EAllusion wrote:One of the humorous things I've seen today is various people on Twitter arguing that any number of these stories are meant to distract from any number of the other stories. There isn't agreement on the direction of distraction, just that it's all subterfuge. I'd counter propose that it's actually just a collection of mostly related bad stories all happening at once.
I think this is related to the medias continued belief that Trump and the White House don't just do things "because". They continually try to ascribe some kind of 12-D chess calculation to everything they do.
As far as the news cycle yesterday it was quite insane. Even as a pretty serious reader of the news I'm still certain I missed something. Just chalk this up as another new high (or low) of an administration where the best defense seems to be in just riding with the flood instead of fighting it. At least no one is talking about Stormy Daniels anymore (even though reports say Melania was apparently blindsided by it) and the story of no new sanctions on Russia will probably disappear either with the memo release or SOTU (where the media will praise him as "presidential" so long as he doesn't say the n-word) tonight anyways.
To the memo specifically, I particularly appreciated the tactic of heavily delaying (or possibly never releasing) the point by point rebuttal memo so that we will get a nice solid 48+ hour news cycle of the attack on the Justice Department before any counter argument is presented. Something, something... Chinese curse... something, something... interesting times.