{"id":40461,"date":"2019-02-05T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40461"},"modified":"2019-02-05T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T22:28:37","slug":"trumps-official-state-of-the-union-prep-survey-is-a-laughable-example-of-pure-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40461","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s ‘Official State of the Union Prep Survey’ is a Laughable Example of Pure Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day that nobody was waiting for is finally here. Donald Trump will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. It was delayed for a week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi until Trump surrendered his demand for an idiotic wall along the southern border. Trump succumbed to Pelosi’s pressure partly because the widespread opposition to his wall depleted any leverage he might have had, and partly due to his ego-driven desire to stand before a joint session of Congress (and the nation’s TV cameras) to exalt himself and lie to the American people.<\/p>\n

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In advance of his speech, Trump posted<\/a><\/strong> what he’s calling an “Official State of the Union Prep Survey”<\/em> on his website. His plea to the Deplorable respondents that he’s seeking asserts that “Nancy and Chuck don’t want me to speak, Mainstream Media outlets don’t want me to speak, and the Hollywood Elites don’t want me to speak. That’s why I want to hear from the ONLY people who can truly describe the state of our union – YOU, the citizens of this great nation.”<\/em> All Trump has to do is look at any recent poll to know what the citizens think of him. And it isn’t pretty.<\/p>\n

His questionnaire is not really a survey, but instead a marketing gimmick to acquire people’s email address for future spam mailings from his campaign. There is also a pitch for donations after a respondent completes the poll. Those are the real reasons this “survey”<\/em> exists. A previous version<\/a><\/strong> of this scam dubbed the “Official Presidential Job Performance Survey,”<\/em> asked \u201cHow would you rate President Trump\u2019s job performance so far?\u201d<\/em> And the multiple choice options for your response were \u201cGreat,\u201d \u201cGood,\u201d \u201cOK,\u201d<\/em> and \u201cOther.\u201d<\/em> Seriously!<\/p>\n

This new survey was more of the same. It began with a fair question that asked “Do you approve of the job done by President Donald J. Trump?”<\/em> This time they actually provided a choice that included both a positive and negative reply. But it went downhill from there. The questions were flagrantly biased and intended to produce answers that made the President look good. For instance, there was a question that asked “Do you think the media did a proper job of blaming Democrats for the Shutdown?”<\/em> Of course, an affirmative answer agrees that Democrats were responsible for the shutdown and were properly blamed. A negative reply also means that Democrats were responsible, but deserved more blame.<\/p>\n

Many of the rest of the questions were similarly slanted or loaded with premises that are outright lies. such as:<\/p>\n