Chitchat Understanding Trump language

[winnipegjets]

Alternative facts

Trump and his inner circle, when faced with inconvenient facts, tend to simply make up new ones – "alternative facts," to use the phrase concocted by Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway a few days ago — then label anyone who calls them on it "lying and dishonest."

Trump nation then jumps in, angrily raining down filth on social media and comment sections. To them, the facts are what their hero says the facts are. Up can be down, the sun can rise in the west, a sparse crowd can be the largest in history.

 

[winnipegjets]

Re: Understanding Trump

Remember: the president is a businessman — a self-declared specialist in grinding down opponents, a man with a record of withholding payment from counterparties, reneging on commitments, then inviting them to sue if they aren't happy. The only rules are his rules.

 

[Leongsam]

The alternative facts are actually the truth. To tweet that MLK's statue was removed by Trump is so irresponsible that it should be treated as a criminal offense.

 

[winnipegjets]

Trump is left-wing on trade and fiscal policy

"From this day forward, it's going to be only America first, America first. Every decision on trade … will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs."

And remember something else: Donald Trump is not really a conservative. Conservatives believe market forces should be tampered with as little as possible.

With all his threats of imposing "major border taxes" on companies that minimize costs by employing labour outside the United States (the way he himself did), Trump is actually talking about using the dead hand of government — as a conservative would call it — to distort market forces, artificially boosting the price of imported goods in order to re-engineer consumer behaviour.

Left-wing fiscal policy

This, until now, has been left-wing fiscal policy; the sort of thing urged by large labour unions and economic nationalists.

If Trump does go ahead with protectionist barriers and tariffs, and other countries retaliate with countervailing measures, it'll be interesting to see how the result – higher prices and less consumer choice and maybe even fewer jobs – will sit with the tens of millions of relatively spoiled American consumers who voted for him, and who have become accustomed to cheap and plentiful.

 

[tanwahtiu]

A dead man is a biz to a biz man. Hire a monk to pray for the dead man to go to heaven and pay more to the monk the dead is sitting next to God.

The power of biz talk.

 

[bodycells]

Someone is so fucking sore when TPP is removed and cannot be a parasite to the USA anymore.

 

[winnipegjets]

The alternative facts are actually the truth. To tweet that MLK's statue was removed by Trump is so irresponsible that it should be treated as a criminal offense.

Why you no comment on the 96 percent of lies Trump said?

 

[Leongsam]

Why you no comment on the 96 percent of lies Trump said?

That's just an invention of the liberal Hillary Media.

 

[winnipegjets]

That's just an invention of the liberal Hillary Media.

Even Fox News have started to humtum Trump.

 

[Leongsam]

Even Fox News have started to humtum Trump.

Shows how fair and balanced fox news is. Trump is hardly perfect.