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Jan 11, 2018 16:04:58   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabrication of evidence against President Trump, from the (created) Russian collusion, to the hired woman with falsified claims of sexual harassment and dozens of fabricated stories by the media.
What amazes, even confounds most Americans is " how can nearly all of the Democrat law makers, Senate, FBI, CIA, either participate or condone the fabrication and/or false claims? How can nearly 80% of mainstream media be involved? Most of all, how can tens of millions of Americans (liberals) believe that these are acceptable actions towards any politician disagreeing with their ideology, agenda, political beliefs.

I have my beliefs how this is possible, found in the pages of God's written word.

Here is an example of "Democrat Cast Iron Evidence"

http://www.snopes.com/2017/07/12/trump-lies/



News Political News
The Lies of Donald Trump’s Critics, and How They Shape His Many Personas
An in-depth analysis of the false allegations and misleading claims made against the 45th President since his inauguration.

Over the past two years, many thousands of broadcast hours and probably millions of words have been dev**ed to Donald Trump’s relationship with the t***h. Equally, the President has made accusations of dishonesty and bias against the media and his political opponents a central part of his persona and presidency.

What lies are told about the President? Is he lying when he makes these allegations? In a feverish atmosphere of claim and counterclaim, when everyone seems to reflexively accuse everyone else of “f**e news”, it can be difficult to know what’s what.

There are many articles that exist detailing lies and misleading claims made by the Trump administration. This article is intended as a neutral, reliable analysis of the lies, false allegations and misleading claims made about and against Donald Trump since his inauguration in January 2017. We’ve attempted to strip away the hyperbole, name-calling and generalizations, and examine the patterns and trends at work: what characterizes these lies and exaggerations, the effect they have, what might explain them.

We pay particular attention to selected examples — claims that have gained prominence among the mainstream opposition to Trump, revealing much about the methods, priorities, and tone of that opposition, and illustrating how this movement both cultivates and plays off a number of caricatures of the 45th President and at times falls prey to a handful of identifiable and repeated errors of thought.

This is nothing new. Supporters and opponents of every high-profile politician in American history have done exactly the same, but in the current cultural atmosphere, where “the t***h” is universally, even manically, exalted as an abstract concept but then widely degraded in practice, it’s essential to confront, correct, and analyze patterns of falsehoods like these.

This is not an exhaustive list. For that, and a litany of fact checks of claims made by the President, you can browse the Snope archive on him.

The focus here is on attacks against Trump. So for the purpose of this article, we’re not interested in false claims that are intended to reflect favorably on him. Nor does this analysis address claims made against his family members, of which there have been many. It’s also limited to the period following the inauguration on 20 January. This analysis was primarily based on an in-depth search of our own archives.

The Many Donald Trumps


U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley/Jim Matthew's
Broadly speaking, most of the falsehoods levelled against Trump fall into one or more of five categories, each of them drawing from and feeding into five public personas inhabited by the President.

They are:

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment
Trump the Tyrant
Donald Trump: Bully Baby
Trump the Buffoon
Trump the Cruel Bigot
Some of these claims are downright f**e, entirely fabricated by unreliable or dubious web sites and presented as satire, or otherwise blatantly false. But the rest — some of which have gained significant traction and credibility from otherwise serious people and organizations — provide a fascinating insight into the tactics and preoccupations of the broad anti-Trump movement known as “the Resistance,” whether they were created by critics of the President or merely shared by them.

Generally speaking, we discovered that they are characterized and driven by four types of errors of thought:

Alarmism
A lack of historical context or awareness
Cherry-picking of evidence (especially visual evidence)
A failure to adhere to Occam’s Razor — the common-sense understanding that the simplest explanation for an event or behavior is the most likely.
Infused throughout almost all these claims, behind their successful dissemination, is confirmation bias: the fuel that drives the spread of all propaganda and false or misleading claims among otherwise sensible and skeptical people. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for, find, remember and share information that confirms the beliefs we already have, and the tendency to dismiss, ignore and forget information that contradicts those beliefs. It is one of the keys to why clever people, on all sides of every disagreement, sometimes believe stupid things that aren’t true.

