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Is history repeating itself?

Is history repeating itself?

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Is history repeating itself? The philosopher George Santayana said that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Wikipedia has an interesting article on Historic recurrence which I ran across as I was thinking about history repeating itself.

I’m reading “The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic” by Benjamin Carter Hett and this quote got me thinking about this.
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This is getting tiresome

This is getting tiresome

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Tiresome is the word that came to mind. I wasn’t sure if it was the right word.

So I looked it up. Well, a lookup online. I knew I had a dictionary around but it seemed so much easier this way.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary online offers “causing you to feel bored, annoyed, or impatient”. So it looks like I found a good word because –
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Misdirect and delay, again

Misdirect and delay, again

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Delay the probe in the Russian interference in the 2016 elections and possible collusion by the Trump administration. Misdirect and mislead us so we don’t notice the delay. Misdirect and delay, again.

When will we ever learn? I had just written about the bizarre actions of Rep. Nunez, chair of the House Intelligence Committee which to me seemed to be an attempt to delay the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 elections and possible collusion by the Trump administration.
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House Intelligence Committee

House Intelligence Committee

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What is going on with Representative Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee? Is this just another distraction to delay looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the possible collusion of President Trump oor his associates?

This this just another example of misdirection?

Misdirection overload

Misdirection overload

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I think all the news and tweets coming out of President Trump’s administration is misdirection overload. About a month ago I wrote about misdirection here in a post called While we were being misdirected.

In the past month the news about President Trump, both real and fake, has just accelerated. I think this is not only misdirection but information overload so we are not only misdirected but we forget some of the bad stuff.

And it is hard to know what bad stuff is just bad stuff they want us to forget or bad stuff to distract us from what they are doing. The misdirection continues. And the information overload continues.
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While we were being misdirected

While we were being misdirected

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Are we being misdirected? 

President Trump is well known for his alternative facts and apparent obsession with fairly minor things such as crowd size and millions of illegal voters. Perhaps this is just misdirection so we don’t pay enough attention to the important stuff.

Was misdirection the secret to at least some of his business success.  While some of his “partners” were busy dreaming of their profits,  was Mr. Trump was busy taking the money and setting others up for the fall?
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