what they call 'conspiracy' really is just bourgeois class solidarity
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I kind of wonder. Trump, for his many many faults, is a man who understands stories. I feel like he just wants to pressure fauci into falling into line. Don’t quote me on that but for all his reliance on impulse and gut instinct, I think trump would be reluctant going fire him because he knows if he fires fauci and later we have a second outbreak, Democrats will portray that as a major failing.
trump fires disease head, disease gets worse is a very simple and narratively consistent bumper sticker style talking point.
i may be underestimating trumps reflexive distaste for people who aren’t yes men but trump is usually one for the long con.
I'm less worried about what he'll do, and more worried about what his supporters will. Trump can dump Fauci, for example, and people will still listen to the man, as seems to be where he's heading. But when the folks that hang on his every word like it's Gospel direct from Big G's mouth start hearing him rant and rave about things being rigged or unfair, what's that going to do?
I wouldn’t put money on it, admittedly. I’m absolutely not willing to put actual currency on betting against trumps ego, but one thing I have noted from him is he relies very heavily, and frequently successfully on bumper sticker logic. If you are explaining, you are losing, as the old expression goes. And I think he understands that if he fires fauci and the plague worsens dems will plaster fauci’s name on every bumper and every window, and trump doesn’t want to deal with that.
browbeating someone and making threats he doesn’t intend to keep is part of his MO however, so trying to scare fauci into less interviews wherein he blatantly contradicts trunp seems like something he would do.
on an unrelated note I hear sanders has officially endorsed Biden. Good man
Only because the dems would blame him for every little thing that went wrong if he didn't, and they'll probably do so anyway.
Because as the whole Labour leak thing shows, centrists suck ass.
He did what I called him doing a month ago and deserves to be commended for it.
so again I say, good man. Wish he hadn’t waited through Wisconsin but one mistake doesn’t define someone.
Hope that's enough for Biden to beat Trump then. Meanwhile, things that you found dismissive suddenly being reported by larger media outlets, but boy oh boy does their reporting on it come off as disgusting when compared to Kavanaugh's allegations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTyYrJl5IiU
NYT's article referenced in video.
They implicitly condemn her for filing a police report because false reports are criminal, yet Ford not filing one is fine because she testified in Congress and no one would ever perjure themselves in such an environment. Oh, and don't forget the way they phrase "We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable." to dismiss the latter as things that aren't actions considered sexual misconduct. Well, before they stealth deleted that part anyway.
Even better, they still reported things that give Tara's story credit when they were able to find people from that time remembering how Tara effectively got demoted/dismissed.
Oh, and I don't remember if it was posted directly before, but just the first of many Trump attack ads against Biden to look forward to until November. And before Tobias tries to call me out for posting this, remember that it's the people that take shit like this at face value that you need to be convincing otherwise, not me or anyone else on this site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv7yVCwv6NU
Pretty pathetic when the biggest criticism you can make about the video is that the Trump campaign got lazy and used a Chinese-American official in one of the frames instead of another Winnie the Poo leader image.
The current "conference" is literally full dystopian propaganda, the guy made it a literal clip show.
I don't know Fauci's plan, but he is even helping Trump's propaganda here. He might be trying to stay to mitigate the damage, but this man is a cancer that needs to be excised, and he would definitely make Fauci his scapegoat, it would be another casualty of the many under Trump's circle.
Man, this is just vomit inducing.
yyyyyup. Had a look back. Seems like El presidente successfully intimidated fauci
The one merit of that being that those who are misguided by Trump are the folks that would vote for him in November...