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 Happy Friday. Let's talk about a strategy The 47th President and his team use that is affectionately called "Flooding the zone with shit." (Steve Bannon's term) This is where they keep doing a lot of chaotic random things that are sensational in order to overload the public and make it impossible to keep track of everything. This is a great strategy to accomplish a few things:

1. Distraction from what they are doing that matters.
2. Distraction from what they are NOT doing that they said they would.
3. Make their critics look like crazy people for having to jump all over the place to try and keep track of everything.
Today I want to talk about the first one. In the last 11 days, there has been chaos. Federal funding is paused, not all of it, wait just kidding no it's not. Oops fired a bunch of inspector generals without the required 30 day notice congress. Oh wait now we are renaming the Gulf of Mexico... No no don't look over there where we arrested American citizens and intended to deport them because they were speaking Spanish... LOOK OVER HERE AT DEI CAUSING A PLANE CRASH THAT WE DEFINITELY DON'T HAVE PROOF OF BUT WE HAVE OPINIONS...
This is all a plan.
Lurking in all of this is the troublesome stuff. I really don't care if trump wants to make renaming the Gulf of Mexico a priority. It's a distraction.
In the background, he signed this "INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS," which on it's face sounds like a normal kind of partisan messaging that should not surprise anyone...
HOWEVER one of those Executive Orders he repealed is Executive Order 13989. Boring title I know...
This Executive order regulated gifts and investment reporting, lobbying rules for new and former employees (time limits before becoming a lobbyist after employment and vice versa), and Golden Parachutes for lobbyists that are leaving a lobbying position for government work.
Trump ran on a position that to reduce corruption "Well one way you can stop it is to say, if you are going to go into government you can never be a lobbyist. If you are an elected official or work in government you can never be a lobbyist." (Direct quote from a podcast he was on)
So, I understand giving people the benefit of the doubt, and taking them on their words... but as Ronald Reagan once said...
"Trust but verify..."
We can now verify based on these actions... that this was a lie.
Those that supported him, knowing this information now, how do you feel about this? How will you hold your government to account for this betrayal of the public trust and opening up more opportunity for continued corruption and corporate ownership of the administration?
Executive order 13989 text can be found here: https://www.federalregister.gov/.../ethics-commitments-by...

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