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I don’t mind that you are still evaluating trump, I just wish it would come with a hint of appreciation for what was accomplished on Covid vs what was said. Everybody wants to focus on what trump said, but not what his admin did. That is the tale of the tape. His rhetoric overwhelmed his actual substantive policy positions. On Covid, the mask and lockdown advocates have had their say, but it’s trump’s admin that is going to end up saving the day. The agility shown over the Covid crisis is pretty impressive. The production of ventilators. The facilitation of multiple vaccines globally.
it was all so good that nothing Biden has done has actually changed the Covid trajectory. And Biden knows it. Biden is a typical politician. Said 100 million vaccinated in 100 days when anybody good at math would have said that number was in the bag. Nothing big and audacious.
trump said a vaccine by year end and was scoffed at by the “science” believers.
trump is a grade a ass, but he wasn’t always wrong.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Don’t kid yourself. Plenty of dem demographics are vax skeptics as well. Targeted news stories don’t change that.
Trump was damned if he did, damned if he didn’t. If he publicized, he was putting himself at front of the line and stealing vaccine from folks who hadn’t already had Covid. If he didn’t, he was acting in secret.
Was trump a vaccine skeptic in public? I don’t remember that. His admin certainly has been vindicated by pushing the vax thread hard. Biden won’t even say much because he know he inherited a gift.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s really hard to believe that something so egregious could have actually happened at one of the so-called national newspapers. However, when it came to Trump, any lie was ok as long as it took him down. Frankly he was too effective at keeping us out of wars and inside of our borders.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)That is fantastic. Thanks for posting.
I especially loved the comment about the north face’s corporate jets.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)How would a 15 dollar National min wage impact this?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)CC: The URL still has the “bus” comment in it (in the post above).
I think that every news site has little psychological prods that they use to ensure their heavy users weigh in. For instance, the use of the word “unhinged” w/r/t the Trump administration was a CNN standby for a couple of years. There are probably plenty of others (angry, erratic, etc.) that were used during that era, many of which of course have a hint of truth. CNN does the same on racial issues as it has been a moneymaker for them for a long time.
Fox does this in spades with its articles. Little nudges that bring out either sincere whack job conservatives or intense racial feelings. A sympathetic view would be that the URL was written with only the knowledge of 27 people in the vehicle that was struck (now 25, I think ), and so it “must have been a bus.” A less sympathetic view is that somebody at Fox KNOWs if they call it a bus, it will elicit outrage from the anti-immigration crowd because “that wasn’t a BUS it was an SUV and look at how those coyotes pile people in.” In other words, it amplifies the absurdity of 25 people in an SUV by stating that it was a bus “mistakenly.”
But maybe I’m seeing ghosts and editorial staff aren’t smart enough to manipulate the mob that way. Personally I think it’s happening all the time.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Influence peddling or just flat out bribing a judge? Seems more the latter.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Yeah. All those cautious impulsives out there are tearing things up. Makes sense.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Present company excluded, I presume. 🙂
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Oh, taxes are going up. No doubt.
but not on the middle class. Never.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I see it the same way, but there is no room for grace and understanding these days. It’s all about fomenting outrage.
Funny thing is he could have headed to DC and done nothing and nobody would have been bothered.
I’m impressed he flies commercial.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The constitution is offensive to ignorant people.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Careful. All the “weather isn’t climate” people who are in on the grift will soon be saying “see, we reduce greenhouse gasses via a pandemic and suddenly we have winter again.”
The science can’t be wrong. Literally, it works to their advantage no matter what happens. 🙂
oh, and since we haven’t addressed this lately, I’m no climate change denier. I am a skeptic as to how much of a role humans play, and as to how much of a role the u.s. plays in particular. I view it as one more wedge issue for the pols to dine out on.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Am I just not old enough to see Kellyanne as “very attractive?”
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