Broadly speaking, most of the falsehoods levelled against Trump fall into one or more of four categories, each of them drawing from and feeding into four public personas inhabited by the President.
They are:
Donald Trump: International Embarrassment
Trump the Tyrant
Donald Trump: Bully baby
Trump the Buffoon.
Some of these claims are downright fake, entirely fabricated by unreliable or dubious web sites and presented as satire, or otherwise blatantly false. But the rest — some of which have gained significant traction and credibility from otherwise serious people and organizations — provide a fascinating insight into the tactics and preoccupations of the broad anti-Trump movement known as “the Resistance,” whether they were created by critics of the President or merely shared by them.
Generally speaking, we discovered that they are characterized and driven by four types of errors of thought:
Alarmism
A lack of historical context or awareness
Cherry-picking of evidence (especially visual evidence)
A failure to adhere to Occam’s Razor — the common-sense understanding that the simplest explanation for an event or behavior is the most likely.
Why should we trust the CBO’s projections about GOP plans?
They got Obamacare off by MORE than 50%!
In 2012, the CBO estimated that 25 million people would have coverage under Obamacare right now. According to a June 2017 report from HHS, only 10.3 million were actually enrolled. CBO’s guess was off by nearly 15 million people. And as the chart shows, CBO has consistently gotten it wrong.
The extremists from PETA are a special bunch, as naive as they are deranged. They live in a dream world where vegetables feel pain and meat should magically appear, already packaged with no harm done to animals. Just once I wish I could run into some of these ninnies.
The Truth Behind Milk: It’s Not Food It’s Violence
THESE IDIOTS THINK COWS ARE KILLED FOR THEIR MILK. AS ONE WHO LIVED ON A FARM, I CAN TELL YOU CATTLE ARE NOT “RAPED FOR THEIR MILK,” NOR IS ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION RAPE. THEIR YOUNG ARE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM AT BIRTH SO THEY CAN PRODUCE MILK THROUGH POST-PARTUM LACTATION. BEEN DOING IT FOR MILLENNIA.
It’s not Food, It’s Violence
THIS NITWIT IS PROTESTING HOW FOOD IS PRODUCED. SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE ENJOYS THE END RESULT QUITE A BIT.
Most Insane Liberal Ever? Man Yells at Fishermen, Claims Fish Have Same Abilities as Human Children
In a bizarre viral video, an “animal rights activist” in St. Petersburg, Florida, harassed two men fishing and threw their catch back into the water.
“You guys just gonna let this fish die like this? What if this was a human child?” shouted an unidentified man from the group ‘Direct Action Everywhere Pinellas’. “They have the same abilities and emotions as a human child! That’s fact sir. That’s facts from science sir! I’m not harassing you, you’re harassing this fish sir!”
The activists brought a 9-year-old boy to first confront the men fishing. The boy asked “Did you know fish feel pain?”
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR, THE FISH THEY CAUGHT IS A TILAPIA. THEY ARE DELICIOUS. THEY WERE NOT IN A FISHING BOAT, WHICH OFTEN HAS AN AERATED LIVEWELL TO KEEP FISH ALIVE UNTIL THEY ARE RELEASED OR TAKEN OUT TO BE CLEANED AND EATEN, SINCE JESUS FED THE MULTITUDES WITH TWO OF THEM, ALONG WITH 5 LOAVES.
OUR TRIP TO LAKE GENEVA, WISCONSIN LAST WEEK PRODUCED A MIXED BAG OF BLUEGILLS, PUMPKINSEEDS, ROCK BASS, AND A SMALLMOUTH BASS AND A LARGEMOUTH, WHICH MOST CONSIDER SPORT FISH AND GENERALLY RELEASE UNHARMED. NO, THE HOOK DOESN’T HURT AS LONG AS THEY ARE HOOKED IN THE LIP.
THESE ARE BLUEGILLS… THEY ARE ABUNDANT AND REPRODUCE RAPIDLY. IF THE POPULATION IS NOT CONTROLLED THEY OVERPOPULATE AND THEY END UP STUNTED.
WE EAT THESE:
THIS IS A SMALLMOUTH
WE DON’T EAT THESE:
WE DON’T KEEP LARGEMOUTH BASS EITHER
There is an old saying: “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you can be rid of him every weekend.”
The toll humans take on fish population pales in comparison to the way nature propagates the species.
Muskie(Muskellunge) are at the top of the freshwater food chain.
They have no natural enemies except man. They are extremely hard to catch and are known as “the fish of 10,000 casts”.
WaPo: Polar Bears ‘Hurt By Climate Change’ Could Develop A Taste For Human Flesh
I GUESS I BETTER GET A HIGH POWERED RIFLE WITH A 20 POWER SCOPE AND 20 ROUNDMAGAZINE, JUST IN CASE A POLAR BEAR ENDS UP IN MY BACK YARD IN ILLINOIS, LOOKING TO EAT ME.
“Polar bears hurt by climate change are more likely to turn to a new food source — humans” is the rather chilling headline WaPo went with in its article, published Thursday. The Post reported that with higher temperatures, “the more likely polar bears are to interact with humans — and possibly attack and eat them.”
FOR MY BUDDY BLUEBIRD AND ALL OTHER CAT LOVERS
15 Reasons: Why Cats Are The Worst
THIS WAS JUST POSTED TODAY
Union Files Grievance Over Goats Mowing On Western Michigan’s Campus
New, hungry workers on Western Michigan University’s campus have drawn a union grievance.
