**** Elections thread *****

[wufwugy]

So I take it you're happy he hasn't given a press conference since winning? Keeps the hoaxing media from asking him anything about all the promises he's planning to break?

I would prefer him to give zero press conferences. The media are such sophisticated liars that they put Goebbels to shame. If I was president, I'd do only direct messages and interviews on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.. The sooner the media that are trying to turn the West into the USSR are out of a job, the better.

[Poopadoop]

I would prefer him to give zero press conferences. The media are such sophisticated liars that they put Goebbels to shame. If I was president, I'd do only direct messages and interviews on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.. The sooner the media that are trying to turn the West into the USSR are out of a job, the better.

Some would say it's Trump trying to control the media that is reminiscent of the USSR. What does the media do to make America more authoritarian?

[wufwugy]

Some would say it's Trump trying to control the media that is reminiscent of the USSR.

Trump does not run the news networks. The propaganda is on the networks themselves.

What does the media do to make America more authoritarian?

On the elections level, they support the authoritarian candidate no matter what. They've turned the country into a race war and a gender war, and these have been used to galvanize support for authoritarian politics and demonize liberty politics. They've rewritten history at virtually every level. They've convinced people that the German national socialists of the 40s were not socialists, and they have used this lie to paint the western values derived from the Enlightenment as right-wing extremism. They have brainwashed the masses to loathe Christians who don't want to bake a gay wedding cake while defending Islamists who throw gays off buildings.

This is only the beginning and none of it comes close to their biggest lie: that they tell the truth.

So no-one gets to contest your views and decisions in public then? Never get asked a tough question? Ok, Putin

They have the fullest right to do so. And they will do so. And if I don't live up to their standards they will vote me out. Putin is an entirely different situation since Russians don't actually have the right to protest him and he is unelected.

Trump is so far the most accessible president. Accessible is not the same as playing theater with corrupt media organizations.

Next you will be saying Trump should abolish the NY Times.

If you think that, you don't consider the things I say much.

[Poopadoop]

Trump does not run the news networks. The propaganda is on the networks themselves.

Every media source has an angle. The MSM gets lambasted for being biased, but other sources of 'news' are often worse. If Trump himself, alone, gets to decide which form the propaganda takes, be it news networks, facebook, or Breitbart News, then that ain't news, that's Pravda.

On the elections level, they support the authoritarian candidate no matter what. They've turned the country into a race war and a gender war, and these have been used to galvanize support for authoritarian politics and demonize liberty politics. They've rewritten history at virtually every level. They've convinced people that the German national socialists of the 40s were not socialists, and they have used this lie to paint the western values derived from the Enlightenment as right-wing extremism. They have brainwashed the masses to loathe Christians who don't want to bake a gay wedding cake while defending Islamists who throw gays off buildings.

Alex Jones sounds like a level-headed guy after reading this.

This is only the beginning and none of it comes close to their biggest lie: that they tell the truth.

Uh, right.

They have the fullest right to do so. And they will do so.

How will they if you don't let them anywhere near you? If the only people who get to interview you are the ones you hand-select?

Trump is so far the most accessible president. Accessible is not the same as playing theater with corrupt media organizations.

If by 'accessible' you mean he gathers the media in his office and berates them, then yes i agree. If you mean he allows them to speak to them in unstructured press conferences where he doesn't get to set the rules, then no i disagree. More like the least accessible.

If you think that, you don't consider the things I say much.

That was a throwaway comment based on your apparent arguments that the media is evil and Trump is going to destroy it - or whatever you've been talking about. To be honest a lot of your posts are tl;dr.

[Poopadoop]

The media are such sophisticated liars that they put Goebbels to shame.

As opposed to Trump, who is the kind of boldfaced liar Goebbels would be proud of

If I was president, I'd do only direct messages and interviews on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc..

So no-one gets to contest your views and decisions in public then? Never get asked a tough question? Ok, Putin...

[Poopadoop]

Next you will be saying Trump should abolish the NY Times.