If you listened to the media narrative, the inaugural address by President Trump was filled with doom and gloom. Most MSM pundits labeling the speech “dark“, “foreboding”, “negative” or “divisive“. Some even called it “out of touch” and “dystopian“.
Except, there’s a problem,…
….the vast majority of American’s liked it.
In a predictably non-discussed poll commissioned by Politico and taken by Morning Consult, not only did the majority of Americans support the speech, the even larger majority of those polled supported the message therein:
Even Politico had to concede the disconnect between the media and the electorate:
Dark. Negative. Divisive. That’s was the immediate narrative about President Donald Trump’s inaugural address.
But many Americans liked it. (more)
But wait, oh, it gets much better.
Within the actual construct of the poll (full pdf below) you can identify the MSM agenda. The questions were phrased to deliver the maximum negative response, and yet it still didn’t deliver the desired result.
The methodology was also constructed for maximum negative reply: Female respondents were over represented 53/47 (pg. 253). Democrats were over represented 37-D, 32-R, 30-I; and most brutally transparent, liberal women were oversampled within the gender sub-group: Dem Women 414, Rep Women 335, Ind Women 313 – yet the poll still shows overwhelming female support for Trump delivery, policy and agenda as queried.
(Via Politico) […] A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows that the new president’s message is resonating with voters, refuting the idea that Trump bungled his first speech as commander in chief.
Trump got relatively high marks on his Friday address, with 49 percent of those who watched or heard about the speech saying it was excellent or good, and just 39 percent rating it as only fair or poor.
Sixty-five percent of those surveyed reacted positively to the “America First” message, the cornerstone of the Trump campaign and governing posture.
Americans are looking for Trump to put his slogan into action: 61 percent said they agreed with Trump’s plan that the federal government should “buy American and hire American.” (read more)
Whoopsie, that reality punches a hole directly through the heart of the well distributed media narrative. Sheeesh, well, what do you know, the MSM was wrong again. Go figure.
Here’s the full 256 page poll pdf:
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In addition, according to the latest Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll, President Trump has flipped the approval narrative:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-three percent (43%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 42% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 33% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +9 (link)
Yup, Walking in a Winner Wonderland !
The media mistake their emotional reactions based on their liberal ideology and personal psychiatric issues for a rational appraisal — that’s the MSM.
In future , historians will look back on the “MSM phenomenon” of the late 20th and early 21st Centurty America as a bizarre time, when Leftwing ideologues assumed control of all avenues of ” news” creation and transmission and put out leftwing propaganda in the guise of objective news reporting and ” journalism “.
Clips will be shown of these bizarre media actors , and students of the future will laugh at the obvious left wing agenda and the absurd pose of neutrality, of fearless fact finders serving the public interest, all the time the antagonistic, adversarial pose is obvious…..it’ll be like The Three Stoogex.
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The sad thing, though, is that much of history is being rewritten–not just in the media but in textbooks and nonfiction books, too. So will future generations ever REALLY know the truth about these days?
Think about how researchers lean heavily on newspapers and periodicals to learn about the past, and yet those sources today are so full of falsehoods and made up “facts” that they’re about as reliable at reporting history as the comic section. It reminds me of the kings of old who completely wiped out all mention of those who opposed them!
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Yes, because we will win. Victors write the history books.
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exactly…..
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Thanks, Joe.
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I remember Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and so much of what is written about those administrations, the times, is horribly wrong, slanted.
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In college we used a history book written by the leftist professor that used a photo of President Eisenhower golfing as an insinuation that he was a do-nothing. What are the chances that Obama will similarly be depicted as a golfing president? Zero.
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The media is still getting their talking points from the globalists cabal. When Trump won the nomination and gave his speech, every single media outlet called it dark. It surprised me that every single one of them said the same thing. Then I realized every one of them had been given their talking points ahead of time and they said what they were told. Time to shut down the globalists propaganda machine. It is long overdue.We have been getting fake news for too long.
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You might not remember when patriots discovered the “JournoList,” an online email group of a few hundred presstitutes, all coordinating their messages daily. All the networks, CNN, the big newspapers and smaller ones, talking among themselves daily.
See this, and prepare to be shocked at the extent of their collusion: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/26/journolist-scandal-proves-media-bias/
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The article I linked above goes into detail about how these 400 (FOUR HUNDRED!) leftwing “journalists” collaborated in the destruction of Sarah Palin. Beyond vicious.
