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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2020 13:52:16 GMT
"...You can’t gaslight a pandemic. You can’t bully it into compliance. You can’t lie to it and hope it won’t run a fact check. You can’t pay for its silence or promise immunity. You can’t threaten its reelection bid if it breaks ranks. You can’t fire it when it dissents from your ramblings. You can’t impugn its character with baseless attacks. You can’t fool it with talk about God.
You can’t bury it with FoxNews fluff pieces.
You can’t drown it in nationalism.
You can’t dismiss it with cries of fake news.You can’t pardon it after it completes its assaults. You can’t give it a demeaning nickname and hope to deflate it. You can’t rage-Tweet it into exhaustion. You can’t avoid it by appointing corrupt judges to do your bidding. You can’t ask Vladimir Putin to take it out for you. You can’t give it free tickets in order to fill vain arena celebrations of your ego. You can’t frighten it with fairy tales about migrant boogeymen and transgender monsters. You can’t hope it will blow over while you golf once again. You can’t mischaracterize it with racial stereotypes. You can’t pretend you can pray it away. You can’t blame it on Barack Obama or windmills or the Gay Agenda or Hillary’s emails. You can’t bullsh*t a pandemic—so nothing you know how to do will help you here. A pandemic is not an election or a Supreme Court seat or Franklin Graham or Lindsey Graham or the Republican Party—so it cannot be bought. A pandemic is not an uneducated voting block so it will not be swept up in the emotional fervor of dog and pony patriotism, or duped by ceremonial religiosity. A pandemic is a reckless, brutal, unruly, violent thing, and none of your sideshow huckster repartee or your cheap parlor tricks or your legal gymnastics will save you or anyone else. Only intelligent, qualified, reasonable, compassionate people who trust science and want to protect human beings can help at times like these—which is why you are completely useless.Worse than that, it’s why you will make things much worse. Pandemics thrive on fear, and fear is your only commodity. It is the one weapon at your disposal—and it only helps the sickness. In the raking light of an actual emergency, you are being revealed as a fraudulent, callous, completely unprepared and outmatched imposter. History is recording how ill-equipped you are for the serious, grievous, and terrible things real leaders are required to engage and confront. You’re being exposed in these days for what you are: a public health crisis endangering millions of people; a reckless, brutal, unruly, violent thing that is spreading sickness. The only hope we have for a cure comes in November. You look scared, Donald. We are too." johnpavlovitz.com/2020/02/27/you-cant-gaslight-a-pandemic-donald/Viruses gonna virus. Science is real. Chemistry and biology don't give a rat's ass about your politics or beliefs. Here's hoping America doesn't need to internalize this lesson the hard way. |
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Post by lesley on Mar 9, 2020 13:58:07 GMT
Love it.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Mar 9, 2020 15:13:56 GMT
Must be 'fake news' or so he will say!!
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Post by stittsygirl on Mar 9, 2020 19:13:20 GMT
This is so spot on.
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Post by pyccku on Mar 9, 2020 20:11:05 GMT
I've told my husband this many times - while he can continue to sell his stories and Fox can continue to run interference for him, at some point reality hits people in the face.
The coal miner who doesn't have a paycheck knows that he hasn't brought back coal.
The oil worker who is now looking at a war that will possibly cause them to be laid off knows whether or not he's going in to work each day.
The steel worker knows.
The soybean farmer who sees his market disappear overnight knows that the Chinese aren't buying their crops.
And now, the family who has a sick relative in the hospital or in the morgue will know that the virus isn't just a democratic hoax.
My MIL is still all-in for Trump. She feels that this is all just a democratic hoax meant to harm his re-election chances. She is also in a high-risk group for complications from the disease. If she gets it, I wonder how she'll feel knowing that she's part of an elaborate hoax to own the libs and remove Trump? Obviously, that's when she'll realize that she was secretly a democrat all along, part of the really deep state. Who knew?
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Post by mom2jnk on Mar 9, 2020 20:15:47 GMT
The best thing that I have read all day.
