I never see this incident from the last election mentioned, but it’s worth thinking about as we see Trump encouraging violence by violent thug supporters:
After a Hispanic man was beaten Wednesday by two Boston men, one of whom told the police that he was inspired by Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant message, Mr. Trump told reporters that his supporters were “passionate.”
Two brothers from South Boston were arrested and charged with beating the 58-year-old man, who is homeless, with a metal pole, breaking his nose and battering his chest and arms, The Boston Globe reported.
“Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported,” the police said one of the brothers, Scott Leader, 38, told them. His brother, Steve Leader, 30, was also charged in the beating, the police said. The Globe reported that the brothers have extensive criminal records.
Told of the attack, which also left the man soaked in urine, Mr. Trump said at a news conference late Wednesday that it was the first he had heard of it.
“It would be a shame,” Mr. Trump said, before adding: “I will say that people who are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
The episode is not the first time that Mr. Trump’s inflammatory comments have been cited in connection with violence.
Following his public feud after the Republican presidential debate with Megyn Kelly, the Fox News anchor, she received death threats from Mr. Trump’s fans and the cable network provided her with additional security.
Mr. Trump brushed off the idea that his supporters were crossing the line.
“I’m sure they don’t mean that,” he said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I had heard that had happened. But I have gained such respect for the people that like me and respect me and that like my views, it’s incredible.”
He still believes that:
trump doesn’t like to say “something bad about people who support him” … “like white supremacists” https://t.co/r0fVWpuFYi
Apparently, they’ve decided that the only way to get him to prepare is to go on Fox and hope he’s paying attention.
The problem is that he doesn’t like to read anything and he hates lectures so that’s not going to help. Chris Christie tried flash cards and we saw how that worked. I have to believe that maybe nothing does.
The White House has blocked a new order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep cruise ships docked until mid-February, a step that would have displeased the politically powerful tourism industry in the crucial swing state of Florida.
The current “no sail” policy is set to expire on Wednesday. Dr. Robert R. Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., had recommended the extension, worried that cruise ships could become viral hot spots, as they did at the beginning of the pandemic.
But at a meeting of the coronavirus task force on Tuesday, Dr. Redfield’s plan was overruled, according to a senior federal health official who was not authorized to comment and so spoke on condition of anonymity. The administration will instead allow the ships to sail after Oct. 31, the date the industry had already agreed to in its own, voluntary plan. The rejection of the C.D.C.’s plan was first reported by Axios.
Dr. Redfield, who has been scolded by President Trump for promoting mask wearing and cautioning that vaccines won’t be widely available until next year, worried before the Tuesday decision that he might get fired, and had considered resigning if he were required to oversee a policy that compromised public health, according to a senior administration official as well as a person close to Dr. Redfield.
If you’re planning on one of these cruises, I’d suggest you take a close look at the fine print on your ticket. I have a sneaking suspicion there’s a little provision that requires you agree not to sue them in case of sickness and death. You might want to think about that.
President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that he expects the Supreme Court, which he hopes will include his newly nominated Justice, will be the one to decide the fate of the 2020 election.
“I’m counting on them to look at the ballots.” Trump said during Tuesday evening’s presidential debate. “I hope we don’t need them,” he added. But the large numbers of anticipated mail-in ballots, Trump said, will inevitably mean questionable election results. “This is going to be a fraud like you have never seen,” he said.
He made it crystal clear that he expects “his” majority to rule in his favor in what he expects to be an election decided by the Supreme Court. And apparently the woman he chose to fill that 9th seat on the court just days before the election, with the explicit direction that he expects her to steal the seat for him, is perfectly willing to go along:
President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court did not commit to recusing herself from cases related to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to her written responses to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire.
Amy Coney Barrett’s responses, obtained by POLITICO on Tuesday night, also provide a window into the breakneck pace at which the White House operated in the aftermath of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, with Barrett revealing that Trump settled on her as his pick just three days after Ginsburg’s death.
