Donald Trump and US politics

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Aim_Deep wrote:

No people arnt at fault. We've killed 25 million and staged 65 coups since WW2 thanks to FAKE NEWS like NYT and bought and sold politicians. You bet they'd get on the war crimes docket if any justice existed in this world.

The American ppl suffer enough from their exploits anyway from terrorism to anxiety (about everything poor infrastructure, schools, retirement) while they live in the hamptons cashing in.

I hope Trump can resist their 66th coup

We are liberating you from your corporate overlords. Can't say we would be eager to do this but we might be tempted to. We have to call on the bluff that you are prepared to annihilate the rest of humanity.

>trump eats his steak well done

wtf i love hillary now

I stopped eating meat last year after watching this http://www.cowspiracy.com/

Both are irresponsible if they eat meat.

wtf i hate accountability now

Trump: "Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/trump-health-care-complicated/

Nobody except, you know, fucking everyone who spent even a moment looking at the subject. Like, just for example, Barack Obama.

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SarahAustin wrote:

You do realize people get killed or otherwise attacked for spreading information, right? Anonymity is a good thing when it comes to news.

Citing anonymous governmental officials and using such "sources" for pro-war propaganda, is good? lol. I'll remind you next time when Trump pulls a "unnamed official" source out of the hat. We'll see you opinion then.

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On the other hand, the news in the US completely ignored the White Helmets aka Al Qaeda won an Oscar.

That's not true. I have seen loads of news here about this travesty but no one is intelligent enough to connect the dots. Like where the white helmets got their funding from, for one thing, their origin, and who makes up this terrorist group.

Speaking of the terrorist oscar win, I feel sorry for the film makers that did not even get their films to be considered since it was clearly fixed so the terrorists would win the oscar no matter what.

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morbo wrote:

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SarahAustin wrote:

You do realize people get killed or otherwise attacked for spreading information, right? Anonymity is a good thing when it comes to news.

Citing anonymous governmental officials and using such "sources" for pro-war propaganda, is good? lol. I'll remind you next time when Trump pulls a "unnamed official" source out of the hat. We'll see you opinion then.

Pointing to hypocrisy doesn't refute the point, it only admonishes the hypocrite. Essentially ad hominem.

I can't tell if I agree with Trump regarding anonymous sources or not.

On the one hand, I definitely think anonymous sources should be allowed; on the other hand, I think they should be not be accepted as a transference of journalistic responsibility. If I report that a specific named person made a claim that turns out to be false, the responsibility should fall on them, but if I report that anonymous sources make a claim that turns out to be false, the responsibility should fall on me. In other words, the decision to use anonymous sources should mean vouching for them as bona fide, putting up one's professional reputation as collateral (to a greater extent than usual).

Situationally, I wouldn't trust anonymous sources via CNN at all. Their reputation is in the toilet.