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That’s why I believe in the future or currently when people go to the library or click on a link you are offered two doors or links:
Door 1. What really happened in history
Door 2. What you think happened in history
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What Evil people want you to think.
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Speaking out against Trump (and America) today was former Secretary of State Madeline Albright. The old gnome declared that she was going to “convert to Islam” in protest of president Donald Trump.
http://dennismichaellynch.com/albright-announces-drastic-plan-fight-trump/
That figures since she, the entire Democratic Party and the global media elites sided with BinLaden’s Muslim terrorists in the former Yugoslavia during the Clinton Administration back in the 1990s.
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I heard that she was going to “register” as a Muslim in Donald Trump’s registry
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Coincidence or ironic that Albright said on CBS the death of 500,000 muslim kids caused by her sanctions was just an OK thing to do. I don’t think the muslims will have her, IMO.
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I think the poster children for this media period are Two Ds – Dan Rather and Donna Brazile. 50 years from now people will be shocked they continued on in their respective industries, journalism and politics respectively, instead of serving a long jail term after evidence emerged of an attempt to hijack our very essence, the political process.
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Definitely. The process of being stupid, transcending ignorance. Good one, Howie.
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Pop always told us ” Ignorance can always be educated but stupidity is for life”
I tend to believe him.
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That’s the only way to remain a liberal as you age…
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Stupid is as Stupid does. No trying to explain it, it just is.
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It helps that he’s huge and black. I bet 90% of the Leftist drones just passed him by assuming he was a righteous, Leftis wacko.
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Oh, I don’t know. Most history is written by the academics and they’re on the same side as the media. They’ll hardly indict THEIR fellow travelers. My guess is our media is more like TASS and PRAVDA in the old USSR days. THEY thought they were being believed, the regime thought they were being believed, meanwhile the people of the USSR knew they were lying through their teeth and in response not only didn’t believe them but were laughing at them behind their backs.
When George W. Bush was president (before I learned the Bushes were just the other side of the UniParty coin), I was always frustrated and angry at the media bias. Now whatever they say rolls off me like water off a duck’s back. I don’t take them seriously anymore and I think more and more of my fellow citizens are catching on, too.
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Ditto. In fact, I now lean towards the thought that Bush was simply playing his part in the grand kabuki theater that the entire uniparty complex was putting on. The amount of sympathy and empathy I wasted on W is one more nail in their coffin.
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Seems like the shadow government Sundance writes about got the message loud and clear, proof they do exist and were running the State Dept:
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Id take it with a grain of salt…I dont image people with such purported power and influence…just simply resign.
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Unless it were part of a grand plan with the final goal of impeaching Pres Trump.
It seems to me that Pres Trump’s team is ACTING like impeachment is a real threat. It seems way beyond the pale to me – would they really go THAT far – but Pres Trump has the inside information and I have to defer to the guy who has been amazingly right for 18+ months.
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Interesting take. I think if they try it that pitch forks will come out. We are on a very thin line right now.
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Never mind pitchforks. I got better.
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Hmm, maybe they hope if they leave, and before Tillerson is in. there’ll be a grand crisis that Trump can’t handle. In fact, perhaps, they are now manufacturing said crisis. Well, I can only wish them luck because whatever they are planning the Trumpster already knows of and has a plan to foil…. gosh, is this glorious or what?!
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If you look at the chart of who is leaving that someone else posted, it is all in the same sub-department area of the State department. They all reported to the Kennedy guy, and they are all up to their eyeballs in the Benghazi mess and the e-mail stonewalling. My guess is that they are already lawyering up for what could be a mess when Tillerson finds out the truth about their cover-up.
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Impeachment for WHAT?
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That is my question also…What the…???
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No impeachment. The people resigned because the were asked to resign by the Trump administration. This happens every time there is a administration change. All of these people were Obama appointees. Trump is going to put in his people.
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Yep, and unlike the Bushies, Trump will put in HIS people, not retain the Enemies.
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Yep. The 20th January official resignation day for those who are subject to it. If Trump wants any of them back and they are interested, he can hire any one of them back. Guessing that he won’t, but not impossible.
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Will likely start an anti-Trump think tank. Actually they are doing Mr. Trump a favor
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See Howie’s “Stupid” sign for their “think tank”.
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That marker is already saturated. They’re leaving since they would all be fired anyway by T-Rex.
