Flood the zone Muzzle velocity

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Flooding the Zone and Why it Matters
V14: February 3, 2025: Recommended Consumption
Tom Persinger
Feb 03, 2025

Each week Recommended Consumption shares three awesome media suggestions you can read about in less than three minutes.

Well, usually this newsletter shares three things, but today I want to point you to one important thing. Ezra Klein’s latest podcast examines what is presently happening in the United States government, how to make sense of it, and offers a grounded way to find and see hope.

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The Ezra Klein Show: Don’t Believe Him
Ezra Klein’s audio essay on Donald Trump is a terrific piece that offers explanation and understanding regarding the current pace of political turmoil in US domestic and foreign policy. Regardless of your beliefs it’s worth listening — if only to understand the approach and how to make sense of it.

Klein offers a 2019 audio recording of Steve Bannon that lays the current administrations approach bare:

Steve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. …

All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to —

Michael Kirk: What was the word?

Bannon: Muzzle velocity.

You can read or listen to the piece in the NY Times.

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Tom