No, America won't forget this, GOP

[Minister of Truth]

For the sake of one man's ego & sheer vanity, the following institutions are being discredited, undermined and weakened, likely to a point where repair – if it’s even possible – could take years or even a lifetime:

The national media
The FBI
The CIA
The remainder of the intelligence community
Large portions of the judicial branch

We knew this was who Trump was. We knew that nothing else mattered to him, aside from himself. He has left nothing but a trail of broken reputations and ruined careers in his wake. But the fact that the GOP has become his willing accomplice in all of this is, at least to me, surprising. NeverTrump was a temporary moment of clarity for many on the right, and has since been traded for political expediency and temporary gain.

The Republican Party is currently making its bed. Yeah – they’ll have to lie in it. For much longer than they think, and certainly well past the time that this weird, inexplicable spell passes and they see Trump for the reckless, out-of-control and purely self-interested id that he is.

News flash, Lorax. Every one of those entities already had little to no credibility before Douchebag Donald came along.

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glad to see you started this thread for discussion

He is not interested in discussion, only wants to virtue signal.

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They're infested with the desire to make money overriding everything. That's why they're all turning into the National Enquirer.

Even the heavies are having to resort to clickbait to get traffic, seems that they care little for their credibility anymore.

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Exactly. I agree. I don't think that the way to compete with China, for instance, is to make our water and air as filthy as that in Beijing. I'm so sick of the RW fucktards' whining that we can't compete with other countries because our environmental regulations are too stringent and many of them have lax regulations, if they have any at all. Do we seriously want to destroy our health and our kids' health for the sake of a few more bucks? The contards will just give the extra money to the 1% anyways.

Specious rubbish. WOTUS was a disaster, the Paris Accords are a Ponzi scheme and the last head of the EPA Gina McCarthy was a political appointment. The EPA had been turned into a government version of Greenpeace.

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Well, there is that, as well - and probably most damaging, Trump's quiet assault on the environment, dismantling basic protections that have been in place for years.

I don't care if people believe in AGW or not. EVERYONE should believe in a minimal level of clean air, water & soil.

Bullshit on steroids.

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Bullshit on steroids!! Do you ever stop emoting, you've turned into a soy boy!

Since the Trump administration took office, there have been more than 70 credible threats against Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff, mostly against Administrator Scott Pruitt and his family. Democrats, who push the narrative of Pruitt endangering the environment, have also attacked his beefed-up security to defend against these threats.

"It is very concerning that scientific disagreement, uncertainty and a complex policy debate surrounding climate change are apparently seeding what seems to be a wave of eco-terrorism against members of the Trump administration," climate scientist Judith Curry, who runs the blog Climate Etc., told PJ Media on Thursday.
Curry resigned from her post as chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology this past January, noting that approaching climate change with a skeptical scientific mind has become "a battle of scientific integrity versus career suicide."

Curry suggested that, like her resignation, the forces behind the "eco-terrorism" against Pruitt "are likely to be motivated by overly-alarmist climate dogma and a particular political agenda." She further added, "In light of the threats that have been made against Scott Pruitt, it is very difficult to justify criticism of any protective measures that he is taking."

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal's editorial board reported that Pruitt has received more than five times as many threats as his predecessor, Gina McCarthy. These include explicit death threats, many of which mentioned Pruitt's home address. EPA security has already caught suspects prowling around his neighborhood.
Tragically, many leftists have suggested that Pruitt himself is instigating violence. "When you send death threats to the world and all who live on her, the world will, quite naturally, send them right back," SFGate's Mark Morford quipped.

