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Rush Limbaugh: Feb. 24: “Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. You think I’m wrong about this? You think I’m missing it by saying that’s — Yeah, I’m dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks.”

thebulwark.com/newsletter-iss…
March 11: “This coronavirus, they’re just — all of this panic is just not warranted. This, I’m telling you, when I tell you — when I’ve told you that this virus is the common cold.
March 13: “We’re shutting down our country because of the — the cold virus, which is what coronaviruses are...We’re shutting it — can you imagine our enemies watching this? You think the Chinese are not laughing themselves silly over how easy this has been?”
March 27: “We didn’t elect a president to defer to a bunch of health experts that we don’t know. And how do we know they’re even health experts?
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This story from WI deserves more attention.

Uline is one of the state's biggest employers.

It is owned by one of Trump's most lavish and loyal donors... Richard and Liz Uihlein..
Here's the Times profile of the Uhleins from 2018:

"The Most Powerful Conservative Couple You’ve Never Heard Of,"

nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/…
The Times reported that the company "kept its work force going through the week, despite complaints from employees, including those crowded into its call centers, working side-by-side in cubicles.

“Nothing’s really changed,” one employee said. “It’s just nerve-racking.
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This gives the crisis its own peculiar awfulness: the overlay of bad faith, cynical spin, and serial deception. Who do we believe? What do we believe? Who is telling us the truth and who is shoveling fabulist bullshit?

mailchi.mp/thebulwark/our…
But what did we expect? We had taken a long vacation from truth because we could afford to...

So we preferred tribal narratives, turned on Fox news, and elevated a serial con man to the highest position of honor in our country, because we wanted to play at self-destruction.
Burn it all down. Own the libs. Dismantle the deep state. Mock civility, and wink at lies.

America was great, its swagger was back, and facts, expertise, competence, and norms all seemed so last decade.

And then someone in Wuhan got sick.
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January 22:
Trump: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”

February 2:
Trump: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.”
February 10:
Trump: “A lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat—as the heat comes in.”

February 24:
Trump: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. . . . Stock Market starting to look very good to me.”
February 27:
Trump: “It’s going to disappear one day, it’s like a miracle.”

February 28:
Eric Trump: “In my opinion, it’s a great time to buy stocks or into your 401k. I would be all in . . . let’s see if I’m right.”
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