If someone throws a dead cat on the table to distract from something else, you make the discussion about the dead cat about the topics that the dead cat thrower doesn’t want discussed.
US healthcare insurance premiums under ACA are increasing in January 2026 because Trump and company cut funding, and Trump doesn’t want that discussed, so he constantly brings up annexing Greenland? Okay. The conversation is now “will Greenlanders be unhappy about higher healthcare costs of the sort that Trump has induced by slashing ACA funding”. You still want to talk about Greenland being annexed, Trump?
At this point there are so many scandals and so many dead cats that I can’t tell them apart. Greenland is obviously a distraction because he’s already played it several times, even in his first presidency. I can’t tell if kidnapping a foreign official was a distraction or something he’s using Greenland to distract from. Epstein is the only thing I’m sure he wants us to forget. ICE is a great distraction, but it also seems like he wants us to ignore it for a bit while they gain strength and march towards their goals. Piracy/war with various countries is obviously profitable, but also seems to be getting milked as a distraction.
It seems more like they’re just trying to fatigue us with constant atrocities, like the Andor quote.
This is maybe the most interesting counter to the deadcatting/“flood the zone with shit” strategy that I’ve seen.
If someone throws a dead cat on the table to distract from something else, you make the discussion about the dead cat about the topics that the dead cat thrower doesn’t want discussed.
US healthcare insurance premiums under ACA are increasing in January 2026 because Trump and company cut funding, and Trump doesn’t want that discussed, so he constantly brings up annexing Greenland? Okay. The conversation is now “will Greenlanders be unhappy about higher healthcare costs of the sort that Trump has induced by slashing ACA funding”. You still want to talk about Greenland being annexed, Trump?
At this point there are so many scandals and so many dead cats that I can’t tell them apart. Greenland is obviously a distraction because he’s already played it several times, even in his first presidency. I can’t tell if kidnapping a foreign official was a distraction or something he’s using Greenland to distract from. Epstein is the only thing I’m sure he wants us to forget. ICE is a great distraction, but it also seems like he wants us to ignore it for a bit while they gain strength and march towards their goals. Piracy/war with various countries is obviously profitable, but also seems to be getting milked as a distraction.
It seems more like they’re just trying to fatigue us with constant atrocities, like the Andor quote.