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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: I really hope this fool got severe blowback for his comments
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/im-all-in-texas-republican-urges-fox-news-viewers-to-risk-their-lives-so-coronavirus-closures-end/Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, 69, suggested on Fox News that grandparents should be willing to risk their lives to end COVID-19 coronavirus closures.
Patrick, a Baby Boomer grandfather himself, made his comments while being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
Patrick, a Baby Boomer grandfather himself, made his comments while being interviewed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News.
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In all my years of observing politics and being an American citizen, this is THE MOST MORALLY HEINOUS thing I've ever seen a public official say.
Granted, I may be forgetting some idiot mayor saying some neo-Nazi thing, but this fool is LT. GOVERNOR OF TEXAS.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: I really hope this fool got severe blowback for his comments (Original Post)
steve2470
Mar 2020
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SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)1. Then why isn't he volunteering? Why is he yapping on the TV instead of running down to the ...
clinic to help people?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Bottom line,these idiots want to kill off their own voters.
morillon
(1,185 posts)3. I hope he's dragged on social media until the Sun explodes. n/t
ooky
(8,922 posts)4. Hope we are keeping track of all the Republican politicians
who are exposing themselves as monsters by voicing their support of Trump's genocidal policy. These "let people die so the stock market will go back up" will make great ads as we approach November.
Gothmog
(145,130 posts)5. I have learned that Texan Republicans are a breed unto their own. Lordy.