If you read a little closer, I'm not denying that there is a liberal bias. In fact my post doesn't have anything to do with hk-47's post at all. I'm pointing out that Trump has a big ego and if he was trying to suss out a rat by giving everyone different bits of info, we would have heard him bragging about how he outsmarted someone by now (see ego).
I then made a larger point about how it's probably in trumps interest to allow journalists to do what they're doing because it gives him a convenient "other" to rally his supporters against, implying that for all his talk about all the unfair shit the media pulls on him, he probably secretly wants it to continue because it works to his advantage too.
To the first point I'd have to say that if you had a strategy that's been working over and over again with virtually a 100% success rate, why in the
world would you broadcast that strategy to your opposition? If you're running a sting operation where-in you're funneling as many people as you can into one area under the guise of-- Fuck it,
To Catch a Predator. When they bunkered down on that show, they usually used the
exact same house for multiple offenders. They didn't put a neon sign out front when they got the first person letting
everyone else know about the trap, they just sat there and let people keep rolling in through the front door.
It's not
just the likes of him setting these things up, anyways. Given that he was a
successful real estate and media mogul in
New York City, he'd already have extensive experience with
corporate espionage, but it would still be ridiculous to assume that he's the sole contributor to the leak hunters, who were formed and organized by Michael Flynn just before he was steamrolled by the IC. None of the people he pulled in to be leak hunters lost their security clearances when he was 'fired', though. Ezra Cohen-Watnik (
The man with no face) and all of the people like him just melted back into the woodwork, and in Ezra's case the media and the opposition thought they'd gotten rid of him entirely, until it was discovered earlier in April that he's been
moved into the DOJ,
right beneath Jeff Sessions. Nobody in the media has any idea who he is or what he's doing, and more people
still don't even think he's important, even though he's a highly-placed government official who was hired by a spymaster, has never once appeared on camera, and the White House staff
will not talk about him to the media.
To the second: Yes, absolutely. That's exactly why he takes every single opportunity to goad the media into a batshit response, because the crazier he can make them look, the more damage he causes them to do to themselves. The media and anyone who suffers from
any degree of "derangement syndrome" are just completely incapable of separating Donald Trump from
The Donald because any of the outlandish and ridiculous things that
The Donald does or says immediately plays to their confirmation bias and they take off running with it, even though it's yet to pay off even so much as a single time.
It used to drive me slightly crazy that I could stand around on the rooftops and scream all I wanted about how people just aren't paying attention and they're falling for a
blatantly obvious piece of bait over and over again, but after awhile I just gave up because there's no convincing these people. They'll either have to figure it out on their own or just ride the wave out into 2024. In the meantime, I'm just kicking back and enjoying all the stupid headlines. Slate had a
fantastic one, today.