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Post by librarylady on Mar 10, 2020 17:04:13 GMT
..and yet, my BIL still supports DT.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2020 14:00:29 GMT
Like John told us, you can't gaslight it. You can’t bully it into compliance. "Trump, finally, takes the coronavirus emergency seriously The President offered Americans something they have rarely seen from him in his latest and most somber press conference yet on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday. He dispensed unimpeachable information based on fact. He called for national unity and seemed like he meant to help forge it. And he ditched his normal habit of hyping the best possible outcome to a situation with improbable superlatives -- instead communicating the gravity of a fast-worsening crisis. " It's bad. It's bad," Trump said as he unveiled a 15-day plan to try to flatten the curve of new infections to alleviate a feared surge of sick patients that could overwhelm the health system. "Each and every one of us has a critical role to play in stopping the spread and transmission of the virus," Trump said, summoning national resolve as he plunges deeper into a crisis that will now define his term and possibly his reelection hopes. The President's pivot to seriousness contrasted sharply with some of his previous commentary on the pandemic, which he has compared to the flu and predicted could just go away, and came after he claimed he had "shut it down" and had the disease under control." You can't gaslight it, Donnie. You can't bully it, berate it, belittle it. You can only listen to EVIDENCE-BASED proposals and get in line. Viruses gonna virus and all your normal tricks won't work. www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/politics/white-house-donald-trump-coronavirus-emergency/index.html |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 17:55:03 GMT
Your semi-daily reminder that you can't gaslight a pandemic.
"It snuck up on us." "We always knew it would be a pandemic".
Still gaslighting.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2020 14:18:33 GMT
Reality has set in.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.
Are we finally at acceptance? It's not a democratic 'newest hoax'? It's not going to 'magically go away, like a miracle'.
Gee, Donny. If only you could have believed that back in February. And mobilized PPE, and a jobs program, and the thousands of other moves you could have made to help Americans better cope w/this rather than, 'it's nothing" and "get back to work".
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Post by inkedup on May 14, 2020 14:59:32 GMT
He can't gaslight the pandemic, but he sure af is gaslighting the morons that still support him.
It doesn't matter what Trump does. He won't lose meaningful support from the GOP or his base.
We are clearly going to lose at least 100,000 Americans to COVID, but it's all a democrat hoax according to half the idiots on my city's FB page.
Stupid is winning. Stupid has won. And Donald Trump is its president.
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Post by Merge on May 14, 2020 15:06:32 GMT
He can't gaslight the pandemic, but he sure af is gaslighting the morons that still support him. It doesn't matter what Trump does. He won't lose meaningful support from the GOP or his base. We are clearly going to lose at least 100,000 Americans to COVID, but it's all a democrat hoax according to half the idiots on my city's FB page. Stupid is winning. Stupid has won. And Donald Trump is its president. Their only defense now is to claim that the death toll is hugely inflated. We’re seeing that now and we’ve been seeing it. |
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Post by sassyangel on May 14, 2020 18:34:31 GMT
He can't gaslight the pandemic, but he sure af is gaslighting the morons that still support him. It doesn't matter what Trump does. He won't lose meaningful support from the GOP or his base. We are clearly going to lose at least 100,000 Americans to COVID, but it's all a democrat hoax according to half the idiots on my city's FB page. Stupid is winning. Stupid has won. And Donald Trump is its president. A democrat hoax that almost all the world is apparently in on. Imagine what they could do if they really harnessed that kind of power. 😏 |
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Post by gar on May 14, 2020 18:44:23 GMT
He can't gaslight the pandemic, but he sure af is gaslighting the morons that still support him. It doesn't matter what Trump does. He won't lose meaningful support from the GOP or his base. We are clearly going to lose at least 100,000 Americans to COVID, but it's all a democrat hoax according to half the idiots on my city's FB page. Stupid is winning. Stupid has won. And Donald Trump is its president. . Imagine what they could do if they really harnessed that kind of power. 😏 What would their answer/response be to that? |
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Post by inkedup on May 14, 2020 18:52:52 GMT
A democrat hoax that almost all the world is apparently in on. Imagine what they could do if they really harnessed that kind of power. 😏 What would their answer/response be to that? It varies. Some believe the virus was planted in China, probably by Hillary Clinton herself. Some believe the Chinese and the Democrats are working together. Some believe 5G causes virus like symptoms. The stupidity is mind boggling. |
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Post by gar on May 14, 2020 20:39:44 GMT
What would their answer/response be to that? It varies. Some believe the virus was planted in China, probably by Hillary Clinton herself. Some believe the Chinese and the Democrats are working together. Some believe 5G causes virus like symptoms. The stupidity is mind boggling. So it seems! Wow! |
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Post by nlwilkins on May 14, 2020 20:56:08 GMT
Now they are claiming that the Dems are running around all excited about how many are dying and are so happy as it shows how incompetent Donny is.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 15:56:45 GMT
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Post by inkedup on May 15, 2020 16:12:20 GMT
