Unforgivable Lapse: Amy Coney Barrett Event Seen As Height Of White House Virus Negligence
On Saturday evening, amid speculation about the timeline around Donald Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, The White House released a couple of pictures purportedly showing the president immersed in paperwork at Walter Reed.
The visuals came as Trump posted a video aimed at dispelling rumors that his condition may have deteriorated.
It wasn't immediately clear what Trump would be signing over the weekend. Some contend the visuals (below) actually depict the president putting his name on blank sheets o
I wish things were different.
Trying out herd immunity starts at the top. Although a plurality disagree.
They put their money where their mouths are. Fund raiser anyone?
This is indeed gross negligence. How many people have to die for these folks to take this seriously? At this point, they’re on their 5th DUI and still going out to the bar, getting hammered, and driving home.
Well said. Do we get to question the new Supreme Court nominee’s judgement for the roll because she didn’t wear a mask. It hasn’t been proven that you can’t get reinfected.
There is a proven, very high correlation between openness to new experience and political identity: the more right-leaning the individual, the more closed-minded they are.
We learn, of course, through experience. That doesn’t mean those on the right are incapable of learning, just that the amount of evidence required to change their thinking or behavior is overwhelming. They can’t, in other words, take a hint. We have seen this phenomenon with climate change, where survey respondents are far more likely to believe it exists after they’ve experienced a natural disaster.
How many more GOPlague events will be required before Capitol Hill achieves herd immunity to the belief that they are impervious to virus? My bet is, quite a few more; they are so ideologically dug in, that they will sweep any amount of personal horror under the rug in order to stay on message.
It’ll be interesting to see how many news cycles this story dominates. How’re they gonna manufacture an even bigger distraction? No doubt some carefully-planned October Surprise is sidelined right now, awaiting a quiet moment, but can it really compare?
Will they ever stop lying. Just one, new lie is that the president was immersed in paperwork, spending most of the afternoon conducting business. What? I guess he also took an intelligence briefing, too?
Our nation is in an epic decline. I never suspected it would happen so soon as the events of the last few years. I was hoping we’d be able to ride things out much longer. Empires and hegemons collapse from within. The event last Saturday is a microcosm within a macrocosm.
Time to dust off the learnings Dimitri Orlov has for us here in the U.S.
I was thinking that the macho denial and coverup of the football brain trauma science was the same type of dynamic as is in play now. Similar with the denial/lack of concern for soldiers afflicted with PTSD. It’s a manifestation of toxic machismo that lies deep within mainstream culture.
It’s also a sign that they believe governing isn’t anything more than lying. Concocting a lie is also much easier than making and implementing policy. The Constitution and rule of law are for suckers and losers.