Governor asks that Texans wear masks. "Our goal is to keep Texans out of hospitals and to reduce the number of Texans who test positive…COVID hasn't simply gone away. We don't have to choose between jobs and health. We can have both."
— Tony Plohetski (@tplohetski) June 22, 2020
Maybe you should have been urging people to wear fucking masks months ago before it became a huge issue in Texas LIKE ALL THE FUCKING MAYORS BEGGED YOU TO DO.
There really should be a way to sue and prosecute governors and mayors and Presidents for negligence.
bbleh
Now now, if we didn’t have dumbass idiots in official positions then we wouldn’t have truly representative government.
It’s all about respect for the Constitution, see?
opiejeanne
Amen.
Watching them suddenly express concern makes me want to heave.
LuciaMia
Love the “.COVID hasn’t simply gone away.” comment. A little dig at Herr Trumpov?
yellowdog
@LuciaMia: He wouldn’t dare. He’ll be forced to take it back.
bemused
So who is Abbott going to blame for what he did?
satby
We have a seriously broken country.
Geoduck
And if the Shiatgibbon would just come and say it as well, it would help even more. And it would be so easy, with no work required on his part. Just waddle out, hold up a MAGA2020 Mask(tm) in his stubby little mitts and say “Be an American Warrior! Defeat the Invisible Chinese Enemy! Mask Up!” He wouldn’t even have to put it on. And his idiot followers would do a 180, form MagaMask Squads(tm) and roam their neighborhood stapling them to people’s faces.
Kent
Just like a dead fish, the rot in the GOP starts at the head. If Trump was wearing a mask and promoting their use then every damn one of those governors would have fallen in line and done the same.
It all comes back to Trump.
Calouste
As Churchill said, you can count on Republicans to do the right thing, after they have tried everything else.
Tony Jay
Haven’t you heard, Cole? Because the Incredibly Shrinking Man needs to downplay the scale of the pandemic for electoral reasons, that makes anything to do with C-19 a partisan issue. So any attempt to seek legal redress against Republicans would be criminalising policy differences, and that would be bad, as in much, much worse than any loss of life stemming from those policies could ever be.
Only (non-GOP) people fail, not the system.
Patricia Kayden
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Too late asshole. You should’ve been doing this back in April and May, instead of trying to fellate Trump
Benw
The parts of the US that are opening up are basically heading down the basement stairs where the coronavirus wielding maniac is waiting while the rest of the world covers their eyes in horror and screams FOR GODS SAKE DONT GO DOWN THERE
Mary G
I commented yesterday about Abbott refusing to have the Houston and San Antonio papers at his press conference about the virus. Banana republic anyone?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Reposting from below. DeSantis changed how hospitals report numbers of ICU patients:
Beyond all that, doesn’t this basically give hospitals an out to report as they did before? If you’re in the ICU, you’re going to require an “intensive level of care.”
DeSantis: Only report ICU patients that require an intensive level of care
FL hospitals: *reports all ICU patients*
DeSantis: No, not like that!
Kent
No, you can’t. Wearing masks is the most trivial of measures. The state of TX is basically wide open for business right now. They aren’t even thinking about any actual hard measures.
kindness
Prosecuting on charges of stupidity would bring the courts to a stand still.
NotMax
Houston, we have a problem.
Also Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, El Paso, Amarillo, Corpus Christi….
Gravenstone
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I doubt there are many ICU who will be allowing non-critical patients to take up such limited resources. If they’re in ICU, they probably require critical care.
Edmund Dantes
Did he rescind his order that made it illegal for local areas to mandate masks? If not, fuck him.
Dupe1970
Whatever terrible things may befall Abbott it will pale in comparison to the harm he has caused.
– A Texan
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Mary G:
The modern GOP has no coherent ideology. It’s all about pure power. Enriching themselves and hurting those they hate.
I’m sure Abbot loves to talk a good game about “freedom” and Republicans in general love to talk about local control and federalism. However, their actions show they don’t give a shit about any of that if it means a city wants to set it’s minimum wage higher than the state or federal government, for example. Or allowing media to their conferences that might embarrass them.
Dupe1970
@Edmund Dantes: No. Worse. County Judge Wolf (Bexar County) mandated all businesses require it or be fined and Abbott said aha you figured out my riddle. And it made me want to smack him around for not saying that cities could do this when he first announced his grand reopening plan. I am spitting venom here.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
I always thought that, post -Ann Richards ( and probably before) Texans found the most stupid man in the state and made him governor. Now it looks like a tie between him and the Lt. Gov. who wanted the olds to sacrifice themselves for the economy.
