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applegrove

(118,636 posts)
Wed May 6, 2020, 01:01 AM May 2020

The Plan Is to Have No Plan

The Plan Is to Have No Plan

May 5, 2020 at 10:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 166 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/05/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/

"SNIP.....

Jay Rosen: “The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible— by telling the governors they’re in charge without doing what only the federal government can do, by fighting with the press when it shows up to be briefed, by fixing blame for the virus on China or some other foreign element, and by ‘flooding the zone with shit,’ Steve Bannon’s phrase for overwhelming the system with disinformation, distraction, and denial, which boosts what economists call ‘search costs’ for reliable intelligence.”

“Stated another way, the plan is to default on public problem solving, and then prevent the public from understanding the consequences of that default. To succeed this will require one of the biggest propaganda and freedom of information fights in U.S. history, the execution of which will, I think, consume the president’s re-election campaign.”

“So much has already been made public that the standard script for a White House cover up (worse than the crime…) won’t apply. Instead, everything will ride on the manufacture of confusion. The press won’t be able to ‘expose’ the plot because it will all happen in stark daylight. The facts will be known, and simultaneously they will be inconceivable.”

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The Plan Is to Have No Plan (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP
And apparently 39% of the American people endorse this. marybourg May 2020 #1
No such conclusion can be made, 'yet,' imo. elleng May 2020 #2
Operation Chaos nt Progressive Jones May 2020 #3
The plan was chloroquinine... He had nothing else JCMach1 May 2020 #4
K&R. n/t ms liberty May 2020 #5
There's Never Been A Plan ProfessorGAC May 2020 #6

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
6. There's Never Been A Plan
Wed May 6, 2020, 06:36 AM
May 2020

Yes, some puppet masters have a plan, but this administration never even thought they'd be where they are.
There wasn't a plan from day one.
Naturally, there still isn't.

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