Trump Derangement Syndrome - Orange man bad. Read the OP! (ᴛʜɪs ᴛʜʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴋɪᴡɪ ғᴀʀᴍs ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡs ɴᴏᴡ) 🗿🗿🗿🗿

[PS1gamenwatch]

Oh no:

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/09/07/1849631/duterte-inflation-because-donald-trump

Duterte: 'Inflation is because of Donald Trump'

Duterte did not explain how the US trade policy affected Philippine prices. He made the statement after the US slapped tariffs on several Chinese goods because of the alleged intellectual prooerty violations of China, a major trading partner of the Philippines.
93SHARESAlexis Romero (philstar.com) - September 7, 2018 - 10:30pm

AMMAN – President Duterte on Friday blamed the tariffs slapped by United States (US) President Donald Trump on some goods for the record-high inflation in the Philippines as the Filipino leader faces backlash back home for the rising prices of goods.

The Philippines' headline inflation hit a nine-year record high of 6.4 percent in August, faster than the 2.6 percent recorded in August 2017. It was also faster than the 5.7 percent recorded last July.

Year-to-date inflation is now at 4.8 percent, beyond the upper-band of the government’s inflation target of 2 to 4 percent, and slightly below the central bank's revised full-year inflation forecast of 4.9 percent.

Economic managers attributed the record-high inflation in August to higher electricity, gas, fuels, fish, rice, personal transport, vegetables, and meat prices.

Duterte, however, believes the US has something to do with the rising commodity prices.

"Yang inflation, dahil kay Trump 'yan. 'Yung tariff ban niya on other items (Inflation is because of Trump. It's because of the tariff ban on other items)," the President said during a meeting with Filipinos here.

Duterte did not explain how the US trade policy affected Philippine prices. He made the statement after the US slapped tariffs on several Chinese goods because of the alleged intellectual property violations of China, a major trading partner of the Philippines.

Duterte said he is leaving it to his economic managers to address the impact of inflation.

"I am not apologizing. There is really inflation and we are trying to control it," he said.

Malacañang previously said the August inflation is not alarming because it was caused by a strong domestic demand and the higher disposable income made possible by the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act (TRAIN).

The law exempts those earning an annual taxable income of P250,000 and below from paying the personal income tax and raised the tax exemption for 13th month pay and other bonuses to P90,000.

Incidentally, TRAIN, which imposed higher taxes on oil products and beverages, is being blamed by critics for the spiraling commodity prices.

Some groups have also accused the Duterte administration of not doing enough to help the poor and other sectors hit by upward price movements.

Officials have claimed TRAIN has little effect on inflation, attributing it instead to price higher global oil prices.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

"Fluzarks are bad. How hard can that be, saying Fluzarks are bad?"
"What the hell is a Fluzark?"
"Racist."

the problem isn't saying Socialist are bad. The problem is the left seems to keep changing the definition so that everyone who isn't currently on their side is a Nazi.
"How hard can that be, giving a concrete definition to 'Nazi'".

Na·zi
ˈnätsē/
noun

1. Whoever I'm currently mad at.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Extreme Nutshell Mode: Before they realized that all of the stuff they leveled at Carter Page would blow back in their face once we worked out what Bruce Ohr's involvement was, they were rabid to get Carter Page thrown into a cell and locked away for life because of the Steele Dossier. Once someone went, "Wait what about Bruce Ohr" they all collectively shit themselves and the narrative violently switched to it all originating from Papasmurf, even though he's literally never mentioned in the Steele Dossier.

Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn and Corey Lewandowski are all listed in the Steele Dossier, but not George Papadopoulos. He's not mentioned even a single time, and yet we're supposed to believe that he was the linchpin tying the whole thing together.

Recap: What is the Steele Dossier again?

 

[ForTheHoard]

Recap: What is the Steele Dossier again?