Barrett’s statements on her standard for recusalsare certain to draw fire from Democrats, who have been pressuring Barrett over the issue as Republicans dismiss their arguments as having no basis. More broadly, Democratshave strongly objected to Senate Republicans’ effort to confirm a new Supreme Court justice this close to the election.
Barrett said she would recuse herself from cases involving her husband, Jesse Barrett, and her sister, Amanda Coney Williams, both of whom are attorneys. Barrett also would recuse herself from cases that include Notre Dame University as a party. Barrett has been a law professor at Notre Dame since 2002.
The 48-year-old nominee also said she would step aside from matters in which she participated while serving in her current role as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Top Democrats have called for Barrett to commit to recusing herself from issues that involve the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, given the possibility that the result could be decided by the Supreme Court. Democrats have also accused Trump of seeking to place a loyalist on the high court in the event of a contested election.
“The underlying fault here is with the timing, which makes it a sham, but certainly she should recuse herself. In a normal world, there would be no question about it,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters.
In a normal world a fascist ignoramus like Donald Trump wouldn’t be president and a power-mad nihilist like Mitch McConnell wouldn’t be running a supposed democracy like his personal fiefdom. But we don’t live in a normal world, do we?
"the china virus" "the muslim ban" telling American Jews "we love your country" "very fine people on both sides" "birtherism" Saying an American judge couldn't be impartial because he was "Mexican" warning suburban women of a black senator "Pocahontas" "Sh*thole countries" https://t.co/MWO61O9QqN
And there are hundreds of more recent examples. Like, for instance, the fact that he has ordered all diversity training to be stopped in the US Government which, as he explained last night, he sees as an attempt to make “certain [white] people” feel “they have no status, a sort of reversal” meaning that it’s bringing white people as low as Black people. I don’t think you need a Phd in sociology to understand what he’s saying there.
He is a racist in word and deed. And anyone who defends him is complicit in his racism and most likely racist themselves.
Ezra Klein observed something I noticed last night as well. In the midst of the incoherent spew coming from Trump, Biden was actually saying something worth noting:
Throughout the debate, Trump demanded Biden decry things he has already decried, or disavow policies he has already disavowed. And Biden did so eagerly. Asked to say “law and order,” he said it. Challenged to speak positively of law enforcement, he did. Pushed to denounce violent protesters, he called for their prosecution. Attacked for his plans to defund the police, pass a $100 trillion Green New Deal, and abolish private insurance, Biden said he opposed all of those ideas. “He just lost the left,” Trump muttered angrily.
Which made it all the more notable that when moderator Chris Wallace asked Biden to “tell the American people tonight whether or not you will support either ending the filibuster or packing the Court,” Biden refused. “Whatever position I take on that, that will become the issue,” he replied.
On the merits, this is a dodge. Those are consequential questions of governance, and Biden is running for president. His views are supposed to become flash points in the election. But in the context of all the sharp positions Biden did take, both for and against controversial policies, it was telling. Biden could have dismissed both ideas. At another time, he doubtlessly would have dismissed both ideas. That he refused to do so now reflects how far he’s moved, how far he believes his party has moved, or both.
Biden’s answers track what you’re hearing from moderate Senate Democrats these days. The conservative National Review, for instance, has been trying to get moderate Democrats on the record on both issues, and finding that the voices who were once reliable opponents to these ideas are increasingly leaving the door ajar. Asked about filibuster reform, for instance, Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), once a strong opponent, said, “I still support the filibuster, but, like I said, we’ll see what happens with the other side. Who knows what’s going to happen?” Asked about court-packing, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) said, “I think we’ve got to wait to get through the election.”
Biden’s refusal to foreclose his options for making ambitious legislative governance possible again, by returning to both a Senate where a simple majority can pass legislation and a Supreme Court balanced between liberal and conservative justices, reflects a sea change occurring among Senate Democrats more broadly. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has disabused even moderate Democrats of their more hopeful notions of how governance might work, and there’s a growing recognition that polarized parties can no longer furnish the bipartisan coalitions necessary to pass even modest legislative agendas. Democrats face a choice between their agenda and the Senate’s current rulebook, and increasingly, they know it.
