Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
that's the point. everything is going according to plan. it seems the only thing they hadn't planned for was the populace actually doing anything about it. every time they complain about graffiti, refuse to hold town halls, or arrest protestors they tell us something: these things are undermining them.
keep the pressure on, people. we're in a marathon here
When there's too much to scrutinize, there's no reason to give the benefit of the doubt. Assume guilty until proven innocent, and just work from there. Any mistaken guilt is the fault of the guilty for creating the situation in the first place.
It's pretty obvious what he's doing, but the media absolutely cannot help themselves in amplifying everything he says. And you can't really blame them. When a president says he's going to overturn pardons issued by past presidents, you have to report that as major news. Even if he says it and isn't serious or is just trying to keep the spotlight on him and away from something else.
Why does it seem like everyone on my “side” is always centuries and eons late to all these realizations? Like no fucking duh. This “nonstop news making” is a famous Russian disinformation technique that we’ve known about for years! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
I think many people have known for years, like you. Articles like this help to bring it to the awareness of others who haven't yet understood. There's really no harm in repeating the message, and it doesn't indicate that no one has realized what's going on.
Didn’t Bannon term this flooding the zone with shit?
Yes, there's little chance they aren't completely aware of what they are doing. They're doing it intentionally.
Just like his first term. Flood the airwaves to drown out the protests.
Where do Fascists get the energy for all this shit‽
Massive control-freakery and flood-the-zone sounds exhausting. I’m exhausted just by working and raising a family.
Fucking extroverts, man.
It's easier to do and say a bunch of bullshit than it is to counter it.
I guess.
Even talking as much as they do – and inciting as much conflict as they do – sounds exhausting.
A thing I learned from round 1 is information triage. You’ve got to evaluate whether or not the story/topic you’re seeing is impactful now, and if it’s not, it gets (at best) chucked on the “perhaps I’ll read these later” list, or (at worse) just ignored, because it doesn’t matter, and is a distraction.
This talking point has come up quite a bit and I want to say bannon et al have openly said that is the plan.
But the problem is that almost everything that evil orange fuck is saying... he is trying. So the constant tariff discussions actually still matter because they aren't just a distraction: They are a direct impact on cost of living and international relations.
"Flooding the zone" is more saying they will do 20 things and only doing 1. This is saying they will do 20 things and then doing 30. And when people ignore it, it just makes it harder for pushback to maybe get that down to only 15 things actually being "done". Whether that makes a meaningful difference is a different conversation...
Oh yeah, like that lastest thing he did - which I haven't heard about.