Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[spambot]

It's good that they're including it in Microsoft Edge, which is used primarily by old people who don't know what Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. are. Presumably the same audience for whatever "fake news" is--it appears to be a hybrid of "people are believing lies" and "there are lies on the internet." All very troubling, since in previous ages our Republic's media were invariably paragons of honesty and dignity.

They will just dismiss "NewsGuard" as having a liberal agenda. They want to believe fake news.

[spambot]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-47019387

I never realized British people spelled "tire" differently.

[-Jrabbit]

Seriously? Go on, point one out, dude.

[-Jrabbit]

Yeah. Seems like a pretty large part of the effort Trump puts into his job is toward deflecting attention away from the Mueller investigation.

[Proteus_MST]

Even the russian Twitterbots are leaving Donnnie in droves

https://twitter.com/KladviaY/status/1090134321577553921

[pchang]

The US is imposing sanctions on PDVSA. If Maduro wants those sanctions to be lifted, all he has to do is name a Trump associate to a director position.

[Proteus_MST]

Collusion ... goes swimmingly

[pchang]

Right after the Trump administration lifts sanctions against EN+ (majority holder of Rusal), EN+ names Christopher Bancroft Burnham (previously a member of Trump’s State Dept. transition team) as a director.

[pchang]

You’d have to be a real dummy to sit in that thing.

[Ming]

If we had them flying cars that were promised ages ago this would not be an issue

[pchang]

Trump has lifted sanctions against Deripaska’s companies.

[Berzerker]

I didn't know they were a rag

[BeBMan]

If we had them flying cars that were promised ages ago this would not be an issue

[Broken_Erika]

Norfolk police 'shocked' at car driven without front tyre

Police said they were "shocked" to find a car being driven erratically on a major road was missing a front tyre.

The driver was stopped on the A11 near Wymondham, Norfolk, by officers in the Norfolk and Suffolk Roads and Armed Policing Team (NSRAPT) on Saturday.

The vehicle was missing its front right-hand tyre.

After giving a breathalyser reading of more than three times the drink-drive limit, the driver was arrested on suspicion of drink driving.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-47019387

[Elok]

Don’t trust the Daily Fail. It may be true, it may just be a pile of right wing bull****.

https://mashable.com/article/newsgua...s/?europe=true

It's good that they're including it in Microsoft Edge, which is used primarily by old people who don't know what Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc. are. Presumably the same audience for whatever "fake news" is--it appears to be a hybrid of "people are believing lies" and "there are lies on the internet." All very troubling, since in previous ages our Republic's media were invariably paragons of honesty and dignity.