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helpisontheway

(5,008 posts)
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:03 PM Jul 2018

Well, Trump successfully changed the topic...Putin

Is off the front page. People will forget again. They accept that he is a cheating @sshole. They don’t care. Some might have cared about the fact that he is a traitor. However, now they are focused on the next shiny object. 🙄. Hate Trump but he knows how to manipulate the media. Works every single time..

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Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
2. He doesn't know how to manipulate the media...the media just reports everything
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:06 PM
Jul 2018

he does. Don't give him too much credit there please. He's just bumbling along taking care of himself primarily. He's a master at self-gratification. In my mind, thats about it.
And what are they going to do when he's gone? Hopefully they will do in depth reporting on a variety of topics...not just opinions about politics. I long for the good old days.
When he's gone, how about news and opinion on...
Fishing. Aquariums, Dogs, Airplanes, American Workers, Unions, baseball, swimming, climate change, volunteering, outer space, education and teachers, zoos, trees, etc and et al. ad infinitum.
No more dt. We vote for them, hire them, and I don't want to hear about them anymore. They have a job to do. I don't vote for people to make them tv stars. I want them to run the country and let me live my life knowing they have it taken care of AND think of us before themselves. But, that's just me.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
3. Completely agree
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:08 PM
Jul 2018

Manipulation requires an attention span greater than a gnat. It also requires being able to see things from someone else's perspective and he sure as hell can't do that.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
4. If Twitter is an indication #TrumpTreason is still very much
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:08 PM
Jul 2018

front and center. His latest attack on the NFL was correctly seen as a pitiful attempt at distract.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
5. Putin just requested to release Butina;
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:12 PM
Jul 2018

Will see what trump does, I beleive he has the power to release her to russia.

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
7. Not a bad thing.
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:17 PM
Jul 2018

There are other things out there, Mueller isn’t slowing because of it, and I bet we wait until no longer than Tuesday before another big Russia story breaks.

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
9. For one day I wish he would just sit quietly and shut up. He's like a drug pusher.
Sat Jul 21, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jul 2018

Just one day. He's like the pusher and we're becoming addicts even when we hate the stuff and know that it's killing us.

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