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The office of a mad US president in spe threatening the EU, neighbours and a former colony with violence is newsworthy.

The media should certainly respond to Trump's bullshit, but the response should be to ignore it and keep asking what his plans are to reduce prices, end inflation, and all the other impossible, contradictory promises he made to get the morons in this country to vote for him.

Fucking yes, stop making "were going to name it gulf of America", "make Canada the 51st state", "Texas is going to secede from the US" big news.

These are either distractions, attempts to control new cycles, political tools, or attempts to energize voter bases.

TX seceding is one of the oldest. Texas secession would all but nearly ensure the US never sees the election of another Republican president or significant political majority. It'd be political suicide. They'd lose dozens of electoral college votes, Congress people and more.

I swear it's just one dead cat after another with this guy. It's like someone is feeding him this nonsense to keep him busy, and by extension, the media and most of us.

He’s already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.

That too. Good call, OP.

I encourage everyone to call non-news what it is - a distraction - until it's actually a thing that's happening. In the meantime, consider browsing the AP to read what's actually happening that's being masked by all this noise.

• https://apnews.com/hub/congress
• https://apnews.com/politics

What's even more stupid is that we've already done this. We've already lived this stupid-ass reality, and the media made public apologies at the end, only to turn around and do the exact same thing again. I'll say one thing for trump, he's right that the media is a circus, and not something to blindly trust. That's probably the one and only time you'll hear me say trump was right about anything.

I’m glad someone else realized this too.

I realized something, ever since 2016 we have been trained by the media to constantly be outrage over words that may never become actions.

So now I only care if an action is made. All this “news” about trolls trolling the world is just a big nothing burger that you don’t need to know unless you actually work in politics.

I would go as far as to say it should become a rule on some news subs that a controversial figure saying something controversial is not news.

Ignorance is not a solution. I can ignore cars while walking across the street, but it's probably a bad idea since I might get hit. This motherfucker is going to affect the future of the planet, so all hands on deck, red alert, pay attention. The man is a criminal, he should be in prison, not running a country. I want him feeling like he's under a microscope with the whole world watching.

I've blocked all US magazines and other social media channels I can, and I'm so much better for it.

When the moron actually invades Canada I'm sure I'll hear about it in the news.

And, frankly, this magazine is on notice. If it starts being 100% US politics it's getting blocked as well. I have zero regrets about this new policy I'm implementing.

what are you talking about, hysterical attention grabbers are their meal ticket.

For me the ideal option on another topic was to hide or unsubscribe from all relevant channels after finding the one that does frequent summaries I can read from time to time. If Trump\Elon drama could've been reduced to one weekly summary with added context and factcheking that would probably erase the need to follow these news articles completely.

They've been doing that non-stop for the past decade and made millions over millions from that

Do you really believe they'd stop today?

That only works when he isnt the most powerful person in the fucking world

The problem is his friends own a lot of the media

Post a pic of a pleading cat on a UK community with the title "Please can I have some food"

Some yank immediately - "Yah this is what happens when you vote republican"

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SHUT UP FOR FIVE FUCKIN MINUTES 😂

Exactly. I heard more about Trump with Biden in office than I did when he was president before.

Last time they didn't, we're in for at least 4 years of this.

"subtle" way of supporting him while playing dumb

I blocked Trump and Musk keywords in my Lemmy client and i feel so much less anger.

If they did that, they would have nothing to say.

Like moths to an orange flame

Same goes for the Fediverse. Can't go on a single political instance anymore without many people just having to bring up the asshole's existence.

I agree with this take.