Trump may try to double down today, perhaps with some attempt at “sarcasm” in a specific attack on reporters. He may simply cut his losses and even let Pence do most of the presser, fleeing after the prepared remarks. Then again he might not have a sense of the better part of valor.
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Getting VERY good reviews of the job the Federal Government is doing on CoronaVirus. Ventilators, building hospitals, beds and yes, Testing, have been handled incredibly well. Testing is getting exponentially better every day. Love seeing our Country safely opening up!
I (or @VP) never gave Governor Brian Kemp an OK on those few businesses outside of the Guidelines. FAKE NEWS! Spas, beauty salons, tattoo parlors, & barber shops should take a little slower path, but I told the Governor to do what is right for the great people of Georgia (& USA)!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 24, 2020
Today one can bowl (alone) in Georgia.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Communityis a 2000nonfictionbook byRobert D. Putnam. It was developed from his 1995 essay entitled “Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital“. Putnam surveys the decline ofsocial capitalin the United States since 1950. He has described the reduction in all the forms of in-person social intercourse upon which Americans used to found, educate, and enrich the fabric of their social lives. He argues that this undermines the active civil engagement which a strongdemocracyrequires from its citizens.
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Everett Carll Laddclaimed that Putnam completely ignored existing field studies, most notably the landmark sociologicalMiddletown studies,[6]which during the 1920s raised the same concerns he does today, except the technology being attacked as promoting isolation wasradio, instead oftelevisionandvideo games.[7]
Other critics questioned Putnam's major finding—that civic participation has been declining. JournalistNicholas Lemannproposed that rather than declining, civic activity in the US had assumed different forms. While bowling leagues and many other organizations had declined, others like youth soccer leagues had grown.[8]He also points out that the thesis ofBowling Alonecontradicts an implicit assumption of Putnam's previous bookMaking Democracy Work – that a tradition of civic engagement is incredibly durable over time.
In 2017,Thomas E. Mann,Norm OrnsteinandE. J. Dionnewrote that the decline of social and civic groups that Putnam documented partly explained the election ofDonald Trump, as “many rallied to him out of a yearning for forms of community and solidarity that they sense have been lost.”[9]
I’m requesting the bipartisan Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis investigate whether Donald Trump owing millions to the Bank of China influenced his decision to facilitate the transportation of 17.8 tons of donated #PPE & medical supplies from U.S. to China in Feb 2020 https://t.co/gxKh3Pywlxpic.twitter.com/31Vu0KydT9— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) April 24, 2020
Trump said that he answered “sarcastically” during a White House task force briefing yesterday when he said that disinfectants may be used to treat coronavirus. https://t.co/zhwo1PkIOh
Now, this might cause one to question whether Trump knows the definition of sarcasm which, according to Merriam-Webster, is “a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain”.
The thought of the president baiting journalists to see “how they would react” in a time of unprecedented crisis is unsettling, but it is nothing new: Trump has mastered the art saying one thing and retracting or changing his statement when public opinion doesn’t follow.
Trump, after all, was the one who comparedcoronavirus to the seasonal flu, and then two weeks later, suggested that it was other people who were confused: “I’ve had many friends … People with great actually common sense, actually, have said ride it out, don’t do anything and think of it as the flu.But it is not the flu. It is vicious.”
Some of those globalists must do their part to save the Belgian economy, because Freedom.
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The secretary general of the Belgian potato grower federation Belgapom has called on Belgians to eat their beloved frites twice a week to help deplete the surplus of 750,000 tons of potatoes that has built up because of the coronavirus.https://t.co/Mv9gh016yz
