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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIllinois governor fires back at Trump over coronavirus: 'Get off Twitter & do your job'
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) hit back at President Trump after the president attacked him and other governors who have criticized the federal response to coronavirus Sunday.
You wasted precious months when you could've taken action to protect Americans & Illinoisans. You should be leading a national response instead of throwing tantrums from the back seat, Pritzker tweeted Sunday. Where were the tests when we needed them? Where's the PPE [personal protective equipment]? Get off Twitter & do your job.
Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted that Pritzker and a very small group of certain other Governors, together with Fake News @CNN& Concast (MSDNC), shouldnt be blaming the Federal Government for their own shortcomings after Pritzker told CNNs Jake Tapper that an inadequate federal response had forced states affected by the virus to compete for resources, telling Tapper it should have been a coordinated effort by the federal government.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/488903-illinois-governor-fires-back-at-trump-over-coronavirus-get-off-twitter
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)In addition, Twitter still hasn't figured out to generate revenues from its business model.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,415 posts)I think he has a great future.
Go JB!
Nature Man
(869 posts)could punch him in his stupid fucking asshole mouth!
Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)After touching that orange fungus.
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)But no. They sit around and whine and blame other people.
Whiney Republican wankers are a disgrace.
calimary
(81,313 posts)Theyre clinging to the old, obsolete trickle-down bullshit. Just hoping everybody forgot how that crap only benefitted the already haves. TWICE.
McKim
(2,412 posts)This is the behavior of rich kids raised by nannies or raised without limits. No discipline, no consequences and no responsibility!
fleur-de-lisa
(14,627 posts)but do wish he would quit spreading disinformation on Twitter.
Cant someone give him a coloring book or something? Maybe some LEGOs?
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)and have them shipped straight to the White House.
Maybe send him some pacifiers and some Depends as well.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)However, the pacifier and Depends would be useful.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)Although eating the red ones would accent the orange toner clownishly
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calimary
(81,313 posts)Hideous and beautiful at the same time.
And of course thats how most of us see him anyway.
wnylib
(21,486 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)Give him a BIG BAG of Legos and tell him he needs to build the model of the bestest, biggest, awesomest, Republiconist wall ever!!!!
THAT will keep him busy for a while................
calimary
(81,313 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)doc03
(35,346 posts)PatSeg
(47,501 posts)is going to be. Trump will put a lot of energy into undermining the governor and the state of Illinois now. Of course, if he WAS doing his job, he wouldn't have time for this vindictive crap.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)Or maybe lard butt without a trace of irony.
PatSeg
(47,501 posts)He does insult people who are overweight, as if he is in tip top shape.
avebury
(10,952 posts)that he can't go play golf at any one of his golf courses. This dang virus is costing him money. He can't charge the Federal Govt if he isn't going to his properties. Hence the motivation to make money off of the virus.
doc03
(35,346 posts)for doing a good job with the virus. That will drive Trump nuts too.
calimary
(81,313 posts)Just more for his pocket. On us - the taxpayers.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Despite being a billionaire, he strikes me as the type of person who truly understands what it means to be a public servant.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Running for office, he told his life story. He is a self made man, and very sensible, not puffed up like tRump. Will make a great president some day. He is naturally frustrated with the slow pace of this administration's action on the virus. Trump will no doubt find a stupid nickname for J.B. It is what he does - mostly instead of doing his job. Something I feel for Pritzker, but not for tRump? RESPECT.
mucifer
(23,550 posts)billionaires. He has had lots of advantages the rest of us never had.
All that said I can't imagine not voting for him again. He's great!
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,415 posts)Comes from one of the richest families in the U.S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker
calimary
(81,313 posts)Basically it means much blessed, much obligated. And I agree. If theyre blessed with great wealth, dammit, theyre OBLIGATED. That wealth OBLIGATES them to help those in greater need.
Thats NOT free wealth. It comes with a bigtime obligation to do more, contribute more, give more, and help more.
