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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

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To me, this looks less like someone who's looking directly at the sun and more like someone who's imagining a mushroom cloud.
 
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Such was the case Tuesday night, when Tennessee Republicans and other supporters of President Donald Trump started sharing an image of what was purportedly a massive crowd gathered in the streets of Phoenix ahead of his speech.

Only problem? The photo is actually an aerial shot from the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers parade.

And frankly, anyone who is at all familiar with Phoenix should have known better. It's a desert people.

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Fake news? Trump supporters circulate photo of Phoenix rally crowds ... but it's not
 
On WaPo Trump backers’ alarming reliance on hoax and conspiracy theory websites, in 1 chart

Interesting article on two partisan bubbles:
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Interesting things there are conventional conservative outlets like the NY Post are way behind the shameless propaganda of Breitbart and note The Hill's high position, crazy old infowars not ranked so high either. However note the ideological variety above. GOP voters do at least still enjoy being outraged by Trump's favourite target the hated liberal media. Paper points out the very high levels of disinformation peddled by some of the red outlets above and the clever tailored outreach to Sanders voters but those are not perhaps not the most interesting things.

It occurs to me it's not Trump voters that are ones defensively walling themselves off from their fellow Americans. From the red free very blue area below you might conclude US liberals prefer the unifying reassurances of their safe spaces undisturbed by jarring conservative views:
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It's little wonder Dems often fail understand the complex and sometimes disturbing ideological motivations of their conservative opponents as they simply are deaf to what they are really saying. Their contact with conservative US discourse is filtered via mostly very liberal sources.
 
That's just a continuation of a trend with Republican voters. The right wing thought bubble is an interesting thing. It's the intersection between rejection of the scientific consensus (i.e. evolution, climate change), and cleaving to economic theories which are palpably false ('trickle down' economics etc) combined with media figures like Hannity, Coulter who make a lot of money propagating these falsehoods, and the rebranding of news as entertainment.

Interestingly enough the Bush W government spent quite a lot on climate change, but kept it very quiet because of how the Republican base would react.
 
On WaPo Trump backers’ alarming reliance on hoax and conspiracy theory websites, in 1 chart

Interesting article on two partisan bubbles:
imrs.php


Interesting things there are conventional conservative outlets like the NY Post are way behind the shameless propaganda of Breitbart and note The Hill's high position, crazy old infowars not ranked so high either. However note the ideological variety above. GOP voters do at least still enjoy being outraged by Trump's favourite target the hated liberal media. Paper points out the very high levels of disinformation peddled by some of the red outlets above and the clever tailored outreach to Sanders voters but those are not perhaps not the most interesting things.

It occurs to me it's not Trump voters that are ones defensively walling themselves off from their fellow Americans. From the red free very blue area below you might conclude US liberals prefer the unifying reassurances of their safe spaces undisturbed by jarring conservative views:
imrs.php

It's little wonder Dems often fail understand the complex and sometimes disturbing ideological motivations of their conservative opponents as they simply are deaf to what they are really saying. Their contact with conservative US discourse is filtered via mostly very liberal sources.
how can hilaryclinton.com be "left"?
 
Remember before the election when people were arguing that at least Trump wouldn't involve himself in global conflicts, and inflame tensions in the region?

I was one of them! Still he can't do any worse than his vile predecessors.
 
how can hilaryclinton.com be "left"?
On US voter perceptions:
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The estimated scores (plotted below) show that three Democratic figures (the Democratic Party, President Obama, and Secretary Clinton) are ideologically clustered together. Clinton is a bit closer to the center than the other two, but not by much. On the other hand, there is considerable heterogeneity in ideological perceptions of the four Republican stimuli: Senator Rubio, Donald Trump, the Republican Party, Senator Cruz. It’s probably not surprising that Rubio is perceived to be the most moderate and Cruz is perceived to be the most conservative of the four.
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Linky.
 
Yeah cause your "didn't do check?" sign off wasn't passive aggressive as fuck.
You don't know what passive aggressive means. It would be nice if you could reign in your straightforward aggression and abuse though. You might not get so much back then.
 
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