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Sat Apr 25, 2020, 01:21 PM Apr 2020

'Space outfits' are Trump economic adviser's hot idea for reopening the economy

Trump campaign economic adviser, Stephen Moore, suggesting that the way to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic is to “put everybody in a space outfit or something like that.” New York Times interviewer Lisa Lerer pushed back, her eye roll almost visible on the printed page, with, “Well, we’d have to make the space outfits, right?”

“I know we don’t have space outfits — I mean, just thinking out loud, and maybe this is a crazy idea, but instead of just locking down the economy, putting everybody in a kind of — you’re right. You have to make 200 million of these, but it wouldn’t have cost $3 trillion to do that,” Moore blathered. “And you can have for months people just walking around in these kind of—I mean, I was looking online, and there are all these kinds of suits that they’re building now that you’re not exposed and you’re breath—kind of ventilator.”

Moore’s previously said he scared his sons out of becoming Democrats by taping gruesome photo's of Saddam Hussein's sons mangled dead corpses along with the words ‘THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO KIDS THAT GROW UP TO BE DEMOCRATS.’”

These are presumably the same children for whom Moore failed to pay child support, leading to him being held in contempt of court. He’s also made a lot of "mistakes" on his taxes resulting in a tax lien against him. This is a man spouting off about putting all working Americans in “space outfits” for months on end—in the summer heat.



https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939802/--Space-outfits-are-Trump-economic-adviser-s-hot-idea-for-reopening-the-economy

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'Space outfits' are Trump economic adviser's hot idea for reopening the economy (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Apr 2020 OP
How about we first get gowns, masks and gloves to all the hospitals that need them, OK? tanyev Apr 2020 #1
From this week's Private Eye magazine: muriel_volestrangler Apr 2020 #2
I feel sorry for single people hoping to meet Ilsa Apr 2020 #3
And Stephen Moore has done very well as an "adviser" to our most powerful Republicans. Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #4
I for one welcome the arrival of our space pants. Dr. Strange Apr 2020 #5
He's just trying to knock Trump Dagstead Bumwood Apr 2020 #6

Dr. Strange

(25,917 posts)
5. I for one welcome the arrival of our space pants.
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 02:51 PM
Apr 2020

Look at my pants
With the eyes in your face.
My legs are covered
In outer space.

Do you see my pants?
No wait! You missed them.
My pants are a tour
Of the solar system.

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,615 posts)
6. He's just trying to knock Trump
Sat Apr 25, 2020, 02:58 PM
Apr 2020

and his asinine disinfectant comments off the front page of Stupid is as Stupid Does weekly.

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