jfc - this panel on Face the Nation is *this* close to calling Trump "presidential" for this Saudi Arabia visit.

They seem to legitimately think that he is turning over a new leaf and is trying to work towards peace, isn't afraid of Muslims, etc.

In the meantime, it's pretty obvious that his tough talk dies down when he is face to face with those he normally insults and that he is just trying to get Saudi money. On the Saudi side, they are OBVIOUSLY treating him like Prince Akeem because they know he will lap it up.

Unfortunately Saudi Arabia also gets a pass for exporting Wahhabism all over the world.

i see. i like your style.

Supposedly Jared also intervened to cut the price tag of the arms deal for the Saudis and then gets a generous donation to his wife's philanthropic organization. That's literally the smoking gun that people wanted to find in the Clinton charities.

Oh cool another round of "trump read off a screen, lay off libs"

the irony

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6501916

So this Sheriff Clarke guy straight murders an inmate by not giving him water for seven days and no1curr, but he improperly cites his sources in a master's thesis and everyone is up in arms?

Having a cool president is normalizing everything that used to be outlandish. **** the thirsty dead mental patient though, the POTUS never had it so bad, constantly being picked on.

It's the entire Republican Party. Republicans in North Carolina did similar things when a Democratic governor was elected and when local politicians in the research triangle tried to enact progressive reforms in their local governments. Rick Scott has done similar things in Florida, too. The Environmental Regulations Commission acts as a standard-setting body for important environmental regulations, such as Clean Water Act standards, and is supposed to be composed of 7 members that represent various stakeholder groups. He has refused to appoint members to the two most progressive stakeholder slots, environmental groups and local government, and proceeded to have the ERC attempt to change Florida's water quality standards. Last year the ERC voted to approve revisions to Florida's human health based water quality criteria without those slots being filled. The final vote was 3-2 in favor of approval.

To be fair, a lot of liberals/activists on the net (including myself) raised outrage over the jail MURDER, but yeah. It seems like the mainstream media never really cared about it. It's almost like the media actually has a conservative bent to it, especially on issues of criminal justice and imprisonment.

Roger Stone wants to puke.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...e-want-to-puke

Exactly lol.

American optimism. Both our greatest strength and greatest weakness.

Did you guys see FOX News fell to third place in the ratings during one of the busiest weeks post election so far and that's saying a lot? Any thoughts? My take is that the alt right is turning against FOX for being too tough on Trump (which of course is insane) even though they are still by far his biggest fan of the big 3 cable news networks. Conventional wisdom says it has something to do with people tired of the spin and them not covering the news but I don't buy it given who their average viewer is...

Americans do not care one bit what happens to their criminal population. Anything that happens to you as a result of your own misdeeds is simply your just desserts.

One really needs to look no farther than any crime and/or law enforcement related entertainment created by the American media. Police brutality and violation of suspect's constitutional rights (I'm looking at you COPS, Law & Order SVU, Criminal Minds, et al) are entertainment for the masses. The men and women who commit these injustices are portrayed as heroes.

FYP

No Bill O

I remember a speech on the show Blue Bloods where a cop talks about another cop perjuring himself on the stand to put a suspect away. Only he was talking about it out of respect and admiration, basically claiming it's a cop's patriotic duty to lie to put away these horrible monsters.

Found a user review of the episode:

Paraphrasing Republican Senator Rick Santorum on CNN just now. "It's gonna be very hard for anybody to say that Donald Trump wants a Muslim ban after today. All they have to do is play parts of this speech for the courts and it's over." LOL

Did Fox's ratings drop or did CNN/MSNBC gain viewers?

in yet another obama mistake, trump will get full credit from media and everyone for the arms to saudis deal (since nobody gives a damn about that yemen genocide thing and the part where a bunch of those guns will end up in terrorists hands, hey it's fine as long as they use american guns!) and everything else in that deal that started years ago, and the part where jared intervenes to get the saudis a deal at american expense and the saudis take that savings and put it in ivanka's foundation is just gonna get ignored.

Great job idiots.

There's no way in hell fox news was 52/48 negative trump coverage in that harvard study, they sure do put out some unreal fake news over there. ofc the study is biased to after, before it'd be like 90/10 everyone pro trump anti hillary but ya know narratives.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...36637512556547

CNN MSNBC have been gaining new viewers, FOX is stable if not declining slightly especially in the key demos.

Hey Trump people... Presidents who are actually doing the best job of any president in history don't need to force history to accept that they are doing the best job of any president in history. But con artists do.

Let that sink in.