The Political Discussion Thread

[SGalisa]

Coco, it's real simple.
If it's news you don't agree with, it's fake.
Unfortunately, that is not what fake news is.

Fake news is what the store *rag* magazines like the "National Enquirer" and "The Star" and "Globe" stories make up in some portion of their printed content matter. They were also famous for being the original photo-shoppers of fake pics, or fabricating Hollywood type make-up to create sci-fi creatures, etc. and treat them as "real" entities (maybe they were real.. from the island of Dr. Moreau?).

FOX News -- FOX News, ladies and gentlemen, defended CNN and called Trump out on his behavior.

There are miracles after all...

FOX started changing once Ailes got the arse. Go read the comments section of a Breitbart piece and you will see many complaining / asserting that FOX has sold out and gone liberal now.

Proof that they've probably gone liberal or moved on *over to the Dark Side*.

CNN fake? but you believe every word of Breitbart.....

I haven't read Breitbart since the original owner passed away. Maybe I should start reading it (again) to find out what's going on over there..

...this is why I stayed quiet for months.. not bothering to join in these political conversations about Trump. hmmmmm.

You were here in December. It's January. That's not months.

Also, are you going to be quiet for the next 4 years then? Although, he could get impeached, it might be shorter than that.

That's not what I meant. I meant being quiet about certain *subject* matters. Specifically, the one where you'all went hog-wild crazy over the story about Trump with the prostitutes, etc. That was several months ago. Happened around the time Hillary and Trump were harping against each other's personal *moral* life. I stayed out of that whole conversation for the most part. *Unsubstantiated* info on Trump is not the same as what Bill Clinton did AND admitted to doing. Admirable trait to for Hillary to stand by her man, but to allow it to continue, that's what most Americans were ticked off about with the situation between Hillary and Bill. Most of the info got posted into the national rag magazines (see above about the "fake" news magazines).

Besides, I've got more important things to tend to like family..
That .. and still tending to my December injuries from unsuccessfully trying to stop a fall or "flying thru the air" because of circumstances slightly beyond my control on a moving train. Took about 2 weeks for the giant, dark purple bruises to finally fade away.

[garhkal]

With what?

Because there's lots of talk about repealing it, but replacing it with what?

Nothings been worked out.. YET.

[Falcon Horus]

Fake news is what the store *rag* magazines like the "National Enquirer" and "The Star" and "Globe" stories make up in some portion of their printed content matter.

I know of the National Enquirer. Don't know the other two.

Here's an interesting site: FakeNewsWatch.com (last updated 01/18/2016)

Fake News | Hoax News
Fake/Hoax News sites are satire sites that are not funny. They are an attempt to play on gullible people who do not check sources and will just pass the news on as if it were really true.

Satire News
Satire websites are sites that make fun of the news. The stories are typically over the top and meant to be funny. The most famous satire site is The Onion.

Clickbait News
Clickbait websites are sites that take bits of true stories but insinuate and make up other details to sew fear. Most of these are conspiratorial in nature are very unreliable.

Proof that they've probably gone liberal or moved on *over to the Dark Side*.

Anyone not in line with Trump is therefore against him, I see.

Yeah, what could possible be wrong with that?

Hilarious though, how even Fox has realized Trump went too far (again).

That's not what I meant. I meant being quiet about certain *subject* matters.

Oh, okay.

Specifically, the one where you'all went hog-wild crazy over the story about Trump with the prostitutes, etc.

Prostitutes?

I remember the tapes where he talked about his pussy-grabbing. Can't remember prostitutes involved.

Happened around the time Hillary and Trump were harping against each other's personal *moral* life.

The tapes story, is all I can remember. Or I missed something.

*Unsubstantiated* info on Trump is not the same as what Bill Clinton did AND admitted to doing.

Tapes with his voice saying he grabs them by the ass is not so much unsubstantiated as admitting to the fact of doing it.

Admirable trait to for Hillary to stand by her man...

Especially poignant since Trump's on his - what is it - third wife, fourth wife.

Nothings been worked out.. YET.

That's the problem, isn't it. They are repealing but not replacing, leaving a gaping hole of uninsured people. First you work on a replacement, then you repeal -- is the most logic of ways, but that's clearly not the GOP's way.

[Coco Pops]

I am just going to leave this link here.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...112-story.html

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

So Rudy Giuliani, Trump's 'cyber security expert' runs an easily hackable, completely unprotected site built on ancient software.

And no one knows exactly what his 'security firm' actually does.

Really couldn't have picked a worse person for the job..

[Falcon Horus]

So Rudy Giuliani, Trump's 'cyber security expert' runs an easily hackable, completely unprotected site built on ancient software.

I think we call that an invitation.

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

But.. but.. I'm trying to be good!

[Annoyed]

Do. Or do not. There is no try.

[garhkal]

I know of the National Enquirer. Don't know the other two.

Here's an interesting site: FakeNewsWatch.com (last updated 01/18/2016)

Fake News | Hoax News
Fake/Hoax News sites are satire sites that are not funny. They are an attempt to play on gullible people who do not check sources and will just pass the news on as if it were really true.

Satire News
Satire websites are sites that make fun of the news. The stories are typically over the top and meant to be funny. The most famous satire site is The Onion.

Clickbait News
Clickbait websites are sites that take bits of true stories but insinuate and make up other details to sew fear. Most of these are conspiratorial in nature are very unreliable.

Strange that with how often we've seen liberal media feed us false news (or news they never fact checked) that a lot more liberal media sites are NOT on those lists...

[Pharaoh Hamenthotep]

That's the problem, isn't it. They are repealing but not replacing, leaving a gaping hole of uninsured people. First you work on a replacement, then you repeal -- is the most logic of ways, but that's clearly not the GOP's way.

They voted to take away coverage for pre-existing conditions, protection for veterans, and support for rural hospitals. They completely screwed over their most loyal supporters. And young adults are no longer allowed to stay on their parents insurance.

With no plan to replace it with anything.

At all.

They don't have a scheme in mind, that they need time to put in place. They don't have any idea what they are going to do. It could take months. Years to figure something out. Then arrange the financial plan to put it in place. And finally start rolling it out state by state, after an initial trial run to test viability.

They have nothing.

Nothing.

[Annoyed]

Strange that with how often we've seen liberal media feed us false news (or news they never fact checked) that a lot more liberal media sites are NOT on those lists...

This whole fact-checking mania is merely a smokescreen; the real message is "All news must be approved by leftie-approved sites before it can be considered legitimate."
The political left as well as most of the media is in a blind panic, running around like stepped-on cockroaches since their pasting at the polls, and this is just another expression of that.

[Gatefan1976]

Pasting at the polls??
Which polls?

[Falcon Horus]

Strange that with how often we've seen liberal media feed us false news (or news they never fact checked) that a lot more liberal media sites are NOT on those lists...

Too bad, the right is guilty of the same thing, yet you do not mind.

May I introduce to the Pot, dear Kettle.

[Annoyed]

Pasting at the polls??
Which polls?

Both branches of the Fed. govt, soon to be all 3 as the SCOTUS turns, and a lot of statehouses.

[Gatefan1976]

Both branches of the Fed. govt, soon to be all 3 as the SCOTUS turns, and a lot of statehouses.

Oh please, look at the actual results first. Republicans actually lost 2 seats net in the senate, a real pasting........
Republicans held something that they already had, and that's a "pasting"?
You really did go to trump university.