Chippy here is using the stupid talking point of the GOP’s lame excuse for the Rump dropping the ball. The Rump was sooo busy with the impeachment that he held rallies and went golfing.
Ironically, if the Senate had done right by the American people and thrown the bum out, he wouldn’t have to worry about spinning his horrible job responding to covid-19.
Somehow Bill Clinton could get through impeachment without jeopardizing the country.
Oh, Mr Bok, are you saying you really believe that Mitch McConnell’s majority would have convicted Trump if he hadn’t hands-on managed his defense?
Bottom line: Trump’s main concern in January was stage managing his PR to stir up hostility against his critics and promote his re-election. And for that, tens of thousands of Americans will die unnecessarily.
Trump has blood on his hands because of his actions and inactions in January.
Also, his actions and inactions in February.
And in March.
And April.
.
His Disciples, including Chip, also share because of their aiding and abetting.
Even NOW, there is no large scale testing and no data developed from the testing and NO strategy based on that data. And, there are NO plans to perform large scale testing. There is NO national strategy for coping with the virus and NO plans to develop one. NONE.
Trump’s idea of a national strategy is:
1. Declare that the federal government has no role to play, only the states.
2. Blame the states for not stockpiling medical resources in case of a world wide pandemic.
3. Declare that he is ‘not responsible at all’ and ‘give himself a 10’ for his handling of the pandemic.
4. Fire a military officer for trying to protect those under his command.
.
Chip and The Disciples are not tired of winning yet, huh?
Let’s do some fact checking. Trump was impeached on Dec 19, 2019. Done. From then until Jan 16, 2020, when the Senate trial began, he was free to actually act like a president and DO SOMETHING, anything but play golf. Which is what he did during that almost month. The WHO informed the world of the virus threat in Dec, 2019. And as noted, Trump was free to focus on the threat for an entire month at least.
It didn’t seem to stop Trump from going to “I love me” rallies, golfing, telling people there were only 15 people and soon it would be zero, a hoax, etc. etc. etc.
Well, now that Bok acknowledges that his cult leader can’t walk and chew gum at the same time,…maybe he’ll start to.. NAAAAH, he drank too much of the Kool Aıd.
Trump was officially impeached on Dec. 19, 2019. It’s not clear exactly when Trump was first alerted about the possibility of a pandemic. The Washington Post reported that U.S. Intelligence officials were warning the president about the potential scale of the coronavirus outbreak as early as January. While we don’t know a specific date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued its first alert for U.S. clinicians to be “on the look-out for patients with respiratory symptoms and a history of travel to Wuhan, China” on Jan. 8, 2020.
About a month after that on Feb. 5, Trump’s impeachment trial ended when the Senate voted not to convict. Trump visited a golf course on Jan. 18 and 19, Feb. 1 and 15, and March 7 and 8. All of these golf outings took place at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump also hosted rallies on Jan. 9 (Ohio), 14 (Wisconsin), 28 (New Jersey) 30 (Iowa), and on Feb. 10 (New Hampshire), 19 (Arizona), 20 (Colorado), 21 (Nevada), and 28 (South Carolina).
A competent qualified proactive president would not have dismantled an agency committed to dealing with the inevitable pandemics that will arise as coronaviruses continue to mutate. The RNC seemed desperate in choosing the populist over the competent choices and will be paying for it in the future. Now we have the dual problems of disease and disunity; both of which must be corrected if we wish to thrive. A sane president, realizing his limits, would step aside and let the competent guide us through the pandemic using the best possible tools and methods. Will that happen?
Yup, that’s the new loyalist line. Trump would have stopped the flu and even found a cure last January if only the Democrats hadn’t impeached him. (Of course that doesn’t explain Trump’s continued inaction after 5 February, but that’s the problem with lies.
Meanwhile Republicans are packing the courts with unqualified right wing extremists and threatening war with Iran while they suspend the EPA rules for clean air and water.
Yeah, Trump’s priority was to himself… he could have nipped both image problems (impeachment and lack of action on COVID-19) at the same time by taking positive action instead of what he did do…
In other words, it’s the Dem’s House’s fault for the Republikkklans in the Senate can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The Dems passed over 400 pieces of legislation since they became the majority in the House including during their Impeachment Hearings, yet the Senate can’t seem to do anything except blame the Dems.
