Exactly. It’s pretty shrewd—I wonder if it’s deliberate. Seems too subtle for him to actually have figured out.
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It looks like Fauchi and Birx have discovered an effective flattering way to communicate with this dunce.
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As the wreckage smoldered of the half of the city he’d burned down by playing with matches and gasoline, president Trump said, “I’m going to listen to the experts from now on, and what they’re telling me is not to play with matches and gasoline.” As he walked away from the podium Trump pulled a cigarette lighter out of his pocket and flicked it on.
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It’s deep, deep muscle memory at this point, from decades of running cons.
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They’re really only concerned about the lives and lifestyles of really rich people who might have to give up a beach house or two.
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Very slightly OT (I can justify it because this guy is one of the so-called experts who he listened to before):
You know how clickbait headlines often claim that the interviewer “destroys” the subject or somesuch? This actually delivers. Extremely juicy, highly recommended to my TPM fellows.
My favorite take on this is that this law prof is dragging down the Epstein surname.
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Yep, they told him that the new social distance unit of measurement would be defined as “Trumps”…
It works on so many levels.
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It’s all I can do to restrain my sense of humor at this point.
“Dr. Debbie Birx and I went in together in the Oval Office and leaned over the desk and said ‘Here are the data, take a look’”
Take a look, indeed.
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He should write a foreign relations book. Maybe call it, “Fine – now look – see – doing an amazing job!"
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Trump repeated again that the “worst thing we can do” is “declare victory and then not have victory and then have to do it all over again.”
A little addressed subject in the press and by the government is the possibility of a mutated virus and a second and third wave of the infection, as happened in 1918. A vaccine will not be ready for months, or maybe beyond a year. There will not be widespread herd immunity in the populace, as we’re doing so much to keep as many people as possible from getting it in the first place. Any relaxing of remain in place, quarantines and social distancing will see people again and again come in contact with asymptomatic and/or sick people and contract the disease, starting anew a wave of infections. Until a vaccine is perfected and given to everyone, or almost everyone, widespread instances of infection will reoccur, again because our herd immunity will be very limited.
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Yeah, and if you believe that, I have a bridge that crosses the Grand Canyon I’d like to sell you.
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What he should do is shut his stupid mouth, get rid of the clacque that flanks him every time he opens it for the cameras, replace them with the experts and let the experts speak.
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Every paragraph is basically the Marshall McLuhan scene from “Annie Hall.”
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I was quite literally astonished reading that interview. Unbelievable.
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An expert:
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Maybe he will listen to the experts that tell him to resign…
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I’ll take the Russian dressing with my word salad…
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I love how Epstein complains that experts in epidemiology won’t accept challenges from anyone outside their field, and then turns around and absolutely flames the interviewer for challenging the very eminent and extremely accomplished Richard Epstein.
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