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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAscribing STRATEGY to Trump's CLUSTERF#CKERY is the New Incarnation of "Both Sides-ism."
Remember the MSM and their Obama Era obsession with BOTH SIDES-ism? The Republicans were acting like petulant children, intent on burning the government and the country to the ground, rather than letting Obama have any political victories. The greatest example was in 2012, when Obama proposed a payroll tax holiday to stimulate economic growth...and the Republicans (many of whom had suggested the idea in the first place) initially obstructed it! REPUBLICANS...blocking a TAX CUT...to prevent the black guy from getting a legislative victory. Uh huh.During the Obama era, you could draw up a list of examples of Republicans acting like asshats that was THREE YARDS LONG. The Democratic party list was about three lines long. But, every time the MSM had a panel discussion on one of the 300 examples of Republican assholery, they just HAD to include one of the three examples of Democratic party assholery so they could claim 'BOTH SIDES.'
BOTH SIDES act like children, rather than responsible political leaders.
Well...that was the pre-Trump version of Both Sides-ism. We now have a NEW incarnation of it.
Whenever Democratic presidents did something, they'd put some thought into it. There was a strategy behind it. Trump, by contrast, blunders, and stumbles, and tweets his way from one clusterfuck to another without any thought whatsoever. If there is any strategy at all behind what Trump does, it's usually designed to distract from his crimes, get cheers at a political rally, or appease the voices in his head, as he reads the latest conspiracy theory on Brainfart.com
But, apparently, the NEW both sides-ism is the give this maniac the benefit of the doubt. To assume there MIGHT be a strategy behind Trump's clumsy, sporadic, floundering around like a catfish in the bottom of a row boat.
All day I've been watching the MSM say "Why did Trump cancel the meeting with North Korea? It's EITHER because he's an idiot who has no strategy...OR, perhaps, because he's playing three dimensional chess. Yeah, that's it. The art of the deal..."
LISTEN, YOU IDIOTS IN THE MSM! Rest assured...TRUMP IS NEVER PLAYING THREE DIMENSIONAL FUCKING CHESS! Can you just DROP THIS? The press is facing an EXISTENTIAL THREAT because people don't believe what you say anymore. AND THIS is a perfect example of WHY! If you ascribe THOUGHT to a politician who OBVIOUSLY HAS NONE, just so you can APPEAR to be 'unbiased,' you simply DESTROY YOUR OWN CREDIBILITY.
GET IT? By PRETENDING that Trump MIGHT have a strategy behind his stumbling into one pile of shit after another, and dragging the country with him, YOU are destroying your own credibility. YOU!
You've been warned.
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Ascribing STRATEGY to Trump's CLUSTERF#CKERY is the New Incarnation of "Both Sides-ism." (Original Post)
TrollBuster9090
May 2018
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Are you reffering to Chuckie Todd?
One of the Masters. Throw in K C Hunt as well as Mrs,Greenspan. Oh,don't forget Joe Scab.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)2. Hear, hear!
Oneironaut
(5,492 posts)3. I really hate that, in our current environment, there's a perceived need to cover "both sides" of
the argument. It's like they're trying to be so fair that they're not being fair at all - just ridiculous. If Trump says something that is obviously not true, isn't it kind of stupid to pretend that there's some validity to his claims? That''s exactly what the MSM does sometimes.
lame54
(35,284 posts)4. Obama's a liar too...
He said we could keep our own dr.
Anything else?
Not that I can think of