rowe33
3962
I thought the headlines were over the top also but the mere fact that our idiotic future President is irresponsibly tweeting about this crap like a toddler throwing a tantrum is the real story.
Yeah, imagine if it had been Obama who shit tweets US companies, causing those kinds of headlines.
How many Republicans would be calling him a communist for fucking with the free market?
rowe33
3964
Or you know, being permanently attached to Mother Russia’s teat. What a bizarre world this has become.
JFrazer
3965
I 100% agree with you on that. His silly tweeting and tantrums need to continue to be called out. I would rather the headlines say “Man-Child President Elect Can’t Stop Tweeting About Things”. The headlines they are using are making it sound like he’s bankrupting companies and destroying portfolios across the globe. Less than 1% should never be called a “plummet”. For a Trump supporter, those headlines are positives. “Damn straight! You move out of the U.S., you get screwed! Yee-HA!”
Timex
3966
The thing is, the fact that Trump is an infant kind of is not the real story. It’s what he WANTS the story to be, because it distracts from the fact that he has huge conflicts of interest, and may be the puppet of a hostile foreign power.
I mean, it’s bad that he acts like an imbecile on twitter… but in terms of actual importance to the future of the nation, it’s trivial by comparison.
But it’s what folks talk about, because it’s in our face and absurd.
JFrazer
3967
True. There is almost no mentions of the terrible information that is coming out about Trumps cabinet picks. Tom Price trading $300k+ in healthcare stocks while being on the committee that determines healthcare policy. A possible SEC probe in to the trading practices of another of his nominees is hard to find at all, even though it just hit the press yesterday. Yet here we are talking about Toyota stocks and “The U.S. will pay for the Wall! But we’ll get the money from Mexico later!”.
If he’s doing it on purpose, it’s a master class in how to manipulate the press.
WikiLeaks posted first, then Trump posted his tweet a couple hours later.
Wait, Wiki leaks is complaining about people leaking things?
rowe33
3970
That’s just hilarious. And why the fuck should Wikileaks care if Trump saw the report before NBC? Wtf??
Timex
3971
The thing is, none of this is actually true anyway.
NBC was told that a report contained information proving the links to Russia. That itself is not classified information. They didn’t get any of the actual report, or what the actual proof was.
Quaro
3972
Wikileaks proposing exposing address and friends/family relationships of all twitter verified accounts. So much in the public interest!
CraigM
3973
What would it take to get Assange kicked out of that Embassy he’s holed up in, and drag his scumbag ass to court. Because, seriously, Assange, Wikileaks, and their whole operation can go to hell.
Quaro
3974
Wikileaks going after leakers because the leakers didn’t tell Trump first. Then Trump tweets same idea. Then Wikileaks retweets Trump. It really is like Manchurian Candidate level. WTF.
Trump is going to destroy our intelligence services and put in cronies who tell him what he wants to hear. Even if he lasts only four years it will take way longer to fix things.
What exactly is Ecuador getting out of all this, is what I’ve always wondered.
How often would they be in the news without him? All press is good press!
When he went in he was a friend of the left, allied with the occidentalist crowd across West, and Correa needed allies in the West, as no doubt the US have a few plans to depose his left wing government on a file server somewhere.
Now… well, I don’t know. The Trump/right wing/Russia coalition doesn’t fit into my understanding of Ecuadors motives at all.
Couple of zingers from former Mexican President Vicente Fox:
1:18 PM - 6 Jan 2017: “TRUMP, when will you understand that I am not paying for that fucken wall. Be clear with US tax payers. They will pay for it.”
2:44 PM - 6 Jan 2017: “Sr Trump,the intelligence report is devastating.Losing election by more than 3M votes and in addition this.Are you a legitimate president?”
Shit, I’d vote for Fox in a heartbeat right now over Dump.
We are now in a Twitter war with Mexico. What a time to be alive.
