1/ Notice the last line in this thread about those staged "liberate" protests https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⤵️" title="Arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards" aria-label="Emoji: Arrow pointing rightwards then curving downwards">

"So there& #39;s a big push to get a new story moving."

In other words, "Well, that didn& #39;t work. Let& #39;s try something else."

It& #39;s cynical. It& #39;s manipulative. It& #39;s the Trump administration. https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1252076751796273152">https://twitter.com/joshtpm/s...

2/ The other part that& #39;s pure Trump is that the protests were staged. Fake. Not real. Manufactured.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1252073445728419841

Brought">https://twitter.com/joshtpm/s... to you from the “fake” successful businessman who governs by bringing you new spectacle each day.

3/The question is: What will he try next?

He’s losing support right now.

Covid-19 is the wrong kind of crisis because he can’t control it.

I explained in Feb. why fascist leaders need a manufactured crises. They can& #39;t control or manipulate a real onehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index"> https://twitter.com/Teri_Kanefield/status/1233414643369955328">https://twitter.com/Teri_Kane...

4/ He’ll come up with something else sensational to grab headlines and divert attention and keep the fighters fighting.

I don’t know what it will be, but I guarantee it will enrage his critics. It will send you into a spin. You’ll be horrified.

Watch for it.

5/ We can& #39;t stop the Firehose of Outrageousness, but we can put on raincoats so that the tactics don& #39;t work, and it all rolls off.

Raincoats keep us from feeding the Outrage Cycle and wearing ourselves out.

We stay focused on getting absentee ballots. https://twitter.com/meandmrsjones2/status/1252247305329262592">https://twitter.com/meandmrsj...

6/ When we& #39;re spinning with outrage we are more likely to give up and conclude that "it& #39;s no use."

@TimothyDSnyder explains it as a way of looking at time: Outrage keeps us in the present and causes us to lose sight of the fact that there IS a future. https://twitter.com/i/status/1252245563682115584">https://twitter.com/i/status/...

7/ Here it is. We knew it was coming. The staged protests were not working, and there was a "push to get a new story moving."

Here it is https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Down pointing backhand index" aria-label="Emoji: Down pointing backhand index">

Carefully calculated to excite his base and enrage his critics.

8/ I think it& #39;s quite clever, when you consider his goals.

Someone worried that his next attempt to distract would involve the military, but a military operation isn& #39;t Trump& #39;s style.

He& #39;s a coward. Wars cause property damage and that terrifies him . . . https://twitter.com/heislying2u/status/1252434549981671425">https://twitter.com/heislying...

9/ The last thing he wants is to get into a war with another country and have someone attack his properties. He also doesn& #39;t want a bomb falling anywhere near him.

Consider what keeping a story like this in the news will do for him . . .

10/

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">He accomplishes something he wants to do: Close the borders
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">It will fire up his base
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">It will enrage his critics
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">It isn& #39;t a real crisis. It& #39;s entirely manufactured, so he won& #39;t have to worry that it will get out of hand
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">There& #39;s no actual danger to him.

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔹" title="Small blue diamond" aria-label="Emoji: Small blue diamond">We will be talking about this and not his abysmal handling of Covid-19

He lost support with his base the past few weeks, and this appears calculated to build it back up.

He& #39;d much rather have the national conversation be about this.