After a half-acre trial run in 2016, Western Michigan University hired a team of goats this summer to clear 15 woodland acres on campus.
Goats consume three to five pounds of vegetation per day, according to rental company Munchers on Hooves LLC, and they leave behind natural fertilizer. http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/07/goats_mowing_on_western_michig.html
Los Feliz Daycare(motto: “We do not accept immunized children”) is an ultra-progressive child care center in an unspecified affluent neighborhood on the left coast. Some recent tweets:
U.S.—A new, exclusive CNN investigative report revealed Thursday that millions of American voters may have potentially colluded with the Trump campaign to elect Donald Trump as President of the United States.
While Russia has been accused of interfering in the election, the breaking report indicates that the collusion may have extended to a significant portion of the U.S. population—“as many as 60 million citizens, and possibly even more.”
“The conspiracy goes much deeper than anyone expected,” Jake Tapper said on his news segment The Politics Lead. “We’re talking tens of millions of people involved in this secret plot to make sure Hillary didn’t make it into the White House and to prop up Donald Trump as the winner.”
The CNN report does not accuse anyone of hacking or rigging the vote, but rather suggests that those colluding with the real estate mogul in the far-reaching scheme may have simply walked into voting booths and cast their vote for Donald Trump, giving him the electoral college victory.
“It’s far more sinister than we thought,” a visibly disturbed Tapper said.
Two Ohio abortion facilities have closed. The one that did surgical and medication abortions is listed as “permanently closed.” The one that did medication abortions and referred surgical patients to the other one is listed as “closed until further notice.” All phone lines for both clinics are answered by a busy signal.
Both had a history of failed safety inspections, including trash and food debris in the patient waiting room, stained and dirty carpets, dirty equipment, no lid on a container of used needles, cabinets with drugs and prescription pads inside left unlocked, drug vials left out on the counter, supplies and supply boxes scattered around the procedure room counters and floor, gurneys were covered with heavy black plastic and secured with duct tape under the mattresses, and inadequately trained staff.
The thing about being retired is that Friday has no real significance and we’re generally happy on Monday. We have the freedom to do whatever we want without asking permission. Miss Olivia pitched her first game last night and RJ has his first Pony League Tournament game tonight. I just wish the rain hadn’t swollen the river over flood stage so we can’t get the boat in yet. Problems, problems.
OK, ENOUGH ABOUT BRAGGING ON MY GRANDKIDS. DOWN TO THE DEPRESSING STUFF.
Trump nominates round of district court judges
President Trump unveiled a round of 11 judicial nominees Thursday for openings on district courts across the country.
Trump announced his intent to fill openings on district courts in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Oklahoma.
As of July 13, there were 108 current vacancies on district courts with six nominees pending, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts’ website.
Police Funeral: “Where are the demonstrations for this single mom?”
NYPD Commissioner’s powerful message on the death of Officer Miosotis Familia.
IT IS A TRAVESTY THAT THIS CITY IS RUN BY A LOWLIFE WHO ENJOYS POPULARITY AMONG THE REPTILES WHO CRAWL AROUND THE STREETS.
The commissioner asked why people in such a politically active city like New York aren’t protesting in the streets against this senseless killing.
He Fights
I REMEMBER IN 1864 ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ASKED WHY HE DID NOT DISMISS U.S. GRANT FOR DRUNKENESS.
HIS ANSWER WAS: ‘I CANNOT SPARE THIS MAN…HE FIGHTS.’
(That’s not from the article…I just knew it.)
We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.
This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob. https://townhall.com/columnists/evansayet/2017/07/13/he-fights-n2354580
Dan Rather Resurrects Disgraced Career As Trump Critic
In August 2016, roughly four months before the election, Rather went on what USA Today described as an “epic Facebook rant” after Trump said the “Second Amendment people” would keep Hillary Clinton from abolishing the Second Amendment. Many in the media portrayed that comment as a threat. Rather’s Facebook post — in which he urged journalists to abandon objectivity in covering Trump — received approving coverage in the media. http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/13/dan-rather-resurrects-disgraced-career-as-trump-critic/
Nancy Pelosi Giggles Through Question About North Korea Aggression
Cruz hits CNN for referring to ‘so-called’ healthcare amendment
THE MEDIA MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO HIDE THEIR BIAS
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) knocked CNN on Thursday for referring to his healthcare amendment as the “so-called Consumer Freedom amendment.”
Fashion Notes: Melania Trump Wears Custom Red-White-and-Blue Frock For Dinner in Paris
Melania, always one for custom-made high fashion frocks, wore a bespoke Hervé Pierre red, white and navy blue cocktail dress for the formal dinner, paired with black stilettos and perfectly tousled hair.
Trump Teases Macron: “You Better Do A Good Job” Against Terrorism
BTW, here’s Trump dissing the American media by calling on a Chinese journalist instead. He asked a question not about the Russia investigation but about . . . China.
Jesse Jackson: Hillary Clinton Really ‘Won The Election’ Against Trump — But ‘It Was Stolen’
“To have a head of our party who is sensitive to the plight of working people is the order of this day,” Jackson said. “Don’t forget — when you lose, you tend to amplify ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda.’ When you win, you cover up your sins. Don’t let anybody fool you, we worked last year, we won the election. It was stolen.”
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