Tom Toles for January 09, 2017

Gotta find a better headline than saying, “Trump says” because that only validates him and they don’t read down to the part explaining his lying ignorance.

Should be titled: New York Post….reports…..

Truth and facts are just toooo haaard to grasp for us dumb Americans. Twitter, Facebook, and the National Enquirer are all we need.

Stop worrying about the Russians. We’re doing it to ourselves.

Our great country is increasingly led by diminutive minds.

Unfortunately for the left leaning MSM; we, the American people, already know that much of what the MSM is telling us are outright lies intended solely to support their twisted world views! Which is sadly why most Americans have an even worse opinion of the news media than they do politicians!

I think that, whenever Trump calls his next press conference, they should all boycott, then run the headline, “What press conference?”

Sociopaths are, by definition, liars. It’s part of the illness. Years ago, the mental health community began to categorize mental illness by specific, repeated behaviors. When codified, this became the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the “DSM”). We are now up to version 5. Sadly, anyone who wants to put trump’s behaviors into context should consult the DSM 5. Sociopaths are characterized as a type of Antisocial Personality Disorder, or APD. The Mayo Clinic has the most accessible discussion of APD, as well as the mental disorder of narcissism and the so-called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. This is really the only interpretation of trump’s behaviors that makes any sense. Check it out.

Joke floating around: the four branches of government are the judiciary, the executive, congress and tweeting.

A “lie” is only a lie if it contravenes what the reader believes to be true. Evidently, according to polls… there are potfuls of Americans that believe really dumb things.. from virgin births.. to tooth fairies..political promises.. and Trump.

American Education at its best.

It all boils down to the fact that education in the USA has pretty much gone downhill. The best and brightest women used to have a choice between becoming nurses or teachers…i’ve taken education courses…all about bulletin boards and testing. Nothing about content. My kids had a math docent who told them zero times one is one.

I knew they were liars ever since Morley Safer and his burning of Cam Ne story.

Never underestimate the stupidity and gullibility of the American people. Take a trip to Walmart and just look around.

Front page news: “Dishonest Media says Mexico won’t be paying for the wall if they pay a little later so the wall can be built more quickly. Media is fake!” -Trump Dishonest Trump still thinks Mexico is going to pay for a wall. “The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!” – Trump Now we see his real plan, build a wall with your taxes and blame someone else when Mexico doesn’t pay. I’m sure this is the front page news – that Trump has completed his campaign promise by saying there will be a wall. Kid gloves for the big baby Trump?

It’s the liar’s paradox, to wit: “I always lie. In fact, I am lying to you now.”

If there were only one press I could understand, but the press and news media has taken sides and stress their ‘truth’ and the other media is just lies.

So who are the haters? The extreme right or the extreme left?

The truth is both, but the media only portrays one and not the other.

You must have discernment and the will to spend time on finding veracity. Most do not. The majority who have any interest in the news for them is local. Very few are in need of national news, even fewer in International news. The majority of news outlets are Conservative as are their owners. Very few are not corporate or Conservative.

The iChip will solve everything.

Hey, GoComics! Having to click on an icon to bring up the comments is getting old fast.

Kip and others, Send GC your complaints directly. They ask you to do so on the “front page.” So let them have it. I have.

If the “media” only portrayed one truth, and not the other, then Bernie would be President! How sad is it that Trump pays more attention to the Golden Globes than he does to Russian hacking?And he complained that Ahnold did not get the good ratings he did, but TRUMP is still Executive Producer!Hey, Donald, YOU’RE FIRED!

Shout out to NIGHT-GAUNT and TWCLIX, very informative. Too bad so many others can’t be bothered to be so well informed. Gotta say, I’m loving this new format so far. I can’t believe how many posts I’ve seen around GoComics that are whining about having to click an icon to get to the comments. the epitome of laziness. Bunch twits.

About the “new format”, many of you are now posting under either /profile/####### or under a real name or an email. Might I suggest that you go to your account page and change so that your screen name is the name posted on your comments? Unless, of course you don’t care about such things…

I hate the new format because it stifles exchanges among the various posters. But that’s just me.

Hear, hear!