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mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts) Wed May 6, 2020, 12:12 AM May 2020

I bet IQ45's master plan is ordering the Federal Government to stop counting the bodies [View all]

Or at minimum, make a play at requiring that no Federal agencies do any reporting to any outside (domestic or international) entities ...

He can't stop the States from counting, but he can seriously undermine anybody's ability to report on what's really going on by not letting the CDC/NIH/whoever aggregate and report, esp. if he can get lots of the Red State governors to play along.

Then he'll accuse that the Blue States who ARE reporting ... that they are lying/wanting 'handouts'/trying to 'bring down Trump', etc. He'll also probably threaten to cut off Federal Aid to states that report their numbers.

I mean ... why wouldn't he?

It'd be such a Trump/GOP thing to try to pull. If pressed, they'll insist that it's hurting the economy too much to report these bad numbers.

But I doubt they'd be pressed, they'll just gaslight and gish-gallop their way through it, and the media will happily comply as they always do.

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I bet IQ45's master plan is ordering the Federal Government to stop counting the bodies [View all] mr_lebowski May 2020 OP

Damn right it is canetoad May 2020 #1

Same as Feb no testing/no cases strategy pat_k May 2020 #4

Yup. Newest Reality May 2020 #2

+1, my understanding is most of the rep govs aren't up for reelection this cycle so they don't care uponit7771 May 2020 #7

Of course that's his strategy lunatica May 2020 #3

This Is Ridiculous ProfessorGAC May 2020 #9

And of course the teevee will go along -- at least the broadcast networks. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #5

K&R, But so far its not the CDC that is counting the dead bodies its been states and private groups uponit7771 May 2020 #6

His plan was to let it kill people while claiming it's a hoax duforsure May 2020 #8