What’s Russian for Manchurian Candidate? And did they do a regular brain washing, or only a mini load on quick wash and spin?
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If not a PP tape, then certainly a bunch of money laundering. Azerbaijan tower for one. Irregular financing through Deutsche bank. Jared’s money problems and financing of 666. Possibilities are almost endless. This is what happens when the media fails to vet candidates early. Why else would Trumplethinskin continue to hide his tax returns? There’s bound to be all sorts of felonies.
The only way this can end well for the Orange Turd is if he can somehow keep it all covered up, but the mountain of shit is really starting to stink. It would require a lot of very corrupt people to keep this up.
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But it wasn’t just the media, what happened to the Republican machine? Their own oppo research? How did the RNC decide to roll over and play patsy?
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Because if a candidate is in bed with the leader of a geopolitical rival, and we’re made aware of that before that election but fail to act on it, it’s of course the media’s fault.
Here’s a little thing that happened on CBS news on October 19, 2016:
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Again, to be clear - I didn’t give him the bullets and @castor_troy didn’t give him the gun.
(Note: Please do NOT study any of our recent posts seeking details of our methods or procedures. There is nothing to see here. Please, move along…)
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Either laziness, or the Extorter-in-Chief has something on each of them. Frankly, the GOP thought he was a carnival barker lightweight. He tapped into a lot of anger and ignorance, and they tried to handle him like he had a semblance of ethics. Big mistake.
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That wasn’t my point. My point is that he wasn’t vetted. He never was. Certainly not like almost every other Presidential candidate I can recall. Remember Gary Hart and how they chased him down on Monkey Business? Nobody chased down Trump. They tried, but I don’t think investigative journalism is financed as well nowadays as it was back then. You know, when we had three major networks and cable was just starting. Back when the networks had enough revenue and profit to support their news loss leader.
I mean no ill will towards the media. I certainly consume enough of it.
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Oh, come now. You know it’s both. But I will give you that one of trumpp’s greatest strengths is his uncanny ability to believe his own bullshit first before regurgitating it ad nauseam until others start repeating it, and so reinforcing his own bullshit delusion. He is that crazy. Bullshit eating crazy. He gaslights himself. @williamv
eta stuff
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A thousand pardons but I’m forced to disagree. The media scrutiny Trump so assiduously invited has resulted in numerous highly negative exposés dating from decades back. It would be child’s play to list these but I’ll suggest you do a bit of searching for yourself. While the campaign was going on the USG became suspicious about a number of inappropriate contacts and other weird stuff that had come to its attention to the point that Obama went to McConnell and said we need to talk about this and say something publicly. McConnell made it a showdown and said he’d accuse Obama and the Democrats of politicizing the issue. Not vetted? Not fucking vetted? He was vetted, my friend. What happened was the utterly corrupt, nihilistic, power-worshipping Republican Party said no problemo, we don’t care, if this fuck can win then great and if not it’s a soft landing for us. When you say the media didn’t vet Trump you’re actually saying they didn’t somehow bring about the result you and most of us would have wished. He was vetted, pal. That wasn’t the problem. There was ample information available to suggest he was not fit for the office. Ample, to put it mildly. The GOP and the voters fucked this up. In the list of up-fuckers they rank higher than the media.
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I honestly think that Trump doesn’t interact with reality the way that you or I do. It probably falls more in the “deep delusion” category, but I think that whatever is “true” in that exact moment for Trump is reality. If that changes 5 minutes later, than the new thing is true, even if it directly contradicts the first thing. I guess more of a “shallow” delusion than a deep one.
I think in the old days, he used to gaslight a lot (see Miller, John; Barron, John), but his brain has deteriorated to the point where he can’t differentiate between truth and lies anymore. He’s just one big id machine, reacting to whatever shiny object is currently in front of him (on his, so-called, mind).
For the Wall Street speech, people in the US gov are trying to bring Trump down. But Trump is good, so they must be bad (corrupt) because good people wouldn’t be trying to hurt Trump.
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I love the last part of that at the 5:13 mark where Trump comments how Clinton gave away influence in the Middle East to Russia…
And I am reminded of that, watching the video, on the day Trump has Erdoğan at the White House.
F’n laughable, sad and genuinely scary all at the same time.
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Even before Trump became Pres., there was a great deal of willful ignorance of Trump’s past. He had already tapped into his base at that point. The media did cover some of the big dirt to emerge such as the Access Hollywood tape. There was other stuff which seemed to die quietly, such as anything written by David Fahrenthold. They even gave him a Pullitzer for reporting his mostly legless stories. I think an other thing that happened, apart from the willing support of Trump’s base was that the media tends to make nice whenever possible and they also saw the immense entertainment value of Trump. They didn’t want to kill that goose. The result of the p-grab comment was a fluke actually. It turned out that it also played well with the base, and by embracing that they could also own the Libs by being deplorable. Finally, other stories deemed to be truly damning were actively blocked by Trump and sometimes with help from the Enquirer.
edit: The media has underestimated Trump’s ability to mesmerize them, and he does it everyday.
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I meant metaphorically, of course, but I’m sure everyone understands that.
(If they don’t, you know the drill)
One delusion of Trump which has been remarkably constant is that he is never wrong. That is the fixed reference around which everything turns.
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Probably closer to the way I, @rucleare, and @playitagainrowlf do.
That the Trilateral Commission/Illuminati/Vatican Council is real, there is a global cabal of people who orchestrate the large-scale events across the globe (both for personal entertainment and the profit and influence of the larger entity), and that you’d better not cross them or you will have some problems.
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Well to be fair Agent Orange can get all Putin needs him to know from Russia’s FSB.
OK. I will reverse course and agree with your assessment. I also like the idea of placing a very large dollop of blame on Yertle.
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Except that in Trump’s world the TC/I/VC is obsessed with him. They’re all gunning for him 24/7/365. They want his money. They want his fame. They want his success. He knows it. It has to be true. Believe him.
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You’re a lot more generous than I am.
What I saw in him from the beginning was a small-time crook with an inheritance. In the hothouse that was New York City, he grew that “gift” into a lifetime of tawdriness, cruelty, and crime.
As for his method …
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Well, that part is the delusion.
This part is true.
I’d say concerned might be a better term. His reign wasn’t supposed to go this route, Mattis and Kelly had both sworn a goat’s-blood oath on it in front of The Council (I hope I’m not revealing anything that’s not already public knowledge?).
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