John Oliver returns with a searing and bitingly funny review of Trump’s tenuous grip on reality.
Where does Trump get his news? Oliver explains it.
How do you distinguish between facts and alternative facts? Oliver explains.
There is a deeply serious side to all this. When Trump gets his news from a TV talk show host who believes the Sandy Hook Massacre was a staged fraud, the nation is in deep trouble. Not funny.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is the administration of far right wing, hate wing radio. Bannon and Pence were right wing filth mongers. Most of the right wing radio spewers approve of the Trump mis-presidency. Trump has friendly relations with a crack pot conspiracy theorist like Alex Jones. This is unprecedented, tragic and lethal.
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This is unprecedented, tragic and lethal. It is way beyond “sad.”
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Horrors. Fake news and alternative fact … reigns with this Humpty Drumphty. And all the king’s horses and all the king’s men … can’t put Humpty together again.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hsimp=yhs-SF01&hspart=Lkry&p=Humpty+Dumpty#id=1&vid=97d808d3ced52d65870ac37c0cf61658&action=click
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John Oliver: the perfect combination of education and humor. I always learn from this guy!
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THANK YOU FOR POSTING THE REAL NEWS, presented by this brilliant man and his staff.
I am a playwright, and we dramatists know that comedy IS MERLEY THE DARK SIDE OF OLIFE PRESENTED IN A LIGHT MANNER…
You cannot get any darker than what is happening to America!
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Re: Trump’s press conference, and his team
Is this Shakespearean tragedy at its most tragicomic or Norman Lear at his fiercest and most political? Either way, with all the humor of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
This is not reality as we know it. This is the draft of Idiocracy that was scrapped because it was a bit too wild and yet somehow viscerally close to home, unreal and unfunny.
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What makes modern people so susceptible to arrant nonsense? I’d understand if medieval peasants thought the world was flat, but NBA stars?
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/hey-everyone-just-so-you-know-kyrie-irving-believes-the-earth-is-flat-222937229.html
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Here’s what CNN reporter Zachary Wollf recently said when describing why it’s hard to cover Donald Trump: “What does it mean when he says words?”
“Clearly, Trump doesn’t mean what he’s actually saying. Facts are optional. They are fungible. For example his signature building, Trump Tower in Manhattan, is advertised as being 68 stories tall, but in reality is only 58 stories high. Select floors are missing in order for them to claim the 45th floor is really the 53rd floor—and get a much higher rate of return than he normally would when leasing office space or condos. This is just a perfect example of Trump’s reality warping field in effect. Things aren’t what they truly are: they are what Trump claims they are. This may be one of the key sources of Trump’s ability to succeed against all reasonable odds.”
“It’s also why his efforts are ultimately doomed to failure.”
Don’t miss this entire article which also includes that clip
“Trump’s amazing and dangerous world of alternative facts—and alternative truth”
By Frank Vyan Walton…Long URL
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/19/1634381/-Trump-s-amazing-and-dangerous-world-of-alternative-facts-and-alternative-truth?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=47594dc7343bb19ac4f7621b50e457f8&source=email-media-bites-back-newspaper-threatens-defamation-suit-for-gop-senator-calling-them-fake-news&email_referrer=media-bites-back-newspaper-threatens-defamation-suit-for-gop-senator-calling-them-fake-news&email_subject=media-bites-back-newspaper-threatens-defamation-suit-for-gop-senator-calling-them-fake-news
“As Robert Reich has recently written, Donald Trump and his administration are playing a long con.On top of the confusion and palace intrigue reminiscent of Game of Thrones going on behind the scenes, you have the steady, dark hand of Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, gradually moving the pieces in a pattern of his own design. We may get distracted by the bread and circuses of the Trump train careening wildly off the tracks—but we do so at our peril.”
‘Here is a clip of Bannon at a speaking engagement where he lays out his political philosophy before the Liberty Restoration Foundation. Rambling though it is, It’s worth a listen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nTd2ZAX_tc
‘So while Trump may be a hilarious shit show, the real issue at risk is what Bannon is talking about here. He is a massive tea partier and his drive is to eviscerate the social safety net and the underpinning of our government on the theory that this will somehow benefit the middle class, when most likely the exact opposite is the truth.
He would yank up the ladders that allow us to climb upward out of poverty into the middle class and prosperity. He would massively, painfully, cut food programs, education, and investment into struggling communities.
As ridiculous as Trump may be, he has brought together a team of pathological ideologues starting with Bannon, but also with Stephen Miller, Reince Priebus, and others who are hellbent on ripping up the foundations of the Great Society, the New Deal—in fact most of the advances of the 20th Century—and letting the entire thing crumble to the ground.
And what’s even more frightening is they think they’re doing it for the “good of the nation” when exactly the opposite—the alternative truth—is the case.
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