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Why Trump’s Vengeful Tweeting Matters
National Review ^ | 29 June 2017 | David French

Posted on 06/30/2017 8:36:54 PM PDT by Belteshazzar

The president has a huge impact on the country’s political culture. Trump’s misuse of the bully pulpit ensures that that impact is negative in his case. So, he did it again. As we’ve learned countless times since his inauguration, President Trump is the exact same person as celebrity Trump and candidate Trump. He’s crass, vicious, and petty. This morning, he tweeted this:

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449111/donald-trump-mika-brzezinski-vengeful-tweets-degrade-american-political-culture


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fake; fakenews; mikabrzezinski; nevertrump; nevertrumperrant; trump; tweets
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To: Trumpocrat

Agree.


61 posted on 06/30/2017 9:49:32 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Sirius Lee; Greetings_Puny_Humans

OMG! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565652/posts?page=31#31


62 posted on 06/30/2017 9:55:50 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: bigbob

LOL!


63 posted on 06/30/2017 9:59:49 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Belteshazzar

NR can GTH.

64 posted on 06/30/2017 10:05:52 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Aria

Actually, nobody has said that but me. Rush kinda somewhat hinted at it, but really doesn’t see it as deliberate.

No, take the “covfefe” tweet. This was nonsense, yet it occupied the media for days.

It is 100% genius and necessary. NO Trump policy or program will ever get fair or accurate press. Trump knows this. So, the best possible strategy is completely take the media completely off the policies and onto something else.

Now want a prediction? It will get “worse” as the Russia stuff fades cuz Trump will have to keep them occupied with something else.


65 posted on 06/30/2017 10:21:47 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Belteshazzar
Professional bed-wetter David French drives home exactly why a) William Kristol wanted him to be President b) why he is not qualified to be c) how completely National Review has succumbed to O'Sullivans First Law and d) why the Left's long march through the institutions has been so successful.

Because of ankle biters like Mr. French, we are standing on our last hill in a late hour. His time has passed, and he needs to shut up.

66 posted on 06/30/2017 10:40:08 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: Belteshazzar
h, goody! Yet ANOTHER DAMN link to the discredited, traitorous, Hillary-supporting, Trump-hating National Review.

If it wasn't for the National Review and their compatriot, neo-con swine, Trump would have won the popular vote.


67 posted on 06/30/2017 10:49:31 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Belteshazzar

The insignificance of National Review is absolute.


68 posted on 06/30/2017 10:53:33 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: Belteshazzar
Exactly. Why is the media entitled to do their trash talking day after day? They did this to the Reagans many years ago. They upped the hatred with GWB and Bush never fought back.

I like the fact that Trump fights back. French is a stupid fool who is being supported and cheered on by the little weasel B. Kristol. Nothing to see from these morons.

69 posted on 06/30/2017 10:58:41 PM PDT by Shortstop7
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To: IronJack
Trump simply gives as good as he gets, and beats the slimedia at their own game.

Every single Hollywood movie I've seen over the decades regarding a bully pushing someone around, sends the message that if you want it to stop then you fight back. When someone tries to kick sand in President Trump's face, he jumps up and pushes back, just like the moral given in so many Hollywood films.

I like seeing President Trump punch back against the MSM bullies, and am proud I voted for him because so many other Republican politicians keep getting sand kicked in their faces but shrivel up like cowards. Trump fights back, and is fighting for us! Winning!

70 posted on 06/30/2017 11:05:33 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Belteshazzar

Even if what this person who wrote this op-ed said is right; what President Trump is doing that no other President before him in known history has done is exposed the soft ugly underbelly of his detractors/enemies and of course the Enemedia.

As another Freeper here said; he is a horse of a different color. He doesn’t roll the same way as others. He is quite unique among people who are also unique in his peer group.

If someone compares Trump to others in the past doing the same job they make a critical mistake. They forget we are in a cold civil war in America. Those past Presidents in relatively modern history didn’t have that issue. Only Reagan could possibly relate to what Trump is going through. He had a similar Enemedia to deal with and a rabid left. Of course they are always rabid; to what degree is the only question. Trump and Reagan would have been great friends had they been close in age.

Obongo tried to insinuate he was projecting his inner Reagan at times. Kinda made me want to punch his nose for insulting Reagan that way. We must accept the good and the not-so-good things about Trump and remember his uniqueness. I know I sound like Trump-bot fanboy or something but really it’s just that I get him. Socially we have nothing in common but on a gut level we are similar so I get him. I do cringe at some of his tweets though just like anyone else. I think; why give them so much ammunition then I think about what the enemedia will be doing for the next news cycle or three. While they are preoccupied with nonsense; Trump is over there getting thing accomplished. Hopefully with the help of congressional leadership.


71 posted on 06/30/2017 11:05:40 PM PDT by Boomer ("Based on the impotent shrieking of the Never Trump bedwetters"....)
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To: Belteshazzar

Another nevertrumper with his panties in a twist. How dare Trump react to months of outrageous personal attacks with a mean tweet! FUNR.


72 posted on 06/30/2017 11:08:43 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Ken H

That pansy cover has always grated on me. I always thought it was due to the sissy-prissy format and design.

But only now it strikes me - it is the color purple too, with all the propaganda that goes with that.

Buckley’s magazine has been corrupted and turned. Such a shame.


73 posted on 06/30/2017 11:10:56 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Don’t pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel” is a 20th century paradigm.
Thanks to Twitter and endless electron and a tablet or smartphone, the MSM’s monopoly on news is over.
Join the rest of us in the new century NR, you loathsome insects: Lowrey writes on ****house walls, French rolls his **** in little balls.
Obviously I have nothing but contempt for these hothouse ‘conservatives’. They are lower than grabasstic amphibian whale poop in the Marianas trench, even worse than liberals.


74 posted on 06/30/2017 11:33:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: neverevergiveup

Trump’s tweets are vengeful, but Obama using the DOJ, FBI, and IRS to go after political opponents is OK? Really?


Yup. Let me know when the Trump administration orders a SWAT raid on MSNBC the way the Obama administration ordered a raid on Gibson Guitar. Now *that* was vengeful. Not a f’ng peep from the presstituites.


75 posted on 06/30/2017 11:44:05 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Belteshazzar

David French is dumber than dirt.


76 posted on 06/30/2017 11:51:58 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Belteshazzar

French is a NeverTrumper#. Bill Kristol tried to recruit him to run against Trump.


77 posted on 07/01/2017 12:04:12 AM PDT by kabar
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To: NetAddicted

Of course, instead of corporate scum (the original movie), we’re playing against Big Government scum (in both parties).


78 posted on 07/01/2017 12:05:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: meadsjn; LS

Has anyone heard the commie media mention that Trump shut down the hideous WOTUS program?

I think this makes LS’ point.
Without Trump’s Tweets Greenies would be marching in protest and calling on Congress to stop Trump from neutering the EPA.

But they don’t even know it happened because it’s not reported. Ha. And his base will realize all the great stuff he’s doing because we get emails and Tweets directly from him. And we watch his rallies etc.

Genius.


79 posted on 07/01/2017 12:26:41 AM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: lee martell

Trump is just injection chaos into their agenda. It is funny actually. Sort of like the mission of the cavalry, disrupt and destruction in the enemy’s rear. He is killing them and they are helpless to do anything about it. Meanwhile, his army is quietly going about it’s business of accomplishing real goals. It really is a brilliant military strategy, when you think about it.


80 posted on 07/01/2017 12:48:20 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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