The Big Game
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https://www.readtangle.com/the-latest-on-the-minnesota-fraud-somalia/?ref=tangle-newsletter
I found the whole discussion on the Minnesota fraud interesting, but this quote stood out.
One of the most consistent aspects of President Trump’s governing style is how his solution to a problem completely devours giving any attention to the root problem itself.
It’s Trump’s Big Game. It invigorates his supporters, it frustrates his opponents, and it confuses everyone else in between.
It starts with a real issue that has been publicly reported on but doesn’t gain purchase across the political spectrum (the way something like the Epstein files grabbed public attention). Then, a right-leaning outlet makes the issue a cause célèbre, adding in a healthy, editorialized dash of urgency. That story makes its way to President Trump, who takes the most divisive aspects of the narrative and dials them up to 11. Democrats get caught in a trap, decrying Trump’s response without acknowledging the problem, allowing Republicans to hammer them for not caring about the root issue. But is Trump’s solution addressing the root issue? Soon, that question becomes the main discussion; Trump’s solution trumps the problem, and now the thing we’re all talking about — again, seemingly unendingly — is Trump.
Trump always wins Trump’s Big Game — he dominates the news cycle and owns the narrative regardless of whether he’s solving the problem at the center of the media firestorm.
This pattern fits the Christmas Day strikes in Nigeria. It fits the administration’s capture of Maduro. It fits the National Guard deployments and DOGE and the war on universities and can even be drawn back to the singular issue that boosted him to the top of the Republican Primaries in 2015: the border wall.
You’re reading Tangle, so I’m preaching to the choir here, but I’m tired of playing Trump’s Big Game.
Today, let’s see what happens when we decide not to play it.
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Well, you can see this in HUD's new homelessness policy. Every expert knows shelter first is the prerequisite for success. HUD has overturned this methodology and slashed its budget request by 50%. People without housing will not be able to proceed to rehabilitation, jobs, or any meaningful change in life circumstances. They will eventually end up dead for a myriad of reasons. They will also be de facto criminals according to an executive order and jailed. It won't actually matter if they are mentally ill, drug addicts, mentally ill and addicted to drugs, or among the many people of all age groups, in all states, who can no longer afford the cost of living.
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