Alternative Facts

[adwinistrator]

Here is a timelapse of the entire crowd at Trump's inauguration, from up high and behind the crowd, from the start of the morning, to when people began leaving.

This will give you a very clear understanding of the attendance that the low-angle photos from different times are not.

[SuburbanFarmer]

FAKE!!! You're obviously a part of the media conspiracy. Who do you work for? Goddamned soulless liberal pussy.

[adwinistrator]

FAKE!!! You're obviously a part of the media conspiracy. Who do you work for? Goddamned soulless liberal pussy.

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[boethius]

Remember when the left wing media said crowd size doesn't mean anything?

Pepperidge Farm and the Fucking Google Machine (r) do:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru ... 1733a1f2b6

Dear Trump Supporters: Crowd Size Doesn’t Mean Anything

[SuburbanFarmer]

Remember when the left wing media said crowd size doesn't mean anything?

Pepperidge Farm and the Fucking Google Machine (r) do:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru ... 1733a1f2b6

Dear Trump Supporters: Crowd Size Doesn’t Mean Anything

They're still saying that.

[Penner]

Sort of





Maybe every single aerial photo I've seen online of the crowd was taken wayyyy before or after his speech, but I clearly see 5 chunks of people fading off to the left towards the monument. I'm no expert but I would estimate at least twice as many people at Obama's inauguration.

Yeah, the 2009 Obama inaugural crowd was way more bigger than Trump's and I have no idea where all these other people are coming from. Overall, his numbers are around the 200,000-300,000 mark. So, Trump's crowd seems to be average (at best) and a bit lower (if you take the estimated 195,000 people number) than average. Overall, there is no way that 1-2million people attended the inauguration, I mean even I saw Trump's on TV (like I did with 2009 inaugural of Obama)- his crowd wasn't as big as Obama's and his wasn't even close to it.

As with this idea that all of these comparison photos were taken hours from when Trump was sworn in, all of the time stamps, that I have seen place the photos at least a half-hour to roughly 10 minutes past the time Trump was sworn in (and also let's remember that Trump did give a speech after he was sworn in as well).

[Penner]

FAKE!!! You're obviously a part of the media conspiracy. Who do you work for? Goddamned soulless liberal pussy.

Groupspeak....

[Martin Hash]

After thinking about this for a couple days; I'm not ready for a Lie-vs-Lie presidency. Next time the MSM lies, and Trump responds with another, I'm not going to post.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

I think I might be ready for a lie-vs-lie presidency.

It would seem The Atlantic is confirming StCapps' contention that this is all part of Trump's deep game.

Whether it was intended or not, Spicer’s behavior on Saturday did much the same thing for him as Trump’s erratic behavior did for him during the campaign: it set the expectations so low that simply behaving like relatively ordinary press secretary was enough to earn him praise.
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And so the Trump White House now knows that it can lie and get away with it, as long as it does so with a certain amount of “professionalism.” Journalists will have to either acquiesce to the discomfort of a hostile working relationship with the White House as long as the Trump administration insists on offering “alternative facts,” or quietly submit to the notion that two and two can make five. Yet there is simply, no point to political journalism if the press cannot tell the public when the government is lying.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... da/514295/

When those two agree... whoo boy, it is getting weird as hell. May this thread never die, a hex on all of us!

[ssu]

After thinking about this for a couple days; I'm not ready for a Lie-vs-Lie presidency. Next time the MSM lies, and Trump responds with another, I'm not going to post.

Smart move.

Trump will something Trump-like and the media will make a big fuss about it when the Trumpism can be questioned. And then the issue is the discourse itself.

Another thing to do is to discard altogether Trump's tweeting. Isn't important. Just look at what legislation and executive orders Trump puts in place.