...this is our species on journalism: We're big fans of [the bulk of] Kevin Drum's work. We think his body of work on lead abatement has been about the best work to emerge form the Internet.
That said, today he said this, at the end of a short post. We'll explain below:
DRUM (5/28/20): Is Trump mentally unstable? I don’t know. But he’s sure not mentally all there, is he? What kind of leader decides he can just shut his eyes to a deadly pandemic and instead spend all his time plotting revenge on enemies both real and imagined? Only a mentally deranged one. When will the Republican Party finally realize just what kind of trouble they’ve gotten us into?Within one paragraph, Kevin said this:
He doesn't know if Trump's "mentally unstable." But he does know he's "mentally deranged."
(The headline on the post says this: "Donald Trump Is Mentally Unhinged.")
Our best guess concerning a translation:
Mainstream news orgs won't let their employees discuss Trump's possible mental illness. "Journalistically," it's against the rules to discuss what's right there in front of our faces.
This is our species on journalism! Mental health issues are widely discussed in all other contexts. They just can't be discussed here.
Fuller disclosure: Donald J. Trump, who can't be discussed, holds the nuclear codes.
Has Kevin Drum read Bandy Lee’s book? As a blogger for a fairly prominent publication, he could have done that in the interest of his readers. “Mainstream orgs won’t discuss it” is hardly an excuse for someone in Drum’s position.
ReplyDeleteWould that remove all doubt though, and turn Kevin’s “I don’t know” to “I know”? That’s doubtful, given Drum’s cautiousness about making bold pronouncements.
Remember Vinny "the Chin" Galante?
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Once Drum starts with the falsehood that Trump “just shut his eyes to" the coronavirus, it follows that Trump is nuts. In reality, Trump closed the border to China very early. The CDC and FDA were working on a good test. The US Public Health Service was doing contact tracing. Unfortunately, the CDC and FDA f*cked up this effort and contact tracing turned out to be inadequate, but these efforts show that Trump's eyes were open to the pandemic.
ReplyDeleteAnd look at all that thumb-twiddling he did in Feb! That must surely have helped fight the pandemic -- not. The CDC/FDA didn't mess up. Trump did. But even if you admit that the CDC/FDA "f*cked up" the effort, Trump was in charge and the buck stops with Trump.
DeleteWhatever Trump's eyes are focused on, it isn't the ball.
@7:06 - Look at what Dr. Anathny Fauci was saying in the middle of February
DeleteTop disease official: Risk of coronavirus in USA is 'minuscule'; skip mask and wash hands
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/02/17/nih-disease-official-anthony-fauci-risk-of-coronavirus-in-u-s-is-minuscule-skip-mask-and-wash-hands/4787209002/
“... 'just shut his eyes to' the coronavirus, ...."
DeleteYou're right. Instead he called it a "Democrat" hoax. Then he held his breath until he turned a brighter orange.
it follows that Trump is nuts
DeleteYou're a fucking idiot, David. A goddam fucking idiot. Drum isn't writing about what happened 4 months ago, he's writing about what is the ginormous megalomaniacal fucking insane bunghole you worship is doing now, for the past week into today, you fucking idiot.
This is what makes Donald J Chickenshit, Acting President, nuts:
In the past few days Donald Trump has:
◦Cranked up the volume on his pointless cold wars with China and Iran
◦Turned mask wearing into a culture war campaign issue
◦Accused a TV host of murdering an intern
◦Declared war on voting by mail
◦Insisted that James Comey and a variety of others should be in jail
◦Pushed an absurd “unmasking” non-scandal
◦Insisted that Barack Obama personally led a spying campaign against him
◦Retweeted a video saying “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat”
◦Retweeted QAnon conspiracy theories
And today the whiney little crybaby fucking autocratic looney tunes president decided to have a whiney ass crybaby fit because twitter fact checked the fucking lying sack of shit. So fuck off, David, you fucking fascist prick.
This again!
ReplyDeleteKevin Drum isn't any kind of mental health professional. Just because he wrote some essays about lead, doesn't mean he is right about Trump's mental status.
We need to be calling for Trump to take his yearly physical exam, now 5 months overdue.
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