Morford went even further. He suggested the death threats were coming from scientists. "They are, perhaps, coming from environmental advocates, or teachers, or peace activists, or lovers of life and humanity and nature, or distraught mothers, worried that Pruitt's actions will, quite correctly, endanger the lives of their children."

https://pjmedia.com/trending/a-wave-...dministration/

[dukkha]

Specious rubbish. WOTUS was a disaster, the Paris Accords are a Ponzi scheme and the last head of the EPA Gina McCarthy was a political appointment. The EPA had been turned into a government version of Greenpeace.

yes. these are reforms to de-radicalize the EPA and bring it back to it's core mission

[PostmodernProphet]

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-hacks-dump/

more CIA bungling.....

[PostmodernProphet]

I don't consider a media source fake news if it makes an error and then corrects it when shown the light.

see there's the problem.....liberals think if you apologize its not fake but true.......

[tsuke]

For the sake of one man's ego & sheer vanity, the following institutions are being discredited, undermined and weakened, likely to a point where repair – if it’s even possible – could take years or even a lifetime:

The national media
The FBI
The CIA
The remainder of the intelligence community
Large portions of the judicial branch

We knew this was who Trump was. We knew that nothing else mattered to him, aside from himself. He has left nothing but a trail of broken reputations and ruined careers in his wake. But the fact that the GOP has become his willing accomplice in all of this is, at least to me, surprising. NeverTrump was a temporary moment of clarity for many on the right, and has since been traded for political expediency and temporary gain.

The Republican Party is currently making its bed. Yeah – they’ll have to lie in it. For much longer than they think, and certainly well past the time that this weird, inexplicable spell passes and they see Trump for the reckless, out-of-control and purely self-interested id that he is.

This is why I love Trump so much. There are institutions of power that have a very high concentration of Democrats and have long used their positions to push the Dem agenda. The news media is the best example. Other Repubs held them sacrosant and never hit back even while being destroyed by them. Trump is peeling back their mask for all to see.

[Phantasmal]

What a crock of shit. These institutions are discrediting themselves. And since when do leftist loons care about the CIA?

Since it is the place that collects our foreign intelligence. I still don’t care for some their covert operations, but have always been thankful for the watchful eye over our foreign adversaries.

Do you think we should do away with the agency? Who would collect our intel?

[Phantasmal]

This is why I love Trump so much. There are institutions of power that have a very high concentration of Democrats and have long used their positions to push the Dem agenda. The news media is the best example. Other Repubs held them sacrosant and never hit back even while being destroyed by them. Trump is peeling back their mask for all to see.

What a crock, FBI and CIA have a lot of former military who are generally more conservative. I want to see data to back up your claim.

[Darth Omar]

This is why I love Trump so much. There are institutions of power that have a very high concentration of Democrats and have long used their positions to push the Dem agenda. The news media is the best example. Other Repubs held them sacrosant and never hit back even while being destroyed by them. Trump is peeling back their mask for all to see.

Pretty much.

Trump is only calling them on it—-and why shouldn’t he? The worst thing you can do is give institutions the idea that respect is automatically bestowed on them because they’re the media or one of alphabet government institutions.

Or worse yet, that it’s the role of us underlings to respect them. The founders would roll over in their grave at that idea.

Both attitudes allows these institutions to be lackadaisical with regard to bias and/or corruption. Trump is using the Bully Pulpit to reign them in—-and there is no one that is better at it.

[dukkha]

Pretty much.

Trump is only calling them on it—-and why shouldn’t he? The worst thing you can do is give institutions the idea that respect is automatically bestowed on them because they’re the media or or one of alphabet government institutions.

Or worse yet, that it’s the role of us underlings to respect them. The founders would roll over in their grave at that idea.

Both attitudes allows these institutions to be lackadaisical with regard to bias and/or corruption. Trump is using the Bully Pulpit to reign them in—-and there is no one that is better at it.

yeppers. call the dogs out for what they are

[Phantasmal]

Be grateful Oncelor.
Trump is destroying the GOP in spectacular fashion. The institutions he damages will survive.

I feel we need conservatives for a balance, but they are letting the fringe right control things for the last 15 years and that has been their problem. We need compromise for a well functioning government.