseburgers?

 

Yeah, don't burn em. ?

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

7 hours ago, RiotAct said:

well yeah but Obama’s executive orders were all for righteous causes, whereas this one by Trump is.

 obviously.... well... errr... wait a minute..... umm... anyone have a good recipe for cheeseburgers?

 

6 hours ago, njbuff said:

 

Yeah, don't burn em. ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can't fix Stupid!!! 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

9 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

 

You can't fix Stupid!!! 

 

Your posts are primary evidence in support of this argument. ?

[B-Man]

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Mainstream Media Has Betrayed Its Constitutional Privilege. 

 

“Sit back and wonder for a moment how any on-air CNN personality could ask with a straight face if any anti-Trump media happened to be out there.

 

It’s so preposterous that you almost want to pity the person asking because he or she is obviously mentally impaired.”

 

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 Washington Post celebrates destruction of books.

 

 

 

 

 The New York Times Circles the Drain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BillStime]

[B-Man]

 

 

"In June and July, Fox News was the highest-rated television channel in the prime-time hours of 8 to 11 p.m. Not just on cable."

 

"Not just among news networks. All of television.

 

The average live Fox News viewership in those hours outstripped cable rivals like CNN, MSNBC and ESPN, as well as the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC, according to Nielsen.

 

That three-hour slot is a narrow but significant slice of TV real estate, and it is exceedingly rare for a basic-cable channel to outrank the Big Three broadcasters, which are available in more households and offer a wider variety of programming. Even the return of live sports did little to stop the momentum:

 

The Fox News programs hosted by Mr. Carlson and Sean Hannity drew more live viewers than competing baseball and basketball games, including a Yankees-Nationals matchup on Opening Day.... MSNBC, whose liberal prime time is an ideological inverse to Fox News, has increased its audience from a year ago. But Rachel Maddow, once neck and neck with [Sean] Hannity at 9 p.m., has fallen behind all three of Fox News’s prime-time stars in total viewers. [Laura] Ingraham, who appears in the less desirable 10 p.m. slot, has drawn more viewers than Ms. Maddow for many months.... 

 

 

 

 

[Tiberius]

Opinion by 

Jennifer Rubin

Columnist

August 9, 2020 at 1:28 p.m. EDT

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Deprived of rallies, President Trump came up with the mind-numbing idea to hold not one but two news conferences at his exclusive country club this weekend. The audience was nearly all rich White men (able to pay several hundreds of thousands of dollars for club membership and fees) who hooted at the press and applauded Trump as a pandemic rages outside.

 

Consider the psychology of a person who needs to stage such events — and who convinces himself they are a reflection of his true popularity. Trump is perpetually searching for ways to convince himself that he is not a disastrous president about to lose his seat.

Consider also the image of a super-rich president with super-rich friends at an exclusive club while Americans lose eviction protections, while the $600 federal unemployment subsidy legally expires and while Republicans complain that such a tiny sum (not the double-digit unemployment) encourages laziness. It would be hard to create a more damning portrait of clueless, greedy and self-satisfied elites if you tried.

9 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

"In June and July, Fox News was the highest-rated television channel in the prime-time hours of 8 to 11 p.m. Not just on cable."

 

"Not just among news networks. All of television.

 

The average live Fox News viewership in those hours outstripped cable rivals like CNN, MSNBC and ESPN, as well as the broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC, according to Nielsen.

 

That three-hour slot is a narrow but significant slice of TV real estate, and it is exceedingly rare for a basic-cable channel to outrank the Big Three broadcasters, which are available in more households and offer a wider variety of programming. Even the return of live sports did little to stop the momentum:

 

The Fox News programs hosted by Mr. Carlson and Sean Hannity drew more live viewers than competing baseball and basketball games, including a Yankees-Nationals matchup on Opening Day.... MSNBC, whose liberal prime time is an ideological inverse to Fox News, has increased its audience from a year ago. But Rachel Maddow, once neck and neck with [Sean] Hannity at 9 p.m., has fallen behind all three of Fox News’s prime-time stars in total viewers. [Laura] Ingraham, who appears in the less desirable 10 p.m. slot, has drawn more viewers than Ms. Maddow for many months.... 

 

 

 

 

Yup, the zombies want their Trump high. The propaganda works. That’s why Putin uses propaganda. 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

[ALF]

President	Total executive orders
42	Bill Clinton	364
43	George W. Bush	291
44	Barack Obama	276
45	Donald Trump	180          just first term so far

[Taro T]

22 minutes ago, ALF said:

President	Total executive orders
42	Bill Clinton	364
43	George W. Bush	291
44	Barack Obama	276
45	Donald Trump	180          just first term so far

 

Alf, any count on how many of those 45 EO's were rescinding 44's EO's?  Pretty sure that's a significant amount of them.