He can't gaslight the pandemic, but he sure af is gaslighting the morons that still support him. It doesn't matter what Trump does. He won't lose meaningful support from the GOP or his base. We are clearly going to lose at least 100,000 Americans to COVID, but it's all a democrat hoax according to half the idiots on my city's FB page. Stupid is winning. Stupid has won. And Donald Trump is its president. A democrat hoax that almost all the world is apparently in on. Imagine what they could do if they really harnessed that kind of power. 😏 Don't you know? "They" get more money if a death is classified as COVID, so "they" are even classifying car accident deaths as COVID deaths! I see this idiocy vomited on FB at least once a day. It occurs to me that the epidemiologists, doctors and scientists that are sounding the alarm are caught in a sort of witch test to discredit them: they'd have been maligned had the immediate death toll been worse, but mitigation worked - and deaths are on the lower/mid end of the projections - so they're being maligned. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 15, 2020 16:25:01 GMT
Trump says he has lost five friends to coronavirus he has friends? that's my first thought... sorry. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 15, 2020 16:37:51 GMT
Trump says he has lost five friends to coronavirus he has friends? that's my first thought... sorry. Maybe if you count the imaginary “people tell me” friends he’s always quoting. |
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Post by sassyangel on May 16, 2020 0:36:37 GMT
A democrat hoax that almost all the world is apparently in on. Imagine what they could do if they really harnessed that kind of power. 😏 Don't you know? "They" get more money if a death is classified as COVID, so "they" are even classifying car accident deaths as COVID deaths! I see this idiocy vomited on FB at least once a day. It occurs to me that the epidemiologists, doctors and scientists that are sounding the alarm are caught in a sort of witch test to discredit them: they'd have been maligned had the immediate death toll been worse, but mitigation worked - and deaths are on the lower/mid end of the projections - so they're being maligned. Ahh yes “they”. I forgot about them. 🤑 The smoking gun equivalent of “he knows what he did” 😏 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2020 13:39:44 GMT
America shuts down again -- choosing reality over Trump's false claims "While President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world's biggest coronavirus hotspot. As emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march across southern and Western states, Trump stuck to the fiction that the worst is already over: "We had to close it down; now we're opening it up," the President said of the economy at the White House, patting himself on the back for saving "millions of lives."
As new cases of the disease reach 60,000 a day nationwide, many leaders, including those who supported Trump's aggressive approach, now have little choice but to prioritize science over politics, leaving the President looking out of touch with reality.In Texas, Houston's Democratic Mayor Sylvester Turner proposed a two-week shutdown, days after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott raised the possibility of more stringent measures after issuing a mask wearing mandate that offended conservative orthodoxy. West Virginia called time's up in bars in the worst-hit county. In California, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the closure of all indoor restaurants, wineries, movie theaters, zoos, museums and shut all bars. Los Angeles and San Diego said their kids would start the new school year online only. Oregon banned gatherings of more than 10 people inside because of an "alarming rise" of Covid-19 cases in the state. KFC encouraged franchises in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma and California to stop dine-in service. Florida, which on Saturday set the record for any state in single day data on new infections, now has more Covid-19 cases than all but eight entire countries.... There are a few bright spots. For the first time in months, there were no Covid-19 deaths in New York City in a 24-hour period, a moment of deliverance that Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio called "striking and moving." Massachusetts announced that its seven-day average of positive tests had fallen to 1.7% -- down 94% since mid-April.The lesson for the states now in the center of the storm -- that jumped ahead of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on safe reopening -- are sobering. New York and Massachusetts bought what may still be only a temporary truce with the coronavirus by weeks of lockdowns and a strict reopening process that waited for the curve of infections to be properly suppressed before restrictions were lifted. Even now, there's no guarantee the virus won't return at dangerous levels when normal life picks up. None of this seems to have filtered through to Trump. As always, the President was fixated on what latest developments meant for him -- especially as he rammed home his demand for all children to get back to school despite having no plan for how to make their return safe." www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/donald-trump-states-economy-coronavirus/index.htmlIt was only a matter of time. You can't gaslight a pandemic. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2020 13:23:52 GMT
Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus The roots of the nation’s current inability to control the pandemic can be traced to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim victory and move on. "Over a critical period beginning in mid-April, President Trump and his team convinced themselves that the outbreak was fading, that they had given state governments all the resources they needed to contain its remaining “embers” and that it was time to ease up on the lockdown. In doing so, he was ignoring warnings that the numbers would continue to drop only if social distancing was kept in place, rushing instead to restart the economy and tend to his battered re-election hopes. Even as a chorus of state officials and health experts warned that the pandemic was far from under control, Mr. Trump went, in a matter of days, from proclaiming that he alone had the authority to decide when the economy would reopen to pushing that responsibility onto the states. The government issued detailed reopening guidelines, but almost immediately, Mr. Trump began criticizing Democratic governors who did not “liberate” their states. Mr. Trump’s bet that the crisis would fade away proved wrong. But an examination of the shift in April and its aftermath shows that the approach he embraced was not just a misjudgment. Instead, it was a deliberate strategy that he would stick doggedly to as evidence mounted that, in the absence of strong leadership from the White House, the virus would continue to infect and kill large numbers of Americans." www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html?smid=tw-share |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 18:17:11 GMT
"...You can’t gaslight a pandemic.