And people live there on purpose???
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Edmund Dantes:
GOP: We love federalism and local control!
States make it illegal for localities to remove Confederate Statues
GOP: Yes, excellent!
A Democratic controlled metro area wants to make masks mandatory
GOP: No, not like that!
MattF
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Uh, what? ‘Don’t report the intensive care patients who are not receiving intensive care‘? Are we dealing with someone whose attention span isn’t long enough to last to the end of the sentence he’s speaking?
Bill Arnold
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Well, no, late is a lot better than never.
Abbot is full of shit.
On June 3 2020 he forbid local governments making mask wearing indoors in public places mandatory.[1] Now, June 22, he’s saying that what he really meant was that local governments could require that local business make mask wearing mandatory in their the business places, but he didn’t tell anyone about this for 2.5 weeks.
This is 2.5 weeks of epidemic time, and the delay will result in many thousands of cases and many deaths. Those deaths, and the disabilities among survivors, will be his fault.
Gov. Greg Abbott faces criticism from local leaders and fellow Republicans over masks (Valeria Olivares, Jun 22, 2020)
[1] ” the governor issued an executive order June 3 banning local governments from imposing fines or criminal penalties on people who don’t wear masks in public”
Ohio Mom
As someone much smarter than Abbott once said,”Reality has a way of catching up to you.” Governor, you’ve been tagged.
You’ll note that Reality is not at all winded from the sprint to catch Abbott, and it is now loping off in some other Republican official’s direction. I’m wishing it Godspeed because this seems to be the only thing that is getting through to Red state governors.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Disgusting NASCAR news, via CNN
NASCAR drivers offer Bubba Wallace show of support after noose found in his garage
Calouste
@Kent: There is a lot of everything else to try, not sure they’ll ever get around to the right thing.
Ben Cisco
@bemused:
Won’t be Who, he’s on first.
I’ll see myself out.
Subsole
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): English cannot express how much I fucking loathe these assholes.
Seriously, I try not to be that kind of Texan, but I wish Greg would fuck off back to Mynot where he belongs.
He can take Dan Fucking Patrick with him.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Richard Petty is like a hundred years old. If they’re trotting him out, they’re worried about what this might do to their ratings.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MattF:
@Gravenstone:
I know, right? I just hope that the hospitals in Florida continue to report the truth and don’t give into political pressure. I’ve heard that the state health department down there has been very crooked, so maybe the hospitals could get the real data out to the media if the Florida Department of Health and DeSantis won’t be truthful
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: He’s 82.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I just got the nicest note out of the blue. An older woman who read the Herald article about me wrote to say she’s decided that in her late 60s, she wasn’t too old to make art after all. I flinched at that article because it had my age in the first line, but evidently it helped someone.
Also, I blogged today. Colbert sometimes does a bit where he reads the final and first drafts of greeting cards. I decided to blog about first and final drafts of the first paragraphs of my books. Much revision! Beginnings are really hard. (My website it glitchy right now. If it doesn’t come up, just reload.)
Ben Cisco
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Petty is the team owner for the #43 car, Wallace’s ride. He hasn’t attended an event since C-19 started due to his age, but decided a statement needed to be made.
Had to know this was going to be a fight to the end. The problem is not that it’s happening now, but that it hadn’t already been done. Haters gonna lose.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven:
As a friend of mine used to say, younger than Elrond, older than dirt.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I’m sure ratings are what they’re worried about, but it seems like even the top leadership of NASCAR know Wallace at some level. They see him as one of them. Plus, it’s a fucking noose. That’s like burning a cross in a yard or wearing a white hood. It’s the kind of obviously violent racist shit that a lot of white people do not like.
NASCAR is an organization that has tried to appeal outside of the South since the late 90s and early 2000s. They were very popular for awhile and after a long decline, they seemed to have begun to stabilize w/ popularity. They had to condemn this, but good on them either way.
Subsole
@Kent: Yeah, turns out getting 85% of your state budget from sales tax might not be such a good idea. Especially when it panics you into lethally stupid shit like this.
We are screwed. I mean “F U K T” screwed.
Jess
@bemused: Antifa–duh!
