The Trump Sharpie® memes are hilarious. I’ve shared them and have enjoyed a good laugh at those others have shared.
But there is also a darker, more insidious side to them. No, I don’t just mean the issue of an insane president, spiraling downward into a descent of madness, doubling down, tripling down, even quadrupling down on a minor gaffe that would have just disappeared if he let it go.
It is more insidious than that. It is an intentional tactic of diversion and distraction — Trump’s favorite tactics.
Trump doesn’t want the news media or social media or late nite comedians focusing on the fact that he is illegally diverting military funding (from an appropriations bill that specifically prohibited any use for wall construction) from schools and European defense systems to the very wall prohibited in the legislation.
Trump promised MEXICO would pay for the wall, and now it’s going to be paid for by veterans, military families and allies who depend on us and MEXICO is NOT going to pay for any wall unless Trump’s wall is just drawn along the border with a Sharpie® made in Mexico and Trump (as he is wont to do) stiffs on paying the bill for the Sharpie®.
And … Trump doesn’t want the news media or social media or late nite comedians focusing on babies in cages, children with life-threatening illnesses being deported from hospital beds and workers on farms and in factories being financially decimated by devastating economic destruction.
So, instead, make a big deal about ALABAMA and the Sharpie®. Let everyone make jokes and post funny memes with Sharpies. Take a little ridicule, let ’em laugh — as long as they are diverted and distracted from all the crimes Trump REALLY doesn’t want us focusing on.
The Trump Sharpie® memes are hilarious. I’ve shared them and have enjoyed a good laugh at those others have shared.
But there is also a darker, more insidious side to them. No, I don’t just mean the issue of an insane president, spiraling downward into a descent of madness, doubling down, tripling down, even quadrupling down on a minor gaffe that would have just disappeared if he let it go.
It is more insidious than that. It is an intentional tactic of diversion and distraction — Trump’s favorite tactics.
Trump doesn’t want the news media or social media or late nite comedians focusing on the fact that he is illegally diverting military funding (from an appropriations bill that specifically prohibited any use for wall construction) from schools and European defense systems to the very wall prohibited in the legislation.
Trump promised MEXICO would pay for the wall, and now it’s going to be paid for by veterans, military families and allies who depend on us and MEXICO is NOT going to pay for any wall unless Trump’s wall is just drawn along the border with a Sharpie® made in Mexico and Trump (as he is wont to do) stiffs on paying the bill for the Sharpie®.
And … Trump doesn’t want the news media or social media or late nite comedians focusing on babies in cages, children with life-threatening illnesses being deported from hospital beds and workers on farms and in factories being financially decimated by devastating economic destruction.
So, instead, make a big deal about ALABAMA and the Sharpie®. Let everyone make jokes and post funny memes with Sharpies. Take a little ridicule, let ’em laugh — as long as they are diverted and distracted from all the crimes Trump REALLY doesn’t want us focusing on.