WH Adviser Belittles Media Coverage Of Staggering Unemployment As ‘Pity Party’

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That’s one of an amazing series I’ve seen. I know what it’s like to be up against it that way. I’ve had a recent windfall so I can ride this out OK, but most people aren’t that lucky. Navarro just wrote the other side a hell of an ad, that’s all I can say.

For some of them I think the idea that suburban people could need assistance to eat is just beyond their ken. The scope of this thing in general just seems to be beyond them. They’re in five miles over their heads, and this is one of the scores of ways it shows.

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If you train your eye on the cab, you can see Navarro…

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Give it time. I’m sure the Great Depression wasn’t the Great Depression two months in either.

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This looks like Great America in Lake County (far northeast corner of the state, north of Chicago), which has the second highest Covid-19 outbreak in the state. Generally a reasonably well-off county. Until now…

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There must be a Kool-Aid dispenser in every hallway in the WH.

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Aerosol sprayers, too…

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He’s just upset because he can’t go to Disneyland. Hope he gets stuck forever on the “Small World After All” ride with that jingle like tune forever whistling and whinnying in his cranium. Either that or cut his head off.

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Another stone cold sociopath heard from.

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Just wait till unemployment hits 20% and Navarro will say, Prosperity is just around the corner!

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Actually, it pretty much was.
Hoover’s GOP do-nothing policy had a lot to do with making it as bad as possible.
And then it got worse.

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I’m just waiting for Navarro to repeat Andrew Mellon’s “In a Depression, wealth flows back to its natural owners BS!”

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“This is not the Great Depression,” the White House official continued. “Anybody who thinks this is the Great Depression doesn’t understand either history or economics.”

Well, I guess that rules you out, doesn’t it Pete?

Navarro claimed that President Donald Trump had built “the strongest and most beautiful economy” before the virus took hold.

Personally, I’ve always tried to put efficacy over aesthetics when it comes to money matters. Is he just trying to suck up to the boss, or is he similarly afflicted?

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Bingo. He doesn’t know much about history, economics, or being tactful in a disaster, but he knows what he needs to do to keep his job.

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Yes and no. It wasn’t until 1933 that unemployment hit its peak.

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Well Navarro is working on his perfect record. He has been wrong about everything, so listen to him and then you’ll know that the opposite is true…

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I just couldn’t find any counter-evidence to suggest that he isn’t as idiotic as Trump.

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Maybe Navarro thinks this kind of performative cruelty will help make things up with His Orangeness for the now rather awkward warning memo he wrote back in January. Some chance.

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“This is not the Great Depression,” the White House official continued. “Anybody who thinks this is the Great Depression doesn’t understand either history or economics.”

Tell that to Herbert Hoover.

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Deja vu, all over again…

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If the economy is ssssoooo strong as navarro suggests then why did it take such a huge dump and it wasnt just b/c convir19 either… the economy hasnt grown over 2.5 % since trump took office, DOW which isnt the economy was trending downward since trumps tariffs and wars which still arent resolved…and of course the HUGE failure of trumps tax cut and dereg strategy resulting in a tripling of the debt…This CEOs know better arrogance is failing…

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