[B-Man]

It doesn't advance the Narrative.............

 

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

4 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Your posts are primary evidence in support of this argument. ?

 

Oh please. 

 

You keep supporting the man who is single handedly making the GOP a laughing stock. 

 

The man is a FRAUD and always has been.  

 

Golfing by Obama VERY BAD 

Executive orders by Obama VERY BAD 

 

Yet, here comes Don making Obama look like a Saint.  

 

 

Has any other Republican POTUS driven more Republicans from the party?

 

and sure lets add in the Democrat side as well.    

Has any other Democratic POTUS driven more Democrats from the party?

[Buffalo_Gal]

5 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

 

Oh please. 

 

You keep supporting the man who is single handedly making the GOP a laughing stock. 

 

The man is a FRAUD and always has been.  

 

Golfing by Obama VERY BAD 

Executive orders by Obama VERY BAD 

 

Yet, here comes Don making Obama look like a Saint.  

 

EOs by both could be bad, IMO. However, if one side is willing to use a pen and a phone ? the other side (that would be the Rs) should read Alinsky and make the Ds play by the same rules. 

BTW, you did see that it was a 1997 law that allowed a President to cancel payroll taxes, right? ?
 

15 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2020 by Buffalo_Gal

[Deranged Rhino]

54 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

 

Oh please. 

 

You keep supporting the man who is single handedly making the GOP a laughing stock. 

 

The man is a FRAUD and always has been.  

 

Golfing by Obama VERY BAD 

Executive orders by Obama VERY BAD 

 

Yet, here comes Don making Obama look like a Saint.  

 

 

Has any other Republican POTUS driven more Republicans from the party?

 

and sure lets add in the Democrat side as well.    

Has any other Democratic POTUS driven more Democrats from the party?

 

You're laboring under the delusion that Trump is a republican, worried about protecting the brand. That's 100% not what he is. His first term was spent gutting the republican party of the rot from within (bye-bye Paul Ryanm see-ya No Name) and exposing the snakes who play for team "establishment" over party (hi, Mr. Rubio!). This has never been about the GOP v the DNC, or right v left -- this presidency has been about using an outside force to wreck the establishment forces who, for many decades, have spent their time in power feathering their own nests instead of serving the People who elected them. 

 

There are as many "bad" Republicans as there are dems. It's just the Republicans got shown the door first. Second Trump term will be the democrat's turn.

Edited August 10, 2020 by Deranged Rhino

[BillStime]

3 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

You're laboring under the delusion that Trump is a republican, worried about protecting the brand. That's 100% not what he is. His first term was spent gutting the republican party of the rot from within (bye-bye Paul Ryan) and exposing the snakes who play for team "establishment" over party (hi, Mr. Rubio!). This has never been about the GOP v the DNC, or right v left -- this presidency has been about using an outside force to wreck the establishment forces who, for many decades, have spent their time in power feathering their own nests instead of serving the People who elected them. 

 

There are as many "bad" Republicans as there are dems. It's just the Republicans got shown the door first. Second Trump term will be the democrat's turn.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[keepthefaith]

3 hours ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:

 

Oh please. 

 

You keep supporting the man who is single handedly making the GOP a laughing stock. 

 

The man is a FRAUD and always has been.  

 

Golfing by Obama VERY BAD 

Executive orders by Obama VERY BAD 

 

Yet, here comes Don making Obama look like a Saint.  

 

 

Has any other Republican POTUS driven more Republicans from the party?

 

and sure lets add in the Democrat side as well.    

Has any other Democratic POTUS driven more Democrats from the party?

 

Have you every considered that a likely majority of the population despises Washington politicians and media for good reasons?  Trump was/is an outsider which is a big part of his appeal.  He's certainly flawed and those flaws are frequently on display.  Lots of people want illegal immigration finally fixed, want fiscal responsibility and want our military removed from Middle East conflicts.  Additionally Trump has exposed China for the cheating pricks that they are.  Add to that health insurance reforms.  We're a better country if we tackle those 5 things.  Trump has had only limited success in these areas but has had little to no help.  Trump's support is rooted in his willingness to take on politicians, media and the leadership of other countries.  The often baseless attacks from his political opposition and the media only fuel his popularity. 

 

He's been lousy on fiscal responsibility and frankly he could be calling out his political opposition much better IMO.

