The republicans pandering to creationists is basically why we're at this stage where some incompetent buffoon is head of the states. You simply no longer have any ability to gauge truth when you can't accept news sources that don't say the earth is 6000 years old and dinasaurs and humans lived together. There is no reliable news source that can claim to deliver news if it also has to assume all the animals in the world got together 2by 2 and walked to a boat in the middle east and then walked all the way back again.

When people use the term "special little snowflake", I can't help but think of you, there is nothing more special than pandering to adults who hold those sort of beliefs.

When you use google, how many pages do you have to go before you find news that suits you?

Clearly you're heavily restricting your range of news sources, then.

I'm not looking for anything to suit me, rather to get some idea of what is happening with the situation. I typically do not take stories at face value, and rather read between the lines. Now if you were to look at the stories going around, you'll find that the vast majority of them are people's opinions, agendas, feelings, sentimental analysis, fears and prognosis. In other words, the vast majority of content out there is subjective. The trick is looking for the objective reality buried within them. By the time you find any, what you'll find is the vast majority of it is fake or trash.

Did he really believe he would run the USA all by himself? Hmm.

The US Presidency is not a dictatorship. Talk of Trump being fascist dictator is a ridiculous far-fetched fantasy. The structure of the US government and the constitution doesn't allow for it. The functional power of the presidency is more like the rudder of a ship, it points towards a direction, and the rest of the machine drives it there.

Fake news and alternative facts ...

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515630...ative-language

Yeah, I'm counting on that.

48 Democratic senators vs 52 Republican senators are running the Senate. Guess who they're going to support.

Hmmm... quite a lot of Swedish society are wondering about their own governments fake news..

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-0...ed-hate-speech

Could it be that a Yank president cares more about Swedish people than the Swedish government ???

Not that I want to be defending the schmuck, but listen closely to what he actually says. At no point dies he actually say there was a terror attack in Sweden yesterday.

What he says may be disconnected, or even a gross misrepresentation of the state of affairs in Sweden, but he isn't telling any lies. He is just spouting the kind of rubbish as he has from the beginning (which is not all that different from a great many politicians).

So when the press, be they domestic or foreign, try to take him up on not telling the truth his response is quite simple: "Where did I claim there was a terrorist attack in Sweden?"

He's playing oneupsmanship. He's pretty good at it.

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I am sure your bot will make considerably more authentic posts than yours

He says "look what happened in Sweden yesterday".

So, maybe he can explain to me what did happen, because nothing happened.

I think his audience understood what Trump was talking about. In the case of Sweden, the soaring rape and crime rates associated with migrants. There was ungoing riots in Paris the night before, that is blacked out in the media. It seemed like he was referring to the whole of Europe, as we in the US have a tendency to do sometimes.

He talks loosely and off the cuff. The people he was talking to understood what he meant. The people in Sweden, on the other hand, likely steered away from their own cover-ups and denials about their situation.

I'm sure you and Sandgrounder would respond to my bot posts as well.

Perhaps he would. I think you would need a twitter account to be able to ask him.

It's just verbal chaff.

Nothing happened in Sweden yesterday? I'm sure something happened.

He said ""We've got to keep our country safe," he said. "You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden."

So what did happen last night in Sweden according to Trump?

"I think his audience understood what Trump was talking about." Likely so, this is a good example of the US decline.
This is the antithesis of “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

No, nothing ever happens in Sweden.

Hell, I've never even gotten a speeding ticket there!

Tom

"There was ungoing riots in Paris the night before, that is blacked out in the media. " So how did you get to hear about them? Telepathy?