Rachel @RachelAbrams:NEWT GINGRICH:I Am in Italy Amid the Coronavirus Crisis. America Must Act NOW

[BeckyDem]

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[captain queeg]

1. Wow even Newt. Guess that says something. Though I still hope he gets sick.

[BeckyDem]

3. Yea, he is there and even he can't find it in himself to lie about the gravity of the crisis.

[Blues Heron]

2. Fuck off Newt - you helped give us Trump

STFU - your dipshit "president" is on drugs and is psycho - so piss off.

[DonaldsRump]

4. I nearly posted this myself

but Newt was, as far as he could, PRAISING Trump/Pence/Rus-publicans. Not much, but he still tried.

In any event, send this to your Trumper-friends and ask them why the Patron Saint of the evil that is Donald John Trump (ie Newt Gingrich) is SO SCARED?

[BeckyDem]

6. Quite right, he is scared. To be in Italy is to see it up close and personal, frightening I am sure.

[tblue37]

9. He says Trump "must do even more," but it would be an improvement if Trump

did anything useful at all.

[Frances]

5. If Trump had been President in World War II

We would all be speaking German now

[33taw]

28. I'd be dead.

[crazylikafox]

7. I thought he wanted to drown our government in the bathtub

[rickyhall]

27. That was Grover Norquist, anti-tax scumbag

[Freethinker65]

8. Where the fuck was Newt two fucking weeks ago?

[BeckyDem]

10. Probably not frigtened like he is now.

[edhopper]

29. praising Trump

[Roland99]

11. Fuck Newt. He's praising the useless travel bans & saying Mitch says congress should stay in session

[SiliconValley_Dem]

12. Wasn't he saying a couple of weeks ago it was overblown hype?

[Amishman]

14. I believe he was

Covid-19 must really be one of the most powerful forces on Earth, it can make a Republican see reality.

We need to shut everything down now.

[JHB]

13. "Using the kind of intensity of implementation which served us so well in World War II"

...or as Newt has called it for the entirety of his career, "Big Government".

[Leith]

15. Maybe he should come up with a list of words to use against the virus

He could send it around to rethugs for when they blame it all on Democrats. Again.

[Hekate]

33. Hah! Seeng that list for the first time at DU was incredibly enlightening for me...

I wondered what had become of the language of common discourse, and how it had become so twisted. DU showed me.

[RT Atlanta]

16. asshole crying wolf

this is the same thrice married cheating mother fucka that shut the government down twice while he was speaker of the house for weeks on end both times. he didnt see any purpose on critical functions during that shut down.

Call up your buddies on your secret direct phone lines if you want to make it happen.

Start with GA and that shit-for-hatin'-"Mexican"-brains 'Brine' kemp. Get his ass out there doing something - why dont you call on him to shut down hartsfield airport and the port of savannah?

fuck off leroy.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Yeah, I hope they sneeze all over you. You fucking piece of shit phony! nt

[malaise]

18. Fuck you Newt - you thought this idiot could be President

That is all

[eppur_se_muova]

19. Newt can lick every doorknob in Milan for all I care. nt

[BeckyDem]

20. He is scared and it helps he says so.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. In Italy, you can get arrested by the police if you are outside

with no reason. Only 1 person can go shopping for a family, and the lines are long because you have to stand 3 feet apart.
The docs are shattered to their last nerve, they have to do life and death triage over which patient gets the rapidly scarce ventilators. First responders are falling out from overwork and the virus.

We are maybe 3 weeks away from that. Plan accordingly.

[BeckyDem]

22. I was told today that a grocery chain near me was flooded yesterday, a hundred people

waiting when they opened. The exposure is there, I am not hearing how this will be dealt with, but you may be right.

[GusBob]

23. Wow factor. Hate the guy wow

This helps

[BeckyDem]

24. He is despicable but I do believe he is scared straight.

[GusBob]

25. It was posted on FB by a bible thumping Trumper friend

I had to make sure it wasnt fake

[AlexSFCA]

26. it takes covid-19 to destroy gop

why is he in Italy? I can only assume he is positive or recovered. These assholes don’t change unless they are affected.

[Hekate]

34. Newt got his wife appointed Ambassador the the Vatican in Rome. Because they're such pious ...

...dedicated Roman Catholics, you see.

[33taw]

30. Is there a link to his earlier comments?

[BeckyDem]

31. I do not, sorry.

[Hekate]

32. Well Newt you *hole, you worked hard to bring us this government. NOW you recognize the danger?

Go to hell, buddy.

[UTUSN]

35. Note to Newt: The act together means: Never Repukes!1