FEBRUARY 27, 2020 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ
You look scared, Donald.
You should be.
A pandemic is problematic for you.
You can’t gaslight a pandemic.
You can’t bully it into compliance.
You can’t lie to it and hope it won’t run a fact check1/12
You can’t threaten its reelection bid if it breaks ranks.
You can’t fire it when it dissents from your ramblings.
You can’t impugn its character with baseless attacks.
You can’t fool it with talk about God.
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You can’t drown it in nationalism.
You can’t dismiss it with cries of fake news.
You can’t pardon it after it completes its assaults.
You can’t give it a demeaning nickname and hope to deflate it.3/12
You can’t avoid it by appointing corrupt judges to do your bidding.
You can’t give it free tickets in order to fill vain arena celebrations of your ego.
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You can’t hope it will blow over while you golf once again.
You can’t mischaracterize it with racial stereotypes.
You can’t pretend you can pray it away.
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You can’t bullsh*t a pandemic—so nothing you know how to do will help you here.
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A pandemic is not an uneducated voting block so it will not be swept up in the emotional fervor of dog+pony patriotism or duped by ceremonial religiosity
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Worse than that, it’s why you will make things much worse.
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In the raking light of an actual emergency, you are being revealed as a fraudulent, callous, completely unprepared and outmatched imposter.
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The only hope we have for a cure comes in November.
You look scared, Donald.
We are too.
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