HumboldtBlue
Sarah Cooper can take down Trump with a pinky finger.
And happy birthday, John.
danielx
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Or trying to control fossil fuel development inside city limits. Can’t have locals interfering with the bidness climate, you know, especially the fucking hippies in Austin.
leeleeFL
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): IF, you say?
I haven’t trusted a word DeSantis has said since he came home from DC with Oval Office fibers on his knees!
IF doesn’t even begin to tell the story.
Jeffro
Thank god for sensible, educated, DEMOCRATIC governors.
So, it’s now getting to be late June and the country as a whole is not coming ‘down the mountain’ – the blue states are. These big red states are about to put on an improv performance of New York II: Covid Boogaloo that’ll last them through the summer, easily.
Realizing that we are in an environment where even 9:00 a.m. events have usually been overtaken by whatever happens at noon…the whole country is teed up for a four-month-long painful education in which party/party leaders have a half a brain (and have the country’s citizens’ best interests at heart), and which ones clearly DO NOT. That almost has to have an impact, and Biden’s already well ahead.
catclub
@Kent: Plus I am pretty sure Churchill said it about ‘The Americans”, but I suspect the original commenter knew that and forgot a sarcasm tag.
Subsole
@Boris Rasputin (the evil twin):
It has its charms.
I know I dump on it a lot, but do bear in mind our state is like Warsaw Pact level gerrymandered. We are probably closer to purple than most folks realize.
Our major cities are as progressive as any, and even the smaller towns can surprise you, especially if there’s a university nearby.
Our big problem is apathy, really. Liberal blocs just do not show up.
danielx
@Geoduck:
Wouldn’t work. Turning on the mental dime like that requires powers forbidden to ordinary mortals. Only Faux Nooz commentators can do it.
Ben Cisco
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Quite right – and the hunt is on.
Roger Moore
@Calouste:
The difference with Trump is there’s no longer any reason to think they’ll eventually decide to do the right thing, even when they have tried everything else. They’d much rather do nothing at all.
Barry
@Gravenstone: “I doubt there are many ICU who will be allowing non-critical patients to take up such limited resources. If they’re in ICU, they probably require critical care.”
I would lay money that by now, Texas hospitals are working to move non-COVID ICU patients (and acute/critical care) to other hospitals, to make room.
They will know that the cases follow infections by 2-3 weeks, and that behavior will likely not change for longer. Things are baked in for a month or two, if things go well.
Mike in NC
Just like avoiding STDs at nightclubs in the 1970s and 80s, Fat Bastard will brag about not getting Covid-19 in 2020 as his personal Vietnam War.
Betty
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Seeing the NASCAR drivers wearing masks is a good sign that maybe the message is getting out that masks aren’t really a Democratic thing.
catclub
Berman should have objected to the firing because it was prima facie obstruction of justice.
MattF
@catclub: Which is why Trump claimed he had nothing to do with it. ‘Cept for actually doing the firing…
Geoboy
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Isn’t Texas governor Abbott the guy who used a state liability law to successfully collect three million dollars when an accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, but then had the law changed so that no one else could use it the way he did?
Subsole
@Jeffro: I know the business-conservatives of my acquaintance are pretty damn livid about this.
Like, they really do NOT appreciate this kind of wanton fuckupery. Don’t know if it’ll change their votes, but they seem almost viscerally revolted just by the sheer incompetence.
Subsole
@Geoboy: That’s him. He is an odious piece of shit.
Ben Cisco
@Geoboy: Yup! Classic GOP move.
Kent
Having lived in TX I can assure you that the Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is more stupid, venal and evil. Governor Abbott is mainstream TX GOP. So your mainstream bad. Patrick is a true horror.
Kent
No, they’d rather do the WRONG thing. Like tax cuts for billionaires and deregulate the oil industry to address the pandemic.
Peale
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): seems like he only wants to count patients in icu wards, which will cap numbers since he won’t be counting patients in the rest of the hospital. So as hospitals convert other beds when their icus get crowded, those patients won’t be counted properly even if intubated.
Subsole
@Kent: It reminds me of that Farside cartoon where a couple of lab animals are sitting in the dining room and one of them says “Stimulus, response. Stimulus, response! Don’t you ever THINK?!”
It is frustrating as hell. We could really make a killing on green energy here, especially out west.
Our art/cultural scenes are pretty vibrant, too. Especially El Paso and San Antonio.
Like, this state has a LOT of squandered potential.
