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NanceGreggs

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Tue Aug 22, 2017, 01:03 AM Aug 2017

MSM Please STFU [View all]

I realize that media bobbleheads are not about to blurt out the obvious fact that Donald Trump is an idiot. Fine. It’s apparent to everyone, so we really don’t need this particular piece of late-breaking news.

But for fuck’s sake, could they at least stop the pretense that he is anything other than an Idiot?

Day-in/day-out, the news networks opine on “Trump’s agenda, Trump’s plans, Trump’s strategy, Trump’s thoughts” – as though such things exist.

Here’s a newsflash for the news media: Trump has NO agenda, NO plans, NO strategy, and NO thoughts about anything to do with his responsibilities as pOTUS – none, zip, zero, nada.

Since his election, Trump’s “agenda” has been denying his collusion with the Russians, along with denying that the Russians interfered in our elections in any way. He has furthered that agenda 24/7 – even as he handed over highly classified information to Russian operatives in a “secret meeting” held in the Oval Office. His agenda – as with everything else – is focused on making himself (and by extension, his family and close advisors) look innocent of wrongdoing, especially as the evidence of their guilt reaches monumental proportions.

That “agenda” is not about the well-being of the country or the citizenry – never has been, never will be. It’s about a self-serving blowhard whose only “agenda” is promoting his own “brand” and lining his own pockets while calling the truth “fake news”, and trying to distract the country from his oh-so-obvious treasonous behaviour.

Trump’s supposed “strategy” has only one purpose: to cover his own ass as he takes credit for things he never accomplished, as he speaks incomprehensible gibberish while pretending to know what he’s talking about, as he spends his days trying to distract from the fact that he’s not only an Idiot – but a treasonous idiot who is desperately trying to convince the country that what they see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears is “fake news”.

His “plans” have been focused on scheduling his day around watching TV, tweeting, and lining-up his next golfing weekend. His “plans” are always all about him. No one else matters – no one else counts. He has spent more time “tweeting” absolute bullshit than he has addressing the actual concerns of a nation; he has spent more hours on the golf course than he has addressing the economy, healthcare, tax reform, and all of the other challenges we face as a country.

To discuss Trump’s “thoughts” is to accept that he is a thinking man – which we all know he’s not. His “thoughts” are rambling, incoherent covfefe – an endless spewing of lies, non-facts, and self-aggrandizing bullshit. His only “thoughts” are about himself and using the power of his office as a means to denigrate his perceived enemies – from Rosie O’Donnell to Meryl Streep to food critics who panned the fare at his hotel restaurants.

As we saw in the past week, while his ire knows no bounds when stores refuse to carry Ivanka’s clothing line, his anger does not extend to the KKK and white supremacists. Even his alleged devotion to his family didn’t prompt him to denounce the anti-Semites who denigrated his own Jewish daughter and grandchildren. Let’s remember that the man who has insulted our allies and accused Obama of (a) being a non-citicizen and (b) committing a felony by wire-tapping him, lost no time pointing out that the KKK and white supremacists included “fine people”.

All of the above is known, indisputable fact. The idea that the MSM persists in discussing Trump’s “plans, agenda, strategy and thoughts” is nothing more than an attempt to “normalize” the abnormal, and tart-up absolute bullshit as something other than what it obviously is: absolute bullshit.

It’s bad enough that throughout the 2016 campaign, the MSM ignored Trump’s provable lies, his history of cheating people out of their money, the fact that he used funds from his “charitable foundation” to pay personal debts – the list goes on.

Now that Trump has declared the MSM “fake news”, you’d think they’d at least stop discussing his “plans, agenda, strategy and thoughts” as though such things actually exist. They don’t. Honest journalists should be exposing them as what they are: figments of the Idiot’s imagination that have no basis in fact, and no connection to reality.

Listening now to the MSM trying to 'splain Trump's meandering, incoherent speech tonight is like listening to a bunch of eight-year-olds trying to explain quantum physics - without the cute factor that children invariably invoke when they try to describe something they obviously don't understand.

The "pResident" is an Idiot - everyone knows it. Isn't it time that the mainstream media acknowledged the obvious, and stopped trying to be "cute"?

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