The question shadowing Biden’s campaign is whether his oft-voiced nostalgia for the Senate that was will render him paralyzed by the Senate; that is, whether he will be too attached to a past era in American politics to make the decisions necessary to govern well in this one. Early in the campaign, I was reasonably sure it would. I’m less so now.
Biden is right that it’s a trap if he takes a position. But one could say the same thing about “law and order” and “the Green New Deal.” But it seems to me that he may have recognized that there is no chance for this country if the Republican Party, which has become a radical, anti-democratic political faction, has the ability to throw up procedural roadblocks and and then obstruct any progress through its illegitimate Supreme Court majority.
We will not survive if Mitch McConnell and Brett Kavanaugh are allowed a veto over everything that’s necessary to save us. Because they will do it. They’re fanatics and they’re drunk with power, a bad combination.
At the conclusion of the first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden on Tuesday night, CNN’s Dana Bash gave the best review of the proceedings: “That was a sh**show.” Or perhaps it was her colleague Jake Tapper who described it as “a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn’t a debate. It was a disgrace. It’s primarily because of President Trump, who spent the entire time interrupting [and] lying.” Or maybe Rachel Maddow’s assessment on MSNBC — a “monstrous cavalcade of increasingly wild and obscene lies” — draws the most accurate picture of what went down in Cleveland on Tuesday night.
However you want to phrase it, a great truth was expressed by Wolf Blitzer when he opened his show:
I’d like to welcome viewers from here and around the world. Clearly this debate was an embarrassment for the United States …
I would only add that it was an embarrassment entirely because of Donald Trump’s sophomoric behavior, which was more befitting a nasty tween bully trying to shake someone down for his lunch money than the president of the United States. But then, why would we expect otherwise? The Donald Trump whom millions of people watched in horror as he lied, insulted, interrupted and acted like a barbaric brute is who he is virtually every day at his briefings, press avails, interviews and, most especially, the grotesque super-spreader events he calls campaign rallies. To expect him to behave with the decorum befitting the leader of the most powerful country in the world is absurd. He simply doesn’t know how.
To the extent that he has ever cared about attracting back some of those “suburban housewives,” as he likes to call them, this debate was a massive failure. His sweaty face and angry grimace formed the surreal picture of every woman’s worst nightmare — the domineering boss, the cruel boyfriend, the violent father, the abusive husband. He could not have done more to drive them away.
Unfortunately, the moderator, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, was hapless throughout although I did feel some pity for him. Moderating a debate between a normal politician and an angry, petulant ignoramus isn’t easy. Wallace lost control from the beginning and was never able to get it back. It was a low point for his career.
We heard that Trump had prepared a bit for the debate with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and some flash cards and the notoriously short-tempered Jersey Boy must have worked him up into a frenzy. Christie himself must have had second thoughts because he reportedly said that he thought Trump “came in a little too hot,” which was the understatement of a lifetime. Trump was completely unhinged.
His insults were off the charts. For instance, after Biden’s criticized Trump’s COVID response by saying, “A lot more people are going to die unless he gets a lot smarter a lot quicker,” the president came unglued and snapped back:
Smart? You graduated either the lowest or almost the lowest in your class. Don’t ever use the word “smart” with me. Don’t ever use that word. Because you know what? There’s nothing smart about you, Joe.
Trump went on to spout an egregious lie from the right-wing fever swamps that Biden didn’t know which college he went to. Coming from the man who had his former henchman, Michael Cohen, threaten his college officials if they released his transcripts, that’s real chutzpah.
There was a lot of that sort of thing. But there were two occasions when Trump said things that were downright chilling. The discussion of “race and violence” (an unfortunate framing by Wallace, to say the least) was awful. From Trump saying that he canceled diversity training because it made “certain people feel as if they had no status in life — a sort of reversal” (meaning “reverse racism,” a right-wing trope) to yet another refusal to disavow white supremacy, Trump’s own racism was on full display.
