OMG Peter Navarro on MSNBC spouting conspiracies

[spinbaby]

According to him, China deliberately sent out people infected with weaponized virus. Batshit crazy.

[skylucy]

1. OMG is right. What a total nut job.

[tenisfin]

45. This guy is as slippery as they come!

Ali did as well as possible, but I have yet to see an interviewer who doesn't fall into his traps. He diffuses conflict by saying

"sure, sure" then changes the subject as nimbly as Kellyanne and Kaley, then gallops and gishes with the best of them. And he NEVER stops talking! He's a menace!

[usaf-vet]

47. So assume that China did do that. Which is nuts. But it would still be the Presidents job to

respond and prevent the spread by all means possible. While establishing a measured response.

So let me get this straight if some foreign enemy launched a missile at the US but it fell 5 miles short and landed in the ocean this president would do what.

A. launch a retaliatory strike to land 5 miles short of a foreign land.
B. completely lie about what happened and calling the news reports "fake news".
C. go and play golf.
D. tweet outrageous insults calling it Obama's fault.
E. watch Faux news to see what they tell him to do.
F. ALL of the above, pointing out that he is a war president with big-a-brain.

[demmiblue]

2. Holy fuck...

go get 'em Ali!

This is so bizarre.

[Celerity]

3. and he is massively pushing Hydroxychloroquine STILL

[Me.]

4. Is Ali Letting Him Get Away With His Junk Theories

[JaneQPublic]

16. Ali was disappointing.

I expected Ali to call Navarro on his BS, but all Ali did was repeatedly ask, "Do you really believe that?"

Ali also let him filibuster far too long uninterrupted.

Joy would've handed Navarro's head to him on a platter.

[Me.]

33. He Does The Same With THat Hassert Guy

Who is just as bad as Novarro and why I asked

[ResistantAmerican17]

35. I Agree!! I had to turn it off and I usually like Ali's

tenacity. He got walked on like cheap pile carpet. Those footprints are going to be there awhile. Navarro just gasbags on and on

[demmiblue]

5. P.S. his hands are possessed. n/t

[spinbaby]

6. The Chinese Communist party is killing Americans

OMG is he crazy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. It undermines the narrative that tRump killed many Americans. Regardless of origins, tRump inaction

Regardless of origins, tRump failed to defend American lives by his inaction and by his actions downplaying the risks. A very leaky shutdown of China flights, with no screening of the tens of thousands who got through. A much too late shutdown of Europe and even later of UK flights.

Plus his confiscation of PPE and monopoly of Remdesivir. The PPE has yet to be distributed, despite some being sent to Russia.

[OneBlueDotBama]

7. Now navarro is trying to push

Hydroxychloroquine, calling him fruit loops is being generous.

[PA Democrat]

11. He's trying to unload the huge stockpile he acquired on our dime.

[Nevilledog]

8. It's become irresponsible to let these assholes have any air time.

[WinstonSmith4740]

31. My thoughts exactly.

They get enough airtime to spout their bullshit on Faux News, and the rest of the gutless media. I don't know why MSNBC continues to give these nutjobs exposure.

[CloudWatcher]

38. +100000000000000000000

[malaise]

9. That was lunacy on steroids

If he is sane, lock me up

[PA Democrat]

10. I started a thread on this also. Will delete mine and add....

Peter Navarro was spewing cray conspiracy theories including:

Inferring China created the virus and INTENTIONALLY spread it

Said China "weaponized" the virus

Pushing the recent study which says hydroxychloroquine

"The Chinese Communist party is responsible for every bad thing we are experiencing right now."

WTF??????

[Hstch05]

36. Hmmmmm

I wonder if he has to pay Alex Jones royalties for playing his greatest hits...

[thucythucy]

12. Aside from its distraction value

(and I suppose money for Navarro for spouting this nonsense) I can't see how this in any way helps Trump.

Supposing it's true (which of course it isn't) doesn't this mean that Trump has absolutely botched the response to an attack on American civilians by a foreign power? It's like if FDR had responded to Pearl Harbor by sinking our aircraft carriers. If anything, Trump has made things worse.

Maybe someone should ask Navarro, given Trump's pathetic response, does he think maybe Trump is a paid agent of the Chinese?

No, scratch that. It's better that this wannabe demagogue not be given air time at all.

[central scrutinizer]

17. Spot on!

If anything it is more damning. Did China force BMI 45 to do nothing except golf and hold rallies for two plus months instead of preparing for the pandemic? Remember he boasted that he knew it was a pandemic before anybody else. Yet did nothing but minimize it to protect his beloved Dow-Jones

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Those are good ways to play it. . . . nt

[PA Democrat]

13. He also trashed Dr. Fouci. But he does like the Trump toady Dr. Birx

[PA Democrat]

14. Using the term "weaponized" was nutso.

He tried to weasel his way out of that bizarre claim by adding whether "intentional or not". That was worthy of a Q-Anon podcast.