Edited August 10, 2020 by keepthefaith

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

[B-Man]

The Mainstream Media Is at the Point of No Return

by Steve McCann

 

Original Article

 

A recent landmark poll of 20,000 citizens undertaken by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that Americans’ hope for and trust in an objective media is all but lost. They see not only an ever-growing partisanship in news reporting but a determination by the mainstream media to push a political agenda instead of honestly disseminating the news.

 

While generic faith in the media has been gradually declining over recent decades, the precipitous drop in trust and questions about what motivates the mainstream media can be traced to June 2015 and Donald Trump’s entry into the presidential sweepstakes.

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO FIGHT THE NARRATIVE: 

 

“A weatherman for a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate in Tacoma has been taken off the air for a personal blog post that shows in vivid detail the destruction two months of incessant rioting and protests have wrecked on Seattle.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[njbuff]

Is there a bigger moron than Richard Goodstein????

[BillsFanNC]

1 hour ago, njbuff said:

Is there a bigger moron than Richard Goodstein????

He would fit in nicely with the trolls here. Every single question that he is asked he answers with #orangemanbad.

[TtownBillsFan]

On 8/9/2020 at 1:57 PM, Doc Brown said:

Out of curiosity, how many of your tenants didn't pay rent since Covid hit compared to normal times?  I just own one duplex that I rent out and the couple downstairs were able to finally pay the water bill after stalling for five months because of the jacked up unemployment benefits.

 

Sorry, just now seeing and replying to this, Doc.  I have many rent houses, and I'd say 60% are paying late, or not at all (probably 80% late, 20% not at all).  All of them have their reasons/excuses, and I'm a fair guy, so I try to work with those that aren't just trying to jerk me around.  The problem is, I'm neutered in my ability to demand rent, as I can't evict, as there's a moratorium on evictions for not paying rent.  It's all well and good the extending of unemployment benefits;  most of the people I deal with are making MORE now than they ever did working.  But because they know they can't be evicted, they're just not paying.  It's going to make a NASTY back-log of evictions once this stuff is figured out.  And even then, I'm going to have to file liens on people's future income.  I understand why they did it, but giving people EXTRA money to stay at home, AND neuter landlords, it was a VERY BAD combination.  Most people that I rent to, rent because they have sucky credit ratings, and, thus, can't get a loan to buy a house.  And I'm NOT renting in the crappy-part of my town;  I rent to the mid-level people. The people that COULD afford to own - but don't manage their money well.  The exact people that extending unemployment benefits.

 

WHY did we EVER do the thing we just did;  the unemployment-per-area +600.00?  Why didn't we just make it so that, you got 100% (or some lesser amount) of what you were making?  When you make it unemployment +600/week, everyone HAD to know that there were a bunch of people that were going to be making WAY WAY more than they ever made, sitting at home.  That was a CRAZY, STUPID idea.  And I'm glad the "R's" are fighting against extending that.  Trump's thing offering +$400.00 is STILL too much, in my opinion.  Why couldn't they have just passed a short-term thing that said, you make 100% of what you made, while sitting at home doing nothing (I've still had to work this whole time).  They didn't have to give a freebie +money.  They could have just said that unemployment insurance now pays 100% of what you were making.  Definitely shouldn't have been more;  maybe even a little less, to incentivize. 

[Doc Brown]

43 minutes ago, TtownBillsFan said:

Sorry, just now seeing and replying to this, Doc.  I have many rent houses, and I'd say 60% are paying late, or not at all (probably 80% late, 20% not at all).  All of them have their reasons/excuses, and I'm a fair guy, so I try to work with those that aren't just trying to jerk me around.  The problem is, I'm neutered in my ability to demand rent, as I can't evict, as there's a moratorium on evictions for not paying rent.  It's all well and good the extending of unemployment benefits;  most of the people I deal with are making MORE now than they ever did working.  But because they know they can't be evicted, they're just not paying.  It's going to make a NASTY back-log of evictions once this stuff is figured out.  And even then, I'm going to have to file liens on people's future income.  I understand why they did it, but giving people EXTRA money to stay at home, AND neuter landlords, it was a VERY BAD combination.  Most people that I rent to, rent because they have sucky credit ratings, and, thus, can't get a loan to buy a house.  And I'm NOT renting in the crappy-part of my town;  I rent to the mid-level people. The people that COULD afford to own - but don't manage their money well.  The exact people that extending unemployment benefits.

