Trump's Most Malicious Legacy

[DrLove]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

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The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

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According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

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This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

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Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

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“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[rightwinger]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

 

[Mac-7]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

Democrat voter fraud is a tried and true election tool dating back even before 1960

so I agree that republican suspicion of democrats started long before trump

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

Your feelings are not facts.


However your POTUS Trump's legacy will be your ever escalating Dual Diagnosis Chronic Clinical - TDS / Trump OCD.

Sad really.

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:

 

[martybegan]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

You call us deplorables, you create a Construct of Trump as some monster, you claim that he is a threat to everything in this country, and then you expect us to not think you are capable of cheating to get rid of him?

What's the truth? Is he so bad that cheating was mandated, or did you exaggerate for 4 years how awful he really is, and thus "no need to cheat"?

 

[rightwinger]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:


View attachment 427779

The fact that we were stuck with an inept Donald Trump instead of a capable Hillary Clinton will be his legacy.

ANY candidate would have provided better leadership against COVID than Trump gave us.

History will condemn not only Trump, but those who elected him

 

[miketx]

 

[Missouri_Mike]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

Sure. People’s distrust of Democrats and their media wing is because of Trump. Their own dishonesty and bullshit had nothing to do with it.

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:


View attachment 427779

The fact that we were stuck with an inept Donald Trump instead of a capable Hillary Clinton will be his legacy.

ANY candidate would have provided better leadership against COVID than Trump gave us.

History will condemn not only Trump, but those who elected him

Does the Hag give you woods?

 

[miketx]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:


View attachment 427779

The fact that we were stuck with an inept Donald Trump instead of a capable Hillary Clinton will be his legacy.

ANY candidate would have provided better leadership against COVID than Trump gave us.

History will condemn not only Trump, but those who elected him

Come get us. we're waiting.

 

[marvin martian]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

Actually, Trump's real legacy will be shining a light on the corrupt shitbags in both parties, and Big Media/Big Tech, who abandoned all decency, truth, legality, and sanity to try to destroy an outsider in their midst. Now EVERYONE knows about their little club.

 

[Claudette]

That's Trumps legacy. Oh an you wouldn't know the truth if it slapped your ass.

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:


View attachment 427779

The fact that we were stuck with an inept Donald Trump instead of a capable Hillary Clinton will be his legacy.

ANY candidate would have provided better leadership against COVID than Trump gave us.

History will condemn not only Trump, but those who elected him

Trump will have a fine legacy. I shudder to think what Hitlery's legacy would have been. .

Trump was fine during the Chinese virus. You Dems thought it was a hoax and called him a racist when he wanted to stop flights into the US. Oh and lets not forget Pelousy telling everyone the virus was nothing and not to worry about it.

Once it hit our shores nothing anyone said or did would stop it from killing. Oh an you wouldn't know the truth if it slapped your ass.

History will love Trump and those that elected him.

 

[BS Filter]

I really like those three conservatives he put on the Supreme Court. You idiots will be really enjoying that legacy for years. Haha.

 

[DrLove]

You call us deplorables, you create a Construct of Trump as some monster, you claim that he is a threat to everything in this country, and then you expect us to not think you are capable of cheating to get rid of him?

What's the truth? Is he so bad that cheating was mandated, or did you exaggerate for 4 years how awful he really is, and thus "no need to cheat"?

Boy Marty - Those Dirty Dims are lousy fucking cheaters. One would think that if Dominion was gonna flip votes at the top, they could have done the same down ballot. You lost ONE seat in Congress. Hopefully that will become three on January 5th.

 

[Polishprince]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

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You don't get it, Doc.

The libs have said the Adolf Hitler was "Literally Trump" since Trump disembarked from the Golden Escalator 5 1/2 years ago.

If libs really believe this, why wouldn't they lie, cheat and steal if necessary to get rid of him? That's something to be expected no? The "right thing to do" if you really believe that the Trumpster was going to restart the Holocaust, no?

This is about taking libs at their word.

 

[martybegan]

You call us deplorables, you create a Construct of Trump as some monster, you claim that he is a threat to everything in this country, and then you expect us to not think you are capable of cheating to get rid of him?

What's the truth? Is he so bad that cheating was mandated, or did you exaggerate for 4 years how awful he really is, and thus "no need to cheat"?

Boy Marty - Those Dirty Dims are lousy fucking cheaters. One would think that if Dominion was gonna flip votes at the top, they could have done the same down ballot. You lost ONE seat in Congress. Hopefully that will become three on January 5th.

The lack of coat-tails bolsters a case for fraud in the areas in question, it doesn't reduce the case.

The thing is the fraud that is being claimed occurred in Dem controlled areas, that then dragged the rest of a State over to the dem side.

 

[rightwinger]

Trumps lasting legacy will be the total abandonment of the truth

Alternative facts will define his Presidency. If you don’t like the facts, make up your own.

If they are challenged, just keep repeating them. Party loyalty is defined by the willingness to accept lies when it is politically expedient.

Trump's legacy will be saving us from one dreaded, lethal virus already:


View attachment 427779

The fact that we were stuck with an inept Donald Trump instead of a capable Hillary Clinton will be his legacy.

ANY candidate would have provided better leadership against COVID than Trump gave us.

History will condemn not only Trump, but those who elected him

Come get us. we're waiting.

We already did

You lost

 

[rightwinger]

The lack of coat-tails bolsters a case for fraud in the areas in question, it doesn't reduce the case.

Makes no sense

 

[Mac1958]

It seems weird to talk about "Trump's Legacy". That went in the dumpster within a month of his inauguration. But bad legacies are legacies too and he will indeed leave a dumpster fire legacy to be sure. Great analysis from Peter Wehner.

We are entering into an epistemological crisis,” Barack Obama recently told my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg.​

​

The crisis didn’t begin with the Trump presidency, but it rapidly accelerated over the course of its term—and the situation has, if anything, grown worse in the aftermath of the presidential election.​

​

According to one poll, 70 percent of Republicans say they don’t believe that the 2020 election was free and fair. According to another, 77 percent of Trump backers say President-elect Joe Biden won because of fraud. And a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 68 percent of Republicans said they were concerned that the 2020 election was “rigged,” and that only 29 percent believed that Biden had “rightfully won.” More than half of Republicans said Trump “rightfully won” but the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud that favored Biden, claims that are hallucinatory.​

​

This may be Donald Trump’s most enduring legacy—a nihilistic political culture, one that is tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional, swimming in conspiracy theories. The result is that Americans are disoriented and frustrated, fearful of and often enraged at one another.​

​

Donald Trump didn’t invent misinformation and disinformation; they have been around for much of human history. But Trump—by virtue of his considerable skills in this area, aided by social media and capitalizing on “truth decay” and diminishing trust in sources of factual information—exploited them more effectively than anyone else has in American history.​

​

“It was unthinkable before Trump for anyone to run this kind of disinformation campaign from the White House against the American public,” according to Jonathan Rauch, the author of the forthcoming book The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth. As a result, we live in an era defined by epistemic chaos and noetic disarray, one in which a large portion of the population embraces falsehoods and fairy tales and thinks of them as “alternative facts.”​

Continued:

Trump’s Most Malicious Legacy

The outgoing president leaves behind a tribalistic, distrustful, and sometimes delusional political culture.

www.theatlantic.com

It was during Trump's one term that the alternate universe became a completely formed, entirely closed circuit, fully functioning, informational ecosystem. His constant use of comical hyperbole and detachment from reality was the perfect impetus for the final stages of the alternate universe's formation.

We now have two entirely separate realities. I don't know how we're supposed to function as an advanced country like this.