Tick, Tick, BOOM - The Bomb Slowly Going Off in America's Blue States
A YouTuber's fake fraud video gave Trump the pretext he needed to freeze $10 billion in aid to Democratic states. Boom - there goes Venezuela. Chaos is the point. What's he really up to? Does he Know?
Of course we need to examine what Trump has done in the Caribbean. Of course we need to grapple with Stephen Miller’s chilling declarations about Greenland. The Venezuela invasion matters. The threats against NATO allies matter. These are regime-ending, alliance-shattering developments that would dominate news cycles for months in any normal administration.
But that’s exactly the point. We can’t keep flitting from one Trump crisis to another, breathlessly cataloging each new outrage. That’s what they want. The overload is intentional. The chaos is strategic. They want to blow every circuit in our collective ability to process what’s happening in real time. They want us so exhausted by the spectacle that we miss the systematic looting happening while we’re distracted.
And nowhere is this more apparent than in the Nick Shirley daycare video and Trump’s punishing response to this wannabe Charlie Kirk (the first wasn’t bad enough apparently) propaganda.
A 23-year-old social media grifter po…