If theres a 98-pound weakling and a big-ass 250-pound muscle-bound weightlifter walking together, which one of them is better-suited and better-equipped and more capable of lifting the stalled cars wheel out of the ditch? Weve spent WAY too long sticking the 98-pound weakling with the heavy lifting and sending the big muscleman over to the side under the shade tree with the nice beach chair to relax with a nice cold drink?
murielm99
(30,745 posts)I love him where he is and would like to keep him here. Our state has so many problems. He has ideas about how to fix them.
JB has a short fuse under many circumstances. I don't mind, but I don't think that is a quality that would get him elected to the Presidency.
mushroomhunter
(88 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)cp
(6,636 posts)Very grateful for them.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)republican politicians who travelled to meet him in Moscow last 4th of July. Putin was not told that the other party, the democrats, have SPINES and intelligence. Both sadly lacking in the gop. Putin should have known about the democratic politicians by studying Hillary. She has more cajones than the entire gop combined. The sooner the (D)'s take over, the sooner this country can begin the long, long treck back to normalcy.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,033 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,033 posts)I said "STFU and do your job" when I answered the same Tweet.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Today said FEMA started shipping vast quantities of face masks from stockpiles. Let that set in. FEMA had these masks stockpiled for the next emergency but because this was a health disaster it was the responsibility of HHS. Apparently HHS doesn't have the telephone number or email address of FEMA to ask what medical supplies and equipment they had stockpiled, how soon they could be shipped, etc. "Not my job" is a pretty pathetic response during a national emergency, especially from the FEMA Director. Heck of a job. Same goes for Pence. Why wasn't he on the phone demanding answers and getting things going. There is not a decent manager in the bunch.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fema-administrator-masks-shipped-national-stockpile/story?id=69731546&cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_twopack_hed&fbclid=IwAR3aKZPPxyRKC6GX6yKINGSaUYbhhdn21N21FMsW65TnQiEUxbEwHxiCHh8
Edited to add link.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He was praying with Mother, and telling people to remember to give money to churches. You know, the IMPORTANT stuff.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Stuart G
(38,434 posts)It is as if the "federal government" & Trump did not have ...responsibility for a national disaster
Trump doesn't have a clue. Much too stupid to know what he just said is very stupid. A national disaster is a responsibility of the ..."federal government"....and............................................................
..you can't throw paper towels at it and the problem will be solved....
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)He is the biggest hunk of filthy swamp slime that ever lived and we FUCKING elected him president. Well...we didn't. He CHEATED. Now the lousy piece of crap is bringing this country to its knees for the sake of profit.
Ok...rant over.
Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)Thank you!
Glad I live in Illinois, and have Democratic majorities to lead us out of this Depression 2.0 and Plague mess the Republicans and Trump have got us into!
extvbroadcaster
(343 posts)He is a great governor. Long ago he stated that Trumps brand of racist hate was not welcome in Illinois. Now JB is taking the helm for the citizens of Illinois and not depending on the orange menace to be competent. It is obvious Trump was asleep at the switch and has no clue.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)live love laugh
(13,118 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)He has never done his job in the first place.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)should have been a coordinated effort by the federal government.
Maybe led by a czar named Pence who is too busy worrying about money for his church pals.
keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)Trump ridiculed the idea of gov't being a shipping clerk and now he is bragging about doing just that.
King_Klonopin
(1,306 posts)subana
(586 posts)the problem is comrade donnie doesn't know what his role is & doesn't seem interested in finding out what he should be doing! He apparently thinks his role is to act like a stalker, peering over someone's shoulder when they speak & swaying from side to side like an impatient, immature spoiled brat!
Cha
(297,304 posts)citizen blues
(570 posts)We should all tweet the same to the orange blob.
Nothing else. No commentary. That alone is enough. But keep at it until it's viral. Trump doesn't care about polls, news, emails sent to the White House,....nothing except Twitter.
Daily Tweet: @therealdonaldtrump Get off Twitter and do your job.