When Trump asked who specifically he was supposed to disavow and Biden suggested the gang of far-right thugs known as the Proud Boys, Trump couldn’t do it. Instead he issued a call to arms:
Trump's response to a question asking him to condemn white supremacist groups was to ask the Proud Boys to "stand by" https://t.co/r6MTkuhJFn
That leads to the other issue that should give every American a few sleepless nights. Once again, Trump refused to say if he would agree to wait for the ballots to be counted, and did not promise to urge his supporters to stay calm:
"I am urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully" — Trump refuses to pledge to not declare victory until the election has been independently certified pic.twitter.com/YD14K8t8nQ
As for “poll watchers,” they are designated by local election officials. They’re not just random citizens crowding into polling places to breathe down the necks of voters. That’s called voter intimidation and it’s illegal. Nonetheless, I’m sure the Proud Boys heard that call too, as well as any number of other MAGA-heads who are prepared to keep people from voting by any means necessary.
Trump perhaps thought he could behave like a rabid dog and make Biden cower in the corner — and at least that didn’t happen. Biden was solid enough and Trump’s antics were so over the top that the whole exercise ended up feeling like an assault on the whole system. James Fallows of the Atlantic put it this way:
[T]his was a disgusting moment for democracy. Donald Trump made it so, and Chris Wallace let him. I hope there are no more debates before this election. If they happen, I won’t waste another minute of my life watching them.
It was exhausting and depressing, and I have to imagine that many viewers changed the channel after about 45 minutes of it. That spectacle was literally painful to watch at times because it reminded us how much our democracy has been degraded and demeaned by this man for four long years. Now he’s openly calling for violence and intimidation around the election. He may end up finally leaving office at the end of this ordeal, but it appears that he’s prepared to leave a smoldering ruin of a country in his wake.
Days ago when Junior (possibly stoned) posted an inexplicably gonzo Trump campaign ad (below), it was already clear that Trump was ready to use mob tactics to disrupt the election.
It’s 1981 all over again. Trump Jr. is recruiting “an army” to provide “election security,” and I think everyone with more than a room temperature IQ knows what that means. It means descending in force on polling places in Black neighborhoods and trying to scare people into staying away. This is what Republicans routinely did until a judge stopped them, and it’s what they’re going to do again now that a judge has removed the leash. Apparently 40 years wasn’t enough.
For those not familiar with what happened in 1981, here is a little primer.
It sounds like a drive to raise a militia. “We need every ablebodied man, woman to join an army for Trump’s election security” https://t.co/n0IJ7fjIP2
With the 1982 consent decree finally lifted, Republicans are throwing their ballot security machine back into high gear just as their presidential candidate prepares to throw sand into the gears of democracy.
Tuesday in Philadelphia was just a taste:
TRUMP observers are being blocked entry to all of the satellite voting locations in Philly!! What are they hiding?
For those needing reminding, here is who Mike Roman is (from ProPublica):
Mike Roman, who led the surveillance and intelligence-gathering unit for billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch before it was disbanded in April 2016, is best known for promoting a video showing members of the New Black Panthers allegedly intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. That controversial video of two men yelling racial slurs led to infighting and political recriminations inside the Justice Department and became a flash point for conservative media.
The incident in question involves one of Junior’s Army for Trump’s paid volunteers the Inquirer’s Ellie Rushing tried to interview:
To be clear, there are no polling places open in Philadelphia yet, just satellite elections offices. The Philadelphia Inquirer explains:
The Trump campaign has no poll watchers approved to work in Philadelphia at the moment. There are no actual polling places open in the city right now. And elections officials are following coronavirus safety regulations such as those limiting the number of people indoors.
It’s true that voters were casting ballots Tuesday, but the locations where they were doing so are satellite elections offices where mail ballots can be requested, completed, and submitted. Poll watchers don’t have the same rights at such locations as they do at traditional polling places on Election Day, officials said.
“We don’t give someone a poll watcher certificate to… watch somebody fill out their ballot at their kitchen table,” said Al Schmidt, a Republican and one of the city commissioners who run elections.
