“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

@EugeneMcParland

a reliable old chestnut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars

if something good happens, #Putin did it

if something bad happens, it's someone else's fault

sweet sweet #deflection

i've encountered comments here on #mastodon:

1. historical suffering in #syria is due to the #west
2. but also, syria is going to start suffering *now*

!?

#syrian suffering... begins?!

of course, #assad's brutality, and his decades as a #russia/ #iran proxy, just *poof*, utterly evaporates in their minds