As the Denver Post’s Conrad Swanson reports:
A prominent Colorado Republican is siding with several other high-profile personalities in attacking America’s response to the novel coronavirus.
Over the past several days, Jim Pfaff, chief of staff for the state House Republican caucus and a Woodland Park City Council candidate, has posted messages on Facebook and Twitter opposing social distancing measures, calling the closures of bars and restaurants “socialist” and mentioning a nationwide effort to “ban Trump rallies.”
…Early Monday, Pfaff posted on Facebook that he agreed with Republican Rep. Devin Nunes’ message encouraging people to go to local restaurants and pubs despite warnings from public health officials. on March 9, Pfaff shared on Twitter a clip from Fox Business anchor Trish Regan in which she accuses Democrats of using the coronavirus to create “mass hysteria to encourage a market sell-off” and to “demonize and destroy the president.”
Despite the fact that even President Donald Trump has stopped downplaying the threat of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and as Swanson reports Fox Business host Trish Regan was benched after she tried to politicize the measures belatedly taken to reduce the spread, Colorado House GOP House Chief of Staff Jim Pfaff didn’t get the memo that downplaying season is over! Every major point of misinformation, after all, inevitably has its faithful believers who never get the message that the proverbial war is over–or if they do, they don’t care. Given Mr. Pfaff’s track record, we feel like we can safely assume the latter is the case.
Speaking Darwinistically, Jim Pfaff is simply on the wrong side of time-honored theory of natural selection–and in this he is far from alone. With that said, it seems reasonable based on this epidemiological blind spot to question Pfaff’s fitness to serve as chief of staff for the Colorado House Republicans.
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Maybe these maroons could do a better job of coordinating their message?
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Maybe, but it doesn't seem likely. For now, Pfatt Boy can just describe the Newsweek piece as "fake news."
Funny how Newt takes things seriously when they affect him. He's right of course, but he definitely shoulders some of the blame for creating the political climate that allowed the trump admin to drag its feet and poo poo this for far too long, and ensure that more people would get sick and die than would have had the government stepped up in January when the danger was obvious.
I thought he was going to mars? Can't he leave now?
Typical neo-con response, right? You're against the ghey until one of your children comes out of the closet. You fight against embryonic stem cell research until you need it. You fight marijuana legalization until your future son-in-law gets busted for minor possession and gets thrown in jail. They are as predictable as the sunrise.
Yes, that is indeed how scumbuckets roll. Oprah Winfrey has provided a ton of publicity for anti-vaxxism and other quackery, but landing in an emergency room with pneumonia last year has her pushing flu and pneumonia vaccines.
Gardner is in self-quaratine for the next 14 days. Was exposed in his Washington office. Probably won't be much of a difference. He has been social distancing for some time now.
I hold Newty-tootie entirely responsible for the political climate we’re in. He started it back in ’94 with his Republican Revolution” and “permanent majority” crap, and it’s been sliding downhill ever since. There’s no good reason the stimulus bill is sitting in the Senate while Yertle the Turtle calls a holiday for senators. He’s making Amy McGrath’s job in November much easier.
Please do not let Frank Luntz off the hook. He is also responsible.
Pfaff is one of those ultra-valuable people in life, in that when he recommends something, the best course of action is to do the opposite.
Agree. And his message is one of the most irresponsible, selfish and uninformed ones I have seen concerning this virus. Blame China/blame socialism/blame the government doesn't solve the problem right now. Very anti vaxxy, of no value, and stupid.
“We have always been at war with
EurasiaCoronavirus” . . .(. . . or, why no semi-sentient being with even a gnat’s memory pretends to believe anything Ttump ever says):
I think I can remember once upon a time, a place called America, where the government could be sometimes trusted, and the world could often count on us to help provide solutions and reliable assistance with global problems? . . .
. . . maybe it was only a pleasant dream?
They are going to have to rewrite history. Quick. Bigly.
Trump supporters worry president’s coronavirus response will cost him 2020 re-election
Are they just now figuring that out? His blowing it off for as long as he did will hurt him in November, Let’s hope people remember.
OceanaCOVIDIt was no dream- the guy from Spiderman was there. And Reese Witherspoon and Don Knotts. And Ray Bolger. And Evan Kim.
I really loved that Don Knotts . . .
Meanwhile over on Facebook…
Look – –
Indiana?!
Jim Pfaff was a 2016 Republican candidate for District 65 of the INdiana House of representatives.
Pfaff sought election to the US House to represent the Indian 9th, before withdrawing to run (and lose) for the INdiana House.
~ Ballotpedia
Why does anyone take Pfaff seriously?
Why does anyone take Indiana seriously?
Before I could vote, Indiana had 11 time zones. (look it up) And had to be ordered by the feds to do something less stoopid. Even then the Indiana legislature had to pass a veto proof law to get it done.
Before I was born, Indiana tried to legislate the value of pi.
Ask a bunch of people from Indiana What's a Hoosier? and the most common answer will be someone from Indiana. It's in the dictionary that way. (second most common will be I dunno)
I expect to see Pfaff and Nunes out and about, shaking hands and mixing it up with large groups. Just stay away form nursing homes and hospitals, gentlemen.
If you were a real Hoosier, you'd know that the term Hoosier supposedly came from frontier days when somebody would come and knock on your door. The resident would say something like "whos here."
. . . not from “hoosier daddy”? You sure??!
Dio: "who's yo daddy" came along much later, along with "yo mama."
There's a small town south of Indy called Gnaw Bone. Supposedly its name came from something like: "I seed him a sittin' on a log a gnawin' on a bone."
Oops.
Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week 'I didn't know about it'
Are the bobble heads that stand around him coached to do that?
Hey. He's a business man with a galaxy brain. Who are they to refute the one chosen by #WhiteProsperityJesus?
. . . I kinda’ wonder if, or when, we might ever start “need[ing] them”???
That's a fair question….
Jared is working on it.
Thank god we have “business men” in charge of this! . . .
. . . if shit ever does start getting really bad, they’ll know just exactly how to file bankruptcy and we’ll begin again fresh!
You forgot a couple of steps.
First they borrow a few gazillion that they pay to themselves through fees and bonuses, then they raid the pension fund for the last few crumbs.
THEN they declare bankruptcy.
Just where the heck have you been for the past three years, one month, twenty-five days, and nine hours???!??
This, from the guy who stiffed the caterer for his wedding to Baby Mama #2. Not just the tip…the entire bill.
SCENE: TODAY, WH COVID-19 PRESSER
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
“You have people that work on tips…it’s a…large number of people….Who would think this, right?