Doc Sardonic
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Not to be overly sarcastic but
Is kinda like saying it gets hot in Florida in the summer, Rick Scott is bald and Marco Rubio is short and stupid. It also makes you wonder what kind of unseemly things Ron DeSantis did to or with the faculty to get through law school.
Subsole
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): This. The racial slurs are the only honesty I’ve seen out of the GOP in my approximately 40 years.
The rest was just soap bubbles full of horseshit.
Keith G
As those of us in Texas know, Abbot’s behavior is worse than what has been described above. The Harris County Judge, our chief executive of the county, as well as the mayor of the city of Houston, put out regulations requiring masks back in March. Governor Abbott shortly thereafter decreed that it was illegal for them to do so and the requirements came down.
If one does agree with the experts that masks do prevent a certain number of infections, then one can assign the blame for a certain number of infections and a certain number of deaths right onto the head of the governor of Texas.
As a personal note, the job I do here in Houston is public-facing. The company I work for decided against requiring masks for all those wishing to enter establishments run by the parent company. The reason given was that the subject was too political and the leadership of the company do not want to get involved in such a debate.
Sweet. Jesus.
tokyokie
@bemused:
Hillary, of course. With funding from Soros.
jonas
Isn’t there some saying down in Texas about a horse having already left the barn or something?
Miss Bianca
@HumboldtBlue: OMG, that might be the best one yet. The slithering off the chair at the end was a LOL for me.
schrodingers_cat
It was never about illegal immigration. The Orange One is suspending the issuance of almost all new long term visas and some categories of green cards. If this includes student visas this will be a body blow to many universities.
jonas
@tokyokie: “A Soros-Clinton space laser beamed stupidity rays into my head for three straight months, causing me to completely mismanage a pandemic and place business interests above the public good! Curse them!”
jonas
Well, the taxes are really low. Including those on funeral services.
mrmoshpotato
@Geoduck:
LOL
And true because Republicans truly are “reprogrammable meatbags.” (h/t Mr_Electrico/driftglass)
jonas
And from what I understand (not being from Texas), it’s actually the Lt. Gov. who really runs the show. (That’s why a lot of people, including Molly Ivins, warned people re: GW Bush that having been governor of Texas is not “executive experience” in the way we would normally think of it)
jonas
For this crew, that’s of course a feature, not a bug.
schrodingers_cat
@jonas: Of course. F-1 visas don’t’ seem to be in the list.
bowtiejack
@bbleh:
Back when Nixon was nominating some Southern mediocrity to the Supreme Court (either G. Harold Carswell or Clement Haynsworth), and objections were made to that very “mediocrity”, one of the Midwestern GOP senators (probably Capehart or Hickenlooper) argued that mediocre people had a right to be represented on the Supreme Court.
I kid you not.
jonas
“New York II — Covid Bugaloo”: I think I’ll steal that one. But to the point, what the hell did they think would happen to their tourist economies this summer if the state is awash in Covid? You think people are going to be lining up to hit Disney World now? Or beach bars? Total insanity.
jonas
@Kent: Doing the wrong, corrupt thing owns the libs.
jonas
@schrodingers_cat: Oh, ok. That’s good. What about for foreign scientists and academics working at US universities?
jonas
I caught the new Padma Lakshmi travel/food program on Hulu last night and she was in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez. What a neat place. I had just eaten a huge meal and it still made me hungry again. Highly recommended.
schrodingers_cat
@jonas: The new order does not affect those already in the United States.
MattF
@bowtiejack: Senator Roman Hruska. Comment made him famous. Briefly.
robertodeoso
@bowtiejack: it was Roman Hruska, I think.
KSinMA
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s a great blog post–thanks!
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: should be prime ad material, aimed at corporate America and universities…”do you like what’s happened to your business under trumpov?”
schrodingers_cat
@Jeffro: His goal is to make the United States another Russia, a has been with nuclear weapons.
Jeffro
@jonas: they cannot think past “the opposite of whatever the libs want”, not even for a second.
can’t pretend your way back to a healthy economy, GOP. The virus…and 70% of the country…just doesn’t care.
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: I really think he’s into the “let’s just wreck shit” phase now. Losing re-election is The End for him, a narcissistic injury for the ages as well as criminal prosecutions, bankruptcy, etc etc
Kay
As they get worse and worse inside the Trump Administration, they are increasingly unable to keep the lies straight even among themselves. This is like when they gassed the protestors and lied about it- this is the third explanation.
