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WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(57,163 posts)Paywalled, so I can't read, but you can see the date stamp.
senseandsensibility
(22,917 posts)Not sure.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,163 posts)senseandsensibility
(22,917 posts)Canadian journalist instead of just releasing it themselves, which I agree would be strange if true.
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,502 posts)
BoRaGard
(6,391 posts)
tulipsandroses
(7,689 posts)shock jock than a journalist.
littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)Like he and his supporters have never pulled sh¡t out of thin air...
rubbersole
(10,124 posts)paleotn
(20,627 posts)WSJ doesn't think so apparently.
Shellback Squid
(9,529 posts)littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)Did the angry colonists question the origins of the tar and feathers when the time came to use them?
paleotn
(20,627 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)this has been widely studied. Sharing fake images makes it less likely people take it seriously when the real image eventually comes out, which it is bound to. Sharing something fake adds nothing.
littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)Should feathers not be used at all or does one kill the bird on site to make sure everyone knows when they stick to the tar they're legit?
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)listening to you.
littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)
Ocelot II
(126,066 posts)
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)ForgedCrank
(2,768 posts)what I've been whining about for so long. We must stop with the gossip and tabloid bullcrap. If it's anti-Trump, regardless of the source or who releases it, we all get lumped into it being on the left. It's making us look stupid and completely lacking credibility.
We have to get off of this trend of attacking his character and policy with fake or misleading crap and start focusing on our own policy ideas. We already have the votes of most Democrats, it's the centrists that we need to earn back that will turn this thing around. If we stay on this -hate all things Trump- campaign, that is never going to happen. Sitting around praying for his death isn't the way; in fact, that crap is what is driving people away from us.
WhiskeyGrinder
(25,334 posts)It's the fake shit that drives me up the wall.
ForgedCrank
(2,768 posts)His shortcomings and all should certainly be pointed out and highlighted. But you are correct about the fake shit. That is what has eroded the credibility of not just the media and personalities who do it, but it has damaged us badly as a party overall. Everything from this stupid ass picture to ketchup packets. Even calling him a "convicted rapist" or Hitler. This crap needs to be reeled in asap. Mid-terms are coming up fast and it's time to start getting serious and knock it off with the kindergarten crap. I just wish more people could get over their hatred and see what this is doing to us. We are better than them and we need to start behaving like it.
That's because some people just eat this shit up because they are completely emotional and not factual or thoughtful.
How many posts are just eye rolls to most people...Shit like TikTok seance predictions and female drawings with trumps name in the center on letterhead.
How stupid...That's really going to win votes. People don't seem to get it. Trump doesn't care. He is not running for re-election.
pat_k
(11,473 posts)Buyer beware.
Just in the past two days sources -- including Reed Galen -- have read or quoted horrible fake tweets attributed to some MAGA person. What they actually post is horrible enough. We need to be VERY sceptical and unless legitimacy is clear, DO NOT promote. Even the original post on mastadon this image was taken from states that it is unverified.
kentuck
(114,430 posts)Nobody I can think of??
usonian
(19,164 posts)So he can deny.
For example Mark Hall,
or is that Hall ...
It was obviously a porno pen.
TommyT139
(1,650 posts)...on MSNBC, one of the evening anchors did a segment on the times Trump has used "enigma" over the years. He probably thinks it's a word that makes him sound smart.
Swede
(36,810 posts)Someone theorized that Epstein suggested the anagram as secret code between the two buddies, cause Trump is too stupid to think of it.
drray23
(8,307 posts)Its simply a word for a young girl.
No implications of playfulness or lewdness.
Likewise, gamin is the word for young boy.
usonian
(19,164 posts)Thanks. I don't read his material.
And I couldn't de-cipher it anyway.
DBoon
(23,972 posts)usonian
(19,164 posts)There it is. The Riddler wrapped in Mister E. (Epstein) inside an enigma machine.
Poor Frank Gorshin.
Enigma is the password for the house.
taxi
(2,402 posts)SSJVegeta
(1,151 posts)At least it hasn't been confirmed
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)The Trumpies are desperate to have the WSJ release an image of the letter, which the WSJ seems unwilling to do. This is an attempt to get them to release it by circulating a fake.
littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)With no comparisons to the "original," it gives him plausible deniability.
It's high time he suffered some of the same manufactured crap he and his kind have slung around for years.
Those who are left that are able to actually think can decide for themselves what to believe or not to believe.
Prove that there's a fake, President Psychopath.
Show us the real thing.
Why not show us what you're willing to attest to as real, President Psychopath? Why not add your witnesses, who no doubt saw the birthday book, then have them swear that it's real, too?
Pay them to lie.
Who cares?
Eventually, he's going to crack once and for all.
He's only a man.
We've already seen glimpses of his accidental truthfulness.
He needs something or someone who is willing to apply enough pressure on him to show him that with the thousands of lies he's told, one lie can cause him to finally fatally collapse.
It doesn't matter if what does him in is manufactured or real. I just want him and everything he represents, destroyed.
It may actually kill him to have to tell the truth. The only way we'll know he's truthful is when he's declared dead anyway.
TnDem
(1,080 posts)Trump doesn't care
He admitted to grabbing women "by the pussy", was impeached twice, shot, investigated and scorned by the world. He still was elected twice.
Shit like this is not going to hurt trump. All of this was baked in 6 years ago.
littlemissmartypants
(28,456 posts)rubbersole
(10,124 posts)Noble piece prize worthy.
TnDem
(1,080 posts)Nobel "piece" prize?
rubbersole
(10,124 posts)global1
(26,161 posts)pubic hair.
So now we can say that all of Tr**p's Executive Orders are signed with pubic hair.
BWdem4life
(2,569 posts)Is that the lines of the woman go between words, so as not to obscure what is being written. Whether it's real or fake, that shows great care and attention to detail - something that must have taken someone some time to do.
I'm actually leaning towards real.
taxi
(2,402 posts)Trump says he didn't write the letter or the drawing.
It is of little difference what Trump wrote or drew, he attached his name to it making the letter his own. He did the same thing with his book. People everywhere sign their names to documents they haven't personally written but are recognized as their own.
He is basically saying, I am Donald Trump and I approve this message.