-something big is about to break that's negative for Trump. Or an awful story is in the headlines (let's say...concentration camps, for example)
-he tweets something repulsive.
- there is an outrage.
- he sucks up all the news coverage around his tweet, thereby depriving the spotlight to something else that is actually happening in the world. Like kids in actual cages.
- media runs wall-to-wall coverage of tweet, losing all sense of proportion and reason.
- increased coverage increases death threats toward the person or group in his tweet.
- Dems issue a statement rebuking him, but they take no actual action in getting rid of him b/c he's good for money.
- ratings soar for the media.
- social media lights up.
- fundraising soars for Dem party.
- death threats soar.
- media eventually take the non-story distraction into a meta-story sphere of who's saying what on their networks, and the arguments about the tweet become the news.
- a few people's spicy or idiotic statements in response to Trump's idiotic statement go viral. Yeah, they're famous and/or now getting death threats. Book deals in the works.
- no change in RNC party's position, but they have distracted you from their many numerous scandals.
- immigrants kids are still sit in cages, Jeffrey Epstein is still a pedophile rapist, Trump is still compromised by foreign money, and ripping off the country left and right. Republicans are too cowardly to do anything, and centrist Dems are content to not do anything b/c it's good for the party coffers.
- people can't even remember what the actual news was now, but they are outraged, stimulated, and fully engage in the echo chamber.
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