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That’s why this a yawn…T-Rex will have no trouble filling the posts. They may have been told to go quietly. Whatever, they are gone. I would lie to see where neocon Victoria Nuland lands….she had expectations of being Hillary’s SOS
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My question is do these post need to be filled?
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Good question! Well certainly not by neocons…which likely are the type that left
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This article agrees with you. Fired!
http://nypost.com/2017/01/26/senior-staff-resigns-en-masse-from-state-department/
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Resign is code word for “fired”.
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And we’re supposed to be concerned? NOPE!
Just cancel their diplomatic passports and shut off all systems access.
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OMG…..the world is ending, the world is ending………………… Reading this guy’s article sounds like the State Department is going to be completely destroyed. There are many(maybe) intelligent people in this Country and there will be new people who are committed to Trump who will take the place of these weasels. Draining the Swamp just got a few more alligators thrown out. Amazing!!!
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Better to resign than to be fired, which was clearly in their futures.
Those of you making a big issue out of this seem yourselves to be immersed in a fog of MSM design.
Many weeks ago we understood that the first task of our new SoS was to excise those from the department whose loyalties resided elsewhere, shall we say.
Many here conceded it was going to be a herculean task, since the rot is so deep.
But have no fear: Secretary of State Tillerson will do an exemplary job of weeding out the stragglers.
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Exactly Sounds like Chicken Little around here.
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ATTENTION Democrat Senators, House Members and NeverTrumpers:
This is how it is done. If you are this upset with Donald Trump being President of the United States of America – RESIGN! Do it today and save yourselves the inevitable embarrassment of the next few election cycles.
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Love it! This would make a great billboard campaign.
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It’s a good start
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Great! Now they don’t have to be fired. .
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Exactly!
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Trump would do this nation good if he would make sure not a single one of them leaves with a pension or healthcare. They have sold this nation down the river. Are we supposed to pay them for doing that?
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Only if they were proved to be traitors to the people of the USA. And make sure it is written in the history books.
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I have no doubt that they are bailing to avoid the upcoming thorough review of their job requirements, their performance, drug tests and lie detector tests. I have every reason to believe these “Senior Officials” are thoroughly corrupt, have their hands in an International criminal conspiracy (along with Clinton, prostitution and pedophelia) and are under a constant cloud of blackmail, therefore it is better to leave now before they are compelled to initiate or participate in further criminal activity under the glaring spotlight of an ethical, law and order CIC.
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They can go work at CGI. Oops! Shuttered! Beach time🌴
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I only know one person who works for State and he’s a committed Lefty.
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I have a question (while I look for the answer myself) …. is this unusual? Is this the first time this has happened? Or is the media just trying to make people think this has happened only to Trump?
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Good question. Probably hyped up by the drive-bys, IMHO.
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No worries. DJT and team just trimming the fat. Before it’s over, many will be gone from all agencies.
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Washington (CNN) Two senior administration officials said Thursday that the Trump administration told four top State Department management officials that their services were no longer needed as part of an effort to “clean house” at Foggy Bottom.
Caution-May Be Fake News – Source and Full Story CNN Jan-26-2017:
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/top-state-department-officials-asked-to-leave-by-trump-administration/index.html
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You’re fired!
Thanks be to God.
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Winning!
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Watching the media is kinda lime watching the old TV series The Munsters
Fred and Grandpa, and Lilly and Eddie and poor Marilyn all thought they were an average working class family and were amazed that anyone thought them bizarre or strange.
Lily ( Megyn Kelly ) did look a little green even in black and white, and Fred was s grave digger at the Funeral Home and Eddie did howl like a Werewolf and Grandpa had been around several hundred years…
But they thought they were just a normal family
Just so the media mistake their bizarre take on the world as normal and are astounded that a huge n ber of people totally disagree with them
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Good analogy, except MSM are neither funny nor endearing. Lurv me some Munsters! Specially their Barris Munster Koach.
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Gaudily beautiful.
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Where is the Munster mobile? Museum or private hands?
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Today’s Rasmussen Poll has his approval rating at 59%.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-one percent (41%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 44% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 31% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +13.
Winning never will get old!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_jan26
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And Obozo had a max of +3 for the last three years..
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I don’t believe the polling companies. Rasmussen also had Hillery ahead of Trump the day of the election. Add an extra ten to twelve points to his approval rating. More like 69 to 70% approval rating.
