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Jesus. That the best you can do?

Joint said James Polk was an alcoholic.

Quote:

FLINT, Mich. -- A woman, her adult son and husband have been charged in the fatal shooting of a security guard who refused to let her daughter enter a Family Dollar in Michigan because she wasn't wearing a face mask to protect against transmission of the coronavirus.

Calvin Munerlyn was shot Friday at the store just north of downtown Flint a short time after telling Sharmel Teague’s daughter she had to leave because she lacked a mask, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.

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The modern right in America is psychologically and civically healthy and of great benefit to the overall good.

Mr. "I'm never wrong" clown.

Are you now claiming expert knowledge of the subject?

Really, you are pathetically delusional.

Really, you are pathetically delusional.

This is the last post to you.

conservative hatefulness

Really, you are pathetically delusional.

You were wrong,

and you only supported Joint because he partakes of the same conservative hatefulness as you do.

Polk was not an alcoholic--so you're wrong.

Not that I expect you to ever admit that truth.

CNN sends Trump campaign cease-and-desist letter for misleading ad

That is totally absurd on many counts.

First, Billy Barr is not going to indict anyone. He can't, as then he would be open to investigation over his questionable actions.

The plan is to have no plan Jay Rosen

"There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives."
4 MAY 2020 11:02 PM

In this space I am parking my short description of the de facto plan the Trump government has for getting the United States out of the public health emergency caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This is my read on what the government’s guidance and actions amount to. I will revise the text and add new links as more information flows in. My purpose in posting it is to challenge the American press to be a lot clearer in its descriptions.

The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element, and by “flooding the zone with ****,” Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call “search costs” for reliable intelligence.

Stated another way, the plan is to default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default. To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign. So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up (worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion. The press won’t be able to “expose” the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight. The facts will be known, and simultaneously they will be inconceivable.

“The plan is to have no plan” is not a strategy, really. Nor would I call it a policy. It has a kind of logic to it, but this is different from saying it has a design— or a designer. Meaning: I do not want to be too conspiratorial about this. To wing it without a plan is merely the best this government can do, given who heads the table. The manufacture of confusion is just the ruins of Trump’s personality meeting the powers of the presidency. There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.