The "Tyranny Is The Government Telling You You Can't Go To A Hair Salon Because There's A Plague" Edition
First, A Spot-On Impression of Orange Foolius
Jared Kushner, as the US coronavirus death toll surpasses the Vietnam War and approaches 60,000: "This is a great success story, and I think that's really what needs to be told." pic.twitter.com/ax6ok3cYCV— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
"We've done more tests than any other country in the world, so we've gotta be doing a lot of things right" -- Jared Kushner (the ability to test people when the virus was silently spreading across the country in February and March would've been nice ... ) pic.twitter.com/bOpeGkp4w2— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
"I'm very confident we have all the testing we need to start reopening the country" -- Jared Kushner went on Fox & Friends today and claimed states have "excess capacity" for testing (the country right now is not doing even half as much testing as experts think is necessary) pic.twitter.com/SAd2bYOIjb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
15 cases didn't go down to 0, it didn't disappear like a miracle, the China ban was porous, doctors weren't hoarding, it wasn't gone by Easter, hydroxychloroquine was a bust and we just blew past 60,000 deaths, but sure, let's praise Jared Kushner, he's totally fucking awesome— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 29, 2020
60,000 Americans were not available for comment.https://t.co/RiFmjewNkB— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 29, 2020
The Main Act
Trump is meeting with the Louisiana governor in front of a placard detailing the federal help the White House has provided to the state pic.twitter.com/NlvbWsIhLj— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Think about how tenous your grasp of reality has to be to brag that you supplied 11,000 face shields. I know someone making face shields with a 3D printer who's cranked out hundreds.— Katie (@ktbobaytee) April 29, 2020
Asked what he can do to help states with liability concerns as businesses reopen, Trump quickly changes the topic to talking about how he's working with meat processing plants. As always he's completely unable to discuss policy in any detail. pic.twitter.com/X8aXjqnqLS— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Trump still hasn't figured out that that 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917 pic.twitter.com/ZkERGjI0Wy— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Trump repeats his lie that the United States is doing more coronavirus testing than all other countries combined, which is not even close to true pic.twitter.com/Krx42pYSx6— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
He’s being sarcastic again. https://t.co/eFQ8B2KaAI— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) April 29, 2020
Trump fired the government's pandemic preparedness team in 2018 but here he is trying to blame Obama for the fact he was unprepared for the coronavirus pic.twitter.com/mvCJScSRhB— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Oh God. This fluff job is just too much today...— digby (@digby56) April 29, 2020
Fauci makes a hopeful announcement and now the whole goddamn thing is about how the governors are opening up and Trump did the best job ever.
Trump: This plague should never have happened. It could’ve been stopped but people chose not to stop it pic.twitter.com/hLUEprSS7z— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 29, 2020
is Trump laying blame on the guy who held rallies and went golfing for two months? because spot on, if he is— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 29, 2020
He keeps saying this and I don't know what he means. Is he talking about himself? China? Obama?— digby (@digby56) April 29, 2020
Obviously, he's the one who lived in denial for two months so he's really talking about himself. Is this some kind of sub-conscious admission of guilt? https://t.co/yQN2dLLQM4
Round Two
For the third straight day, Trump is meeting with corporate executives at the White House pic.twitter.com/zQvAHgnkQb— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Is it weird that he's sitting at a table like Gov. Cuomo has been?— Antonio #StayHomeStaySafe (@AspiringAntonio) April 29, 2020
"We had old-fashioned tests that didn't work ... they were broken" -- this is complete nonsense from Trump. The novel coronavirus didn't exist until late 2019, so there were no tests for him to inherit. pic.twitter.com/Mai4MaCYej— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
"We've tested more than all countries put together" -- this is a lie. Not even close to true. pic.twitter.com/fBBoLHyBJZ— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
"You shouldn't be hearing about testing, but that's the last thing [the media] can complain about I guess ... I don't know that all that [testing] is even necessary" -- Trump downplays importance of testing, which he suggests is a luxury (experts say more testing is necessary) pic.twitter.com/2eMSedp4aR— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Trump takes every chance to get out of further testing. From January he gave up and decided to let the virus spread. Many of his econ people told him to let it wash over the country so it would be done by election.— Bill Johnson (@Bill43111) April 29, 2020
Trump says it's "like a dream for the media" that when he announces 2 million tests conducted the media can just ask him why it's not 3 million. Again, he's being asked because the amount of testing has been insufficient even when it's hit "million" milestones.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
In late March, he promised 27 million tests by the end of that month.— allan wood (@allanjameswood) April 29, 2020
— Dayle Winston Brand (@DayleBrand) April 29, 2020
