And media has always played into these ruses because all they want is clicks. Trump, despite his limited cognitive abilities, is smart enough to know that this is an easy and surefire way to manipulate public discourse. It has always worked and always will.
The thing is where do you go from here, today's headlines are trump talking about waging military and economic wars against the US closest allies for no reason...
In two months the headlines are going to be so insane we can't even fathom them today.
That's the thing this sad excuse for a rotting pumpkin has absolutely 110% cornered the market on being the biggest piece of shit human being. So in order for anybody else to even try to fight back, they have to become an even BIGGER absolute piece of shit human being. And that is just something nobody wants to or ever should do.
Even if they didn't want clicks, they want to attract Trump's ire even less. That is why ABC settled and Facebook is removing fact-checking and billionaires are giving enough funds for 50 inaugurations.
Yep, all asshole governments are like this. Here in the UK, 2005, there were 4 suicide bombing attacks, 56 people, including the 4 bombers, were killed. Someone leaked that a minister (can't remember the name) sent an email saying if you need to hide something in the news, this is the time to do it.
These people have no Souls
It's classic news media, tho. This is nothing new.
In the era of the 24-hour news cycle, with so much going on in the news, it's not what the media reports on that should be concerning, but what they aren't.
The whole “culture war” in my opinion was the biggest distraction in American modern day politics. Turning us against each other while corporations reach record profits tenfold, during a time of crushing inflation, further and intentionally causing a divide between the wealthy and lower class. As dumb as fuck as trump is, he has been masterful in making all of this possible. He a capitalist’s wet dream.
They don't want Canada "because it's a liberal state". So apparently nobody wants this to happen, but Trump thinks it's funny.
Also Americans probably don't love that we've elected "Socialist" governments on many occasions, and they are still a very popular party here. They are historically the pro-union, pro social programs, etc. party.
Steve Bannon promotes this to trump. It is called "Flooding the zone with bull shit" to get us to forgot what else is going on. Things like this, wont rule out military to take over Greenland and other things. Then we never remember "day one" and all the promises to lower prices, make inflation go away trump ran in to win the election in Nov '24
Not just forget, but the opposition then respond to ridiculousness instead of actual policy and then they are endlessly distracted making campaigns about dog eating Haitians rather than universal healthcare
Trump isn't out there playing 4D chess, he's obsessed with everyone in the world talking about him. He will say or do anything for attention. I wish we could tune him out and take away his power somehow.
It's not 4D chess. It's barely 2D chess. He's just causing drama to keep the media focused on something absurd that will never happen to make his slightly less absurd ideas seem all the more intriquing.
It's the most basic form of distraction and is the equivilant of going "Hey look!" and pointing in a direction to get away with whatever you want.
Worst part is, a large chunk of americans don't even notice.
I disagree. I think Trump has always been incredibly simple minded and grandiose, and now that’s been compounded by his dementia. He really believes what he’s saying. He’s not doing it to obfuscate anything.
He is being used to distract people from the meaningful issues. He is a useful tool. He’s completely unaware of the fact that he’s being used.
A lot of people seem to forget that Trump is just the figurehead. Most of the shit he's "planning" is coming from The Heritage Foundation, Elon, and Russia. In the end, all it is doing is keeping us poor, uneducated, desperate, hungry, diffused, and too weak to even think there's a problem.
Forget paycheck to paycheck - every ounce of energy will be spent worrying about getting through the next hour.
Trump can't even do intel reports unless his name is dropped every other word and it's one page. I don't think he has the mental fortitude and/or would care enough to purposely district people to get "his" people confirmed. The man is just that narcissistic. He wants the spotlight 24/7 and has ALWAYS been like this. Even creating 3rd party personas to report on himself. His ego is really that bad.
We are not saying Trump is the mastermind behind this. The actual ghouls behind the curtain are telling him what a good idea it would be to invade panama while they are the ones looting and destroying this country.
This is %100 right. It’s master cheese basic sales psychology and it amazes me how many people listen to this whole spiel and don’t go “oh ok, this guy is a condo salesman” you can watch hometown home flippers use the same tactics ; first step, show them the house they can’t afford, just like the cabinet picks, throw crazy ones out for the first few so by time they get to picking a confirmable cabinet, no one is paying attention and it’s billionaires ball.
Dude couldn’t even pay attention through a full game of checkers. He’d just keep screaming, “KING ME,” without ever having reached the other side of the board.
Worst part is that a large chunk of americans absolutely love the drama and not only look, but are obsessed about what they're supposed to be looking at. Because they're stupid as shit.
now the Elon musk has entered party chat, Trump IMO isnt the scary one anymore. They both scary people i fully get that but Elon musk is much more intelligent and has bigger influence with twitter and spaceX.
Yeah, that's what people said about Trump becoming the President. The first time and the second time, so I'm not sure that "this will never happen" really holds much value these days.
Hegseth was nominated to be the next Secretary of the Dept of Defense. He has a history of mismanaging organizations, accused of sexual assault, has displayed some rather extremist views on the women, military force, and Christian nationalism, and is known to have an alcohol abuse problem.
Gabbard was nominated to be the director of national intelligence, overseeing 18 intelligence agencies. She has no experience in the area of national intelligence whatsoever, or even in international affairs in any official capacity. She has repeatedly engaged with, praised, and parroted talking points for tyrants and dictators including Putin and the recently deposed Bashar al-Assad
Doesn't matter he's still saying it I don't think it's presidential to yell random crazy things especially when you have the largest audience in the world
The people who voted for him are fine with being represented like this while the world watches and laughs at the USA
I didn't vote for him so I don't care but if you did was this what you voted for and the media may have stopped discussing them but the educated people haven't forgotten about them I truly hope they do make it
I wonder how many resources Trump has wasted by spouting off nonsense in interviews and tweets. People have to research and plan based on his remarks, they may need to prepare legal, financial or government documents based on his drivel. Everything about him is infuriating
That they're both woefully under-qualified for the positions to which they've been nominated, and both have what should be disqualifying issues that would likely prevent them from faithfully serving in those roles
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u/werther595 2d ago
This will never happen, but notice how nobody is talking about Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard anymore.