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Donald Trump... Narcissist in Chief!

Feb. 22, 2017, 6:47 p.m.
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Political correctness will be the demise of the west.

Feb. 22, 2017, 7:10 p.m.
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I pray for our American brethren. The threat is just too great. That wall needs to be built as soon as possible.

Feb. 22, 2017, 7:48 p.m.
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http://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/donald-trump-is-a-threat-to-the-press-and-to-freedom-of-speech/

assertion ^^ that Trump is a threat to free dom of the press and free speech

the comments on that article are actually worth a read.

We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer

Feb. 22, 2017, 8:20 p.m.
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It's precious "the press" is all in tears now. They were well onto their way of bullshit irrelevance when Chomsky called them out thirty years ago.

Call me when 95% of "the press" isn't owned by a few entities. Until then, they are a major reason why Trump and friends are running the show.

Feb. 22, 2017, 9:05 p.m.
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It's precious "the press" is all in tears now. They were well onto their way of bullshit irrelevance when Chomsky called them out thirty years ago.

Call me when 95% of "the press" isn't owned by a few entities. Until then, they are a major reason why Trump and friends are running the show.

Amen brotha!
It's a mad propaganda war…

Off topic but not really…the looming market correction is going to to be oogly! https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=blF_Epm061Y
https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=GoB6DREc44k

Feb. 22, 2017, 9:18 p.m.
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And the looming market correction is going to to be oogly!

Unless those guys are quants from Renaissance, chances are they can't predict what toothpaste they're going to use tomorrow.

Let's just agree all media should be relegated to the entertainment and confirmation bias bucket.

Feb. 22, 2017, 10:13 p.m.
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Unless those guys are quants from Renaissance, chances are they can't predict what toothpaste they're going to use tomorrow.

Let's just agree all media should be relegated to the entertainment and confirmation bias bucket.

I need to look up quants…and what kind of weirdo has more than one kind of toothpaste?
Yes…media is deliberate thought control.

Feb. 22, 2017, 10:17 p.m.
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Unless those guys are quants from Renaissance, chances are they can't predict what toothpaste they're going to use tomorrow.

Let's just agree all media should be relegated to the entertainment and confirmation bias bucket.

And lending their ears to the PMO and whoever else will give them a full-time job. 9 former journalists to have joined either the PMO or other Liberal cabinet Ministers offices in the last 6 months:

Michael Den Tandt - PMO
Mark Kennedy - Comms Director - Treasury Board
Bruce Cheadle - Comms Director - Government House Leader
James Cudmore - Office of the Minister of Defence
Patricia Bell (CBC) - Press Secretary/Legislative assistant, Fisheries
James Fitz-Morris - Comms Director - Minister of Indigenous Affairs
David Taylor
Steve Rennie
Dan Gardiner

but….Trump. He's the narcissist with all the problems

Feb. 22, 2017, 10:47 p.m.
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As Breitbart has shown, it pays to have an ear to those seeking confirmation in their bias, up to and including those people who are of the belief that multiple convicted serial rapists deserve another chance.

Unfortunately, not all political creatures are good at spinning yarn.

Feb. 22, 2017, 11:01 p.m.
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I need to look up quants…

Think ex-ivy league physicists using their power of arcane mathematics for profit.

Not a guarantee for success, but will make us look like monkey's (even the folks in the finance thread).

Feb. 22, 2017, 11:50 p.m.
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Don't believe the media people, get your facts from some nobody on Counterpunch. LOL.

I believe 'ol C.J. is your intellectual better by some magnitude.

HRC was their leader wasn't she? That is what you told us? How did this cabal manage to screw up in getting her elected over Trump?

Don't be putting words in my mouth, it leaves a bad taste. I'm trying to be reasonable here you know.
HRC's nothing more than a bit actor and a poor one at that. I've never conflated neo-liberalism or their players with omnipotence. Some goods are just so damaged they can't be sold. Pretty simple equation, really. Trump told the flyover people he'd bring back their jobs, HRC told them their children were going share school bathrooms with queers.

Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.

Feb. 23, 2017, 2:55 a.m.
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Why you all ignoring the refugee rape culture in Europe…mainstream media has you gulping up its programming?

Are you serious with this statement?

IF you do not want to ignore what is apparently happening in Europe (according to your opinion and intetestingly enough to right-wing/populist media as well) THEN you have to take all the violence against women into account.

Example: Dozens of rapes during the Octoberfest in Munich each fucking year. Not committed by immigrants but by ordinary and white German citizens.

Last week there was a One Billion Rising event/flashmob/dance in a neighbouring town. I took part in it.

I assume that there was one in Vancouver as well, or wherever you live.

So, how was it?

Of course you did take part in a demonstration against domestic and sexual violence against women and children, since you are so concerned about the safety of the women in Europe. And what good is the safety of women and children in Europe if every third woman experiences one form of violence in her life, globally speaking.

By the way, in the flashmob where I was and in neighbouring towns as well, there were refugees taking part as well, men and women, from African countries and countries from the Levante.

"You don't learn from experience. You learn from reflecting on the experience."
- Kristen Ulmer

Feb. 23, 2017, 3:31 a.m.
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https://theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/22/get-out-review-jordan-peele-writer-director-liberal-white-racism

"You don't learn from experience. You learn from reflecting on the experience."
- Kristen Ulmer

Feb. 23, 2017, 10:23 a.m.
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https://theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/22/get-out-review-jordan-peele-writer-director-liberal-white-racism

First 20 seconds will do….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLflLdIJeMw

Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.

Feb. 23, 2017, 10:29 a.m.
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Why you all ignoring the refugee rape culture in Europe…mainstream media has you gulping up its programming?

the ones in germany?

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1587/umfrage/vergewaltigung-und-sexuelle-noetigung/

down, not up. where is your god now?

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