TX's Abbot and FL's DeSantis fan the flames of the pandemic

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raildogg

Lifer
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DeSantis and Abbot are the false heroes of the right.

I'm shocked people are still looking for heroes in politics. (Not really shocked to be hoenst)
 
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ondma

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Apparently their confidence in their "jab" isn't very great.
Nothing is 100% perfect, hence it is possible to still get the virus after vaccination, although the chances of serious illness are very small. However, the chances of a breakthrough infection would be much smaller if the recalcitrant morons would have gotten vaccinated as well, hence reducing the prevalence of the virus.
 

Jhhnn

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lol coming from lefty states that want to close businesses again and do mask mandates for people that already have vaccines.

It's unfortunate that the only way to get anti-mask anti-vax idiots to mask up is to make everybody do it.

It's interesting to note that Florida is only slightly below the national vax rate. If the Delta variant can rip them a new asshole, just imagine the joy it can spread in populations where the rate is a lot lower. It's a lot more contagious, so it'll be coming around everywhere before the dipshits can finish doing their own research...
 

shortylickens

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Somewhat related; this is what their voters really believe (from FB). They're just pandering to their base.View attachment 48258

Yeah what those people dont understand is that in any town, state or nation where the people have functioning brains, masks are NOT mandatory. People choose to wear them because they wanna live and they have the good sense to follow the subject matter experts instead of politicians with a fascist agenda.

And again I just have to say, I totally understand how Rupert Murdoch and Andrew Breitbart may be evil and selfish and thats fine, but it makes absolutely no sense to kill off your own zealots. Thats just silly.
 

Zorba

Lifer
Oct 22, 1999
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Just for clarity, DeSantis didnt put a ban on mask bans for the state, only for schools. Abbot's mandate bans mask bans for government workers. Neither one are for the state. Might want to correct your post.
Both banned local governments from requiring masks.
 

Denly

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lol coming from lefty states that want to close businesses again and do mask mandates for people that already have vaccines.

Nothing to do with left or right, it is science. Delta is no joke, there is a reason countries starting to give 3rd shot.

On a side note, today US climb back to over 112k new cases and 656 deaths.
 

trenchfoot

Lifer
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Can you just imagine Spock attempting to explain to DeSantis and Abbot how the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one)? Spock would apply the Vulcan nerve pinch on those two jerkoff's two seconds into the attempt.
 

soundforbjt

Lifer
Feb 15, 2002
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Can you just imagine Spock attempting to explain to DeSantis and Abbot how the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one)? Spock would apply the Vulcan nerve pinch on those two jerkoff's two seconds into the attempt.
First he’d attempt a mind-meld and realize it was futile.
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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Nothing to do with left or right, it is science. Delta is no joke, there is a reason countries starting to give 3rd shot.

On a side note, today US climb back to over 112k new cases and 656 deaths.

And Lambda is gonna come later on.. Winter is coming!
 

Indus

Lifer
May 11, 2002
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Filed under “Face eating leopards-party I voted for ate my face”

In this case, they actually cut off their own faces to feed the leopard.

Sounds like someone took Nirvana - Lithium literally. Well Kurt Cobain did too and he's their idol it seems.
 

HomerJS

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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You're an idiot as usual - no surprise.

No governor has the right to police what requirements an employer wants in place for their own business.
The cruise industry is in court right now to fight DeSantis's exec order forbidding them to have vaccine requirements.

You must have been looking in a mirror when you called me an idiot. Try getting your facts straight. Oh I forgot truth doesn't matter to Trumptards.
 

Roger Wilco

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uallas5

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And Lambda is gonna come later on.. Winter is coming!
Read that too quick and thought it said Lambada...which fits with the way the anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers love dancing around the truth.
 

sportage

Lifer
Feb 1, 2008
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No one cares what DeSantis says. They know he plans on running for president or surely as vp should Trump run. And we all know if Trump runs, Trump will never allow DeSantis to run, never for slot #1.
I'd wager in the end that more people, most people, a majority of people will side with what Biden is doing and not with what DeSantis is ranting about. DeSantis is an ugly little man who knows the only way he can run for president is to stoop to the Donald Trump level of politics. DeSantis will attract the mean people, the haters, and meanness, ugliness, hatefulness is out. That died the day Donald Trump left the Whitehouse.
 

Indus

Lifer
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No one cares what DeSantis says. They know he plans on running for president or surely as vp should Trump run. And we all know if Trump runs, Trump will never allow DeSantis to run, never for slot #1.
I'd wager in the end that more people, most people, a majority of people will side with what Biden is doing and not with what DeSantis is ranting about. DeSantis is an ugly little man who knows the only way he can run for president is to stoop to the Donald Trump level of politics. DeSantis will attract the mean people, the haters, and meanness, ugliness, hatefulness is out. That died the day Donald Trump left the Whitehouse.

Whoa.. your post isn't jaded.. what happened to you?

Did your family stop being trumpanzees and start seeing the light?
 

kage69

Lifer
Jul 17, 2003
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DeSantis is some piece of work, he's pretty much trading people's lives to earn political cred at this point. He'll find a way to confront the PoTUS, but covid just ain't worth his time apparently. Guy is a slow moving state disaster run out of the Gov's office, a veritable hurricane of partisan apathy and dishonesty.

I talk a lot of shit about the place, but part of me feels that even a broken democracy like Florida doesn't deserve what that idiot is doing to it. At least I'm hearing Floridians rage on the guy now, hope that translates at the ballot box so overwhelmingly the GQP can't steal the election like they usually do. Misinformation, reg purges, poll taxes, Florida goes all out.

Family member just shut his business down, is returning to New England. He was the last one too, now we're all out. Trump/DeSantis may have lost another vote.
 
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