OK, so Trump(R) said "shit" and it's on all the front pages. Note that the Fusion GPS testimony

[Squinch]

and Wolff book are OFF the front pages. That was his obvious intention.

Though LaydeeBug has been flagged, I will pick up her banner: Don't let the fuckers frame the narrative!!!

Ignore this and get back to the reports of Trump(R)'s endless ties to organized crime and Russian hijacking of our Democracy.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Result, yes, but he no more planned this than he cured cancer in his spare time.

He isnt capable of that, at all.

I do see this trend though and it is bad.

He is just a vile pile of human donkey shit and in any given day will say at least 25 different horribly racist, misogynist and bigoted things, most are not reported on.

[Squinch]

5. It may be an instinct with him, but its too consistent not to be intentional.

I get your point. I'm reading the book. It brings his absolute brick-headedness into stark relief. But he knows how to do this, and he is doing it again.

[sfwriter]

2. This may dovetail into the stability issue...

We'll see. It could be an extension of that thread from the Wolff book.

[blogslut]

3. I don't think he's that smart.

I think that he is definitely adept at creating non-stop chaos where every day is a new outrage.

[ProudLib72]

4. I still never found out why Laydeebug was flagged

She was fierce, but I never noticed anything that broke the rules.

[Squinch]

8. Me either. Her absence is a terrible loss.

[Kirk Lover]

33. Some damn good Democrats get banned from the site...and I know this for a fact and

this Ladybug news confirms that further, just sayin.

[bearsfootball516]

6. I actually don't think this was planned.

[ollie10]

7. Trump has become everybody's crazy Uncle Ernie....

Except he has a bigger button

[AlexSFCA]

9. we keep falling into his traps

bannon said liberals always take race baits. Next time he will have to say something even more outrageous to dominate the news cycle.

Bannon also said his midterm strategy is keep democrats talking about race while gop campains on immigration, taxes, jobs, etc. Expect far more explicit rhetoric ahead.

[Squinch]

11. Yes. He WILL have to do that, and he WILL do it.

[Phoenix61]

10. This wasn't planned

That would require thinking ahead and impulse control. Twilter can't do either.

[LuvLoogie]

12. Sorry. Not ignoring. Not normalizing. Investigation still ongoing.

In what shithole did you find this OP BTW?

[BeyondGeography]

13. Hes a strategic geenyuss!

[Squinch]

16. He's a savant at getting - and diverting - attention.

[TrollBuster9090]

14. You're right, but I think it'll be okay. The BOOK is not going away, and it's author is still

is still doing the TV talk show circuit. And the Dossier is definitely not going away. The beauty of the leaked transcript was to prevent Grassley, Graham et al from making false allegations about what was in the testimony. Mission accomplished. And, the Republicans themselves continue to talk about the Dossier, one way or the other.

Trump is able to divert the news cycle by dropping his pants and blowing the trumpet with his asshole for one day. It doesn't NECESSARILY follow that the cycle won't pivot back to something important. Sometimes it doesn't, I grant you. Like the new Tax Code. Good example of a forgotten issue...UNTIL TAX DAY. But I think we'll be back to important news by Monday.

[Squinch]

15. I'm bugged about the Tax Code. The last administration put in some nice actual tax

cuts for 2017. The personal exemption went up and there were a few other things. So in April people WILL pay less taxes and they'll think it's all about the new tax code, and that is what they will be thinking in November. Then a year from April they'll get clobbered and finally understand that the republicans screwed them, but it will be too late then.

[Kirk Lover]

34. I really think that when the book dies down totally, which it will....then let's roll the

TAPES....

[Freethinker65]

18. Not this time. The stable genius just magnified his deficiencies of stability and intellect

His base might love it, but as Trump would say, it was a “Disaster! Sad!”

[kcr]

19. I think I'll choose the narrative that makes the most sense.

And to me it's the one that says it's okay to pay attention to more than one narrative, and that it's not okay to ignore the fact that Trump is a stupid, dumbass racist. I also think there's probably a good reason Ladybug is flagged.

[Squinch]

20. Why was LaydeeBug flagged? I truly have no idea.

PS, nothing I said denies that he's a dumbass racist. He would have to be to make the statement he did, now wouldn't he?

[kcr]

21. I never claimed you were denying it.

You're just proposing that it's an intentional distraction and therefore we should ignore it. There are a few problems with this argument, and if you really take some time to think about it, you might come to realize yourself what they are. If you don't, well.

I don't know why Ladybug was flagged. I can only speculate. I found her posts constantly yelling at us about the narrative to be annoying. It starts to look like handwaving. Taking an issue that has genuine, legitimate reasons for concern for many people, and claiming it's a distraction after a while is really off-putting.

[Squinch]

23. Oh, boy. So it's good that she was flagged because she annoyed you, and if I don't agree

with you it's just because I'm too dim to share your opinion.

OK. Well. Back at ya.

[LAS14]

22. Absolutely right!!!!

[mcar]

24. Also took his great "performance" out of the narrative

He did not plan this. He is incapable of planning anything.

[MGKrebs]

25. What is the narrative?

The narrative is that he is insane, a racist, unqualified, and a disgusting example of an American.
What's wrong with that narrative?

[MadDAsHell]

26. Unfortunately this seems like our MO now. Focus on hurtful words, ignore hurtful laws.

I couldn’t give 2 shits what Drumpf SAYS. I couldn’t give 2 shits who he offends.

I care about about the toilet bowl he’s flushing this country down with his ACTIONS.

[regnaD kciN]

27. Oh, FFS...

I get the feeling that, if Trump were to declare martial law, suspend civil liberties, and send in the troops, the last thing ever posted to DU would be someone counseling us "Don't be fooled. This is just a smokescreen to distract from Russian collusion!"

[Squinch]

30. Is it a surprise to you that he is a vile, racist, ignorant asshole? Is this a big piece of

news to you? Could you do with simply having it covered amply in the news, or do you really, really need every headline, every talking head, every pundit talking about it for the next 48 hours?

Or would you rather hear about the ties between Trump and the Russian mafia, and the money laundering operation that Fusion GPS found? I'd rather do that.

[2naSalit]

28. DING DING DING!!!

[politicaljunkie41910]

29. You give the 'stable genius' too much credit. If it hadn't been calling Africa or Haiti 'shithole'

countries, it would have been something else knocking things off the front page and replacing it with the latest stupid shit to come out of his mouth. The Dotard doesn't know any better. He can't control the fact that when he opens his mouth, stupid shit comes out. That's all he's capable of these days. At least we know who and what we're dealing with. Instead of a 'stable genius' we have an ignorant racist Dotard, who says what he means because he can't control himself, and will continue to do so until he's removed from office.

[Squinch]

32. And yet next time news comes out about his ties to organized crime and dead Russians, I guarantee

he will pull another stunt that is equally appalling and we'll all run around with our hair on fire saying, "I just can't believe he would sink so low!" while forgetting about the dead Russians.

[politicaljunkie41910]

35. You imply that we can only recall one thing at a time. I assure you the list of grievances against

the Dotard is long and wide. It's not as if we weren't talking about the Dotard stating Haiti, and other nations are shitholes we'd be talking about dead Russians on a daily basis. With Dotard, everyone except his children are a possible target on any given day.

[IluvPitties]

31. I think this can't be ignored. It's white nationalism dictating immigration policy, openly!

[Mc Mike]

36. Agreed. rec, nt