Santi wrote: ↑Sun, 13. Sep 20, 01:49
Yes, as I said he is a "boombox" or amplifier, but what adds more fuel to the fire, the stupid things he says in Twitter, or the coverage he gets?
It is not giving him a pass, I just think that there is a lot of misinformation regarding Trump, that what he does or says, gets blown out to cosmic catastrophic proportions, when the majority of it should be either ignored or ridiculized, because it is just garbage. All those bad policies he implements, they are exactly the same that many other advanced countries have. I cannot see much difference between Republican and Democrats political tactics, both of them are very poor, to say the least, and very confrontational, the media has totally lost the plot in their chase of clicks, likes, money or influence.
I really dislike (a lot) the current climate where you either are pro Trump or against Trump and the moral judgement that comes from it. There are a lot of people that just do not give a fig about Trump, but still have their opinions, and they shouldn't be policed and judged by either camp. This is something that people fail to understand because they are so entrenched in their pro/against positions. In social media this reaches ridiculous proportions.
Here's the thing. The man child is the president. The coverage isn't because Trump said it, it's because the president said it. If Trump wasn't president, hardly anyone would give a shit what the Oompa Loompa says. But since he is, the things he says carries consequences, not just here but abroad as well. It was ruled some time ago that Twitter was a legit public governance communication platform, which is why he was told he can't block US citizens on Twitter. He's even issued orders via twitter, ffs. This isn't something we can have both ways.
Personally, I wish Trump would stay the hell off twitter. If he spent half the time he does on twitter actually governing, things might look different. Instead we get retweets of his followers in golf carts chanting "white power!" and calls for civil war and armed responses to state officials enacting public safety measures and a plethora of lies and disinformation.
Lets compare and contrast something.
At 100 days in office for Obama, Faux News was criticizing Obama for ordering a hamburger with Dijon mustard with Hannity smugly saying "Enjoy your fancy hamburger, Mr. President", while every other news agency largely applauded Obama's efforts and were focused on his governance. Obama's first policy implementations were successful and there was virtually nothing that marred his first 100 days in office. His approval rating was 65% at the end of that period.
At 100 days in office for Trump, the only accomplishment of Trumps was the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the supreme court. Even with a republican majority in the Senate and House, he failed to pass any major legislation, including obtaining funding for his stupid wall. Instead, he issued 24 executive orders (which btw, were more than any other president since WW2 in their first 100 days). By this time, the lies had already started from the WH, beginning with the size of the inauguration crowd and the weather conditions during the inauguration, to Kellyanne Conway making up bs about Iraqi refugees in Kentucky being responsible for the Bowling Green massacre. Attacks on the press were ramped up and only conspiracy theory networks were invited to certain press conference events. His approval rating was between 40-42% at the end of that period, the lowest ever for a first term president in their first 100 days.
It's the difference between calm and chaos. Some people may not have agreed with Obama's positions or policies, but we weren't in "the sky is falling" territory under him. Can't say the same for Trump.
Also, don't forget what's going on right now. Trump is openly attacking our voting systems, setting the stage for him to cry foul when he looses the election. Even Roger Stone is telling Trump to declare martial law after he looses. He's attacking civil rights movements. He's attacking public safety responses to COVID. He's welcoming Q anon and other conspiracy nut public figures into his ranks (like the demon sperm doctor). How is any of this behavior even remotely close to "presidential"?
What's happening here isn't political discourse. Sure, there's some of that happening but the vast majority is amazement that this is coming from the president of the US. And it's always, always, Trump supporters that say "derp we used to be able to talk to each other, why can't we do that?" right after they're accusing liberals of being socialists or communists or, laughably, Nazis, make some racial attacks on blacks or Mexicans, brag about the size of their gun collection while making veiled threats to shoot democrats, and cheer on white supremacists for killing people they don't like all while receiving permission and encouragement from Trump. So yeah, politics used to be civil. But this is what it is today. And if anyone has turned this into pro-Trump or anti-Trump, it's Trump himself when he declared that anyone who wasn't with him was an enemy. If your government leader said that you were his/her enemy, wouldn't you fight back?
