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Was it? Let's go to the videotape ...
Google please show me "Ronald Reagan meltdown"
Google please show me "George HW Bush meltdown"
Google please show me "BIll Clinton meltdown" - I see, a little testier, but all of them seem to pertain to one post-presidential interview ...
Google please show me "George W. Bush meltdown" - hmm, all of them refer to financial markets, not to the president personally
Google please show me "Barack Obama meltdown"
Google ... oh, that's not good.
Okay fair point, I got hasty, didn't use the same parameters. Let's try it with first name and quotes

Still ...
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Trump staring with dismay at the wreck of his 2020 plan to win the Electoral College despite losing popular vote by an even larger margin than in 2016
Pre-pandemic, Trump's people hoped that by winning Minnesota and New Hampshire in 2020, plus one more EV in Maine, they could offset loss of Michigan. Now even that scheme is dashed. Hence ...
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This story in the New York Post is corroborated by African sources too. africanews.com/2020/04/11/cor… It inspires me to answer the challenge raised by @billmaher on Friday night: why *not* refer to coronavirus as "Wuhan virus" or (as Fox News still often prefers) "Chinese virus"?
The question is best answered with another question:

"Why do so many people seem so badly to WANT to apply this name?"

To ask that question is to see the answer: by using the phrase "Wuhan virus" or "Chinese virus" they gain identifiable human beings to blame. 2/x
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Nigerian individuals didn't do anything wrong. They are not even a higher-risk population group! An in-group is angry, so it penalizes an out-group. Stupid, as well as wrong. 3/x
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