Now they want women to control their bodies , bunch of signs here
Oh, but we can’t say things like that! That’s just wrong!
I guess it’s only asahi who’s the “sociopath” eh?
I’m trying to decide what I think about the protestors wearing masks. Seems smart, but not on brand for a “open it all up” protest. And of course most of the people there weren’t in masks.
One party is pushing people to keep to social distancing measures, pretty universally. The other one (with some notable exceptions) is pushing measures that will literally kill tens of thousands of people unnecessarily.
This shouldn’t be partisan, but Republicans are, as a whole, so delusional, and so beholden to Trump’s lies, that it is.
Overheard in a workplace on the other side of the Mitten: “All those zombie movies were missing something all this time and we didn’t realize it. All the protesters demonstrating for their right to become zombies.”
Which is why I’m particularly astounded that all those rural folks made a deliberate decision to travel to the urban centers of their states and spend the day mingling unprotected in a large crowd. Then they got in their cars and drove back to their rural hometowns where they intend to “defy the Dems“ by opening their businesses back up.
They’re trying to prove something. And if nothing happens they will feel vindicated and they’ll ballyhoo this as evidence that the whole thing was a hoax. It’s a gamble - but I don’t think they’ve fully considered what’s going to happen if they lose.
Trump voters need to get back to work and pay taxes so that Democrats can continue to get welfare checks and food stamps.
Do you have any opinions about the possibility of the coronavirus resurging if people start congregating again?
Really putting the “sick” into “sick burn,” reason.
Long time ago, some people would hold Chicken Pox parties, where they’d get all the kids together with a sick kid, so everyone would get the infection out of the way at the same time.
I think we should start calling these protests Coronavirus Parties.
And yet, they’re still Trump states.
I’ve often heard people complain that Trump won the election because Democrats in key states didn’t show up to vote. Perhaps if someone builds a fire under complacent people (or they’re hit by a hurricane or some other disaster), they’ll be more inclined to take an interest in deciding the course of government.
Based entirely on my highly unscientific observational opinion as someone who runs a cash register in grocery store…
If you make a Venn diagram of “Trump supporters” and “fail to observe current health and hygiene rules and recommendations” the overlap between the two would significantly exceed 50%
It’s true. The coal mining towns are booming and The Wall is well over 5000miles long and 6miles high by now. You must be exhausted from all the winning.
Well, one of them is my dad. I deplore his politics and we’re on tenuous speaking terms right now, but no, I don’t want him to die.
Give it 2-3 weeks.
Of those idjits that left the relative safety of true rural America to participate in these anti-lockdown rallies a few of them will pick up the virus and bring it back to where they live, where they themselves will redistribute it into their packed church congregations on the following couple of Sundays. After which rural America will have more hotspots than an Australian bushfire.
I expect more than a few will try to tough it out at home, some will die there and some will die while being transported to the nearest hospital which won’t be really near at all. The majority will eventually recover after suffering a very nasty “flu”.
Rural areas pay far less in state and federal taxes than urban areas. Blue states generally contribute more money to the federal government than they get back.
In a bizarre coincidence, it was the very same people who cheered while the WTC buildings collapsed.
It has to be that big to keep the white walkers out.
While that is true, it’s also true that most poor people vote blue (at the moment).
That is shifting, though. People like Trump and Tucker Carlson are trying to move the Republicans towards socialist policies. Granted, they don’t call it that, but Trump is a big believer in the idea that if you call a pig a “lion”, then it’s actually a lion.
Never mind. I just saw a much better term for the protestors: the Flu Klux Klan.