The Trump admin was mashing buttons from the beginning. I think they knew damn well they would be terrible at anything important like setting up contact tracing, massive testing capacity, etc., so instead they went with the confident bluster about how it would come and go quickly and that we should be OFB. If they turned out to be right, great, appearances are all that matters anyway. If they’re wrong, then, well, they were fucked regardless (and who cares about anyone else).
Going for herd immunity was probably just a sneaky way of turning out to be right about the virus “just going away” (after killing a couple million people, probably).
When I was a kid during the Reagan years and things looked as relatively bleak then as they do now, I remember my very-liberal dad and friends expressing the same optimism that the current old men in power would soon be dying out, giving birth to a glorious new age.
I do think that once he’s no longer president, all but his most ardent followers are going to lose interest in anything he has to say, if they aren’t starting to already.
Yet 75 million people voted for a 2nd trump term, and I suspect not all of them were boomers.
The point being that there’s always a new line of deplorables in waiting. We’re not going to be saved just by patiently waiting for the olds to die out.
The point was, when you say “Twitter doesn’t need to give him an account to spew his garbage”. and “An official POTUS account doesn’t need to exist”, you’re implying Twitter can/should de-platform him and I’m saying they can’t/shouldn’t do that even tho he’s a moron and what he says is often a lie or idiotic nonsense
Well, it’s mostly boomers who raised the non-boomer Trump supporters, so I think them dying out will help. But you’re right. There will always be entitled racists. But much progress has been made since my dad was a kid and that’s why they’re fighting back so hard now. They feel their racist and bigoted ideologies are threatened and rightly so. We need to keep pushing
It could be argued that our decline pretty much started in the Reagan years. It was the beginning of the end for the middle class American dream and the start of class warfare. It was probably going on before Reagan, but I think his era defined and solidified it to become what is now today
Yes, anybody who uttered/wrote “herd immunity” should have been jailed and/or shot on spot. It is truly a stupid and feckless idea that stupid and feckless people in and out of government latched on to at great peril and loss of life for the entire country.
If you knew for a fact Trump was going to be pulled out kicking and screaming and it was on ppv and if you don’t pay for it you’ll never see it, how much do you pay? I’d drop at least 50
