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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:39 AM Oct 2020

(through clenched teeth!) WHY should anyone willing to appear on TV and boast that they

voted for IT in 2016, will vote for him again next week and "agrees with him 100%" be permitted to drive, operate machinery, own a firearm or walk among us without restraints and a minder?

( I scrapped the first two versions of this! )

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(through clenched teeth!) WHY should anyone willing to appear on TV and boast that they (Original Post) Atticus Oct 2020 OP

Because Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1

This Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #2

So, do we need to label rhetorical questions now? nt Atticus Oct 2020 #4

You asked Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #5

Is it even mathematically possible to agree with Trump's mixed messaging on CV-19 100%? nt Shermann Oct 2020 #3

Is that a rhetorical question or do you expect people to answer? SharonClark Oct 2020 #6

Is this thread caught in a rhetorical infinite loop? nt Shermann Oct 2020 #7

that's sarcasm bigtree Oct 2020 #8

Trump stays on message remarkably well in many areas Shermann Oct 2020 #9

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. Because

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:41 AM

Oct 2020

We live in a free society and do not get to regulate what people think.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)

2. This

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:43 AM

Oct 2020

And we on the left have the same right to say what we want.

Atticus

(15,124 posts)

4. So, do we need to label rhetorical questions now? nt

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:50 AM

Oct 2020

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

5. You asked

Reply to Atticus (Reply #4)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:58 AM

Oct 2020

I answered.

Shermann

(7,413 posts)

3. Is it even mathematically possible to agree with Trump's mixed messaging on CV-19 100%? nt

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:43 AM

Oct 2020

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

6. Is that a rhetorical question or do you expect people to answer?

Reply to Shermann (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:59 AM

Oct 2020

Shermann

(7,413 posts)

7. Is this thread caught in a rhetorical infinite loop? nt

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #6)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:18 PM

Oct 2020

bigtree

(85,996 posts)

8. that's sarcasm

Reply to Shermann (Reply #7)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 12:26 PM

Oct 2020

...right?

Shermann

(7,413 posts)

9. Trump stays on message remarkably well in many areas

Reply to bigtree (Reply #8)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 01:42 PM

Oct 2020

...but his messaging on CV-19 has been a jumbled mess. He agrees with the Task Force when it is convenient, then runs a counter-messaging and counter-research program to it at the same time. He gives one sugar-coated version to the press, then reveals he is downplaying it to Woodward. He is trapped by his old thinking in an environment where the science is rapidly evolving and is now the proverbial boiling frog.

So no, you can't agree 100% with the Orange Enigma when it comes to his pandemic response.

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