WH Adviser Cites ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist While Boosting Hydroxychloroquine

Health professionals widely agree that hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug President Donald Trump claims to be a cure for COVID-19, has not been proven to effectively treat the virus.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1324398
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We’re reached Peak Navarro.

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Peter Navrro, a man of many words and no real information

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“I saw a meme! So suck it, CNN.”

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Idiots on all sides of this one, I’m afraid.

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I’ll let the epidemiologists be my defense, you hack.

Why is a “trade advisor” even weighing in on this? Can we please stop putting a camera in his face? Seriously, please stop asking this man for his thoughts.

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It was ridiculous. First off, Adams is a cartoonist and secondly, he is a batsht RW conspiracy theorist. He was able to capture Tech in the 80’s but his mouth and ‘political ideology’ quickly showed him to be the quack he is…

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This is why:

“Doctors disagree about things all the time. My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I’m a social scientist,” he told CNN’s John Berman on “New Day.” “I have a Ph.D. And I understand how to read statistical studies, whether it’s in medicine, the law, economics or whatever.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/peter-navarro-social-scientist-cnntv/index.html

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You know, Erin, when I put my own journalist hat on I don’t let people use me to amplify their lies and distortions. I get that you’re about 85 percent trapped into doing this by the structure, the medium, and the traditions. But you all have to find a way out of that trap. Good for you for pushing back, but this lying hack should not be on TV in the first place. He should be home, yelling at his like the crank mediocrity he is.

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Adams was outed as a trumper years ago. And sure, before that I would have let him do brain surgery on me. After all, he is a cartoonist, and I am a cartoon character.

But just how fucking stupid is Peter Navarro? Or, from another angle, what does trump have on him that he continues to embarrass himself before the world with idiotic nonsense like this?

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He’s got to have a ton of money tied up in hydroxychloroquine, right?

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Leave it to a Trump devotee to cite a well-known crank: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

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Let it fucking go you great white twit.

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“I’m not catastrophically ignorant, Erin,” he explained. “I’m just drawn that way.”

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Very, very stupid.

He was an unemployable buffoon before Jared found him on Amazon. TrumpWorld is all he’s got. He’s almost certainly angling for a job next year with OAN/TrumpTV.

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CNN, the outlet that helped elect Trump with billions of dollars of promotion via coverage, the outlet that created Kayleigh McEnany, the outlet that hired Corey Lewandowski after he was fired from the Trump campaign for reasons including sexual misconduct, continues to be a shitshow. We know that anyone still defending this piece of shit president has no valid argument on anything. Yet, CNN continues to provide Navarro and company a national platform. Just stop the insanity already.

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The captions just write themselves.

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Scott Adams has just been declared to be trump’s Scott Baio of cartoonists. Congratulations! /s

Scott - ETTD. And that’s a fact and not another conspiracy.

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I’ll wager that Taylor Swift knows more about Covid-19 than Peter Navarro does.

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The entire trump administration is pointy haired bosses. Except for the ones who are deliberately evil.

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