US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

Laugh at Trump all you want but I don’t remember Obama stopping plane crashes.

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Trump's tiny hands guide all the planes down safely.

FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE THINK THAT'S A GOOD TWEET

Partridge Iciclebubbles wrote:Laugh at Trump all you want but I don’t remember Obama stopping plane crashes.

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Apparently there have not been any commercial crashes of US airlines since 2009. Well done Obama.

That said coal mining deaths have doubled in the last year so presumably that's Trump's fault. Actually given they have been rolling back regulations, it might be!

PostRe: US Politics by **Garth** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:05 pm

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The first hard data on fake-news consumption has arrived. Researchers last week posted an analysis of the browsing histories of thousands of adults during the run-up to the 2016 election — a real-time picture of who viewed which fake stories, and what real news those people were seeing at the same time.

The reach of fake news was wide indeed, the study found, yet also shallow. One in four Americans saw at least one false story, but even the most eager fake-news readers — deeply conservative supporters of President Trump — consumed far more of the real kind, from newspaper and network websites and other digital sources.

On 289 such sites, about 80 percent of bogus articles supported Mr. Trump.

The online behavior of the participants was expected in some ways, but surprising in others. Consumption broke down along partisan lines: the most conservative 10 percent of the sample accounted for about 65 percent of visits to fake news sites.

Pro-Trump users were about three times more likely to visit fake news sites supporting their candidate than Clinton partisans were to visit bogus sites promoting her.

The study found that Facebook was by far the platform through which people most often navigated to a fake news site. Last year, in response to criticism, the company began flagging stories on its site that third-party fact-checkers found to make false claims with a red label saying “disputed.”

Most people in the new study encountered at least some of these labels, but “we saw no instances of people reading a fake news article and a fact-check of that specific article,” Dr. Nyhan said. “The fact-checking websites have a targeting problem.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/heal ... beral.html

Conservative boomers more likely to visit fake news sites - shocking!

Reminds me of a BBC report on fake news recently where they were saying how we have to find a way to teach younger generations how to better differentiate between fake news and facts, which is good of course, but at the time I was thinking "well what about all the older people who are more likely to believe that gooseberry fool?".

PostRe: US Politics by **Garth** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:17 pm

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Mitt Romney. A man who wears special Mormon underwear. What can he do that other Republicans critical of Trump can't do?

Grumpy David wrote:Mitt Romney. A man who wears special Mormon underwear. What can he do that other Republicans critical of Trump can't do?

Well, since all his dirty laundry got aired in the 2012 race, presumably he's less blackmailable, less give-a-fucky and more of a challenge for Trump and his politician supporters.

Could well be planning on another run at the presidency in 2020, too.

I really hope Trump doesn't end up being the nominee for the Republicans in 2020 as his reaction would be super funny.

Grumpy David wrote:What can he do that other Republicans critical of Trump can't do?

lose his primary

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I'll take 'overcompensation' for $1000, Alex.

Hexx wrote:

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It is a different level of stupidity that makes you like that and actually applaud his actions. He is the most dangerous man in the world and he needs putting down.

Nuclear dick waving, never thought he'd get so obvious about it.

Alvin Flummux wrote::lol: Nuclear dick waving, never thought he'd get so obvious about it.

Didn't he threaten to destroy North Korea at the UN? I've started goading him on twitter when he makes these tweets.

lex-man wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote::lol: Nuclear dick waving, never thought he'd get so obvious about it.

Didn't he threaten to destroy North Korea at the UN?

Well, yes, but there's threatening to destroy a country (as Ahmadinejad once did with Israel IIRC), and then there's the "MY nuclear button's MUCH bigger AND more powerful than yours" willy waving you'd expect from a four year old.

Christ almighty, what an embarrassment to America this dangerous idiot is. I hope he doesn't last the year.

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Fusion GPS have had enough of being the GOP preferred villain in the Russia inquiry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

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