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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe first step to dealing with Trumpism is to ignore everything they say and only watch what they do.
The first step to dealing with Trumpism is to ignore everything they say and only watch what they do.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T01:49:45.660Z
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The first step to dealing with Trumpism is to ignore everything they say and only watch what they do. (Original Post)
applegrove
Yesterday
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Advice that Americans -- and corporate media most of all -- have been failing to follow
RockRaven
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RockRaven
(19,022 posts)1. Advice that Americans -- and corporate media most of all -- have been failing to follow
for over a decade. Will that ever change? Outlook is grim...
ificandream
(11,811 posts)3. Even reporting doesn't always do the trick.
Trumpers can't read or understand anything above a first grade level.
Permanut
(8,210 posts)2. Yeah, they're just kidding about the detention centers.
applegrove
(131,393 posts)4. Well ignoring what they say and only watching what they do
is looking at the concrete and should be another skill we develop and have in our toolkit. Language and the abstract are human constructs that can manipulate or be manipulated.