Pelosi Rips Trump On COVID-19 Response | Talking Points Memo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) piled on her criticism of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis during a press conference on Thursday.


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The driving directions line is gold. Right on the money, a little funny, easy to understand. Something for the Biden campaign quiver.

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You can say OMG she’s totally trivializing the pathology but you probably aren’t saying that because it’s a perfect summation and never mind the pathology, it portrays him as the kind of brain-dead macho buffoon he exists to be a parody of. This is her master-stroke so far. Study this, Rick Wilson. Learn from a genius of the genre.

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Hell, he keeps ignoring all the “Road Closed” signs he keeps passing.

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Not to mention “Bridge Out.” Also “Witches Castle 1 mile I’d turn back if I were you!”

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Sure, there’s a lot to work with, but she’s so good at making him small.

Better.

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This is the theme of Donald J. Trump’s new campaign.

I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
Not me,
Not I,
Not me!
So there!
Never gonna be a man,
I won’t!

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Well… since he can’t read…

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Going the wrong way down the up ramp to the freeway.

Always. One Way signs don’t apply to Trump and Trumpers.

MJ Hegar is another “mouthy female.” Cornyn called her a Liberal after she won the run off and she turned right around and called him a “spineless bootlicker.” hahahaha

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She’s not wrong.
I love that woman.

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She’s not wrong. But #misandry

Oh, that’s gonna be a fun one.

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Yeah I’m thinking it is too. She is one tough mama.

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Hardly.

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Howso not?

I’ll let the cartoon explain it to you.

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Well, the alternative is that Trump is proactively choosing this path, not just being stubborn, but that this is the path he wants to take. I’m of the opinion that it’s more than just not wanting to ask for directions. Perhaps he sees an intrinsic advantage to himself by just feigning “concern” while allowing the virus to run amok, complicating the election, among other calamities.

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The truly dumb, the scientifically illiterate and the right wing religious fanatics have way too much power in this country. Add in a basketball court full of sociopathic billionaires and you have the stew we are now all swimming in. Nancy’s remarks are welcome, and they are apt, but the sad fact is that we are heading full speed at the iceberg and our projected turnaround timeline of 5-6 months is not nearly soon enough to avoid the collision.

What, if any, good things happen between now and then is dependent upon the kindness of Republicans like McConnell. Hence my near suicidal thinking these days.

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You know what the turnout was here in COVID central for the Decmcratic primary runoff? Runoff yet - over a million Democrats.

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I don’t disagree with you or the cartoon, but the ole trope/stereotype of men not asking for directions, not reading the instructions, etc. etc… it’s a mild form of misandry.

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