Trump voters to President: Stop Twitter rants

Discussion in 'Political Discussions' started by Abner, Mar 30, 2017.

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  1. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Tweet tweet tweet!

    Trump supporters watch his Twitter feed for unfiltered thoughts - CNNPolitics.com

    "In some situations, that's an excellent thing because he's able to get the word out very quickly and perhaps get reactions and responses back," said Wood. "But at the same time, it creates a possibility of engaging your mouth before you've engaged your brain."

    "I think he rants and raves. He doesn't think about it," said McCommons, who said his opinion of Trump has changed for the worse, in large part because of his tweeting. "I think he can do a lot better things with his time."

    No wonder his approval ratings are down to 35. I suspect they may even dip down to 30 if can keeps up his bizarre behavior.
     
  2. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    Because CNN is such a valid and respected news source. :lmao:

    That means that Trump should go full steam ahead with his Tweets; when the opposition tries to discredit something you're doing, then redouble your efforts, because it's working brilliantly.
     
  3. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Yes brother Bruce, he should continue tweeting and continue to lose credibility.
     
  4. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Bruce is right, you know. One of the effects when a news medium becomes openly hostile to an administration (or embracing of it) is that one can never take anything they say about it at face value.
     
  5. Abner

    Abner Well-Known Member

    Like I said, he should continue to tweet his conspiracy theories.
     
  6. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    With who, CNN and the people who are going hate him even if he cures cancer?

    CNN and the rest of the mainstream media are incensed because Trump has marginalized them. He doesn't need them to get his message out to the American people, and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it.

    What are they going to do, boycott news coverage of President of the United States?
     
  7. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member


    The passage of time has marginalized them. Disruptive technology has. Now anyone is the press if wishing to be, just as was intended here in this U S of A.
     
  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Well, except now that we've run that scenario we've found out what we get are a lot of nutjobs and BS artists, whether Infowars or Occupy Democrats or what have you. So critical deconstruction of media reports is as important as ever, whether mainstream or independent.
     
  9. me again

    me again Well-Known Member

    CNN, MSNBC and the leftist mainstream media are clearly partisan. They don't even hide it anymore. That's why Fox News and other alternative medias and internet sources have become more popular than the leftist mainstream media. The divide continues to widen.

    A conservative used to say that "liberalism is a mental health disease." In retrospect, and after seeing the antics of the leftist mainstream media, it appears, indeed, that that conservative is correct when he says that "liberals who are advocating socialism are mentally ill." The socialists/communists are completely out-of-touch with financial and economic reality.
     
  10. me again

    me again Well-Known Member

    SteveFoerster, nutjobs (your term) on MSNBC and CNN are occasionally interesting to tune-in to. Chuck Todd and Charles Manson are both interesting to watch, but only for short durations. They are both intense, but not necessarily in a good way.
     
  11. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  12. me again

    me again Well-Known Member

    7 years + 9 months remaining of the Donald Trump presidency

    ALL of the polls indicated that Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton would trounce Mr. Donald Trump in the presidential election. And all of the polls and MSM articles continually presented it as a "case closed" issue. And post-election, the dubious polls and MSM articles are continuing, which lends zero credibility to the leftist MSM agenda, which is DOA.
     
  13. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    You say that like Fox News is any more respectable. But as we recently saw on this very forum with their ridiculous hit piece about UMT, that's clearly not so.

    Yes, there are conservatives who like to say that, and there there neurologists who have pointed out that conservatives tend to have larger amygdalae than average, suggesting disproportionate reaction to fear. But specious public diagnoses of those with whom we disagree is one of the least helpful aspects of political discourse these days, so perhaps it's best to skip them.
     
  14. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    That's actually fair, and the same was the case with Brexit. Polls can no longer be trusted. Whether that's because of bias or because it's too hard for pollsters to get a representative sample may be debatable, but from a practical standpoint I suppose it doesn't matter which is the case.
     
  15. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    I'm sorry, but so says the person who sources his news on U. S. foreign policy from Russia Today.

    MSM is terribly flawed, and also the best overall source of news we have. World is not perfect (also, water is wet).
     
  16. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    You can't draw conclusion on any source's credibility from a mistake if every single other source made the same mistake. Also, the last polls had Clinton winning by 3%; she won by 2%. Actually pretty accurate, considering how hard it was to take into account Comey's actions in real time.
     
  17. me again

    me again Well-Known Member

    The Russians are a very proud and honorable people, the exact same as the Ukrainians and Canadians. There is no difference.
     
  18. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    I voted for Trump. I don't need CNN to tell me what I'm thinking.

    I like Trump's use of new-media to bypass the journalists and communicate directly with the people. (I have little respect for the journalistic "profession".)

    But I do think that the character limit on Twitter makes it difficult to say very much. I'd like to see Trump create his own website, where he (or his media spokespeople) can post longer essays setting out his views on various things. (Especially issues where he thinks the mainstream media are misrepresenting him.) They could include little daily summaries about what he did each day to 'MAGA'.

    That way people like myself can get it straight from the source, without all the New York media elites trying to tell me what conclusions I should be forming about it.
     
  19. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    You really should examine what supporting Trump is doing to you. As far as I can remember, you never was so prone to mislead through sheer non sequiturs before. I was referring to RT, formerly known as Russia Today, a TV network. Steve mentioned that he sometimes uses RT-produced online content as source of information, Well, Russia Today happens to be a vile propaganda outlet of evil regime openly hostile to the West and, specifically, US.

    Incidentally, right now, I would hesitate to call Russian people, a majority of whom prop up their corrupt leaders for basically ethnic-supremacist reasons, "honorable"; even though I'm basically 50% Russian myself. That society is seriously ill.
     
  20. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    Fair enough, although I fail to see how CNN could misrepresent your thinking unless you were interviewed for the piece.

    And why do you think he'd make more sense on his website rather than in his interviews (which is not much)? Ghostwriters?
     

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