Oh gosh, Mr. Bok—you don’t REALLY believe this, do you? Wait a moment—here, read this:TRUMP TIMELIES
Dec 18th – House Impeaches TrumpJan 8th – First CDC warningJan 9th – Trump campaign rallyJan 14th – Trump campaign rallyJan 16h – House sends impeachment articles to SenateJan 18th – Trump golfsJan 19th – Trump golfsJan 20th – first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.Jan 22nd – “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”Jan 28th – Trump campaign rallyJan 30th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 1st – Trump golfsFeb 2nd – “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."Feb 5th – Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.Feb 10th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 12th – Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42Feb 15h – Trump golfsFeb 19th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 20th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 21st – Trump campaign rallyFeb 24th – “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”Feb 25h – “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”Feb 25h – “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”Feb 26th – “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”Feb 26th – “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” Also “This is a flu. This is like a flu”; “Now, you treat this like a flu”; “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”Feb 28th – “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”Feb 28th – Trump campaign rallyMarch 2nd – “You take a solid flu vacci
…vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”March 2nd – “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”March 5th – “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”March 5th – “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”March 6th – “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”March 6th – “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”March 6th – “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”March 6th – “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”March 7th – Trump golfsMarch 8th – Trump golfsMarch 8th – “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”March 9th – “This blindsided the world.”March 13th – [Declared state of emergency]March 17th – “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
Dems press FCC to guarantee that broadcast licenses will not be in jeopardy if they air commercials that use direct quotes from Trump like “I don’t take responsibility”
Jared Kushner says that federal medical supplies are not for states to use, they are for “us” – who is “us” if not the U.S. people?
Trump’s Labor dept. will not allow healthcare workers to be covered under stimulus legislation for sick days.
Dr. Fauci says the entire country should be under stay-at-home directive – Trump refuses to issue directive.
Trump will not open enrollment to ACA, promises that hospitals will get cash payments without having ANY details.
“Emergency” order submitted by Secret Service to rent golf golf courses for Sterling, VA where Trump’s golf course is. $45,000 to rent 30 golf carts – golf carts cost about $9000.
Georgia Repub governor says that Trump is correct, more absentee voting will be “devastating” to Republicans.
Plus having rallies for your rabid fanboys, plus golfing at you resort at taxpayer expense.Plus the fix was in, McConnell told you ahead of time you had nothing to fear. Plus every republican senator except 1/2 of one looked the other way.
Mango Mussolini was so involved with his impeachment that he 4 putted 5 times during his 6 rounds of golf and he forgot all the biggly words and slurred the rest more often than usual at his 9 rallies. Oh and he testified in his defense for ZERO minutes!
mr_sherman Premium Member about 4 years ago
FUC$ING LIAR, BOK.
Pee-resident Schzidt for brains gets distracted by his own shadow!
Say What Now‽ Premium Member about 4 years ago
Chippy here is using the stupid talking point of the GOP’s lame excuse for the Rump dropping the ball. The Rump was sooo busy with the impeachment that he held rallies and went golfing.
RAGs about 4 years ago
Trump is saying that New York is losing to the virus because he (Drumpf) was impeached.
Daeder about 4 years ago
Ironically, if the Senate had done right by the American people and thrown the bum out, he wouldn’t have to worry about spinning his horrible job responding to covid-19.
Judge Magney about 4 years ago
Somehow Bill Clinton could get through impeachment without jeopardizing the country.
Oh, Mr Bok, are you saying you really believe that Mitch McConnell’s majority would have convicted Trump if he hadn’t hands-on managed his defense?
Bottom line: Trump’s main concern in January was stage managing his PR to stir up hostility against his critics and promote his re-election. And for that, tens of thousands of Americans will die unnecessarily.
Concretionist about 4 years ago
Both of them are correct. But only one of them is dead wrong.
braindead Premium Member about 4 years ago
Trump has blood on his hands because of his actions and inactions in January.
Also, his actions and inactions in February.
