Ruh-Ro
Cracks in the Stockholm Syndrome Senate?
The last thing out of Captain Chaos’s mouth, about wearing masks was:
“you want to be politically correct.”
…..as said by Trump to a reporter who was asking him a question:
The reporter, Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason, began to ask a question before the president, seeing him in a mask, said, “Can you take it off, because I cannot hear you.”
“I will just speak louder,” Mason said.
“Ok, because you want to be politically correct,” Trump said.
“No sir, I just want to wear the mask,” Mason responded.
Now, “Minion Mitch” McConnell has pushed his head out of his shell and has spoken up too.
And I bet Donny hears this, even with Mitch’s mask on.
Because his words contradict his boss, who he has apparently just found out, works in another branch of government.
Checks and balances, Mitch. Checks and balances.
McConnell said on Wednesday during an event in Kentucky, according to Politico.
“There’s no stigma attached to staying six feet apart.”
The GOP leader said that he himself wears masks in order to set a “good example.”
He asserted that wearing masks, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended to prevent asymptomatic people infect more vulnerable and older people, is “not too much to ask of a younger person,” who are less likely to experience the more life-threatening aspects of the virus.
“Just because you’re 21, it doesn’t mean you don’t have a responsibility to other people, even though your chances of having a problem are pretty slim,” said McConnell.
“I think the more we can say that the better,” he added.
The subtext here is Mitch is speaking to the over-65 crowd that Trump is not only ignoring, but actively disregarding.
He’s trying to save his Senate Majority.
Still, I’m taking bets on how long it takes for Minion Mitch to walk this back.
A day?
Two?