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Red Mountain

(1,930 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:42 PM Tuesday

Folks, it's a policy Gish Gallop - we do NOT have to play along

In no particular order:

1. Greenland
2. Panama Canal
3. Annex Canada
4. WHO withdrawal
5. Invade Mexico

I'm probably missing some.

It's all meaningless.......Maybe not the WHO bit.........but it needs to relegated to the stupid bin.

Democratic pundits.........please memorize and repeat them all, before discussing ANY specific item with the media.

DU, please add to the list and tack it on as a precursor to discussing the next wacko idea floated in the ongoing gallop.

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Ping Tung

(1,441 posts)
14. I'm enjoying the much deserved ridicule he and his team of blockheads are getting.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 08:22 PM
18 hrs ago

I don't see it as a "distraction" but as an obvious display of his utter contempt for the people who support him. They are being forced to participate in and applaud his stupidity.

Indeed The Whole World is Watching his insanity and the groveling support he receives. from his robotic followers.

usonian

(14,638 posts)
5. Look at my thumb. Gee, you're dumb. EVERY OUNCE OF BULLSHIT IS A COVER FOR GRIFT, GRIFT AND MORE GRIFT. pardon the caps
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:57 PM
Tuesday


The media LOVE IT.

He plays them like a violin.

F--- the media, Dump and all his band of grifters and Nazi's and every pig-headed fool who voted for him.

And have a very beautiful and blessed 🎄 Christmas 🎄 ( or whatever you celebrate. I celebrate Festivus)

A CHRISTMAS ANGEL TO TOP YOUR TREE

harumph

(2,402 posts)
7. You're right. It's obvious bullshit to distract from thievery by him and his cronies.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:35 PM
Tuesday

It's more "build a wall" type bullshit.

littlemissmartypants

(25,906 posts)
8. Back to his carnival barker routine.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:09 PM
Tuesday

He's trying to distract us while he & his buddies raid the Treasury.

It's the classic sleight of hand technique.

Deception is in his DNA.

The old, "look over there" while I steal one of your fries trick but with higher stakes & with our money.

❤️

mahina

(19,050 posts)
9. Attention grab, trying to capture attention and the moment, use up all the oxygen as if we are guppies in a fishbowl.
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 08:43 PM
Tuesday

Turn off the TV, people.

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LeftInTX

(30,633 posts)
12. I think we will wd from WHO
Wed Dec 25, 2024, 12:49 AM
Wednesday

The rest is BS

But then, we were supposed to wd from NATO.

But I think Trump really hates the WHO even more.

Meowmee

(6,127 posts)
13. Agree
Wed Dec 25, 2024, 12:52 AM
Wednesday

It would be nice if they would just start calling the psycho a lunatic, which would be the truth, instead of even discussing all of this crazy crap.

Maeve

(43,046 posts)
16. Wrestling ballyhoo and bs
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:24 PM
17 hrs ago

Reality and fiction blended in a mess of pretend and shouting.
Why I stopped watching it in the '80s. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

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