Trump thinks he can re-write history with the internet being a thing.
Trump proven to be a fucking dumbass once again.
Wow, so not only does he deny firing Comey because of the investigation, he actually has no substitute explanation to replace the denial.
Every day is a discovery to how low Trump's IQ really is.
Think about this, every time you see him change the story, or the facts:
He thinks you're THAT stupid. He thinks that lowly of you.
He thinks he's the smartest man on the planet, and he would (and has) fall for something like that. "Everyone will fall for it" is only a logical conclusion given those premises.
His base believes it and that's probably all he cares about.
We've let stupidity become "alternative thinking"
It really confuses me how anyone can get to the point where their reality revolves around only themselves being correct.
If I start researching something to find out if it's true, and I find that 95% of sources I find disagree with me, the conclusion I make is that I'm wrong, not that the 95% are all "in on it."
If someone whose opinion I respect on my platform suddenly changes tone and disagrees with what I believe after being a lifetime proponent, I try to understand what changed and why they've suddenly backed out, not dismiss him as a plant by the other side, try to discredit his entire body of work, and assert that his opinion never really meant anything anyway.
I can't even imagine how people make those leaps. Sure it doesn't feel good to find out you're wrong or been misled but are some people just that wound up on the feeling that they do stuff like this to avoid some discomfort? Does it just compound on itself and become a house of cards that'll implode on itself if even the tiniest concession is made? How do people get like this?
It's the slippery slope from "Everyone's opinion matters". Eventually you end up at "My opinion matters more than facts".
a statement directly at odds with the President's own comments
Business as usual then
I feel like this is a pretty direct result of this obsession in the media to appear "balanced" over reporting factual information. You can see this with cable news like CNN with how they give a voice to the most ridiculous people who have no business being on a news program in the first place. They bring them on to create the perception of "showing both sides" even on issues where the position of the "other side" is just complete garbage and also to create an adversarial atmosphere that people hate to admit they enjoy watching.
probably one of his lawyers finally warned him about how much trouble he'd been in if he kept claiming he fired him over an investigation into himself. too bad that warning came so late but yea this is gonna be what he'll be repeating now as the investigation continues.
I mean, that is part of the slippery slope from "Everyone's opinion matter" - it means you have to treat the most outrageously stupid opinions devoid of any factual basis as serious in some way, which leads to exactly the situation you're describing, which only reinforces people in the belief in their factually-deficit opinions.
I really don't get why they didn't get Trump under oath first thing to clarify his stance on all these issues surrounding him. Giving him months and months to get his story straight like this just seems dumb lol.
https://i.imgur.com/0XkPL6d.png
We live in a terrible, wonderful world where we have near-infinite access to information without a nurtured culture of critical thinking; propaganda and monothink is so much more profitable and efficient and the side effects are going to doom us.
This is so surreal
https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/986395423941120000
I can’t believe we’re to the point that we can casually refer to the President of the United States of America as a “mob boss” and people will nod in agreement.
I keep wondering how people like this exist.
Fucking Metal Gear Solid 2. This god damn game hits it on the head.
But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretation, slander…All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think our plan is one of censorship. What we propose is not to control content, but to create context. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively records data of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans.
Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims.
Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species.
Everyone grows up being told the same thing. Be nice to other people…but beat out the competition!
You’re special. Everyone can succeed. But it’s obvious from the start that only a few can succeed…
How could a fucking video game script written in 1999 in Japan predict America so clearly?
And he still can't even do that right.
This is the part that sticks with me these days. With all the knowledge of the world available to everyone, what people sell aren't facts, but world views. Cognitive bias does the rest.
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