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WaPo: Kellyanne Conway Will Spread ‘The Big Lie’ that Will Get Trump Reelected

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One of the real “Must-reads” in this country – along with us – is Greg Sargent’s columns in the Washington Post (Hi, Greg!). Sargent brings us news in today’s column. Just as “Kush” was appointed to lead the shadow coronavirus task force (the “for-profit” task force), just like Pence has been tasked with the real task force, and just like Don Jr. is tasked with campaign tweets, Kellyanne Conway has been tasked to do what she does best – lie.

Yes, Conway will be telling us the greatest “alternative fact” ever told. That this crisis could not possibly have been anticipated, and without Donald Trump’s fearless leadership, half of all Americans would have perished (that’s an exaggeration on my part).

The point is, they are going to “message” that this virus came totally out of the blue, and couldn’t possibly have been anticipated, kind of like those UFOs in Independence day. One day, the virus just “showed up” and sat above the White House until it lasered it to oblivion.

And of course, it’s all bullshit:

White House spinner Kellyanne Conway has offered a new defense of Trump that telegraphs the coming strategy. It doesn’t rest simply on the idea that Trump’s handling of coronavirus has been a decisive success, but also on the crucial idea that this crisis could not have been anticipated.

That is certainly one “alternative” to facts.

It is in this deeply fraught context that Conway put forth her defense of Trump, as reported by The Post:

Trump “is presiding over the country’s response to an unanticipated, unprecedented pandemic of global proportions, and he is getting credit for his handling of the pandemic … In due time, he will preside over the great American comeback, which is more likely to be in the summer or fall, depending on the effectiveness of mitigation and relief efforts and the uncertain path of the virus itself.”
He is credited alright, but only the far right is calling it a success, although it is also still called a hoax but some. Only in Trumpworld could a person be credited with successfully warding off a hoax.
Obviously, there are several problems with this, not the first of which is that global pandemics are anticipated, and indeed one just like this was game-planned out before the inauguration. The other serious problem that the Trump campaign will face is that if indeed this was so “unplanned,” then they are going to have to explain how it is that nations like Germany, the U.K., and South Korea seemed to have had some sort of “clue” that it was coming, and fared so much better. Did they have telescopes that saw the UFO?
Oh, and – the “unanticipated thing” relies upon people seeing everything Trump doing as “perfect” from here on out, and that’s not at all realistic.
“If the president’s perfect decision-making is the first principle from which everything else originates, that dynamic is a huge handicap,” Konyndyk continued. “It makes it really hard to rapidly acknowledge and correct errors.”
Well, if anyone can sell cans of bullshit to the MAGA-heads, it is Kellyanne Conway and her alternative facts. I wish her no luck at all in the endeavor, but I do think she’d need it. Fifty-one percent of Americans are not that stupid.
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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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