This isn’t surprising. The media has a long history of pushing what is interesting, not what is important.
I am 75% sure if Trump launched an air strike on Russian or Chinese soil, and Melania flashed her tits at the press conference, they would lead with the tits story.
Haha yeah, that’s working great so far.
well, yeah. Theory/practice. But, you know. In principle. 
Remember when Republicans hated the Fairness Doctrine?
I have been wondering if Trump is a natural demagogue or calculated. Still waiting for an answer.
I just read the interview with Bush (video didn’t work for me) and wow, he sounded so reasonable!
“We have to make life better for people because if people have a bleak outlook on life they can be recruited as terrorists” is 100 times better then “we will bomb the fuck out of the entire country that produced that handful of terrorists we hate”. I know the results Bush produced were not great but at least he could pretend he did it with good intentions.
Saudi Arabia? Or America?
Since he said he won’t take any cards off the table when it comes to using nukes, even on Europe. I think the answer to your question could very well be: Yes.
So on top of everything else, Trump’s now made me agree with Axl Rose? Fuck’s sake…
I like these Biden memes!
Gannett Newspapers, helpfully telling us what DT’s lawyers want us to think.
The distractions are hard to keep track of.
“Hamilton” and SNL are distractions from
the “Trump University” fraud settlements,
which are a distraction from
Bannon and Nazis,
which are a distraction from
alienating Muslims with a “clash of civilizations,”
which is a distraction from
the bond market losing $1 trillion over three days in anticipation of Trump exploding the deficit,
which is a distraction from
possibly dismantling NATO,
and reignite reigniting nuclear proliferation, in support of Putin, while Trump owes hundreds of millions to Putin’s oligarchs,
which is a distraction from
the over $650 million he owes Bank of China,
which is a distraction from
his business partners who stand to profit when the Dakota pipeline goes through,
which is a distraction from
Trump wanting to continue having rallies instead of governing,
which is a distraction from
something else, I just haven’t figured it out yet.
You should google that Hamilton sex tape, though.
He’ll find those that do. Do any of Murdoch’s properties have the equivalent of Fox? There have to be Brexit-peddlers that would be happy to give the British equivalent of a sloppy kiss.
There’s plenty calculated, but he’s not smart enough to do so alone.
Someone on Sky News will suck up to him.
I think the idea of how to “hack” Trump is right in here. I think one of the major contributors to his election was focusing on what a jerk he was, his attitudes towards women and minorities, rather than on the fact that he is essentially a criminal, a pirate, who will rob you blind if he can get away with it. There are unfortunately many people who agree with Trump’s(and Pence’s) views. That is another problem altogether.
Anyway, pointing the finger at Trump and calling him a racist doesn’t bother his overtly racist backers, and to his other backers, this just looks like name-calling and over-exaggeration, and it is(if not far off the mark, ultimately). It appears exactly the same as all the outrage when Obama was elected. The fear of Obama(as an individual) spreading communism, etc, etc, was irrational, but appears, from the outside, to be exactly like the fear of Trump(fairly rational).
Over the years, the right has co-opted the methods, and rhetoric that were traditionally used by the left. Grassroots movements, protest rallies, etc. This has created a false equivalency(not as if I invented this idea myself, Fox’s “Fair and Balanced” news has quite obviously been equating facts with opinions and outrageous paranoia for some time, as most are aware).
In conclusion, I’d say the the traditional means of “change” no longer have the effect they used to, and the bad guys are way ahead in terms of using the internet for their agenda. There is another BB article about how making “elite white” twitterbots to scold online racists seems to be effective. More thinking along those lines is needed.
Why would the media have devoted as much attempt to that?
I agree that tactics need to change, but focusing on that he’s a charlatan… his fans think he’s a genius and believe that the wealth he was born into proves his business acumen. You need something more asymmetric. Or, again, for the media to care about anything but the emails Clinton conspiracies that the right has been spoonfeeding them for decades.
Perhaps your right, but wasn’t the whole problem with Hillary was that she’s “corrupt”? Trump seems to be the embodiment of the word.
“Corrupt” is a term exclusively used to tar the Left.
Do not mistake it for anyone being concerned about Trump’s moral compass.
The original idea behind the Electoral College was to prevent people like Trump from becoming president. The framers of the Constitution considered a popular vote for president to be too dangerous; the Electors were supposed to be reasonable people who would recognise candidates who were unfit for office and not vote for them. (It may be interesting to note that the framers of the Constitution didn’t buy the idea of political parties, which accordingly have no role in the Constitution at all.)
Today, of course, Electors are picked for their party loyalty, and very rarely vote otherwise (although it does happen). In fact in various states they are bound by law to vote according to the popular vote in that state, although the constitutionality of such laws has been called into question. Clinton could in theory still become POTUS if 37 “Republican” electors decide not to vote for Trump after all, but it is a long shot on the order of a few light years.
