It's standard Trumpian negotiation. Ban lots of books, outrage ensues, courts get involved, some books get unbanned. But not all!

dfxm12 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Also par for the course: lots of wasted taxpayer money.

I don’t think Trump was directly involved in this law? We don’t need to invoke his name merely as an epithet.

	▲	skrebbel 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s… just the common name for this way of getting things done (as far as I know at least). Propose something preposterous, so drama ensues and it gets watered down, but in the end you still get more than you would’ve otherwise. I believe the term got popular around the time Trump got his wall by saying he was going to make Mexico pay for it. Suddenly nobody questioned the sanity of building a wall anymore, the entire narrative was about whether or not he’d get Mexico to pay.