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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe New York Times is soliciting our opinions on Trump
The president's flaws are well known to readers of many mainstream outlets. Our purpose with this feature, which will appear regularly in Sunday Review, is to present things the president has said or done that are praiseworthy. Any suggestions? Tell us at
saysomethingnice@nytimes.com
OK, I'll start: He hasn't bombed Canada yet.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)You are right! Send that in for sure. We need to bury them in such backhanded small fingered vulgarian compliments.
athena
(4,187 posts)Just look at the wording of their question. Would they have asked the same question if Hillary Clinton were president? Seriously, we're supposed to praise Trump? Who are they kidding?
This is one of the major reasons I no longer subscribe to the NYT. They are extremely biased in their editing of comments. They will allow the worst kinds of misogyny and right-wing propaganda, but they will refuse to publish anything that points out the hypocrisy of such propaganda.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)That's the best approach.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)You must be kidding!
How can anything positive be said about a lifetime ignorant narcissist who was "installed" illegally as our so-called president - he who is a racist, bigot, misogynist, racist - he whose main goal is to disassemble anything good about our country and take it back to a time that exists only in the twisted right wing's mind?
Well - the only good thing I can think of is that some day (hopefully very soon) he won't be our president any longer.
athena
(4,187 posts)They will consider it too incendiary. They allow all kinds of misogyny and bigotry in their comments, but when you call someone a misogynist or a bigot, they consider that a personal attack.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)could care less if it is published - the message needs to be sent to THEM
athena
(4,187 posts)I wasn't trying to discourage you. I'm just angry about all the thoughtful things I wrote in response to misogynistic and bigoted comments that went unpublished.
athena
(4,187 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)because the comments scorch their denials.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)"Well - the only good thing I can think of is that some day (hopefully very soon) he won't be our president any longer."
That's the spirit!! DU activists to the rescue. Saving our country from itself.
GP6971
(31,133 posts)but I'll pass on this one. Just stupid.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)The point is to cleverly undermine their crap.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)My comment:
Is this a joke or something?
OK, I'll bite.
While he figuratively jerks off in public every day, he hasn't LITERALLY jerked off in public.......yet
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Oh my!
hlthe2b
(102,192 posts)MineralMan
(146,282 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)E-bomb the NYTimes.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)deplorable
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Their servers should go down on this one!!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,401 posts)Absolutely ridiculous. That they would have to use their readers to solicit "positive" things to say about Donald Trump should remind all of us how truly awful he is and how much he sucks at being President. Why should anybody be desperate to find nice things to say about him anyway. The media dug HARD during the Presidential election to find nice things to say about Donald Trump while smearing Hillary Clinton and when they couldn't find something good and reported something negative, they just created false equivalencies between things that he was accused of and things Hillary was accused and made them seem pretty much the same. Whoever is running this operation at the NYT really needs to go find something else to do. I have nothing nice to say about Donald Trump being President and never will.
athena
(4,187 posts)BTW, I think it's somethingnice@nytimes.com, not saysomethingnice@nytimes.com.
The nicest thing I can say about President Trump is that his presidency
may finally show conservatives how they've been played by the Republican
Party. People may finally realize that they've been lied to, and that the
party that really looks out for them is the Democratic Party.
Incidentally, you should ask yourselves whether you would ever have
published anything nice about Hillary Clinton had she been elected
president. An invitation to send positive comments about the president is
the sort of thing I would expect to read in the state-owned newspaper of a
dictatorship, not in the New York Times. Your job is to criticize those
in elected office to get them to do their jobs better, not to look for
ways to praise them.
I stopped being a subscriber a few months ago because I was annoyed by
your amazing bias in choosing which readers' comments to publish.
Anything that attacks women or liberals gets published. Any response
pointing out the hypocrisy of such an attack gets weeded out for being too
incendiary. Clearly, you think that it's more important to woo right-wing
extremists than to hold on to the women and liberals who have been loyal
to you for years. You will not get me back until you learn: (a) that misogyny is
not acceptable, in articles or in comments, and (b) that you are not the
propaganda branch of a dictatorship.
Sincerely,
athena
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,354 posts)that he could put on top of his airplane.
wryter2000
(46,026 posts)He was incompetent enough that he hasn't entirely ruined the country yet. Plus, he's really nice to Vladimir Putin.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Trump has not started a nuclear war with his steady stream of insulting tweets - yet.
Trump has not grabbed anyone by the pussy while in office - that we know of anyway.
Frito-Lay is pleased with the free advertising Trump brings to them through his use of crushed up Cheetos to color his face.
Trump has made American ignorance all the more acceptable.
Trump brings happiness to racist white people.
Trump has given men with abnormally tiny hands a reason to aspire to mediocrity.
Trump's hair is the next great breakthrough in personal body armor. Nothing penetrates it. Neither knowledge nor wisdom.
Trump's bulbous backside is matched only by his triple chins. With both, he has no equals.
Trump has made serial monogamy through adultery a "traditional family value". To be fair, Newt Gingrich did this first - but Trump has caused right-wing Christians to feel more comfortable in embracing this lifestyle choice by no longer being hobbled by the hypocrisy of it all.
Trump's dangerous disregard for the truth and facts has inspired the creation of "Say Something Nice" (about the third-rate circus barker in the WH) - a move that Fox News would describe as "fair and balanced". Kudos to the NYTimes for proving Trump right about being #FakeNews.
If there is anything nice to say about Trump it will be listed in his obituary - where the truth about a political figure is buried along with the body.
SamKnause
(13,091 posts)MFM008
(19,803 posts)What I just sent them.
Except at the end when I said....
Now you know why I dropped you guys.
demmiblue
(36,834 posts)demmiblue
(36,834 posts)mountain grammy
(26,608 posts)nicest thing I can think of.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)That's all I got.
TheBlackAdder
(28,179 posts).
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Good.