Life in the Trump Era, Part 2

[LA Ute]

Pew poll on the public’s trust in the news media:

“Most Americans also continue to think the news media favor one side when covering political and social issues. About two-thirds (68 percent) say this, compared with three-in-10 who say they deal fairly with all sides. And as in previous years, Republicans (86 percent) are far more likely than Democrats (52 percent) to say news organizations favor one side,” said the survey analysis.

Trust in the media is also miserably low, but not as bad as for social media. Said Pew, “While one-in-five Americans (21 percent) have a lot of trust in the information they get from national news organizations, that share is about five times as high as the portion that have a lot of trust in the information they get from social media sites (4 percent).”

...

“In what may be another indicator of trust levels, most Americans say they do not feel understood by or connected to news organizations. This sense of disconnectedness is stronger among Republicans than Democrats,” said Pew.

It added, “A little more than half of Americans (58 percent) do not feel like news organizations understand people like them, while four-in-ten say that they do feel understood. A similar portion of Americans (56 percent) do not feel particularly connected to their main sources of national news, whereas about four-in-ten (42 percent) say they do feel connected.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...21-trust-a-lot

[Ma'ake]

Maybe there should be another thread once the election is done for the 2020 elections, but an early name that might help lead the nation out of our sharp divisions: Amy Klobuchar

From the Kavanaugh hearings, this high praise:

Josh Barro, a centrist pundit who writes for New York Magazine, has argued that Senate Democrats largely botched their questioning of Kavanaugh — save for Klobuchar. “Klobuchar has managed to become the one Dem on the judiciary committee who conservatives think was acting in good faith,”

he tweeted

, “while also getting a damaging answer out of Kavanaugh and acquitting herself well with Democrats, which is quite a feat.”

[Irving Washington]

It just keeps getting better and better. In the Florida gubernatorial race one candidate accuses the other candidate's running mate of anti-Semitic comments made twenty years ago, one a California Representative accuses his opponent of being an Islamic terrorist sympathizer.
This could go under this Trump era or Maake's next election cycle categories.

[LA Ute]

From that communist newspaper* the New York Times:

Why Many Native Americans Are Angry With Elizabeth Warren

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/u...MhtY4YaAwBPL9Y


Trump’s an idiot for using the “Pocahontas” slur. She’s foolish for trading on her questionable claims to Native American heritage.

*John McCain used to jokingly call it that.

[concerned]

From that communist newspaper* the New York Times:

Why Many Native Americans Are Angry With Elizabeth Warren

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/u...MhtY4YaAwBPL9Y


Trump’s an idiot for using the “Pocahontas” slur. She’s foolish for trading on her questionable claims to Native American heritage.

*John McCain used to jokingly call it that.

Native Americans aren't the only ones.

[concerned]

From that communist newspaper* the New York Times:

Why Many Native Americans Are Angry With Elizabeth Warren

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/u...MhtY4YaAwBPL9Y


Trump’s an idiot for using the “Pocahontas” slur. She’s foolish for trading on her questionable claims to Native American heritage.

*John McCain used to jokingly call it that.

this makes a little more sense, but not much: apparently some persons or groups were trying to get something with Warren's DNA on it to expose her, and she was trying to get ahead of the curve.