De Blasio ‘Shocked’ By Trump Silence | Talking Points Memo

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed President Trump for his reluctance to help cities and states recover from the COVID-19 crisis as he pushes to reopen the economy, during an interview on CNN Tuesday morning.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1305119

Again, you didn’t have to be a seer to see this coming.

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Nancy Pelosi will not stand for this budgetary abuse of the suffering cities.

And she really, really, really will not be having any of it once she’s gathered evidence and done some investigating and had lunch with Jerry Nadler and got a good night’s sleep. No way, no how!!

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It would be weird to realize as President the only people in the future that will look back on your administration fondly will either be insane or criminally rapacious profiteers.

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He’s too busy drowning the government in the bathtub.

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So, imPotus does something dirty/illegal, and the senate, DoJ, and supreme court back him up, and this is Pelosi’s fault? Nancynabobism detected.

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Some would call it “quid pro quo”.

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How anyone is shocked by what Trump does or doesn’t do.
What shocks and concerns me is the silence of , acceptance of, allowing Trump to destroy what is good about our Country.
It seems it is all about Moscow Mitch and his protection of Trump and the GOP backing him.

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Personally, I am not shocked.

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Asked for a reaction, Trump said:

"What does he want? I already shot everyone on Fifth Avenue, didn’t I?

Promises made, promises kept!"

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Any time Trump is silent is is shocking.

As such…

I could use some good ol’ shock and awe…

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If fixing problems created by Trump during this pandemic requires testimony from pertinent witnesses to the numerous missteps and possible criminal deeds going on, well, Trump is home free. All anyone has to do to avoid testifying before the House is to tell them to piss off.

Well, this second wave is going to be massive.

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Well, that describes pretty much the entire social circle of the Inpatient Incumbent, so it may be much less weird to him than you might expect.

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The Trump Pandemic Tribunal can’t come soon enough.

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This opening up bullshit is wildly unpopular with just about everyone including GOP voters. The public is not as stupid as the WH is and it doesn’t all watch Fox.

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That’s what Fat Nixon is counting on. Always going for the bigly ratings…

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It looks like the Reactionaries are trying to use the pandemic to get state and local governments to reorganize into a form more to their liking and not as a counter-example to the places they represent.
It’s gruesome, but not surprising.

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Dems. need to learn to draft a good Bill, explain their reasoning, and stick to their guns. It is the constant caving to get half of what is right that allows Trump and the Repubs to own Dems every single time. If Dems. continue to roll over rather than hold the line, yes, the should get blamed too. It’s as if they like getting punked.

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You seem quite willing to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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