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https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/17/gop-rift-grows-over-social-distancing/GOP Rift Grows Over Social Distancing
April 17, 2020 at 8:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
They are taking cues from and breathing energy into a grass-roots conservative movement of resistance against government-ordered quarantine measures one that President Trump appeared to back in several tweets Friday but are facing defiance within their own party from Republican congressional leaders, governors and fellow lawmakers who warn that a rash reopening could reinvigorate the viruss spread.
NBC News: Trump says some state orders are too tough.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)jayschool2013
(2,323 posts)This "movement" is straight from the addled tweets of Caligula J. Twaddlefuck himself.
ProfessorGAC
(65,561 posts)It's already been rooted out.
He's paying the organizers of these idiot rallies.
Tool!
mopinko
(70,434 posts)was wondering who was writing checks.
ProfessorGAC
(65,561 posts)Which should surprise nobody here.
mopinko
(70,434 posts)hopin he follows his brother soon.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,112 posts)Harker
(14,147 posts)distance from them at all times.
genxlib
(5,548 posts)mopinko
(70,434 posts)mr darwin will be stepping up to the plate, whether we like it or not.
i just keep telling myself- the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance.
PSPS
(13,655 posts)There were stories about this a couple of weeks ago:
Right-Wing Extremists Seeking To Infect Cops, Jews With Coronavirus, FBI Says
https://www.ibtimes.com/right-wing-extremists-seeking-infect-cops-jews-coronavirus-fbi-says-2944943
Trump Fansite The Federalist Hits New Low: Telling People to Get Infected With Coronavirus
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fansite-the-federalist-hits-new-low-telling-people-to-get-infected-with-coronavirus
UpInArms
(51,299 posts)I hate these things that try to pass themselves off as humans
CanonRay
(14,163 posts)This is a Betsy Devos paid for corporate shill movement.
eShirl
(18,515 posts)Firestorm49
(4,044 posts)DFW
(54,587 posts)I say, let them hold megarallies organized by the God Squad in every stadium they can find. Once they are inside, quarantine their asses for a month, and let their ranks thin out they way both God and Darwin wanted them to.
KPN
(15,692 posts)dlk
(11,622 posts)Any governmental action that would promote public safety and save lives is an anathema to their propaganda that government is the problem.
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