| Insanity Bill Gates spoke with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday morning and said he "wouldn’t have predicted" that the United States would have performed so poorly in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
In particular, Gates said playing politics over testing has Americans "paying a pretty dramatic price.”
“It’s mind-blowing that because you can’t get the federal government to improve the testing, because they just want to say how great it is — you know, I’ve said to them, look, have a CDC Web site that prioritizes who gets tested. That’s trivial to do. They won’t pay attention to that," Gates told Zakaria.
Unmitigated Disaster
The Washington Post released a massive review of Donald Trump’s leadership on Saturday, and it describes the administration’s pandemic leadership as a hodgepodge of science denial, national strategic dysfunction, and a feedback loop designed to keep the president appeased.
“Everyone is busy trying to create a Potemkin village for him every day. You’re not supposed to see this behavior in liberal democracies that are founded on principles of rule of law," an administration official said.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Excess Capacity??
Despite reports of widespread delays, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is defending U.S. coronavirus testing — claiming that there is actually an abundance of supply.
Appearing on Fox & Friends Monday, the press secretary was confronted by host Ainsley Earhardt — who said that she’s spoken with friends who had difficulty getting a rapid coronavirus test. McEnany said that no, there's no problems, and in fact everything is even better than good. Too good in fact. So good it's excess.
Also on Fox & Friends
Ainsley Earhardt was SHOCKED over the rate of child coronavirus infections, saying that she'd heard children didn’t get the virus.
"97,000 kids have tested positive? That was such a shock to me because I heard kids really don’t get it, if they do they’re all going to be okay," she said to Texas emergency medicine physician Dr. Natasha Kathuria.
Kathuria graciously didn't suggest that Earhardt stop listening to certain sources.
Solidarity
Tori Perrotti, a manager at a Target store in Massachusetts who became known online as "Target Tori" after she was Tweet-shamed by an irate man with a camera, reached out to 'Kroger Andy' - the latest victim of attempted Twitter shame-mobbing - and set up a GoFundMe to boot.
Essential workers taking fire, but standing strong.
Move or Remove?
A new report says NBC’s top brass considered having Nicolle Wallace take Chuck Todd’s place as the moderator of Meet The Press, rather than just moving the shows around on the schedule.
Falling Apart?
CNN’s Brian Stelter used his Sunday Reliable Sources monologue to focus on the “offensive” and “otherworldly” claims right wing talk radio hosts have pushed about the 2020 presumptive Democratic nominee.
“This is negative partisanship in action,” Stelter said.
‘Didn’t You Mess This One Up?’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on Fox News Sunday and faced a grilling from Chris Wallace on the breakdown in negotiations over covid relief legislation between Democrats and the White House. Pelosi said the executive action being taken by the president is insufficient and that she agrees with Republican senator Ben Sasse, who said “The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop.”
 As she criticized the executive actions, Wallace remarked, “Having no bill at all, not coming to any agreement, wasn’t gonna provide any of the things you want either."
"You’re known as a master negotiator, but didn’t you mess this one up?” he asked in the must-see interview. 6.5.0 | 
