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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH puts on nonsense show in midst of pandemic
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Mark Knoller @markknoller
On South Lawn, WH seeks to make a political point by setting up a crane lifting the weights of regulation from the bed of a "red" truck, while showing the burden of regulations weighing down a "blue" truck.

4:06 PM · Jul 16, 2020
Don't they have more pressing fucking things to focus on?
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Dennis Donovan
Jul 2020
OP
Questions, or is he going to bail? Never mind. I thought he was done.
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2020
#15
Just one more of countless rollbacks of safety regulations put in place to protect Americans
Rhiannon12866
Jul 2020
#22
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)1. Campaign paying for this stunt?
Champp
(2,409 posts)14. Good question. If using our tax money to attack Dems, he
should be censured. But Republicans do not give a shit about ethics.
Stuart G
(38,726 posts)2. Trump's White House is "NONSENSE" !!!
uponit7771
(93,504 posts)3. Trumps seriously deranged
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)4. OMG just fuck him
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)5. This administration is demented Beyond belief. n/t
Brainfodder
(7,781 posts)6. Not from THE ONION? HUH!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?
Best_man23
(5,268 posts)7. What, no corporate tie-in this time?
Surprised the crane wasn't lifting a pallet of Goya products.
I do see potential Photoshop opportunities here....just saying.
msongs
(73,239 posts)8. so glad the media weaklings did not broadcast this campaign event nt
C_U_L8R
(49,117 posts)9. Hucksters.
intrepidity
(8,575 posts)10. Someone should play "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" nt
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)11. Biden just called.
He said to replace the divots in the lawn before he gets home in January.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)12. Somebody give the Dotard some Tonka trucks.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)13. I love this response from The Lincoln Project:
Cool. Now do one for the weight of 135,000 dead Americans. And 30 million unemployed workers.
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Baitball Blogger
(51,896 posts)21. +1
mahatmakanejeeves
(68,806 posts)15. Questions, or is he going to bail? Never mind. I thought he was done.
In that case, I'm done. It's time for leadership boy.
crickets
(26,168 posts)16. Lately I ask myself, at least once a day...
"Is this real?" Sadly, the answer is yes almost every time. I do not like this ride. Please make it stop.
lpbk2713
(43,255 posts)17. More Sharpie bullshit.
It's show and tell time once again boys and girls.
Rhiannon12866
(252,221 posts)18. Twitter reply :
Dennis Donovan
(31,059 posts)20. Good reply!
Rhiannon12866
(252,221 posts)22. Just one more of countless rollbacks of safety regulations put in place to protect Americans
And we never hear about most of them since there are so many horrific atrocities dominating the headlines on a daily basis, led by the incomprehensible and rising coronavirus death toll.
spanone
(141,217 posts)19. Another campaign ad.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)23. Wonder if they can fit 140,000 bodies in the back of that red pickup. nt
