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@booboo said in US Politics:
Thanks @Frank
I wonder how much difference it will make to public perception though?
Dems will believe MSM. Trumpites will believe the Trumpsters.
I think you are very right. MSM reputation is toast with the vast majority. But Bannon and his war room won't exactly be flying high in the trust stakes either.
America is polarized. And Trump derangement syndrome has just escalated it.
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@Virgil said in US Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
@Virgil said in US Politics:
By shoving his way past another.
Class.Telling that Twitter and forums like this focus more on this non issue than other things... like 20 or so Coptic Christians being murdered.
Or even the speech about NATO contributions and the dangerous message that may send. The obsession over out of context gifs is fucking stupid.
Melania doesn't likehim, he pushed past another world leader.. yawnWestern society has become obsessed with memes and gifs. stuff.co.nz appears exactly what we deserve. And yes I am just as guilty.
Pretty sure the Don will be feeding the meme and gif industry for years to come..well at least another 4 or so years..
Indeed. Just as Obama and pretty much everyone else has. They are here to stay. And satisfy all if us who love it when our "side" do it. It is purile BS though if we are honest.
Still fun.
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This National Review article outlines in more detail what might be a huge upcoming scandal.
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@gt12 It must be about time conservative groups give up on fighting gay marriage. Surely we must be getting to the point where gay conservative numbers are increasing while the older more anti gay crowd are dying out. If a group is concerned with the spread of radical islam wouldn't it make a lot of sense to get the group of people most likely to suffer from islam on your side?
That's not actually be the point of the cartoon but it's something I've been thinking about.
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@Rembrandt good point, though I'm mindful that conservative US Christians generally holds the belief that homosexuality is a sin. So anyone wanting to go into politics can't support gay marriage and expect all the votes from that quarter.
Though the sections in Leviticus about not eating crustaceans doesn't seem to have been given the same emphasis.
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Mattis looks impressed. In other good news -
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/breitbart-traffic-numbers-are-cratering/amp
With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion, Breitbart was supposed to be on its way to becoming a media behemoth in the Trump era, one with unparalleled access and a passionate audience. “While several publishers have enjoyed an uptick in traffic due to election coverage, we are proud to have built a massive and deeply-rooted community that will remain long after the election cycle fades,” Larry Solov, Breitbart’s C.E.O., predicted back in November.
Early on, Solov’s prediction seemed to be coming true. “Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United States, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com,” they wrote on January 9, 2017. “With over two billion pageviews generated in 2016 and 45 million unique monthly visitors, Breitbart News has now surpassed Fox News (#47), Huffington Post (#50), Washington Post (#53), and Buzzfeed (#64) in traffic.” A month later, the site had even greater cause to celebrate. “Breitbart News is now the 29th most trafficked site in the United States, surpassing PornHub and ESPN,” they crowed. In the article, its staffers bragged that their bonkers traffic reflected the site’s cementing a permanent place in American politics. “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Solov. (Many outlets, including The Hive, experienced traffic peaks around Trump’s inauguration.)
Just a few months later, the numbers have a different story to tell. As of May 26, 2017, according to Alexa.com—the same web-ranking analytics company that Breitbart drew its numbers from in January—Fox News is the 64th most-trafficked site in the country. Huffington Post is at 60. Buzzfeed is at 50. The Washington Post, on the strength of a series of eye-popping scoops, is at 41.
Breitbart is in 281st place.
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@gollum said in US Politics:
Mattis looks impressed. In other good news -
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/breitbart-traffic-numbers-are-cratering/amp
With its former chairman Steve Bannon as White House chief strategist and plans for an ambitious international expansion, Breitbart was supposed to be on its way to becoming a media behemoth in the Trump era, one with unparalleled access and a passionate audience. “While several publishers have enjoyed an uptick in traffic due to election coverage, we are proud to have built a massive and deeply-rooted community that will remain long after the election cycle fades,” Larry Solov, Breitbart’s C.E.O., predicted back in November.
Early on, Solov’s prediction seemed to be coming true. “Breitbart News is the #45th most trafficked website in the United States, according to rankings from Amazon’s analytics company, Alexa.com,” they wrote on January 9, 2017. “With over two billion pageviews generated in 2016 and 45 million unique monthly visitors, Breitbart News has now surpassed Fox News (#47), Huffington Post (#50), Washington Post (#53), and Buzzfeed (#64) in traffic.” A month later, the site had even greater cause to celebrate. “Breitbart News is now the 29th most trafficked site in the United States, surpassing PornHub and ESPN,” they crowed. In the article, its staffers bragged that their bonkers traffic reflected the site’s cementing a permanent place in American politics. “The numbers speak for themselves,” said Solov. (Many outlets, including The Hive, experienced traffic peaks around Trump’s inauguration.)
Just a few months later, the numbers have a different story to tell. As of May 26, 2017, according to Alexa.com—the same web-ranking analytics company that Breitbart drew its numbers from in January—Fox News is the 64th most-trafficked site in the country. Huffington Post is at 60. Buzzfeed is at 50. The Washington Post, on the strength of a series of eye-popping scoops, is at 41.
Breitbart is in 281st place.
Interest in politics was at a high during and immediately after the election, one side lost and has collectively lost their shit they have now spent weeks and months feverishly devouring any possible piece of news about Trump which would make themselves feel better.
Trump has been great for ratings, Trump derangement syndrome sells.
As for Web analytics, snapshots are always dangerous to sell as anything much, lets look back in a year or 3, and across a range of measures before getting excited.
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CNN comedian Kathy Griffin.
But remember, Trump takes 2 scoops of ice-cream.@ CNN contributors today.
BALL: Who is saying it’s acceptable discourse?TAPPER: Donald Trump, Jr.
BALL: Who is saying it’s even discourse? I mean have a hard time bringing myself to care about something like this. I think it just speaks to the need to see themselves as a victim that they have, that they are constantly being persecuted.
TAPPER: The Trumps you’re talking about.
BALL: The Trump people are constantly having to point to the elites who are looking down on them. Of course, comedians and celebrities say dumb stuff and do dumb stuff and violence is not appropriate, but I just don’t think that that’s the source of President Trump’s problems.
TAPPER: David?
URBAN: I think we’ve got much bigger issues to focus on than Kathy Griffin.
TAPPER: Jen, do you want to weigh in at all?
PSAKI: Agreed with David.
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I agree with them. Comedians should say and do stupid and offensive stuff.
Where I have the issue is the hypocrisy. If someone had done this about Obama these people and many others would collectively lose their shite and the comedian would have been in a world of pain. And anyone claiming Obama faced anything like this is a dishonest partisan tool. -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Politics:
I agree with them. Comedians should say and do stupidand offensive stuff.
Where I have the issue is he agree hypocrisy. If someone had done this about Obama these people and many others would collectively lose their white and the comedian would have been in a world of pain. And anyone claiming Obama faced anything like this is a dishonest partisan tool.Yep, it's the blatant hypocrisy that shits me.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback One thing that has been bought up to me was the Obama lynching effigies that arose during his election/s and the tea party movement. Not done by a celebrity and a number were investigated, no convictions I am aware of. I agree its a form of free speech but a lynching effigy of a black man with the usa's history, that doesn't sit at all well with me as an expression that should be protected. Kind of awkward as I am massively pro free speech.
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