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Hermit-The-Prog

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4. that's the point
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 03:38 AM
Feb 2018

The tv media is kept running around reporting on the very latest distraction. Only some of the online and print media are able to deal with deeper, long-lasting damage by this regime.

From the article:


The questions are not like my questions. They address only what’s happened in the last few hours: Trump’s attempt to intimidate FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the latest twist on the Russia investigation, another school shooting, a rumor that the first official state dinner will be with France. To me, it seems that the interesting questions are not the questions of the moment, but the questions of the moment are the only questions that would not sound completely bizarre in this place. The point of the exercise for [Sarah Huckabee] Sanders seems to be to pretend to interact honestly with the press without actually doing so — and also, where she can, to torture the journalists.


If everybody focuses on fleeting, sensational tweets and the the latest bizarre act of TrumPutin, the consequences of the multitude of damaging acts by this cohort of crooks will be greater and will come as a surprise to the general public.

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