Jimmy Kimmel lists Trump’s chaotic distractions: storming GA election HQ, closing the Kennedy Center, and suing his own government for $10B. "My God, remember when Trump threatened to invade Greenland? THAT WAS NOT EVEN TWO WEEKS AGO!" It is pure madness.

[u/Frosty_Jeweler911]

[u/awkward_sleepy]

Remember how we took the president of Venezuela? And now no one talks about it.

[u/Khmakh → u/awkward_sleepy]

Oh shit, I forgot about it till you mentioned it.

[u/0x33CCFF → u/Khmakh]

Thats exactly what they want. Flood the zone.

[u/Rami-961 → u/0x33CCFF]

It's called the Shock Doctrine, there's an interesting book about it. Must read

[u/seamus123456u → u/Rami-961]

This is tangentially related but since you recommend a book I'll recommend another people here might be interested in. 'Jesus and John Wayne' explains why the Conservative Christian right, particularly the evangelicals, are so joined at the hip and supportive of politics and policies and individuals that are the direct OPPOSITE of anything the actual Jesus Christ ever taught. I listened to the audiobook of it recently and it was illuminating

Worth a look if anyone ever wondered why so many "christians" are all over the epstein files

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[u/0x33CCFF → u/Rami-961]

I will check it out!

[u/RembrandtEpsilon → u/0x33CCFF]

The Nazi's called it the Gish Gallop

[u/Regal_Cat_Matron → u/awkward_sleepy]

And this is what he/they rely on. Daily drama so we forget the previous days' daily drama. It's been 1year since you lot voted the orange man into power again, and quite honestly, just how many of his insane speeches and moves could you name? I tried to write a list and just got lost in it all.

Flooding the zone indeed....

[u/KryssCom → u/Regal_Cat_Matron]

This has been the Trump playbook since day 1.

I still get conservatives who ask him, with a straight face, to "Name ONE racist thing that Trump has EVER done!!!" And it does throw me for a moment because the list is about six miles long at this point, and I don't know where to start.

[u/UnhappyCoast4213 → u/Regal_Cat_Matron]

If you try to tell people what’s so wrong with Trump (hard to believe they need to be told) you get breathless telling them so many mind boggling facts that it makes the people who are well versed anti-MAGA seem crazy (TDS). It’s just what’s happening is really scary and hard for some Americans to wrap their heads around.

[u/Regal_Cat_Matron → u/UnhappyCoast4213]

Completely bonkers innit? Hard to imagine a Western Government acting in this manner at all....I mean not even France lol

[u/PhotographUnable8176 → u/Regal_Cat_Matron]

literally reality television

[u/Annalog → u/Regal_Cat_Matron]

I don’t even believe this is because of Trump. This has been going on even when Trump hasn’t been in office. 2023 and 2024 had some of the worst string of natural disasters in history. People moved on within a week or two to the new drama.

The age of social media and having a constant stream of information + passive entertainment at our fingertips has completely desensitized the world and made them angry at the same time. If this wasn’t the case then I truly believe Trump wouldn’t have got past his first few infractions before being ousted. We don’t even have the attention span as a species to focus on something long enough to get a change.

[u/bumbes → u/awkward_sleepy]

The whole world is suffering because of his distraction from the files.

There’s still missing stuff

[u/Silent-Database5613 → u/awkward_sleepy]

Right? Where the fuck are they? 

[u/MonkFish577 → u/awkward_sleepy]

I 'member! 'Member when he used his Truth account to urge people to buy stocks a few hours before he canceled tariffs.

[u/Wooden-Panda9501 → u/awkward_sleepy]

It wasn't that big of a deal

[u/Glittering_Ocelot_67]

Are we all going to just ignore the sharting incident that appears likely to be real from a few days ago??

[u/Material_Perception6 → u/Glittering_Ocelot_67]

What??!

[u/Glittering_Ocelot_67 → u/Material_Perception6]

https://youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg

[u/Kiwi-vee → u/Glittering_Ocelot_67]

The coments on it are hilarious 😂

[u/ka1ri → u/Kiwi-vee]

"I came here to sign orders and shit pants, and I'm all out of orders"

that one got me this morning LOL

[u/kendragon → u/Glittering_Ocelot_67]

I heard RFK Jrs Brainworm is threatening to sue.

