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Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack on the news media Sunday by tweeting a video -- bizarre even by his standards -- showing him knocking down and beating a professional wrestling "villain" whose face had been replaced by a CNN logo. The 10-year-old video, hailing back to Trump's days as a guest celebrity at pro-wrestling events, came after a week in which his unrestrained Twitter attacks on two MSNBC talk show hosts drew widespread condemnation from members of both political parties. The latest tweet was immediately condemned by journalists, who said Trump seemed to be promoting physical violence against the media, while a Republican lawmaker said the president was trying to "weaponize distrust" through his postings.
Because the poet traffics in mimesis, ungoverned by reason, appealing to the irrational part of the soul, this makes it right for us to proceed to lay hold of him and set him down as the counterpart of the painter, for he resembles him in that his creations are inferior in respect of reality, and the fact that his appeal is to the inferior part of the soul and not to the best part is another point of resemblance. And so we may at last say that we should be justified in not admitting him into a well-ordered state, because he stimulates and fosters this element in the soul, and by strengthening it tends to destroy the rational part, just as when in a state one puts bad men in power and turns the city over to them and ruins the better sort. Precisely in the same manner we shall say that the mimetic poet sets up in each individual soul a vicious currying favor with the senseless element that cannot distinguish the greater from the less, but calls the same thing now one, now the other. – Plato Republic Book 10
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: network dude
What has 'being Presidential' gotten us?
originally posted by: SaturnFX
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: network dude
What has 'being Presidential' gotten us?
Greatest global GDP, high literacy rate, global alliances of powerful nations, respect, cultural affinity, etc.
But perhaps all that isn't cool..its good we have a president that is basically the bag of s--t that gets bounced out of a bar for being a intolerable pryck..it will remind us that we still have a ways to go before being responsible as a nation.
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: pheonix358
Trump is late 70's ....
It was an 11 year olds brain used to reanimate him after all the spray tan caused a massive stroke.
Obviously..
14 June 1946 (age 71)