[demmiblue]

15. Partial video for those who didn't watch:

Link to tweet

[spinbaby]

19. Thank you

Words cannot describe this nuttiness—you have to see it yourself.

[dalton99a]

18. Yeah, China is responsible for what happens within our borders

[malaise]

21. Navarro's problem is that the virus affected the entire globe

but the Con and the rest of them thought they could pretend it would go away.
The absence of a plan is why the figures are what they are today. What's more the Con and his goons ignored all the guidelines from their own agencies.

Ali should have cut him off - it was as bad as spreading BS conspiracies on Facebook or Twitter.

[dalton99a]

23. +1. Navarro is a lying ashole who likes to make up shit

https://www.axios.com/peter-navarro-ron-vara-economist-made-up-76c26045-52b8-4a4b-8a3b-b619d4284293.html

Top Trump administration economic adviser Peter Navarro made up an economist he has quoted regularly in his books named Ron Vara, Tom Bartlett writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

"Those who know Navarro well, [Greg] Autry says, were fully aware that Ron Vara was a phony source who often popped up in his books. He said Vara was Navarro’s 'alter ego,' an 'everyman character' who dispenses cutesy business aphorisms as well as dire warnings about Chinese food."

Ron Vara happens to be an anagram of Navarro's last name.

That's just one of many interesting details about the character who Navarro once wrote placed short bets against the stocks of 2 nuclear power-reliant companies literally 2 days before the worst nuclear disaster in human history at Chernobyl.

There's more: Navarro similarly quoted Leslie LeBon when writing about the dangers of China, who a Google book search revealed is his wife.

[demmiblue]

20. More video:

Link to tweet

[MacKasey]

22. I was screaming at the radio in the car

For Ali to shut him up!

[jalan48]

24. Yikes, first Putin and now the Chinese. Time to increase that defense Budget!

[Hamlette]

25. delighted to see this thread

I was watching and wondered if I was the only one who was going nuts.

He is a liar. Like his boss. I think they just go on TV and are told to keep talking so they don't get called on their lack of logic.

[lunasun]

26. Job Ad in China - Nov 2019

Wanted : People to get infected with a potentially lethal virus and carry the disease to the United Staes to take down trump

100000 positions needed to be filled ASAP

[jayfish]

27. My DVR was paused so I'm just seeing this.

I had to run over to see if anyone here was talking about it. ...one of the straight-up craziest things I've ever seen. It boiled down to "
China Weaponized CV-19 and infected us on purpose" and "Ehhh.... I got this Hydroxychloroquine ov'a he'a." Here's a, close to direct, quote. "The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for all the bad things happening to us." ...yup.

[Cicada]

28. Trump did the same thing, using Navarro's logic

If you hide the seriousness of the virus then you might be accused of “sending out” infected people you know will infect others. China was not open about the virus at first. But Trump also underplayed the virus. China and Trump did the same thing.

[Katinfl]

29. I could not listen to him

I muted him but was disappointed in Ali. Navarro was saying all this crap and Ali was just letting him go on and on. Maybe Ali just figured he would just give him enough rope and he will hang himself. Just like the media is giving trump all the air space he wants. I just pray he spews hand himself. I hate him.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Going Navarro

will be known as a special kind of paranoia

[GulfCoast66]

32. Get used to this for the next 4 months.

They have decided to go all in on fear and conspiracy.

It won’t work.

[Traildogbob]

34. Guessing

Trump has given up on Jinese help in this election. So he will create the image of them being a deadly enemy, THEN claim they hijacked Biden landslide, call on his courts to throw out the results and have one congress person in each state vote, and he retaines power. All legal.

[Thekaspervote]

37. The very last thing we need right now!!

[vapor2]

41. Birds of a feather.........

Pompeo spends our tax dollars flying around the world chasing nothing but conspiracy theories and Lindsey is another

[tblue37]

42. Self-delete--posted in wrong thread.

[lillypaddle]

43. I couldn't believe what I was hearing

the guy is as loony as trump. OMG. No wonder we are in big trouble.

[left-of-center2012]

44. I heard him say that Sunday too

On ABC or NBC's Sunday talk show.

[Maru Kitteh]

46. Velshi was a serious disappointment. Let him go on and on and on unchallenged.

Navarro got a free segment to spew batshit crazy CT and peddle hydroxychloroquine.

Terrible.

[radius777]

48. Illogical. China would have no interest in killing their consumers.

China is basically the factory for the world, and would have nothing to gain and everything to lose from 'intentionally' spreading a global pandemic.

Now, they were irresponsible, and should have better measures/practices to prevent animal-to-human virus transmission - but that is another discussion.

[Takket]

49. so... we buy like a trillion $ per year of stuff from China............

so China, logically, decided to cripple our economy with a virus so Americas will severely curtail their spending habits..... because why? because China wanted to ruin their own economy too?

These idiots...........