You can’t bully it into compliance.
You can’t lie to it and hope it won’t run a fact check.
You can’t pay for its silence or promise immunity.
You can’t threaten its reelection bid if it breaks ranks.
You can’t fire it when it dissents from your ramblings.
You can’t impugn its character with baseless attacks.
You can’t fool it with talk about God.
You can’t bury it with FoxNews fluff pieces.
You can’t drown it in nationalism.
You can’t dismiss it with cries of fake news.
You can’t pardon it after it completes its assaults.
You can’t give it a demeaning nickname and hope to deflate it.
You can’t rage-Tweet it into exhaustion.
You can’t avoid it by appointing corrupt judges to do your bidding.
You can’t ask Vladimir Putin to take it out for you.
You can’t give it free tickets in order to fill vain arena celebrations of your ego.
You can’t frighten it with fairy tales about migrant boogeymen and transgender monsters.
You can’t hope it will blow over while you golf once again.
You can’t mischaracterize it with racial stereotypes.
You can’t pretend you can pray it away.
You can’t blame it on Barack Obama or windmills or the Gay Agenda or Hillary’s emails.
You can’t bullsh*t a pandemic—so nothing you know how to do will help you here...."
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Post by lucyg on Oct 2, 2020 21:15:06 GMT
A timely reminder!
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Post by Legacy Girl on Oct 3, 2020 4:37:47 GMT
Wow! I missed this the first time around. Seriously powerful words! Thanks for bumping the thread.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2020 18:00:04 GMT
North Dakota [Red Red] issues statewide mask mandate to stem spread of COVID-19 "Burgum also signed an executive order that limits all bars and restaurants to 50 percent capacity — not to exceed 150 customers. Food service establishments must be closed to in-person service between 10 p.m. and 4 p.m. but take-out, curbside and delivery options are allowed to operate. The governor also suspended all high school winter sports and other extracurricular K-12 school activities are suspended until Dec. 14. The pause in activities is aimed at keeping cases low enough to allow schools to stay open for in-person learning with masks and physical distancing. The governor also warned North Dakotans to try to limit gatherings to their immediate household group during the holiday season. “We believe in North Dakotans. We believe in the power of individual responsibility. And we need individual responsibility now more than ever to slow the spread of COVID-19,” Burgum said.... North Dakota as of Thursday had recorded nearly 700 total deaths from the coronavirus, a red flag in a state with a population of 760,000 people. On Saturday, there were 10,486 active positive cases in the state, according to the North Dakota Department of Health. In total, 60,602 people have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic. The sharp increase in cases had led to a staff shortage among health care workers and a shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients." thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/525968-north-dakota-issues-statewide-mask-mandate-to-stem-spread-of-covid-19Let's all say it together: YOU CAN'T GASLIGHT A PANDEMIC |
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Nov 14, 2020 19:38:09 GMT
WV (68%voted for trump) has a mandatory mask mandate as of midnight tonight, issued by our Republican governor. Our numbers are terrible. WVU's ICU has no beds right now (98 of them, all filled), and it is the only level 1 trauma center in the area. It is also a major cancer center. The ICU bed shortage is going to affect so many more than just the COVID patients.
ICU patients are being sent to Pittsburgh, which is 1.5 to 2 hours away, depending on traffic and which hospital they go to.
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Post by nine on Nov 14, 2020 23:11:30 GMT
I think the third line should be ‘you can’t lie and not give a fuck if someone fact checks you’
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