"The butt of global jokes": who might this be? (Talk Trump)

[Tero]

Vengeful Trump has personal issue with Montana poltician:
While a handful of red state Democrats could fall on Tuesday, no other Senate contest has become so single-handedly competitive, because of Trump's own involvement. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Donnelly of Indiana were always facing steep challenges, while Tester was seen as the senator most likely to glide through a difficult Democratic year.
Until he agitated Trump.
The President said Saturday he has not forgiven Tester for raising questions that ultimately led to the embarrassing withdrawal of Dr. Ronny Jackson, Trump's personal physician, as the nominee for secretary of veterans affairs.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/03/politi ... cnn.com%2F

[Seabass]

Once again, the Trump swamp maneuvers so that the referee is on their side.

Next-in-line Mueller supervisor got White House ethics waiver in April

A senior Trump administration official in line to become special counsel Robert Mueller’s new supervisor if there’s a Justice Department shakeup secured White House approval earlier this year on what critics say is a potential ethics hurdle that could have kept him from assuming the high-profile role.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco has long been considered a likely candidate to oversee Mueller’s Russia probe if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is fired or quits. But the 49-year-old conservative lawyer has also been dogged by conflict of interest concerns because he previously worked as a partner at Jones Day, the same law firm that represents Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the Russia probe.

Officials at the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have been arguing for months that to oversee the Mueller probe, Francisco would require a White House waiver to circumvent a Trump executive order that decreed employees must recuse themselves from work on any matters involving previous employers going back two years.

Turns out, Francisco actually got a White House waiver of that type in April. It’s not clear what triggered the waiver or if it had anything to do with Mueller’s investigation, but a senior Justice official on Friday downplayed its significance and insisted the department isn’t aware of any impediments to Francisco taking over responsibility for managing the Mueller probe if Rosenstein left his position.

more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/ ... ver-959425

[Seabass]

This man does not value human life in the slightest.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1058170900875489280

[Tero]

Another Hollywood liberal:
I gather the song "Don't Lie to Me" is not about a busted love affair.

Barbra Streisand Addresses Trump In New Song: 'Don't Lie To Me'
NEW MUSIC
Barbra Streisand Addresses Trump In New Song: 'Don't Lie To Me'
No. I started off trying to create that so that more people could relate to it in a way — lovers who go through this all the time. But it's like that joke: A woman walks in and her husband is in bed with another woman. She gasps, and he says, "Well, who are you going to believe: me or your lying eyes?" I guess it's about lies: The lies that are coming out of this administration are very unpleasing, unsettling. Maybe that means so much to me because I was lied to as a child. I've based my whole career on telling the truth.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/03/66254753 ... -president

[Brian Peacock]

...
According to a report by Good Jobs Nation the outsourcing of US jobs by federal contractors rose to the highest annual level on record in Trump’s first year in office with federal contractors sending 10,269 American jobs abroad, almost triple the 3,801 in the last year of the Obama administration...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... _clipboard

[Animavore]

Scarily familiar.

Mussolini’s success in Italy normalized Hitler’s success in the eyes of the American press who, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, routinely called him “the German Mussolini.” Given Mussolini’s positive press reception in that period, it was a good place from which to start. Hitler also had the advantage that his Nazi party enjoyed stunning leaps at the polls from the mid '20’s to early '30’s, going from a fringe party to winning a dominant share of parliamentary seats in free elections in 1932.

But the main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a joke. He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” His “countenance is a caricature.” He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan.

When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post. Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.

Yes, the American press tended to condemn Hitler’s well-documented anti-Semitism in the early 1930s. But there were plenty of exceptions. Some papers downplayed reports of violence against Germany’s Jewish citizens as propaganda like that which proliferated during the foregoing World War. Many, even those who categorically condemned the violence, repeatedly declared it to be at an end, showing a tendency to look for a return to normalcy.

Journalists were aware that they could only criticize the German regime so much and maintain their access. When a CBS broadcaster’s son was beaten up by brownshirts for not saluting the Führer, he didn’t report it. When the Chicago Daily News’ Edgar Mowrer wrote that Germany was becoming “an insane asylum” in 1933, the Germans pressured the State Department to rein in American reporters. Allen Dulles, who eventually became director of the CIA, told Mowrer he was “taking the German situation too seriously.” Mowrer’s publisher then transferred him out of Germany in fear of his life.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... FgGefLB.01

Can't believe we're allowing history to repeat itself. We've learnt nothing.

[Tero]

Robert Reich: Trump's Numbers Are Bad – VERY BAD

Robert Reich: My faith in America is undiminished. Trump is the least popular president since modern polling began, 13 presidents ago. He's back in last place in approval ratings at this number of days after being sworn in of any president. And his "net" approval (subtracting disapproval) has been the worst among those 13 presidents every day of his presidency.

And remember – this is a time of relative peace and prosperity. Presidents are normally popular when unemployment is low and the economy is growing. That Trump is so massively unpopular is a truly astonishing achievement.

[Brian Peacock]

Source Tero?

[Tero]

It gave no source, it was on FB, copied pasted. Maybe look under Robert Reich abd FB?

[Sean Hayden]

How anyone can think consistently losing elections while winning the popular vote is a cause to celebrate their faith in America is beyond me.

Wake the fuck up dude.

