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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 08:44 AM Jan 2017

The "TrumpRegrets" Twitter page is where the REAL Inauguration "ceremony" is being held.

Premise is pretty simple...the folks behind this page apparently re-tweet tweets which have @realDonaldTrump tagged and exhibit no small degree of buyer's remorse.

https://twitter.com/trump_regrets

Relationship Tweets
‏@realshipss
@realDonaldTrump You piece of shit, i regret voting for you

https://twitter.com/realshipss/status/819768189928116224

CJUSA 🇺🇸
‏@CJUSA2
@realDonaldTrump Hey DJT you really like Russia huh? I voted for you sadly you fraud. Hear you like young prostitutes?

https://twitter.com/CJUSA2/status/821613783688839169

DJSoundSorcerer
‏@DJSoundSorcerer
@realDonaldTrump 1st time ever I voted republican..Now I wish I never did. I have AIDS that is pre existing, meds are 10k guess i die now?

https://twitter.com/DJSoundSorcerer/status/820887791747747840

Ian Pound
‏@IanRpound
@realDonaldTrump Jesus man... BreitBart? Man I voted for you... Don't retweet White nationalist stuff

https://twitter.com/IanRpound/status/821521610079408128

Truth Teller
‏@truthteller213
@realDonaldTrump you lied to the American people about persecuting Hilary I'm ashamed of you

https://twitter.com/truthteller213/status/801441651034091520

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danielbotnick
‏@danielbotnick
@realDonaldTrump I voted for you, but, your tweets sill make you sound like 2 year old - or worse. Give it up or you're a 1 termer.

https://twitter.com/danielbotnick/status/821084511291187201

Alex S
‏@Alexp799
@realDonaldTrump you are fake. I'm sorry I fell for your lies and voted for you. Just shut your ignorant mouth. I'm sick of your tweets.
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The "TrumpRegrets" Twitter page is where the REAL Inauguration "ceremony" is being held. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2017 OP
A lot of credit needs to be given to the media who gave him a free pass on most everything. This is still_one Jan 2017 #1
Media didn't lie about WMDs cyclonefence Jan 2017 #2
Major news organizations aided and abetted the Bush administration's march to war. They based their still_one Jan 2017 #3
Well, the msm were vocal enough cyclonefence Jan 2017 #5
Yes! colorado_ufo Jan 2017 #12
Hillary didn't make the claim of WMDs, that was the bush administration, of which Powell still_one Jan 2017 #19
When MSNBC DK504 Jan 2017 #14
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 demonstrated just how the media allowed themselves still_one Jan 2017 #20
Is this why dump tweeted.. the media makes him tweet? Cha Jan 2017 #4
"Are you sorry yet?" MountCleaners Jan 2017 #6
Wow. That's stunning. progressoid Jan 2017 #22
The news media treats Trump's tweets as if they are actual news. world wide wally Jan 2017 #7
Seems that half are upset about his tweets The Polack MSgt Jan 2017 #8
More Trumpette Tears can be found here... Joe Bacon Jan 2017 #9
wow!!! what comments bdamomma Jan 2017 #11
can we call this bdamomma Jan 2017 #10
Too bad, so sad! hatrack Jan 2017 #13
Here's the important thing. ananda Jan 2017 #15
Yep, about every fifth post is "Yer not gonna persecute KILLERY! Yew PROMISED!!!" hatrack Jan 2017 #16
Yeah... Miles Archer Jan 2017 #18
I'm starting to think hells Jan 2017 #17
K&R smirkymonkey Jan 2017 #21

still_one

(92,192 posts)
1. A lot of credit needs to be given to the media who gave him a free pass on most everything. This is
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 08:53 AM
Jan 2017

the same media who lied to us about the WMDs in Iraq, and swayed public opinion based on that lie.

