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.
We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day
For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.
It does feel like that story just got moved from way too fast.
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
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.
I know about ALL those things, and more, so it’s getting covered somewhere.
You think “nobody” is talking about it?
What a tiny world you live in
The news around Donald changes faster than the weather in the mid-west. He’s done more or been involved in more in a few months than most presidents could accomplish in 2 full terms.
Throwing a brick into a dryer is less chaotic.
Censoring across the board.
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
Mario’s Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.
This is just another drop in the bucket. Not even worth mentioning. It serves no use to imperial narrative.
USA is a racist genocidal empire. It actively supports fascism like this attack. But the far greater fascism is inflicted upon palestinians, iranians, lebanese, yemenis, syrians, etal. We don’t ever hear an honest narrative about this terrorism. Forget about some fash pastor.
(Also crying about “american citizens” is just supporting attacks on refugees. This lib shit is really gross.)
