Ferdi Magellan<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DemocracyMattersALot</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Distract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Distract</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Intimidate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intimidate</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Silence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silence</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> </p><p>A psychopathic president. </p><p>‘Longwell estimated that Trump might be trying to get people to look in a different direction after he backed down on his trade war. <br>"…like a guy with a laser pointer and the media is a bunch of cats. Is he trying to get people to chase things so they stop talking about the fact that he caved and did a total about-face on the tariffs after telling us for days that he wasn't going to do a pause? And now he's suddenly pausing because the world economy is collapsing. Is he doing this as a distraction?" <br>She then noted that targeting people like this can scare others away from leaking information to the public. <br>"And what he's trying to do here, though, is to make people afraid of speaking out against him. </p><p>‘Trump is trying to intimidate his staff from speaking out during this administration, she continued</p><p>…I mean, this is some of the most insane authoritarian stuff we've seen out of him."</p>