Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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EAllusion wrote:Subgenius is arguing, without actually arguing, that Trump is not authoring most of his tweets. That way when someone points out that this isn't true, he can say "CFR" and act like his point is established if someone doesn't want to spend an hour or so presenting evidence to convince a troll on an obscure message board acting in relentless bad faith.

Good times.

Anyway, CFR Subs.

Nice imagination you got there....

The official President of the United States (President) Twitter page was updated on Sunday to confirm the messages are being posted by Dan Scavino, Mr Trump’s “assistant” and Director of Social Media.



Or you could simply pay attention...

Trump, in contrast to previous presidents with Twitter accounts, is generally understood to write a great deal of his tweets himself. But Wednesday's tweets are a good reminder that this isn't always the case and that we know less than we think we do about who conceives and types out each of the tweets from his personal account.

Emphasis mine:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

http://mashable.com/2017/10/04/donald-t ... t-mistake/
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
subgenius wrote:You mean "BookS".
Let's see, "Audacity of Hope" while he was a Senator...how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his Senate duties?
And then "Of Thee I Sing" while he was President ....how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his President duties?


Uh. Ghostwriters?

What's wrong with you?

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Nothing is wrong with me...if you missed it, I was contradicting the above Trump criticism that seemingly was ignorant of rhe whole ghost writer concepr.
Thanks for the affirmation.
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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I thought General Kelly had pledged to curb Trump's TV watching. I suppose what Elder Dallin Oaks said about managing a dancing bear also holds true in Trump's case.
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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subgenius wrote:
canpakes wrote:Ask yourself how you could possibly think that the President writes his own press releases, speeches, and puts his signature on all that stuff everyday -
Why would I ask that?
subgenius wrote:Yeah, that's more of a critical thinking skill...better to learn to walk before you try to run, amiright?

Yes, you wish to imagine that Trump no longer tweets, and that he has a staff of folks who've stepped in on his behalf to do so after having learned to imitate his disjointed and juvenile writing form, in order to make him look like a fool. Amirite?


subgenius wrote:
canpakes wrote:Since when would anyone with an IQ better than a caterpillar's believe that, say, the President writes his own press releases? Do you believe this? Goodness knows he'd never have the time given that is thumb is so thoroughly glued to his phone tapping out juvenile tweet after tweet to ever have the time for such a thing even if it was a Presidential duty, right? :wink:

True, especially given how Trump has always tweeted so much...maybe being President has just given him more time to tweet.

Sure. His staff probably tosses McDonalds fries on the floor of the Oval Office, and when Trump lunges into the room for them, they close and lock the door but leaving behind his Twitter phone, in case he finishes the fries too soon. Tweeting is how he passes the time while in time out.


subgenius wrote:but can have time to pay attention to his Presidential Duties....your logic, reasoning, and insight into the Executive Branch is astounding.
canpakes wrote:Thanks!
subgenius wrote:Oops, sorry. I omitted a few word after "astounding"....astounding by how deficient it is.

Sorry. No redo's on your failure to be able to express yourself or write complete sentences.


subgenius wrote:You should write a book if you find the time, like how Hillary Clinton and Obama find the time..
canpakes wrote:I'll consider that. Maybe a children's book, so as not to stress the current Prez's intellect.
subgenius wrote:Ha! You just admitted that Trump can read.

You should see how diligently he practices slowly reading his Bic Mac wrappers. Gotta give him credit for the effort.


subgenius wrote:..how did Obama ever write a book in office and still pay attention to those duties?...amazing ain't it?
canpakes wrote:Which book would that be?
subgenius wrote:You mean "BookS".
Let's see, "Audacity of Hope" while he was a Senator...how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his Senate duties?

Oh, you want to limit this to office outside of the Presidency... because we're not talking about the Presidency, right? Lol.


subgenius wrote:And then "Of Thee I Sing" while he was President ....how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his President duties?

