Spot on!
Another descriptive term is wagging the dog (referring to the tail having disproportionate leverage over the beast) which is a (not uncommon) presidential tactic of taking a serious military action in order to distract from other scandals.
News media, including classic liberal media will allow other stories to die to report on attacks or invasions (or when you can get it, attacks on the US by foreign units).
George W.Bush used this method, but also blitzing the public with countless scandals. (George H. W. Bush did too) So Trump’s kitchen cabinet was likely informed by history when considering becoming Bibi’s personal B.
Oh yes we are. The news has a short memory but we don’t. F that guy.
Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.
For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.
Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP’s strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.
Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.
It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it
We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day
Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it’s not even connected sections.
8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that’s a real achievement.
But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren’t many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.
Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project… right?
Then, there’s the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they’re not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.
So, it’s 8%, but it’s not the hard 8%, it’s the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
It’s a decent article explaining where money didn’t go, how much of the wall isn’t really connected l.
But Mexico was going to pay for the wall…
Yeah, man, let’s get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That’s what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one’s talking about it. That’s the problem.
It does feel like that story just got moved from way too fast.
The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.
It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.
Peak lib delusions. That’s why y’all lost. Quiet down and go back to brunch.
so which elements in the list are you ok with ignoring? political assassination, corrupt elections, insane spending that isnt supported by budget/taxes?
none of these impact your life?
ALL MAGAs are traitors and Nazi scum. No exceptions.
The 2024 election was rigged.
Have you ever worked on a campaign before? Im not talking about phone banking for a few hours, I am actually asking if you have worked at a campaign for a stretch if time?
You think “nobody” is talking about it?
What a tiny world you live in
Mario’s Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.
I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain
I wonder what came of that
🤔 is this accurate? I don’t even follow political stuff and I’ve heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things
“People” meaning major news stations which are controlled by billionaires and are the only source of news for the boomer generation. This has lead to the brainwashing that allowed our current president to get into office.
It’s hardly better for the Facebook generation, or the Twitter generation, or the TikTok generation, or the Roblox generation. Everybody is living in their information silos in the US.
