De Blasio: It’s ‘Astounding’ Trump Is Demonizing Blue States During Pandemic

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted President Donald Trump on Wednesday for smearing states led by Democrats and painting federal COVID-19 assistance as a “bailout” for those states.


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This whole “blue-state bailout” canard is going to be really interesting in a couple of months after all these freedumb red states start collapsing due to the pandemic. Of course, they’ll blame Noo York for everything…

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News flash: Democratic mayor of large U.S. city discovers modern GOP lurking in the city’s political world, astounded by discovery.

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Astounding but normal behaviour…

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Mr Mayor he was doing this when he first came into office,as a matter of fact he started his payback campaign with the SALT ACT.

Pandemic made it more painful.

“Is the reduction of the SALT deduction just a rich person problem? Yes and no. It’s probably more accurate to say it’s a rich-person-in-a-blue-state problem. Residents of high-tax California, D.C., Massachusetts, Illinois, Maryland, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey would be the filers most impacted. Further, you don’t have to be truly wealthy to be impacted by the SALT deduction cap. Middle class Americans who currently itemize, especially those who are homeowners paying substantial property taxes, may also face higher taxes.”

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Since I who knows not much is not astounded by,nor surprised by Trump’s low bred tactics how can New Yorker DeBlasio?

Donnie the Divider is Decidedly Dumb, Delirious, and Delusional.

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No, it’s not.

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It does seem a little hard to believe, doesn’t it?

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astounding may not hold the value the term once engendered

pre-trumpism, yeah, I would buy that, but 4 years of normalizing this fool has lead to the marks intentionally ignoring science, logic, reality…

this surreality brought to you instant gratification and the inability to objectively embrace facts

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We are watching Donald Trump incinerating any possible future for the GOP, in real time, and with the Senate and red-state governors handing him the accelerant.

A shame a lot of poor folks in red states are going to have to die before the immolation is over.

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His statement was clearly rhetorical. He meant in terms of how things should obviously be in any decent modern country, not in terms of how Trump operates.

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De Blasio: It’s ‘Astounding’ Trump Is Demonizing Blue States During Pandemic

Anyone Else: It’s ‘Expected and Typical" That Trump Is Demonizing Blue States During Pandemic

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Let’s forego discussion of how ‘astounding’ the standard op procedure of Trump is and move on to discussing how obvious and pathetic the ploy is.

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Astounding? No…more like de rigueur …

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I’m seriously passed being astounded by anything Drumpf would say or do, except maybe a photo of him helping a little old lady across the street.

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Thanks for that. You’re right. I hadn’t realized.

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I dunno. I think a lot of these cretins and troglodytes are going to drag themselves to the polls, hauling their IVs, their oxygen tanks and their ekg hookups behind them, bare asses open to the breeze through their flapping hospital gowns, so they can vote for Orange Hitler before the pneumonia takes them. They call that “Owning the Libs.”

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It’s not ‘astounding’…it’s Trump and his belittling smearing little way hoping to piss them off. He doesn’t ‘think’ they can fight back…or sue he and his little vindicative, revenge-filled WH because he ‘owns’ the DOJ. He’s a horrible, rotten, no good SOB.

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American filmmaker and author Eugene Jarecki on Wednesday launched an online “Trump Death Clock” to measure the cost in human lives of President Donald Trump and his administration’s “reckless handling” of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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