And in March.
And April.
.
His Disciples, including Chip, also share because of their aiding and abetting.
Even NOW, there is no large scale testing and no data developed from the testing and NO strategy based on that data. And, there are NO plans to perform large scale testing. There is NO national strategy for coping with the virus and NO plans to develop one. NONE.
Trump’s idea of a national strategy is:
1. Declare that the federal government has no role to play, only the states.
2. Blame the states for not stockpiling medical resources in case of a world wide pandemic.
3. Declare that he is ‘not responsible at all’ and ‘give himself a 10’ for his handling of the pandemic.
4. Fire a military officer for trying to protect those under his command.
.
Chip and The Disciples are not tired of winning yet, huh?
Catherine Spencer-Mills Premium Member about 4 years ago
Let’s do some fact checking. Trump was impeached on Dec 19, 2019. Done. From then until Jan 16, 2020, when the Senate trial began, he was free to actually act like a president and DO SOMETHING, anything but play golf. Which is what he did during that almost month. The WHO informed the world of the virus threat in Dec, 2019. And as noted, Trump was free to focus on the threat for an entire month at least.
painthacker Premium Member about 4 years ago
He obviously can’t do two things at once. He can’t even do one.
Patjade about 4 years ago
It didn’t seem to stop Trump from going to “I love me” rallies, golfing, telling people there were only 15 people and soon it would be zero, a hoax, etc. etc. etc.
pasharuzam Premium Member about 4 years ago
Well, now that Bok acknowledges that his cult leader can’t walk and chew gum at the same time,…maybe he’ll start to.. NAAAAH, he drank too much of the Kool Aıd.
shakeswilly about 4 years ago
Melania: You cheated on me with Stormy Daniels and other women.Trump: You were pregnant at that time. Your fault.
gammaguy about 4 years ago
What does his impeachment have to do with his failing to do his job? It’s not like he was spending all his time testifying.
NRHAWK Premium Member about 4 years ago
Pelosi: “Yea, and you were out playing golf instead of doing your job”.
Ontman about 4 years ago
Trump wasn’t ‘smart’ enough to use the impeachment excuse. Moscow Mitch came up with that.
cdward about 4 years ago
What does one have to do with the other? Is 45 so incompetent that he can’t do two things at the same time? (Don’t answer; I already know).
mourdac Premium Member about 4 years ago
Chip Bok shouting ‘squirrel’ and the MAGAts screaming ‘where’?
walfishj about 4 years ago
So Mr. Bok, you agree that the President was negligent and has blood on his hands.
brit-ed about 4 years ago
He was golfing in January
Masterskrain Premium Member about 4 years ago
About a month after that on Feb. 5, Trump’s impeachment trial ended when the Senate voted not to convict. Trump visited a golf course on Jan. 18 and 19, Feb. 1 and 15, and March 7 and 8. All of these golf outings took place at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump also hosted rallies on Jan. 9 (Ohio), 14 (Wisconsin), 28 (New Jersey) 30 (Iowa), and on Feb. 10 (New Hampshire), 19 (Arizona), 20 (Colorado), 21 (Nevada), and 28 (South Carolina).
superposition about 4 years ago
A competent qualified proactive president would not have dismantled an agency committed to dealing with the inevitable pandemics that will arise as coronaviruses continue to mutate. The RNC seemed desperate in choosing the populist over the competent choices and will be paying for it in the future. Now we have the dual problems of disease and disunity; both of which must be corrected if we wish to thrive. A sane president, realizing his limits, would step aside and let the competent guide us through the pandemic using the best possible tools and methods. Will that happen?
suzalee about 4 years ago
No excuse. He’s supposed to protect the American people.
walstib Premium Member about 4 years ago
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stealth694 about 4 years ago
Don’t forget she was Ranting and Raving with Schumer in January.
davidthoms1 about 4 years ago
Making excuses for the orange dotard again!
Durak Premium Member about 4 years ago
In 1998 Bill Clinton continued to do his job running our nation while being impeached. And he did so without interfering with the process.
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Trump knew about it in December, Trump waited a quarter of a year to act.
