Best explanation for Dan Patrick's vulgar request

[Horse with no Name]

Dan Patrick’s motivation for opening Texas back up for business, according to journalist George Chidi:

“If there's no state order calling for businesses to be closed, the people who are unemployed can no longer claim that their unemployment is involuntary, even if it would be utter idiocy for them to return to work."

"A hairdresser or a massage therapist cannot maintain social distance. But they can certainly file for relief.. unless the law says they can work."

‘Gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, cosmetologists, hair designers, nail care artists, estheticians..."

"Not banks. Not software firms. Not factories. Not schools."

"It is no coincidence that the businesses on this list are staffed by relatively poor people. Because that's who he wants off the unemployment rolls..."

Pure evil.

(Found on FB)

[DBoon]

1. poor people, immigrants, and people of color

Do not forget the racism in this order

[cayugafalls]

2. Giving our tax dollars to help the regular people is not something they relish.

They would rather save that to help their friends.

Can't dole out huge giveaways to oil corps or other businesses if your giving large sums to the poor.

[Dustlawyer]

3. The other reason is that Texas has no state income tax because we get oil revenue and

high property and sales taxes. Our state is going broke and falling housing prices, low sales, and oil going negative will not help.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Then we may have to access our multi billion dollar

Rainy day fund eh?

[SergeStorms]

29. Is that a real thing?

I'm a New Yorker, and I don't know if you're serious or just kidding. I wish I had a multi-billion dollar rainy day fund.

[trc]

33. Yep.

Approved by Texas voters in 1988. Has/had 8.5 billion in it at the beginning of the year.

[SergeStorms]

36. Wow.

That would only keep a state the size of Texas going for a few weeks or so, though. I'm sure there are many states that don't have a fraction of that sort of money.

[Shanti Mama]

4. Yes. This is the case in Georgia, definitely

Keep people off of unemployment, away from government assistance. Disgusting.

[crickets]

12. Yes, the level of meanness involved is revolting.

The other reason to target such groups is their perceived lack of political power. Ugh.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. of course! it's always best to target people who can't hit back.

Always punch down, is the repuke motto.

[MLAA]

5. Pure evil

[Moostache]

6. The whole point is they (the billionaire class) see life as an asset for them to use...

Not THEIR life, mind you, and certainly not the lives of the people that do their nefarious bidding like paid for Congressmen and on-air 'talent' at those hideous radio outlets and TV propaganda studios...

No, to them, life is an asset to be used to enrich themselves and to impoverish others. "Pro-life" is a sick joke meant to ensure that women are chained into desperation to provide for children on little to no wages and no social support....but no access to abortion either...it is their way of controlling the population via hideous (and not too subtle) support of the patriarchal power structure.

Life is a further asset to be exploited and used in their factories or menial jobs, used without fair pay or share of the profits of their endeavors and used until it is no longer economically advantageous to the 'owner', then they are cut loose and left to society to care for, but not at the cost of the owner...never that!

These hideous fucking bags of pus are unworthy of being allowed to live out their days in peace, and they certainly are unworthy of ANYONE risking their lives to serve.

Save the economy? No thanks, I'd rather see every single billionaire brought low and bankrupted first, then we can stop the food riots and death squads and try to rebuild something new and better in its place...but it won't feature billionaires telling their paid henchmen in government to get the slaves back on the oars and in the fields...

[Kaiserguy]

18. K&R

100% Right

[ancianita]

19. +1000

[SharonAnn]

21. Slave owners. That's how they think of themselves.

[Celerity]

31. +100000

[Hermit-The-Prog]

28. It's a war for control. Keeping peons desperate keeps them under control.

[mopinko]

7. like the meme says-

they call us "essential" because "expendable" is just too honest.

[MFGsunny]

8. While George Chidi is posting about Kemp in Georgia .........

... as for other repuke state officials, I have to say :: if the foo sh*ts, may they all wear it so we can see 'em & smell 'em!

Chidi's whole FB post is worth reading :: https://www.facebook.com/gchidi

[iluvtennis]

9. There is truth to this in my opinion. nt

[liberalmuse]

10. It's all about money.

They don't want to pay unemployment. The big banks don't want to have to let rent and mortgages slide for even a few measly months while we flatten the curve to help keep the vulnerable alive. The billionaires don't want the plebes cutting into what is expected to be more trillion dollar handouts/tax cuts from Trump before he's kicked out of office. We are grist for the mill for the 1% so they can get their last dollar before Republicans are voted out and it's time to pay the piper.

[czarjak]

11. Job #1...

More wealth for the wealthy!

[scarletwoman]

13. It's exactly the same thing for Georgia.

Pure evil, absolutely.

[Ford_Prefect]

14. It is also about eliminating people who would vote against them. Same old, Same Old.

[Upthevibe]

15. Wow...that is evil.....

Now it makes sense...

[IronLionZion]

16. That's Georgia. Texas openly wants people to die

and are too stupid to hide it like Georgia is doing. Dan Patrick may have the same motivations but he is dumb enough to keep talking about people dying.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. Only people of color -- and bowlers.

If they could line them up against the wall and shoot them, they would. Barring that, having them die because of the coronavirus is the next best thing. Anything to get them off the government dole, so there will be more money available for the white folks.

If a business is closed because of the stay at home order, its employees are entitled to unemployment. If the same business can open because the order is lifted, then the employees that don't return to work can be categorized as having quit their jobs. "Live Free and Die."

[ancianita]

20. The banality of bad billionaires and their tool governors.

Governors tow the bad billionaire ideological line:

-- those who create billionaire wealth are STILL as disposable as single use packaging; as disposable as animals;
-- human life is a commodity;
-- act accordingly.

[SharonAnn]

22. They think they are slave owners. Others are slaves.

[ancianita]

23. Indeed, they are that medieval. Medevil.

[Gothmog]

25. Beto has an explanation

Link to tweet

[Celerity]

32. +1

[Warpy]

27. They think it's somehow pragmatic to preserve the higher paid

professional class and are under the illusion that the peasants are somehow expendable. The same mistake was made by the good and the great in the fourteenth century. They found themselves neither good nor great when there was no one left to do the dirty work of keeping the world going.

The peasants who were left pretty much told them to go stuff themselves and either decamped for towns or hired out to a higher bidder. Efforts to lower wages and conditions to what they had once been in England were met with the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. It failed, but the back of the feudal system that had caused so much misery for hundreds of years was finally broken.

What will happen now is that the people being preserved by work at home will catch this thing and die right along with the peasants. And these GOPs who are pushing this stuff will look like the vicious fools they are.

(I'm hoping the cost of unemployment will provoke my own state into legalizing cannabis once and for all to make up the revenue shortfall. It's time and the governor has pledged to sign it)

[augyboston]

30. Dan Patrick is despicable!

"It is no coincidence that the businesses on this list are staffed by relatively poor people. Because that's who he wants off the unemployment rolls..."

Or worse, they want these people to die and cull the heard.

This guy, Kemp, DeSantis and these other Rethugs are just despicable!

[Greyhead]

34. Death Panels

[radical noodle]

35. One other thing...

Most of those folks are not "employed" and generally would not be allowed to receive unemployment anyway. The red states never wanted to adjust their systems to include them to begin with and have made it difficult for them to apply.