Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday joined growing calls from Republicans to wear masks despite President Trump’s reluctance to do so as coronavirus cases surge in several states.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany continued deferring to local officials on mask-wearing requirements.
Imagine if WW2 was fought with deference to local officials…
“NY & CA wanna sit this one out, Ike. Make do.”
When you’ve lost a suck-up like MIck, you’ve lost.
It would certainly be nice if unmasked jerks were not encouraged to go around micro spreading the disease that seems to have the world’s economy screwed.
Mick is on sabbatical in Ireland in a make-work job as a reward for his butt-licking and lying as COS. Do not interview him anymore. Force him to write a book.
I like Mick Jagger. I don’t like Mick Mulvaney.
Yes, Mick, he could. But he won’t as is his wont, and you of all people should know that.
The Clintons and Obamas should have issued a joint public statement opposing masks. Drumpf would have taken about 30 seconds to make them mandatory.
Get a clue, Mickey. Nobody leading a death cult is going to advocate for anything that might protect them. Sheesh.
“Certainly could urge”… mealy mouthed elevated to an art form…
I’d forgotten about that.
Well, at least he will be perpetually deluged with news and commentary showing more clearly than here that “MAGA” is a joke and that his boss is a figure of ridicule and scorn.
Not that it will make any difference, of course, but perhaps even he may duck his head when out and about, hoping that people don’t recognize him – and grateful that his name is Mulvaney and doesn’t stick out like it would elsewhere.
Good luck un-shitting that bed, Mick. Trump is too busy fending off his narcissistic fears, using his loyal 35% as human shields and the rest of us as microbiological cannon fodder.
Masks are a rational response to an inherently preventable threat.
He won’t ever say as much, but Trump’s only possible play is implicitly framing the pandemic as unavoidable, which makes the 130K deaths of other people’s anonymous grandmas a regrettable but necessary sacrifice to our Precious Economy.
He’ll gladly demand premature credit for aspirational vaccines and miracle cures, but will undermine any effective practical measure, even if (or especially if) his own agencies and surrogates recommend it. To do otherwise would be to spotlight his own murderous failure to act.
Dommyluc could say Mulvaney “certainly could” go fuck himself with a rabid porcupine.
But dommyluc will not say that, since he would not inflict that kind of harm on a rabid porcupine.
Would it help people get the message if all masks looked like a literal Band-Aid on people’s faces?
Because that’s all it is - an incredibly simple activity that slightly mitigates the effects of a virus’ transmission but otherwise laughably inadequate in dealing with the pandemic on any sort of societal level. Without massive testing and contact tracing, this country is a failed state, no matter how much of the population is wearing masks. All this newfound enthusiasm for promoting masks is doing is showing the Zygote Steps of a Republican party that’s finally acknowledging there’s a problem in the first place.
I am very glad you added that second sentence or I’d’a had to whup you upside the haid for harassing porcupines who already have enough to worry about…
It is probably because of my age, but I keep imagining a world where something like the pandemic hits us and as soon as we realize masks can eliminate it, everywhere you go and everyone you see is wearing a mask. These daydreams make reality all the more bitter. Anyone who doesn’t think we are trapped in a twisted version of reality need only look at the US in comparison to virtually every other country in the world and the reaction to the pandemic. We have reached some kind of event horizon in our politics and it looks just like this. We are the definition of mentally ill - we are a harm to ourselves and others on the world stage.
Other things trump could but probably won’t do:
Goldman Sachs points out that wearing masks could help the economy, so all of a sudden the GOP is paying attention.And we know Trump will never wear a mask because it would be smeared in spray tan. They could make him masks the same color as his face, but he still wouldn’t be able to manage getting the loops off his ears without looking like what he is, an old man (and I’m about his age). Notice that he never touches his face? Because then his hands would have orange smears on them. What a mess he is.
Sadly, yeah. Turns out the thing the people of the United States most value isn’t fanciful ivory-tower concepts like “freedom” or “equality”, or even fame or riches - it’s the Ability To Be A Stupid Asshole And Get Away With It. It’s the motivation behind refusing to wear masks, and it happens to be the one, single thing the person the country chose for President does really, really well.
Mick Mulvaney is right - Mick Mulvaney makes it very clear
DONALD TRUMP should just
ADMIT HE WAS TOTALLY WRONG and
CHANGE HIS POSITION and
WEAR A MASK and
TELL PEOPLE TO WEAR A MASK
REMEMBER THIS IS WHAT MICK MULVANEY SAYS THAT TRUMP SHOULD DO
… we can sit back and watch … this should be fun … please pass the popcorn …
