WTW? A Straight-Faced Conway Just Scolded States For Reopening 'Too Quickly'

[mfcorey1]

In a breathtaking display of shameless gaslighting, White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday accused the states plagued with skyrocketing COVID-19 cases of being too hasty with reopening their economies – you know, the thing President Donald Trump desperately pushed them to do for months.


“Some of these states blew through our criteria, blew through our phases and they opened up some of the industries a little too quickly, like bars,” Conway told reporters outside of the White House Wednesday.

The administration official argued that governors were the ones who chose to reopen their states and therefore Trump cannot be held responsible for the subsequently disastrous COVID spike consequences.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/conway-scolded-states-reopening-too-quickly

[Laelth]

1. Ducking responsibility, as usual.

It’s just like he told us. “No. I take no responsibility. None at all.”

Such a child!

-Laelth

[struggle4progress]

2. Soup-rise! soup-rise! soup-rise!

[AZ8theist]

30. BWAHAHA!! Great Marx Bros reference.....

[struggle4progress]

50. Great scene!

[genxlib]

3. I knew this was a bumpy ride

Now I see it is because of all those Republican Governors under the bus.

DeSantis, Kemp, Abbott, et al. You still think Trump will stand up for you when it matters?

[beachbumbob]

4. asshats like Conway have no problem with lying as we all know. I pay no attention

[empedocles]

8. conway, other rw similiars, are quite aware of their 'low information'

and their other constituencies - and lying, etc. does not matter much.

[beachbumbob]

9. why it doesn;t matter to me, I could give a rats ass.

We need to mock her and others like her. Mocking and shaming has a way in working

[2naSalit]

5. Yikes.

I'm thinking she doesn't drink the kool-ade, she injects it like heroine.

[underpants]

6. Heard a caller on local talk radio - Trump's been saying it will get worse for a long time

This was the day after the first virus presser reboot

[empedocles]

10. trump, if not reading scripted remarks, always seems to talk the state of his mind,

not any larger reality.

Therefore, trump feels trump will be 'get worse for a long time.'

[My translation anyway].

[Mariana]

7. "I don't take responsibility at all." nt.

[Srkdqltr]

11. Typical. Let others do the real work than they swoop in and take the bows.

[AleksS]

12. Who didn't see that coming?

Other than the repug governors.

Of COURSE Trump would throw them under the bus to divert responsibility from his disastrous failure

That was the plan all along. He didn’t pass the buck to the states because he thought they could do better. He passed the buck to the states so he could blame them when it fell apart.

[global1]

18. This Same Scenario Will Happen In Relation To Opening Schools.....

Trump and his minions have been trumpeting opening schools and telling us that kids aren't as susceptible to Covid-19 and recover quickly if they do contract it and won't pass it on to others.

Again - this is Trump wanting kids in schools so the parents get back to work and the unemployment numbers go down and make it look like the economy is coming back - all with the ultimate goal being - Trump looks good for the economy and his poll numbers go up and he gets re-elected.

However, when it hits the fan that kids, teachers and families come down with Covid-19 and the cases begin to climb followed by hospitalizations and deaths - Trump will somehow find ways to blame the schools, the teachers and the parents for re-opening schools and not following his Administrations non-existing recommendations for re-opening.

This is their game. This is what they have been doing and are doing now. The reason they do it is that it works for them. They are always given a pass.

Trump has had two of these briefings now and all of a sudden the MSM is saying that he is a changed man. He changed his tone.

Come on people - you weren't born yesterday. This is all a scam. A con. An act.

[KewlKat]

13. Alternate facts...

[padah513]

22. You got it

[Botany]

14. The same Kellyanne Conway who said that the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team, and the ...

.... Trump administration did not have any contacts with Russia?

[gratuitous]

15. Didn't Trump tweet LIBERATE MICHIGAN?

Or was that someone else under the realdonaldtrump handle?

[Baitball Blogger]

17. +1

He did. He was the one that stoked the anti-facemask protests.

[malaise]

25. Yes he did

See #24

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Did you hear that De Santis and Kemp?

They're kicking you to the curb. That's what comes from be a Trump loyalist.

[central scrutinizer]

19. She's the moron who blasted WHO: "this is not Covid-1"

Implying WHO had 18 previous chances to fight the virus! One of the stupidest comments ever uttered. Maybe she was still mourning the Bowling Green victims.

[Fullduplexxx]

20. Once again the im-potus throws his allies under the bus

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. Does she drink like a fish? Is that why she called bars "industries"?

[IronLionZion]

23. And that's why you should keep your kids off drugs

[malaise]

24. Remember Liberate Michigan?

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/trump-liberate-michigan-but-not-georgia
<snip>
By now we should all be inured to the whiplash-inducing comments of President Trump, who, as my father used to say, could screw up an iron ball.

Just last week he was tweeting his support to armed anti-government activists and conservative protesters seeking an end to stay-at-home orders in three states with Democratic governors: Michigan, Virginia and Minnesota. The president also, contradicting his top health advisors, says he wants an early resumption of normal business and social activity.

