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Iran's Secret Weapon (lemmy.world)
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[–] 29 points 2 months ago (10 children)

All Trump had to do in Covid was make one speech. "I am not a scientist or a doctor. I am a smart businessman who has hire the best people to cope with this situation. Just do what my friend Dr Fauci says and we'll be fine." He'd have been reelected by a landslide.

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  • [+] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yup.

    Never has any man been given so much, and managed to piss it all away.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    I mean he's not pissed it all away. He made more money than he's ever made in his entire life thanks to having the power to change the rules at his whim (and by having the ability to change the stock market with a tweet.)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    He did try that. It cost him votes and never brought it up again. As long as voters lost because of disease is lower than voters lost by vaccine scare he doesn't care that much.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    No he didn't. He originally put Pence in charge of the pandemic task Force. That lasted a week because he couldn't stand not being the center of attention. His first press conference had him immediately follow Fauci and contradict and undermine everything his head of the CDC said, million 800,000 extra Americans.

    Him later trying to claim credit for some things he actively worked against doesn't count for shit

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    "15 days"

    It should have stayed a VP job. A leader delegates tasks to appropriate people. It's funny how so many times those who are in power screw it up because they have to inject themselves into crap rather than surround themselves with experts and use their guidance to make decisions. Ego trip ruins what could have worked well.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I distinctly remember Trump trying to tell everyone this is fine and it'll all just go away.

    Later, when COVID-19 was epidemic in the community, he wanted to suppress the John Hopkins reports that informed their COVID-19 dashboard, because if Americans didn't know how many were infected, then it wasn't a problem.

    So it's no surprise the CDC and DHHS has stopped reporting on a lot of ailments in Trump 2.0.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Obviously I meant handing it to Fauci before it got too bad.

    I remember seeing Fauci rolling his eyes while Trump spoke; that was what doomed any chance of sanity prevailing.

    Your clip is from August 2021.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Trump does not believe in expertise or data-driven science. He believes he knows better about everything than anyone else.

    Curiously, he's not entirely unique in this problem. One of the complaints about George W. Bush is that he was more impressed with arguments made with emphasis and drama than arguments backed by logic and data.

    This is a specific grievance from Paul Krugman, that politicians often listen to well-dressed emphatic lobbyists than they do nerdy economists. Even Nobel laureates.

    (This is one reason future civilizations might choose elections by sortition -- by lottery -- than by popular election. That would make the career of professional politician nonexistent, and much improve our chances of electing people who listen to experts. Such a system would have to be refined and include checks and balances, but this is true for any other system as well.)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    [off topic]

    In the science fiction novel 'Double Star' the author, Robert Heinlein, casually throws out a genius political system.

    Voters get to pick their own constituencies. Instead of voting based on where you live, you can choose your own 'borough.' You can pick 'Farmer' or 'Gun Owner' or 'Soccer Mom' or ''Artist' or 'LGBTQ+' or 'Renter.'

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