Trump ignored the virus and called it a hoax, he did not want the market to crash
Republicans can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.
You can’t blame Nancy for Trump’s criminal behavior.
It was because of crooked liar Trump’s anti-Constitutional behavior that he was getting impeached in the first place.
Disgusting Republicans will grasp at any straw.
Right wing churches are still having meetings, its a self correcting problem.
wbretz about 4 years ago
WRONG! He was impeached on December 18. He was too busy taking victory laps…
Zebrastripes about 4 years ago
…and they are $TILL lapping at hi$ A$$…Take$ NO r$pon$ibility! All he look$ for is “ATTA boy!”
thelordthygod666 about 4 years ago
Yup, that’s the new loyalist line. Trump would have stopped the flu and even found a cure last January if only the Democrats hadn’t impeached him. (Of course that doesn’t explain Trump’s continued inaction after 5 February, but that’s the problem with lies.
fusilier about 4 years ago
Mr. Bok (conveniently?) forgets that Hair Furor spent most of the month of January golfing and conducting Neuremburg-style campaign rallies.
fusilier
James 2:24
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
#JaredKushnerForPrison trends after top Trump advisor claims national emergency stockpile is ‘ours’ – not the states’
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/jaredkushnerforprison-trends-after-top-trump-advisor-claims-national-emergency-stockpile-is-ours-not-the-states/
Havel about 4 years ago
Democrats new campaign slogan: Our candidate (fill in the blank) can do more than one thing at a time."
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Disgusting Big Baby Sexist Trump the abomination is afraid of Nancy Pelosi and knows nothing about how government works.
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Trump tells aides he can’t forgive Pelosi for impeachment humiliation as their broken relationship threatens COVID-19 response: report
Published 3 mins ago on April 3, 2020
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-tells-aides-he-cant-forgive-pelosi-for-impeachment-humiliation-as-their-broken-relationship-threatens-covid-19-response-report/
Radish the wordsmith about 4 years ago
Meanwhile Republicans are packing the courts with unqualified right wing extremists and threatening war with Iran while they suspend the EPA rules for clean air and water.
Republicans have no apparent redeeming qualities.
Ivan Araque about 4 years ago
It’s called dereliction of duty, you dumbass. #CriminalNegligence
ronny about 4 years ago
And that concludes today’s 2 minute hate.
binghamcpa about 4 years ago
Too busy playing golf
ferddo about 4 years ago
Yeah, Trump’s priority was to himself… he could have nipped both image problems (impeachment and lack of action on COVID-19) at the same time by taking positive action instead of what he did do…
kilioopu about 4 years ago
My gosh. Bok is bemoaning that rather than preparing for the pandemic, Trump was spending his time ensuring no one would testify against him.
Johnny on the Spot about 4 years ago
In other words, it’s the Dem’s House’s fault for the Republikkklans in the Senate can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. The Dems passed over 400 pieces of legislation since they became the majority in the House including during their Impeachment Hearings, yet the Senate can’t seem to do anything except blame the Dems.
rhonda Premium Member about 4 years ago
Not like he PARTICIPATED in the proceedings
bhgiz53 about 4 years ago
Um he was still President in January. NO Excuses!
6.6TA about 4 years ago
Hmmm….. “Bokbluster”: bluster: “a violent boisterous blowing“. That pretty much explains this cartoon.
Union Man about 4 years ago
Hey Chip, can you and Trump walk and chew gum at the same time? This is a pretty shi*&y argument!
