Weekend Jackass Awards
. . . Clinton, Pelosi, and The Washington Post offer mind-numbingly obtuse COVID-19 comments.
by Thomas Gallatin: Last week, the U.S. surpassed the rest of the world in the total number of individuals tested for the China Virus, an amazing feat that the mainstream media predictably ignored in favor of the more sensationalized headline exemplified by The New York Times: “The U.S. Now Leads the World in Confirmed Coronavirus Cases.” It should go without saying that more testing will mean more confirmed cases.
Yet a clearly still bitter Hillary Clinton took a lame jab at President Donald Trump, linking to the above headline on social media along with this obtuse statement: “He did promise ‘America First.’” With thousands dead, hundreds of thousands sickened, and millions of Americans having lost their jobs as the nation has gone to extreme measures to combat this highly contagious virus, Clinton saw only an opportunity to gloat over the country’s misery. This is why she is not president.
Speaking of obtuse comments, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s early response to the pandemic “deadly,” adding, “as the president fiddles, people are dying.” In truth, Trump acted rapidly to shut down travel from China, a move widely condemned by Democrats and the Leftmedia as xenophobic.
Furthermore, if anyone is guilty of fiddling during a crisis, it is Pelosi, who delayed and derailed for days the passage of the bipartisan relief bill as she sought to stuff it with unrelated funding for her leftist special interests and Green New Deal regulations. And that’s not to mention the fact that she just concluded the House’s bogus impeachment trial as COVID-19 was ramping up.
“She’s a sick puppy,” Trump responded.
Finally, earning the award for most obtuse commentary (and, dare we say, straight-up fake news) was The Washington Post, which asserted on Saturday that “the coronavirus crisis is exposing how the economy was not [as] strong as it seemed.” So, the federal, state, and local governments mandating that nonessential business shut down in an effort to combat the pandemic exposes a weak economy? In truth, if the economy under Trump wasn’t as strong as it had become — if it had remained in the doldrums as it was under eight years of Barack Obama — Americans would be in far worse shape than they currently are.
As one astute Post commenter observed, “I’m sorry… what economy anywhere at anytime would not grind to a halt when customers, employees, businesses, everyone was not ordered under penalty of law by the government to literally grind to a halt?” Or, as another commenter put it, “My wife turned off the hose earlier, exposing how the stream of water pouring out of it wasn’t as strong as we thought.”
That these three political hacks would use death and economic destruction just to score cheap political points is a testament to the acute onset of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Thomas Gallatin is a Features Editor at The Patriot Post.
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Yet a clearly still bitter Hillary Clinton took a lame jab at President Donald Trump, linking to the above headline on social media along with this obtuse statement: “He did promise ‘America First.’” With thousands dead, hundreds of thousands sickened, and millions of Americans having lost their jobs as the nation has gone to extreme measures to combat this highly contagious virus, Clinton saw only an opportunity to gloat over the country’s misery. This is why she is not president.
Speaking of obtuse comments, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s early response to the pandemic “deadly,” adding, “as the president fiddles, people are dying.” In truth, Trump acted rapidly to shut down travel from China, a move widely condemned by Democrats and the Leftmedia as xenophobic.
Furthermore, if anyone is guilty of fiddling during a crisis, it is Pelosi, who delayed and derailed for days the passage of the bipartisan relief bill as she sought to stuff it with unrelated funding for her leftist special interests and Green New Deal regulations. And that’s not to mention the fact that she just concluded the House’s bogus impeachment trial as COVID-19 was ramping up.
“She’s a sick puppy,” Trump responded.
Finally, earning the award for most obtuse commentary (and, dare we say, straight-up fake news) was The Washington Post, which asserted on Saturday that “the coronavirus crisis is exposing how the economy was not [as] strong as it seemed.” So, the federal, state, and local governments mandating that nonessential business shut down in an effort to combat the pandemic exposes a weak economy? In truth, if the economy under Trump wasn’t as strong as it had become — if it had remained in the doldrums as it was under eight years of Barack Obama — Americans would be in far worse shape than they currently are.
As one astute Post commenter observed, “I’m sorry… what economy anywhere at anytime would not grind to a halt when customers, employees, businesses, everyone was not ordered under penalty of law by the government to literally grind to a halt?” Or, as another commenter put it, “My wife turned off the hose earlier, exposing how the stream of water pouring out of it wasn’t as strong as we thought.”
That these three political hacks would use death and economic destruction just to score cheap political points is a testament to the acute onset of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Thomas Gallatin is a Features Editor at The Patriot Post.
Tags: Thomas Gallatin, The Patriot Post, Weekend Jackass Awards To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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