Report: White House Plans To Nix COVID-19 Task Force Even As Outbreak Rages On

Farewell, COVID-19 task force. We barely knew ye.

The White House is planning to put the kibosh on President Donald Trump’s task force operations, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.


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Trump beleves he can win reelection by focusing on the economy.

Someone should tell him that dead people don’t shop.

Or vote. (Except in Chicago, of course!)

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If there is no COVID-19 task force, that means that there is no COVID-19.

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And OT—because there is no election coverage or coverage of what Democrats do or say:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says that Biden’s refutation of Tara Reade’s accusations are credible, and she stands by her endorsement of Biden.

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Killing your base is an odd re-election strategy. If we are lucky, it will work.

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It’ll be the open-the-economy hacks going forward.

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Three explanations:

  1. If Trump clicks the heels of his ruby slippers three times, he’ll be safe back at home.

  2. If Trump just wishes hard enough, Tinkerbell won’t die of respiratory failure.

  3. Trump is trying to wish the plague into the cornfield.

Take your pick.

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~sigh~ Did anyone take this distraction seriously?
It bought Trump two-- maybe 3 news cycles.
As it was only meant to do.

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The only cure for an invisible enemy is an invisible task force.

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Donnie is sitting behind the Resolute Desk (pause to barf at the thought), with his fingers in his ears, chanting “nah nah nah nah nah I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you, everything is fine, everything is fine…”

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k and because Trump never takes responsibility, his lackies will have to decide if they want to take all of the blame.

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No matter the commission? It’ll be the same 7 hacks.
No one else is willing.

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Don’t need waste taxpayer’s money on a whole “task force.” We’ve got the Blunderkind Jared Kushner, who can take care of everything with his one-boy “task farce.”

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Does this mean Fauci and Brix can testify?

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So, guess we’re going for the worst-case 500-750K deaths by the end of the year.

And that may end up being optimistic.

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Well, it can’t be no. 2, because that would require that Trump care what happens to Tinkerbell.

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Trump makes up his own reality and his cult follows. They are going to act like the virus no longer exists. I had a Trumpster coworker who I used to go backpacking with ask me if I was interested in going hiking this month, the messaging has already started and being believed.

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Covid-19 was just an extra few lines of code that were accidentally released in an update to the Matrix.

That’s why Bill Gates is working on the patch.

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Forget the task force just rely on inexperienced volunteers. He was even on the phone with one of the Fox and friends and Judge Pirro to gather up volunteers. So much winning!

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o/t

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