So much focus on the idea that the ICE crackdown is a distraction from the Epstein files makes me wonder if it isn’t the other way around-get people to focus on the idea of a cover up that they don’t resist a fascist takeover as effectively as they otherwise might.
You think too unilaterally.
Everything is a distraction for everything else. The entire Project 2025 strategy, summed up perfectly by that tramp-looking lardass Steve Bannon, is to “flood the zone” - that is, coming up with such a volume of such outrageous shit constantly, relentlessly, that nobody has time to follow up on anything.
When the media latches on Epstein too much, suddenly it’s war on Venezuela. When Venezuela raises too many questions, oops: now it’s murders in Minneapolis. When Minneapolis becomes too hot, back to Epstein.
Etc etc.
Ad nauseam.
Oops, seems like Trump is going to steal 10 billion dollars from United States by suing the IRS.
There is ALWAYS too much crapvgoing on. and the news changes focus every time anything even begins to feel remotely stale.
Meaning, it’s not just Republicans who are part of the problem. Sensationalist news plays right into their hands.