When there's a legitimate bad poster, the forum has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

This video sums it up (utubes but funny and well worth watching).

Morons can be dangerous. Hitler was a moron too. See WWII. He had Stalin wrapped around his finger, but he tired of everything going his way in the war and invaded Russia and declared war on the US in 1941.

And like the GOP, he only believed in his kind of science, not Jew science, and that kept him from getting the bomb first.

The time in Germany was right for a loudmouth narcassistic nationalist to become a hero and that's where we seem to be as well.

90% of their viewers would just switch to Breitbart overnight. Fox's viewers know the truth, that's been settled for a long time. They just want a news source to corroborate it for them.

i think you have to be pretty far down the hole to take breitbart as your primary source of news.

I think theres a big amount of conservatives that take everything fox says seriously but would never stoop as low as using breitbart as their only "real" news source.

Eh who ****ing knows :/

The base would bolt. They want their daily affirmations that everything libtards do and say is wrong. They don't care where they get it. FoxNews found this out the hard way when they went hard against Trump in the primaries.

fox news switching to honest journalism would be like comedy central programming ken burns marathons

They were separatist movements, akin to a civil war almost. Today's European terrorism is a war of Islamic radicals against western culture.

Trump and all of his followers, and others of that ilk, are giving the media far too much credit for being organized. The media is a multi-headed monster. Just the thought that all of the media would agree to skip coverage of a terrorist attack is absurd. What happens when that rogue tv station decides to cover it and grabs all of Trump's precious ratings? The white house press corps can't even seem to follow up on one another's questions at a Spicer news conference. How are they going to conspire to not cover terrorist attacks?

A presidential campaign is a wonderful place for a narcissist. You have endless seas of adoring crowds, constant attention, and people defending you to the death.

Being president is nearly the opposite experience I would imagine. Your supporters have much less immediate benefit from fervently defending and adoring you. Your detractors have lots of immediate benefit, and turn from supporting your opponent to opposing you directly.

The concern is that the most direct way to get back to the adoring crowds and people defending him is by engaging in conflicts and establishing a fascist government.

It will be interesting to see what he does once he faces some actual problems. So far, literally everything that has gone wrong for him has been a result of his own stupidity or terrible decisions. Crises of his own invention, with no conceivable purpose.

There is mandatory senior status or retirement for all non SCT federal judges at 65 or 70. Funny thing is, senior status judges get paid the same whether they take a reduced case load or fully retire. Most decide to continue hearing like a 30-50% case load instead of retiring or cashing out. Some senior judges are still hearing cases at 90+ y/o. Whether or not Trump knows what the courts do, being a federal judge is kind of a big deal.

It should again be stated that he didn't want to win. His entire team prepared zero pages of transition work. He had filed to start the trump news network.

Not fair to put Andrew Sullivan in here. He's a conservative in a very limited sense, the kind that loves Obama and considers Trump a national emergency.

Probably had all the "Clinton was born in Kenya!" stories all ready too. Oh well..

Yeah like, y'all aren't thinking this through. Normal people lie for very, very specific reasons, in very, very specific ways. "I wasn't home the night my husband was murdered" "The check is in the mail" and so forth. Normal people's lies are aware of the reality, aware that the reality is bad for them, and they use their critical thinking ability to come up with a plausible story that is better for them.

Trump just lies to lie. Reality is not a thing he cares about, he creates his own reality. That's very different than just being wrong or incorrect. Lots of people are incorrect without lying, but those are honest mistakes. Trump doesn't sincerely believe he's accurately describing reality, the concept of "accurately describing reality" is just entirely foreign to his worldview.

My sample size is low, but I was surprised by an older smart poster in OOT who is generally not very political mentioning Breitbart as a regular source when asked. I had never even looked at that site once until very recently, but have been thinking I need to check it out as it's the POTUS' main source of info.

Bill is a real old guy, he grew up and was an adult during the Cold War when foreign policy moral clarity was a big deal to the right, he's just behind on the messaging. He's got the pink script pages and the rest of the GOP has the yellow.

I think Trump once had an above average intellect, maybe 80% or so, but he's always lacked checks and balances in his own head, so his own motor would run him off the road. I think his mental faculties have since declined. He was never one for legal/procedural subtleties, and he isn't going to learn them now, but that's pretty much the job of the president. Kind of a problem.

Re: Narcissism

Unless you have direct experience with a narcissist, it is a major challenge to understand someone with NPD. Some relevant information:

Conversation in The Daily Mail news room.
What are we running on page one? That terrorist attack?
No no. Hush that up and run the piece about gypsies eating swans.

No way. Fox is not very far from breitbart. They are quite similar and that is a big problem.

Fox should absolutely not be given any sort credit.

Sullivan is a centrist. O'Rourke is a bit of a nutter, but in the libertarian style rather than the normal GOP style.

The Global Terrorism Database is useless. They count it as "terrorism" every time paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland assassinated members of opposing paramilitary groups. This amounts to a gang fight. This is not what most people mean when they say "terrorism", they mean what are my chances of being randomly blown up in a public place.

Among their bigger problems:

- They rely on media reports for the incidents, so heavily-reported-on conflicts like The Troubles will be way over-represented compared to similar squabbles elsewhere in the world.

- They try to eliminate subjectivity by having a broad definition of terrorism, but this creates more subjectivity. For instance, IRA attacks against military targets are included as "terrorism", but the activities of the Army of Republika Srpska in Bosnia in 1992 are not, even though the Republika Srpska was not internationally recognised as a country. That one is recognised as "legitimate warfare" and the other isn't is an act of pure subjectivity.

The difference between O'Reilly and the base is that he's ON Fox News, he doesn't watch Fox News.

His politics are pretty typical of a Republican from the tri-state area, he's pretty moderate on the issues. His personal racism sort of covers that up and has let him continue in an increasingly revanchist right wing, but even there there's a difference between Long Island/Boston-style racism("racism as a concept is bad, but gotta admit, blacks sure are lazy and criminal") and Alabama racism("the white race's proper position is that of the superior race").