Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Chicks]

McConnell doubts Trump can save his presidency.

Hope you're right, Mitch!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/u...ell-trump.html

[Pio1980]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/u...ell-trump.html

[Chicks]

Study: Trump supporter's alarming reliance on fake news. Idiots.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-in-1-chart/

While we observe highly partisan and clickbait news sites on both sides of the partisan divide, especially on Facebook, on the right these sites received amplification and legitimation through an attention backbone that tied the most extreme conspiracy sites like Truthfeed, Infowars, through the likes of Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse, to bridging sites like the Daily Caller and Breitbart that legitimated and normalized the paranoid style that came to typify the right-wing ecosystem in the 2016 election. This attention backbone relied heavily on social media.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Study: Trump supporter's alarming reliance on fake news. Idiots.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-in-1-chart/

While we observe highly partisan and clickbait news sites on both sides of the partisan divide, especially on Facebook, on the right these sites received amplification and legitimation through an attention backbone that tied the most extreme conspiracy sites like Truthfeed, Infowars, through the likes of Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse, to bridging sites like the Daily Caller and Breitbart that legitimated and normalized the paranoid style that came to typify the right-wing ecosystem in the 2016 election. This attention backbone relied heavily on social media.

Important research here. I am struck by the qualitative difference in the media diet of Democrats vs. Republicans. A LOT more crap in the Republican media diet! Brietbart #1 in online cites by "Trump supporters."

But I haven't seen, in this research, a discussion of the impact of bots. A lot of the cites by "Trump supporters" may be generated by bots, not by real human beings. That could distort these findings.

See the original research report, here:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/h...pdf?sequence=5

The first takeaway is support, with $, reliable mainstream media--the best counter to crap media (under current law). Second takeaway IMHO is tho thing hard about current law. New technology/media may require new laws. Are bots 'free speech?'

[Chicks]

James Clapper: Trump unfit for office. F'ing GOP congressmen need to get the dangerous idiot out of the presidency.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politi...ntv/index.html

[Chicks]

White supremacists loved Trump's hate filled speech last night. I'm sure our resident bigots did too.

http://gizmodo.com/white-supremacist...-in-1798336898

[Chicks]

Another Republican you just gotta love, Ana Navarro. She's as disgusted by Trump as any thinking person.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/34...aving-dementia

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Another Republican you just gotta love, Ana Navarro. She's as disgusted by Trump as any thinking person.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/34...aving-dementia

Thanks for the link, and love this tweet.

Trump rallies inevitably draw some who are pretending to be human. No brain activity. No beating heart. No soul. Episode of The Walking Dead

Divider in Chief is another description for this man child.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Another Republican you just gotta love, Ana Navarro. She's as disgusted by Trump as any thinking person.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/34...aving-dementia

Oh yes, love seeing Ana Navarro take it to Trump and his chickenshit enablers. (grin)

[finnbow]

Several members of yet another of President Trump's advisory councils have decided to quit, the White House confirmed Tuesday.

A number of those sitting on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), who were appointed under the previous administration, submitted their resignations on Monday evening, one day before the panel was scheduled to hold its quarterly business meeting.

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecur...cture-security