This is compelling. 100,000 dead Americans:
Notice a primary Trump Strategy:
Deny reality, and any future consequences of policy decisions as long as possible.
When it is no longer possible, accept the absolute minimum, and retrench.
scmp.com/news/world/uni… via @scmpnews
Notice a primary Trump Strategy:
Deny reality, and any future consequences of policy decisions as long as possible.
When it is no longer possible, accept the absolute minimum, and retrench.
scmp.com/news/world/uni… via @scmpnews
One of the major problems w Mr.T is that he rarely... I suspect never, actually engages the consequences of his actions/ideas/policies before he spurts them out.
It is all ad hoc policymaking based on whatever odd world view he has (Nationalism, MAGA, Pull America fr Global
It is all ad hoc policymaking based on whatever odd world view he has (Nationalism, MAGA, Pull America fr Global
concerns).
Ad hoc policymaking, post-fact contorting of everything sai or proposed prior that contradicts today's statements.
As the policy, statements, or assertions change, all prior statements have to be denied as having ever been said.
This is the OwellianMemory Hole in full
Ad hoc policymaking, post-fact contorting of everything sai or proposed prior that contradicts today's statements.
As the policy, statements, or assertions change, all prior statements have to be denied as having ever been said.
This is the OwellianMemory Hole in full
operation.
The many videos being made concerning how Trump has dealt w this crisis demonstrate this syndrome.
At first there is no problem. By the time there is a problem "over there" we only have "15 cases down to zero in a few weeks"... meanwhile the problem escalates.
The many videos being made concerning how Trump has dealt w this crisis demonstrate this syndrome.
At first there is no problem. By the time there is a problem "over there" we only have "15 cases down to zero in a few weeks"... meanwhile the problem escalates.
Eventually it will be hundreds when the toll has already gotten to thousands. By the time thousands are acknowledged it is 10's of thousands, now moving into hundreds of thousands.
All while lying about testing that is available, when it isn't and etc.
All while lying about testing that is available, when it isn't and etc.
The entire administration and Trump himself as the captain of that ship, is predicated, first and last, on lies.
He lies at every turn. It is rare that he ever tells the truth about anything substantial. It is all nuance, shading, ignoring basic facts, and bellicose shouting
He lies at every turn. It is rare that he ever tells the truth about anything substantial. It is all nuance, shading, ignoring basic facts, and bellicose shouting
at and over anyone who has the temerity to question him on the simplest of details. Amost never does he acknowledge the historical facts even of his own statements, Providing a clinic, or textbook example of what the proverb
"Those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it" means, and its vicious consequences of not attended to.
I think it would be useful to be aware of this strategy and call it out whenever it shows up.
Show how deceptive Trump & his system/admin is. How completely
I think it would be useful to be aware of this strategy and call it out whenever it shows up.
Show how deceptive Trump & his system/admin is. How completely
cynical they are when saying whatever has been the operational "meme" of the day. Show how these pronouncements have no thread that ties them together other than political expediency.
It is a severe case of Humpty Dumpty: Paying (very well) for words to mean whatever he needs them to mean in the moment.
You cannot hold him accountable, because he thinks he is utterly unaccountable & immune.
As is being worked out in the Supreme Court arguments today.
You cannot hold him accountable, because he thinks he is utterly unaccountable & immune.
As is being worked out in the Supreme Court arguments today.
A current video making this case
Another specifically on point.
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar…
Note the closing line, after all the denials and obfuscations, he says "I always knew it was a pan epidemic".
