MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Why Trump's Staff Is Lying -- Tyler Cowen
By EmmaZahn on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 6:15pm |One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying. The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Trump pulled in the largest inauguration crowds in American history. This raises the question of why a leader might find it advantageous to promote such lies from his subordinates.
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So the overall picture is this: The Trump administration trusts neither its own appointees nor its own supporters, and is creating a situation where that lack of trust is reciprocal. That is of all things a strategy for getting things done, and these first one hundred days are going to be a doozy.
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Thanks, Emma. It's a really interesting take on Trump's lying.
by Michael Wolraich on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 10:03pm
Glad you liked it, Michael.
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 5:35am
Jay Rosen comes to some of the same conclusions about Trump sending out his people to lie and has an idea of what the press should do in response.
by A Guy Called LULU on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 10:22pm
This is a great piece Lulu. Along with the one posted by Emma, hit me like a ton of bricks. Made me realize: we've all got to stop feeding the troll. And that includes MSM like the NY Times. Except to ridicule, and better to leave that to the comedians and pop culture and support them in it.
Take what Paul Ryan and Congress is doing seriously.Don't take what the White House is doing seriously, they intend to keep spinning distractions to feed their troll boss' narcissism disorder needs, riling everyone up with a culture war horse race that he doesn't want to end.
We'd all be better off to shut off not just Trump spin, but reaction to Trump spin, including That by MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, Politico and TPM et. al., and listen to Bloomberg News and CNBC and read WSJ, until they stop feeding the troll Trump. Business people won't waste time on sideshows by trolls, they demand news about things that actually affect things. If Trump does something that is actually going to affect something, it will be covered on the business news.
Edit to add favorite quote:
The dream of the White House briefing room and the Presidential press conference is that accountability can be transacted in dramatic and televisable moments: the perfect question that puts the President or his designate on the spot, and lets the public see — as if in a flash — who they are led by. This was always an illusion. Crumbling for decades, it has become comically unsustainable under Trump.
Why is everyone still falling for getting all riled up by war room spin in this day and age? Just refuse to feed it.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 2:56am
More evidence of the troll thing from a Trump biographer if anyone needs it.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 3:45am
Another good one, artappraiser. Scariest part:
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 5:41am
Watching him leave his wife behind when going to greet the Obamas rather floored me - I knew he was a pig, but somehow I thought he had a bit of regard for family.
I guess I wasn't the only one who noticed.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 9:53am
I had a different but similar creep out. I had the inaugural ball coverage on in the background while working on stuff (I wanted to see the dresses, so sue me, wimmins have to keep up on that stuff, it's like football with guys) and I did pay attention to at the close ups of them dancing, and it was the first example I ever saw where a guy publicly dancing with his wife for all the world to see clearly signaled: I don't love this gal, she's just another piece of property arm candy that I can do what I want with.
On Pussy Riot, yeah I checked out what they been up to, in detail, went to the website, watched the vids. I was very hopeful and ended up disappointed. It'sunderstandable because of what they've been through, but I thought it too over the top on the fascism equivalence to be of help here, Putin thugs = Trump, mho, too strident for this country's culture, just not going to work except maybe on pre-teens.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 5:37pm
Critical is to start realizing this is not accidental, and that it's *NOT HURTING TWUMP*.
I see a lot of stories talking about his meltdown, the 25th Amendment, and what not. He's doing "excellent", in his usual parlance. I bet the public and media adapt much more than he ever will. He loves making opponents mad - it's about the only measure of his effectiveness. Aside from some high profile attempts to address his campaign promises - valid or invalid - though we're seeing that he seems to be much more serious about them than some believed.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 7:50am
Good reading there, Lulu. I spent most of last night on that site. :)
by EmmaZahn on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 5:39am
Thanks Emma and Arta. Yeah, I have gone back a ways in the archives too. Posts are far between but always worth watching for, IMO.
by A Guy Called LULU on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 10:35am
What is interesting and frankly amazing is the amount of pushback he's getting from the major news sources. I watched three videos today that stated that Trump's voter fraud claim is false in no uncertain terms. That's all good and I'm happy about it but all I could think of was that if they had as forcefully stated that Trump's birther crusade was false when he ran with it years ago. he might not be president today.
by ocean-kat on Thu, 01/26/2017 - 2:11am
My husband showed me an article about some lab that cloned a human and a pig. My response:
So what? We already have one in the Whit House.
by CVille Dem on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 1:58pm