President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

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Man, I was so in the The Progressives when they were first starting out. Then they signed that big record deal, starting putting out cute little pop singles for the masses and AOC started giving these corporate interviews to Rolling Stone and MTV.

 

This may have already been discussed while I was offline at Christmas, but has anyone else seen WW84?
Pedro Pascal is the main villain. You could totally make a drinking game out of all the allusions to Trump.

 

I guess the Progressives are OK, but I found cheaper insurance.

 

If you didn’t get enough face time w PP in Mandolarian, you will get your fill in WW 84. He is best thing about the movie.

 

Probably true.

But had he come out in March and said, "People, when you're out in public you MUST cover your noses and mouth before this thing gets out of control --- and I'm calling on all state governors to mandate this and hope we can begin mass production of disposable masks this week" --- it most certainly would have changed something. It was the ultimate "nothing to lose" recommendation, same as the "wash your hands" we heard from Day 1. Before a single business is even closed.

He's not the enemy. He's not a super-villain. But he's not God, either. As usual, there's no in-between around here.

 

As I said, there was NOTHING TO LOSE by recommending it. He could ALWAYS walk it back later. Changing recommendations to "less strict" is always easier than changing them to "more strict."

And another mistake was highlighting the "It's not to protect you; it's to protect others around you" nonsense.

It has ALWAYS been to protect both. But they thought they could get around the "muh body, muh choice" argument by emphasizing the "protect others!" appeal of the mask. All it did was make people question it even more ("How can it protect others and not me? That doesn't make sense!").

 

The demonization of expertise is the real problem.

 

You can't keep playing the "we didn't know enough" one minute and "expertise!" the next.

If we didn't know enough, the expertise was obviously lacking.

 

We had the lieutenant governor of one of our country’s biggest states saying it was time for him and all his 70-year-old buddies to die, that they’d leave it all in Jeebus’ hands because Tom’s Watering Hole needed to be open or the union would fall apart. Fauci and others were trying to tell people not to be selfish dicks and to think of their fellow man — same message Jesus has, by the way.