Paul Krugman...for Tuesday night Triple card BINGO

[pbmus]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1260304353874849793.html

Where we are now: it seems clear that the GOP's political arm has effectively decided to give up on trying to control Covid and reopen the economy; the propaganda arm (Fox and worse) is going all in for conspiracy theorizing and virus trutherism
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At one level this shouldn't be surprising. It's the same script the party has followed on climate change, and the virus truthers are a lot like the inflation truthers who insisted that we had runaway inflation under Obama
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But what's going on now seems to involve a new level of *political* recklessness. Climate change takes place over decades; inflation truthers paid no political or personal price for being wrong again and again. But if the virus erupts, it will happen quickly
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In other words, the GOP has in effect decided to ignore the science at the clear risk of being held accountable in the near future both for killing thousands and for wrecking the economy, because that's what a premature opening would do
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Why take that risk? Partly they may be high on their own supply, no longer able to conceive that there is an objective reality that might be politically inconvenient. Partly I think it's because they know in their hearts that they can't actually do the job of governing
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But anyway, we're witnessing a lethal abdication of responsibility whose consequences will be quickly apparent. It's truly awesome to watch

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. They can't do the job of governing.

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We were a better country when Democrats made policy and Republicans made ineffectual arguments against them. They can't lead because they only know one remedy....taxcuts! So they gave taxcuts to this country to bankruptcy, then foist a total moron on us to finish us off. No one knows more about profiting from bankruptcy than Donald Trump.

[pbmus]

2. Sometimes I feel like ...

[fierywoman]

3. And could we once and for all throw out the idea of "trickle down economics" ?!?!?!!?

I had a dream the other day that Paul Krugman had something to do with rewiring the economy in the new administration in Jan 2021.

[Duppers]

4. I agree with all points

Except the "awesome to watch" part. We're all drowning in their sewer. 😠

[Hekate]

5. #4 High on their own supply; unable to conceive there is an objective reality

#5 A lethal abdication of responsibility

Three and a half years ago I had the sensation that we had all been driven off a cliff and were falling, falling, falling...

Honest to gods we've been in freefall for so long I no longer know if we've gone splat yet.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. We're just bouncing off the protruding rocks in the cliff face so far ...

Let us be nostalgic for simpler times and troubles, 82,000 lives ago: