A Rollicking Tick-Tock Of The Comically Inept SharpieGate Scandal | Talking Points Memo

The 81-year-old secretary of Commerce, in Greece on an official trip last September, was awakened from his early-morning slumber by a call from the then-White House chief of staff. It was about the President’s baffling claim on Twitter — made the previous Sunday — that Hurricane Dorian, bound for the east coast, was actually going to hit Alabama.


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Trump Enablers:
Just pile them with so much trumpian lies and they will soon forget the truth!

Trump: KAG (Keep America Great)
Truth: KAG = Killing American Geriatrics

Trump: MAGA (Make American Great Again)
Truth: MAGA = Morons Are Governing America

Trump: America First
Truth: Trump/Putin First

Truth be told…Trumpism and Trumpian LIES are deadly!

Addendum:

How to cognitive!

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The first incident in which we learned that the Dumpsterfire’s ego is more important than public safety. The country should have put a stop to his nonsense back then.

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How many ways can you spell D O O F U S ? This is a clown car shit show.

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Shorter version: Saving Liar Trump.

Nice to know that the entire machinery of the federal government is being utilized to soothe a reckless President’s fragile ego, instead of serving the American people, but, by now, we’ve become all too familiar with this story.

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He killed thousands in Puerto Rico.

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It reads like an episode of Drunk History…

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How does TRUMP do?

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How many days to the election? It can’t come soon enough.

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The Adventures of the KKKeystone Kops!

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Um, isn’t altering a federal weather prediction for your own political ends a crime? Yes, it is.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2074

Whoever knowingly issues or publishes any counterfeit weather forecast or warning of weather conditions falsely representing such forecast or warning to have been issued or published by the Weather Bureau, United States Signal Service, or other branch of the Government service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both.

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According to the timeline of events in the report, that statement came together notably without input from career meteorologists at NOAA or the National Weather Service.

Instead, Ross’s chief of staff and acting general counsel, Michael Walsh, worked with then-acting deputy general counsel David Dewhirst and NOAA’s acting chief Neil Jacobs — who didn’t include other important officials at the organization.

That’s a whole heap of acting there. And it was bad acting at that.

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In any normal situation this would have been a tempest in a teapot. But noooooo…not with the orange meteorologist-in-charge. Hide the sharpies ffs!!!

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Clusterfuck-ups.

And this is the brain trust administration that we are forced to rely on to save us from COVID!

The Keystone Cops look like the NASA Mission Control compared to these guys.

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The 81-year-old secretary of Commerce, in Greece on an official trip last September,

Why does the article note Wilbur Ross’s age?

And I have a followup question.

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Absentee, vote-by-mail, or in person?

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I don’t know which yet, but early and often is my mantra.

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A gangbang of a clusterfuck.

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That’s just way too much governing. Get back to winning, assholes.

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Because the author had to look at photos of him?

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