Self care Saturday, Jan 28: Shiv as a cat. jpg » « Signal boosting: “Nonviolent”

ThinkProgress dedicates an entire column to Trump’s Gish Gallop

ThinkProgress is starting a series called “This Week in Trump’s America,” where they summarize the fountain of manure flooding forth from the White House. The editor noted:

There is a concept in the debate world called “spread.” You just throw out as many arguments as possible to overwhelm the opposition.

Trump is operating a spread presidency. Much of what he does is sloppy, dishonest and unpopular. But there is lots and lots of it.

It is hard to keep track of, even when IT IS YOUR FULL TIME JOB TO KEEP TRACK OF IT.

What about everyone else?

That’s why we’ve created this series. Each week, anyone can spend a few minutes and find out what Trump was up to.

You can read the positively dizzying summary of Week 1 in Trump’s America here. Unenforceable, illegal executive orders; a god damn Nazi speech; Spicer lying to a degree that even the Beltway media can’t be obsequious to; global gag rule on healthcare organizations that even mention abortion; closing the borders to countries whose citizens haven’t actually committed terrorist acts on Americans; conflicts of interest–the list goes on. And on.

And on.

-Shiv

Self care Saturday, Jan 28: Shiv as a cat. jpg » « Signal boosting: “Nonviolent”

Comments

  1. blf says

    The Grauniad has started the daily series The First 100 Days of Trump:

    ● Meters of the wall built: 0
    ● Obama actions unpicked: 4
    ● Nights spent at White House: 7 out of 7
    ● Number of tweets: 78
    ● People, places and things recently insulted: Chelsea Manning, Women’s marchers, Madonna

    Day 7
    Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled a visit to Washington, over Donald Trump’s insistence that Mexico will pay for his border wall. Peña Nieto said: “Mexico reiterates its willingness to work with the US to achieve agreements which benefit both nations.” Speaking in Philadelphia, Trump claimed the decision to cancel was mutual. By the afternoon, Trump’s press secretary said the president had decided to hit Mexico with a 20% import tax.

    […]