Smarter than what? Part of Trumps problem is he pretends to be smarter than everybody, indeed the world's greatest CEO. I have personally attended five Trump rallies, three post 2020 and each of the latter he told us how wonderful project Warped Speed was "everybody said it couldn't be done". We would have been better off if only "everyb…
Smarter than what? Part of Trumps problem is he pretends to be smarter than everybody, indeed the world's greatest CEO. I have personally attended five Trump rallies, three post 2020 and each of the latter he told us how wonderful project Warped Speed was "everybody said it couldn't be done". We would have been better off if only "everybody" had carried the day.
I am buoyed by the patriotism at his rallies but embarrassed by the ~~ he can do no wrong ~~ demeanor of people who should know better. There are better leader choices, less encumbered, every bit as successful and dedicated to MAGA.
As to Trump's performance and COVID, a good CEO has his radar up about his key project subordinates, whether he picked them or not. At a glance at their backgrounds and record he sees their connections, their proclivities and gives them only appropriate amount of rope or parameters and realizes the need to keep a bridle on their egos and has adequate circumspection about his own.
Not being a specialized expert a great CEO will seek to be grounded at least in relevant history about the type of disease and public health measures. And please not the kind of "deep read" that suggests to him that negotiation and compromise were never tried pre-Civil War suggesting to Trump that possibly had he been around he could have prevented war. But the latter is the type of CEO we are dealing with with Trump such that his own ego clouds depth, analysis, promises and decisions. Of course insentient but instinctively evil tools like Biden are lightyears worse.
A good CEO as regards monumental health ventures aggressively solicits alternative views, including those who counsel don't do this or that, also those that counsel
pretty much let the situation take its course. In the exigent case of COVID inform him that his mRNA "solution" is not a vaccine, it is a gene treatment, it is untested at scale or length on humans, fraught with unknowns, and that the history of medicine is replete with iatrogenic "cures". The same goes for Trumps push for ventilators. Did anyone advise him of the implications of their use (by the way where are all those torture devises now, waiting to be drug out?)?
This is not about whether you or I would have been absolutely overwhelmed and steamrolled on this matter even as President with three years under our belt. This is about the guy who is the greatest CEO ever or something, the greatest personnel judge ever who came to office with incredible insight into job applicants, whose instincts are perfect, unassailable, a quick study on all things important and never distracted.
An interesting question arises -- who should we appreciate more, the guy who says I was misinformed but as a mature CEO I should not have been so credulous, my subordinates were not well directed or appropriately limited but heck we were all in a panic politically and otherwise but forgive me and never again OR the guy who doubles down repeatedly saying project Warped Speed was a stupendous achievement on his part but darned if other people didn't kill the economy. The latter guy serving up a self-serving containment of the truth because in reality he initiated the two weeks shut down which was essentially used as the model for longer, extending throughout his term creating a malaise that enabled his electoral defeat whether or not the result of extensive cheating (there was a lot of cheating).
Undeniably Trump spread the propaganda to get the jab. Even if his approach was voluntarily he helped put people in a panic about the disease and his administrations promotion has all the innocence of a pusher who tells you it is all about feeling good now, its all safe, "science" is behind it and heck good people take it . . . you don't have to take it, I won't break your arm if you do not but if you don't you will get sick and die or something. And all those immersed in government knows best, along with the true believers in Trump jump on the Trump driven train to long term iatrogenic hell.
And never mind that Trump criticized a governor or two for opening their states too early even if he deigned to allow them to do so.
Now in spite of all of Trump's responsibility for setting the stage and though not the only actor, indeed later loosing the directorship and lead role, and while the play was still on a trajectory to a devastating run -- a Democrat in charge at the time seeing the opportunity would have immediately gone into hyper control mode and absolutely we would be even worse off. The iatrogenic deaths more numerous, the social sequelae compounded, the economy crushed and reset in total subservience to the state.
Only right seeing Republican governors, all with longer MAGA credentials than Trump by the way, saved the country with their resistance. The marginal strength of the Republicans in the Congress perhaps gave some pause to some Democrat dreams but certainly the Biden administration have done their damnedest.
