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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's biggest crime is happening right before our eyes, every single day
Trump's biggest crime is happening right before our eyes, every single day
Dartagnan
Saturday November 24, 2018 · 11:05 AM EST
The Pentagon reported last week that Trumps failed attempt to influence the midterm elections comes with a hefty price tag. Diverting five thousand active duty American troops to the Mexican bordermore troops than the entire U.S. rotation currently serving in Iraq for the purpose of protecting the country against an imaginary invasion by a group of poor refugees from Central America, will end up costing the U.S. taxpayer over 200 million dollars.
The report was released even as Trump himself amazingly lost all interest in the so-called caravan after the election returns came in on November 7. Our troops, forced to fulfill their toy soldier role for Trump, will start returning home this week, long before the caravan arrives.
Derided as a political stunt, Trumps action was criticized as an abuse and betrayal of the military for political purposes, which it was. But it was also an abuse and betrayal of the American public. And its an abuse and betrayal that is happening at all levels of our federal government, right now, day by day, even as you read this.
While nearly all of our media focuses reflexively on whatever vitriol emanates from Trumps Twitter feed, the wholesale decimation of our government, and an unprecedented, colossal waste of hundreds of billions in U.S. taxpayer money is happening under the radar, right before our eyes. But that is hardly being discussed at all.
Fintan OToole, in an article titled Saboteur In Chief for the New York Review of Books, explains how Trumps practiced diversion, distraction and gaslighting, his daily, on-cue outrages and Twitter spew, all of which dominate the medias day-to-day coverage of this administration, dont really impact anyones pre-baked attitudes about Trump at this point. But they serve another, more important function by creating and maintaining distraction. Despite Americans expressed (and voted) disapproval, what continues from Trump, in spite of Americans wishes, is a masked, steady, and wholly intentional dismantling of our government functions and services, paid for by working American taxpayers out of every paycheck they earn.
Trumps flaunting of his own most shameful qualities deflects the damage that any revelation can do to him. When he displays his vices so openly, the drama of revelation leads only to a shrug of the shoulders: tell us something we didnt know. His outbursts normalize the outrageoushabit, as Samuel Beckett has it, is a great deadener
Instead of distracting us from the lurid and the sensational, Trump is using them to distract us from the slow, boring, apparently mundane but deeply insidious sabotaging of government. He is the blaring noise that drowns out the low signal of subversion.
Instead of distracting us from the lurid and the sensational, Trump is using them to distract us from the slow, boring, apparently mundane but deeply insidious sabotaging of government. He is the blaring noise that drowns out the low signal of subversion.
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Trump's biggest crime is happening right before our eyes, every single day (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2018
OP
walkingman
(7,591 posts)1. Crazy white people are to blame for this mess, no one else.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. K&R
Turbineguy
(37,313 posts)3. Contributions in kind?
Bill the GOP.
area51
(11,904 posts)4. "... will end up costing the U.S. taxpayer over 200 million dollars."
Yet TPTB keep claiming that there's no money for Medicare for All.
babylonsister
(171,054 posts)5. You have to start with the premise
that they don't give one shit about us. And that's the obvious truth.