bearister said:
Question for tRump supporters:
1. Why do tRump and his underlings not wear masks in masked facilities?
2. What are your feelings about that?
*My answers:
1. It is a political statement of support for his base who believe only pro science elitists think masks are necessary;
2. I think it is evil for him to expose others to possible infection and it sets a bad example as a leader.
okaydo said:bearister said:
Question for tRump supporters:
1. Why do tRump and his underlings not wear masks in masked facilities?
2. What are your feelings about that?
*My answers:
1. It is a political statement of support for his base who believe only pro science elitists think masks are necessary;
2. I think it is evil for him to expose others to possible infection and it sets a bad example as a leader.
Going mask-less is a sign that you support freedom.
Wearing a mask is a sign that you're a girly man, or trying to be Asian.
I wish this were not so accurate...and probably effective. Basically, just commit to being incompetent and then lie so much about it that not seeing the incompetence becomes an article of faith for the loyal followers and an impossible gaslighting for those trying to fix the situation. How did he drag us into total confusion and social anarchy in just 4 years?bearister said:
" At a time when we desperately need to be guided by the best science, Trump's daily fire hose of lies, and his denunciations of anything he doesn't like as "fake news," has contributed mightily to the loss of our "cognitive immunity" our ability to sort out truth from lies and science from science fiction.
At a time when we need a globally coordinated response to a pandemic, Trump has wrecked every alliance we have.
At a time when we need high social trust in order to have a coordinated response at home, Trump's political strategy of dividing us and playing everything both ways even telling people both to rise up against their governors and to lock down according to his guidelines is the opposite of the "all in this together" approach we need to win this battle.
At a time when access to affordable health care is extra-important when frontline workers need to know that if they go to work and fall ill, they will have some safety net to protect them Trump has been trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act enacted by President Barack Obama without even thinking through an alternative.
At a time when we've never more needed our early warning systems to be operating at peak potential, the four top jobs at the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "have all been filled with temporary acting officials for literally every day that Covid-19 has been on the world stage," Garrett Graff recently noted in Politico.
And Trump's vindictiveness toward any career public servant who challenges his narrative has surely contributed to the weak response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Experts are afraid to raise their hands to contradict the president." Thomas Friedman, NY Times
^ for the first time in like forever, riight?bearister said:
When tRump eventually leaves office, I hope there are enough whistle blowers in the Administration to support the filing of criminal charges against tRump and those that aided and abetted him.
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"Let me tell you something, Diana," says Burkman. "This guy shut the country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that, you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and that's the way life works, OK? That's the way it goes."
Andrade counters that he and Wohl are not taking COVID-19 seriously. "It's not just any virus. I mean, it's a huge deal.I think you guys think it's something made up, and it's not."
"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred thousand were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake."
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Swan became a national political reporter for Axio in December 2016. While at Axios, Swan broke several stories about the Trump administration. Former Washington Post journalist Ronald Kessler claimed in his 2018 book, The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game, that Swan is among a handful of reporters to whom President Trump feeds information, with instructions to attribute quotes to an unnamed White House official.
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Swan was the first to report that that the US would pull out of the Paris Climate deal that Steve Bannon was about to be fired that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's captital; and that Trump would end the DACA executive action policy. Swan broke the news that Speaker Paul Ryan was retiring from Congress.