Yup. I think that this book might actually help him. Since he now has a counter to the “didn’t take it seriously” claim.
Huh?
In the months following the Imperial Japanese Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on 7 December 1941, and the United States’ entry into World War II the next day, public outrage and paranoia intensified across the country and especially on the West Coast of the United States, where fears of a Japanese attack on or invasion of the mainland were acknowledged as realistic possibilities. In Juneau, Alaska, residents were told to cover their windows for a nightly blackout after rumors spread that Japanese submarines were lurking along the southeast Alaskan coast.[6] Rumors that a Japanese aircraft carrier was cruising off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area resulted in the city of Oakland closing its schools and issuing a blackout; civil defense sirens provided by Oakland Police Department cars blared through the city, and radio silence was ordered.[7] The city of Seattle also imposed a blackout of all buildings and vehicles, and owners who left the lights on in their buildings had their businesses smashed by a mob of 2,000 residents.[8] The rumors were taken so seriously that 500 United States Army troops moved into the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, to defend the famed Hollywood facility and nearby factories against enemy sabotage or air attacks.[9]
And we interred American citizens of Japanese ancestry. After 9-11, we invaded Iraq, a nation with no ties to the attack. All America ever does is panic, Trump will be fine.
Since for once he had a point?
No, we’re just not a very bright or thoughtful nation. Trump is the symptom, not the disease and any nation that would elect him president is profoundly broken. He has constantly done outrageous things that are obviously not in the nation’s best interests and he still has a 43% approval rating. His base are morons and there are millions of them. His opposition is slow to understand the depth of the crisis and are even now wondering if this will be the other shoe to drop. It won’t.
I mean, no. When a disease is on the way that has the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans, unless you take proper preventative measures, you can prevent panic only by instituting those proper preventative measures. Telling people it’s no big deal is just a way to delay panic until it’s too late.
Right. “I didn’t want people to panic so I didn’t quietly start building up PPE stockpiles, ordering ventilators, and forming a crack taskforce” doesn’t make sense.
TRUMP (voice is hoarse from screaming): I…was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety.
ROBIN: But you yelled “get out of my way”!
TRUMP: Because! Because, as the leader…if I die…then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?
The reason I didn’t tell Mom my cat’s litter box needed cleaning wasn’t because I didn’t want to clean it; I didn’t tell her because I didn’t want her to panic…and if she saw me cleaning it, she might panic. Not cleaning it was the right decision.
Your reasoning doesn’t pass the smell test.
I could be wrong, but the treatment of Trump and his relationship with the military might end up being even more damaging than his admissions about COVID.
Mattis’ comments…just, wow.
And the grab them by the pussy statement did hurt him. It’s just that the idiot FBI director gave him a gift at the last minute that swung the pendulum in his favor just enough to give him an edge. It’s crap like that the democrats need to prepare for by being relentless in keeping the troops motivated.
How about expanding on that a bit.
Mattis, who left the White House at the end of 2018 over differences on defense strategy with the president, warned Coats that “there may come a time when we have to take collective action” against Trump, according to excerpts of the Woodward book reported upon by The Washington Post,
Keep in mind that Mattis was fired by Obama, not known as some weak-kneed humanitarian pussy.
Please don’t blame all of us. A majority of millions didn’t vote for Trump, just not the right millions. We didn’t band together when the getting was good during Obama and abolish the obsolete Electoral College.
Ike I said, Trump is a symptom of a rotted corpse of a nation. We’ve known for decades that the electoral college needed fixing, we’ve known for generations that veneration of the confederacy was really just white nationalism and for years we let the most ignorant and radical among us prevent the teaching of science in our schools and now we’re surprised how ignorant and easily fooled Americans have become?
Well, 180,000 US citizens have died since he told us it was “nothing to worry about.” And because he said that, too goddam many dopes have screamed about the freedom-killing advice to wear a mask.
I’m not trying to give cover to Tweeti Amin, but I’m disturbed that Anthony Fauci was still not recommending facial coverings or masks for over a month after these recordings, even though they were aware that the virus had aerosolized. He said that his original statements about masks were meant to allow stockpiling of PPE for healthcare workers, but it seems like he had at least a month to do that before the rest of the US was informed.
This, exactly.
In a press conference yesterday, Trump said:
(Source: Washington Post)
“I don’t want to create panic” is, as you note, complete BS, as the core of his re-election campaign is specifically trying to create panic among his base and among his “suburban housewives.”
“Gotcha” type questions don’t work with Trump (or most politicians for that matter) but if they did, I would want to ask why, if the people know that Trump downplayed the pandemic to prevent panic, they can be sure that he is not overplaying the likelihood of a vaccine by October.