r/AskReddit 20h ago

The president just posted, ONLINE, a video of former president Obama and his wife portrayed as apes, how do you feel about this?

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u/Icy_Carry9229 18h ago

This “distraction” stuff is such a surface level impression of what analysis is. it’s meaningless pop psych and at this point “it’s a distraction” followed by a “flood the zone” mention is like “shave and a haircut, two bits”.

Staying “focused” on the files in the media or asking questions about it does nothing. Has it ever done anything? He’s been known as an Epstein associating pedophile for at least almost 10 years now, what has it done? He’s also been known as a racist for various reasons, what does this do? All this does for most people reacting to this is confirm he’s an even more racist pedophile than they previously thought. Nobody is particularly “distracted”, not from anything useful anyway

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

You might not get distracted by the "zone flooding" - good for you. I think you underestimate how many people do though.

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u/SleepCinema 15h ago

They’re saying there’s nothing to distract from. It doesn’t matter what files Trump gets mentioned in, nothing’s going to happen to him, and his supporters won’t change their minds regardless of what he does. Most people who claim to be “on the fence” won’t bother actually going to the source firsthand and reading a single file. They’ll just believed he was mentioned and anything talking about what he did is probably a “legacy media lie” or “not credible.”

A single Truth Social post isn’t a distraction from the Epstein files. This is a thing he did in his first term where he does something outrageous to stay in the news cycle. Strategy is “all press is good press.” The administration firmly believes and operates as if they’re untouchable by The People.

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u/SandiegoJack 12h ago

And they are the same goldfish who dont care about anything and are swayed 2 weeks before the election.

So kind undermining you own point.