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Is this all just more misdirection from the actual horrible stuff they are doing?
Another Greenland LOOK OVER THERE! moment.
That was his entire first term. I think that’s what’s expected from season 5 of 2017 too.
How many people were aware that Trump rolled back 112 climate and safety regulations in his first term? What about quintupling farm subsidies for corporations, effectively disqualifying smaller farms from staying in the market? Or moving covid reporting from the CDC to HHS in June of 2020, coinciding with a flattened curve of contractions relative to the rest of the world, while somehow still leading the world in deaths?
Indeed, the Orange Shitstain's trade war with China backfired and he increased farm subsidies, socialism, from $4 billion to over $20 billion. The dumb mofo will repeat this after he loses his next trade war.
"They're just distracting us" has to be the weirdest thing people say about politics. "They're looking stupid to distract us from their stupid?"
Who can't pay attention to more than one thing?
It's not just two things, it's multiple things. Daily. It's absolutely hard to keep up with, and then hard to keep caring when you run out of fucks to give. Most people disengage
Have you ever done something wrong, or that people perceive as wrong, and thought to yourself "I should go piss in the public fountain so that people will forget about it"?
It's ridiculous.
Agreed it is ridiculous but that's pretty much what's happening. You can get away with just about anything if you've got enough money here in the u.s.
It's not - Trump says and does a lot of stupid things. People act like it's some "5-d chess" of "distraction" when it's just the insane ramblings of a sundowning septagenarian.
That's a very different topic.
Yes. In fact, there's a very old joke about fucking one goat... People often focus on one thing to the exclusion of others. Ask the average american to name 10 trump atrocities, and they likely can't, despite thousands of (documented!!!) episodes of ugliness.
Can you name 10 atrocities? I assume so. If most people can't it's not because there have been so many it's because they don't generally pay as much attention as you.
And if you can - then the "distraction" isn't working now is it?
Most people? That’s why he’s about to be president again.
I honestly don't understand this line of thought.
You think people hear about "all this weird shit he's doing" and somehow that hides... Something else? And then people don't realize how aweful he is because of "all this weird shit"???
This has to be the stupidest line of thought ever.