"Have you been watching the TV news about the coronavirus not-quite-yet-a-pandemic?
...If you've had better luck at avoiding the TV news than I have in recent days, let me sum up their coronavirus coverage for you.
OH MY GOD TRUMP IS GOING TO KILL US ALL
The media doesn't think you're gullible enough to believe that Donald Trump is America's Patient Zero and that he will personally sneeze on you just out of spite.
Rather, the media line is that Trump's hamfisted incompetence (always on display; never actually seen) will prevent an effective response to the crisis.
...Yet still, they persist in this narrative that Trump's a bumbler.
...The meme takes its form this time with headlines like this gem from CNN, breathlessly repeating whatever Nancy Pelosi needs them to: Nancy Pelosi spoke with Mike Pence and expressed concern over his track record on public health.
Trump made Pence his coronavirus point man, about which Pelosi had this to say for the cameras:
Trump made Pence his coronavirus point man, about which Pelosi had this to say for the cameras:
I spoke with the Vice President this morning, made some of these concerns known to him. We have always had a very candid relationship and I expressed to him a concern that I had of his being in this position and while I look forward to working with him about when he was governor of Indiana slashing the public health budget and having some clinics, especially a Planned Parenthood clinic closed, which was the only place in that (inaudible) county where you could get tested for HIV and AIDS.
Pence doesn't like publicly-funded abortions, so Orange Man Bad will KILL US ALL WITH CHINA FLU!...
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