Simple. The person "tasked" with filling up some kind of Word template to look like really well thought-out planning didn't get as far as the last "phase" when they snatched it to send off to the Times. An unrealistic, hypothetical plan, that would have failed in every stated objective -- if it had been written and disseminated and applied in the first place.
Everything in the plan failed, because of course there was no plan, back when it was supposed to be there. Because they obviously made it up after the pandemic had sunk its teeth in so deep that they had to show us something indicating that they were at least trying. They've left some acronym-strewn official-looking PDFs lying around to show they tried, when they still are not trying. But they forgot to change the date in the title: March 13, 2020. The thing is supposed to have started back in January.
So it got "un-classified" and "leaked" to the NYT before they even read it themselves. So they could go: See, see? We've been on top of this from the git.
Obfuscation. Confusion. Chaos. S.O.P. I don't buy it. Do you? But explains the President's current demeanor. He's marking time. Running out the clock.
And what the hell is "Striking Balance Between Mitigation and Containment" anyway? It just means "lessons learned." These people think it's all over but the mopping up.
So that's why they don't care enough to put up even a half-convincing show of giving a damn. They're looking at the President's poll numbers -- some poll or other -- and really believe the election is in the bag. Excuse me. Not the election, the abrogation. Cause it's gonna be so crazy-bad by then there won't even be any way to cast a ballot.
Of course, in this new Cambridge Analytica world of "persuadables" and "social" media, who knows if there is even that "base" we hear about so relentlessly? The whole "base" might be a troll-farm, for all we ordinary citizens can tell. But they're banking on it. And they're funneling again. All our taxes, over to Wall Street, under the watchful oversight of No. 45 Hisself.
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