Billy D.’s response to Trump’s tweet regarding low gas prices amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Like most conservative Republicans, Trump has his priorities.
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Worst Quote of the Week – March 13, 2020
“The Left is doing everything they can to blow COVID-19 and the fluctuating economy out of proportion.”
– Right-wing political activist Ed Martin, in an email earlier this week to his followers on why he believes the COVID-19 fiasco is having such a negative effect on the U.S. economy.
An attorney and politician from Missouri, Martin now runs the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, a group founded by the late Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 in response to the then-growing women’s and gay rights movements.
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Best Quote of the Week – March 13, 2020
“No one should have to choose between staying home and really now being at higher risk with the situation with the coronavirus or having to decide to go to work sick.”
– Ana Gonzalez, policy director for the Workers Defense Project, regarding the fact thousands of workers may be forced to take time off from work to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Texas alone has more than 10 million people age 18 and above involved in the workforce. About 40% of them lack paid sick leave; the majority of them female and/or non-White. Texas is notably more pro-business than pro-worker, and state officials have fought various municipalities that want to implement mandatory paid sick leave by filing lawsuits and proposing legislation to undermine those efforts.
Now, with the COVID-19 scourge in full crisis mode, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency.
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Worst Quote of the Week – March 6, 2020
“I haven’t touched my face in weeks! I miss it.”
– Donald Trump, in response to a reporter’s question about the importance of practicing basic hygiene amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, during an Oval Office meeting with airline executives.
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Best Quote of the Week – March 6, 2020
“Well, you know, I think it’s always interesting when the President falls off of his tricycle in the Oval Office and has time to tweet at me rather than focus on the fact that the coronavirus might become a global pandemic. The stock market is on a roller coaster, there are lots of vulnerable Americans who don’t have affordable health care, housing, or education, and he’s spending his time focused on me.”
– Tim O’Brien, senior advisor to Michael Bloomberg, CNN’s “AC 360”.
O’Brien, who is executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion and who has publicly criticized Trump, was responding to the president’s March 4 tweet: “Mini Mike Bloomberg will now fire Tim O’Brien and all the fools and truly dumb people who got him into this mess. This has been the worst, and most embarrassing experience of his life, and now on to Sleepy Joe.”
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 28, 2020
“Is this perhaps a ploy to try to take down President Trump’s roaring economy that we have by sabotaging the markets, by creating fear porn and fear-mongering while they’re also killing Chinese people by the thousands? Is that a strategy that the deep state would actually use?”
– Conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel, speculating that the coronavirus outbreak may have been orchestrated by the “deep state” and/or the British government in order to destabilize global markets, weaken the American economy and prevent President Donald Trump from being reelected.
Sometimes, when people become severely ill with an influenza-type agent, they begin to hallucinate and start seeing things that aren’t there. In this case, however, the new coronavirus (COVID-19) seems to be inducing phantasmagoric hysteria in a variety of people. Then again, that often happens when folks don’t read more than religious texts and a TV guide. It’s almost unfortunate fatal viruses don’t target stupidity.
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Best Quote of the Week – February 28, 2020
“We have the need within the country to try and create as much unity as possible and to suppress White nationalism and racism within the ranks of the military because, every once in a while, it crops up and causes an issue.”
– Richard Kohn, history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about a recent order by U.S. Marine Commandant David H. Berger that Marine leaders remove confederate-related paraphernalia from the service’s bases worldwide.
Berger’s order comes about a week after a congressional hearing about the rise of social extremism within the ranks of the U.S. military. It also included commands for more women in combat roles, reviewing maternity leave, and extending parental leave for same-sex partners.
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 21, 2020
“I thank God every day that Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
– Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, at the Dallas County Republican Party’s Reagan Day Dinner
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Best Quote of the Week – February 21, 2020
“I am in a faithful, loving, committed marriage. I’m proud of my marriage. And I’m proud of my husband. And I’m not going to be lectured on family values from the likes of Rush Limbaugh or anybody who supports Donald J. Trump as the moral, as well as political leader of the United States. America has moved on, and we should have a politics of belonging that welcomes everybody.”
– Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, IN, in response to conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh commenting on Buttigieg’s sexuality.
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Worst Quote of the Week – February 14, 2020
“Generally speaking, the heat kills this kind of virus.”
– Donald Trump, referring to the coronavirus, which has been rampaging across China and has been renamed COVID-19.
Trump was speaking at a rally at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Unfortunately hot weather doesn’t necessarily annihilate some viruses and – even more sadly – it doesn’t kill stupidity either.
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