It’s just a mash-up of Project 2025 and Steve Bannon’s white-board. It’s not “Shock & Awe”.
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A final note: Miller is credited w/ having "personally drafted or coordinated most of" the EOs that Trump signed on Day 1. The "weaponization" EO was in that batch. It's not clear if Miller drafted it, too, thus making himself the point person for retribution.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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— David Kurtz (@davidkurtz.bsky.social) February 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We characterize the contemporary Russian model for propaganda as “the firehose of falsehood” because of two of its distinctive features: high numbers of channels and messages and a shameless willingness to disseminate partial truths or outright fictions. In the words of one observer, “[N]ew Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience.”2
Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda
- High-volume and multichannel
- Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
- Lacks commitment to objective reality
- Lacks commitment to consistency.
www.rand.org/...
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There will be a reckoning: Trump nightmare not all bad if it wakes America up: It’s even worse than I’d imagined.
Trump's been “flooding the zone” with so many outrageous (and often illegal) initiatives that many people are overwhelmed, demoralized, and just plain freaked out.
That’s the intent.…
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— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) February 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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“If you are dumbfounded into inaction, if you don’t even want to hear the news, if you feel as though you’re living through a nightmare over which you have no control, I get it. Every other day I feel the same.
But hear me out.”
We can flood THEIR zone:
robertreich.substack.com/p/the-petty-...
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— Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw.bsky.social) February 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM