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nature-lover

(1,451 posts)
Thu May 17, 2018, 08:44 AM May 2018

Trump is the shiny object.

The news coverage of his outrageous acts successfully distracts from all of the malevolent accomplishments of his departments. Occasionally, the destruction of the EPA and Dept. of Interior make the news cycle. The demolition of our all of our institutions has accelerated while we are numbed and distracted.

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LuvLoogie

(6,854 posts)
1. No. He's shit on a shtick.
Thu May 17, 2018, 09:03 AM
May 2018

His assaults are to be opposed. People who voted for Hillary know exactly what this criminal supremacist administration is doing.

You're barking up the wrong tree.

nature-lover

(1,451 posts)
2. Oh, I agree with you about him. Everything about him has to be opposed.
Thu May 17, 2018, 09:10 AM
May 2018

I am just saying that we need to pay more attention to all of the egregious acts throughout his administration. His crimes are front and center and they obscure others that he has authorized.

LuvLoogie

(6,854 posts)
6. I think the Democratic message should be all about calling out the complicity of the GOP
Thu May 17, 2018, 06:31 PM
May 2018

establishment and calling out the MSM for ignoring GOP complicity.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,148 posts)
5. "The president's job - and if someone sufficiently vain and stupid is picked he won't realise this..
Thu May 17, 2018, 03:38 PM
May 2018

... is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox, the only man in history to have made presidential telecasts from the bath, from Eccentrica Gallumbits bedroom, from the maximum-security wing of the Betelgeuse State Prison, or from where ever else he happened to be at the time, was supremely good at this job.
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http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio9.htm

The major problem - one of the major problems - for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it. Or, rather, of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarise: it is a well-known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should, on no account, be allowed to do the job. To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. And so this is the situation we find. A succession of Galactic Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power that they never really notice that they’re not. And somewhere in the shadows behind them, who? Who can possibly rule if no one who wants to, can be allowed to?

http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio12.htm

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Someone needs to start a website that keeps a daily running account of the actions of this
Thu May 17, 2018, 06:37 PM
May 2018

administration so we can see in one place exactly what they are doing to tear apart our government.

He is keeping the focus on all the outrageous things he does and says and meanwhile his swamp things are actively destroying our nation. One of these days we are going to wake up and find ourselves shocked at what a hell-hole this country has become and wonder how it ever happened. It's happening now right under our noses, but nobody is talking about it.

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