stravinskian Member since Feb 24th 2003 12698 posts
Thu Nov-16-17 05:11 PM
24. "Well, people have been using the term for months." In response to In response to 9
It's a meme that's been going around (meme in the original, Dawkins sense). People have been using the term to describe the Trump administration's deflections on the Russia stuff, noting in particular that the style of deflection (supposedly, I don't know the history) was perfected and regularly employed by the Soviet Union. (criticisms of the regime always deflected with an appeal to some other irrelevant stuff going on somewhere else)