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John Wright's avatar

So... once again... don't watch or read or listen to the "news". 😇

Connie Lemmincakes's avatar

That was brought crystal clear as I watched the “news” describing an explosion that happened in a home a few miles from me 2 days ago. The so serious, polished pretty guy was narrating the text and it SO made me realize how lucky I am that I gave up “the news” so many years ago.

John Wright's avatar

My first real lesson in the distortion of news was when I ran for US Congress in 1992 and would read the news reporting about me. {laugh} Good humor!

David Nelson's avatar

Wow. John. "Thank you for your service." So few, so rare few, get up off the couch and say, "Well, I'll try."

John Wright's avatar

Darn it! Nobody mentioned that I could remain sitting on my couch and run for office without having to drive around to all these conventions giving speeches! Where is that "easy button"?

Cindi's avatar

Don’t you remember FJB hiding in his basement or NObummer’s running the country in his sweats on the couch after leaving office?

Judith's avatar

Exactly. Years ago a neighborhood eyesore became too much for me. I approached my city councilman, spoke my case before the entire council and learned patience. The media naturally had to check it out and interview me. What I spoke directly into the camera and what appeared on the news and in print “somehow” was considerably distorted. Never believed the media since.

John Wright's avatar

Yes, first hand experience is a great way to convince you to never believe media again!

Curtis's avatar

Perhaps we're neighbors?? Do you live in L? I live in K...

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

Amen

Ginny Moore's avatar

“…sounding less like the leader of the free world and more like a guy at Cracker Barrel describing how his wife ran off with his best friend and his Camaro in 1997.” 🤣🤣🤣

You crack me up and keep me informed and I love you.

Bad ass as always. 🤬🍑🥰

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

So fun to see you last night! Brownstone for the win! 🩷🤩

Meddling Kid's avatar

While we’re talking about things spewing, I’m still trying to get over yesterday’s mental image of LBJ walking around the White House with his trouser snake out, and George Costanza is in my head screaming “You need a new Johnson rod!”

KatWarrior's avatar

Hahahaha! LingOL!

Jpeach's avatar

Trump says things to make the Fake Media explode. The Fake Media then makes TDS sufferers heads explode. Trump likes to blow up Fake things.

Juju's avatar

Best meme in article was the kid playing the trumpet (Trump) aimed at the head of a girl (The entire world every day) 🤣🤣🤣🤣

KatWarrior's avatar

My favourite pastime is watching TDS morons heads explode! It's predictable, consistent, and mind blowing. I used to actually like some of these people which is the mind blowing part of the equation. I worked with a lot of these TDS morons. Wow, just wow!

David Nelson's avatar

Trump gonna Trump.

What's that they "explained" ("SHUT UP!" Jenna explained...) back before Trump 1.0 when he was supposed to lose: "Trump supporters take him seriously, but not literally. His opponents [oh, let's just call them 'enemies'] take him literally, but not seriously."

To a Trump backer, his use of "explosion" meant the devastating destruction of the current oil-production status quo in Iran, highlighting again for anyone paying attention, the importance of understanding the difference between "precision" and "accuracy." ["9.1415926" is a highly precise depiction of the number, pi, but "about 3" while very imprecise is a LOT more useful because of being more accurate.] Leave it to the enemies to quibble about the word choice while ignoring the reality in front of them.

AND it still scorches my shorts that These Quislings are the Same ones who gave us 24x7 "explanations" of "what Joe meant" by his nonsensical jibber-jabber. Pick on Trump for a SPECIFIC word choice but presume that Joe Biden's OUTRIGHT and DAMNABLE LIES were no-big-deal.

"Explosion," dear dinosauric media, refers to what's happening to your business model--as you scribble away. You've been warned, but you keep looking for "smoke" and listening for "sounds" and you're missing it completely. #cantfixstupid

Curtis's avatar

"Literally vs seriously." 🎯

That being said, your number for pi may be a little off.... 😉

The Great Santini's avatar

Very nice mathematical reference!

I heard in my youth that a state legislator who found the extra digits bothersome filed a bill to make @pi exactly 3. Some things don’t change.

Curtis's avatar

Ugh. But math is racist anyway...

David Nelson's avatar

Artificial Stupidity/AS sez:

The Famous "Indiana Pi Bill" (1897)

In 1897, the Indiana House of Representatives unanimously passed House Bill 246 (also known as the Indiana Pi Bill).

This notorious bill attempted to legally set the value of π (pi) to 3.2 (among other incorrect mathematical claims) by adopting the crank "proofs" of physician Edward J. Goodwin. The bill passed the House 67–0 on February 6, 1897, but was killed in the Senate after a Purdue University mathematics professor intervened and explained the absurdity to senators.

Note: U-NAN-IMOUS... This should give us all pause; instead of a doing a little happy dance that today is "soooo NOT-1897" we need to remember the NEAR-unanimity of "the scientific and medical community", of vaccine pushers, reminding us that--like precision and accuracy--what is "obvious" is not necessarily "true" and vice versa.

