trump is fucking this conference up i think hes gotta go
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basically when there is a crisis there is a Script for the president to follow everyone knows this even if not explicitly he is fucking up the ritual if he even knows it exists think trump was probably an effective politician in normal times but he knows only one weird trick
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if your having trouble parsing this the ritual begins by grimly intoning "My Fellow Americans" you know the rest
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this is an interesting point and I'm mulling it over Obama never had a crisis in the same way I wonder if Bush II overused the trope and killed it to an extenthttps://twitter.com/792x33/status/1241045149096054790?s=19 …
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but when he did early on--right after 9/11--it was incredibly effective at generating a coordinated response to the crisis an ultimately terrible and stupid response that ended with torture facilities in Iraq for some reason but coordinated nonetheless
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bush ii was just much much better at this iirc until Katrina he just didn't have press conferences where reporters were queued up to shred him wonder if trump by just not giving pressers never figured out how to do this effectively hm. or he killed pressers bc hes bad at it
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ugh back to original subject this is where trump just fucking sucks this is the most softball-ass question "What do you say to Americans who are scared?" Boy too bad no one else has ever said anything on this subject to the American people in a crisishttps://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1241041500936568838?s=19 …
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Besides alluding to THAT there are a dozen good answers and all of them make you look like a goddamn statesman If you can't deliver even one you have no business leading a nursery much less the fucking United States of America
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