Who pays $20,000 for a plane ticket, or a Final Four ticket, or an Inaugural ticket, and should you blame some other country for your own incompetence. And Pence and Trump will still have rallies in Wisconsin next week.
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Trump misstated his own policy in an Oval Office address touching off a mass panic that led to large crowds gathering in enclosed spaces. https://t.co/GBN0fx2yiO— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 12, 2020
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Fox And Trump R Embracing Xenophobia 2 Defend Against The Coronavirus https://t.co/iPbdKoN54M via @miriamelder “US has a particular history of epidemic control & particularly Sinophobia,†he said, pointing 2a 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague in Hawaii following an epidemic in Asia
Transactional activity has transaction costs. “In economics and related disciplines, atransactioncostis a cost in making any economic trade when participating in a market.” In social interactions, a sociopath (like Trump) drives up those costs because his self-serving behavior ignores the contingencies and conditions of decision-making.
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WORTH REPEATING: In 2018, Trump fired the entire US pandemic response team.
These were the experts with decades of experience dealing with precisely the kind of situation we are in today.
“Epidemics are a category of disease that seem to hold up the mirror to human beings as to who we really are. … They show the moral relationships that we have toward each other as people, and we’re seeing that today.” https://t.co/sJSgq3Sr9p
“…some analysts have proposed that President-elect Trump was inaugurating a new era of “transactional diplomacy” as opposed to the kind of “transformational diplomacy” championed by the administration of President George W. Bush.”
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President-elect Trump, who seems to frame every policy problem in cost-effective terms and assumes that it could be resolved as a business transaction needs, therefore, to recognize that his job goes beyond making deals.
But we also saw the “transactional” Trump this week, who behaves in exactly the same gaslight-scented fashion. He imposed stringent-sounding tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, suggesting a return to the “economic nationalism” of Steve Bannon — but exempted most of the countries from which we actually import steel and aluminum. In a seemingly pointless piece of theater, the president briefly pretended on Friday that he might veto the “omnibus” spending bill that had just passed Congress by a large bipartisan majority. Ultimately someone convinced Trump (or he understood from the beginning) that even he could not get away with single-handedly provoking a government shutdown while blaming others for it.
Pence plans to be in Wisconsin in the morning on March 19, while @realDonaldTrump has a rally in Milwaukee scheduled for that afternoon to announce a new coalition of Catholics who support his candidacy