Well, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican Trump backer, seemed to take the president seriously (silly man) and announced that Georgia would begin rolling back stay-at-home restrictions, just the kind of move demanded by the folks Trump encouraged to “LIBERATE” (the all-caps were his) other states.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Trump uses surrogates to be on both sides of every issue

and then only points to the ones that play out

[Ms. Toad]

31. That's exactly the point.

The white house issued guidelines, agitated for citizens to demand that states not follow them, and is now blaming states for caving to the pressure he generated that contradicted his formal advice, so either way he can claim to have been right.

[Ms. Toad]

27. Unfortunately, she's right.

There were federal guidelines, and not a single state meet even the gating criteria for the first phase of opening, before moving into phase 2. Each gating criteria required two weeks of downward trajectories before moving to the next phase.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/

So while it absolutely is true that those guidelines were undermined by the orange idiot running around screaming liberate Michigan (etc.), It is also true that no state followed the federal guidelines.

[ellie]

28. Gaslighting

These people are pathological

[niyad]

29. The "Beau of the Fifth Column" video from yesterday addresses this very topic of throwing

his kool-ade drinking governors, etc., under the bus

[kimbutgar]

32. How come the media never pushes back on her lies?

[LakeArenal]

33. But... They still want open schools.....

[Mr. Ected]

34. And yet...the faithful flock will not cognize the 180-degree turn

They seem immune to detecting when their leaders shift the dialogue to the opposite of what they were saying yesterday.

[onecaliberal]

35. But send you kids to school. She could literally rip off her pants and talk out her ass it would

Sound the same. The media is a failure. @whitehousepresscorp is an epic failure.

[Harker]

36. The buck never stops. n/t

[Danmel]

37. Liberating herself from responsibility

Utterly and completely shameless

[C Moon]

38. Typical GOP bullshit. Spinning reality. They love it--and they will all start falling in line now.

They'll see this as some light at the end of the Trump-downfall tunnel (coupled with his use of DHS on the protests), they will begin to crawl out from under their rocks now.

[iluvtennis]

39. Disgusting. trump forced his red state governors to open up quickly knowing they didn't comply

with the CDC requirements. Now, he has the nerve to come back and say, they opened too quickly - it takes a special POS to do such a thing

OK since you said the states re-opened too soon, why aren't you all over the TV telling schools not to reopen - i only hear crickets from trump admin.

[SunSeeker]

41. DeVos is out telling schools to reopen and pushing the lie that kids are "stoppers" of Covid-19!

She's relying on a German study that has not been peer reviewed and whose own authors say it's findings do not apply in places like the US where the virus is out of control. Plus the study never said kids stop the virus, which they obviously do not, since they get sick and die from the virus.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/23/devoss-claim-that-children-are-stoppers-covid-19/

[iluvtennis]

43. DeVos is a moron just like trump. they only care about the wealthy, not the common folks. nt

[Ms. Toad]

47. They didn't comply with the White House plan -

Both White House and CDC logos are on the plan that not a single state complied with: https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/

[iluvtennis]

49. + agree. Thanks for clarifying. nt

[StarryNite]

40. Hey AZ gov doug ducey,

Remember doug, you opened AZ the day before tRump came to town in order to appease him and kiss his big, fat orange ass. How does it feel gov ducey to be under that bus? You stupid POS! Arizona is a train wreck.

[Grammy23]

42. And this gives us a perfect window into how tRump managed to go bankrupt

so many times. He is unwilling and unable to develop a coherent strategy for anything. He makes rash decisions based on what he desperately thinks will help him. Anyone and anything that gets in his way is run over roughshod. Those that mistakenly think he will back them up if they just try to please him or go along with his whack-a-doodle schemes are deluded. Loyalty means nothing if throwing you overboard better suits him.

He has spun the narrative so well that he is a financial genius and has tried to cover the disastrous results so well, that many have been taken in by his tales. He truly has been the ultimate Snake Oil salesman. He learned his lessons about deceit and slick lies from his father and has passed along those traits to his three oldest children. If there is one ounce of Justice left in the world, all of them will be rounded up and given their day in court. Then once justice is meted out, they’ll spend the rest of their miserable lives thinking about their past crimes locked in prison. I have serious doubts they’ll ever have a moment of reckoning but maybe they will be stopped from inflicting their horrible influence on anyone else. Dying in prison, penniless should be tRump’s fate. I know it is just me hoping for some measure of Justice for the harm he has caused but I know I’m not the only one who feels that way.

[llashram]

44. she seems to be a

malignant narcissistic sociopath insofar as she can't see her own very glaring shortcoming like her boss.

[lastlib]

45. "straight-faced?" She must've been using her OTHER face.

[RussBLib]

46. she is actually correct

Some states did jump over the guidelines in their rush to open up. How convenient for the WH.

[Ms. Toad]

48. All states jumped over the guidelines -

even the ones that slowed down after jumping over the first gating requirement.

[area51]

51. Okay, Conjob,

remember when your boss said "We can't let the cure be worse than the disease"?