Catch that? Poll watcher certificaterequired. That ID is issued by the Board of Elections to people designated as poll observers by the local party. A small number are allowed inside at one time.
What this incident suggests is Trump’s army of unschooled goons will believe they can simply march into any polling place like it’s Comet Ping Pong, uncredentialled, on his campaign’s say-so or because they volunteered online, to save the election for their cult leader. Trump is essentially sending them in to get ejected or arrested so he can use it to “prove” mischief is going on and his people are persecuted. If widespread, this could be, you know, bad.
Vid from Philly satellite voting place. TRUMP observer told to step outside, no reason given – just leave and call the Commissioners Office. pic.twitter.com/0Or9yihKlv
Here in North Carolina, election officials began counting absentee ballots Tuesday night. And guess what?
“The Trump campaign sent a letter to all Republicans on county election boards, urging them to disregard new state guidelines for absentee-by-mail ballots,” reports WRAL.
Election boards are under instructions to ignore any “instructions” offered by political parties. The point may not be to get Republicans to openly defy state law. But their leader is letting them know what will and will not please him. And they want to please him.
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So, this all seems … horrible. — Bruce Banner in The Avengers (2012)
Is international humiliation too strong for describing Tuesday’s unpresidential, er, debate?
Donald J. Trump, ostensibly President of the United States, was one grain alcohol and branch water short of a rant about fluoridation and precious bodily fluids.
Those who sat through last night’s performance in disgust saw the United States of America disgraced not for past war crimes, no, but for lacking maturity. Even as the world’s oldest democracy, the world sometimes sees the U.S. as an adolescent nation. Tuesday night proved it. A mature nation would never tolerate an unbalanced, 70-something toddler in its highest office.
Moderator Chris Wallace quickly lost control as Donald J. Trump repeatedly interrupted and spoke over Joe Biden. Biden interrupted Trump some. Both spoke over each other. Chris Wallace tried to call down Trump:
Chris Wallace: I’m going to ask a question about race, but if you want to answer about something else, go ahead. But I think that the country would be better served, if we allowed both people to speak with fewer interruptions. I’m appealing to you, sir, to do that.
President Donald J. Trump: Well, and him too.
Chris Wallace: Well, frankly, you’ve been doing more interrupting than he has.
“What happened on that debate stage was unlike anything that’s ever happened on a presidential debate stage,” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow said after the “show” ended. “This sort of debate shouldn’t happen in a democracy.”
The debate took place the day the after a federal court convicted, Christopher Cantwell of extortion and making threats. Cantwell is the famous “Crying Nazi” of Charlottesville’s Unite the Right rally in which several people were injured and one died when a white supremacist named James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into counter-protesters. For crimes unrelated to his participation at Charlottesville, Cantwell faces up to 22 years in prison.
Whatever little substance there was disappeared in a wash of misbehavior by Trump as Wallace noted. But there was one exchange that defined the night.
CHRIS WALLACE: You have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out Antifa and other left wing extremist groups. But are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia group and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we’ve seen in Portland.
DONALD TRUMP: Sure, I’m willing to do that.
CHRIS WALLACE: Are you prepared specifically to do it.
DONALD TRUMP: I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing not from the right wing.
CHRIS WALLACE: But what are you saying?
DONALD TRUMP: I’m willing to do anything. I want to see peace.
CHRIS WALLACE: Well, do it, sir.
JOE BIDEN: Say it, do it say it.
DONALD TRUMP: What do you want to call them? Give me a name, give me a name, go ahead who do you want me to condemn.
CHRIS WALLACE: White supremacist and white militia.
JOE BIDEN: Proud Boys.
DONALD TRUMP: Proud Boys, stand back and stand by. But I’ll tell you what somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right wing problem this is a left wing.
JOE BIDEN: He’s own FBI Director said unlike white supremacist, Antifa is an idea not an organization-
DONALD TRUMP: Oh you got to be kidding me.
