At this point it isn't even just Trump. Feels like half of Congress is geriatrics who don't know where they are being weekend at Bernie's-ed by a staff to vote on things they didn't read and don't understand.
President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social on Tuesday, saying to “CALL IN THE TROOPS” to save “The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago” – which doesn’t exist.
“The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City,” Trump wrote, adding:
CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”
Media outlets were quick to report that no such shopping center exists, however. “Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Monroeville, Pennsylvania, all have shopping malls or centers by that name, but none exist in Chicago or even in Illinois. There is, however, a Magnificent Mile shopping district in Chicago, which the president likely was referring to. The Magnificent Mile spans 13 blocks in downtown Chicago and offers high-end shopping and fine dining,” wrote Kelly Corbett for Syracuse.com.
Don’t forget the office vacancy rate in downtown Chicago matches his number. So someone told him there was 28% office vacancy, and someone told him there was a “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, and he conflated it to miracle mile shopping center 28% vacant because crime
He's calling for them to protect a real mall, he got the name of the mall wrong (and not even that egregiously). There's plenty of legitimately horrifying acts to criticize this fucker for, why are we resorting to the same kind of disingenuous truth-stretching rhetoric conservatives rely on to rile their degenerate base?
But people do have a limit to the number of things they can focus on at a time. Made up non-issue bullshit like this just gives the conservatives something to point to to justify their dismissal when legitimate news percolates through the bullshit to reach them, and takes attention that could be better spent on real news elsewhere.
The wonderful results so far is BECAUSE we don't focus on the actual crime. Have you not watched how mainstream media covers Trump for the last 8 years?
People are getting too hung up on the name and not hung up enough on Trump advocating to use the military to protect commercial properties, in other words literal Fascism.
I'm not faulting him for Miracle over Magnificent, because that's not the real problem. 😉
I'm not, I'm criticizing this article taking up just that little bit more of the public's bandwidth with stupid rhetoric. There's more than enough that we should be worrying about and ample crimes he's guilty of, why do we need to bother manufacturing evidence when there's already overwhelming mountains of evidence just laying around? All this does is discredit our legitimate criticism by association and take up visual space that could be filled with real news.
Was this in any way consequential? Does this show any evidence of anything besides mispeaking? Wait no don't answer that, I spectacularly don't care. Instead of talking about something that actually matters you're starting to drag us both into a debate about the evidentiary value of an old guy briefly mixing up two names that both start with 'm'.
Isn't, just maybe, that he's trying to get troops deployed in US soil once again perhaps a little more important to discuss? But somehow that's getting overshadowed by your eagerness to spar over the meaningless bullshit I'm criticizing, in a perfect example of my entire godsdamned point.
Ah, so now we're pivoting from discussing my actual criticism of the article and how it spawns meaningless discussions to... another meaningless discussion, but this time with random gatekeeping thrown in.
It’s pretty much a street with a bunch of expensive trendy outlet shops on it. Like UniQlo, Gucci, Breitling, or whatever. Same trendy shit that’s always grouped together.
Protect it from what, vacancy? Like, sure he got the name a little wrong. But call in the troops to... Uh... Open up stores in the district? I think that's the crazy part. The headline should be more like "Trump orders a call to arms in a business district because stores are empty because the economy is in shambles and other reasons too" or something like that. I dunno, I'm not a headline writer.
If he's going to use it as an impetus for deploying troops domestically then he should at least be able to name it correctly. If he can't even do that then it's pretty easy to argue his cognitive decline is progressing.
That's not really the point. Sure you could argue this, but why the hell are we wasting our time arguing about if the stupid detail of him mixing up a word is actually relevant, instead of talking about the "he's trying to send troops to defend a street" thing? That is my point. I don't care if people think it's a sign of cognitive decline, I care that you're choosing to spend your time talking about that instead of the thing that really pressingly matters.
The point is that you think it's okay that a fascist demogogue trying to occupy his own country is too stupid to get a simple name right and is entirely delusional from top to bottom
Oh hey, it's you again! How've you been? Still doing the "aggressively present some truly spectacular misinterpretation of what I've written" thing? Glad that's working out for you.
Aaaaanyways, I've never said or even tacitly implied that it's okay that trump is stupid, nor have I ever made anything like a hinting gesture that he isn't stupid, nor have I said that this isn't evidence of his mental decline, nor have I said that his overall mental decline isn't relevant.
As is becoming tradition, I invite you to give it another go.