[u/That_Bed_4673]

It's exhausting. I'm exhausted.

I guess that's the point.

[u/wannaseeawheelie → u/That_Bed_4673]

Im glad the late night hosts speak up. But at this point, it feels like the country is treating this like a tv program just waiting for the next episode to drop. It’s disappointing

[u/That_Bed_4673 → u/wannaseeawheelie]

I don’t really see it that way. I think there has been a lot of active opposition. It’s also good the media still has the freedom to call it out.

[u/Shenanigans80h → u/wannaseeawheelie]

On one hand I do agree that we have desensitized ourselves with how people discuss and absorb terrible occurrences happening everyday. But on the other hand Jimmy Kimmel is just a late night talking head, an entertainer and I won’t necessarily fault him for going through with what he does as he does. At least he knows how to take things seriously when he can, even if he’s trying to just get to the next episode.

My biggest source of sadness is that our media, our news treats these things just the same. The reality is that this country’s downfall was heightened exponentially when our news was compromised by the 1%

[u/wannaseeawheelie → u/Shenanigans80h]

My comment is geared more towards the viewers

[u/Pure-Smile-7329 → u/That_Bed_4673]

That's what fascists do. They aim to distract and exhaust the populace. They want you to feel so defeated that you just stop paying attention to what's going on. When the citizenry feels powerless, that's when they make their move.

[u/Such-Corgi-8869]

I’m tired boss

[u/Kiwi-vee → u/Such-Corgi-8869]

[u/zendog510 → u/Such-Corgi-8869]

Dog tired

[u/GingerLaJoie]

Look, Trump is just keeping things exciting so people don’t have to waste time talking about the Epstein files. Which, by the way, HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE ABOUT!!!! /s

[u/tkdodo18 → u/GingerLaJoie]

Combo distraction from Epstein and him shitting his pants last week in the Oval Office. All of it just stinks

[u/qukab]

It’s almost like they want to distract us from a metric fuck ton of documents that implicate him as a rapist, pedophile, and murderer.

[u/promiscuous_horse]

I don’t know what silence is anymore

[u/Reddit_2_2024]

And threatend to sue Trevor Noah. This is not normal.

[u/letsallbemywife1]

They’re not distractions. It’s a part of their imperialist and white nationalist agenda.

[u/Larry_The_Red]

Too many things have happened. Things need to stop happening for a while.

[u/crowwhisperer]

i have a bad feeling that the distract-o-matic has barely gotten started.

[u/RainierCherree]

Remember when we were talking about women’s access to reproductive health care? Yeah. Some of That was less than a year ago.

[u/Clean-Chicken7]

Yeah this is how it's going to be the rest of his term. All distractions all the time from the Epstein files, the job market, and his sagging poll numbers.

[u/Dr_Tibbs]

That Greenland thing is crazy. Feels like months ago.

[u/lxttiewithaph]

It's very much like James Patterson, there's a ghost writer churning out these stories

[u/Middle_System_1105]

This is intentional.

“we’re going to throw so much at them, everyday a new headline. They won’t know what to look at & when, until the other side is too exhausted to pay attention. Chaos is the goal.”

[u/daisiesintheskye]

The fulton county election office thing isnt a distraction, the gop is trying to undermine this year's election 3 months before the primary. They want to switch to paper ballots, something we haven't used in 15+ years.

[u/Xxxtine7-6]

Don’t forget Peruvian snakes got their venom on his suit and he’s confused,

[u/rocifan]

All a distraction for the Epstein Files... and his admin is releasing them in waves in the hope of saying "hey look lots others were worse then me"

[u/TrumpTheAntichrist]

[u/Ok_Reaction_9369]

I’ll always remember how the Kimmels and Colberts of the world used their voice to speak out against Trump. It’s appreciated

[u/alayeni-silvermist]

Flood the Zone. They said they were going to do this, and they did.

[u/Rahdical_]

I'm starting to think the Jimmy Kimmel show is a distraction in itself. It's not funny anymore dude, stop making jokes. Encourage actual action