There is a technique exercised by folk trying to deflect criticism, or confuse potential critics, or shift attention from particular wrongdoings, or even just turn off people so much they stop paying attention because it’s so bewildering, or so maddening, or so apparently-unstoppable.
It’s a technique that, knowingly or not, the Trump Regime is practicing in spades.
Day to day, it’s nigh-impossible to focus on the latest shenanigans from Trump and/or his coterie of lickspittles and proto-fascists. It’s shock-and-awe, news cycle style, where bright lights and loud noises are going off in too many directions, and changing from day to day, so that what seemed awful yesterday is forgotten tomorrow.
Just a few instances, from the relatively small to the profoundly dangerous.
Trump’s ostrich-head-in-the-sand approach to climate change has the NPS removing signs from the Ft Sumter site warning that rising sea levels could destroy the location. Can’t have people thinking all those re-opened coal plants might do any harm, can we?
The long effort to get schools to stop frivolously using Native American symbols or stereotypes is now being actively opposed by the Trump Regime as somehow violating Native American rights. Bring back the “Redskins,” I guess.
Donald seems to get particular joy in insulting people who don’t kowtow to him properly. What better way than offending our allies and their war dead, after they joined with the US post-911 in the only Article 5 action NATO has ever taken.
He backed off today, at least regarding UK troops. It’s unclear if he simply wants to further fragment NATO unity, or because he wants to keep the UK cooperating on trade deals.
First the Trump Regime yoinked investigation around Good’s killing to the FBI. Then they dropped it, trying instead to investigate Good (who is dead) as being criminally liable. That led to still more DoJ / FBI folk resigning in protest.
But, hey, who cares, since the DoJ leadership has declared, by fiat, that Good was absolutely guilty (ignore any other interpretations of the videos taken of her shooting), and so why bother with investigating the death? That would be a waste of good whitewash, by God!
Meanwhile, the latest DHS shooting (of Alex Pretti) won’t even go to the FBI — the DHS (which did the shooting) will investigate the matter itself. Gee, wonder how that will turn out?
And that’s all just a fraction of what the Regime has done in the last day or two. Who knows what they’ll do tomorrow to distract from those misdeeds, malpractice, and crimes?
And so it goes.
Oh, by the way, Donald, where are those remaining Epstein Files?