We’re going to take a look at the four major types of falsehood we found, which correspond with Donald Trump’s five public personas, and point out along the way how various errors in thought have played a role in their origins and their spread.

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment



What’s remarkable is the extent to which false claims about the President revolve around body language, nonverbal gestures and symbolism, all phenomena that are notoriously open to interpretation. These lies and misrepresentations are also often based on snapshots — visual evidence presented without proper context.

Take, for example, the claim that Trump was the only world leader at a G7 summit in May not to take notes, based on a photograph posted to Twitter by French President Emannuel Macron. Here Trump was portrayed as unprepared and out of his depth on the world stage, with a “ten-second attention span”. However, the claim was entirely untrue, with other images and video of the meeting showing that Trump did indeed have notes and a pen. Not only that, but the very image used to make the false claim clearly shows two other world leaders sitting with no note-taking paraphernalia. In this case, even the cherry-picked evidence chosen to make the point undermines it.

Or, from the same G7 summit, the claim that Trump was caught on video raising his middle finger to Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Here we have Trump, contemptuous of other world leaders, once again risking international incident with his short temper and foul manners.

Except that he didn’t. The original source of the claim is revealing — the Twitter account of GiveHimTheFinger.com, an anti-Trump website that encourages his opponents to send the White House postcards designed as a middle finger. A longer video of the discussion shows that Trump and Gentiloni spoke cordially before the incident, which undermines the implicit logic behind the claim — that Trump was expressing anger or distain for Gentiloni. Indeed, no one has ever explained why Trump supposedly flipped him the bird, and so Occam’s Razor comes into play here.

While it is possible, of course, that Trump had such a mercurial change of heart about Gentiloni that he went from sharing warm words with him to publicly insulting him in a matter of minutes, is it not far more likely that the US President just had an itchy head?


Click on the link above to continue reading article.


God Bless America
God bless and Protect President Trump
God bless Israel

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Jan 11, 2018 17:01:58   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabrication of evidence against President Trump, from the (created) Russian collusion, to the hired woman with falsified claims of sexual harassment and dozens of fabricated stories by the media.
What amazes, even confounds most Americans is " how can nearly all of the Democrat law makers, Senate, FBI, CIA, either participate or condone the fabrication and/or false claims? How can nearly 80% of mainstream media be involved? Most of all, how can tens of millions of Americans (liberals) believe that these are acceptable actions towards any politician disagreeing with their ideology, agenda, political beliefs.

I have my beliefs how this is possible, found in the pages of God's written word.

Here is an example of "Democrat Cast Iron Evidence"

http://www.snopes.com/2017/07/12/trump-lies/



News Political News
The Lies of Donald Trump’s Critics, and How They Shape His Many Personas
An in-depth analysis of the false allegations and misleading claims made against the 45th President since his inauguration.

Over the past two years, many thousands of broadcast hours and probably millions of words have been dev**ed to Donald Trump’s relationship with the t***h. Equally, the President has made accusations of dishonesty and bias against the media and his political opponents a central part of his persona and presidency.

What lies are told about the President? Is he lying when he makes these allegations? In a feverish atmosphere of claim and counterclaim, when everyone seems to reflexively accuse everyone else of “f**e news”, it can be difficult to know what’s what.

There are many articles that exist detailing lies and misleading claims made by the Trump administration. This article is intended as a neutral, reliable analysis of the lies, false allegations and misleading claims made about and against Donald Trump since his inauguration in January 2017. We’ve attempted to strip away the hyperbole, name-calling and generalizations, and examine the patterns and trends at work: what characterizes these lies and exaggerations, the effect they have, what might explain them.

We pay particular attention to selected examples — claims that have gained prominence among the mainstream opposition to Trump, revealing much about the methods, priorities, and tone of that opposition, and illustrating how this movement both cultivates and plays off a number of caricatures of the 45th President and at times falls prey to a handful of identifiable and repeated errors of thought.

This is nothing new. Supporters and opponents of every high-profile politician in American history have done exactly the same, but in the current cultural atmosphere, where “the t***h” is universally, even manically, exalted as an abstract concept but then widely degraded in practice, it’s essential to confront, correct, and analyze patterns of falsehoods like these.

This is not an exhaustive list. For that, and a litany of fact checks of claims made by the President, you can browse the Snope archive on him.

