“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell
So...is he truly out of his mind?
Well he has been getting smoked by them (for really good reasons) lately. As Sarah Palin would say, you can't put lipstick on a pig and make it any prettier - which is why no matter how Trump spins last week he lost big.
Does that include YOU??? We can only hope.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 am Anyone who posts here un-ironically should probably be quarantined from society.
Kismet wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 8:41 amDoes that include YOU??? We can only hope.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 am Anyone who posts here un-ironically should probably be quarantined from society.
We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ns/610261/George Packer
Staff writer for The Atlantic
When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years. We had learned to live, uncomfortably, with the symptoms. It took the scale and intimacy of a pandemic to expose their severity—to shock Americans with the recognition that we are in the high-risk category.
The crisis demanded a response that was swift, rational, and collective. The United States reacted instead like Pakistan or Belarus—like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering. The administration squandered two irretrievable months to prepare. From the president came willful blindness, scapegoating, boasts, and lies. From his mouthpieces, conspiracy theories and miracle cures. A few senators and corporate executives acted quickly—not to prevent the coming disaster, but to profit from it. When a government doctor tried to warn the public of the danger, the White House took the mic and politicized the message.
Donald Trump saw the crisis almost entirely in personal and political terms. Fearing for his reelection, he declared the coronavirus pandemic a war, and himself a wartime president. But the leader he brings to mind is Marshal Philippe Pétain, the French general who, in 1940, signed an armistice with Germany after its rout of French defenses, then formed the pro-Nazi Vichy regime. Like Pétain, Trump collaborated with the invader and abandoned his country to a prolonged disaster. And, like France in 1940, America in 2020 has stunned itself with a collapse that’s larger and deeper than one miserable leader. Some future autopsy of the pandemic might be called Strange Defeat, after the historian and Resistance fighter Marc Bloch’s contemporaneous study of the fall of France. Despite countless examples around the U.S. of individual courage and sacrifice, the failure is national. And it should force a question that most Americans have never had to ask: Do we trust our leaders and one another enough to summon a collective response to a mortal threat? Are we still capable of self-government?
After reading most of your 2900 posts I now understand that I have been wrong about Trump! I'm in! MAGA 2020Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 am This is the best thread! It's the greatest reveal in centuries. The posts are the chef's kisses of lunacy. The Lincoln Project...omg
Anyone who posts here un-ironically should probably be quarantined from society.
jusreLaxin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:00 amAfter reading most of your 2900 posts I now understand that I have been wrong about Trump! I'm in! MAGA 2020Peter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 am This is the best thread! It's the greatest reveal in centuries. The posts are the chef's kisses of lunacy. The Lincoln Project...omg
Anyone who posts here un-ironically should probably be quarantined from society.
Oh by the way... I just filed bankruptcy, stopped paying venders, just suddenly realized that my net worth is way higher-it's tremendous Huge!, grabbed my wife's pu--y, fired all the smart people in my company-if they don't kiss my ass their gone "YOU"RE FIRED"!
While in quarantine I will immerse myself in the Trump genius!
I just kicked my dog! Wow...this is fun!