There are no smoke screens with this government. They don’t “do X to cover for Y.” None of it is “a distraction.” They’re impulsive children. They do X because they want to do X. But what they have learned is that if you move fast and do a lot of bad things all at once, you usually get away with at least some of them.
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MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 day agoTrump lifted the tariffs. At this point I think it was just a smoke screen so there would be less coverage of Elon taking over the Treasury.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 23 minutes ago
He delayed them for a month.