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Accusing others of everything he’s been accused of: lying, shirking responsibility, delaying responses. Pure, vicious, lashing out alternating with whining. Drinking on and on. Doling out punishment where he can (cutting funding for WHO), claiming credit where he can.
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I am not exactly a paragon of moral courage, but I don’t think I could live with myself if my response in his position were as craven and inept as his. I’d want to go hide my face. Social death at a minimum.
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Now a horrific bit of rhetoric “I’ll be authorizing the 50 governors to implement my reopening plan according to local conditions.” Translation: you can’t break up with me, I break up with you. You’re not leaving and doing your own thing, I’m authorizing you too.
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Now a long list of names of companies/CEOs, hospital associations etc. Awful, cringey public complicity engineering. Like tedious Oscar thank-you speeches that drone on, but here it’s a list of “people who have agreed to endorse my crime syndicate at gunpoint.”
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You do NOT want to be on this list of droned names if you can avoid it, but you can’t risk saying no if asked, because conspicuous absence puts a target on your back. A political horror movie playing out live right now. Mitch McConnell has engineered a ritual death of democracy.
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This is not Fox vs CNN. Whatever channel you’re watching this on, the live, unedited, in-context posture is horrifying all by itself. You can’t blame filter bubbles for any response. Any trumpies who read this as a strong display of effective leadership are too far gone to return
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