World is Falling Apart Thread (Locked forever)

[marurun]

You meant to say that Trump says made-up stuff about the media, because you're not crazy, right?

[marurun]

So, when one designs polls, it is important to word questions neutrally. Leading questions suggest the answer, and thus automatically sway the results. And then you get a train wreck like this.

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstr ... ty-survey/

I shit you not, this legitimately came out of the Trump administration.

[Sarge]

It's a fund-raising effort; it's not supposed to be neutral. It's preaching to the choir to get them to go, "Yeah, you're right! Here, take my money!"

I managed to find this from the DNC back in 2013, and it's the same sort of stuff.

http://my.democrats.org/page/s/survey-2013

(And yes, I roll my eyes at fundraising efforts like this.)

(Also, technically, it's the RNC and the Donald J. Trump for President PAC, not the administration.)

[Tanooki]

Trump goes crazy over the stuff the media cooks up about him by whatever means at their disposal. I think both parties are full of shit basically. Both sides are telling some truth, some massaging the truth, and both outright being manipulative liars depending on which gotcha point is being thrown around.

Yarmuth in this area is a scumbag who was the owner/main editor of a sham tabloid local scumbag print called the LEO. He's well connected and could fabricate or blow anything out of proportion he can get on someone or doctor up to make a win. Years ago he took down a barely right leaning woman who was a treasure for this community. She helped the inner city minorities and not, didn't matter how much cash you had or what color you were, she was an asset. Brought projects and project money into the community and helped things out. The fucker was losing in the polls and couldn't dredge up anything damning enough to stick, so he found an older image of her shaking hands with George W Bush when he once came to town for some event where it's common courtesy to shake a sitting presidents hand if he extends it like him or not. He spun that into her being his best friend, agreeing with all his policies, and basically being his political bitch clone essentially which was patently false.

But he won, he got the media along with his own newspaper to run with that crap and conned the county into throwing her out. 2 years later she tried to get back in, and he just dug that up again, and that's it. He already did some corrupt stuff that cost the county tens of millions of dollars just to help some of his rich hack friends. (He delayed a bridge/tunnel project on the east side of town to help complete a freeway over the Ohio started 50 years ago.) It only just finally got constructed a few years ago and recently finished because his obstructionist garbage got dragged into, through and finished in courts. He should have been thrown out of office.

[marurun]

I managed to find this from the DNC back in 2013, and it's the same sort of stuff.

http://my.democrats.org/page/s/survey-2013

That one also has some leading questions, but compared to the Trump one it is a bastion of neutrality (and it really isn't, but the Trump one is just that bad.)

I was unsure of the actual source. I figured the RNC wouldn't be quite as rabid crazy as Trump and thus attributed it to Trump by default. I am quite disappointed to learn that the RNC is probably behind it.

[Ack]

Well, to keep things interesting, here is an article about the lessons the US could learn from the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the border fence between India and Bangladesh:

http://thediplomat.com/2017/02/the-indi ... for-trump/

[Betagam7]

Has anyone figured out what happened last night in Sweden yet?

Did Trump accidentally tune into an episode of Wallander and mistake it for Fox News?

[marurun]

I have no idea what's up with Sweden. Have you learned anything?

Fox News took Reince to task for Trump's war on the press. Even defended Obama's criticisms of Fox News by comparison. I think Trump may end up with only Breitbart (not news in the least) to defend his honor.

[Tanooki]

There's actual truth to what Trump said but the moron played a game of wordly tossed salad with it not explaining at all.

Apparently and I hope you don't mind my using foxnews.com for this, but it does explain it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02 ... -wave.html

Supposedly Sweden is having some big migrant crime wave and being that Trump is a twitter addicted picked up on a police officers facebook posts about the issue and used it. The cop spoke on his own merit and after it went viral due to people annoyed at all the migrants in Europe he got in trouble some for ranting about the crime wave in his area by his bosses.

This is taken from the piece here and I would also suggest to go to the link and click the image of his facebook post and blow it up and read the contents.

"Police investigator Peter Springare isn’t likely to be among those mocking President Trump for his remarks about refugees in Sweden.

Trump’s comments during a Florida campaign rally on Saturday – which some took as a misstatement about a supposed terror attack – dovetail with what Springare has been seeing during a typical week in Orebro, Sweden. Five rapes, three assaults, a pair of extortions, blackmail, an attempted murder, violence against police and a robbery made up Springare’s caseload for a five-day period earlier this month, according to a Feb. 3 Facebook post he wrote. The suspects were all from Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and Turkey – save for one Swedish man nabbed in a drug-related case.

“Mohammed, Mahmod, Ali, again and again,” Springare wrote of those arrested."


That's what sparked it right or wrong. He's a cop, he and his coworkers know the people they bust in a regular week and since they opened the doors to refugees from the middle east a majority of the crimes according to him (as I'm not going to go digging up police records for a forum post here ) suggest muslim majority country migrants.

Dumbass Trump shouldn't have said 'last night' that's what got him in trouble for yet another stupid mouth gotcha moment. Had he worded it as such saying I saw this story online from a Swedish cop and his work history has shown.... since.... there wouldn't be much of a story here.

[jp1]

Oh... so Trump takes his information from social media of biased individuals.

This is certainly more credible than biased news orginizations. Especially since it supports his narrative.

The blinding stupidity of Trumpians is really too much. I just can't...I'm beginning to lose my sanity.

"Conservatives think liberals are stupid." Oh, that is a deep belly laugh. The conservatives who are likely to feel this way are without a doubt the people who liberals know are indeed stupid.