It was a dossier full of bogus info on Trump (the golden shower accusations) that was collected by a former British intelligence agent that was purchased by the DNC and used in a FISA court as evidence to get warrants to spy on Trump and his campaign. I think someone's wife was involved somehow as an intermediary, but thats how I remember it. May be a bit wrong, though.

 

[It's HK-47]

Recap: What is the Steele Dossier again?

The Dossier is the origin for all that "Peepee Tape" nonsense, so even if you haven't particularly heard about it, you've still dealt with the repercussions that it left in its wake. It's way more intricate than that, but that's the super TL;DR version.

I don't know if I could do the thing much justice without rambling on for an hour or more because there's so many twists and turns that it would probably take a moderately-sized novel's worth of pages just to cover all of it, but the gist of it is that the Steele Dossier is the origin for the FISA warrants against then-candidate Trump's campaign. It's been debunked and half-shredded and ripped at the seams ever since the election because it was never supposed to be scrutinized because Hillary was never supposed to lose.

The Dossier wasn't really supposed to be anything more than opposition research at the onset, which is why it was largely funded by Fusion GPS and routed through Perkins Coie, at the behest of Hillary for America and the DNC. The reason that they dove away from Page (and the Dossier) so quickly is because it started tracing its way back to Bruce Ohr, one of the high-ranking members of the DOJ, whose wife just happened to work for Fusion GPS. What began as opposition research written by a deeply-biased person had mutated into select members of the Justice System shoehorning an unverified political hit-piece into an illegally-obtained FISA warrant.

The entire document is loaded with inconsistencies and outright lies, and even the FBI and most senior officials refer to both it and Steele as largely untrustworthy and completely unverified, and even the FISA warrant specifically outlined Steele's bias, but for some reason that was still more than enough evidence for the FISC judge Rudolph Contreras to issue FISA warrants out against Trump's campaign. The Steele Dossier was an enormous talking point for "Never Trump" and the Democrats and the MSM right up until Trump won and we all got a good, long look at the Dossier. You'll notice that they don't talk about it much, anymore.

In fact, they really never mention it at all, do they? They clung onto that Russia, Russia, Russia! angle, but they dropped the Dossier like a hot bag of rocks and hoped that everyone just forgot where it originated from and that even the FBI wound up firing Steele because he wasn't trustworthy.

 

[Exterminatus]

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I believe there's also another shot of her doing the "Smug Pepe" pose with her hand on her chin, she's been on a roll since these spergs flipped out over the arm crossing secret OK white supremacy bat signal.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Duterte: 'Inflation is because of Donald Trump'

Oh shit, Dobson might have to take everything back he ever said about Trump now!

 

[It's HK-47]

I believe there's also another shot of her doing the "Smug Pepe" pose with her hand on her chin, she's been on a roll since these spergs flipped out over the arm crossing secret OK white supremacy bat signal.

That woman was just having a field day with those reporters.

 

[Ghostse]

Recap: What is the Steele Dossier again?

You are a senior in highschool, and running for student council president as your homeroom's candidate. Last year, you were in a hotly contested rivalry with another student in your homeroom, Ladasha, for being the candidate from your homeroom. You were forced to accept an agreement: you would stop your campaign and support Ladasha, and in exchange, you were promised to be the homeroom's candidate for council president the next year. You already did some dirty dealing to stop fucking Joe Berstein from trying to take it from you, and now goddamn Betty fucking Guntherson from the other home room (that bitch) is running against you.

Before you sort of laughed and even had some friends on the school paper help Betty shut down some of the other people who wanted to run as that homeroom's candidate, but now against all odds Betty is their candidate for council president, and she's proving pretty popular. You're getting worried she might win, and this is your last shot at being able to run for student council president.

So you come up with an idea. Its highschool, everyone always breaks the rules. You bet Betty has some contraband in her locker that would get her in trouble. The school principal can open student's lockers without them knowing, but he needs justification. If you can get him justification to open Betty's locker, and he finds something against school rules, you've now got a clear shot to the council presidency. But you don't know what it is specifically she's got in there that could get her in trouble, you have no specific proof, and none of Betty's friends are talking.

