More GOP Senators Have COVID Than Have Acknowledged That Joe Biden Won

[Arkansas Granny]

Here’s a guessing game that perfectly suits the sad state of affairs in the U.S. Senate: How long until the number of Republicans who accept Joe Biden as the president-elect surpasses the number of them who have tested positive for the coronavirus?

At the moment, the virus is winning.

Rick Scott of Florida announced Friday that he has tested positive for COVID-19, making him the seventh GOP senator infected by the deadly disease. The others are Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Lee (Utah), Bill Cassidy (La.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.). Paul was the first to test positive, back in March; Grassley and Scott revealed their infections this week.

Meanwhile, it’s been nearly two weeks since Biden won enough states to become the president-elect but the vast majority of GOP senators are refusing to publicly acknowledge it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-senators-covid-joe-biden-election_n_5fb7d9bbc5b6f6adf949f36b?qsf

I was just wondering this morning what the Republican uproar would have been if Democrats had acted this way when Hillary lost in 2016.

[Newest Reality]

1. Could this mean...

Could this mean their will be some unexpected vacancies in the Senate?

[Polybius]

7. Grassley is 87 and got Covid the other day

No idea how he's doing.

[lagomorph777]

8. We can hope Karma knocks on their doors.

[bdamomma]

2. Lindsey

and McConnell should contract it too. They deserve it!!!

[Akacia]

3. I just wish that this would cause them to acknowledge how dangerous

this virus is. Instead they still seem to be playing it down. It sickens me, particularly since they get the best medical care.

[leftieNanner]

5. They won't acknowledge that it's dangerous

Because unless they are severely symptomatic and end up in the ICU, they think it's "just the flu".

My SIL's Trumpie brother, wife, and kids all got Covid. Only his wife was seriously ill. They explain that away by saying that she's a drama queen.

SMDH

[Akacia]

6. The Stupid it Burns!

Yep I have some family members that still insist it is a hoax. Oh and that it will just disappear after the election. I have not talked with any of them since Biden won so I have no idea what crazy logic they might be using to explain why it is still here.

[lagomorph777]

9. I know what logic they are using.

"Biden didn't win, so it didn't go away!"

[Akacia]

11. Would not surprise me. nt.

[CottonBear]

4. These COVID19 positive GOP senators must be getting the best healthcare because...

None of them have been seriously ill, at least not that we know about, or have died.

[peggysue2]

10. Your question has cross my mind repeatedly

What would the reaction have been had Dems responded this way in 2016?

We all know the answer.

The Democratic Party and individual members would have been branded traitors, the architects of democracy's ruin. The howls would have been incessant, each Republican pol screaming into multiple microphones about the massive attack on voter integrity, democratic institutions, the rule of law.

Conclusions?

The Republican Party stands for nothing other than retaining power at any and all costs. Even the survival of the country as a democratic Republic is subordinate to winning, holding on, fracturing the country they've vowed to protect.

These people deserve to be run out of office, tarred and feathered and dumped into the dustbin of history.

They scam and/or remain silent as their fellow countrymen die. And their overwhelming silence in DC = complicity.

Never forget, never forgive.