“The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”
So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.
“All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”
That dude is insanely smart and dumb. What a life with no substance he has, just making life miserable for others so he can feel smug and superior.
Republicans and MAGAt freaks don’t want to govern, they want to hurt the people they hate. Until we effectively communicate this and organize, we can’t adequately oppose them.
I’m having a hard time with today’s news cycle. Usually it’s all bluster, it is not today. We’re in trouble guys.
News of mass immigration arrests has swept across the US over the past couple of weeks. Reports from Massachusetts to Idaho have described agents from Ice spreading through communities and rounding people up. Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases. Headlines include ICE arrests 85 during 4-day Colorado operation, New Orleans focuses targeted operations on 123 criminal noncitizens and, in Wisconsin, ICE arrests 83 criminal aliens.
But a closer look at these Ice reports tells a different story.
That four-day operation in Colorado? It happened in November 2010. The 123 people targeted in New Orleans? That was February of last year. Wisconsin? September 2018. There are thousands of examples of this throughout all 50 states – Ice press releases that have reached the first page of Google search results, making it seem like enforcement actions just happened, when in actuality they occurred months or years ago. Some, such as the arrest of “44 absconders” in Nebraska, go back as far as 2008.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/11/musk-trump-doge-ice-google-seo-spotify
