Edit: Just to clarify, my stance here is not “ignore everything Trump.” He has done and will do quite a lot of things that warrant attention and concern. He’s also a serial liar and world class bullshitter. A human testament to the phrase, “actions speak louder than words.” Donald Trump’s political success has always hinged on the fact that people are quick to forget that. He’s already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

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    If we waited for Trump to say something intelligent, we’d never heard from him again. Hmm…

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    Too late for that. Now its more about keeping track of madman with weapon. Not that i want to read anything involving the piss hitler though, it would be much better if there just was nothing pay attention to.

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    Nah, I want him crazier and crazier. I want him to figure out how to act so batshit crazy that his own base keeps having to question themselves.

    I don’t think it’ll happen, but I’ll LOVE asking them to explain it away.

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    The guy is never going to run out of dead cats to grab headlines and avert attention from more important things.

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    The media should certainly respond to Trump’s bullshit, but the response should be to ignore it and keep asking what his plans are to reduce prices, end inflation, and all the other impossible, contradictory promises he made to get the morons in this country to vote for him.

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    What’s even more stupid is that we’ve already done this. We’ve already lived this stupid-ass reality, and the media made public apologies at the end, only to turn around and do the exact same thing again. I’ll say one thing for trump, he’s right that the media is a circus, and not something to blindly trust. That’s probably the one and only time you’ll hear me say trump was right about anything.

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    so…just to point out

    you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

    every time he realizes he exists is a moment that spits in the face of evolutionary theory.

    every breath he takes is a testament to the folly of man.

    the sheer hubris of man quakes at the mention of the man.

    he moves trillions of dollars into the pockets of his billionaire lords. they will never stop as long as you exist.

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      you want a billionaire owned multimedia ad revenue agency (aka the “news”) to stop hyping the billionaire backed chaos cheeze monkey and the stupid shit it says?

      This is exactly why instead of expecting the media to evolve or adapt I encourage people to walk away from corporate news.

      I’m not a zealot, so follow it if you like, just know that it has its own goals and one of them is to hook you on its crappy product and convince you that it is the sole arbiter of truth…when it’s really stuffing its billionaire-sponsored narratives down your throat.

      The reality is that if the news were in any way objective and about “the truth”, it would steadily maintain reality-based positions over time, but it doesn’t. It adapts based upon what its billionaire owners want and based upon the whims of the electorate – all the while pretending that it does nothing to influence the whims of the electorate when it very clearly does.

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    I swear it’s just one dead cat after another with this guy. It’s like someone is feeding him this nonsense to keep him busy, and by extension, the media and most of us.

    He’s already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

    That too. Good call, OP.

    I encourage everyone to call non-news what it is - a distraction - until it’s actually a thing that’s happening. In the meantime, consider browsing the AP to read what’s actually happening that’s being masked by all this noise.

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      Trump is actually threatening to invade Panama, that’s not just a ‘distraction.’

      Trump actually did try and lock Hillary Clinton up, it wasn’t just bullshit.

      I despise the extent to which denialism hides in believing that if we ignore or don’t report on the facts of Trump’s terrifying actions (speeches are actions) that will somehow improve the situation.

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      Yeah, all his campaign promises and bow he’s working on Renaming the Gulf of Mexico because reasons and he’s prepping to invade Greenland, apparently.

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    Fucking yes, stop making “were going to name it gulf of America”, “make Canada the 51st state”, “Texas is going to secede from the US” big news.

    These are either distractions, attempts to control new cycles, political tools, or attempts to energize voter bases.

    TX seceding is one of the oldest. Texas secession would all but nearly ensure the US never sees the election of another Republican president or significant political majority. It’d be political suicide. They’d lose dozens of electoral college votes, Congress people and more.