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kpete

(72,056 posts) Sun Jun 10, 2018, 11:38 AM Jun 2018

KRUGMAN: You're bothsidesing a debate where one side isn't even wrong, just completely insane

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It's normal to feel that people you disagree with politically are offering bad solutions to our problems. But Trump has brought something new: his policy agenda is almost entirely directed at problems we don't have -- problems that exist only in his warped imagination 1/

These include:
- A wave of violent crime by undocumented immigrants
- Massive illegal voting by the same
- Massive Canadian tariffs against US goods
- Conspiracy by the Elders of Zion to take over the world

OK, he hasn't actually gone after point #4, but give him time 2/

Journalists obviously have a hard time coping with all of this. They're afraid to say that the president is completely out of touch with reality -- that sounds "unbalanced." So, all too often, they pretend that he's talking about something real 3/

This amounts, in practice, to huge pro-Trump bias: you're bothsidesing a debate where one side isn't even wrong, just completely insane And the other dodge -- instead of talking about the substance, talk about how it's playing with Real Americans in diners -- is just as bad 4/

There's a test taking place as you read this: Trump defenders are out there claiming that Justin Trudeau, not Trump, blew up the summit. This is pure gaslighting; how many reporters will pretend to take it seriously? 5/

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KRUGMAN: You're bothsidesing a debate where one side isn't even wrong, just completely insane (Original Post) kpete Jun 2018 OP

Frankly it's been like this for years but Trump took it to a hyper level underpants Jun 2018 #1

#4? heaven05 Jun 2018 #2

Kudlow is on the SOTU replay now spinning the G7. House of Roberts Jun 2018 #3

media is normalizing KT2000 Jun 2018 #4

+1,000,000 happy feet Jun 2018 #5

Krugman cuts through the crap to tell the truth. suffragette Jun 2018 #6

underpants

(183,043 posts)

1. Frankly it's been like this for years but Trump took it to a hyper level

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jun 10, 2018, 11:50 AM

Jun 2018

and it's pretty damn clear he isn't a pawn or stooge of Putin's but an agent.

Did he wait to get on the plane simply because he's a coward or because he needed to contact Putin to find out what to do? That may sound crazy but shit look where we are.

Nothing in the Republican "ideas" have ever worked. Either as they claimed or as they really meant unless destruction really was the goal. Nothing. Economics National Security Finance nothing.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

2. #4?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jun 10, 2018, 12:13 PM

Jun 2018

he follows alec jones, a personal friend of his and is still advised by bannon. I think he does think this way somewhere in that putrid, disease-filled mind in a brain replete with racist, bigoted hate. Although probably not the kind of hate or fear he holds for AA and Hispanic peoples