As pandemic surges, Trump White House calls Thanksgiving restrictions 'Orwellian'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: ABC News

The Trump White House on Wednesday tried to make Thanksgiving a new political flashpoint, calling new restrictions recommended by health experts and governors "Orwellian."

As COVID-19 spikes dramatically across the country and Americans struggle to decide how many family members should gather, or whether to do so at all, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said leaving it to individuals how to deal with the virus was "the American way."

McEnany made the comments when asked on "Fox and Friends" about "suggestions and guidelines" from experts, governors and even top administration officials that people not gather in large groups for the holiday.

"A lot of the guidelines you're seeing are Orwellian," said McEnany, who contracted COVID-19 in October as part of a larger outbreak at the White House. "We don't lose our freedom in this country. We make responsible health decisions as individuals."

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Oh STFU. The American way has always been that we've helped each other in times of crisis. It's not "I got mine, fuck you I don't care if you die."

[Blue Owl]

1. STFUD you fat piece of shit

[yuiyoshida]

27. Trump wouldn't know ORWELLIAN IF if rose up on its hind legs

and bit him in his orange ass!

[Cha]

2. trump PROJECTING for Thanksgiving! It's like

they want to make COVID as bad as Possible for Team Biden & the American People.

[NCDem47]

5. Seems to be the prevailing theory.

[iluvtennis]

21. + agree with you Cha. nt

[Missn-Hitch]

34. I don't see how. I have been shunning ANYONE I perceive to be insufficiently anti-GOP.

I say let them party, pray together, hold hands, hug each other, kiss each other, play twister, etcetera, etcetera...

Me? I am looking forward to a fireplace, a movie, a couch and the wife on Thanksgiving.

Cheers.

[Evolve Dammit]

3. And just who, pray tell, fucking got us here??? Assholes, whole lot of them. Hooters is hiring..

[riversedge]

4. Do it for the 'common good' --no longer is in the mind of so many. ....."We make responsible health

decisions as individuals." reigns high.



...........Oh STFU. The American way has always been that we've helped each other in times of crisis. It's not "I got mine, fuck you I don't care if you die.".........

[Evolve Dammit]

7. I'm amazed at how many now feel that way though.. Never imagined that many could care less.

[BootinUp]

6. Hah! Just throw any bad word out, actual meaning unimportant. nt

[SergeStorms]

32. You don't remember Orwell writing about Big Government trashing Thanksgiving?

Yeah, I don't either. I guess they were possibly going for the "Big Brother" thing, but they missed by a mile. Trump's administration has always been more a Terry Gilliam "Brazil" type farce.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. FOX: pushing poison straight into the veins of America.

Expected, I guess. But, the rest of the media must cut these motherfuckers off!! No more coverage of anything they say.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I suggest tRump shove some stuffing up his own fat ass

then go stand in an oven at 400 degrees for a few hours...show us how real, American manly-man behave. Go on tRympy...put your fat ass in the oven but please let me slam the door and lock it behind you...then the joyous festivities will really begin. Your goose is cooked you fat fuck!

[yaesu]

10. the whopper eating bag of gas will be pulling the same thing for xmas when its forecasted that 2k a

day will be dying, its the xmas vs happy holidays rehash.

[JDC]

11. Jesus H, the mofo's calling something Orwellian is fucking rich

In fact, it feels fucking Orwellian in and of itself.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. So my desire to protect others from an invisible virus is akin to totalitarianism.

Eat shit and die.

[louis-t]

13. They have never read the book.

Trust me.

[Marthe48]

14. Not listening to r murderers

My family is planning a video chat for Thanksgiving, and we are planning our distance Christmas as well. And we are hoping to have family gatherings by this time next year. I don't need some slimy slob telling me and my family to risk death because he denies his incompetence and has no human decency.

[StClone]

15. Yow DT-Dog

[keithbvadu2]

16. Kayleigh, what does Donald call his personal death count of one quarter million?

Kayleigh, what does Donald call his personal death count of one quarter million?

[StClone]

19. tRump misunderstood

He yelled back "With cheese and fries!" When, he heard the word "quarter."

[orangecrush]

17. Insane

And hopefully criminally liable.

[Hekate]

18. So why is he not going to Mar A Lago? That's his tradition: going from table to table, posing ...

...for selfies, cosplaying King & Courtiers...

Whassamatter, Mad King? Afraid we’ll change the locks?

[Lock him up.]

28. Probably afraid we'll show up with a guillotine.

[Grasswire2]

20. He's trying to kill us all.

What else can we possibly think?

He was installed to ruin America.

[Lock him up.]

29. To make Putin happy.

What else could it be for?

[marble falls]

22. Trump is the Orwellian in the room.

[stonecutter357]

23. fuck trump !

[Miguelito Loveless]

24. I don't remember the Thanksgiving chapter

In 1984.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. Maybe Trump is just Mother Nature's way of thinning the herd of idiots and bigots

[SOVermonter]

26. What a coincidence...

Trump's non-policy on Covid is downright "Oh, well-ian."

[kimbutgar]

30. As if anyone in his administration have ever read a George Orwell book alone!

[DanieRains]

31. Covigula Trump Said What?

Where is the debauchery? Where is the death?

More, more, more!

Rome needs more sacrifice!

[orleans]

33. oh fuck all of them--all those wh spreaders n/t

[Locrian]

36. no

Orwellian is creating this alternate universe where trump won the election and is a "smart stable genius".

Orwell thought the "state" would do this. Turns out its largely by lack of honest MSM coverage and actually "by design" being done by social media (facebook, twitter, youtube, etc)