Hard to know what to think about this. But it takes a religious level of devotion to achieve this level of rejection of reality.

For some unknown reason people have made conscious rejection of basic facts into ex-cathedra dogma,
There is info here. Not sure what it is just now.
How did the political divide, enraged into a conflagration by Trump...dividing the country into those who believe Trump, no matter the facts, and those who will not be so devoted to the man? Who find their devotion elsewhere... and deeper.

It is confounding.

It is not binary.
The raging at death does not surprise me. A sometimes too human response. The horror of being faced with the reaper when you were taught to believe it was a hoax would give the terror to question everything once held as dear truth. And no time to reflect.

cnn.com/videos/us/2020…
I wonder that there is more to the story? I wonder if there are other cases of this happening that haven't been spoken of so publically?

The comments & threads are interesting for the rejection of this story by those who hold it must be a lie, a trick...They cannot have their
beliefs & reality challenged. It goes far beyond the simple question of COVID or not; masks or not. There is something far deeper in entire segments of the American psyche that COVID has surfaced into view.

This is the question within the question.
Someone posted a rebuttal in the form of outrage that a nurse would say these things.

Granting her experience, my response to that outrage....

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13 Nov
@ProjectLincoln You need to use this as a pivot for your hard, unflinching, messages. This message needs to get to Georgia, & to the country.
There is something astonishingly ugly about an entire party willing to submit itself to such astonishing nonsense to appease such a loser.
The fight is indeed not over. Trump is done. But what remains is Trumpism and the GOP that supports and enables him.

Every report reveals more about the craven cowardice of the Republican Senators who want to speak in secret, who want to coddle Trump, let him down easy...
It is reported that they do not want to upset Trump's voters. That Trump may turn on them if they do not continue to sing Trump's song and continue to dance to his demands.

What does it say that these are the people that these GOP types require in order to stay in power?
Read 11 tweets
12 Nov
At every step of the sad history of Trump in American politics the relationship is characterized by abuse.
The system that has functions designed to prevent & manage errors & problems is being abused to create them.

Essentially the problem is this:Trump(ism) is a vicious abuser.
This point could be annotated by a collection of examples. Most of them are well known.

Ponder that you have never seen Trump laugh. Never explain a policy or position in terms that reflected & incorporated different POV. That there has never been an example of graciousness.
The list of Trump's character flaws will fill a book someday. And they have been significant in the corrosive undoing of the country.

It seems the one powerful quality that underlies everything that is Trump & his septic influence on the country (& world) is the lying.
Read 32 tweets
6 Nov
How it is supposed to be done... Even when the election was decided by Supreme Court edict, rather than the vote.

For the good of the country....

Read 7 tweets
3 Nov
The first cracks...
Trump speaks about losing....

Trump says ‘losing is never easy’ at campaign HQ

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Interesting.

The bubble seems to be pierced. A bit of reality leaking in.

Read 4 tweets
2 Nov
This seems to be true.

Trump reminds me of Saddam Hussain, he has the same underlying character... a man, who in defeat & in retreat, bombs & destroys everything he can.

There will be no peaceful xfer of power. There may be an enforced peaceful xfer, when the institutions
he is counting on refuse to follow his now empty orders. But he will still have his brownshirts.

The incident with the campaign bus being run off the road. The bridges and main roads blocked by Trump supporters, hindering the vote.
A governor of a

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-com…
state being threatened with kidnapping... These are the actions that have spawned by the believers who believe what Trump has been teaching them.
It seems likely there will be more as Trump fails to concede, the violence will get ramped up.
It will be met. And it will create
Read 5 tweets
17 Oct
Listening w interest to @NoahRFeldman podcast Deep Background on the Federalist Society.

The argument thus far concerning originalism seems nothing so much as a religious one. Is the Bible Gods word, or do we learn principles fr it.

Originalists seek to find shelter in the
safety of "This is what the Founders meant" and thus excuse themselves, in their mind, from any culpability of having to make a decision based on principles.

Judges are supposed to be wise. Not legalists.

Just like even the most fundamentalists of Jewish sects today do not
practice the sacrifices and live according to all the laws of laid out in the Bible. Same with fundamentalists Christians who lay claim to some ancient heritage for current beliefs. So the Federalist Society member's claim to be governed only by the original text and meaning
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