JOE BIDEN: … not a militia. That’s what his FBI Director said.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, then you know what, he’s wrong.
CHRIS WALLACE: We’re done, sir. Moving onto the next… [crosstalk]
Chris Wallace: "Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down…"
Trump: "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left." pic.twitter.com/4vrPocKzcu
Right-wing extremists immediately celebrated online. One prominent Proud Boys supporter on the conservative social media site Parler said (per the Washington Post) that Trump “appeared to give permission for attacks on protesters, adding that ‘this makes me so happy.’ ”
… that Telegram channels devoted to neo-Nazis and white supremacists portrayed Trump’s comments as signals of support for them. The Proud Boys dispute characterizations of them as white supremacists, but their actions often are touted by white supremacists and others on far-right political fringes.
“He legitimized them in a way that nobody in the community expected. It’s unbelievable. The celebration is incredible,” said Rita Katz, executive director of SITE. “In my 20 years of tracking terrorism and extremism, I never thought I’d see anything like this from a U.S. president.”
Grown men who throw violent tantrums if they don’t get what they want have their avatar.
If you are angry or disheartened or terrified with what you saw, remember this is what EVERY REPUBLICAN OFFICER HODLER is signing up for right now. THIS is what they want for our country.
Trump went from that to further undermining the legitimacy of the election he believes he cannot win. He would not even pledge not to steal the election.
“I am urging my supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully, because that’s what has to happen,” Trump said. He would not refuse to send his supporters into the streets if he loses, alleging there may already be massive fraud.
"This is not going to end well. This is not going to end well" — Trump on the 2020 election pic.twitter.com/OIYtkyzvfm
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I think this analysis of what we can expect from the debate by former Obama staffer Dan Pfeiffer is pretty good:
There are two ways to think about tonight’s massive audience. One one hand, 80 million people is a shitload of people. On the the other hand, 80 million people is less than half of the expected voter turnout this year. The handful of voters still deciding between Trump and Biden and the larger handful deciding between voting and not voting will disproportionately be in the half that doesn’t watch tonight. To the extent they know what happens, it will be through press coverage, online chatter, and viral clips. After Barack Obama lost the first debate to Mitt Romney in 2012, impressions of his performance got worse over time. In focus groups conducted the night of the debate, voters thought Obama underwhelmed. Within a few days, our polling showed voters thought the debate was an epic, potentially campaign ending disaster. This shift was not because people went back and watched the debate to reevaluate Obama’s showing. A narrative formed that Obama got his ass kicked (a narrative that was driven by some preemptive panic from liberal commentators).
That narrative was then consumed by the majority of the electorate that didn’t watch the debate via cable news, Twitter and Facebook. How the debate performances are framed, which moments the press focuses on, and what clips go viral will be more impactful on the campaign than what happens on the stage tonight. We all have the opportunity and responsibility to shape that narrative by pushing out Joe Biden’s best moments and pushing back on the misinformation that will go unchecked by the moderator.
This is important:
A decent amount of the voters and 100 percent of the reporters watching the debate will be doing so through a two screen experience. One eye on the TV and one eye on Twitter. Opinions about the performances of the candidates will be algorithmically affected. The moments that take off online early in the debate will be the most consequential because they will be shared the most and be seen repeatedly by people throughout the debate. Early reactions positive or negative will shape opinions of every subsequent moment. In an online world, failure and success tend to compound over time.
RT-thirsty reporters and pundits will be racing to make declarative statements about who won and lost. The earlier the declaration is made, the more attention said declaration will get. In 2012, Ben Smith of Buzzfeed declared Romney the winner of the first debate long before the debate was over. Knowing the Biden debate prep team as I do (they are best in the business), I am confident they are trying to front load some of his better moments for the first third of the debate.
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The debate is here. There is nothing we can do about it so we might as well sit back, try to relax and watch for the moments that matter. One piece of advice: If you are a Biden supporter and you feel like channelling your panic into a tweet — don’t.
Develop an inner-monologue.
That last is good advice. If you’re panicking, please keep it all inside.
