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Worst Quotes of the Week – October 31, 2020

“We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas.”

Mark Meadows, White House Chief of staff, on CNN

“One thing we’ve seen in a lot of the Black community, which is mostly Democrat, is that President Trump’s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they’re complaining about.  But he can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.”

Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, on “Fox & Friends”

“We’ll have to see if it’s a problem, right?  People are entitled to say maybe it was a problem, maybe it wasn’t.”

Donald Trump, on an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer by right-wing extremists

“Because women, suburban or otherwise, they want security.  They want security.  They want safety.  They want law and order.  They have to have law and order, and we’re gonna do great.  And I love women, and I can’t help it.  They’re the greatest.  I love them much more than the men.  Much more than the men.  So I’m saving suburbia.  I’m getting your kids back to school, get your kids back to school.  And you know what else?  I’m also getting your husbands — they wanna get back to work, right?  They wanna get back to work.  We’re getting your husbands back to work, and everybody wants it.”

Donald Trump, at a rally in Michigan

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Photo of the Week – May 1, 2020

This week a number of people protesting the state of Michigan’s shutdown in the midst of the COVID-19 stormed the state capital in Lansing demanding that Governor Gretchen Whitmer rescind the quarantine orders and allow anyone to return to work and shopping if they want.  In other words, they don’t like that a global pandemic has usurped their presumed placement as the center of the universe.  Many of the protesters arrived with guns and rifles; some wearing Nazi swastikas and others adorned in Confederate regalia (those morons keep fighting the 19th century American Civil War and damn!  They still haven’t won!)

A few stood in front of law enforcement officials – the latter wearing face masks – and screamed profanities.  This photo is just image of the virulent mad (mostly White) men unleashing their vitriol.  Faux-President Trump has expressed support for them.

I keep thinking if a group of Black or Latino residents had shown up in the Michigan state capital building with firearms protesting something, how long would they last?

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