POTUS Trump Thread

[powderfinger]

The coinage of "fake news" is an own goal of epic proportions by Dems. Great idea to adopt a phrase that can so easily be turned around by Republicans to perfectly express their decades-long campaign against the credibility of mainstream media.

[viachicago]

The coinage of "fake news" is an own goal of epic proportions by Dems. Great idea to adopt a phrase that can so easily be turned around by Republicans to perfectly express their decades-long campaign against the credibility of mainstream media.

and they created the entire notion of "mainstream media" to attack its credibility and lend credence to the notion that outside, fringe, or conspiratorial voices are the actual vessels of truth

[VHGisdead]

The thing that annoys me the most about "fake news" is it was originally meant in regards to the blatant lies Trump kept telling before the election, then he took it and forced it to mean the opposite.

edit: I see that's been covered.

It was originally used to describe actual hoax news spread on social media

[VHGisdead]

When I say originally, I mean with reference to the 2016 election. Obviously the term had been around longer than that

[Shalabi]

Mainstream media does not include the #1 cable news network apparently

[palmer eldritch]

I don't think "the democrats" had anything to do with the coinage of fake news. it was a term used in the media in a few stories shortly after the election to classify the actual fraudulent news that circulated on facebook, twitter, and phony websites. the term was immediately turned around by the alt-right and infowars

then it made its way to Hannity

and then DJT started using it shortly thereafter

[The Dirty Turtle]

The thing that annoys me the most about "fake news" is it was originally meant in regards to the blatant lies Trump kept telling before the election, then he took it and forced it to mean the opposite.

edit: I see that's been covered.

It was originally used to describe actual hoax news spread on social media

ya, even using it to describe inaccuracies is not how it first got used

[tgk]

[Frank]

The scary thing about "fake news" is how effective it's been as an attack

a big pet peeve I have these days is when people adopt this as a joke phrase or try to turn it around on Republicans.

absofuckinglutely

[Feech La Manna]

man December 2016 feels like a fucking lifetime ago

[bongo]

yeah no one should be using fake news colloquially

[hbb]

It truly was, for my adorable 1 1/2 year old nephew

[Feech La Manna]

Charlottesville feels like it was 3 years ago and it hasn't even been a year

[jalapeño ranch]

The thing that annoys me the most about "fake news" is it was originally meant in regards to the blatant lies Trump kept telling before the election, then he took it and forced it to mean the opposite.

edit: I see that's been covered.

It was originally used to describe actual hoax news spread on social media

ya, even using it to describe inaccuracies is not how it first got used

That was poorly worded. I should've said lies Trump was spreading from Breitbart, etc.

[saranclaps]

I dropped the ball on the cult deprogramming shit.

[tgk]

that asshole be arrested yet wtf

[snuggle]

Love to cool down with a little Issa on a hot day like today

[KALM]

Time to repost this:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/24/dont-look-back-ryan-lizza

[tgk]

[Shotfrog]

Let's not be too hasty

[Feech La Manna]

When u lose the snowball guy

[tgk]

[Feech La Manna]

damn they got to Bodo Hombach

[palmer eldritch]

honkin on bodo

[easy]

oh shit todd bonzalez, too

[delgriffith]

Bodo Hombach's deleted scene from Solo was so good.

[Feech La Manna]

::extremely Scott voice:: BODOBOS!

[trouble]

isnt that the guy with the fucked up face in double dragon

[tgk]

Love to be a European troubleshooter

[Feech La Manna]

he has sick hair