OT: Lying Media

So the US national debt went down 0.06% in Trump's first month (before his "rule" could seriously affect it), while it went up 1% in Obama's first month (before /his/ rule could seriously affect it). I doubt if those changes are much above the noise floor, but if they are, then they reflect the previous administrations more than the new ones.

Thus politifact can reasonably say that the numbers are correct, but the tweet is highly misleading.

Give the man a couple of years, and /then/ see if the US national debt has gone up or down.

"Boris Yeltsin was making a presidential visit to Washington in 1995 when he was found one night outside the White House dressed only in his underpants. He explained in a slurred voice to US secret service agents that he was trying to hail a cab so he could go and buy a pizza.

The following night he was discovered by a guard, who thought he was an intruder, wandering drunkenly around the basement of his official residence...it was impossible to take seriously a state whose leader was visibly inebriated much of the time and in which policy was determined by a coterie of corrupt family members and officials serving at Yeltsin?s whim."

"Trump does not drink alcohol, but his incoherent verbal onslaughts on Australia, Mexico and Sweden since he became President are strongly reminiscent of Yeltsin?s embarrassing antics...It will be difficult for the US to remain a super-power under a leader who is an international figure of fun and is often visibly detached from reality. His battle cry of ?Fake News? simply means an inability to cope with criticism or accept facts or views that contradict his own."

Sheer scum. And they wonder why they're losing viewers and readers!

And it is certainly like this in the UK...

"Once it was smaller European countries like Ireland and Poland that were derided for an exaggerated and unhealthy preoccupation with their own problems. A Polish joke from the 1920s relates how an Englishman, a Frenchman and a Pole competed to write the best essay on the elephant. The Englishman described ?elephant hunting in India?, the French wrote about ?the elephant in love? and the Pole produced a lengthy paper on ?the elephant and the Polish Question?. These days the Englishman would undoubtedly write about ?the elephant and Brexit? and an American, if he was allowed to enter the competition, would write interminably about ?the elephant and Donald Trump?."

If Trump's running around swinging a stick with a blindfold on is limited to only striking government objects then all is good

I don't worry. You think he's swinging wildly, until he clocks you squarely in the back of the head. He's got your number.

The tweet is only misleading to those too stupid to understand anything about the economy. Oh, wait, that's nearly everyone who voted for him.

It pretty well takes a full 4 years for the economy to respond to a new President. By the end of his term we will have a good feeling of how well he is "running" the country from a financial perspective.

But why is he bragging about the debt lowering? Isn't he the "king of debt"? I would think he'd be out leveraging the White House and Washington monument.

Makes no damned difference. The most important thing, about which everyone is still relieved, is the war mongering bitch from hell, Hillary, is not in the WH. Let Trump do his job, it can only be a step up.

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Dan

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Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.

Yet you wander around naked and drunk, while promising to do anything for some scrap pizza crusts.

I'm missing the analogy here if that's where this was headed...

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True, but that has nothing to do with the news they retail, and everything to do with competition from the web.

In pre-web days, newspapers had a cash-cow in classified advertisements. Th at's gone, and while some news organisations made money (if not as much) ou t of web-based equivalents, the transition to a system where subscribers to good journalism pay enough to support good full-time journalists is still a work in progress.

Organisations like Fox News are moving to a model where journalists as ente rtainers earn enough to support a stable of creative writers.

It's cheaper to invent the stories you want than it is to go out and find o ut what's actually going on, and it's a lot easier to flatter Donald Trump if you don't have to find something real and praiseworthy to flatter him ab out.

Trump's point about the US national debt is perfectly correct, but Politifa ct's point that the number has nothing to do with any of his actions is equ ally. valid.