After Week Of Domestic Terror Attacks, Trump Chooses To Excoriate Media

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After a week that contained a dozen failed pipe bomb attacks, a shooting in a Kentucky grocery store and another shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue, President Donald Trump used his Monday morning to attack the media, the “enemy of the people.”

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  1. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Ohh - he’s perfecting his newest product line: Trump Whine. #WhineyTrump #YesWeThinkYou’reABaby.

  2. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    And there are pretty good odds this will be his last normal week.

    If the polls accurately reflect the mood of the voting public and the Democrats take the House, everything is about to get crazier and dumber!

  3. Trump et al are engaged in Stochastic Terrorism.

    Words matter. Framing matters.

    Consider this:

    1. Faux, InfoWars, Breitbart, etc spent decades programming human WMDs.
    2. Trump’s rhetoric since 2015 has been arming the human WMDs.
    3. Now they (all of them) are triggering the human WMDs.

    Think about that. Republicans are waging a proxy war against Democrats and anyone else who’s not a True Believer.

    For some reason (cough #MichelleWolfWasRight cough) our “free” press refuses to call it was it is.

    Let’s use the correct term: #StochasticTerrorism to describe what our press won’t.

  4. See my comment following yours. If Dems flip at least the House things will likely go nuclear - from #TreasonWeasel perspective it’s the rational thing to do (they have nothing to love and possibly everything to gain).

  5. There is no bottom to Trump’s depravity.

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