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Just do something (Note the

artappraiser — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:26:09 +0000

Just do something (Note the 18,000+ retweets and 200,000+ likes)

Yesterday, my neighbour left me some homeade soup to pick up from outside; while I am recovering from a mild case of COVID. When I got there, I found not only a big container of piping hot soup, but two huge bags of shopping. I almost burst into tears. She barely knows me.
— Dr Matt Prescott (@mattprescott) March 29, 2020

I've scoffed some of the soup and the delicious nibbles sadly didn't make it to this photo... This food parcel is better (and healthier) than I would normally buy for myself... Even a bog roll... What a neighbour! pic.twitter.com/t2GxATg2vY
— Dr Matt Prescott (@mattprescott) March 29, 2020

Except China is lying.

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:37:01 +0000

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Except China is lying.

Every organization has its

Flavius — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:23:36 +0000

In reply to as to your demands, there's

Every organization has its complement of subordinates who disagree with a substantial % of the policies of the boss

but remain because what they do is important and if they left it would be done less well. And the country would

be seriously worse off as a result.

We had a student thief in

Flavius — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 06:23:54 +0000

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We had a student thief in college. One of the priests- it was a Catholic college -had a solution: a power sprinkled on clothes which were then left untouched until by the thief and his hands turned blue.He was a football player. Well liked in general and in particular because he played so well against type. An 170 pound right tackle.

Dunno the legal aftermath but he was allowed to go back to his room to pick up his things. Surely with a guard but apart from him one of his room mates happened to be there. Paul tried to apologize but the room mate- not a football hero shouted . " Just shut up and go".

Reminds me of a short story from 70 years ago.Probably read it then. Seems a propose.

Lindberg was preparing to try to fly to Paris as others had tried and failed , sometimes fatally.

But was beaten to it by A.Nother Pilot.

A.N.P. was greeted at Orly (or where ever) by the Ambassador and unwillingly whisked to the Embassy . Despite has protests that he would rather be dropped off at one of the particularly enticing doorways en, route.

At day break an intercontinental fly path was cobbled together and ANP was its passenger to the Chrysler Bldg.

In his room he was welcomed by the Secretaries of State,the Army etc, including of the Navy who had once been the wrestling champion at Princeton. And J. Edgar.

And with an incoming call from the Parisian businessman who had international. contest. .

"Hi," said ANP " and how soon do I get the money" And to the Premier who shared the call he said " Sorry about your guys who ended in mid Atlantic but I told them they never make it in the Peugeot toy".

Since the line went dead somehow ANP was left to his devices centered on the attractive woman below on the 79th floor. Having gotten get her to open her window he shouted that it was her great opportunity to go into feathers with the most famous man in the world. Leaning out over the Secretary of Navy. to make this invitation more alluring

Oh dear" said the Secretary of State. " he's fallen"

"Pity you weren't near enough to grab him" lied J. Edgar Hoover to, the Secretary of Navy.

as to your demands, there's

artappraiser — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:41:24 +0000

In reply to Just do it.

as to your demands, there's this hostage situation videotape, I ran across because Maggie Haberman retweeted and I follow her:

I bet a lot of these people think she’s doing the best she can under incredibly difficult circumstances to try to get a very messy process to end up in a place that will save as many lives as possible. https://t.co/WEywqW8KzO
— Sam Baker (@sam_baker) March 29, 2020

Trump came to power with an

NCD — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 15:03:32 +0000

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In his inaugural address, Trump saw "carnage" across America. That he was uniquely qualified to "fix."

Now Americans are facing real carnage unlike anything in our experience. When asked what his role is in this crisis, Trump said "I don't take responsibility at all."

This is simply amazing to me.

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:14:48 +0000

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This is simply amazing to me. I knew of Fauci only from the AIDS crisis, didn't follow his career much after that, and from that I got the impression of a cold hard epidemiologist type--almost a Mr. Spock type-- able to totally shut off feelings and make hard logical and sometimes even cruel choices of necessity, shut off hopes, all that kind of stuff.

It seems like over the years, working with many presidents as well as many desperately ill activists, he's learned quite are few right brain skills as well, empathy-wise, politics-wise, manipulation-wise. I think it's also called finessing a situation?

Dr. Anthony Fauci says on CNN that Trump's "Easter" idea was an "aspirational projection," an attempt to "give people some hope," but "he's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 27, 2020

All the more reason to treasure wisdom of age a bit, eh, Flav?

the opinion of the two

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:54:24 +0000

In reply to "Refuses?" Or "unable "?

the opinion of the two principles of Lawfare (Quinta Jurecic & Ben Wittes) published March 24 @ The Atlantic:

"Trump is like a bad actor trying to play the role of a normal president—a role he hates and so misunderstands that he just can’t do it, and instead resorts to hamming it up onstage." https://t.co/o4C41cmCaO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2020

illustrating your comment:

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:40:29 +0000

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illustrating your comment:

Reporter: You tweeted the other day about protecting Asian-Americans

Trump: "They’re very important to me, we have to protect our Asian Americans, that was a very important tweet to me."

Reporter: What concrete measures are you taking?

Trump: "I don't know"
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) March 26, 2020

It is both.

moat — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:30:28 +0000

In reply to "Refuses?" Or "unable "?

It is both.

He refuses because his messaging betted on it being a false alarm and going full FDR now would be to admit he was wrong. If he ever has done the latter, please remind me when it happened.

He is unable because he was hired to play a president on TV and he does not have the skill set to break decisions down by priorities in order to marshal the resources at his command. He is a real estate dealer who makes money or loses money on deals. None of that sort of analysis experience is relevant to 90% of his present job. But he insists that it is.

So, in view of his his limitations, the inability is the refusal