The focus here is on attacks against Trump. So for the purpose of this article, we’re not interested in false claims that are intended to reflect favorably on him. Nor does this analysis address claims made against his family members, of which there have been many. It’s also limited to the period following the inauguration on 20 January. This analysis was primarily based on an in-depth search of our own archives.

The Many Donald Trumps


U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley/Jim Matthew's
Broadly speaking, most of the falsehoods levelled against Trump fall into one or more of five categories, each of them drawing from and feeding into five public personas inhabited by the President.

They are:

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment
Trump the Tyrant
Donald Trump: Bully Baby
Trump the Buffoon
Trump the Cruel Bigot
Some of these claims are downright f**e, entirely fabricated by unreliable or dubious web sites and presented as satire, or otherwise blatantly false. But the rest — some of which have gained significant traction and credibility from otherwise serious people and organizations — provide a fascinating insight into the tactics and preoccupations of the broad anti-Trump movement known as “the Resistance,” whether they were created by critics of the President or merely shared by them.

Generally speaking, we discovered that they are characterized and driven by four types of errors of thought:

Alarmism
A lack of historical context or awareness
Cherry-picking of evidence (especially visual evidence)
A failure to adhere to Occam’s Razor — the common-sense understanding that the simplest explanation for an event or behavior is the most likely.
Infused throughout almost all these claims, behind their successful dissemination, is confirmation bias: the fuel that drives the spread of all propaganda and false or misleading claims among otherwise sensible and skeptical people. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for, find, remember and share information that confirms the beliefs we already have, and the tendency to dismiss, ignore and forget information that contradicts those beliefs. It is one of the keys to why clever people, on all sides of every disagreement, sometimes believe stupid things that aren’t true.

We’re going to take a look at the four major types of falsehood we found, which correspond with Donald Trump’s five public personas, and point out along the way how various errors in thought have played a role in their origins and their spread.

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment



What’s remarkable is the extent to which false claims about the President revolve around body language, nonverbal gestures and symbolism, all phenomena that are notoriously open to interpretation. These lies and misrepresentations are also often based on snapshots — visual evidence presented without proper context.

Take, for example, the claim that Trump was the only world leader at a G7 summit in May not to take notes, based on a photograph posted to Twitter by French President Emannuel Macron. Here Trump was portrayed as unprepared and out of his depth on the world stage, with a “ten-second attention span”. However, the claim was entirely untrue, with other images and video of the meeting showing that Trump did indeed have notes and a pen. Not only that, but the very image used to make the false claim clearly shows two other world leaders sitting with no note-taking paraphernalia. In this case, even the cherry-picked evidence chosen to make the point undermines it.

Or, from the same G7 summit, the claim that Trump was caught on video raising his middle finger to Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Here we have Trump, contemptuous of other world leaders, once again risking international incident with his short temper and foul manners.

Except that he didn’t. The original source of the claim is revealing — the Twitter account of GiveHimTheFinger.com, an anti-Trump website that encourages his opponents to send the White House postcards designed as a middle finger. A longer video of the discussion shows that Trump and Gentiloni spoke cordially before the incident, which undermines the implicit logic behind the claim — that Trump was expressing anger or distain for Gentiloni. Indeed, no one has ever explained why Trump supposedly flipped him the bird, and so Occam’s Razor comes into play here.

While it is possible, of course, that Trump had such a mercurial change of heart about Gentiloni that he went from sharing warm words with him to publicly insulting him in a matter of minutes, is it not far more likely that the US President just had an itchy head?


Click on the link above to continue reading article.


God Bless America
God bless and Protect President Trump
God bless Israel
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabricat... (show quote)


Snopes is left leaning and, therefore, unreliable when called upon to answer a political question.

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Jan 11, 2018 17:11:05   #
bahmer
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabrication of evidence against President Trump, from the (created) Russian collusion, to the hired woman with falsified claims of sexual harassment and dozens of fabricated stories by the media.
What amazes, even confounds most Americans is " how can nearly all of the Democrat law makers, Senate, FBI, CIA, either participate or condone the fabrication and/or false claims? How can nearly 80% of mainstream media be involved? Most of all, how can tens of millions of Americans (liberals) believe that these are acceptable actions towards any politician disagreeing with their ideology, agenda, political beliefs.