Oblig. notice of conflict of interest: I was born in Indiana, but--as the saying down there goes--"I got to Texas jes' as quick as I c'ud!"

Incidentally, I was going to replace that "n" up there in the answer with "the real 𝜋 character", but when I went to ask AS for one, come to find out, that's not an "n" at all: "π" is the UPPER-CASE form of "𝜋". #whodathunkit

The Great Santini's avatar

It is all Greek to me….

Marlene Swann's avatar

This is where we shout to the MSM - “He’s not talking to you! He’s talking to US!” So shut up and get back in your hole, nobody is paying attention to you anyways. (Do they really not know how stupid EVERYBODY who employs any common sense regards their prattling?! No clue? Really?!)

Lynn's avatar

Jenna you are a national treasure. “You never recover fully,” POTUS warned ominously at one point, sounding less like the leader of the free world and more like a guy at Cracker Barrel describing how his wife ran off with his best friend and his Camaro in 1997." That's a line that just keeps giving. Laugh out loud every time I re-read it. Thank you.

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

🙇‍♀️

Curtis's avatar

The visual was instant!

Lynn's avatar

Right?😂

The Great Santini's avatar

If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath

To shoot when you catch 'em -- you'll swing, on my oath! --

Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both…

Curtis's avatar

During the 2016 Trump term someone described Trump as a typical NYC businessman, shrewd, smart and loudmouthed. The problem is that people who don't understand that take him literally, but not seriously, and that's a mistake. It's always stuck with me.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I know rigs die one way or another if they’re shut off like you’d turn off a vacuum switch. I know they can’t continue HOOVERING up oil if you turn off the vacuum. I know they’re out of places to store oil and are 20 million in the red on account of that. My

suggestion is, store it in the bathtubs and toilet tanks of the 60,000 citizens they murdered right before this war.

Callus sounding, I know… Bit it’s all I can come up with.

Also, injecting Clorox would’ve been less lethal and possibly

more effective than injecting mRNA “vaccines”. At

least Clorox eventually dissipates and doesn’t cause continuous folding prions and worse.

Teresa Parmenter's avatar

I’m actually surprised that Iran hasn’t started blowing up the oil wells just so no one can have it.

Curtis's avatar

That's what Saddam Hussein did....

David Nelson's avatar

Saddam only ordered the blowing up of oil wells IN KUWAIT (some 600-700 of them), as his forces ran away. And I like to think that, if he were here now, he'd say that "blowing up oil wells in your own d*mn country would be bat-sh*t crazy! even for me!!"

Vee's avatar
3hEdited

Trump says a lot of things so the fact that they are reporting on this one specific thing that Trump says might be important. Or maybe not because they just reported about how he curses too much lol.

Conversations outside of what the mainstream media is reporting are much more interesting and relevant. The most recent VSRF episode was great! https://rumble.com/v7a8ngy-vsrf-live-229-manufacturing-a-poly-virus-panic.html

Bob Brown's avatar

It is true that shutting in oil wells, can damage the wells and they may never get back to full production when turned back on.

But damaging middle eastern oil wells is not a good thing, it is causing hardship around the world and higher prices here in the US. Where Trump is wrong about oil, is that we need to import oil to keep our economy going. We use more oil than we extract and what we extract can't be all used in the US as it is too light, so we've been exporting some of the light stuff while importing even more of the heavy oil than what we export of the light oil. Since the war started we've been exporting oil from storage, not a smart move, we can only continue to do that for another month or so before we run out of stored oil. Expect things to get worse when that happens.

Carolyn's avatar

The commodity exchange and wall street set the prices..I'm not sure if OPEC is still the controller as it was in the past

Heather B's avatar

Orange Man Bad means he can't do anything right, including speak. Right after he was elected one of the news outlets asked a professor of communications at NYU I think it was, about his communication style and the professor was pretty derogatory comparing his style to that of a 5th grader in terms of vocabulary and sentence structure but then he added something along the lines of *but you didn't ask me if he was effective and if you did I would have to say he is extremely effective at messaging.*

arrotsevni's avatar

...and the bleach suggestion taken out of context during COVID to make Trump look "stupid" has been shown to be correct. Midwestern Dr has posted chlorine dioxide has been shown anecdotally to have some very decent anti-viral/bacterial effects given to pets and has implied success with humans just as ivermectin did. Trump is extraordinarily well and broadly informed.

Phillips Advisory Letter's avatar

Trump is to precise, logical explanation as sausage is to steak.

Curtis's avatar

Very accurate metaphor! And I honestly prefer sausage, especially Italian sausage. 😋

David Nelson's avatar

Good metaphor! And if I may: still--for SOME CRAZY INEXPLICABLE REASON!--Trump supporters "seem to prefer" FRESH SAUSAGE to ROTTEN STEAK! Go figure.

Juju's avatar

Welllll ima Ribeye gal, but I love some sausage as a side dish - it compliments my meal.

Anna Lafferty's avatar

I was thinking of the bleach misrepresentation as I was reading too and there it was further down!