Essay writing competition thread

[Sidney]

@Tim_Riggins

You are the type of person who scours the top of the news, but never digs in. Someone in the Guardian tells you to by the latest from Piketty, so you do so. You might not even read the book, but it’s on your bookshelf to show people and you can look up someone else’s review of it when you want to debate online. If you had the personality for the airwaves or the tv, you could be a talking head on Newstalk or RTÉ and bluster your way into being perceived as being an expert on US Affairs by some moronic producer, but you would fail if you ever had to do some actual journalism.

Oooh. Bluster.

I follow the news and I read, mate.

You should try it, especially if you want to comment on a thread like this and be taken in any way seriously - you’ve already admitted you don’t follow the news and that you hadn’t even heard of Trump’s bogus terrorist attack claim.

Instead you say you “follow the markets” and “read the business pages” - “important stuff”. That should give give you a “non-superficial” analysis, not.

I’ll just repeat that for effect and to let it sink in - you weren’t even aware of the biggest worldwide story of last week.

@Tim_Riggins

I haven’t read up on the story Harry, when I get the chance to I will. I tend to look at an administrations performance over a longer horizon than just the short term news cycle so I haven’t been keeping too up to date with how he’s been getting on so far

@Tim_Riggins

I don’t follow the day to day news cycles in the White House.

And you have the neck to call other people’s understanding “superficial”.

@Tim_Riggins

This is why Trump gets away with misrepresenting things and telling some lies. Because people have seen through the bullshit peddled for year and just see someone now who isn’t skilled at lying, but comes off as more genuine a person than the suits and so called intelligentsia who have distorted facts and figures for years.

Now you’re into full blown @anon7035031 meltdown mode.