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Exactly, we found that they were skewing the polls all along and yet now we are supposed to believe the approval rating polls. Until we can level the media playing field, this is going to go on every day. They have had the bully pulpit for so long they can’t imagine a time when they aren’t constructing our thoughts for us. Re-assign the broadcast licenses or create some conservative alternative broadcast companies.
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Pretty much what I was going to post 🙂
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“I don’t believe the polling companies…”
You are very wise, grannysue. 😉
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First, I want to say that I LOVED Trump’s inauguration speech, and I love even more the fact that the MSM hated it! Everyone who was in the room with me LOVED Trump’s speech. I thought it was clear, concise and pretty much laid bare what his strategic plan is for America. It was the speech of a business leader, not a pandering politician. When the criticism began – immediately, even on FoxNews – they actually criticized him for not making a political speech. There was no soaring rhetoric. There was no reaching across the aisle and telling his opposition how wonderful he thinks they are. Instead he called them out and put them on notice – all of them, Dem and GOP alike. The MSM were actually upset that the speech was not full of the usual BS. They criticized it for sounding like his campaign speeches. Well guess what? Those clear, concise campaign speeches got him elected! If anyone thought Donald Trump would do anything different at his inauguration, they don’t know Donald Trump.
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There was very little soaring rhetoric, true.
It’s not a speech that will be cited fifty years from now, because it’s a speech that is concerned with today’s problems.
It was absolutely the right speech at the right time. And in the here and now, that’s what’s important.
One exception: “When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice” might well be a line for the ages.
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Truth. Reality. 0 BS. Nothing for MSM to like. Everything for us to like.
“Soaring rhetoric”=total BS.
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One of the things that surely influenced the response from the left is the inclusion of God, Bible passages and more prayer than usual. There isn’t anything more threatening to their godless ideology than Christianity. President Trump is moving the (misapplied) wall between church and state down to the Mexican border.
By the way, I loved his response to Muir’s question of why the size of the Inaugural crowd was so important to him – (paraphrasing) because the people in the crowd were the forgotten men and women and he wasn’t going to let the MSM ignore them. Beautiful.
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Excellent. You nail the essence of the Media’s upset. They could never accept the complete refutation of their ideological world.
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Their failure to control the narrative is driving them more and more insane. They believed they could destroy Trump. They couldn’t
Their own impotence will drive them into deeper and deeper fits of absurdity and irrelevance.
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Nobody cares about them anymore. No credibility left.
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Certainly none of us do, but there still is a sizable number of citizens who do because they work at being willfully ignorant.
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Sanctuary Cities are being called out directly, and being put on notice. I LOVE this!
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/trump-orders-weekly-list-crimes-committed-illegals-sanctuary-cities/
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I don’t know that the sanctuary cities is such a bad idea at this point. Would make it really easy for ICE to find the illegals. That is where I could concentrate my agents in the beginning.
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Did you see the article from Sundance regarding the purge of “Illegal” identifiers in California?
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Seems to me, that if any state cannot provide robust safeguards to their voting system as to ensure lawful, valid results that are easily verified,
than the results of those elections need to be held back from being added to
the national results until such time as to be independently verified.
How can the nation allow, say California, to add their results to a national election, if they make it impossible to distinguish between legal & illegal
voters?
I can see a future Supreme Court ruling declaring the invalidity the California’s results based on the states actions now of removing “Illegal” identifiers.
Now wouldn’t that be something.
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Media Narrative Fail
Gonna be the catch phrase! All this winning is hurting my ribs!
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I can only imagine the panic among the bureaucrats at my old employer, the State Department, as Trump turns his guns on all sorts of hoary and untouchable foreign policies, assumptions, and beliefs.
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Like Holy Water sprinkled on the possessed.
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Every time these bozos in the UniParty have a get together like today’s meeting, I think of 1957 Appalachin, New York and the Fed and State Police raid catching all the Mafia bosses.
Arrest them all!
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“Most MSM pundits labeling the speech “dark“, “foreboding”, “negative” or “divisive“. Some even called it “out of touch” and “dystopian“.”
I swear, the Commietards still think they are having an election, and can’t grasp the fact that they’ve lost. They’re still using poor ol’ Hilldog’s talking points. What’s next? Trump connections to the Alt-Right and the hidden danger of Pepe the Frog?
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On a religious site that is run by far left liberals, a commenter said Trump’s Inauguration speech was “pure jingoism “.
Sigh……Too many idiots, not enough time…….