Nope. This 40-page book was finished before Obama was sworn in as President. Look it up.
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of TV (FOX Mostly) every day

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subgenius wrote:
EAllusion wrote:Subgenius is arguing, without actually arguing, that Trump is not authoring most of his tweets. That way when someone points out that this isn't true, he can say "CFR" and act like his point is established if someone doesn't want to spend an hour or so presenting evidence to convince a troll on an obscure message board acting in relentless bad faith.

Good times.

Anyway, CFR Subs.

Nice imagination you got there....

The official President of the United States (President) Twitter page was updated on Sunday to confirm the messages are being posted by Dan Scavino, Mr Trump’s “assistant” and Director of Social Media.



Or you could simply pay attention...

Trump, in contrast to previous presidents with Twitter accounts, is generally understood to write a great deal of his tweets himself. But Wednesday's tweets are a good reminder that this isn't always the case and that we know less than we think we do about who conceives and types out each of the tweets from his personal account.

Emphasis mine:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

http://mashable.com/2017/10/04/donald-t ... t-mistake/


None of these references establish that Trump does not write most of his tweets. In fact, they argue the opposite.

Trump, in contrast to previous presidents with Twitter accounts, is generally understood to write a great deal of his tweets himself.


Way to undermine your own point.
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of FOX every Day

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Res Ipsa wrote:You might want to fix that headline to something like "Trump watches up to 8 hours of TV news every day, much of which is Fox."

It's still an amazing amount of TV for a guy that says he has no time for TV. And having the TV on during meeting?


If he's watching TV for eight hours that's eight hours less time spent burning down the country.
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canpakes wrote:Yes, you wish to imagine that Trump no longer tweets, and that he has a staff of folks who've stepped in on his behalf to do so after having learned to imitate his disjointed and juvenile writing form, in order to make him look like a fool. Amirite?

Dude, his tweets have successfully made everyone who freaks out over those tweets look like fools...when a monkey throws poop and hits someone in the face, other people aren't laughing at the monkey...or the poop.

canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:Oops, sorry. I omitted a few word after "astounding"....astounding by how deficient it is.

Sorry. No redo's on your failure to be able to express yourself or write complete sentences.

Um, awkward - but I literally just re-did it...and then you quoted it, thus you re-did-did it....once again reality is not falling in line for you.

canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:Ha! You just admitted that Trump can read.

You should see how diligently he practices slowly reading his Bic Mac wrappers. Gotta give him credit for the effort.

Ha! You are jealous.

canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:You mean "BookS".
Let's see, "Audacity of Hope" while he was a Senator...how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his Senate duties?

Oh, you want to limit this to office outside of the Presidency... because we're not talking about the Presidency, right? Lol.

No, actually we were talking about how some people are so stupid they think a President does not have a staff of writers, etc.
But yeah, I guess the people of Illinois were glad their Senator was spending their time and money writing a book to sell to them.

canpakes wrote:
subgenius wrote:And then "Of Thee I Sing" while he was President ....how did he have the time and still manage to attend to his President duties?

Nope. This 40-page book was finished before Obama was sworn in as President. Look it up.


Nope, it was published in 2010, almost 2 years after being sworn in...maybe he was oblivious to the entire publishing process for 2 years??? - yet, as you note there was an unverified report that he had finished it in 2008, after election but that is unverified - and was oddly specific (he must have had tons of time to write and coordinate illustrations while being a Senator and campaigning for President)...but fell free to prove your counter-claim yourself...or likely not.

But it is undeniable that he wrote the Forward to Mandela's book after he was sworn in as President....I'M sure he did that when he was off the clock, since such personal endeavors are diligently discerned by people such as yourself...er, I mean - such personal endeavors by Presidents you didn't vote for are diligently...
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Re: Trump watches 8 Hours of FOX every Day

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Gray Ghost wrote:
Res Ipsa wrote:You might want to fix that headline to something like "Trump watches up to 8 hours of TV news every day, much of which is Fox."

It's still an amazing amount of TV for a guy that says he has no time for TV. And having the TV on during meeting?


If he's watching TV for eight hours that's eight hours less time spent burning down the country.

Um, its the hair fires that are burning the country down

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Substupid is just the type to got to a burn unit just for laughs.
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