Menendez Says Superspreader Parties Go Against State Dept’s ‘Own Guidance’ For COVID Safety | Talking Points Memo

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) is calling out Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for hypocrisy — urging America’s top diplomat to cancel a series of holiday parties that defy the State Department’s own guidelines against holding “non-mission critical” gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.


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Hitler and the gang partied in the FuhrerBunker in April 1945 too.

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Employee’s unavailable for work statements should include the State Department’s guide lines. Unfortunately, people are desperate and will probably show up for work.

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Who cares? Most of those in danger will be Republicans and elite diplomats, and no one will miss them. You go, Pompeo!

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Superspreader Parties Go Against State Dept’s ‘Own Guidance’ For COVID Safety

I would hope so.

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The Secretary of State has no business doing these domestic events with taxpayer money. It’s a grift. It’s openly corrupt. He’s doing all this unethical networking events to to try to set himself up as the ‘smart Trump’ for 2024. I’m hoping by then, either Trump will block him by refusing to leave, or the Trump stink will be toxic and he’ll be a forgotten partisan hack, trying to get his congressional seat back. Here’s hoping.

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What do you expect from Pompeo? I think he graduated last in Integrity in his West Point class.

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Are you kidding, pompous Pompeo wrote the book on hypocrisy.

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In that Pic, Pompous Porcine and Polarizing Pompeo looks all Puffed up, Pious and Portly, and is Popping out of his Polyester suit coat as he Prepares to Plunder taxpayer funds. He’s an asshole (sorry, that description doesn’t start with a “P.” Hey wait, he’s a Prick!

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…urging America’s top diplomat to cancel a series of holiday parties that defy the State Department’s own guidelines against holding “non-mission critical” gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic.

As the administration has made abundantly clear, Donnie’s mission is to spread the virus as widely as possible.
If Mike wants to have a future in his party, I’m sure he’ll stay with the program.

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“Before Representative Gaetz died in an overcrowded ICU with only a nurse holding his hand while he cried for his mommy, he attended a party where a good time was had by all.”

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It simply doesn’t matter. They are OUT and the possibility of being invited to the WH in the next 4 years is remote. Precautions be damned. They are going to ‘reward’ all those donors with invitations before the grift is over.

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Who the fuc goes to these things? Especially now when Pompeo is completely powerless to help or harm any careers.

I won’t even eat inside half empty restaurants.

If I were the incoming SOS, I’d want a guest list so I could create my own ‘stupid list’.

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Hey, Bob. Ask Pompeo if he cares. Go ahead, ask him…

He is beginning his 2024 Presidential Campaign and he is determined that the taxpayers are going to pay for it.

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After 9/11 Mike Pompeo told a church crowd that the “threat to America” was caused by “people who deeply believe that Islam is the way.”

We have now reached the number killed on that day as our daily death rate from Covid in this country. The “threat to America” is now caused by people who deeply believe that the Trump is the way.

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Protological Pillock works.

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Pompeo and his wife have invited roughly 900 guests to an indoor holiday party at the State Department later this month.

Yes, 900 guests !INDOORS !

This is what you would do - if you were designing a “SUPER SPREADER EVENT”
… and wanted a highly redundant design

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Maybe, just maybe these WH numbnuts prefer risking life and limb by contracting COVID-19 rather than going to prison when Biden takes Office… but that’s just me typing out loud.

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It’s worse than that. “Silent for too long” Senator Romney’s recent comments:

It’s not a just a great human tragedy, it’s premeditated indifference (manslaughter?) that lead to deaths based on purely political considerations. Pompeo belongs in that group as well, as do just about all Republican politicians in Washington who could have at least attempted to stop the President and Senate Majority Leader McConnell - but they chose to remain silent. So why should we listen to them now?

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Well it was Hitler’s birthday on April 20th. Ten days later though he was “kaput”.