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I criticized this last night for the president's typical casual disregard for the dead—which is present in his remarks—but this is a far darker thing.
He's making the point: you probably won't be affected, so you shouldn't care so much.
He's making a case for unchecked spread. https://twitter.com/AmerIndependent/status/1261347325768634370
He's making the point: you probably won't be affected, so you shouldn't care so much.
He's making a case for unchecked spread. https://twitter.com/AmerIndependent/status/1261347325768634370
The points he’s making are:
1) most people aren’t even affected
2) most affected don’t die
He’s saying “look, it’s a percentage game, and you’ll probably beat it.”
You see?
If unchecked, the projection is several million dead.
Trump’s saying “yeah but it’s a big country.”
1) most people aren’t even affected
2) most affected don’t die
He’s saying “look, it’s a percentage game, and you’ll probably beat it.”
You see?
If unchecked, the projection is several million dead.
Trump’s saying “yeah but it’s a big country.”
Not merely unconcern for those who have died; rather deliberate unconcern for those who will die if we simply decide we're going to let them die rather than doing the work and paying the cost.
Not just a case for acceptable loss, but a case to make any amount of loss acceptable.
Not just a case for acceptable loss, but a case to make any amount of loss acceptable.
It's a level of unconcern for human life so deep and vast and total that most people refuse to comprehend it for what it is.
A leader capable of it is capable of killing millions. A population obeying such a leader makes such death inevitable.
That's what we're fighting.
A leader capable of it is capable of killing millions. A population obeying such a leader makes such death inevitable.
That's what we're fighting.
Trump has always had a genocide mindset—which always includes denialism.
He doesn't dislike the virus; he dislikes tests. Tests report infection—infection only kills.
He's not opposed to death; only the report of it.
The percentages report 1% death. To him that's a GOOD thing.
He doesn't dislike the virus; he dislikes tests. Tests report infection—infection only kills.
He's not opposed to death; only the report of it.
The percentages report 1% death. To him that's a GOOD thing.
It's getting louder, this decision to simply abandon the dead not only to death but even the grieving of it.
They already say this thing that many foresaw was unforeseeable, that these preventable deaths were unpreventable, that this tragedy isn't tragic
It's a genocide mindset
They already say this thing that many foresaw was unforeseeable, that these preventable deaths were unpreventable, that this tragedy isn't tragic
It's a genocide mindset
No amount of loss is unacceptable to Trump, save one: personal loss to him individually and specifically, of any kind, no matter how small.
If he was eating a banana, and could save 12 lives by putting it down and throwing a lever, he'd finish the banana.
Genocide mindset.
If he was eating a banana, and could save 12 lives by putting it down and throwing a lever, he'd finish the banana.
Genocide mindset.
And it's not just Trump.
Trump is the leader that the Republican movement was waiting for. The Republican ideology made Trump inevitable. He inspires fierce loyalty, not despite his faults, but because of them.
What we are fighting is a genocide mindset. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-senator-says-only-small-percentage-of-population-might-die-from-coronavirus/2020/03/18/df815968-695f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html
Trump is the leader that the Republican movement was waiting for. The Republican ideology made Trump inevitable. He inspires fierce loyalty, not despite his faults, but because of them.
What we are fighting is a genocide mindset. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-senator-says-only-small-percentage-of-population-might-die-from-coronavirus/2020/03/18/df815968-695f-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html
Trump surface point is "86,000 dead isn't a big deal."
His larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his complete unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings, which is the one thing he truly is better at than anybody.
His genocide mindset.
His larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his complete unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings, which is the one thing he truly is better at than anybody.
His genocide mindset.
It's the one great promise of his campaign, to have the same disregard for other types of people that his cheering crowds shared for those others, which they wanted to see in the world. It's the one promise he's kept. It's why he retains support.
His genocide mindset.
His genocide mindset.
He's the sort of person who finds soldiers running into bullets beautiful, for whom deliberately under-supported doctors and nurses doing the same is an aspirational thing.
His genocide mindset. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-doctors-are-running-into-death-like-soldiers-run-into-bullets/2020/05/14/dc62d55b-b299-4c90-b311-b3701bfda03a_video.html
His genocide mindset. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-says-doctors-are-running-into-death-like-soldiers-run-into-bullets/2020/05/14/dc62d55b-b299-4c90-b311-b3701bfda03a_video.html
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1261627820947587073?s=20
Again, Trump's larger point is an invitation to join him in the vastness of his unconcern for the lives of his fellow human beings.
The invitation doesn't require active participation; in fact it very clearly invites you to only look the other way.
Each of us has to choose now.
The invitation doesn't require active participation; in fact it very clearly invites you to only look the other way.
Each of us has to choose now.
As Elie Wiesel said, "We must always take sides."
These are the times, and this is the choice.
Many people are taking the invitation, which requires no active participation, only unconcern.
The opposite choice is both necessary and active. The invitation is a moral demand.
These are the times, and this is the choice.
Many people are taking the invitation, which requires no active participation, only unconcern.
The opposite choice is both necessary and active. The invitation is a moral demand.
Read the quotes. He did it knowing full well the result. Now the result is here.
Genocide mindset.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1261805155906879490?s=21 https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1261805155906879490
Genocide mindset.
https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1261805155906879490?s=21 https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1261805155906879490
They’re talking about millions.
https://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1261725309507907585?s=21
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1261725309507907585
https://twitter.com/vanityfair/status/1261725309507907585?s=21
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1261725309507907585
In March I predicted they’d be blaming the dead for dying by summer. They’re a little early.
It’s a genocide mindset.
https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1262121641653473281?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1262121641653473281
It’s a genocide mindset.
https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1262121641653473281?s=21 https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1262121641653473281
Late last year. Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/dallasnews/status/1187128314042957825?s=20
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1271192445816987650?s=21 https://twitter.com/brahmresnik/status/1271192445816987650
During a pandemic that will create millions of pre-existing conditions, this is what Trump and the Republican Party want to do: strip medical coverage for millions, and taking away pre-existing condition coverage for all.
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1276356142457851904?s=20
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1276356142457851904?s=20
Unchecked spread was always the plan.
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1279167084023500801?s=21 https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1279167084023500801
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1279167084023500801?s=21 https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1279167084023500801
Unchecked spread was always the plan.
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1283582057742864384?s=20
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1283582057742864384?s=20
1400 people died yesterday, and the former House Speaker has this to say.
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1283703236550184960?s=20
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/1283703236550184960?s=20
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1283920577393295360?s=21 https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1283920577393295360
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/1285199041417158663?s=20
A genocide mindset will reveal itself on many different parallel courses.
Genocide mindset.
Genocide mindset.
0 dead and 100,000 dead and 2 million dead and 10 million dead will all always mean the exact same thing to Trump and far-right propaganda: that Trump is blameless, and did a perfect job, and any suggestion otherwise is mutiny and treason.
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1318212615462584320
Genocide mindset. https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1318212615462584320
