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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Takei tweet
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Imagine being the staffer in the White House tasked with coming up with SOME chart or statistic that makes the U.S. Covid-19 response look comparatively better.
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George Takei tweet (Original Post)
soothsayer
Aug 2020
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Blue Owl
(58,610 posts)1. Gonna take a lot of smoke and a lot of mirrors
n/t
Wounded Bear
(63,980 posts)2. All it takes is a Sharpie...
Jeebo
(2,554 posts)3. Mr. Sulu is astute, as always.
I'm glad we've still got him here on Earth, instead of flying around out there somewhere on the starship Enterprise.
-- Ron
BootinUp
(51,035 posts)4. They don't sweat the lies, much. George thinks
They have a conscience.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)5. Or.. maybe just saying it would be hard to do, since we suck at coronavirus
panader0
(25,816 posts)6. Hold the chart upside down.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)7. Oh yeah. Or reverse the scale
LizBeth
(11,222 posts)8. My oldest and I were having exactly this conversation along with so much other in 3 hours, lol.
He had sent me the interview before I had even gotten up and was drinking coffee. Yes, this was very telling that they had to find a way to make the number correct so he could hold something up. He was all ready.
bringthePaine
(1,806 posts)9. gonna needa realllllllllllly big Sharpie for this one!
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)10. If I only have to fool Trump,
no problem.