According to the article, he's talking about Magnificent Mile (which is apparently more of a street with stores on it than a classic shopping mall, just to add to the weirdness of him offering to deploy the military to defend it)
It is a mall, being a broad street lined with shops and a promenade (though not wholly closed to traffic), but it's not a classic "shopping mall" as the term is most commonly used in the US (that being a massive temple complex built to honor consumerism and featuring some very bad food). Which makes it even more patently absurd for trump to want to send troops to defend what is essentially just... a street.
(note that trump never actually calls it a mall, he describes it as a "Shopping Center", adding to my annoyance over this headline...)
Lousy reporting. Don't refute or even explain the real reason for the vacancies, just a casual mention that they are their own worst enemies. What IS the murder rate there? How much crime is actually there,? What policies caused this? Without more details all the report is doing is pointing out that Trump said Miracle instead of Magnificent, which really isn't that big of a deal.
53 Comments
blahblahblah@lemmy.zip · 101 pts · 311d
“Old felon says nonsense things.”
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 311d
Suffering from lifelong signs of chronic syphilis
tempest@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 311d
It's just regular old dementia.
At this point it isn't even just Trump. Feels like half of Congress is geriatrics who don't know where they are being weekend at Bernie's-ed by a staff to vote on things they didn't read and don't understand.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
Why can’t the McDonald’s take him yet????
wuffah@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 311d
Oh yea, armed military police really make me wanna shop till I drop. How fun!
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 44 pts · 311d
AA5B@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 311d
Don’t forget the office vacancy rate in downtown Chicago matches his number. So someone told him there was 28% office vacancy, and someone told him there was a “Magnificent Mile” shopping district, and he conflated it to miracle mile shopping center 28% vacant because crime
theolodis@feddit.org · 7 pts · 311d
I doubt it
Rothe@piefed.social · 5 pts · 311d
Leave it to the US media to sanewash Trump and his nonsense.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 311d
He's calling for them to protect a real mall, he got the name of the mall wrong (and not even that egregiously). There's plenty of legitimately horrifying acts to criticize this fucker for, why are we resorting to the same kind of disingenuous truth-stretching rhetoric conservatives rely on to rile their degenerate base?
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 311d
he literally can’t remember the name of a mall. why are you defending that?
pennomi@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 311d
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 311d
Do you think that this is the sole issue anyone is focusing on?
Or maybe, its being reported as evidence for yet another reason trump shouldnt be in office?
you are aware people can focus on and discuss more than a singular issue at a time?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 311d
But people do have a limit to the number of things they can focus on at a time. Made up non-issue bullshit like this just gives the conservatives something to point to to justify their dismissal when legitimate news percolates through the bullshit to reach them, and takes attention that could be better spent on real news elsewhere.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 311d
Sure. Wonderful result so far with all the focus on actual crimes 👍👍👍
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d
Not exactly sure what your point is but okay.
stephen01king@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 311d
The wonderful results so far is BECAUSE we don't focus on the actual crime. Have you not watched how mainstream media covers Trump for the last 8 years?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
Nuh-uh!
...
What were we talking about again?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d
I've been there and if you had asked me yesterday what it was called there's a better than even chance I'd have called it Miracle Mile as well.
Magnificent Mile just sounds... well... it sounds like something Trump made up TBH. 😉
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 311d
I have zero respect for your opinion. surprised ive not already blocked you tbh.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 311d
People are getting too hung up on the name and not hung up enough on Trump advocating to use the military to protect commercial properties, in other words literal Fascism.
I'm not faulting him for Miracle over Magnificent, because that's not the real problem. 😉
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 311d
I'm not, I'm criticizing this article taking up just that little bit more of the public's bandwidth with stupid rhetoric. There's more than enough that we should be worrying about and ample crimes he's guilty of, why do we need to bother manufacturing evidence when there's already overwhelming mountains of evidence just laying around? All this does is discredit our legitimate criticism by association and take up visual space that could be filled with real news.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 311d
was his slip up made up? did he not misstate yet another thing?
Why do you think more evidence is a bad idea?
has all the evidence so far done anything to his administration? …no? so maybe its a good idea to collect more evidence.
This is really simple stuff my dude
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
Was this in any way consequential? Does this show any evidence of anything besides mispeaking? Wait no don't answer that, I spectacularly don't care. Instead of talking about something that actually matters you're starting to drag us both into a debate about the evidentiary value of an old guy briefly mixing up two names that both start with 'm'.
