The Latest: White House Issues List of 78 Attacks

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: White House Issues List of 78 Attacks

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Feb 6, 2017, 8:53 PM ET

The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EST):

8:45 p.m.

The White House has released a list of 78 attacks it describes as "executed or inspired by" the Islamic State group.

The White House says most did not get sufficient attention.

The list includes incidents like a truck massacre in Nice that killed dozens and received widespread attention, as well as less high-profile incidents in which nobody was killed.

The AP could not verify that each of the incidents had connections to the Islamic State group.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-tweets-call-shots-45298545

Recent reports conflict about the administration walking back or doubling down.

Meanwhile, I learned something today: gaslighting. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
It fits the current torrent of bulls**t in an unsettling way.

[spanone]

1. so this is the kind of shit they're spending their time on at the whitest house?

[madokie]

2. I'm sure it was passed down from alex jones

[GusBob]

3. This is a clever trick to get the press to chase their tails

And rehash all these so-called Muslim attacks

Clintons emails in the headlines everyday taught them such a trick

[pat_k]

4. "inspired by Islamic State." Guess even they can't find...

... any deaths that resulted from an attack by a person, or people, who emigrated to the location of the attack from one of the seven banned countries.

Not that it would matter if they had found such people/attacks. For any attack, the only legitimate reaction is to figure out if there was a SPECIFIC failure in intelligence or vetting, and if such a failure is found, take action to prevent such a failure in the future.

We have FAR more deadly things to fight. Inadequate access to health care remains a major killer.

The ban is akin to blowing up your house because you found some mouse droppings in your basement.

[leftstreet]

6. It's like those 'Inspired by' Perfume stores at the mall

[ck4829]

5. Multitasking - Putin asset and now a Daesh asset?

Only one group benefits from someone saying these are attacks by Daesh, that they're everywhere, etc.

It's not the unemployed, it's not the average Muslim, want to take a guess?

[NightWatcher]

7. He's making up bs "justifications" to allow him to start a war....

[pat_k]

8. I wonder if DT recognizes...

...that his entire construction of the world and his place in it is "made up."

Although I guess it doesn't matter. Whether he knows it's all a lie and doesn't care, or "believes" in the "reality" he constructs (and reconstructs moment to moment), the effect is the same.

Regardless, seems to me the overlap between DT World and the Real World is getting smaller and smaller:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028606522#post6

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Did the list include

the Fernsburg, IA incident in which Elmer Nipple, the town drunk, reported to the sheriff that a group of hooded, scimitar-wielding terrorists had beheaded the town librarian and a copier repairman and set fire to the VFW? (Later it turned out that the librarian had only a mysterious rash on her neck and the copier repairman had got his tie stuck in a copier, but the VFW did have a small fire in a waste basket and a rubber scimitar was found behind Bob's Bait & Tackle).

How about what happened in Toad Springs, TN, when three men wearing red baseball caps and ski masks stole a dozen or so packages of beef jerky from the 7-11 and then backed over the town's only fire hydrant while shouting "Allahu akbar!"? Or maybe it was something like that.

And then there was that terrible thing in Methane Hollow, AL; a guy whose name was Ali, or maybe it was Al, shot dozens of holes in the "Welcome to Methane Hollow" sign out by the county road, in a pattern that kind of looked like a crescent.

There were many other stories like these, but did we ever hear about them?

[pat_k]

10. OMG! Clearly the press IS conspiring to cover all this up!!

[procon]

11. I suspect that most of Trump's voters have ever heard of most of those foreign places.

I can't imagine that they ever ponder plight of Muslims or lament their deaths, anymore than they show any concerns for their fellow Americans.