I have my beliefs how this is possible, found in the pages of God's written word.

Here is an example of "Democrat Cast Iron Evidence"

http://www.snopes.com/2017/07/12/trump-lies/



News Political News
The Lies of Donald Trump’s Critics, and How They Shape His Many Personas
An in-depth analysis of the false allegations and misleading claims made against the 45th President since his inauguration.

Over the past two years, many thousands of broadcast hours and probably millions of words have been dev**ed to Donald Trump’s relationship with the t***h. Equally, the President has made accusations of dishonesty and bias against the media and his political opponents a central part of his persona and presidency.

What lies are told about the President? Is he lying when he makes these allegations? In a feverish atmosphere of claim and counterclaim, when everyone seems to reflexively accuse everyone else of “f**e news”, it can be difficult to know what’s what.

There are many articles that exist detailing lies and misleading claims made by the Trump administration. This article is intended as a neutral, reliable analysis of the lies, false allegations and misleading claims made about and against Donald Trump since his inauguration in January 2017. We’ve attempted to strip away the hyperbole, name-calling and generalizations, and examine the patterns and trends at work: what characterizes these lies and exaggerations, the effect they have, what might explain them.

We pay particular attention to selected examples — claims that have gained prominence among the mainstream opposition to Trump, revealing much about the methods, priorities, and tone of that opposition, and illustrating how this movement both cultivates and plays off a number of caricatures of the 45th President and at times falls prey to a handful of identifiable and repeated errors of thought.

This is nothing new. Supporters and opponents of every high-profile politician in American history have done exactly the same, but in the current cultural atmosphere, where “the t***h” is universally, even manically, exalted as an abstract concept but then widely degraded in practice, it’s essential to confront, correct, and analyze patterns of falsehoods like these.

This is not an exhaustive list. For that, and a litany of fact checks of claims made by the President, you can browse the Snope archive on him.

The focus here is on attacks against Trump. So for the purpose of this article, we’re not interested in false claims that are intended to reflect favorably on him. Nor does this analysis address claims made against his family members, of which there have been many. It’s also limited to the period following the inauguration on 20 January. This analysis was primarily based on an in-depth search of our own archives.

The Many Donald Trumps


U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley/Jim Matthew's
Broadly speaking, most of the falsehoods levelled against Trump fall into one or more of five categories, each of them drawing from and feeding into five public personas inhabited by the President.

They are:

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment
Trump the Tyrant
Donald Trump: Bully Baby
Trump the Buffoon
Trump the Cruel Bigot
Some of these claims are downright f**e, entirely fabricated by unreliable or dubious web sites and presented as satire, or otherwise blatantly false. But the rest — some of which have gained significant traction and credibility from otherwise serious people and organizations — provide a fascinating insight into the tactics and preoccupations of the broad anti-Trump movement known as “the Resistance,” whether they were created by critics of the President or merely shared by them.

Generally speaking, we discovered that they are characterized and driven by four types of errors of thought:

Alarmism
A lack of historical context or awareness
Cherry-picking of evidence (especially visual evidence)
A failure to adhere to Occam’s Razor — the common-sense understanding that the simplest explanation for an event or behavior is the most likely.
Infused throughout almost all these claims, behind their successful dissemination, is confirmation bias: the fuel that drives the spread of all propaganda and false or misleading claims among otherwise sensible and skeptical people. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for, find, remember and share information that confirms the beliefs we already have, and the tendency to dismiss, ignore and forget information that contradicts those beliefs. It is one of the keys to why clever people, on all sides of every disagreement, sometimes believe stupid things that aren’t true.

We’re going to take a look at the four major types of falsehood we found, which correspond with Donald Trump’s five public personas, and point out along the way how various errors in thought have played a role in their origins and their spread.

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment



What’s remarkable is the extent to which false claims about the President revolve around body language, nonverbal gestures and symbolism, all phenomena that are notoriously open to interpretation. These lies and misrepresentations are also often based on snapshots — visual evidence presented without proper context.

