House Science Committee chairman: Americans should get news from Trump, not media

[Brainonska511]

Yeah and it would go directly to his followers and bypass the general public...

His golden ideas will flush right past the lame stream media and splash onto his followers, who will scream in utter ecstasy.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

His golden ideas will flush right past the lame stream media and splash onto his followers, who will scream in utter ecstasy.

a golden shower, if you will, of ideas and inspirational thoughts.

 

[ivwshane]

Oh, OK

Just go back to sleep, your usefulness won't be affected. Dream your little dreams where politicians draft up perfect legislation and principled Republicans stand up against authoritarians in their own party.

 

[shortylickens]

And sure enough, despite the ridiculousness of it, despite how obviously bad it is, there are Trumpers desperately coming up with amazing excuses to defend this nonsense.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Just go back to sleep, your usefulness won't be affected. Dream your little dreams where politicians draft up perfect legislation and principled Republicans stand up against authoritarians in their own party.

People are laughing at you and some of those are on the left. You put up and backed the most disliked (by all sides) candidate and you lost. Chew on that a bit.

Now back to rational people.

 

[ivwshane]

And sure enough, despite the ridiculousness of it, despite how obviously bad it is, there are Trumpers desperately coming up with amazing excuses to defend this nonsense.

Some of those people aren't trump supporters at all but they see a silver lining none the less.

Lets not give those useful idiots a pass either.

 

[Brainonska511]

People are laughing at you and some of those are on the left. You put up and backed the most disliked (by all sides) candidate and you lost. Chew on that a bit.

The popular vote seems to disagree about that "most disliked" thing...

 

[ivwshane]

People are laughing at you and some of those are on the left. You put up and backed the most disliked (by all sides) candidate and you lost. Chew on that a bit.

Now back to rational people.

The most dislike candidate was trump and he won so... chew on that.

 

[PokerGuy]

Actually believe the word of a habitual lying sh*tbag over the media.

The media IS the habitually lying sh*tbag, just like Trump. If nothing else we saw plain as day in this election cycle that the media are not to be trusted in any way shape or form.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

The popular vote seems to disagree about that "most disliked" thing...

yea, while fuckface vonclownstick won the ec, he lost the popular vote and by a pretty wide margin, so that means, mathematically, more people did NOT want fuckface as the president, however the electoral college is what makes the president, president, so winning that, he won.
He's still fuckface vonclownstick though.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The popular vote seems to disagree about that "most disliked" thing...

Not at all. Candidates were rated according to disfavorability. Trump and Hillary absolutely won that contest. What the popular vote showed is which of the disfavored candidates got the most votes. That does not mean a lot of nose-holding wasn't done. The data is there.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Not at all. Candidates were rated according to disfavorability. Trump and Hillary absolutely won that contest. What the popular vote showed is which of the disfavored candidates got the most votes. That does not mean a lot of nose-holding wasn't done. The data is there.

so clinton winning the popular vote by 3 million votes made drumpf the popular vote winner?
did you also do the attendance counting for drumpf at his inauguration?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The most dislike candidate was trump and he won so... chew on that.

Not much difference between Hillary and Trump. Now if you only took that into account. Oh well, that went over heads too.

 

[baydude]

Where was the complaint of propaganda when everyone was following propaganda news networks prior to the election?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

so clinton winning the popular vote by 3 million votes made drumpf the popular vote winner?
did you also do the attendance counting for drumpf at his inauguration?

Need to keep apples and oranges separated. Based on numbers, Hillary won the popular vote, but lost where it mattered.

Independently of that both were highly disliked and again there's data to support it. Where things overlap can be explained by exaggeration of hypotheticals for illustration sake.

If we have two candidates, one which is disliked by 92 percent of the public and another by 95% and they are the only two who can win because they represent the major parties, one or the other could win by 6 million votes.

YAY really popular!!
Well not really. One who was horribly disliked was beaten by another who is also immensely unfavored. The result is a race between Hobson's choices.

If on the other hand someone was liked by the electorate as a whole, not partisans alone, then that person would almost certainly have done much better merely for being favored.

Better?

 

[uallas5]

From the article in the OP:

"In a remarkable Tuesday night floor speech, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, praised the physical and mental powers of President Trump and encouraged people to get “unvarnished” news directly from the president, not from the news media."

I found the bolded part the most concerning, not so much that some Rep flunky said it to suck up to Trump.

 

[ivwshane]

Need to keep apples and oranges separated. Based on numbers, Hillary won the popular vote, but lost where it mattered.

Independently of that both were highly disliked and again there's data to support it. Where things overlap can be explained by exaggeration of hypotheticals for illustration sake.

If we have two candidates, one which is disliked by 92 percent of the public and another by 95% and they are the only two who can win because they represent the major parties, one or the other could win by 6 million votes.

YAY really popular!!
Well not really. One who was horribly disliked was beaten by another who is also immensely unfavored. The result is a race between Hobson's choices.

If on the other hand someone was liked by the electorate as a whole, not partisans alone, then that person would almost certainly have done much better merely for being favored.

Better?

So in your fantasy land, the person who wasn't liked enough to win against an unpopular candidate in his own party would have won against the candidate who was the most unpopular candidate, who eventually did win the election, because he was well liked?

Do you even hear yourself?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So in your fantasy land, the person who wasn't liked enough to win against an unpopular candidate in his own party would have won against the candidate who was the most unpopular candidate, who eventually did win the election, because he was well liked?

Do you even hear yourself?

Yeah I kind of do.

I see that logic is not something you do. Would a diagram help?

 

[brycejones]

From the article in the OP:

"In a remarkable Tuesday night floor speech, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, praised the physical and mental powers of President Trump and encouraged people to get “unvarnished” news directly from the president, not from the news media."

I found the bolded part the most concerning, not so much that some Rep flunky said it to suck up to Trump.

Bolded more praising his physical and mental powers that's some straight up propaganda BS right there. All praise the physical prowess of Glorious Leader Trump!

WTF, seriously WITAF?!?

 

[ivwshane]

Yeah I kind of do.

I see that logic is not something you do. Would a diagram help?

By all means, put up a diagram!

 

[senseamp]

It's important that people remember that the problem is not just Trump, it's the whole Republican party and the conservative movement.
At some point, they will try to throw Trump under the bus to save themselves, but we have to remember how they act when they are in power and hold them accountable.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

By all means, put up a diagram!

Okey doke. I'll dust my graphics tablet off and figure out how to draw then give you something when it's done.

 

[PottedMeat]

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.)

Lamar Smith is a worthless piece of shit for a variety of reasons.

 

[Jhhnn]

People are laughing at you and some of those are on the left. You put up and backed the most disliked (by all sides) candidate and you lost. Chew on that a bit.

Now back to rational people.

You summon propaganda induced irrational dislike as some form of reason?

Clinton's favorability rating was at 67% in 2013 before the right wing noise machine started grinding away on it with Benghazi, email, email, Russian hacked email, speeches, poor Bernie, Clinton Foundation "corruption" & all the rest. You pitched in & still are. It worked. She lost.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...slike-hillary-clinton/?utm_term=.8af199df8a44

When they hand out Trump armbands you can wear yours proudly.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

2013 was long before the nomination process. Just look at that rollercoaster plummet in the graph at the bottom of your link, lmao.