We are being played!

[Bluesaph]

Every time things happen such as Melania’s jacket, Trump is playing is!

Don’t lose focus!!! They want us rabid and angry and they want the media to focus on the obscene distractions.

Why?

Two reasons:

1. So they can focus on their atrocity of an agenda.

2. So we can use up our energy, make the general population tired of us, make ourselves tired of ourselves, desensitize is ALL!

[JI7]

1. who is losing focus ? wearing the fucking jacket doesn't make them look good. it's all part of

their fucked up asshole attitudes and what they are doing to the country.

[CozyMystery]

2. Yeah, and the general population is tired of hearing about it.

There is a never-ending stream of news about Trump and his administration.

This is accompanied by people on one side saying it is a lie, and people on the other side feeling sorry for Trump for being attacked, believing his lies, and approving of his agenda.

All these words about issues large and tiny, and everything in between.

People get tired of hearing about it. They feel powerless or confused (who to believe, unless they are biased - like I am). They have better things to do with their time than stay focused on the big picture. After all, their personal lives likely haven't changed much since Trump took office. And even if their lives have, there isn't much they can do about it.

That's the way it is where I live. There is no faster way to shut down a conversation than to bring up Trump. That includes with those who hate him *and* those who adore him. The pro-Trumpers watch Fox News and drink the Kool-Aid. The anti-Trumpers (the ones who care about the direction in which our country is going), vacillate between despondency and anger.

It is overwhelming. First, the media tends to report every little thing, which is wrong because it loses sight of the big picture in all the jabber. Second, so much is wrong with our country that it is hard to keep track of what the big picture is.

The issues right off the top of my head are the separation of parents and their children at the border, immigration policy, healthcare system, cost of prescription drugs, income inequality, judicial system, racism entertwined through everythingt, LGBT rights, foreign policy in every aspect, poverty, religion, the prison system, gun control, education, women's rights, the political system... and I haven't even covered all of it.

Is it any wonder that the general population is likely overwhelmed and wants to check out? Not to me. It is much easier to just be or or against the current government, and continue on with one's life without examining what has happened to our country over the last 50 years.

[JI7]

4. we know what happened. and there is no both sides equal to it. the trump supporters are bigoted

scumbags.

if you support gun control, lgbt rights, health care , etc then it that means opposing Trump.

you can't fucking separate trump from the issues.

[Blues Heron]

17. "the general population" lol

Are you in prison?

[CozyMystery]

25. Read the OP. I was referring back to the term used there.

[Cha]

3. Melania being incredibly malicious/insensitive via her clothing choices is not a distraction

Link to tweet

#JacketBackFired

A lot of positive action has sprung up from her carelessness..

Link to tweet

[oasis]

22. Thanks Cha for the info on the tee shirt. A great positive pushback.

[Cha]

23. #We Care We Vote Do U?

Link to tweet

oasis

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Another distraction. Its becoming a pattern.

[CentralMass]

6. I disagree. This is no distraction. trump and his wife are inhumane and they defile the office

This is an atrocity of their own creation. There is not enough outrage over it.

[Trust Buster]

7. Speak for yourself. Don the Con is NOT playing me.

[Demsrule86]

8. Wrong...this is Trump Katrina...he is finished.

[Trek4Truth]

9. In a way this may be even worse because this was deliberate, purposeful and calculated. nt

[Demsrule86]

15. This is true. By all reports, Bush was horrified over what happened in Louisiana. I don't like Bush

but I don't see the malice and hatred in him that I see in Trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. The Trump Abductions feels like a tipping point, but Trump's Katrina was Puerto Rico & paper towels.

[Demsrule86]

14. It should have been but...given where we are today...people needed to see it. They pretty much kept

Puerto Rico out of the limelight...Seeing little kids crying for their Moms...was the same kick in the gut as watching people sitting on Roofs in new Orlean waiting for rescue that came too late.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Yes, and Trek4Truth makes the important point above that the Abductions were deliberate. . . . nt

[Demsrule86]

24. Absolutely they were deliberate.

[duforsure]

10. trump being used to

terrorize us and others with by putin . Doing this around the world too. They are very organized , and are actively undermining Democratic nations around the world, and succeeding here. He's already corrupted the presidenct, and the gop , and possibly the Supreme Court for them to use against us . In russia he also reorganized , or i should say weaponized their government for his own use against others. Now we hear the same thing from trump, and attacks against the justice system so he can do the same thing, weaponize it for himself. He'll then criminalize his opposition like Hillary , Obama, and many others. The gop are involved with this also, and as we've seen they're weaponized against this investigation, and against Mueller exposing them soon for it. These people are corrupt political terrorists. They should be treated as such now.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Yes, and now Putin's agent Trump is actively undermining democracies like Germany

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/angela-merkel-donald-trump-immigration_us_5b2bbc25e4b00295f15a1d5d

Inside The Trump-Backed Campaign To Push Angela Merkel Out Of Power
The president, his allies and U.S. government officials are offering public and private support to anti-immigrant politicians hoping to topple Merkel by July 1.

By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost US

WASHINGTON ― It’s not new to hear U.S. officials rooting for regime change. It’s just been a while since they’ve talked about it with regard to Berlin.

President Donald Trump’s attacks on Twitter against German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week provided the clearest evidence yet of a sprawling American campaign to undermine her. While Trump’s disdain for Merkel has been evident since the early days of his presidential run, he and his ideological allies have ramped up their efforts dramatically just as the German leader faces what experts call one of her most serious challenges yet: developing a Europe-wide policy on asylum seekers by July 1 to appease a crucial right-wing partner in her coalition government.

Merkel now has to contend with not only local opponents but also a network of influential anti-immigrant Americans and other international activists inspired by Trump and similar illiberal leaders, like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

[BlueJac]

11. People must watch every move of the CONMAN...

especially the ones in the shadows! These people are hell bent on destruction!

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Dave Starsky]

18. It's funny how I can consider more than one story at a time.

Maybe it's because I have more brains than a housefly.

That seems to be difficult for some people around here.

[GoCubsGo]

19. Yep.

He has done this kind of shit so often, one would think people would have learned by now to start looking at what else he's doing.

[Orsino]

21. No, we're not.

Trump couldn't organize a birthday party, and won't let his underlings organize it for him. This isn't a grand scheme; it's the chaos of poor leadership.

[vlyons]

26. yes and thank-you

As much as possible, we must stay calm and focused on electing Dems in Nov. We are far more effective, when we remain calm and focused, than we are freaking out over Trump's current daily stupid outrage.