Mike G
Forget it, Jake. It’s not just stupid, it’s Big Texas Stupid.
They deliberately chose a ruling party that makes stupid people feel good about being stupid, ignorant bigots.
coin operated
The TX Legislature meets for 140 days every 2 years, and it is the Lt. Gov. who sets the agenda. You want a bill passed? If Patrick says no, it won’t ever see the light of day.
{edit for clarity}
Kay
Conservative governors really had a chance to do this differently but still DO something. No one ordered them to take the Cuomo approach. They could have come up with their own. Masks make the most sense for conservatives because they’re cheap and easy – it requires no effort or investment from government at all- put a mask order in. Easy. That could have been the Right’s calling card- universal masks. But they were too stubbornly dumb to do even that.
Geoduck
@schrodingers_cat: Even that’s giving him too much credit. He doesn’t care what happens to the US. All he cares about is his own adulation levels and wealth.
Kay
It would have been worthwhile even as an experiment. “What happens when government does nothing other than ordering everyone to wear a mask?”
If it worked and transmission rates fell or stayed low we could all do it and they could claim a big business-friendly win. They’re not even competent or rational within the narrow confines of their ideology. They’re just bad at their jobs.
bemused
@Ben Cisco:
@Jess:
Heh!
schrodingers_cat
@Geoduck: He is Putin. Orangina is the means to achieving that end.
Kirk Spencer
@Keith G: my sympathies. The public facing units of my company are mask mandatory for us and visitors/customers, Abbot be damned.
Of course, the public facing units are only a small part of the business, which helps.
Roger Moore
@Kay:
They can’t do anything right because doing stuff right would undermine their belief that the government is always bad. The belief that government is incompetent is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Mike in Pasadena
Is the Texas guv some kinda pinko commie lieburral?
mrmoshpotato
And ultimately being hanged by his fat, orange, fascist neck until dead – hopefully.
We know how to hang convicted Nazi trash.
topclimber
@Kay: I will set the bar even lower. How about GOP leaders just modeling good behavior from the outset, both wearing masks in public and calling for voluntary compliance?
“We count on Americans doing the right thing, without the nanny state forcing them.” MAGA masks, flag masks, Hillary Sucks masks all over the place!
leeleeFL
@bowtiejack: my idiot sibling argued that exact point about Wasilla Wendy. Something like, ” she’s like lots of ‘Murcans!”. Haven’t realty spoken to him since, except to tell him our Mom died.
leeleeFL
@jonas: Jesus, I sure hope not! I flippin’ live here!
Peale
@Kay: They could have even done that thing that they like to allow where businesses could deduct 10X the cost of a mask from their employees’ take home pay and kept the difference.
Uncle Cosmo
@Calouste: You can’t count on Republicans to do the right thing until they’ve stolen everything that isn’t nailed down, and usually not then either. Fkm!
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes. Universities are institutions of higher learning. Republicans hate learning, thus this plan is about to work just as they want. Universities failing financially. Double plus good to Trump!!!
Frankensteinbeck
@Mike G:
Core dynamic of the Republican Party right there, and why they nominated and elected Donald Trump.
StringOnAStick
Yesterday my husband and I did a brutal steel gravel hike to get to a dome for some rock climbing, just off the main channel of the South Platte river West of Denver. The river was crowded with fish hunters and picnic ing families. We had the place to ourselves with was gorgeous but for hours of listening to ammosexuals burning through hundreds of dollars in bullets; lots of 20 bullet bursts so we know semiautos were involved. I figured they needed to burn up some anger after Dear Leader ended up looking like a loser in Tulsa. Later saw the Sheriff rushing that direction probably because there was some obvious use of exploding targets which is currently banned due to high fire danger.
Jinchi
The exasperating thing is that if Trump had simply told his base to put on a damn mask for 2 weeks, we probably would have crushed this. He wouldn’t even have to wear one himself, since they don’t give a damn whether he follows his own rules.
rikyrah
So, let’s look at where we are in this election cycle.
The NYT has made some staff changes that scream -WATCH OUT FOR THE UPCOMING PHUCKERY.
These people have not earned the benefit of the doubt and should not be given any. When you see it, call it out, and push that call out on as many platforms as you can.
Make no mistake, those muthaphuckas are looking for the ‘ BUT HER EMAILS’ for 2020.
