Moore Compares Protesters To Rosa Parks | Talking Points Memo

Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore faces backlash for recently comparing protesters defying stay-at-home orders in Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.


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“I call these people the modern-day Rosa Parks — they are protesting against injustice and a loss of liberties,” Moore said.

You and every MAGAt in the country are free to exercise your right to die so long as you don’t take any of us sentient beings with you.

Oh, and fuck off.

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Yep, everybody has reached the boiling point. This has seriously been going on for less than 2 months. Wonder what this imbecile would have said during the great depression or WWII, yep we’ve reached the boiling point. Time to turn things around, we’re in control, we’re not going to be ruled by a virus.
And, no I didn’t go through the depression or WWII but in thinking about all this, it just shows how spoiled we are. I want what I want and I want it now!!!

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OK? But as I recall, nobody died from a virulent epidemic as a result of Rosa Parks’ protest, whereas these TumpPandemic jokesters/protesters are likely spreading the disease far and wide in their respective cities. Now who will be held responsible for that?

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I say make him the grand marshall of a parade in every city with protesters…he can walk the street and shake hands with all of them. Rosa Parks would have stayed home…don’t insult her intelligence!!

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Yawn. He pulled “trigger libtard” duty today. Let’s not give them the reaction they are after. How about: “OK Trumper.”

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I’m thinking there must be a corollary to Godwin’s law. Something about invoking Rosa Parks.

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Stephen Moore, just another jackass Trump advisor.

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These people are so transparent, citing Rosa Parks when it suits them. At the time they would have wanted nothing to do with her and would have wanted to send her back to where she came from. Somehow, he must think this makes him look so open minded when most of the Rethugs don’t know who Rosa Parks was.

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Some people stand up for the right to ride the bus, and some people can’t help throwing themselves under it.

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Instead of calling to pay those “again, people at the bottom and businesses” he wants them to open up and go to work. Asking them to die for his “living standard.” Theirs will be hurt regardless, when they become ill and can’t work afterwards because of scarred lungs, or they flat out die.

He really has bought the “it’s no worse than a cold” insanity. There is no way to open anything safely yet.

Our county is reporting 4 positive tests that recovered. Anecdotal evidence has several more, as in someone told someone that their father in law was positive but still running around town.

None of us really know what is going on, and won’t, until we get adequate, accurate testing.

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These cognitively impaired, selfish, cowards, unwilling to make sacrifices for the common good, are the polar opposites of Rosa Parks.

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The usual scapegoats invoked by he who doesn’t take responsibility at all.

In tangentially related news, U.S. sent millions of face masks to China early this year, ignoring pandemic warning signs, because the god of an unregulated free market economy said “Let their be profit.”

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Trump promised to hire “only the best.” The he assembled a C-list team to staff his maladministration. They left, and he then had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to get anyone to work for him. With Moore, it’s become clear that scraping the bottom of the barrel wasn’t sufficient; he turned the barrel over and got what was crawling underneath the barrel.

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We are not this desperate for news, Josh.

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The comparison, it goes without saying, is inapt.

More to the point: It’s remarkable how every Trump appointee without exception is a raging asshole. There’s not one that can fake it for 15 or 20 minutes. And how often in daily life do you encounter someone like that? So it’s really something of a feat, this level of consistency.

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I call self-righteous, stupid bull shit!

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Trump minion is stupid, clumsy, clueless, offensive, culturally isolated and sadistic.

Next.

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I think they misspelled Typhoid Mary.

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I think we all remember the story of Rosa getting on the bus uninvited wearing a flak jacket and carrying her AK-47. Very uppity, that woman.

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