So you start a rumor that Betty Guntherson has weed in her locker. You find some transfer kid who used to be a hall monitor at his previous school, and you pay him to tell the principal that Betty has weed; it doesn't matter that Betty doesn't actually have weed, but chances are she's got something in her locker that will get her in trouble, hopefully enough trouble she'll be unable to run.
Of course there's no evidence Betty has weed, so there's no justification to open her locker, so you have to manufacture it.
The transfer kid starts a rumor, telling some people that he saw Betty putting something green in a baggie in her locker. He then lets the rumor circulate around the school, gets some people go on record saying "I heard a rumor Betty Guntherson has weed in her locker".

He then goes to principal, and tells the principal that "Betty Guntherson has weed in her locker"; the proof for this is rumor circulating around the school that Betty has weed in her locker (a rumor he started, but no need to mention that). The principal then opens the locker and doesn't find any weed or any other serious contraband, and a few weeks later you lose the election to that psycho bitch Betty Guntherson, your career in school politics ending with you topping out at Council Secretary, as you cry and scream about how it isn't fair.


The Steele Dossier is the false rumor, everything else should be fairly obvious.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

That woman was just having a field day with those reporters.

Okay this trial is no longer a shitshow, one of the most important trolling events in recent history. History is important.

 

[Ghostse]

Here's a fun exercise in Trump Derangement Syndrome I ran across.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...y-period-after-kaepernick-ad-debut/ar-BBN11mm

Online sales of Nike apparel and shoes surged in the four days after quarterback-turned-activist Colin Kaepernick became the face of a new advertising campaign. Sales dipped in the same four-day period last year.

Nike’s Kaepernick ad debuted Monday afternoon, a U.S. holiday, drawing immediate praise and ire from celebrities and customers alike. From Sunday through Wednesday, product orders rose 27 percent, according to digital-commerce researcher Edison Trends, which collects receipt data from over 200 online vendors. In the same four-day period last year, product orders dropped 2 percent.

It’s an early, if incomplete, look at how the world’s largest sportswear company may fare after deliberately wading into a hot political topic. The decision to feature the former NFL player -- he claims he’s been illegally barred from the league for kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial inequality -- has already drawn multiple criticisms from President Donald Trump. On Friday morning Trump tweeted: “What was Nike thinking?”

It’s not a big mystery. Nike believes that the campaign will create more business than it loses. Two-thirds of Nike’s customers are younger than 35, and it’s an ethnically diverse group. The company is also looking to focus more on cities. The demographic mix also suggest outsize support for Kaepernick’s actions.

If the company miscalculated, it probably won’t be obvious for a long time. The short-term data from Edison Trends includes both customers who went out and bought Nike gear to explicitly support the campaign as well as those for whom the ad made no difference. It doesn’t account for past Nike customers who say they’ll never buy the company’s shoes or apparel again. That impact on sales could take years to fully play out.

Nike’s stock was down 2.2 percent over the four days as of 2:15 p.m. in New York, lagging behind a 1 percent drop in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

Let me tl;dr this for you:
Following Labor day mediocre drama queen QB publicity stunt, Nike orders rose 27% vs. pre-labor numbers this year, compared with a 2% drop last year.

TFA is trying to spin this as a #resistance win & evidence that people support Kneel Armstrong, Only at the end do they address that maybe pissing off customers will hurt the bottom line in the long term, and looking at such a small snapshot of data won't give you any meaningful insights into performance.
They also don't address that it could be. maybe, more people are buying things because oh I dunno, they have money to buy things because the economy isn't being run into the fucking ground?

 

[Blagher]

Here's a fun exercise in Trump Derangement Syndrome I ran across.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...y-period-after-kaepernick-ad-debut/ar-BBN11mm



Let me tl;dr this for you:
Following Labor day mediocre drama queen QB publicity stunt, Nike orders rose 27% vs. pre-labor numbers this year, compared with a 2% drop last year.

