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Forget About Roger Stone. The Pandemic Is Still The Emergency.
It’s time for a new strategy: hammer our local governments about Covid-19.
I am a pragmatist.
Perhaps because of my background in disaster response, I am a firm believer in cutting my losses and dealing with the emergency at hand. Dithering wastes precious time.
One of the most important aspects of disaster management is prioritizing what needs to be accomplished. There is great power in making a decision. There is very rarely a perfect solution to any problem. What matters is lining up actions, then putting your head down and doing the work. That’s how to get a high survival rate.
For that reason, today, I beg of you, people: forget Roger Stone.
I know. I know. Commuting his sentence is a travesty of justice and an unprecedented abuse of power.
However, it should come as no surprise to any of us that the president has fewer ethics than Tony Soprano. This isn’t news. He’s going to do all sorts of awful things in the next six months, unless GOP leadership suddenly decides their personal careers are not worth the fate of the nation.
I am not holding my breath.