walkingmancomics about 4 years ago
Oh gosh, Mr. Bok—you don’t REALLY believe this, do you? Wait a moment—here, read this:TRUMP TIMELIES
Dec 18th – House Impeaches TrumpJan 8th – First CDC warningJan 9th – Trump campaign rallyJan 14th – Trump campaign rallyJan 16h – House sends impeachment articles to SenateJan 18th – Trump golfsJan 19th – Trump golfsJan 20th – first case of corona virus in the US, Washington State.Jan 22nd – “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”Jan 28th – Trump campaign rallyJan 30th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 1st – Trump golfsFeb 2nd – “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."Feb 5th – Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.Feb 10th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 12th – Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42Feb 15h – Trump golfsFeb 19th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 20th – Trump campaign rallyFeb 21st – Trump campaign rallyFeb 24th – “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”Feb 25h – “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”Feb 25h – “I think that’s a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”Feb 26th – “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”Feb 26th – “We’re going very substantially down, not up.” Also “This is a flu. This is like a flu”; “Now, you treat this like a flu”; “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.”February 27: “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”Feb 28th – “We’re ordering a lot of supplies. We’re ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering unless it was something like this. But we’re ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”Feb 28th – Trump campaign rallyMarch 2nd – “You take a solid flu vacci
walkingmancomics about 4 years ago
…vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”March 2nd – “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”March 4: “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”March 5th – “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”March 5th – “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”March 6th – “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”March 6th – “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”March 6th – “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”March 6th – “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”March 7th – Trump golfsMarch 8th – Trump golfsMarch 8th – “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”March 9th – “This blindsided the world.”March 13th – [Declared state of emergency]March 17th – “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
DeepState about 4 years ago
Rump managed to play golf 4 times in Florida in the month of January 2020. Give up golf and cable TV. Get to work.
William Bednar Premium Member about 4 years ago
What did Impeachment have to do with anything? Just another excuse Trump used to dither, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk.
Scoutmaster77 about 4 years ago
He can’t walk and chew gum at the same time?
syzygy47 about 4 years ago
Crooked Donny spends more time golfing than governing. Wait, that’s probably a good thing.
PaulGoes about 4 years ago
It’s too bad we have a president who can only do one thing at a time. And he doesn’t do that very well, either.
Nantucket Premium Member about 4 years ago
News stories today:
Dems press FCC to guarantee that broadcast licenses will not be in jeopardy if they air commercials that use direct quotes from Trump like “I don’t take responsibility”
Jared Kushner says that federal medical supplies are not for states to use, they are for “us” – who is “us” if not the U.S. people?
Trump’s Labor dept. will not allow healthcare workers to be covered under stimulus legislation for sick days.
Dr. Fauci says the entire country should be under stay-at-home directive – Trump refuses to issue directive.
Trump will not open enrollment to ACA, promises that hospitals will get cash payments without having ANY details.
“Emergency” order submitted by Secret Service to rent golf golf courses for Sterling, VA where Trump’s golf course is. $45,000 to rent 30 golf carts – golf carts cost about $9000.
Georgia Repub governor says that Trump is correct, more absentee voting will be “devastating” to Republicans.
jpozenel about 4 years ago
I’m listening to his “briefing” right now on 4/3. His statements and ramblings are more absurd than ever. He never lets up.
To everyone else, please stay healthy so you can vote in November, that is, if he doesn’t shut down the elections for our own “safety”.
Andylit Premium Member about 4 years ago
On Feb 24 Nancy was begging tourists to visit Chinatown in SF.
Deblasio was urging people to ride the subway.
The media Dems (but I repeat myself) were calling Trump a racist xenophobe for banning travel from China.
rs0204 Premium Member about 4 years ago
But for a stable genius, that should have proven no problem.
rs0204 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Wow, impeachment did not stop him from golfing or going to his Klan rallies.
sjordane Premium Member about 4 years ago
So very true.
red6235 about 4 years ago
Plus having rallies for your rabid fanboys, plus golfing at you resort at taxpayer expense.Plus the fix was in, McConnell told you ahead of time you had nothing to fear. Plus every republican senator except 1/2 of one looked the other way.
katzenquilts about 4 years ago
Bull. IMPOTUS spent much of January and February doing campaign rallies and golfing — and not cooperating with the Senate trial.
Woodstock Generation Premium Member about 4 years ago
Mango Mussolini was so involved with his impeachment that he 4 putted 5 times during his 6 rounds of golf and he forgot all the biggly words and slurred the rest more often than usual at his 9 rallies. Oh and he testified in his defense for ZERO minutes!
DrDon1 about 4 years ago
April 6th … Over 10,000 Americans dead from COVID-19 … Yet Bok still defends #45! Truly tragic!
Li'l Dale about 4 years ago
IMPOTUS