Sunday, September 12, 2021

The Question Persists

Why does the GOP want to kill as many of us as possible?

I really don’t understand.
In Nebraska, DeSantis sat with other Republican leaders like Vice President Mike Pence over steaks for the fifth steak-fry event with about 1200 GOP voters. The event is just across the river from the first-in-the-nation Iowa election.

"My message from Florida is this: When Joe Biden violates the Constitution, when Joe Biden attacks the jobs of Floridians and Americans, when Joe Biden targets the livelihood of Florida families and American families, I am fighting back against him," DeSantis said as the audience cheered.

Back home, DeSantis is trying to run for his own reelection despite having over 48,700 deaths in Florida from the virus. DeSantis won the state by under 32,500 votes in 2018.
I'm sure they're getting rooms full of people to applaud them. But do they not understand the concept of "margin of victory”? And sure, the whole GOP is resting its future on alleging fraud: But how many elections has that won, at the ballot box or in the courts? Mostly they seem to be convincing their voters (California, e.g.) not to vote because, why bother?

Maybe they’re just really as insane and stupid as their voters.
Yeah, that's probably it.
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2 comments:

  1. rustypickup9:32 PM

    Our county in New Hampshire has rising cases and the test positive rate has risen to 7%. Starting tomorrow we are back to masks at work in all common and shared work spaces, social distancing, etc. We have a very high rate of vaccination (not mandatory, but proof of vaccination was required in order to not wear a mask so high compliance) but we all live in the broader community and many of us are parents of children that can't be vaccinated. It's disheartening. The republican governor and legislature have refused to act and have put in roadblocks to more effective management of the pandemic. Our neighbors, anti-mask for the schools, had the parents and several of their kids come down with COVID-19. The parents are vaccinated and we're still quite ill, as we're the kids. Two are too young to be vaccinated, but they hadn't vaccinated the older even though they are over 12. I don't know if this will have changed their views. We have already been wearing masks for the last month for shopping, but I am going to go back to zoom meetings for AA. We had a child in the area die of Covid last week, while the same week 150 anti-vaxxers showed up at a state meeting on changes to the state vaccine registry. They were so unruly the meeting was cancelled and has yet to be rescheduled. It's all so unnecessary

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  2. The Thought Criminal4:59 AM

    I have a niece who works at UNH, luckily (or maybe not) her lab has a high power ventilation unit on at all times, though she and all of her family are extremely nervous because Sununu has refused to have a vaccination requirement for one of the few places in New Hampshire that has large numbers of people from non-vaccination states coming to it and living in close proximity with other people.

    I also have a grand-nephew who was sent home after being exposed in his school, he turns 12 in two weeks. I suggested to his parents they might not want to risk going back to in-class school until he's fully vaccinated but they thought he would miss out on too much. Hopefully all the students who were masked by school policy won't get it but till he's tested and vaccinated, we're really nervous.

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