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Creep of the Week: The Republican Party

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There is a lot to be worried about when it comes to the public health crisis we are currently in. The biggest worry is, of course, getting sick and dying. The second is getting someone else sick and killing them. Or, at least, it is for most people. But there’s a staunch bunch of morons…
There is a lot to be worried about when it comes to the public health crisis we are currently in. The biggest worry is, of course, getting sick and dying. The second is getting someone else sick and killing them.
Or, at least, it is for most people. But there’s a staunch bunch of morons who are fighting for the freedom to contract and spread a disease that has already killed over 100,000 people in the U. S. That’s a hell of a lot more than Trump promised us a couple of months ago. Remember when he said it would be just a handful of cases? That he had it all under control?
Well, he didn’t. And doesn’t. And so, the greatest health crisis this country has faced in my lifetime is being contended with state by state. And not every state has people in charge with brains. That means that Trump’s “States Are On Their Own” non-plan is a super terrible strategy.
And so, states that have Democratic governors, like my home state of Michigan, are much more likely to have some measures in place to keep people safe and alive.
But that, my friends, is tyranny! Or at least that’s what the people protesting efforts to keep them from getting sick and dying believe.
The protests are supposed to appear like a grassroots movement, but they aren’t.

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