Outcomes:
7% dead is pretty fucking bad.
Meanwhile, yes - like it or not, it always circles back to being about the politics.
The difference here is that 45* seems not to understand that the work any given politician does on our behalf is what drives people to vote for him.
The Daddy State tells us lies as a means of demonstrating its power.
The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
Lying about everything is a way to condition us - to make us accept the premise that they can do anything they want ...
NYT:
President Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he will ever play a constructive role in addressing the crisis, with some concluding they must work around Mr. Trump and ignore or even contradict his pronouncements.
In recent days, some of the most prominent figures in the G.O.P. outside the White House have broken with Mr. Trump over issues like the value of wearing a mask in public and heeding the advice of health experts like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, whom the president and other hard-right figures within the administration have subjected to caustic personal criticism.
They appear to be spurred by several overlapping forces, including deteriorating conditions in their own states, Mr. Trump’s seeming indifference to the problem and the approach of a presidential election in which Mr. Trump is badly lagging his Democratic challenger, Joseph R. Biden Jr., in the polls.
Once-reticent Republican governors are now issuing orders on mask-wearing and business restrictions that run counter to Mr. Trump’s demands. Some of those governors have been holding late-night phone calls among themselves to trade ideas and grievances; they have sought out partners in the administration other than the president, including Vice President Mike Pence, who, despite echoing Mr. Trump in public, is seen by governors as far more attentive to the continuing disaster.
Meanwhile, yes - like it or not, it always circles back to being about the politics.
The difference here is that 45* seems not to understand that the work any given politician does on our behalf is what drives people to vote for him.
The other part is that in cases like a pandemic, he doesn't get to chose something else, and make believe that his chances of getting re-elected aren't tied directly to how well or badly he handles this monster.
He wants to tell us what this is all about, and that's in line with the ultimate goal of the Daddy State.
The Daddy State tells us lies as a means of demonstrating its power.
The lies have practically nothing to do with the subject of the lies.
Lying about everything is a way to condition us - to make us accept the premise that they can do anything they want ...
SO THEY CAN DICTATE REALITY TO US.
NYT:
President Trump’s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and his refusal to promote clear public-health guidelines have left many senior Republicans despairing that he will ever play a constructive role in addressing the crisis, with some concluding they must work around Mr. Trump and ignore or even contradict his pronouncements.
In recent days, some of the most prominent figures in the G.O.P. outside the White House have broken with Mr. Trump over issues like the value of wearing a mask in public and heeding the advice of health experts like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, whom the president and other hard-right figures within the administration have subjected to caustic personal criticism.
They appear to be spurred by several overlapping forces, including deteriorating conditions in their own states, Mr. Trump’s seeming indifference to the problem and the approach of a presidential election in which Mr. Trump is badly lagging his Democratic challenger, Joseph R. Biden Jr., in the polls.
Once-reticent Republican governors are now issuing orders on mask-wearing and business restrictions that run counter to Mr. Trump’s demands. Some of those governors have been holding late-night phone calls among themselves to trade ideas and grievances; they have sought out partners in the administration other than the president, including Vice President Mike Pence, who, despite echoing Mr. Trump in public, is seen by governors as far more attentive to the continuing disaster.
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