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Why does nobody ask these bozos, if Trump shouldn’t put America first, which country should he put first? China? Germany? Brazil? Mexico? I’m confused. Does any other president/monarch put another country ahead of his/her own? Except Merkel, of course, who might be President of ISIS.
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The UK Daily Mail has a very funny article: …What if Trump ran Britain?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4158346/Brexit-week-Trump-ran-Britain.html
The article concludes with an edited version of Trump’s speech.
Many people in the UK are saying good things about Trump keeping his campaign promises. A politician keeping his promises is so rare it has shocked the world. A politician who puts his own nation first has become an endangered species. Trump is showing the world that people do not have to accept what is being dished to them by the elites
What a lovely day. I keep checking Drudge, and the White House ‘what’s Happening’ page
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog
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heh, I never used to read the white House web site before Trump. The Home page for the White House displays a picture of Trump at one of his rallies – showing the huge crowd
Take that, MSM!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/
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Cool, thanks for the links, entagor. It’s great how Trump keeps using media to bypass Fake News and talk directly to the people.
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Trump’s campaign and transition sites are still up and I’m glad they are. It’s part of history now.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com
https://greatagain.gov
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No shock here. The media and Leftists are so out of touch with everyday Americans, although I think it is actually a willful blindness on their part.
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Speaking of great speeches, I just watched the livestream of Trump’s speech to the Republican Retreat in Philadelphia. Beautifully delivered, inspirational and extremely well-received!
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Wow, that was a really amazing speech! I hope our congress critters were paying attention and get with the program.
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Liberals live in their own little echo chamber and suffer from group think. I had one tell me yesterday that “No one cares about voter fraud”.
They all think everyone else agrees with them because even close family and friends generally won’t dare to debate them and suffer their insane wrath.
Big Joe lays it out for them here. I haven’t seen someone shut down a group of Libtards so successfully since Andrew Breitbart confronted those Union goons at the Tea Part event.
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((((“Big Joe”)))) “Be smart! Use your head!”
So glad Big Joe is big enough that they’re afraid to try and beat him for telling the truth.
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We are witnessing Bolsheviks trying to overturn an election. Big Joe is smarter than all of them put together and thankfully big enough that the loons were afraid to take a swing at him. He’s got it right about Margaret Sanger.
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His speech brought tears to my eyes. But I didn’t need no stinking safe space.
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In other news: ENTIRE SENOR MANAGEMENT OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT TERMINATED…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-26/entire-senior-management-team-state-department-just-resigned
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I think the MSM and many people missed the whole point of the Inauguration Address. Businessman Donald Trump was a builder/developer and I believe President Donald Trump is similarly engaged, only not in constructing world-class hotels or resorts, but rebuilding a world-class country: America. Making America Great Again is a massive project. He laid out his conceptual design in his speech and he is following through with it, after all, to a businessman “time is money.” To accomplish his project, he’s put together a top team of subcontractors, some of whom are already taking their places on site. He’s working out the financing and zoning issues. He’s erecting the barriers around the work site to keep it safe. And as of yesterday, he’s even begun the process of laying some pipe. Even though he’s only in the very early stages of the work, I am excited to think how inspiring his finished product will be.
Many, many years ago, I remember Bishop Fulton J. Sheen writing about architecture. He noted that in bygone times when things were seen as an outward expression of the unseen, architecture was enhanced with a thousand decorations. Our Lord, on the occasion of His entrance into Jerusalem said, “the very stones will cry out,” which they did as the stones burst into mighty cathedrals. But about our time, where the forces of “secularity and naturalism insist on the ultimacy of the seen and the temporal, and the meaninglessness of the spiritual and the invisible,” Bishop Sheen lamented, “Now the stones are silent, for modern man no longer believes in another world; they [the stones] have no story to tell, no meaning to convey, no truth to illustrate. When faith in the spiritual is lost, architecture has nothing to symbolize; similarly when men lose the conviction of the immortal soul, there is a decline in the respect for the human.”
I pray that President Trump’s architecture, as described in his Inauguration Address, will be richly decorated by the wonderful ornamentations of our Constitution and thereby outwardly signifying that our national faith in our spiritual roots and in each other has returned.
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Some organizational and logistical genius needs to arrange to incontrovertibly document the size of the March for Life this weekend. Then, when the MSM-LSM underreports it, initiate a tsunami of rebuttal that becomes the news of the day week month. Maximal egg on the faces of those sons of the devil, who is a liar and a murderer form the beginning.
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