Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I was going to say something flippant. But this is an almost unfathomable catastrophe — and blame rests squarely on Trump and his party. — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But who will update the cubic model? https://t.co/OHQVWW2lOW — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Holmes is superior to Donald Trump: he can drink water with no hands! https://t.co/muKnrd6dm7 — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Somehow I missed that Trump's next rally is in Phoenix in 2 days. Um ... https://t.co/gDRRSt8NDa — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul? What if all he gains is a trade deal? What if the trade deal is bogus? — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @RhutaBhayga2: Elect women. They can lift heavy glasses with one hand. https://t.co/Ma11glpNvw — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Manliness: old: never complain, never explain New: spend 14 minutes whining about how mean reporters were about your walk down a ramp, which was perfect — PolitiTweet.org

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America's disastrous pandemic response, in one picture https://t.co/EDxktnqQos — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @JRubinBlogger: It's sooooo frustrating trying to obstruct justice on behalf of a client who is too dumb to know how to do it — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Desperate apologists for our dismal record on Covid-19 have taken to insisting that we only compare deaths, and that Europe looks worse by that measure. But not if you adjust for population and the fact that our pandemic started later. Our trajectory is clearly worse https://t.co/Fw1TKinWkf — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

As it happens, here's the book I started reading a few days ago. I've long been a Grant groupie; he was imperfect, but without him there would have been no emancipation — and he fought the Klan. Leave his statues alone! https://t.co/s4l3apyP0D — PolitiTweet.org

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What do you mean "we", white woman? Seriously, "America" hasn't given up on fighting Covid-19; Cuomo's NY, Murphy's NJ, Whitmer's MI haven't given up. It's *Republicans* who have given up. https://t.co/2Z5JgO5d1H — PolitiTweet.org

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That's comparable to NYC at the worst of the pandemic there. https://t.co/FgRPEAlRnZ — PolitiTweet.org

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I also remember, although I can't find the article, that a local sports columnist was asked how race car drivers managed to survive crashes. He mentioned the role of their special super-duper seat belts, and was inundated with hate mail 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I was living in the Boston area in the 80s; a radio talk show host managed to get the seat belt law repealed, only to have it reinstated after people started dying 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Will other countries start calling it the "American virus"? After all, at this point we're the hotspot that needs to be quarantined. American exceptionalism! — PolitiTweet.org

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Covid-19 in Tulsa, on the eve of the big Trump rally https://t.co/Adlz61CiSq https://t.co/iIkBBaB6wp — PolitiTweet.org

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For once, I don't know whether he's deliberately lying or just uninformed bc the people around him won't tell him things he doesn't want to hear. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Oklahoma: "The spike [in Covid-19 cases] ends, has already ended. And I think they're in great shape." 7-day rolling average of new cases in OK: https://t.co/viBxPMxGPF — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ASlavitt: The fact that cases are increasing nationally despite massive declines in the Northeast obscures the case growth in the South… — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

You know, I had figured that normal life could resume sometime this fall. But the magnitude of the US failure — and the retreat into denial, which will just extend the crisis — just boggles the mind https://t.co/Q9le7H0uia — PolitiTweet.org

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So, will Trump campaign demand cease and desist? — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

RT @nytopinion: "While slavery was America’s original sin, its dire legacy was perpetuated by other sins, some of which continue to this da… — PolitiTweet.org

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Funny how these things keep happening — scheduling a rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, using a Nazi symbol in campaign ads. Why, it's almost as if the Trump campaign is full of white supremacists and fascists, who can't help themselves https://t.co/jFt6QAWYbP — PolitiTweet.org

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There are lots of things presidents don't control — the weather, the stock market, the economy. But pandemic response is definitely in their bailiwick. How's it going? https://t.co/gUBaHVasaA — PolitiTweet.org

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Aha. Latest briefing — this time from my backyard! — is up: "Bros and bubbles". Register here https://t.co/svcuYWKriz — PolitiTweet.org

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And, of course, Trump thinks it's all about him 5/ https://t.co/50ggCVxe1K — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm not fully sure I understand what's going on, but I suspect that what enrages these people isn't the cost, but the benefit — they aren't so much against wearing masks as against doing so *to help others*. And a lot of people die because of their pettiness 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The rage over "cancel culture" is also, I think, part of this syndrome; some people can't stand the idea that they should be asked to, say, avoid insulting women or minorities, as if that were a terrible imposition 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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But it fits a pattern. There's a peculiar rage that afflicts some right-wingers when asked to bear even minor inconveniences to protect the public good. I remember Erick Erickson threatening violence over ... phosphates in dishwasher detergent 2/ https://t.co/gqsunZZXE2 — PolitiTweet.org