Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Elise Stefanik, Republicans, and Donald Trump wants us to forget how he botched the COVID pandemic response


So now the GOP is trying to rebrand Donald Trump as a successful president. Rep. Elise Stefanik, who has built a Congressional career in outright lying for Trump, tried to pass off a new lie. Unfortunately for her and Trump, a lot of folks remember just much how of a disaster Trump was in the Oval Office and continues to be as he tries to get back in. 

Especially when it came to the COVID pandemic.

 From Raw Story

 Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) told the nation Wednesday that Americans are much worse off now than they were four years ago, spurring Americans to do some quick math and issue a swift rebuttal — that was March 2020. 

Stefanik made this declaration at a press conference for House Republican leaders on the heels of a victorious Super Tuesday for former President Donald Trump. "As Ronald Reagan famously asked us, 'Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Stefanik asked. "The answer for hard-working Americans across the country is a resounding no. 

 Unfortunately for Stefanik, the article goes on to say, folks on Twitter quickly reminded her that March 2020 was around the time that the country was slowly but surely getting swallowed up by the COVID pandemic - a pandemic made worse by Trump deliberately undermining its severity and then botching the response.


Meanwhile, Donald Trump tried to claim that he did a "fantastic job" on COVID. The Biden campaign was quick to call out that lie.


But to me, one tweet really stood out. It was a response to the Biden/Harris tweet and it brought the "receipts" in the form Trump's actual words in 2020 showcasing his lies and basic incompetence in dealing with the pandemic.

 
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2:41 PM

    Four years ago, I was let go from work. Now I'm working again.
    Four years ago, we had double-digit unemployment. Now we don't.
    Four years ago, this country was the charnel house of the world. Now the pandemic is largely behind us.

    I'd say my life has been doing just fine since Biden came around. But things have gotten worse in other ways, too - but not in the way Republicans would like you to hear:

    Four years ago, I actually felt relatively safe being queer. Now I don't.
    Four years ago, Florida was still on my travel bucket list. Now it isn't.
    Four years ago, we didn't hear lies about "grooming" spat at our community en masse. Now we do.
    Four years ago, we took Roe v. Wade for granted. Now, nothing is sacred.
    Four years ago, Nex Benedict was still alive and well. Now they're gone.
    Four years ago, Club Q was unknown to most of the world. Now it's all too well known.
    Four years ago, "gender ideology" or "LGBT ideology" were vile phrases confined to far-right governments in Poland (congrats on ejecting PiS btw), Russia, and Hungary. Now it's the norm in right-wing circles in the so-called "Land of the Free".
    Four years ago, any person who said schools were putting litterboxes in classrooms would've been laughed out of the room. Now, the right wing takes their claims at face value.
    Four years ago, the sky felt like the limit for our community. Now our community in general, and the trans community in particular, is at rock bottom.

    Our community is worse off than it was 4 years ago, but it's far from Biden's fault.

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