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
2. Media didn't lie about WMDs
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:57 AM
Jan 2017

They reported what Colin Powell, among others, reported. But the media also covered the multiple congressional investigatory trips to Iraq which found no evidence of WMDs, as well as Hans Blix's reports. News contrary to the Bush line about WMDs was easy to find and prolific.



still_one

(92,192 posts)
3. Major news organizations aided and abetted the Bush administration's march to war. They based their
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:27 AM
Jan 2017

reporting on rumors, shaky claims by top officials, and unnamed sources that were reported as fact.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-iraqis-us-says-hussein-intensifies-quest-for-bomb-parts.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Knight Ridder was one of the few that actually reported the facts:

"How easy or difficult was it, in your view, for the average interested citizen back in 2002 to find out what was going on in Iraq?

Very difficult. But not so much to find out what was going on in Iraq. It was very difficult for the average reader, or TV viewer or internet browser to find out the truth about Saddam’s connection with Al Qaeda and international terrorism, about the real state of his nuclear weapons program, and to find out about the real honest assessment of his weapons of mass destruction program."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/the-reporting-team-that-g_n_91981.html

but their voice was not heard because the other outlets were pushing the double speak

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
5. Well, the msm were vocal enough
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:47 AM
Jan 2017

for me, a middle-class housewife in the suburbs, to know that multiple expeditions to Iraq by multiple agencies had found no reason to believe Iraq had WMDs, and if I knew it, why didn't Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell know it? I don't read Mother Jones; I do read the Philadelphia Inquirer. I listen to news on NPR, and at that time I didn't watch news on TV. I was, I think, an average, middle-of-the-road consumer of normal news, and I knew it.

still_one

(92,192 posts)
19. Hillary didn't make the claim of WMDs, that was the bush administration, of which Powell
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:57 PM
Jan 2017

was a part.

What Hillary acknowledged as a mistake, was that Bush appealed to Congress that the IWR vote would allow that administration to use leverage in order to finish the inspections, because the threat of force in the resolution would persuade Hussein into readmitting U.N. inspectors, so they could continue their mission of verifying whether or not he had destroyed his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites.

The problem was that bush went back on his word, and invaded before giving the inspectors enough time.

There was a tremendous amount of MISINFORMATION going on at that time, and if you looked at the links I provided it demonstrated that. The New York Times apologized for their inept reporting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html?_r=0

While there were some news sources, such as Knight Rider, and others who got it right, the majority the U.S. news outlets were primarily echos of white house propaganda.


DK504

(3,847 posts)
14. When MSNBC
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:36 AM
Jan 2017

fires their highest rated show with Phil Donahue who was telling the truth about the mounds of bullshit being thrown around.

He was contradicting his own network with facts, so they fired him.

The networks were so afraid of being against W., cause you were either 'with him or against him'. The "news" casts bent over to make themselves look 'patriotic', they were afraid.

still_one

(92,192 posts)
20. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 demonstrated just how the media allowed themselves
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 01:01 PM
Jan 2017

to be used as a propaganda machine for the bush administration

Cha

(297,240 posts)
4. Is this why dump tweeted.. the media makes him tweet?
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:30 AM
Jan 2017

danielbotnick
@danielbotnick
@realDonaldTrump I voted for you, but, your tweets sill(sic) make you sound like 2 year old - or worse. Give it up or you're a 1 termer


Too bad about the brainwashed masses

world wide wally

(21,743 posts)
7. The news media treats Trump's tweets as if they are actual news.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:01 AM
Jan 2017

This, in itself, is a huge problem since he always lies and they can't seem to figure that out.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
11. wow!!! what comments
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:14 AM
Jan 2017

between tRump and the republican congress repealing the ACA they are falling down like a deck of cards. it is collapsing .

ananda

(28,862 posts)
15. Here's the important thing.
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jan 2017

Even though they're pissed at Trump,
they do not regret not voting for Clinton.

They still hate her a lot worse!

These are very sick people!

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
18. Yeah...
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:37 PM
Jan 2017

...I see many comments on Twitter along the lines of "I knew what we were getting with her, but I hoped you'd be better."

They should have "known" what they were getting with their Trump vote.

hells

(141 posts)
17. I'm starting to think
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 12:34 PM
Jan 2017

that someone should make a tRump supporter registry. Voting for the biggest idiot you can find just because "fuck them libtards sjws crybabies" and then saying that you regret it is not enough. These people need to be reminded of their stupidity as long as the orange man is in office.

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