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.
Strap in, with him actually in the White House it’s going to get a lot worse.
If we waited for Trump to say something intelligent, we’d never heard from him again. Hmm…
Ditto elon
We had a brief respite from 2021 to 2022
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.
Too late
by about 8 and a half years
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.
His base has long proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are immune to reflection, introspection, common decency and feelings of shame.
The guy is never going to run out of dead cats to grab headlines and avert attention from more important things.
The office of a mad US president in spe threatening the EU, neighbours and a former colony with violence is newsworthy.
It’s the sane washing that needs to go. Stop normalizing the bad behavior of malignant narcissism and criminality.
But the denialism in OP needs to stop too and it has to be appropriate to call it STUPID. You can’t ignore the malignancy when it’s in the presidency and hope it will go away. Every single thing Trump says is serious and literal until someone in his administration stops him.
If you just sum it up as being stupid, you ignore the inherent nature of it.
It’s intentionally stupid to make you pay attention to instead of anything truly meaningful. The political equivalent of saying something wrong on the internet just so some angry nerd comes along to correct you. He is stoking outrage for the sake of outrage, so that his bedfellows can capitalize on it, and he can mooch off them.
Your theory of attention management is stupid and bad.
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If it were any other US president it would certainly be newsworthy and incredibly alarming. But old Don, as we all know, is completely full of shit and just says things A.) because he’s a fucking idiot and B.) to distract from what he’s actually up to.
One cannot “fuck around and find out” in nuclear diplomacy. Threats are threats and relying on distraction theory here is denial.
Distraction theory may work domestically, but not in diplomacy. Well, unless there’s evidence for something worse planned (compare Russia in the security council 2022-02-22).
What happened the last time he was president and made these threats?
Nothing.
He’s a troll and world leaders know it. News outlets love him for the clicks.This is the reason he won again. The “press” makes so much more money when they have tabloid fodder and reality tv drama. Remember how boring it was when the adults were running things in the first 2 years before campaign “season” started again? It was so nice.
“Nuking Hurricanes” is way more interesting than “inflation.”
If his past performance + Project 2025 + Musk haven’t combined to convince you that the first win was a surprise to everyone and his handlers are far more ready this time around, you are as deluded as those who voted for him.
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Democrats spent four years trying not to piss off R too much by doing anything about Jan 06 (among other things), then 2 months trying to woo R votes
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R spent four years getting ready for this, and are ready to tear shit down. Shit will go downhill rapidly after Jan 20.
He’s worthy of our attention. Stupid and assholish or not, he’s literally the most powerful man on the planet (aside from Elon Musk) right now.
Infighting among all those trying to deploy him as their personal attack dog is about the most hopeful thing we have right now.–
I agree. But that’s not what the press is reporting on, is it?
They’ll give him all the attention in the world. For the wrong reasons.
Ah fair point!
What he and guys administration does is newsworthy. What he says is really not, outside of the extremes.
That’s stupid.
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This is the bad thinking that must be extirpated at the root.
Shut the fuck up. You fucking moron. What happened the last time he was president? He tried to assassinate foreign leaders and was stopped by Mattis. He summoned his militia to the capitol and mounted an insurrection.
He’s only a troll to you because that makes you feel better.
Stop it. Stop spreading your stupid ignorance.
Oh, he definitely does malign things that hurts both the US as a country and Earth as a whole… but not everything he says is indicative of what he does. If you simply take everything he says at face value, you will get so mired in bullshit that you won’t be able to pull yourself out when something meaningful does happen.
not everything he says is indicative of what he does.
That’s stupid!
You haven’t actually been paying attention. Every single time he says something, he’s tried to do it.
The declaration of the possibility of the use of military force in Panama has to be taken at face value. Don’t be a fucking moron.
It’ll be ok. Take a breath.
The difference for me personally is if news articles start with “Trump says“ or with "USA does“. I am very much done with the former, just to keep my mental health intact.
Dissociation and denial are understandable in times of despair. Sometimes, denial can fuel further despair though.
I don’t think my disinterest in most of the things that fall out of Trumps mouthhole is a sign of denial. Most of these are outright lies, baseless accusations, exaggerations, narcissism, and pure hatred. I’m not obliged to let this affect my life. I’m also an EU citizen and as such I have a natural distance to US politics. (I know that the orange turd’s actions have grave consequences for EU citizens too, to be clear, and this is something I can’t ignore)
I know that the orange turd’s actions have grave consequences for EU citizens too, to be clear, and this is something I can’t ignore
Our societies should in ernest gather the will to increase the distance to US politics. Plenty of countries have bad developments, but they don’t affect us so substantially like US politics do.
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.
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.
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.
The greatest conman the world has ever seen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think the word you are looking for is secede. But also you are right Texas will never succeed.
Yes, ty. Voice typing is bad lol
what are you talking about, hysterical attention grabbers are their meal ticket.
