re: Trump no longer cares about re-election

Trump has NEVER "controlled the narrative" and he just played to an audience of 12 million.

But hes in hiding.

quote:

---

I don't see any mobilization on any level of Trump voters to keep this shite from happening.

---

Why the frick would I mobilize and say I'm voting for Trump? I need my job and I'd surely lose it if I said I was voting for him. I just keep my mouth shut, do my job, go about my life and vote on the things I want to vote for. I don't need to answer polls or shout my voting from the rooftops.

quote:

---

How is it bullshite? He can make recommendations. He can pass along numbers. Beyond that, it is up to the states to govern themselves. Sure as he tried to do something at the federal level, y'll'd be bitching about government over-reach and states' rights.

---

I'm more referring to what was said in the OP

Why is he so inept at getting information out to the general voting public? He's the president. It's not like he doesn't have a platform.

quote:

---

How is it bullshite? He can make recommendations. He can pass along numbers. Beyond that, it is up to the states to govern themselves. Sure as he tried to do something at the federal level, y'll'd be bitching about government over-reach and states' rights.

---

You guys argue in circles.

Yes or No - is the upcoming election one of the most (if not the most) important presidential election in history given the marxist/socialist hell we'll be subjected to with a Biden administration + Dem control of Congress?

If you answer no, then we're good here. The presidency isn't all that important or powerful, and that explains why Trump is impotent in dealing with COVID and the so-called insurrection.

But if you answered yes, what difference do you think a second term will make when you clearly believe Trump/his office is incapable of doing frick all because in reality, it's all up to Governors and Mayors?

You guys are walking contradictions.

Every country in the world handling this pandemic well has a central health authority directing the response.

Trump tried it, but couldn't bear being upstaged by Fauci and wanted to be able to demagogue the issue by going after Democratic state governors by haranguing them to "liberate their states".

Dude is a straight-up quitter.

quote:

---

If he doesn't win re-election, you can bet the deep state is going to charge him in 2021. So he has every incentive to win re-election to prevent the deep state from trying to put him in jail.

---

This is actually a decent point, which makes his recent lagging all the more concerning.

There were a bunch of national plans from conservative think tanks, libs, non-partisan. They're all better than what we have. Pick one and go!

quote:

---

dude WTF is wrong with you? the MSM takes his direct quotes and lies about them

why are you acting like everything we are being force fed in the MSM is genuine? They are at war with the POTUS, wake up

---

I explicitly acknowledged the terrain: the media will be dishonest. That's why it's even MORE important to have a good dissemination strategy.

From the beginning, Trump let the epidemiologists run riot. He should have (and I said this in real time, not with 20/20 hindsight) also promoted an economist and an ethicist to counter-balance the message being told purely through the lens of the epidemiologists. Literally, those other folks should have had at least as much stage time.

But it was crazy hectic then and we had way less info. So let's allow a reset.

At present, we know that daily death count has plummeted while infections have vastly increased. It's arguably a few days too early to really be celebrating, but if this trend holds, that is about the best news we could have hoped for. It means the old/vulnerable are successfully self-isolating (without government mandates) and it means the "herd" is fast getting infected and without much negative effect.

Now, the average (even above-average) American simply is ignorant of what I just typed. I know this because every headline blares the nominal infection rate and case count as the lede. Even publications that are more trustworthy seem simply incapable of packaging the facts into a digestible summary of what is actually going on.

Therefore, it is TRUMP'S JOB to do this for the media. I don't give a shite whether it's fair or supposed to be in his job description or whatever. I don't want any excuses. I want the republican POTUS to maximize his chances of re-election by not simply ceding the message to the media.

There's any number of ways to do it, but if he were at all competent, he could spread the above message far and wide - and with the help of trusted scientists and other figures.

Yes, as you said - it's a war. SO START frickING SHOOTING BACK

If it's a credible plan, sure. There are a handful that any state should be agreeable to implement.