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Don't let states and cities get away with onerous rules that in no way help to contain COVID-19.
By Nick Gillespie
https://reason.com/2020/04/14/while-trump-rants-its-governors-who-have-gone-full-captain-queeg/

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. . . [F]or all the attention that yesterday's presidential temper tantrum is getting, it's simply Trump being Trump. Perhaps more importantly, it directs attention away from the ways in which governors are themselves acting as petty tyrants, shutting down all sorts of basic economic activity for no good reasons at all. They are the ones who are most acting like Captain Queeg, the battle-fatigued commander in The Caine Mutiny whose erratic behavior and monomaniacal fixation on missing strawberries has become a shorthand for insane leadership that should be removed from power . . .



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Re: While Trump Rants, It's Governors Who Have Gone Full Captain Queeg
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2020, 07:46:08 am »
Its funny how the media gives high fives to the governors for their crazy despot routine, yet criticize Trump out of the other side of their mouths for anything that seems remotely dictatorial.
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Re: While Trump Rants, It's Governors Who Have Gone Full Captain Queeg
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2020, 10:12:54 am »
I have nothing further to add to this but this story encapsulates the situation perfectly.
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