Trump has met with corporate CEOs at the White House for three straight days but it's unclear whether he's talked to the family of a single coronavirus victim whose family he didn't already know https://t.co/YEBHfchchS— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
TRUMP: "I've been at the White House now for many months, and I would like to get out." (Trump had a weekend-long golf vacation at Mar-a-Lago just last month and has traveled to 8 political rallies since the first US coronavirus case was reported in late January) pic.twitter.com/o4Os6UCQFt— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
For the second time today alone, Trump falsely claims that the 1918 flu pandemic happened in 1917 pic.twitter.com/4SDdtSdrBX— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
"I don't see helping cities and states if they're going to be sanctuary, because all sanctuary means to me is protecting a lot of criminals" -- Trump indicates he will use federal coronavirus relief to get blue states to change their sanctuary city policies pic.twitter.com/np56N1cg30— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
REPORTER: Without a vaccine, why do you think the virus will just be gone?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
TRUMP: "It's gonna go. It's gonna leave. It's gonna be gone. It's gonna be eradicated." pic.twitter.com/WdGkrVaAx7
Asked why he thinks the virus could just go away without a vaccine, Trump responds: "It's gonna go. It's gonna leave. It's gonna be gone. It's gonna be eradicated."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
Trump: "Hopefully in the not too distant future we'll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can't imagine a rally where you have every 4th seat full, every six seats are empty for every one you have full. That wouldn't look too good."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
Trump says he thinks Yankees should play home games w/ fans this season & then adds of the coronavirus, "This is going away. I think we're gonna come up w/ vaccines & all, but this is going away." (He doesn't seem to understand that infectious disease don't just magically vanish) pic.twitter.com/0XgW2dmVQ9— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
Trump says he thinks the New York Yankees will "be able to play in Yankee Stadium with obviously smaller crowds and then the crowds would start to build." He adds, "Again, this is going away. This is going away."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
"If we lose 65,000 people" -- Trump has moved the goalposts from no deaths to fewer deaths than the Swine Flu to 60,000 deaths & now to 65,000 or 70,000 deaths.— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 29, 2020
He's positioned himself to proclaim any death toll smaller than 2 million Americans as a reflection of his good work. pic.twitter.com/y0pOhf3iEE
Trump Includes The Word "Sir", So You Know The Story Is Fiction
Trump: "I had one restaurant owner come up to me and said, 'Sir, you know, I'm going to be opening up but if I distance too much I have 50% of the restaurant I had.' And I said, 'You'll also have a worse atmosphere.'...We want it to be the way it was."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 29, 2020
And 60,000 Was The Lowered Projection
The US just surpassed 60,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus, a benchmark previous projections said the US would not reach until August.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 29, 2020
"He's Also Doing The Rockets. He Likes Rockets. And — He Does Good At Rockets, Too, By The Way."
Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2020
missed it by THAT much https://t.co/wydM4sP9m7— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 29, 2020
FREE AMERICA NOW— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2020
The New York Times Continues Its Crusade To Normalize Trump's Unprecedented, Murderous, Psychotic Behaviour
"Quoting her right-wing friends ("She’s a meticulous researcher.” “She's fearless"), while refusing to quote a single Democratic critic, the Times blissfully toasts someone whose job it is to poison our public dialogue by lying everyday"— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 29, 2020
And
The biggest policy risk right now in the US (***aside from human life which I view as the most important*** ) is a re-opening that leads to another major outbreak or outbreaks. From the perspetive of politics and markets and social morale this would be pretty catastrophic.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 28, 2020
I mean, the Iraq War, bombing Yemen, the family separation policy, Palestine... The only difference this time is that the human lives the sociopaths don’t care about happen to be American citizens.— Untitled Goose Name 🧼🤲🏻 (@bklimt) April 28, 2020
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said in her state, it will be considered a “voluntary quit” if an employee refuses to return to work once businesses reopen, thereby losing access to unemployment benefits.— scott immordino (@ScottImmordino) April 28, 2020
A similar situation will soon play out in Texas. https://t.co/qGmapbLBzi
— Patricia Domingo (@pjd93920) April 28, 2020
If 30 years of school and mass shootings has taught us nothing else, have learned this: there is no body count the #GOPDeathCult can't minimize.— Sean Quinlan ⚖ (@SPQ_ESQ) April 29, 2020
Tyranny is the government telling you you can't go to a hair salon because there's a plague.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 28, 2020
Freedom, on the other hand, is the government telling you you have to go back to work at your plague-stricken pork processing plant alongside workers who might be sick.
cant stop thinking about this pic.twitter.com/05i82PZ6lL— kathbarbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) April 28, 2020
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