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[GigaloRob]

I'm right about trump being an unqualified buffoon. I kinda do feel sorry for all the ignorant people that bought into his lies. Now he's making "you" the supporters look stupid, and even though the facts are put right in front of your face's, your incapable of excepting them.
#lolfakenews

I'm still waiting for one fact from you. Quick tip, before calling other people ignorant learn how to use you're/your correctly. When you learn that move on to learning the difference between "excepting" and "accepting". Just to refresh my memory, you are the self proclaimed more intelligent one since you didn't vote Trump right?

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[Winning ... LMAO]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The man credited with honing Donald Trump’s populist message and guiding him into the White House has grown frustrated amid continued infighting in the West Wing, so much so that in recent weeks a top donor had to convince him to stay in his position.

Five people, including a senior administration official and several sources close to the president, tell POLITICO that Bannon, one of Trump’s closest advisers, has clashed with the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who’s taken on an increasingly prominent portfolio in the West Wing. Bannon has complained that Kushner and his allies are trying to undermine his populist approach, the sources said.

Republican mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, a longtime Bannon confidante who became a prominent Trump supporter during the campaign, urged Bannon not to resign. “Rebekah Mercer prevailed upon him to stay,” said one person familiar with the situation.

Another person familiar with the situation, a GOP operative who talks to Mercer, said: “Bekah tried to convince him that this is a long-term play.”

Bannon has worked closely with Mercer not only at the right-wing website Breitbart News, where her family is a major investor and where he served as executive chairman until joining the Trump campaign in August, but also at Cambridge Analytica, the data-analytics firm owned largely by the Mercers. Bannon is a part owner of the firm, though he’s trying to sell his stake, and until recently he served as vice president of the company’s board.

The White House said that Bannon had not taken any steps to leave, and Bannon told POLITICO that any suggestion he threatened to resign was “total nonsense.”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

In an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday, President Trump claimed former national security adviser Susan E. Rice broke the law — without saying which law or providing any evidence.

But that's only the second strangest claim he made.

Also in the course of the interview with Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, Trump maintained that Democratic Rep. Elijah E. Cummings had told Trump that he would rank among the best presidents ever.

TRUMP: Elijah Cummings was in my office and he said, “You will go down as one of the great presidents in the history of our country.”

MAGGIE HABERMAN: Really.

TRUMP: And then he went out and I watched him on television yesterday and I said, “Was that the same man?”

There is precisely zero chance this is true. None. Zip. Nada. As journalists, we are trained to be circumspect — to always allow for the possibility of something we don't know to be 100 percent true. It's why journalists don't accuse Trump of lying when he says things that are clearly untrue. But there is just no chance, unless Cummings's whole political career is a lie and he's a secret sleeper agent for Republicans who is really, really playing the long game after 20 years. Flattery is a big part of the game in politics, and you can guarantee all kinds of disingenuous praise is offered in private settings. But, just, no.

The most logical explanation is the one offered by Cummings, a Congressional Black Caucus member from Maryland.

He explained in a statement to The Fix: “During my meeting with the president and on several occasions since then, I have said repeatedly that he could be a great president if … if … he takes steps to truly represent all Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”

This is Trump's fabulism in action. He hears a comment like that, lops off the all-important “if” part, and takes it as a compliment. And then he takes that perceived compliment and amplifies it by a factor of about four; “great president” becomes “one of the great presidents in the history of the country.”

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[WTF! US Strategic Command is linking to Breitbart "News." ...]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Stephen K. Bannon has proved remarkably talented at creating a media mystique around himself. With his diligent assistance, he has been portrayed as both a virtuoso of deliberately orchestrated disruption and an avenging angel to working-class people (such as his father) who have been betrayed by global and financial elites. Bannon cleverly wields chaos to destabilize those elite foes in service of an economic nationalist mission that borders on Messianism.

But now Bannon is being primarily viewed inside the White House as a destructive force, and other senior advisers are trying to undermine him in the eyes of President Trump himself, according to multiple reports out this morning. Those reports undercut the narrative of Bannon as a Maestro of Disruption, and they also provide an occasion to probe the true nature of his self-ascribed economic nationalism.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[As long as Bannon is there ... Eyes Wide Open ...]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[Will Nunes still be in the loop ...]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Conspiracy Theorist in Chief
http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-conspiracy-theorist-in-chief/

It was bad enough back in 2011 when Donald Trump began peddling the crackpot conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not a native-born American. But at least Trump was just a private citizen then.

