Current Events > TX Lt Gov Dan Patrick with the spiciest hot take on the pandemic yet

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https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1242245135129346050?s=21

"Grandparents are willing to die if it means saving the country and economy for their children and grandchildren"

jfc
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Almost like allowing rich people to control everything is a bad idea.

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Christ...

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The complete and utter desperation of Trump and his supporters in all this to save not even the economy per se, but the fucking DOW is just all kinds of pathetic

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what an evil man

Thats like one degree away from calling it Boomer Remover

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Lmao

well someone was gonna say it eventually

#boomerdoomer

Lead by exam....
You know what. Nevermind.

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Lets say only old people will die and they willingly sacrifice themselves, that still leaves the hospital workers killing themselves to try and save as many lives as possible.This isn't just old people die in small numbers and everyone else moves on, there are still repercussions.

good way to win an election

Delta_Force posted...

Lead by exam....
You know what. Nevermind.

He actually suggests he'd be willing to do it
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Bio1590 posted...

He actually suggests he'd be willing to do it

It's easy to say it. But if it came down to it would he actually do it?

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I just can't with this fucking country and the stupid fucking imbeciles that "run it"

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Oh and it's an agonizing death too. You can't move around without gassing out at the slightest movement. You lie they drowning in your own body fluids. Yes I am sure old people would go through unimaginable agony before their death to get the DOW up.

is this a real fucking timeline?
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logan's run type shit

anyone over 70 you gotta go

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they were willing to die for us 70 years ago at the beaches of normandy.

truly a generation of sacrificers and patriots

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E32005 posted...

is this a real fucking timeline?

"Sergeant, we have crossed some strange boundary here. The world has taken a turn for the surreal."

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So is he advocating senicide? What kind of fucking monster is this? Like, it's incredibly hard to not invoke Godwin's Law on this one.

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Dan Patrick is a slimy rat he will be in a bunker before he gets covid fuck him

And this is why he is Lt Gov and not our actual governor.
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https://twitter.com/internethippo/status/1242286131053387777?s=21
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

And this is why he is Lt Gov and not our actual governor.

Some argue that the Lt. Governor is actually more powerful than Governor in Texas based on their duties and what they can do.

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Hexenherz posted...

they were willing to die for us 70 years ago at the beaches of normandy.

truly a generation of sacrificers and patriots

Boomers are not the generation of ww2. They are the children of that generation. Barely any ww2 era people are still alive

hey remember all that scare mongering the republicans did about "Death Panels" under obamacare?

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Maybe it's time to think about moving.

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As a Texan, I wold like to apologize for Dan Patrick. We do not share his views at all.

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Half the country agrees with him anyway.

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Frolex posted...

hey remember all that scare mongering the republicans did about "Death Panels" under obamacare?

It's ok when people die for the good of crony capitalism

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Bio1590 posted...

"Grandparents are willing to die if it means saving the country and economy for their children and grandchildren"

Yeah...most grandparents are boomers and they most certainly are not willing to die for their children and grandchildren. Now if there was a way to stop the pandemic by killing a bunch of millennials...well then our grandparents would be willing to make some tough choices.

Zikten posted...

Boomers are not the generation of ww2. They are the children of that generation. Barely any ww2 era people are still alive

ww2 era people have truly given us the gift of the greatest generation

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Hexenherz posted...

ww2 era people have truly given us the gift of the greatest generation

I don't think there is any other generation that could take what the greatest generation left them and turn it into what we have now.

did he not receive the memo that more than just old people are at risk

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It's literally been 3 weeks and 3 days since the GOP went from "It's a hoax" to "can some of y'all die so we can get around this worker bailout?"


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https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242134979859152899
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Taharqa_ posted...

It's literally been 3 weeks and 3 days since the GOP went from "It's a hoax" to "can some of y'all die so we can get around this worker bailout?"

And like a week away from, "maybe it'd be a good idea if we do some socialism after all?"

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Keep in mind, Abbott, Cornyn, and Patrick's kind of politician are the longstanding exemplars of the Republican party that people - for some goddamned reason - think Trump created or made worse. Nope. These are the "normal" to Trump's "absurd."

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Yes risk your health for the economy while killing millions. If his 70 yo ass dies and he's struggling to breathe he'll probably regret it.

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Does the GOP not realize a large portion of their voting base is the elderly? Do they believe that their re-election chances hinge on the economy?

This whole thing feels like, Gotta let my voting base die so I can get re-elected.

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The Dan Patrick is now a really nasty sexual act. I don't know what it is yet, but oh man.

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HotLap posted...

Does the GOP not realize a large portion of their voting base is the elderly? Do they believe that their re-election chances hinge on the economy?

This whole thing feels like, Gotta let my voting base die so I can get re-elected.

They have Russia and the supreme court