**Thought experiment:** if you put a monkey in front of a bank of buttons with labels like "apply tariffs", "suspend tariffs", "threaten sovereignty", "back off on threats", "fire someone,"and so on, talking heads at outlets like Fox News would shout at us about the brilliant strategy hidden behind the monkey's apparently-random button pushes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
#politics #media
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