Having gotten none, and the Biden campaign’s election direction running so far, they has a sad.
Do not give them one phucking inch. You smell the bullshyt, call it out and have friends call it out. It ain’t paranoia coming from the muthaphuckas of BUT HER EMAILS who have never apologized.
Next, keep on the lookout of the polls of the Seniors. I honestly don’t think those numbers are going to change. Why?
Look at Florida. Look at the new cases for COVID-19 in Florida. They say that it skews younger. Of course it does – THE SENIORS ARE ALL INSIDE. Outside of the crazies that pop up on Twitter, the vast majority of our Seniors are inside, and can’t come out and can’t be visited by family. And, no matter what the Fox News bubble tries to tell them, THEY KNOW WHY THEY CAN’T COME OUTSIDE WITHOUT RISKING THEIR LIVES.
We have to have Joe Biden’s back. Joe – don’t leave that phucking basement. Nobody wants you out of that basement. We for damn sure don’t want you at any ‘ regular’ campaign-style events. Because, mark my words….if just ONE PERSON from a Biden event is found to have caught COVID-19, that will be BOTH SIDES by the MSM to the equivalent of the malicious incompetent in the White House who has killed over 120,000 Americans.
Trust me on that. They are so phucking desperate to BOTH SIDES it….
Don’t fall for it, Team Biden.
I have to admit that I am still happy when I see that Team Dolt45 got punked by socially savvy teenagers.
Will it get ugly?
Racist, probably BIRTH OF A NATION RACIST?
ABSOLUTELY.
SO, buckle up and get ready for it.
MisterForkbeard
@rikyrah: What staff changes are we walking about here?
leeleeFL
@rikyrah: I know you are so right, rikyrah! FTFNYT will do all they can possibly do to keep the numbers close. We cannot let them get away with it this time. Give them no pennies and certainly no quarter. The Salzburg (?) Clan has,f some reason, sold their collective soul to the BS god of both-sider-ism, and our Country is teetering on the edge of destruction. They have f-ckd us over enough for my lifetime.
sgrAstar
@Benw: the Call of Cthulhu. Going down into the basement and opening That Door never, never ends well. It just doesn’t. Aieeeeee!!!!
🌑
Galahad Threepwood
Abbott could have done this in April or May. He could have supported the mayors who were recommending masks instead of undercutting them 2 fucking weeks ago. He could have been something other than a useless sack of shit who was thirsty for Trump’s favor. But that’s too much to ask of a fucking Republican. And the goddamned gall of now acting concerned about the spread of COVID in the state. Too fucking late, asshole. Too fucking late.
–Another Texan
Kay
@topclimber:
There isn’t a Republican in this country who objects to the signs in rest rooms directing food service employees to wash their hands. It’s the same idea. It is absolutely within the policing power of a state governor to order it. If they can order seat belts they can order masks.
It’s just pure stupidity and cussedness. A minor inconvenience is too much for these whiners to handle.
Order it and get it over with. Just do the job. If they had done it 3 months ago people would be wearing them without even thinking about it by now. I have them in my car, my work bag and my purse. It’s not a big deal. It takes 3 seconds to put it on.
rikyrah
@MisterForkbeard:
rikyrah
In m-o-d-e-r-a-t-i-o-n, please help
cmorenc
One difference between two particular politicians cast by tragic misfortune into wheelchairs is:
BTW: I actually got to briefly meet the Gov’nr Wallace in 1975 (then wheelchair-bound). To the extent you can read people from a brief 5-minute meeting, he radiated the empathy of a changed man who realized he had been so-long so-wrong and was spending his remaining time trying to be in tune with his better angels, even while aware he could never be able to completely take back all those years he was a force for wrong, not right.
rikyrah
She won’t support providing a stimulus check for people to stay home in the middle of a PANDEMIC…
But, supports this bullshyt?
TRAVELING IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHUCKING PANDEMIC 😠
This heifer has TO GO😠
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1275229073871196160
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: Gods, not the same old dumb “tax breaks” nonsense from a Republican. Not to mention one that’s will deliberately aggravate the pandemic.
Ian R
@schrodingers_cat: Are those students coming back, even if they can get visas? No one in their right mind would come to the US right now, except maybe from Brazil.
central texas
@Keith G:
And you can damn well bet that those who made the decision are as far from the public and masked as they can get. Sorry gutless shits!