Trump's temper tantrums over crowd numbers are DISTRACTIONS

[vlyons]

Meanwhile, he has effectively gagged the EPA, CDC, FDA, and promised auto execs that he will roll back regulations on gas mileage and emissions. The MSM can't stop gossiping about his tantrums, but not reporting on what he's done to EPA is criminal. Wake up people. When your town's sky looks like Beijing, you may wish we still had an EPA. God only knows what he will let Rick Perry get away with at Energy. Maybe a nuclear reactor across the street from your kid's school?

[GusBob]

1. Perhaps so but likely not

Look at the posts on the wall, immigration, and Chicago.

He is lashing out with vengence, and unilaterally

[appal_jack]

3. Trump himself is a distraction from who is really running things.

The present occupant of the White House is himself a distraction, a carnival barker with a pretty lady by his side up onstage shouting loudly so that the pickpockets can work the crowd with wild abandon. From the Dominionist and anti-woman Vice President on down, we can see the real purpose of this regime. Remember that Trump even vacillated about choosing Pence; I think that Pence was chosen for him, and the people responsible for convincing Trump that it was his own choice were only partially (but sufficiently) successful.

But Trump is a useful prop, who serves to advance the radical right agenda at times (railing against regulations, etc.) at times, and otherwise provides a gruesome circus for media consumption. Even the 18% of eligible American voters who rallied to the fake populism of a billionaire blowhard will not get what they voted for. Instead, we are facing a racist attorney general who wishes to re-institute segregation and increase unjustified incarceration. We face an Education Secretary expressly committed to bankrupting people via student loans, while tearing down our remaining public educational infrastructure. An EPA head who hopes to pillage rather than protect the environment. A Treasury Secretary who had his hand very deep in the till during the recent emptying of the Treasury via a massive housing bust. I could go on, but the point is NO ONE other than extreme racists and members of the rarefied 1% voted for what they are about to get.

There certainly are people who hate either the name or even some details of 'Obamacare,' but how many really voted to reduce health coverage provided by the ACA and Medicare overall? How many voted to give more money to rich people at the expense of regular people and the nation as a whole? Such a theft requires a big distraction. Trump is their man.

-app

[GusBob]

5. Great post and important to note the 18%

It was Manafort who picked Pence. Putin put him up to it

[raccoon]

8. thanks for the reminder about him being a distraction. Great post. nt

[superpatriotman]

2. Shiny objects

While right wing think tanks see their thirty year agendas implemented in record time.

It won't be a gradual change here. It will be fast and fatal.

[Amaryllis]

4. Yes! And it is great that the media is calling out lies, but they are focusing on the wrong stuff -

him freaking out about crowd size and lying about it while there are much more crucial things to be focused on. It's just like the campaign; his antics are the focus rather than the issues - they are very effective distractions.

[Raine]

6. That's what I think, you always need to look beyond...

as sure as there's a distraction there's something ugly happening behind the scenes.

[vlyons]

7. His gagging and shutting down Fed agencies has really freaked me out.

What's next? Suspending habeas corpus?