Mudline August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020
............maskless man, subsequently carried out of Tucson store, on fellow-shoppers: "You're a bunch of idiots wearing masks, you know it's not real! Look at you fools. You got a f***ing doily on your face!"....Trump on Kamala Harris: "She was very, very nasty. She was probably nastier than even Pocahontas to Joe Biden...It's hard to pick somebody that's that disrespectful."....Amy Klobuchar on Trump: "Went before the country and called Kamala Harris 'nasty.' I think that's crap."....Tucker Carlson on Harris: "Transparently one-dimensional...There are timeshare salesmen you would trust more...You could find payday lenders who are more sincere."....Donald Trump Jr.: "We all know phony Kamala and her radical leftwing friends will be calling all the shots in a 'Biden Administration,' not slow Joe!"....Trump campaign on Kamala Harris: "She is proof that Joe Biden is an empty shell being filled with the extreme agenda of the radicals on the left."....Fox News' Laura Ingraham on Biden: "Viewed the whole thing as a box-checking exercise for the 'woke' crowd. He should have made his choice just on merit but now he's stuck with Harris."....Trump senior campaign adviser Katrina Pierson: "Wouldn't it be nice to focus just on qualifications instead of identity politics?"....Trump: "If I don't win the election, China will own the United States. You're going to have to learn Chinese, you want to know the truth."....Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates on Trump: "Has been the weakest president in American history with respect to China."....Sen. Ben Sasse on Trump executive orders: "Unconstitutional slop."....Trump on Sasse: "RINO...Gone rogue, again."....Sasse in response: "America doesn't have kings."....Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Trump: "Ignored science, fanned the flames of racism, and employed tactics from the playbook of fascists and dictators."....Trump on former national security adviser John Bolton: "One of the dumbest people I've met in government."....former Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Trump: "The king of cheap shots."....MSNBC contributor Joyce Alene on Trump: "Has shown more outrage in the last few days about Americans voting by mail during a pandemic that he has ever shown about Russian efforts to interfere with our elections."....Bill Gates on US COVID-19 testing: "It's mind-blowing because you can't get the federal government to improve the testing because they just want to say how great it is...[We are] paying billions of dollars in this very inequitable way to get the most worthless test results of any country in the world."....Gail Collins: "One thing I have to give Trump credit for is a general lowering of expectations."....Trump: "With Universal Mail-In Voting...2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history. It will be an embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election...?"....Steven Calabresi, former Trump supporter and co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society: "I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats' assertion that President Trump is a fascist. But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president's immediate impeachment by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate."....Trump on former WH Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci: "A loser who begged to come back."....Scaramucci to Trump: "The Loser is you. 162,000 dead, 40 million American jobs lost on your watch. We are tired of all the losing."....Trump adviser Peter Navarro on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "Goes out every day with her scarves flying and just beats the heck out of us for being cruel people."....Steve Schmidt on Trump Bedminster event: "An utter f***ing disgrace."....Ken Olin: "I'm sorry that Kanye West has serious psychological issues. But we've just spent three and a half years living with a President who has serious psychological issues, and frankly I'm all out of tolerance for anyone using the White House as a substitute for a mental hospital."....Paul Krugman: "Payroll tax cuts are the hydroxychloroquine of economic policy."....Trump on German Chancellor Angela Merkel: "Stupid."....Rush Limbaugh on Dems: "Folks, you cannot be an American leftist today, and also be religious in the traditional sense. You just can't be. They are not pro-God type people, certainly not pro-Christian."....Trump on Biden: "[Will] take away your guns. Destroy your second amendment...Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He's against God."....Kevin M. Kruse on Trump: "The president's campaign themes: 1. Joe Biden is very weak and feeble...2. Joe Biden is so powerful he will hurt an omnipotent deity and somehow hurt a holy book as well."....CNN's Brianna Keilar, interviewing Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp: "This is just pointless. I get it. You're just saying a bunch of crap. Okay, you're saying a bunch of crap."....VP Mike Pence on SC Chief Justice Roberts: "Has been a disappointment to conservatives."....Trump adviser Steve Cortes on Politico: "A fake publication...'Nattering nabobs of negativity.'"....Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway's daughter Claudia: "You know what WE are sick and tired of? Our racist, homophobic, tyrannical, golfing idiot of a president."....Pelosi on Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx: "The worst...I don't have confidence in anyone who stands there while the president says, 'Swallow Lysol, it's going to cure your virus.'"....Trump on Pelosi: "Said horrible things about Dr. Birx because she was too positive on the good job we are doing on combating the China Virus.".... Trump on Birx: "Pathetic."....WH trade adviser Peter Navarro on coronavirus testing czar Brett Giroir: "Doctors' opinions are a dime a dozen."....Tucker Carlson on Biden-Harris: "The first entirely hollow presidential ticket in American history."....Paul Krugman on Republicans: "They've sacralized selfishness, hurting their own political prospects by insisting on the right to act selfishly even when it hurts others."....Wade Davis: "Those who flock to beaches, bars, and political rallies, putting their fellow citizens at risk, are not exercising freedom; they are displaying, as one commentator has noted, the weakness of a people who lack both the stoicism to endure the pandemic and the fortitude to defeat it."....Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Biden: "What is the point of the mask?...To basically kind of dehumanize, it's to frighten people...He's always in that black mask."....Ann Coulter on Nevada sheriff who told BLM-supporting library not to call 911 for help: "Good for him! I hope the library is inundated with masturbating homeless people and pants-wetting psychotics."....Jess Zweck on Trump: "Not impotant but why does he sit on every chair like it's a toilet?"....CA GOP congressional candidate James P. Bradley on "WAP": "Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure...Made me want to pour holy water in my ears."........
