Trump's Second Term

Random said:
The entire press corpse keeping their heads down and waiting for normalcy to emerge is how we got here.
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I agree with the who, but not the why. The media is no longer part of the information economy, it's part of the attention economy. Trump generates engagement, and close races generate engagement. I think the media deliberately played down Trump's incompetency and mental failings while highlighting Democrat failings to engineer a close race not expecting to actually hand him a victory but to keep the race 'interesting'. The fact that they stuffed it up once, then did it again twice more shows just how dangerous it can be when the media are dedicated to a cause other than propagating the facts.
 
Norman Alexander said:
This comes after Trump solved the great war between The Maldives and Mali. It's been a bloodbath up until Donny intervened.
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He has to solve the long running war between the people who are white down their left sides and black down their right sides, and the people who are white down their right sides and black down their left sides. Not a lot of people know about them, but he learned about them from a documentary presented by William Shatner.
 
Mike! said:
It's possible he knows there's no stopping the release of the files and he believes if he's saying it's okay (now) then it looks like he's the one releasing them.
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Acceptance is really out of character for him, though. Usually he just gets more and more deranged and frantic the closer something inevitable is to happening.
 
Imagine if Biden answered a question about Seattle with a completely brain cheese response about another city.

Q: Seattle has six World Cup games. How close are you gonna be watching that city with the crime?

TRUMP: Well, if we think that the mayor of LA is incompetent -- everybody knows that. If they let the water come in that wouldn't have happened ... if we think there's gonna be trouble, I would ask Gianni to move that to a different city

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990513422002258338
 
Q: Your voice sounds rough. Are you feeling alright?

TRUMP: I was shouting at people because they were stupid about something having to do with trade and a country. I blew my stack at these people

Q: Well it sounds like there's a follow up there--

TRUMP: What? I thought you said there was a polyp. I don't want to hear that!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990511808457613370
 
Everyone agrees, bomb Mexico.

Trump: "We know the addresses of every drug lord. We know the front door. We know everything about every one of them. They're killing our people. That's like a war. Would I do it? I'd be proud to. I'd probably go into Congress and say, 'Hey.' And you know what? The Democrats and Republicans would both agree. Unless they're crazy. And they are a little crazy on the Democrat side."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990517931617235386
 
Andy_Ross said:
Everyone agrees, bomb Mexico.

Trump: "We know the addresses of every drug lord. We know the front door. We know everything about every one of them. They're killing our people. That's like a war. Would I do it? I'd be proud to. I'd probably go into Congress and say, 'Hey.' And you know what? The Democrats and Republicans would both agree. Unless they're crazy. And they are a little crazy on the Democrat side."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990517931617235386
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He's a crazy man and no one in the administration has the balls to stop him.
 
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P.J. Denyer said:
I agree with the who, but not the why. The media is no longer part of the information economy, it's part of the attention economy. Trump generates engagement, and close races generate engagement. I think the media deliberately played down Trump's incompetency and mental failings while highlighting Democrat failings to engineer a close race not expecting to actually hand him a victory but to keep the race 'interesting'. The fact that they stuffed it up once, then did it again twice more shows just how dangerous it can be when the media are dedicated to a cause other than propagating the facts.
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They are also addicted to drama, which Trump provides in spades.
 
DallasDad said:
Re Trump's about-face after realizing the discharge petition would pass the House no matter what he did/said . . . why encourage Rs to vote for the petition when he could just tell the DOJ to release the files?
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The 'encouragement' is just to save face since he knows many of them would vote for it anyways, and he did not want to look like he got disobeyed.
The reason he doesn't just order a release is that he knows by going through both house and senate, he can not only stall things but allow them to make the release more restrictive (without being blamed personally for the restrictions)
 
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DallasDad said:
Re Trump's about-face after realizing the discharge petition would pass the House no matter what he did/said . . . why encourage Rs to vote for the petition when he could just tell the DOJ to release the files?
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Because he doesn't want the files released, but knows he is going to lose the House vote, probably by a lot of votes. So he comes out ahead of the House vote saying "Vote to release the files!" and takes credit for something he doesn't want to happen but he is powerless to stop.

After that, he will put pressure on the GOP Senate to block the bill, and if that doesn't work the DOJ can step in with some sort of BS, and if that doesn't work there is the Presidential Veto.
 
DallasDad said:
Re Trump's about-face after realizing the discharge petition would pass the House no matter what he did/said . . . why encourage Rs to vote for the petition when he could just tell the DOJ to release the files?
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I realise this probably doesn't require an answer, but we know it's because his order would overrule whatever fix they have put in place to block fulfilling the petition.
 
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