TFA is trying to spin this as a #resistance win & evidence that people support Kneel Armstrong, Only at the end do they address that maybe pissing off customers will hurt the bottom line in the long term, and looking at such a small snapshot of data won't give you any meaningful insights into performance.
They also don't address that it could be. maybe, more people are buying things because oh I dunno, they have money to buy things because the economy isn't being run into the fucking ground?

Who knows long term. Nike has been in a slump for a while and this is likely their way of taking back the spotlight from the other shoe makers. It'll be seen long term if people will remember or even care about any of this.

Remember when united airlines beat up that Asian doctor? It basically didn't dent them at all.

 

[thismanlies]

That woman was just having a field day with those reporters.

She's finding out first hand how shockingly easy it is to fuck with retards. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she's browsing /pol/ to find these Pepe memes.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

“Guys, the media isn’t being run by liberal and Democratic ideologs!”

NowThis:

 

[Vorhtbame]

“Guys, the media isn’t being run by liberal and Democratic ideologs!”

NowThis:
View attachment 537005

Nothing sells the urgency of the issue like the derp-face in that thumbnail.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Holy fuck, what.

I got linked this by my brother when he was browsing the Blaze, and they included the video of him speaking at the University of Illinois, and he started talking shit about Republicans and Congress, including "embraced wild conspiracy theories, like those surrounding Benghazi".

Timecoded to when he talked about paranoia in the Republican party, 34:27 is where the quote comes from.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Holy fuck, what.
View attachment 537050

I got linked this by my brother when he was browsing the Blaze, and they included the video of him speaking at the University of Illinois, and he started talking shit about Republicans and Congress, including "embraced wild conspiracy theories, like those surrounding Benghazi".

Timecoded to when he talked about paranoia in the Republican party, 34:27 is where the quote comes from.

I remember hearing about Benghazi on the news during the time of the scandal, in my late prepubescent years. But my child mind couldn't understand it, so I left it alone.

And HOLY SHIT that turned out to be a bigger shitfest than I even imagined.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Obama literally gave Actual Nazis in Ukraine guns.

He also is the one who caused race relations to go to shit in the USA, in the 00's they were talking about a post-racial America. He singelehandy brought it down to the 1960's. He loved to race-bait like fuck.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters think race relations are worse since President Obama’s election nearly eight years ago. That’s an 18-point jump from 42% in late 2014 and up from 43% when we first asked the question in August 2013. Just nine percent (9%) believe race relations are better now, little changed from the previous survey, while 28% say they have stayed about the same. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Only 13% think life for young black Americans has gotten better since Obama’s election in November 2008, while 41% believe it’s gotten worse. That compares to 16% and 22% in March 2014. Thirty-nine percent (39%) believe life for young blacks is about the same, down 10 points from the previous survey.

Sixty-six percent (66%) of whites and 51% of other minority voters believe that race relations in this country have gotten worse since Obama’s election

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ions_have_gotten_worse_since_obama_s_election

How hard is it to disavow Louis Farrakhan?

This photo was kept hidden because it would've caused him to never get elected. The journalist who took it said so.

 

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Context: Robert J. O'Neill was the soldier responsible for landing the killing headshot on Osama Bin Laden.

More context: @itmustend_ is just this schlub:

Archives:

http://archive.li/9eCaJ

http://archive.li/W1o6L

http://archive.is/wlpGI

Some other highlights in response to this tweet:

These people should really follow Robert's advice:

 

[Male Idiot]

Obama literally gave Actual Nazis in Ukraine guns.

He also is the one who caused race relations to go to shit in the USA, in the 00's they were talking about a post-racial America. He singelehandy brought it down to the 1960's. He loved to race-bait like fuck.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...ions_have_gotten_worse_since_obama_s_election

How hard is it to disavow Louis Farrakhan?

This photo was kept hidden because it would've caused him to never get elected. The journalist who took it said so.

Good thing Yakub is on our side and made Trump from the dankest of DNA!