Isn't, just maybe, that he's trying to get troops deployed in US soil once again perhaps a little more important to discuss? But somehow that's getting overshadowed by your eagerness to spar over the meaningless bullshit I'm criticizing, in a perfect example of my entire godsdamned point.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 311d
agreed.
Im not in the USA
what are you doing about it? marching in the streets? hiding ICE targets in your home? protesting ICE raids?
Or sitting at home, picking your bumhole on the internet whining at me?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
Ah, so now we're pivoting from discussing my actual criticism of the article and how it spawns meaningless discussions to... another meaningless discussion, but this time with random gatekeeping thrown in.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 311d
Youre whining this article distracts from important topics.
So I changed over to discussing what I presume are important topics to you.
You instead flail. Its ok - keep crying but doing nothing. Its the American Way.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 311d
People who actually do subversive shit don't talk about it on public social media.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 311d
bingo.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 311d
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 311d
Then fuck off and let us focus on and deal with the real shit instead of the misnaming of shopping malls.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 311d
You'd be shocked at what they're defending these days.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 23 pts · 311d
I wouldn't even call it a mall. It's a shopping district.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 311d
It’s pretty much a street with a bunch of expensive trendy outlet shops on it. Like UniQlo, Gucci, Breitling, or whatever. Same trendy shit that’s always grouped together.
MIDItheKID@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 311d
Protect it from what, vacancy? Like, sure he got the name a little wrong. But call in the troops to... Uh... Open up stores in the district? I think that's the crazy part. The headline should be more like "Trump orders a call to arms in a business district because stores are empty because the economy is in shambles and other reasons too" or something like that. I dunno, I'm not a headline writer.
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 1 pts · 311d
I think it's about "crime"... in his mind.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 311d
If he's going to use it as an impetus for deploying troops domestically then he should at least be able to name it correctly. If he can't even do that then it's pretty easy to argue his cognitive decline is progressing.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 311d
That's not really the point. Sure you could argue this, but why the hell are we wasting our time arguing about if the stupid detail of him mixing up a word is actually relevant, instead of talking about the "he's trying to send troops to defend a street" thing? That is my point. I don't care if people think it's a sign of cognitive decline, I care that you're choosing to spend your time talking about that instead of the thing that really pressingly matters.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 311d
The point is that you think it's okay that a fascist demogogue trying to occupy his own country is too stupid to get a simple name right and is entirely delusional from top to bottom
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 311d
Oh hey, it's you again! How've you been? Still doing the "aggressively present some truly spectacular misinterpretation of what I've written" thing? Glad that's working out for you.
Aaaaanyways, I've never said or even tacitly implied that it's okay that trump is stupid, nor have I ever made anything like a hinting gesture that he isn't stupid, nor have I said that this isn't evidence of his mental decline, nor have I said that his overall mental decline isn't relevant.
As is becoming tradition, I invite you to give it another go.
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d
What mall is he trying to talk about?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 311d
According to the article, he's talking about Magnificent Mile (which is apparently more of a street with stores on it than a classic shopping mall, just to add to the weirdness of him offering to deploy the military to defend it)
troglodytis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
So not a real mall. Got it
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 311d
It is a mall, being a broad street lined with shops and a promenade (though not wholly closed to traffic), but it's not a classic "shopping mall" as the term is most commonly used in the US (that being a massive temple complex built to honor consumerism and featuring some very bad food). Which makes it even more patently absurd for trump to want to send troops to defend what is essentially just... a street.
(note that trump never actually calls it a mall, he describes it as a "Shopping Center", adding to my annoyance over this headline...)
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 311d
Miracle Mile / Magnificent Mile... I'll give him a pass on that one.
I've actually BEEN there and couldn't remember the name either. Of course it was 30 years ago.
Bonus@fedia.io · 12 pts · 311d
Miracle Mile is a real thing that exists. In Los Angeles. Even when I'm there, it's forgettable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Mile,_Los_Angeles
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 311d
Who uses the full name? We just say "mag mile."
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 311d
Lousy reporting. Don't refute or even explain the real reason for the vacancies, just a casual mention that they are their own worst enemies. What IS the murder rate there? How much crime is actually there,? What policies caused this? Without more details all the report is doing is pointing out that Trump said Miracle instead of Magnificent, which really isn't that big of a deal.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 311d
I just wish he was gone. Fucking shitstain.
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 311d
Release the Epstein files!
Harkronis@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 311d