Seabass wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:56 pm
I give up. You're in Forty Two territory here...
I think that's a bit disingenuous Seabass. Sean's quite willing and able to hold Trump to account for what he's responsible for. What he's talking about is how some people blame Trump reflexively, not only because they fundamentally object to the man and his politics, but because they're also in the habit of it; the habit of blame. When something happens it must always be someone's fault. This is no more a Trump Pandemic that it's a Chinese Virus. To blame specific parties in that way suggests there is, was, and always had been an optimal response to the spread of Covid-19 which if implemented should have completely mitigated it's impact. That's unrealistic imo - the system is too chaotic.
Nonetheless, we can still hold Trump to account for the systemic failing in his administration and his personal response. He did "lie, gaslight, and pretend there was no problem" - he even called it a hoax. And he still seems to be lacking a full grasp of the situation with his "this'll all be over by Easter" nonsense. I really hope that they haven't picked Easter as some sort of arbitrary cut-off after which they'll order everybody back to work and just let it be whatever it is. Regardless of whether that was an attempt to bolster the stock market, or to inspire Americans to take measures straight away, or just wishful thinking on the president's part, it nonetheless does seem to fit into the category of "bullshit" at least...
"Well, I thought the same as everybody else. Everybody said ‘It’ll be over by Christmas and you’ve got to get out soon, otherwise you won’t see anything’. But I don’t know if it was my opinion, or if everybody was saying it. One certainly changed one’s mind when we found how well-organised Jerry was compared with us for instance. And how thinly we were on the ground, of course."
-- Voices of the First World War: Over by Christmas, Imperial War Museum:
https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-o ... -christmas
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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