Take, for example, the claim that Trump was the only world leader at a G7 summit in May not to take notes, based on a photograph posted to Twitter by French President Emannuel Macron. Here Trump was portrayed as unprepared and out of his depth on the world stage, with a “ten-second attention span”. However, the claim was entirely untrue, with other images and video of the meeting showing that Trump did indeed have notes and a pen. Not only that, but the very image used to make the false claim clearly shows two other world leaders sitting with no note-taking paraphernalia. In this case, even the cherry-picked evidence chosen to make the point undermines it.

Or, from the same G7 summit, the claim that Trump was caught on video raising his middle finger to Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Here we have Trump, contemptuous of other world leaders, once again risking international incident with his short temper and foul manners.

Except that he didn’t. The original source of the claim is revealing — the Twitter account of GiveHimTheFinger.com, an anti-Trump website that encourages his opponents to send the White House postcards designed as a middle finger. A longer video of the discussion shows that Trump and Gentiloni spoke cordially before the incident, which undermines the implicit logic behind the claim — that Trump was expressing anger or distain for Gentiloni. Indeed, no one has ever explained why Trump supposedly flipped him the bird, and so Occam’s Razor comes into play here.

While it is possible, of course, that Trump had such a mercurial change of heart about Gentiloni that he went from sharing warm words with him to publicly insulting him in a matter of minutes, is it not far more likely that the US President just had an itchy head?


Click on the link above to continue reading article.


God Bless America
God bless and Protect President Trump
God bless Israel
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabricat... (show quote)


Amen and Amen

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Jan 11, 2018 18:30:28   #
emarine
 
bahmer wrote:
Amen and Amen




And Obamie is from Kenya... you righties & lefties are like monkeys flinging s**t ... time for foul weather gear the s**t storm has begun...

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Jan 11, 2018 18:37:26   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
emarine wrote:
And Obamie is from Kenya... you righties & lefties are like monkeys flinging s**t ... time for foul weather gear the s**t storm has begun...


The Obama family. Why was he v**ed for? http://www.nndb.com/people/693/000342664/

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Jan 11, 2018 18:41:45   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
peter11937 wrote:
Snopes is left leaning and, therefore, unreliable when called upon to answer a political question.




Did you read? It was written pro-Trump, with a respective amount of neutrality.

Unlike snoops that has historically been anti anything conservative.

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Jan 11, 2018 18:55:01   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
emarine wrote:
And Obamie is from Kenya... you righties & lefties are like monkeys flinging s**t ... time for foul weather gear the s**t storm has begun...




Lefties and righties? Your many post, read by many and the many would agree you very much learn left. Unlike "lefties" if you ask a hundred "righties" what they believe and to define what they believe, all 100 can define (or very near all 100) and verbalize specifics. Unlike "lefties" that have no idea of why they believe, have little understanding how our government, the constitution, Bill of rights, operate in words and action.

We can agree a storm is coming. I would say built on a foundation of lies, Deception, fabrication from the liberal l*****t. The liberals god is the father of lies.

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Jan 11, 2018 18:58:47   #
peter11937 Loc: NYS
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Did you read? It was written pro-Trump, with a respective amount of neutrality.

Unlike snoops that has historically been anti anything conservative.


Yes, Jack, I read it, and the fact remains Snopes is a leftwing tool. Pres. Trump's doing the best he can with the hand he's been dealt, which is a MSM bias of about 95 percent negative stories/articles.

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Jan 11, 2018 19:10:03   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
peter11937 wrote:
Yes, Jack, I read it, and the fact remains Snopes is a leftwing tool. Pres. Trump's doing the best he can with the hand he's been dealt, which is a MSM bias of about 95 percent negative stories/articles.



I am amazed President Trump has over 173 accomplishments and many are historically benchmarks. With all the f**e news blasting on majority of any internet searches, radio channels, network news (TV) and print of magazine and newspapers. The most obstruction from the left any president in history has had to overcome, in honestly confounded how our President has won, won, and keeps winning for the American people. The only explanation I can resolve is our President is being guided and Blessed by the God Almighty.

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Jan 11, 2018 19:12:06   #
emarine
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Lefties and righties? Your many post, read by many and the many would agree you very much learn left. Unlike "lefties" if you ask a hundred "righties" what they believe and to define what they believe, all 100 can define (or very near all 100) and verbalize specifics. Unlike "lefties" that have no idea of why they believe, have little understanding how our government, the constitution, Bill of rights, operate in words and action.

