I criticized this last night for the president's typical casual disregard for the dead—which is present in his remarks—but this is a far darker thing.
He's making the point: you probably won't be affected, so you shouldn't care so much.
He's making a case for unchecked spread.
He's making the point: you probably won't be affected, so you shouldn't care so much.
He's making a case for unchecked spread.
The points he’s making are:
1) most people aren’t even affected
2) most affected don’t die
He’s saying “look, it’s a percentage game, and you’ll probably beat it.”
You see?
If unchecked, the projection is several million dead.
Trump’s saying “yeah but it’s a big country.”
1) most people aren’t even affected
2) most affected don’t die
He’s saying “look, it’s a percentage game, and you’ll probably beat it.”
You see?
If unchecked, the projection is several million dead.
Trump’s saying “yeah but it’s a big country.”
Not merely unconcern for those who have died; rather deliberate unconcern for those who will die if we simply decide we're going to let them die rather than doing the work and paying the cost.
Not just a case for acceptable loss, but a case to make any amount of loss acceptable.
Not just a case for acceptable loss, but a case to make any amount of loss acceptable.
It's a level of unconcern for human life so deep and vast and total that most people refuse to comprehend it for what it is.
A leader capable of it is capable of killing millions. A population obeying such a leader makes such death inevitable.
That's what we're fighting.
A leader capable of it is capable of killing millions. A population obeying such a leader makes such death inevitable.
That's what we're fighting.
Trump has always had a genocide mindset—which always includes denialism.
He doesn't dislike the virus; he dislikes tests. Tests report infection—infection only kills.
He's not opposed to death; only the report of it.
The percentages report 1% death. To him that's a GOOD thing.
He doesn't dislike the virus; he dislikes tests. Tests report infection—infection only kills.
He's not opposed to death; only the report of it.
The percentages report 1% death. To him that's a GOOD thing.
It's getting louder, this decision to simply abandon the dead not only to death but even the grieving of it.
They already say this thing that many foresaw was unforeseeable, that these preventable deaths were unpreventable, that this tragedy isn't tragic
It's a genocide mindset
They already say this thing that many foresaw was unforeseeable, that these preventable deaths were unpreventable, that this tragedy isn't tragic
It's a genocide mindset
No amount of loss is unacceptable to Trump, save one: personal loss to him individually and specifically, of any kind, no matter how small.
If he was eating a banana, and could save 12 lives by putting it down and throwing a lever, he'd finish the banana.
Genocide mindset.
If he was eating a banana, and could save 12 lives by putting it down and throwing a lever, he'd finish the banana.
Genocide mindset.
And it's not just Trump.
Trump is the leader that the Republican movement was waiting for. The Republican ideology made Trump inevitable. He inspires fierce loyalty, not despite his faults, but because of them.
What we are fighting is a genocide mindset. washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-s…
Trump is the leader that the Republican movement was waiting for. The Republican ideology made Trump inevitable. He inspires fierce loyalty, not despite his faults, but because of them.
What we are fighting is a genocide mindset. washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-s…
Trump surface point is "86,000 dead isn't a big deal."
His larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his complete unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings, which is the one thing he truly is better at than anybody.
His genocide mindset.
His larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his complete unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings, which is the one thing he truly is better at than anybody.
His genocide mindset.
It's the one great promise of his campaign, to have the same disregard for other types of people that his cheering crowds shared for those others, which they wanted to see in the world. It's the one promise he's kept. It's why he retains support.
His genocide mindset.
His genocide mindset.
He's the sort of person who finds soldiers running into bullets beautiful, for whom deliberately under-supported doctors and nurses doing the same is an aspirational thing.
His genocide mindset.
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His genocide mindset.
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Genocide mindset.
Again, Trump's larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings.
The invitation doesn't require active participation; in fact it very clearly invites you to only look the other way.
Each of us has to choose now.
The invitation doesn't require active participation; in fact it very clearly invites you to only look the other way.
Each of us has to choose now.
As Elie Wiesel said, "We must always take sides."
These are the times, and this is the choice.
Many people are taking the invitation, which requires no active participation, only unconcern.
The opposite choice is both necessary and active. The invitation is a moral demand.
These are the times, and this is the choice.
Many people are taking the invitation, which requires no active participation, only unconcern.
The opposite choice is both necessary and active. The invitation is a moral demand.
Read the quotes. He did it knowing full well the result. Now the result is here.
Genocide mindset.
Genocide mindset.
They’re talking about millions.
Genocide mindset.
Genocide mindset.