[Animavore]

A. Fucking. Disgrace.

Trump blames media for 'anger and division' after visit to Pittsburgh synagogue

A day after visiting the site of the nation's latest mass shooting in Pittsburgh, President Donald Trump accused the media of sowing division in the nation with outlets' coverage of protesters who came out to oppose his visit.

"Yesterday's visit to Pittsburgh was about coming together to heal. After this day of unity and togetherness, I came home and sadly turned on the news and watched as the far-left media, once again, used tragedy to sow anger and division," Trump said.

The crowd broke into chants of "CNN sucks, CNN sucks."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-c ... 3Wswv_kjN9

[Hermit]

Scarily familiar.

Mussolini’s success in Italy normalized Hitler’s success in the eyes of the American press who, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, routinely called him “the German Mussolini.” Given Mussolini’s positive press reception in that period, it was a good place from which to start. Hitler also had the advantage that his Nazi party enjoyed stunning leaps at the polls from the mid '20’s to early '30’s, going from a fringe party to winning a dominant share of parliamentary seats in free elections in 1932.

But the main way that the press defanged Hitler was by portraying him as something of a joke. He was a “nonsensical” screecher of “wild words” whose appearance, according to Newsweek, “suggests Charlie Chaplin.” His “countenance is a caricature.” He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan.

When Hitler’s party won influence in Parliament, and even after he was made chancellor of Germany in 1933 – about a year and a half before seizing dictatorial power – many American press outlets judged that he would either be outplayed by more traditional politicians or that he would have to become more moderate. Sure, he had a following, but his followers were “impressionable voters” duped by “radical doctrines and quack remedies,” claimed The Washington Post. Now that Hitler actually had to operate within a government the “sober” politicians would “submerge” this movement, according to The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. A “keen sense of dramatic instinct” was not enough. When it came to time to govern, his lack of “gravity” and “profundity of thought” would be exposed.

In fact, The New York Times wrote after Hitler’s appointment to the chancellorship that success would only “let him expose to the German public his own futility.” Journalists wondered whether Hitler now regretted leaving the rally for the cabinet meeting, where he would have to assume some responsibility.

Yes, the American press tended to condemn Hitler’s well-documented anti-Semitism in the early 1930s. But there were plenty of exceptions. Some papers downplayed reports of violence against Germany’s Jewish citizens as propaganda like that which proliferated during the foregoing World War. Many, even those who categorically condemned the violence, repeatedly declared it to be at an end, showing a tendency to look for a return to normalcy.

Journalists were aware that they could only criticize the German regime so much and maintain their access. When a CBS broadcaster’s son was beaten up by brownshirts for not saluting the Führer, he didn’t report it. When the Chicago Daily News’ Edgar Mowrer wrote that Germany was becoming “an insane asylum” in 1933, the Germans pressured the State Department to rein in American reporters. Allen Dulles, who eventually became director of the CIA, told Mowrer he was “taking the German situation too seriously.” Mowrer’s publisher then transferred him out of Germany in fear of his life.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ ... FgGefLB.01

Can't believe we're allowing history to repeat itself. We've learnt nothing.

Yes, parallels abound. I am particularly alarmed by how today's right wing use of the expression "fake news" mirrors Nazi Germany's use of "Lügenpresse".

Unfortunately sloppy research weakens any argument, even if the mistake is not relevant to it. So I regretfully note one such made in the above article. It did not take a year and a half for Hitler to rise from chancellor to dictator. He became chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. About seven weeks later, on 23 March 1933, parliament passed the Enabling Act, making him dictator.

[L'Emmerdeur]

That mirroring wasn't enough for the wanna-bes; they glommed onto the original term.

[Hermit]

That mirroring wasn't enough for the wanna-bes; they glommed onto the original term.

Richard Spencer used it quite pointedly in this speech at 0:37,



but the openly neonazi types can be easily dismissed - for the time being - as the lunatic fringe. More alarming are the millions of Trump supporters who consider themselves as merely right of centrists, moderates or even liberals, who keep banging the same drum without using the German expression itself.

Look at Coito Two, for example. He keeps banging that drum without even explicitly using the American equivalent while sourcing the bulk of his information from sites like Breitbart, the daily caller et al "because it is true". I have yet to hear a word of criticism of those sites by him. No bias mentioned ever, nor a comment about their birther articles, pizzagate or any others that twist reality out of recognition. In contrast, he jumps on any and every mistake and spin committed by the mainstream media with the greatest alacrity.

To be honest, left of centre television news reportage has me feeling increasingly jaded. It's been swamped, almost bulldozed, by infotainment and opinion presenters. Kimmel, Maher, Colbert, Oliver, deGeneres, Maddox and a truckload of others are the mirror image of Hannity, Jones, Coulter, O'Reilly etc insofar as they are not content to simply tell you what (allegedly in case of the latter group) has happened. They insist on telling you what and how to think about it in the same breath. I long for the return of the days of Walter Cronkite, Brian Henderson and the investigative journalists that provided their material, but that is not even on the cards. The vast majority of the audience has been so cretinised by now that it is no longer capable of digesting serious reportage. It can barely take in 10-second soundbites, threadbare sloganeering and worn out clichées. Colour and movement is the only item remaining on the news menu. It rates, and because that's where the advertising revenue comes from, that's the programming we get, no matter if it is spun from the left or the right angle.

[Seabass]

Speaking of infotainment!

"This is one of the greatest threats this nation has faced in my lifetime."