 

WHY did we EVER do the thing we just did;  the unemployment-per-area +600.00?  Why didn't we just make it so that, you got 100% (or some lesser amount) of what you were making?  When you make it unemployment +600/week, everyone HAD to know that there were a bunch of people that were going to be making WAY WAY more than they ever made, sitting at home.  That was a CRAZY, STUPID idea.  And I'm glad the "R's" are fighting against extending that.  Trump's thing offering +$400.00 is STILL too much, in my opinion.  Why couldn't they have just passed a short-term thing that said, you make 100% of what you made, while sitting at home doing nothing (I've still had to work this whole time).  They didn't have to give a freebie +money.  They could have just said that unemployment insurance now pays 100% of what you were making.  Definitely shouldn't have been more;  maybe even a little less, to incentivize. 

It's too difficult to implement that from a federal level and a more complicated formula you're talking about would've pry taken months to straighten out depending on the state.  The relief was needed immediately with the initial lockdowns.  That extra 600 dollars increases consumer spending which has helped keep the economy afloat during this pandemic.  That $600 had mostly bipartisan support in the initial bailout bill.  Now that states are opening back up I agree that the federal boost in unemployment should at least be reduced in half.  Maybe even tie the amount of federal unemployment money given out to the unemployment rate so it will be reduced over time.  If the company you worked for went out of business/isn't calling you back and you're making more than before.....why would you look for a job when you're likely getting paid more to do nothing at home?

 

I feel for you as owning multiple rental properties right now has to be a nightmare.    

[TtownBillsFan]

1 hour ago, Doc Brown said:

It's too difficult to implement that from a federal level and a more complicated formula you're talking about would've pry taken months to straighten out depending on the state.  The relief was needed immediately with the initial lockdowns.  That extra 600 dollars increases consumer spending which has helped keep the economy afloat during this pandemic.  That $600 had mostly bipartisan support in the initial bailout bill.  Now that states are opening back up I agree that the federal boost in unemployment should at least be reduced in half.  Maybe even tie the amount of federal unemployment money given out to the unemployment rate so it will be reduced over time.  If the company you worked for went out of business/isn't calling you back and you're making more than before.....why would you look for a job when you're likely getting paid more to do nothing at home?

 

I feel for you as owning multiple rental properties right now has to be a nightmare.    

Thanks, Doc.  It is a nightmare, as about half of them have treated this as freebie-time for them, knowing I have no 'teeth' to demand rent without eviction.  I don't know what they think will happen when I'm finally able to go to court and make it happen, though.!

 

As to the $600 vs $300 vs whatever amount, I agree the $600 was a good, quick-fix, when we were all initially shut down.  HOWEVER, I think it's (I want to say ######ed, but know I can't say that) STUPID that we put out an additional $600-across-the-board, across all cities/states/, regardless of the situation.  THAT was bad legislation.  IF the goal was to make everyone the same as they were, then they should have just made it so unemployment insurance agencies at the state level paid 100% of what you made, in the last 6 or 8 or whatever it is now, weeks.  I had to go on unemployment once in the last 20 years;  right after 9/11 (had nothing to do with it, I just remember it because of what was going on).  At that time, my unemployment paid, I think it was, 66% of the average of what I made, per week, over the last 8 weeks.  So, I assume the insurance works the same way now.  They could have just made it so that the insurance pays 100%, instead of the 66% (or whatever it is now).  Point being, they should have NEVER made it a straight-dollar amount.  It should have ALWAYS been a %, and should have paid you, if they wanted to get people through, 100% of what you were making.  But NEVER should have paid more.  That was ridiculous.

[B-Man]

 

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: MSM Plays a Preemptive Misogyny Victim Card for Kamala Harris. 

 

“The interference the MSM runs for AOC is going to look calm and measured compared to how much they’re going to have to cut out of whole cloth to make Kamala Harris seem less awful to, well, almost everyone.”

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited August 12, 2020 by B-Man

[BillStime]

Trump has successfully destroyed the GOP

 

Trump calls QAnon GOP primary winner a 'future Republican Star'

 

And no doubt, in the remnants of the GOP, once the party of "Family Values" now the party of racism, misogyny, greed, corruption and hypocrisy, the Party of Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will indeed be a star, and one more nail in the GOP coffin.  
 

Thoughts and prayers.   

                                                                                                 POLITICO uncovered hours of videos where she demeans blacks, Muslims and Jews.                    
 

New GOP headache as candidate condemned for racist videos wins Republican primary

 

[B-Man]

 

 

 Hans Bader: The Progressive Media Mislabels Kamala Harris.

 

Anyone who isn’t the favored candidate of the woke far left (in this case it was Liz Warren) is now a moderate.

 

 

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[Deranged Rhino]