Admin Plans Pandemic Response Office | Talking Points Memo

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to launch an office at the State Department similar to the National Security Council’s pandemic response office that it disbanded in 2018 amid surging coronavirus cases in several cities.


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What good can this possibly accomplish when our so-called “president” will likely not let this new office say or do anything constructive?

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It is a Trump approved office, not an Obama created one… Therefore it will be able to dispense the wisdom of the Stable Genius

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Better tell who ever is hired to be a part of this too little too late operation to not unpack. Once Trump is gone you may need to move in a hurry.
Now I wonder who they will get to staff the Pandemic Response Office? How many more Evangelical, anti-abortion,and anti-science folks do they still have sitting in their dugout?

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Sounds like Jared is calling the shots. Another fancy roll out with no substance…sound familiar?

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Wisdom. . . . Trump. . . . . this does not compute.

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The new pandemic office will just be a posting on the White House website with a link to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 page.

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Oh for fucks sake. Does he think he’s fooling anyone anymore?

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“And you need swift decisions from the President, and you need that policy coordinated across the entire government,” Monaco told CNN.

Pure comedy gold.

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And Kayleigh McEnany is busy developing the series of lies about how this is not an admission, or even recognition, that they fucked up in disbanding the NSC’s Directorate for Global Health and Security and Biodefense.

And how this is absolutely, positively not an acknowledgement that the black guy had a good plan in place.

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As long as President Donald J. Numbnuts has any control over it, what’s the use ?

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Anyone not see this coming? Kabuki.

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Hey wasn’t there something about they could always get them back into the administration if the need arose?
Clowns to left of me, jokers to the right…and no one knows where their contact info went.

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OK, who hid the Rolodex?

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“I have a confession: I’m not a Pandemic Response Office. I’m 58 weasels in a trench coat.”

(h/t The New Yorker)

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STOP!

Please do not waste US taxpayer’s money to gaslight about Covid!

We know the unscientific advice of the Do Nothing Orange Traitor
= Drink Cholox
Just try it (pseudo whispered in an oily snake salesman voice)

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It’s on the desk, but they never did figure out the light switches - Thanks, Obama!

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That was my first thought, will be A-OK because it will have Turnip’s name. Of course that Niclang will have nothing to do with it so the Despicable Ones will also approve.

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As dumb as all of this diversionary horseshit is from the outside, I am imagining the discussions on the inside to be not only dumber, but more callous, cruel and ignorant than a group of klansmen discussing the possibility of changing their brand.

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