By the time he tweeted last month that Obama had sunk so low as to “tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process,” Trump was a sitting president accusing a predecessor of what would have been an impeachable offense.

Trump went public with this absurd accusation without consulting the law enforcement and intelligence officials who would have disabused him of a conspiracy theory he apparently imbibed from right-wing media. After the FBI director debunkedit, Trump held fast, claiming he hadn’t meant that he had been literally wiretapped.

Most people know by now that the new president of the United States trafficks in untruths and half-truths, and that his word cannot be taken at face value.

Even more troubling, though, is that much of his misinformation is of the creepiest kind. Implausible conspiracy theories from fly-by-night websites; unsubstantiated speculations from supermarket tabloids. Bigoted stories he may have simply made up; stuff he heard on TV talk shows.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016

This is pathetic, but it’s also alarming. If Trump feels free to take to Twitter to make wild, paranoid, unsubstantiated accusations against his predecessor, why should the nation believe what he says about a North Korean missile test, Russian troop movements in Europe or a natural disaster in the United States?

Trump’s willingness to embrace unproven, conspiratorial and even racist theories became clear during the campaign, when he repeatedly told tall tales that seemed to reinforce ugly stereotypes about minorities. Take his now famous assertion that he watched thousands of people in “a heavy Arab population” in New Jersey cheer the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11, an astonishing account that no one has been able to verify. PolitiFact rated that as “Pants on Fire.”

Or his retweeting of a bogus crime statistic purporting to show that 81% of white homicide victims are killed by blacks. (The correct figure was 15%.)

On several occasions he retweeted white nationalists. (Remember the image of Hillary Clinton and the star of David, for instance?)

His engagement with, to put it politely, out-of-the-mainstream ideas has attracted some strange bedfellows. It may not be fair to attribute to his senior aide, Steve Bannon, all the views that were published on the controversial alt-right site Breitbart.com, of which Bannon was the executive chairman. But it is certainly fair to wonder why Trump has elevated to a senior West Wing position a man who has trafficked in nonsense, bigotry and rank speculation.

Of course it was widely hoped that when Trump came into office he would put the conspiracy theories and red-meat scare stories behind him. Perhaps the “lock her up” mantra and the fear-mongering about Mexican rapists and the racial dog whistles and the assertions about Ted Cruz’s father’s connection to Lee Harvey Oswald — perhaps all that was just part of a cynical bid for votes, and it would go away when the election was over.

“ He is allowing the credibility of his unimaginably powerful office to be exploited and wasted on crackpot ideas. ” Share this quote

But there’s no sign of that. Trump seems as willing to mouth off today as he was on the campaign — about wiretaps, inauguration crowds, fraudulent voters, you name it. And the problem with that is that he is no longer a blowhard TV personality or a raunchy guest on Howard Stern or a self-promoting real estate magnate or even a long-shot candidate for the Republican nomination. He’s now the president of the United States, and he is allowing the credibility of his unimaginably powerful office to be exploited and wasted on crackpot ideas that have been rightly discredited by politicians from both parties.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

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I'm right about trump being an unqualified buffoon. I kinda do feel sorry for all the ignorant people that bought into his lies. Now he's making "you" the supporters look stupid, and even though the facts are put right in front of your face's, your incapable of excepting them.
#lolfakenews

Oh, i see what we're dealing with here. What we have here is someone who believes everything he reads and everything Hollywood tells him is truth. Just look at the daily show segment he reposted as though it was the gospel of Christ instead of a comedy aimed at leftists.
@Morefyah when you've been asked repeatedly to give some kind of data to back up your claims, and your reply is to post a Comedy Central flick, it doesn't really make you look like a political authority. If you'd have kept up on the few decent discussions we've had here, you would understand why there is a large portion of this country who actually sees the media for what it is. I understand though, that would mean trying to find a needle in Dr Scallys haystack

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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