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Literally several Republicans today. The Governor of Oklahoma tweeted a pic of himself at a busy restaurant last night (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETHs_hQUcAAu
by mikeyouse 7y ago
Literally several Republicans today. The Governor of Oklahoma tweeted a pic of himself at a busy restaurant last night (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETHs_hQUcAAu3Ep?format=jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETHs_hQUcAAu3Ep?format=jpg).
Sheriff David Clarke, who has nearly a million followers on Twitter just said this a few hours ago and got thousands of retweets and favorites:
> It is now evident that this is an orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM. First sports, then schools and finally commercial businesses. Time to RISE UP and push back. Bars and restaurants should defy the order. Let people decide if they want to go out.
> GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW! If government doesn’t stop this foolishness...STAY IN THE STREETS.
END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/1239324440934133760 https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/1239324440934133760
These people are psychotic and should be expelled from polite society.
- anigbrowl 7y agoYou shouldn't be downvoted for sharing facts.
- pdonis 7y agoHe didn't just share facts, he expressed an extreme personal opinion.
- anigbrowl 7y agoI don't think it's extreme. He's quoting someone demanding that people ignore all public health information and engage in insurrection. We should stop listening to people who are actively and willfully undermining public health.
- SpicyLemonZest 7y agoI think that popular figures trying to exacerbate a pandemic by sowing public distrust deserve a bit of vitriol in response. It's not a subject that's really amenable to polite argument; Sherrif Clarke is killing people, as surely as if he walked up and shot them in the head.
- mikeyouse 7y agoAs OP -- One of my really good friends (and a mother of 3) is currently undergoing chemo to knock out her immune system and prep her for a bone marrow transplant since she discovered she has severe aplastic anemia on Christmas, several of my family members work in primary care in hospitals, I have a large very close-knit family with ~10 uncles/aunts with significant Covid19 comorbidities and a 90-year old grandfather who lives in an urban center. If "Expelling people from polite society" for directly endangering all of their lives is extreme then I'm glad I didn't share my true opinion of what should happen to these charlatans.
- avs733 7y agoOh nonsense....he correctly noted that a person with no medical training was trying to use fear and political motivations to get followers to do things that put them in physical danger. That is not an opinion much less an extreme one.
- doopy1 7y agoI only see facts.
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- ComputerGuru 7y agoTweets thankfully deleted by twitter.