Trump's shortcomings ought not be dismissed in the matter of COVID. His braggadocio about his role only compounds the glair from his errors however forgivable as to his humanness, in context and comparability to others.
Smarter than what? Part of Trumps problem is he pretends to be smarter than everybody, indeed the world's greatest CEO. I have personally attended five Trump rallies, three post 2020 and each of the latter he told us how wonderful project Warped Speed was "everybody said it couldn't be done". We would have been better off if only "everybody" had carried the day.
I am buoyed by the patriotism at his rallies but embarrassed by the ~~ he can do no wrong ~~ demeanor of people who should know better. There are better leader choices, less encumbered, every bit as successful and dedicated to MAGA.
As to Trump's performance and COVID, a good CEO has his radar up about his key project subordinates, whether he picked them or not. At a glance at their backgrounds and record he sees their connections, their proclivities and gives them only appropriate amount of rope or parameters and realizes the need to keep a bridle on their egos and has adequate circumspection about his own.
Not being a specialized expert a great CEO will seek to be grounded at least in relevant history about the type of disease and public health measures. And please not the kind of "deep read" that suggests to him that negotiation and compromise were never tried pre-Civil War suggesting to Trump that possibly had he been around he could have prevented war. But the latter is the type of CEO we are dealing with with Trump such that his own ego clouds depth, analysis, promises and decisions. Of course insentient but instinctively evil tools like Biden are lightyears worse.
A good CEO as regards monumental health ventures aggressively solicits alternative views, including those who counsel don't do this or that, also those that counsel
pretty much let the situation take its course. In the exigent case of COVID inform him that his mRNA "solution" is not a vaccine, it is a gene treatment, it is untested at scale or length on humans, fraught with unknowns, and that the history of medicine is replete with iatrogenic "cures". The same goes for Trumps push for ventilators. Did anyone advise him of the implications of their use (by the way where are all those torture devises now, waiting to be drug out?)?
This is not about whether you or I would have been absolutely overwhelmed and steamrolled on this matter even as President with three years under our belt. This is about the guy who is the greatest CEO ever or something, the greatest personnel judge ever who came to office with incredible insight into job applicants, whose instincts are perfect, unassailable, a quick study on all things important and never distracted.
An interesting question arises -- who should we appreciate more, the guy who says I was misinformed but as a mature CEO I should not have been so credulous, my subordinates were not well directed or appropriately limited but heck we were all in a panic politically and otherwise but forgive me and never again OR the guy who doubles down repeatedly saying project Warped Speed was a stupendous achievement on his part but darned if other people didn't kill the economy. The latter guy serving up a self-serving containment of the truth because in reality he initiated the two weeks shut down which was essentially used as the model for longer, extending throughout his term creating a malaise that enabled his electoral defeat whether or not the result of extensive cheating (there was a lot of cheating).
Undeniably Trump spread the propaganda to get the jab. Even if his approach was voluntarily he helped put people in a panic about the disease and his administrations promotion has all the innocence of a pusher who tells you it is all about feeling good now, its all safe, "science" is behind it and heck good people take it . . . you don't have to take it, I won't break your arm if you do not but if you don't you will get sick and die or something. And all those immersed in government knows best, along with the true believers in Trump jump on the Trump driven train to long term iatrogenic hell.
And never mind that Trump criticized a governor or two for opening their states too early even if he deigned to allow them to do so.
Now in spite of all of Trump's responsibility for setting the stage and though not the only actor, indeed later loosing the directorship and lead role, and while the play was still on a trajectory to a devastating run -- a Democrat in charge at the time seeing the opportunity would have immediately gone into hyper control mode and absolutely we would be even worse off. The iatrogenic deaths more numerous, the social sequelae compounded, the economy crushed and reset in total subservience to the state.
Only right seeing Republican governors, all with longer MAGA credentials than Trump by the way, saved the country with their resistance. The marginal strength of the Republicans in the Congress perhaps gave some pause to some Democrat dreams but certainly the Biden administration have done their damnedest.
Trump's shortcomings ought not be dismissed in the matter of COVID. His braggadocio about his role only compounds the glair from his errors however forgivable as to his humanness, in context and comparability to others.
I’m in complete agree with you on this!!