December 28, 2017 By: El Jefe Category: Trump
Axios just did a compilation of google search data for the year of 2017 and then graphed it. The result is a chart that perfectly illustrates why we all have Trump fatigue. Trump has created, caused, or worsened 46 crises since he began infesting our White House on January 20, 2017. Axios won’t let me post the image (and it’s too big anyway) but you can find it here.
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This is exactly the kind of thing we need to be constantly reminded of.
1The manipulation of our attention has been masterful. Most importantly to me is that our attention has been diverted from the manipulation of our attention itself. The fatigue is intentional. If all someone can do every morning is scrape up enough energy to check out what new piece of feces is being presented as a national emergency, then they’re most likely to quit looking at the big picture, and give up in disgust. Feeding ideas to exhausted people is a classic brainwashing/conditioning technique. Awareness of what’s being done is the best defense. Hence the importance of pieces like this. Thinking about this operation makes my head hurt. Maybe I need a shot of Stolichnaya. NYET!!!
2This has been intentional; crisis fatigue is well known. That is why we must maintain our vigilance.
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3Having never heard of Axios, I did some looking around their website after I checked out the interesting Trump-related chart. Most of the short news features I read were relatively benign, though most lacked detail. Then I dug a bit deeper into who Axios is and who is backing them. Of the corporations who supported their launch, according to a page on their own website, a few names stuck out: bp (formerly British Petroleum), whose drilling project in the Gulf in 2010 was a major environmental disaster; Koch (as in brothers), who are walking, talking disasters all by themselves; and PhRMA, an organization who supports Big Pharma. I plan to be very cautious about accepting Axios features as the truth unless I check the facts out with some other, known-to-be-reliable sources.
4Damn near every tv station I’ve seen today is carrying some sort to Trump round up for 2017 and it is SICKENING! Yes, it is definitely contributing to fatigue but there is another side to it: ginning up energy to fight the beast as we saw recently in Virginia, New Jersey and Alabama where my grand-daughter voted for the very first time and for Doug Jones, to boot! And we need that energy more than ever now. The Golden Gibbon’s legal team is coming out against Flynn thereby prohibiting any chance of a pardon. Wow! I must say that the closer they get to the White House, there is the same fasination that comes with gawking at a massive train wreck.
5Like a kid counting down the days until Santa arrives, waiting for Donnie to ingest that final fatal french fry or scoop of ice cream just can’t happen fast enough.
6this chart, I believe, perfectly encapsulates the theory behind the “Gish Gallop”. the basic premise of which, is that an individual/group/political party spews a constant stream of lies/ half-truths/questionable acts. it’s done at such a high rate of speed that, in the time it takes to discredit one lie, half a dozen more have sprung up. this is not by accident, it’s a planned approach to create mis/disinformation, and convert it into mainstream news, long before those with the truth re able to get there.
7But you notice there are a few themes that have bumps of attention across the year, notably “Mueller & Russia” and “Trump sexual harassment.” That second one definitely builds in the last months of the year. A GOP Congress is never going to dump Donnie unless he starts reducing their chances of re-election, but it’s good to see his ugly actions aren’t being forgotten.
8Moore and his named Sassy galloped off so Roy-Boy could get home and start thumbing through his favorite reading material( it wasn’t the bible) but his collection of “Sassy” girlie mags!
Bound up in leather and by the years they were issued, Roy-Boy settled down on the closet floor wearing only his cowboy boots and began fondling himself till he fell sound asleep!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassy_(magazine)
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