Omnibus Politics Thread: Campaign 2016 EditionFollow

Trump and his cronies are blatantly lying about something as trivial as how many people watched the inauguration despite the fact that all the numbers from every source are easily checked and proves them wrong. Not to mention the multitude of times that Trump was caught being either completely ignorant of the facts, or outright lying about them during the election. Yet, it's the left that needs to start being honest? Are you ******* kidding me?

Edited, Jan 24th 2017 12:36am by Turin

the so what is not that any of us actually cares about the crowd size, it's that trump and spicer felt they had to lie about it. That's what's disturbing. No one would have gotten larger crowds than obama, but they talk about Crowd size every time. The weird thing is that Trump cared about it.

It's just funny how he goes on a tangent about how dishonest the media is to defend a blatant lie told by Spicer.

Because it does a good job at painting the mainstream press as adversarial to him, which undermines their long-term credibility even if they're correct. It takes air time away from coverage of other more controversial policy decisions that could paint him in a bad light. Making outlandish claims like this is his trademark way to get free press time for pretty much whatever he wants.

It's basically a smoke-and-mirrors stunt that's been remarkably effective. He does it well.

Oh yeah, and TPP's dead.

Nah, if the whole "draining the swamp" thing already being abandoned isn't enough then there is no amount of betrayal that is going to affect these people. You only need to look at the people that went from "worst thing ever" to "give him a chance" to see that.

I'm expecting it to be used as evidence of how Trump defeated the media.

It's not just a domestic issue. It's also an issue of sovereignty of nations vs. multinational corporations(and could have been devastating from an environmental impact angle) and an issue of the copyright laws buried in there that could have killed things like political video remixes, game mods, memes and even been a threat to social media and citizen journalism. Bernie had a few things to say against it as well.

Personally, I'm willing to accept having to find other ways to deal with China if it avoids us shooting ourselves in both feet.

For the record, I knew there were dangerous copyright things in there, but the memes and game mods thing is just something I heard yesterday(and I haven't verified the language that would do that myself, though I moderately trust the source). I swear I didn't oppose it to protect memes. That's just a bonus.

Disastrous environmentally, like this ******* moron that doesn't believe in AGW that's your president now? It's kind of like cheering someone nuking your neighbourhood because at least you don't have to listen to your neighbourhood dog barking all hours of the ******* NIGHT **** YOU YOU PIECE OF ******* ILL FLAY YA DONT THINK I WON T I'LL MURDER EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU PUPpER PIECES OF **** dont think i wont but Trump is a worhtles spooner he would have been euthanised in teh **** state he will bring abkut k am drunk an you all suck idck apart from Jophiel, Samira, and maybe one other guybtna gjuy is YOU whoe ver you are apet fromgabji and poldran bevayue he got on my bad side thats rightn ,.ppoldaran you an be grouped with gbaji too you ***** *** piece o **** wbahgt you gonn ado about ithuh HUHB NHJJKKJHB*G|Zisr8uofnrsp9iegtf-vea uhetuowrmFV|z hxdfs0nv bsdibhur0n3

Me,too.

The lesson here is dont drink to excess.

I'm a little put off by the implication that I couldn't suck a mean dick if I wanted to. I might need to practice, but I bet I could get the hang of it if I put my mind to it.

Trump said he's going to send "the Feds" to Chicago to stop crime. I'm glad that Trump is taking on direct responsibility for the Chicago crime rate and will be happy to consider each shooting a failure on his part since he has just promised to fix it.