We can agree a storm is coming. I would say built on a foundation of lies, Deception, fabrication from the liberal l*****t. The liberals god is the father of lies.
Lefties and righties? Your many post, read by many... (show quote)



you are correct I do lean left on many issues but not as many as I lean right...I was a Republican for 30 years until I woke up... personally I think righties fling more s**t on OPP... I find that the lefties here want a heathy country helping the weak & sick...I find righties want dividends & guns... I'm for both... now isn't that easy...

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Jan 11, 2018 20:55:29   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
emarine wrote:
you are correct I do lean left on many issues but not as many as I lean right...I was a Republican for 30 years until I woke up... personally I think righties fling more s**t on OPP... I find that the lefties here want a heathy country helping the weak & sick...I find righties want dividends & guns... I'm for both... now isn't that easy...



Dang, now isn't that a perplexing position. 😁

I personally stand with the GOP platform. The problem or "perplexity" is the GOP reps themselves don't follow it.

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Jan 11, 2018 21:12:22   #
emarine
 
jack sequim wa wrote:
Dang, now isn't that a perplexing position. 😁

I personally stand with the GOP platform. The problem or "perplexity" is the GOP reps themselves don't follow it.





I agree... I think Charles Koch better get Paul Ryan's ass in gear before the middle class is gone...

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Jan 12, 2018 15:00:28   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
emarine wrote:
I agree... I think Charles Koch better get Paul Ryan's ass in gear before the middle class is gone...



I would agree with that statement also. Paul Ryan has proven to be a disappointment

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Jan 12, 2018 21:23:18   #
teabag09
 
Jack and the rest of OPP, buckle your seat belts. Starting the week of 1/14/2018 the SGHTF. Won't be much that we don't already suspect or know but the light of day is going to shine on a lot of things unless the Repubs. go Rino and even then it's going to be wild and wooly. Yipee! Mike
jack sequim wa wrote:
There are mountains of evidence Democrats fabrication of evidence against President Trump, from the (created) Russian collusion, to the hired woman with falsified claims of sexual harassment and dozens of fabricated stories by the media.
What amazes, even confounds most Americans is " how can nearly all of the Democrat law makers, Senate, FBI, CIA, either participate or condone the fabrication and/or false claims? How can nearly 80% of mainstream media be involved? Most of all, how can tens of millions of Americans (liberals) believe that these are acceptable actions towards any politician disagreeing with their ideology, agenda, political beliefs.

I have my beliefs how this is possible, found in the pages of God's written word.

Here is an example of "Democrat Cast Iron Evidence"

http://www.snopes.com/2017/07/12/trump-lies/



News Political News
The Lies of Donald Trump’s Critics, and How They Shape His Many Personas
An in-depth analysis of the false allegations and misleading claims made against the 45th President since his inauguration.

Over the past two years, many thousands of broadcast hours and probably millions of words have been dev**ed to Donald Trump’s relationship with the t***h. Equally, the President has made accusations of dishonesty and bias against the media and his political opponents a central part of his persona and presidency.

What lies are told about the President? Is he lying when he makes these allegations? In a feverish atmosphere of claim and counterclaim, when everyone seems to reflexively accuse everyone else of “f**e news”, it can be difficult to know what’s what.

There are many articles that exist detailing lies and misleading claims made by the Trump administration. This article is intended as a neutral, reliable analysis of the lies, false allegations and misleading claims made about and against Donald Trump since his inauguration in January 2017. We’ve attempted to strip away the hyperbole, name-calling and generalizations, and examine the patterns and trends at work: what characterizes these lies and exaggerations, the effect they have, what might explain them.

We pay particular attention to selected examples — claims that have gained prominence among the mainstream opposition to Trump, revealing much about the methods, priorities, and tone of that opposition, and illustrating how this movement both cultivates and plays off a number of caricatures of the 45th President and at times falls prey to a handful of identifiable and repeated errors of thought.

This is nothing new. Supporters and opponents of every high-profile politician in American history have done exactly the same, but in the current cultural atmosphere, where “the t***h” is universally, even manically, exalted as an abstract concept but then widely degraded in practice, it’s essential to confront, correct, and analyze patterns of falsehoods like these.

