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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23706444/usa-today-president-trump-op-ed/Congratulations, USA Today, You're Now a Propaganda Organ of the Trump Administration
Hopefully it was worth it for the clicks.
By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 10, 2018
There seems little question now that we were all better off when USA Today was running psychedelic weather charts, Larry King's bon mots, and pie charts showing that we're eating more asparagus than our grandparents did. All of those things were infinitely preferable to the farrago of obvious and painful lies published under the name of the president* on Wednesday. Congratulations to Our Nation's Newspaper. You are now a propaganda organ.
I'm going with the Balloon Juice post that includes the text of this ludicrous sludge bucket because I don't want to give USAT any clicks on it, either. This is my favorite long-debunked lie.
First of all, this was a phony talking point in 2012, for pity's sake. Back then, the Republican charge started at a cut of $500 million, then it went to $700 million, and then to $700 billion. Now, it's up to $800 billion. The Affordable Care Act didn't cost Medicare a dime. It reduced future payments to providers that provide certain Medicare Advantage programs.
This was just the ignition, however. Stephen Mille...er.., the president* was headed for orbit.
Chuck Schumer, friend to Lenin. Absolutely no Democrats want to model the economy after Venezuela. Finland, maybe, in certain areas.
I will bet the president* five bucks, which he likely may have to borrow from Russian oligarchs, that he can't name three major tenets of socialism, three actual living socialists, or, for that matter, three dead ones. No helping there, Steve.
Abolishing ICE would "end enforcement of our immigration laws"? In what sense? And nobody is in favor of "open borders," unless "open borders" is defined as every immigration proposal that doesn't include funding for his stupid damn wall. It's hard to believe anyone at USA Today edited this mess. If someone did, a lot of someones should be fired. As Larry King might have put it, if it's MAGA, count me out.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)you thought the Gannett Family which owns USA Today was liberal. Geese.
mcar
(42,334 posts)Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)Im glad Charlie Pierce called this garbage out for what it was, lies.
Im surprised, he read it. I havent picked up a USA Today in years, since nowadays its so thin, you could mail it with just one 1st class stamp. Its a useless rag that has survived way past its sell-by date.
mcar
(42,334 posts)Is shameful. USA Today journalists are promoting it on Twitter.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)I dont like Drumpfs message but I feel hypocritical calling this propaganda when I was thrilled when President Obama did the same in early 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/president-barack-obama-guns-are-our-shared-responsibility.html
mcar
(42,334 posts)I don't object to a president getting an op-ed. I object to the duplicity that a major newspaper is encouraging.
Should they run an op-ed by a Holocaust denier. A White supremacist. Oh, right, they just did that.
cungar2000
(98 posts)...is when I'm stepping on it as I leave my hotel room
RainCaster
(10,880 posts)So dumbed down. Even when it's left outside my hotel room, I won't waste my time on it.
ZeroSomeBrains
(638 posts)Should someone be held back for what they did at 17? Does a person who murdered someone get off cuz they're 17? Do drug dealers or rapists get off cuz they're 17? Oh yeah if ur a republican then it's ok. Fucking morons.
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)"farrago" - stumped me with that one! Hadda look it up. Good on you!
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Trump's piece is filled with lies.