Chris Christie just laid an egg
With all the idiotic things that Donald Trump has said in the past twenty-four hours alone, you’d think that others in his orbit would have a hard time trying to top him. But Trump’s sometimes-stooge Chris Christie is apparently intent on trying to out-stupid Trump right now.
Chris Christie was interviewed by CNN for a podcast today, because apparently Chris Christie has now fallen so far that even major news outlets are only willing to feature him on a podcast. If they were hoping he’d say something stupid, they got their wish. Christie insisted that we should start reopening the economy because “there are going to be deaths no matter what.” Wait, what?
Is Chris Christie trying to make the straight faced argument that there’s no difference between, say, maintaining proper lockdowns and having a death toll of a hundred thousand people, or throwing caution to the wind and having a death toll of two hundred thousand? Does he not realize how idiotic and frankly murderous he sounds when he says this? Even if “kill everyone” is the Trump-era Republican position, these guys aren’t supposed to say the quiet part out loud. Then again, Chris Christie says everything loudly.
Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report