trump is fucking this conference up i think hes gotta go
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wonder how better markets look last week hm
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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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eigenrobot Retweeted 🥚Winifred J. Oathill 🥛
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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postscript did we ever close fucking Guantanamo
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Replying to @eigenrobot
We might shuttle the prison (eventually? It has 45 people) but if we ever close the base you should take it as a probable sign that other stuff you're worried about have gotten worse.
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