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"Trump is creating another reality to distract from the one he can't fix." Yes. But it will be accepted and embraced and sit under the couch until another distraction is required. HOW DID WE ALLOW THIS ALL TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE? How did we get here? I cannot get my head around why so many people...so many people...have embraced this kind of insanity! Where is common sense? Where is critical reasoning? Hell, where is just plain reason at this point? Or maybe it's me that's going insane. Maybe I'm in the wrong here, and the MAGA population is the entity in bulk that holds the saner and more righteous way to go forward. After all, they elected a convicted felon, a liar, a conman, a sexual abuser, a scammer for their President. And he is filling his cabinet position with more of the same ilk like himself...conmen, felons, liars, the list goes on. Is it me then? Do I have it wrong, and they have it right? Am I seeing everything from the wrong point of view? Am in in the minority, and they the majority? Is that why they are ruling? Are we, as a country, leaning more toward a Bozo the Clown shit show government that will only respect the wealthy, that will eagerly embrace issues of conspiracy and denialism? HOW...WHY...are we here in this moment? What did I do wrong, and what did they do right to get themselves in this absurd position? TELL ME! HOW DID WE GET HERE? I DON'T GET IT!

By the way, Keith...great reporting here! Very well worded, and very well felt!

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Thanks Keith. You've put into words what I've been thinking for the last week or so. A copy of this needs to go to the Editor in Chief of every news outlet in the Western World.

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Bravo Keith, you nailed it! Wow! Ingeniously written. I've never seen the disinformation and deception of Trump's constant spiel scrutinized and interpreted so thoroughly. This should be distributed to all the conservative, right-wing media because there's an entire cult of dim-witted Maga extremists, who willingly bow down before the orange oligarch, that watches their channels. Maybe they'll figure out that they've been duped? Trump claims he alone will prevent any world war on day one of his term, or something to that effect. Right. His rants about conquering foreign countries, that alone, will be the CAUSE of WW3. Now I'm just bitching. Well, almost half of our US citizens voted for this. Rendering this little man's unrelenting subterfuge as inadequate and powerless is key to successfully fighting back, stifling, and defeating this blatant attempt to dismantle our Democracy. Man, I can just feel the energy growing!

We got this!

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It's political theater. Look over here!! While they're doing actual shady things over there. What about those executive orders ready for his signature on day one?

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You’re right on Keith. It’s from an old tried and true playbook.

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I worked a few days on the film. Rigorous but fun.

It's a good image to convey the relentless advance of mindless damage the MAGA side does. And the sound the tripods make fits the brain-destroying blowhard noise deluge the sick, destructive right wing "floods the zone" with.

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Great article.

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Drumpf is insane and has no leadership skills. Four years of crazy again. 🤪😝

Idiot MAGAts voted that felon into office we have to endure.

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Let’s remember that a tiny virus brought those critters down.

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For some reason, no one wants to understand that the problem is not Trump. The problem is outdated system of a one-man presidency. The presidency should be collegial. Then there will be the necessary system of checks and balances.

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For some reason, no one wants to understand that the problem is not Trump. The problem is outdated system of a one-man presidency. The presidency should be collegial. Then there will be the necessary system of checks and balances.

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Why can't we just ignore the crazy stuff that he says? Why do we add fuel to this dumpster fire created by a brat (and not the good 'brat'). Great article Keith.

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Trump can’t lower the cost of groceries, so instead he’s lowering the cost of normalizing his insanity.

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"No, I’m not rooting against ordinary people getting their spending power back. Avoiding deflation (the economic term for lower prices) is actually good for anyone with credit cards, a car loan, or a mortgage – in other words, most Americans – because it increases the real value of the principal on a loan, and therefore makes it harder to pay back." Huh?

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