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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      It is spiritually exhausting to watch him suck petty sustenance for himself regardless of costs to others. It’s the opposite of the sense of nourishment you might get by looking at a great piece of art or an exceptional music performance.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      Media falling right into his trap too. Dumbasses at NYT now hating on chloroquine (“unproven” is practically as insult in a headline, not a disinterested scientific qualifier) simply because he’s backing that horse. No, you ignore his backing and report on clinical trials.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      He’s adding almost nothing of substance to the chloroquine subplot. He’s mainly writing himself into that story as a hero and they’re falling for it. Notice how he’s distancing himself from the tougher procurement challenges like PPE. Those failures will be for states to own.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      And all this for what? Re-election redemption. Courageous option which he can’t even see: work the actual hardest problems, not the easiest election win options. Get out of the way of people who know what they’re doing. Not impossible. A few leaders seem to be doing that.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      The amount of spiritual energy that will be needed to repair the soul-suckage this mega-pest will have inflicted by 2024 is hard to estimate. People have simply gotten used to the emotional labor load he inflicts on the world. Like a metastasized Darth Clippy in MS-Office.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      I suspect his legacy will be collective amnesia. His base will form a cult after he exits. The rest of us won’t bother litigating the history of his misrule. We’ll just try to forget it and move on. The story of 2016-24 will be for historians a generation removed to write.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      If you’re a person of substance yourself, you might honestly wonder what this rant is about and think “trump derangement syndrome”. You might (correctly) argue that a better human being in White House right now would not necessarily have meant a better outcome. Maybe even worse.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      Complex systems problems evolve in messy, nearly ungovernable ways. It’s rarely possible to ever sort out the story of how things happened and come to a blame/credit consensus. We’ll be arguing about this history and it’s counterfactuals for decades and still get nowhere.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      But whether this is a growth experience or a lifelong trauma for people in it depends on how you will answer the question the brits Queen cleverly posed: “I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge." Cunning old lady.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      The cost of Trump in this situation is that far fewer people will be acting in ways that they can take pride in, and grow from. He is reliably the worst person he can be in everything he does, and brings out the same in others in proportion to the attention they pay to him.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      And sadly you can no longer tune him out easily, since every press briefing has a chance of producing actual important information, you have to endure a daily Trump rally bullshit circus to get it, from Fauci or one of the other people of substance he’s jealously BIRGing off

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        1. Tito Bohrt‏ @titobohrt Apr 6
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          That's right! However... Those who have blindly listened to Trump and not been cautious are more likely to be dead by the end of this. It means less republican supporters and more republican families destroyed knowing it was his fault. Perhaps that swings the election. 🤞

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        1. tantum‏ @QuasLacrimas Apr 6
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          can you find me one democratic politician on January 31 who said “this travel ban doesn’t go far enough”? if not this sounds like petty sniping from someone with no real attachment to or concern for american citizens

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        1. Belief is a Beeatch‏ @lyleengle Apr 6
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          Fascinating you think you can get any useful information from any government press briefing. WTF? Unless you're trying to find out exactly what is false, like no need for a mask, or now wearing a cloth mask is a good idea. hahahahahahaha

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        1. CFA Level VI‏ @liamswagone Apr 6
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          Thank you mate

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        1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Apr 6
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          A stopped clock is right twice a day. It doesn't follow that I look to it for the time. I can most certainly tune him out, and so can you.

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