I'm trying to figure out if the media understands how angry people still are--not just at him, but at them. They're angry at them; their lack of intellectual curiosity, and angry at their fear of betraying the political class if they questioned anything.
This mimbo shut down half of CalFire before the Palisades Fire and the Angeles National Forest had to bail him out with their firefighting aircraft when his own State Park caught fire. This clown can't even staff fires in his own damn state, but he's got time for Europe?
Can anyone explain to me why that there were multiple comments talking about a splash in the lake behind a deer that I only brought up as a hypothetical?
@JoelWBerry@josh_hammer The passages of the Bible that record the cries to God about the wicked getting away with evil against the innocent now make sense. God will make this right in his time and way. We do wonder though, what our part in it should be.
@DataRepublican@mattvanswol I have well meaning social worker type friends who are overcome with misplaced empathy in these matters albeit of the suicidal empathy type… their work operating inside ngo nonprofits for years has tainted their reason and core values. It’s insidious.
Remember when Trump said that China "sought to identify US journalists who had reported negatively on the US president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him"? @nataliegwinters tells me she has uncovered the identities of journalists she believes have participated in China's pay-for-play propaganda machine:
"There's a sister group to [the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front] called the Committee of 100. It's a little more US-based, but I actually obtained — I just published the story — a leaked document from them. They unintentionally put it up on their website, and it was an internal trip report... where they were talking about five journalists that had gone to China.
They were saying it was $60,000 a person that they were covering their expenses, and they were literally itemizing the ARTICLES that they got in return from these people after they came back, even having some of these journalists give them direct commentary and quotes about how these trips 'changed their perspective of China.'
They're touring Huawei facilities, they're touring military bases, they're touring sanctioned companies.
One trip participant, upon return, she literally published an article: 'China bashing is for losers.' You have another one praising everything that China has done on climate change. One warned that, 'decoupling from China would backfire.' A Washington Post editor literally published a story titled, 'Team Trump should be careful what it wishes for on China.' They said that China doesn't currency manipulate, TPP is great, the scrutiny of Huawei isn't misplaced. This is a direct quote: 'Americans should accept that large-scale manufacturing will never return to the United States.'
Back in 2010, they were more focused on shaping how Americans viewed China... Now, it's more about attacking Trump, attacking people who are tough on China, shaping how Americans actually engage with our foremost adversary."