American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS (Archive)

[wwkayaker]

Interesting Breaking News on CNN just now. CNN, NY Times, LA Times, and others have been blocked from a whitehouse media briefing.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Hearbreaking.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...1028&tid=ss_tw

So this has so much American stereotype in it.

Carrying guns while drinking
Racism and Xenophobia
And a lack of world knowledge thinking he was from the Middle East.

The shooter won't be out americaned

[Red]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

Interesting Breaking News on CNN just now. CNN, NY Times, LA Times, and others have been blocked from a whitehouse media briefing.

Associated Press and Time are boycotting the event now. They left.

[photon]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

Interesting Breaking News on CNN just now. CNN, NY Times, LA Times, and others have been blocked from a whitehouse media briefing.

So they don't get to listen to the White House lie directly but have to read it from the approved news outlets? They're even more free to do the reporting that actually matters so in a way it is good.

On a Friday. I bet this is a trial to see how big the uproar is, to see if they can continue doing it.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Kiran403

As an East Indian this is what scared me most about Trump's presidency. Sure, I don't agree with his policies but the part that really worried me is every racist person who clearly never had any real interaction with various minority groups now thinks it's open season on anyone who doesn't look like them.
My wife is going to Houston next week and we legitimately had to have a conversation this morning about if she still wanted to go. She still is, but we definitely talked about things/situations to be wary of. We're supposed to go to Boston this summer for her cousin's wedding and we've pretty much decided that we won't be bringing our kids as a precaution.

I'm white and so are my wife and kids. I'm seriously contemplating canceling our Disneyland trip

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

Interesting Breaking News on CNN just now. CNN, NY Times, LA Times, and others have been blocked from a whitehouse media briefing.

so basically any responsible news media outlet that doesn't lick the administration's jackboots.

suppression of the media is a warning sign, isn't it?

[PsYcNeT]

I think the Trump presidency has burnt me out on irony.

http://www.calgarysun.com/2017/02/24...ion-conference

“A source says that Donald Trump is a horrible, horrible human being, let them say it to my face,” Trump told a large crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “Let there be no more sources.”

Members of Trump’s White House team regularly demand anonymity when talking to reporters.

Trump said he wasn’t against all media, just “the fake news media or press.”

“I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources,” he said. “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name.”

Lets all take a moment to remember how many times Trump used "some people say" during the campaign.

[Flash Walken]

The organizations that were blocked today are going to drop the ball here on their coverage by bringing themselves into it.

It's the most obvious part of singling out and dividing the press, make them write stories on themselves rather than continue expose journalism on the administration.

Here is the thing: IF the President has blocked you from the daily briefing, do you go back if the ban has been lifted? If you're a serious journalist, the answer is no, you report mercilessly on everything regarding the administration EXCEPT FOR WHAT THEY SAY.

They will fail this test though and march right back into the press briefing room the minute they are invited back, all the while pumping out as much byline material as possible about butting heads with the administration.

Its a weird sort of appeal to ego strategy by the white house and it will work, just watch.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Donald wants the biggest and best nuclear arsenal. Clearly there's a nuclear gap as the Russians have 1700 weapons and the Americans' "only" have 1400.

That's right folks America lags behind in terms of over kill.

At this point its a debate about how far the rubble flies more then anything else.

http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nu...ockpile-report

According to this, the Russians have 7000 and America 6800.

You know more about the military than I do though, is the total number really that low?

[Drak]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

I'm white and so are my wife and kids. I'm seriously contemplating canceling our Disneyland trip

I hear you. We were going to go to Disney Land next fall. But not now. And I'm not going to be visiting my inlaws in Oregon any time soon.

[photon]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nu...ockpile-report

According to this, the Russians have 7000 and America 6800.

You know more about the military than I do though, is the total number really that low?

I think part of the difference is between total number of weapons, and deployed weapons that could actually be used. So there's about 1400 weapons on subs, missiles and bombers that could be used, and a bunch more in storage somewhere or something like that.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nu...ockpile-report

According to this, the Russians have 7000 and America 6800.

You know more about the military than I do though, is the total number really that low?

My numbers are based around active and deployed warheads. Sorry for the rough chart. But this was the active warhead count as on last summer.


They have a total of 481 warheads on 431 ICBMS

920 warheads on 230 SLBM

80 warheads of various types with their Bomber groups.

This is their ready to fire right freaking now arsenal. the other thousands of warheads are either in storage, not deployed or waiting for deactivation.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by wwkayaker

Interesting Breaking News on CNN just now. CNN, NY Times, LA Times, and others have been blocked from a whitehouse media briefing.

I'm actually surprised it took this long. But let's face it from the moment Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer, the vast majority of society got it's White House press briefings from SNL.

[Thor]

Cap did you read Red Storm Rising?

[Flash Walken]

the only news organizations that were banned were those reporting on the various ties between russia and the trump administration.

[Leeman4Gilmour]

Originally Posted by Drak

I hear you. We were going to go to Disney Land next fall. But not now. And I'm not going to be visiting my inlaws in Oregon any time soon.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/de...-to-get-worse/

[DuffMan]

The president’s reported remarks on the Obama-era New Start treaty between the US and Russia have provoked alarm among security specialists

Donald Trump has told Vladimir Putin he does not want to renew a 2010 arms control treaty that limits the number of strategic nuclear weapons the US and Russia can deploy.

Trump angrily denounced the New Start treaty in a 28 January phone call to the Russian leader, according to sources briefed on the call. Reuters, which first reported Trump’s remarks, said the new US president also had to pause the hour-long call to ask what the New Start treaty was.”

Trump knows Nuclear Arms Race deals

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

the only news organizations that were banned were those reporting on the various ties between russia and the trump administration.

Haven't NBC, CBS also been reporting it? Also, was WaPo excluded?

[direwolf]

Tweet from LA Times reporter Noah Bierman:

Noah BiermanVerified account
‏@Noahbierman

Breitbart, OANN (One America News Network), Washington Times are all in White House briefing. CNN and NY Times (and LA Times) not allowed in.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Apparently the full list of outlets blocked:

— The New York Times
— LA Times
— CNN
— BBC
— The Hill
— New York Daily News
— Daily Mail
— Politico
— Buzzfeed