"While he distracts the public with sideshows of human suffering, the average American is getting robbed blind. Your healthcare? Slashed. Your retirement? On life support. Your emergency services? MIA. And while you’re trying to figure out how to rebuild after the next flood, fire, or economic collapse, he’ll be on Truth Social bragging about how many 'illegals' he deported that week."

#Trump #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia #immigrants #KristiNoem
/6

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-deportation-games-win-or-get

"It is made-for-TV, just like so many of the performances this administration uses to distract Americans from the unpopular policies that are stripping the government of benefits for ordinary Americans and moving wealth upward.

Such a show might appeal to confirmed MAGA. But it is a profound perversion of the American dream."

#Trump #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia #immigrants #KristiNoem
/5

"Yesterday, news broke that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been in talks with the producers of the reality show Duck Dynasty for a new reality show in which immigrants compete against each other in cultural contests to win the chance to move their U.S. citizenship applications ahead faster."

#Trump #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia #immigrants #KristiNoem
/4

"For those who do not buy the lies, there is another tool: flooding the zone so that people stop being able to figure out what is real and tune out.

The administration has clearly adopted this plan."

#Trump #Comey #MAGA #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia
/3

"Southworth calls this 'narrative warfare,' and while it is true that Republican leaders have seeded a particular false narrative for decades now, this technique is also known as 'political technology' or 'virtual politics.' This system, pioneered in Russia under Russian president Vladimir Putin, is designed to get people to vote an authoritarian into office by creating a fake world of outrage."

#Trump #Comey #MAGA #distraction #disinformation #Putin #Russia
/2

@ccferrie : same here in NL (no mention in https://nos.nl/liveblog/2565256-tientallen-doden-bij-israelische-aanvallen-in-gaza-schip-met-hulp-bij-malta-beschoten).

Instead, state-sponsored https://nos.nl/ again brought us propaganda.

The article marked red by me meanwhile fell to position 5 (see the screenshot at the left below). It refers to https://www.axios.com/2025/05/02/gaza-us-israel-agreement-aid, following up yesterday's https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-planning-major-shift-in-gaza-aid-delivery-in-bid-to-thwart-hamas-diversion/.

IMO that "news" is being broadcast to make western leaders, other politicians and citizens believe that the genocide will stop if they keep sitting back and do NOTHING.

It's a disgusting hoax. Propaganda.

Israel's primary condition is that "Hamas" does not receive any aid (see https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2391012/smotrich-threatens-to-bring-down-govt-if-aid-is-allowed-to-reach-hamas.html), which is impossible to achieve. Male members of Hamas are fathers, brothers and children of starving Gazans.

The IDF know that this is an impossible objective, which is why they said that THEY refuse to be responsible for distributing aid in Gaza (btw it's not just food that Gazans need). From the link I mentioned last:

“IDF soldiers will not distribute humanitarian aid and we will not starve Gaza.”

So apparently Israel now wants https://orbisops.com mercenaries to "take care" of the "protection" of food distribution in Gaza.

According to https://thecradle.co/articles-id/27879, Orbis was already competing for such a contract last year.

We shouldn't be buying these lies anymore.

“Trump’s habit of deflection might explain last night's statement, and his habit of distraction might explain today’s social media post, in which the president returned to an exchange of words between him and Maine governor Janet Mills, a Democrat, more than three weeks ago…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 22, 2025
#trump #deflection #distraction