Boycotting any company associated with Trump is a good start you know. Even if they didnt want his approval. If their customer base is majority liberal they need to start publicly rejecting his endorsements.
She really isn’t. She’s just shameless and blonde. Most of the time her response might as well be “look at the shiny keys! They rattle when I shake them! Yes, ignore the other thing you were saying, it’s all lies anyway.”
Yeah, no kidding. I’ve watched her speak about three times, which is all my stomach can handle, and she hits the same note every time. How accomplished is a musician who just bangs away at a cowbell every time the conductor points at her?
Now, when I see her, I turn away from the screen with something akin to an emotional gag reflex.
This also applies to Trump.
CraigM
4125
She’s only good at what she does because
a) the American public is fucking stupid and gullible
b) the media is, by and large, craven cowards who kowtow to the powers that be with barely a hint of credulity
c) Americans are really fucking stupid and lazy
These points may be related.
Timex
4126
The media reports things like, “Cooper and Conway clash over report”, when they should report, “Kellyanne Conway lies repeatedly about coverage of report.”
CraigM
4127
Exactly. I’d celebrate these spineless wretches getting their comeuppance, were it not that doing so fucks over the country.
You could easily program a chatterbot to do what Conway does (and the chatterbot would probably make more sense.) It’s remarkable that a human can bring herself to babble lies as consistently as a chatterbot day in and day out. But that’s more of a “It’s remarkable someone went ahead and made a ball of string ten yards wide” kind of a statement, not an actual skill that deserves praise.
It seems like almost every day Trump does something new that surprises and disappoints me. At this point I should not be surprised at anything, yet the guy still manages to lower the bar. Sheesh.
antlers
4130
The flacking for Trump on talk shows is the least of what Conway did for him. She designed the ad strategy that really turned his campaign around – it was failing completely before she was brought on. Trump’s TV ads were much better than Clinton’s. After Conway was brought on to the campaign, Trump’s polls rising relative to Clinton’s became the default state-- interrupted of course when Trump flubbed a debate or made a gaffe. That was due to Conway’s polling and media strategy. More than anyone else, she got Middle America to eat Trump’s turd sandwich.
Fair enough - I was referring only to her on-air appearences.
rowe33
4132
She deserves as much respect as Trump or Pence as far as I’m concerned. These are evil fucking people that have zero empathy for fellow humans.
This is the important part of his response:
“We’re never going to be able to completely shut down the press but know that the people who report bad things about me are very dishonest. I will set the record straight by speaking directly to the American people via Twitter. All truth flows from me. Do not believe the fake news you read in the papers or see on CNN.”
There’s a billboard I see on my way up the hill to my house. The main road that runs through our area. For quite a few months it had an advertisement about Bernie supporting the California ballot proposition about prescription drugs. Right after the election it switched to a sort of generic message about Jesus, with a Bible verse on it. I’ve seen them in various places in the San Fernando Valley as I do my driving.
Today, after dropping my kid off at school, I noticed a weird change to the billboard.
On our way back from school pickup I pointed that out to my son. He immediately grabbed my phone and snapped this picture, finding it as surreal as I did.
Who does this kind of graffiti? What does this mean? It’s so weird.
-xtien
ShivaX
4135
So Guiliani is in charge of Cyber Security.
The guy who seemed to be getting information from the Russians. So… yeah. I can’t get over this. We might as well just invite Putin over to the CIA and make him director.
And his site was very probably hacked this evening (sorry for the double post in the Optimism thread, obviously struggling with these thread titles).
Edit:
Also, @ChristienMurawski, that sign is amazing (as in, simultaneously horrifying and a great shot).
Alstein
4137
If there was a serious save our democracy 3rd party movement, I’d run on that platform instead of the Democrats, or try to run on both simultaneously.
Saving our institutions right now is the most important thing, more than anything I’d want policy-wise.
Avtar
4138
ShivaX
4139
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And his site was very probably hacked this evening (sorry for the double post in the Optimism thread, obviously struggling with these thread titles).
The Best Cyber.
Quaro
4140
Yeah. Her superpower is she has no shame about lying.
I feel the same way about Trump. These people aren’t brilliant strategists filled with charisma; they don’t have any shame about repeatedly and blatantly lying.