This is not an exhaustive list. For that, and a litany of fact checks of claims made by the President, you can browse the Snope archive on him.

The focus here is on attacks against Trump. So for the purpose of this article, we’re not interested in false claims that are intended to reflect favorably on him. Nor does this analysis address claims made against his family members, of which there have been many. It’s also limited to the period following the inauguration on 20 January. This analysis was primarily based on an in-depth search of our own archives.

The Many Donald Trumps


U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brigitte N. Brantley/Jim Matthew's
Broadly speaking, most of the falsehoods levelled against Trump fall into one or more of five categories, each of them drawing from and feeding into five public personas inhabited by the President.

They are:

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment
Trump the Tyrant
Donald Trump: Bully Baby
Trump the Buffoon
Trump the Cruel Bigot
Some of these claims are downright f**e, entirely fabricated by unreliable or dubious web sites and presented as satire, or otherwise blatantly false. But the rest — some of which have gained significant traction and credibility from otherwise serious people and organizations — provide a fascinating insight into the tactics and preoccupations of the broad anti-Trump movement known as “the Resistance,” whether they were created by critics of the President or merely shared by them.

Generally speaking, we discovered that they are characterized and driven by four types of errors of thought:

Alarmism
A lack of historical context or awareness
Cherry-picking of evidence (especially visual evidence)
A failure to adhere to Occam’s Razor — the common-sense understanding that the simplest explanation for an event or behavior is the most likely.
Infused throughout almost all these claims, behind their successful dissemination, is confirmation bias: the fuel that drives the spread of all propaganda and false or misleading claims among otherwise sensible and skeptical people. Confirmation bias is the tendency to look for, find, remember and share information that confirms the beliefs we already have, and the tendency to dismiss, ignore and forget information that contradicts those beliefs. It is one of the keys to why clever people, on all sides of every disagreement, sometimes believe stupid things that aren’t true.

We’re going to take a look at the four major types of falsehood we found, which correspond with Donald Trump’s five public personas, and point out along the way how various errors in thought have played a role in their origins and their spread.

Donald Trump: International Embarrassment



What’s remarkable is the extent to which false claims about the President revolve around body language, nonverbal gestures and symbolism, all phenomena that are notoriously open to interpretation. These lies and misrepresentations are also often based on snapshots — visual evidence presented without proper context.

Take, for example, the claim that Trump was the only world leader at a G7 summit in May not to take notes, based on a photograph posted to Twitter by French President Emannuel Macron. Here Trump was portrayed as unprepared and out of his depth on the world stage, with a “ten-second attention span”. However, the claim was entirely untrue, with other images and video of the meeting showing that Trump did indeed have notes and a pen. Not only that, but the very image used to make the false claim clearly shows two other world leaders sitting with no note-taking paraphernalia. In this case, even the cherry-picked evidence chosen to make the point undermines it.

Or, from the same G7 summit, the claim that Trump was caught on video raising his middle finger to Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Here we have Trump, contemptuous of other world leaders, once again risking international incident with his short temper and foul manners.

Except that he didn’t. The original source of the claim is revealing — the Twitter account of GiveHimTheFinger.com, an anti-Trump website that encourages his opponents to send the White House postcards designed as a middle finger. A longer video of the discussion shows that Trump and Gentiloni spoke cordially before the incident, which undermines the implicit logic behind the claim — that Trump was expressing anger or distain for Gentiloni. Indeed, no one has ever explained why Trump supposedly flipped him the bird, and so Occam’s Razor comes into play here.

While it is possible, of course, that Trump had such a mercurial change of heart about Gentiloni that he went from sharing warm words with him to publicly insulting him in a matter of minutes, is it not far more likely that the US President just had an itchy head?


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Jan 16, 2018 16:46:49   #
jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho
 
teabag09 wrote:
Jack and the rest of OPP, buckle your seat belts. Starting the week of 1/14/2018 the SGHTF. Won't be much that we don't already suspect or know but the light of day is going to shine on a lot of things unless the Repubs. go Rino and even then it's going to be wild and wooly. Yipee! Mike




Did I miss anything on the 14th?

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