It was a great speech by any standards, not because of trumps low expectations.

Anti-trumpers are going to find reasons to cry regardless of what he does, while simultaneously whining about pro Trumpers cheering him on no matter what he does

This post was edited by IgoSoHard on Mar 1 2017 10:00am

He did a lot less sniffing than we're used to seeing from him.
Has he finally got his cocaine addiction under control?

now will the media dig deep into his evening looking for negative pieces to highlight, or will they go for positive reinforcement and try to encourage him to maintain good behavior with compliments? we know he's an ego-driven monster. maybe enough attaboys can fix him.

shit, look, he did it again. he got me wondering if he has turned over a new leaf and will appear presidential again. i'm going to bet 'no' on that.

of course, there were even guys making fun of a photo where trump was studying his notes in the car
preparing for a speech that will be watched by millions of people, wht a shocker

the speech itself was really good, sometimes a bit repetitive though

This post was edited by ampoo on Mar 1 2017 10:49am

I know, and I dont criticize him for giving this speech.

Its just... you know, I'm actually pro trump, but still find it ridiculous how his die-hard supporters try to buzz up everything he does while his die-hard haters try to bury him for every little shit. In this case, I just found it ridiculous that someone called it "trump winning again" when markets reacted positvely to him not being his usual self.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 2 2017 12:10am

http://wapo.st/2mb6M95?tid=ss_gp


Let's hope an investigation actually happens.

Thats some Grade A Nothingburger.
lets see

Narrative choice A:
Jeff Sessions was an intermediary between the Trump Campaign and the russians and coordinated with russian officials in order to rig the election while being blackmailed with compromising information, and yet despite the seriousness of these allegations, his "secret meetings" with the russian ambassador consisted of being approached at an unrelated convention while at a water cooler in full view of hundreds of people in public and exchanging hellos, getting invited to a party and declining, and then later taking a routine phone call on state business while in his office with the call entered into records. Then despite these easily proven and evidenced conversations, he lied about it on record for no explicable reason.

Narrative choice B:
Jeff Sessions is a senator who does standard senator stuff, including talking to russian ambassadors formally and informally. He gets asked a question about whether the trump campaign is conspiring with the russians or not, he says as a member of the trump campaign he hasn't, and doesn't know anyone who has. The media, desperate to create anti-trump headlines without giving two figs about how credible or easily debunked their stories are, push a slightly ambiguous wording from hours of testimony to create a fake news headline to distract from trump's successful pseudo-state-of-the-union address.


I gotta empathize with the guy, he's spent his entire career getting unfairly maligned. Trump's only been doing it for a year, for Sessions this is called "Wednesday"

This post was edited by Goomshill on Mar 2 2017 12:51am

Both narratives seem reasonable.

Given the total bullshit status of these headlines when looked at under any scrutiny, and the fact they've appeared a full month after the fact out of the blue
Can you at least recognize that this is an example of the news being baloney?

They'll use this as a rallying cry to hammer trump and a trump proxy for a few days of news cycles, Pelosi has already called on him to resign, shareblue probably made an entire website devoted to the story in advance and is handing out protest signs. And yet, its all concocted out of pure tripe, pulled from nothing, it didn't even take any gaffe or miscalculation by anyone on the right, let alone actual wrongdoing or a crime. Someone, whether a journalist on a hatchet job crusade or conspiracy with leftwing strategists simply invented the days headline.

The media didn't make up the story. Congress members have already requested Sessions resign. They are reporting on what is an objectively serious accusation, regardless of whether there is merit to it. And Sessions' alibi's worth is debatable.

I think I've made it clear I think there's most likely something very serious in these accusations of contact with Russia to sway the results of the investigation so no I do not think this or the dozens of other pieces of evidence are nothingburgers. I genuinely think that the truth is probably closer to Narrative A than Narrative B.

I won't claim that as fact by any means because I simply don't know, but it's been a hunch of mine since like September 2016 and every story just makes it seem more and more likely. I hope I'm wrong but it'll be both vindicating and depressing if it turns out I was right.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Mar 2 2017 01:12am