By Nellie Bly
Washington Bureau
We follow adorable U Bum cheerleader and Westworld barmaid Katrina Pierson on Twitter. Every so often she come up with something that provokes us, if only to further consideration. This was one:
...making aggressive sexual advances, yanking off her clothes...— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) November 19, 2017
“I’ll never forget the look on his face...In that moment, the realization fell on me that they were in it together...I fought it wildly,” - Keri Khalighi https://t.co/PdsnrtyhGR
We were thinking of tweeting back that calling out sexual abuse and harassment by others is not a good look for the Groper-in-Chief's dwindling band of true believers, but it made us stop and think. Katrina Pierson doesn't have to shoplift her talking points anymore; they are provided to her by propagandists who know what they're doing.
So what are they doing?
They're using what John Oliver calls whataboutism to inoculate the Grifter-in-Chief from facing the consequences of his actions. Sure, he admitted violating women and barging in on underage girls disrobing in their dressing rooms, but no one can hold that thought in their heads very long in the face of barrage after barrage about supposedly similar conduct by Democrats as prominent as Russell Simmons. The scandal of President U Bum's sexually assaulting 18 women is lost in the stench of everyone does it until the little train carrying the public careens into the next chamber of the White House of Horrors.
The Bigot-in-Chief used the same technique with great success in his campaign. Remember Hillary Clinton's pointed and accurate attack on U Bum as Putin's stooge? The tangerine-faced insult comic fired back with “You're the puppet!” It made no sense then and makes none now, but it brought public consideration of the collusion between the Chancellor of Trump University and a hostile foreign power to a grinding halt, soon to be replaced by email risotto recipes that were thought to “cast a shadow” over the campaign of the nominee who was not a Kremlin puppet.
As anyone who has survived this long in Occupied Territory knows, the bullshit barrage is so unceasing that it makes rational thought impossible. Just today, between slurring a Senator for expressing pride in her heritage during a ceremony honoring war heroes of that same ethnic background and blowing up an independent federal agency in a blatantly lawless coup, we have neither the time nor the energy to remember that the President of the United States has admitted both sex crimes and impeachable obstructions of justice.
So we take it back (and btw that's good advice for Katrina the next time she finds herself in Macy's jewelry department) – Katrina Pierson, at least until the batteries need a recharge, is a superbly effective agent of disinformation.
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