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PBS Newshour
- Trump pullback from bipartisan health care fix gives Washington whiplash
- News Wrap: Sessions insists he didn’t lie about Russian contacts to Senate
- Trump promised to give a grieving military father $25,000
- Xi Jinping celebrates China’s rising power — and his own
- Rep. Gallego: Democrats are going to protect U.S. — and your paycheck
- How did consoling Gold Star families become political?
- The battle for Mosul is over, but this hidden ISIS danger could lurk for years
- Escaping Harvey Weinstein was a ‘cat-and-mouse game,’ says Katherine Kendall
- Witnessing the collision of two neutron stars is a ‘textbook changer.’ Here’s why
- As Rohingya refugees continue to flee from persecution, here’s how you can help
Crazy Is
Sucks, huh?
Anyone expressing shock, surprise and amazement at the audacious, weird, (not Art of War weird, just straight-up weird) behavior of the flip-flopping President of the United States (thank you, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Russia) and who cries in disbelief about the whole damned mess is just as stupid as the MAGA jerks to begin with, or maybe they just completely forgot what they cried themselves to sleep about on Election Day. So just lay back this time and try to enjoy some of it. Like in Deadwood days [Forgive me, finally catching up with Deadwood (2004) a few years too late]. Call this Trump’s ‘Economic Pandemic’ because his ineptitude has steered the economy into a ditch, back and up and down again, but really folks, it’s the second time he’s done this, again, (um, don’t forget about the actual pandemic) and everyone is actually surprised now. Don’t be. When you act dumb, you get taken advantage of and a sucker is born every minute. When the goofy, stupid tariffs were introduced, while the DJIA was losing 5% of its value, Trump says “only the weak will fail.” Nice.
Warning: Fake News Alert!
Let’s get this out of the way: The Newes from America is Fake News. We are as fake as a $2 bill. Even our name, the ‘Newes’ isn’t real. It’s Olde English. I’m not John Underhill. We’re not even a real news gathering site. Our only agenda is to provide links to the stuff we like and tell the stories we want to tell while trying to make you laugh every once in a while. Donald Trump may have introduced the term Fake News into the lexicon, however, he is far from the first politician to call into question what’s real and what’s fake. Manipulation of the truth is a human trait, and Trump is correct in pointing out that sometimes, even the New York Times is Fake News and sometimes, even the National Enquirer is Real News. Fake News is not a new thing. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams trolled each other on ‘Colonial Twitter’ – pamphlets and gazettes – before they became cordial and even friendly in old age. Bad mouthing and planting lies in the press is standard practice in American political life since before our founding – and it’s been the task of citizens ever since to sleuth out the fact from the fiction. Coherent arguments, supported by facts, are the only way to achieve a meaningful understanding and trust in our institutions. Democracy is like the social scientific method – a free and open inquiry style government.
We at the Newes from America do cite our sources with the help of links that take you to articles and information available on the big, wide, world web. Readers have always been responsible to figure out for themselves what’s true and what’s not. It’s called freedom. When your government gives you one newspaper, radio channel, blog and TV channel to watch – and tells you what to think – the true propaganda danger of Fake News comes to life.
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