{"id":136753,"date":"2018-06-13T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136753"},"modified":"2018-06-15T23:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T05:32:50","slug":"you-know-folk-theres-a-time-when-it-stops-being-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/you-know-folk-theres-a-time-when-it-stops-being-funny.html","title":{"rendered":"You know, folk, there’s a time when it stops being funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, there’s the irony that, after palling around and praising over and over and over again one of the most brutal and bloodthirsty tyrants on the planet, and one who has literally threatened to obliterate Americans in nuclear fire, Trump would then turn around and talk about how the mainstream media is America’s “biggest enemy.”<\/a><\/p>\n

So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN,” he wrote. “They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have ‘begged’ for this deal — looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But at some point the ironical eye-rolling has to give way to actual alarm over the President of the United States calling major media outlets “Our Country’s biggest enemy”. I mean, those are the kind of things said by dictators and autocrats. Like, say, Vladimir Putin. Or Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n

At what point, one wonders, will the President of the United States actually decide to stop talking and start acting?<\/p>\n

And what happens then?<\/p>\n

NOTE: It seems likely that Donald didn’t actually write that, given the un-Trumpian “promulgate” and, in fact, that entire “so easily promulgated by fools” line sounds more like something Dr. Doom would say rather than Donald Trump. But it went out under Donald’s personal Twitter account, so one must presume it had his blessing.<\/p>\n


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\nAfter meeting with North Korean dictator, Trump calls press America’s ‘biggest enemy’<\/a><\/span>
\nHours after returning from a trip where he lavished praise on one of the world’s worst dictators, President Trump declared that America’s biggest enemy is… “fake news.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Of course, there’s the irony that, after palling around and praising over and over and over again one of the most brutal and bloodthirsty tyrants on the planet, and one who has literally threatened to obliterate Americans in nuclear fire, Trump would then turn around and talk about how the mainstream media is America’s “biggest … Continue reading “You know, folk, there’s a time when it stops being funny”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,10,358,1071],"tags":[1679,1110,1077],"class_list":["post-136753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","tag-authoritarianism","tag-msm","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/180612040529-trump-north-korea-presser-2-exlarge-1691.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132876,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/enemies-of-the-people.html","url_meta":{"origin":136753,"position":0},"title":"Enemies of the People","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Feb-17 5:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump has declared war on the media.No, not in some vague name-calling way. 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