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8/11/2021
Now Abbott, DeSantis, and Other COVID Accomplice Governors Need to Resign
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Over in Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis is the discharge from that infected penis of a state, the hospitals in the central part have been inundated with patients at record levels as cases surge to their highest levels in the pandemic. In St. Petersburg, emergency rooms are so full that patients have to wait for at least an hour in an ambulance before being allowed in for, you know, their emergency. Nearly 70% of Florida hospitals will experience a shortage of staff in the next seven days. In Brevard County, where 313 patients are hospitalized with Covid, only 3 are vaccinated. That's over 99% of patients unvaccinated. The Florida Department of Health and Human Services is reported to have requested hundreds of ventilators from the federal government, and it seems like they didn't tell DeSantis about it. Meanwhile, DeSantis and the savages in the Florida GOP are against vaccine mandates and masking requirements, as well as vaccine passports, essentially inviting Covid to speed around the state and fuck up everyone. DeSantis is a sentient hemorrhoid that was cut off Donald Trump's asshole, and fortunately, mayors and county school board superintendents are telling the governor to go fuck himself, even with the threat of legal action hanging over them.
In Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott is the dry cow dung on the bottom of a cheap pair of boots, the ICUs are filling up to capacity with Covid patients. Austin activated its emergency alert system to warn people about the worsening situation, and Houston hospitals are putting up tents to deal with the extra patients. While going to fucking war over mask mandates, Abbott has asked hospitals to postpone elective surgeries to make more room even more sick and dying. At this point, it's like Abbott's tiny, fucked-up brain has been taken over by Covid and it's forcing him to not only allow Covid to spread, but to make it comfortable while it kills Texans. Fortunately, like in Florida, leaders in different localities have told Abbott he can eat their whole asses when it comes to school mask mandates. One judge in Dallas said, "The citizens of Dallas County have and will continue to be damaged and injured by Governor Abbotts conduct." Of course, Abbott has said he would fight that decision and one in San Antonio because, goddamnit, he has to strangle more children to calm the Covid brain worms.
Where the fuck else do you want to go? Down to Mississippi, where Gov. Tate Reeves, who really looks like he's got a woman pit in his basement, has also shit all over mask mandates and the CDC, even as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths blow up all over the state. By the way, less than 35% of Mississippians are fully vaccinated. Up to Missouri, where Gov. Dipshit Magoo said he thought it "undermined" confidence in the vaccine to ask the vaccinated to mask up, but when you have a toxic soup of disease and assholes in your state, where only 41% are fully vaccinated, then it's pretty fucking hard to trust people to wear masks voluntarily. And, yeah, the hospitals are overwhelmed, too.
Republicans (along with most Democrats) were screaming for the head of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for sexual harassment, and, thankfully, he resigned yesterday. It was the right and decent thing to do because he had demonstrated that he no longer could be trusted to run the state (and, as an employee of the state of New York, I'll just say, "Fuck, yeah" to his departure).
So what about DeSantis, Abbott, Reeves, and Parsons (the aforementioned "Dipshit Magoo" )? They are essentially accomplices to the spread of Covid, helping it thrive and continue, allowing it to take down more children, providing it with incubators for more variants. They are feeding the people of their states to a dragon that promised them electoral gold in exchange for sacrifices. There should be an outcry for them to resign in disgrace because while Covid giddily run rampant through their populations, what the fuck have they been working on? Fucking anti-critical race theory laws? Restricting voting rights? That's not fiddling while Rome burns. That's jacking off on the ashes of the dead.
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niyad
(113,302 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)but I agree with the Rude Pundit that Republican governors like DeSantis, Abbott, Reeves, Parsons, and others should do right by their constituents and resign so that their people have a chance of getting the renewed COVID pandemic under control.
Unfortunately, responsible government seems to be as passé in Club Pachyderm as honor and integrity.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)that being favorable to getting votes at election time.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)All they can see is brain-dead devotion/slavery to Chump. That's all.
Covid came in as a virus, but at some point it turned into an IQ test.
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)yonder
(9,664 posts)Yet one more strain of the virus, the IQ variant.
KS Toronado
(17,231 posts)We're going to add seats in both houses of Congress.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)that does not seem likely - poll after poll has Republicans as more motivated to GOTV for next year when compared to Democrats and/or to 2018.
KS Toronado
(17,231 posts)All elections are decided by the independent voters who typically vote for a person regardless of party.
And they're not happy with how Qrump and his gang mishandled the coronavirus with them and loved
ones getting sick. Plus they're not at all happy about Jan. 6th and know who's responsible for it and how
they attempted to cover it up. Don't know what polls you're referring to, but some critical thinking skills
could probably get most people to ignore them.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)otherwise Gerrymandering and all the new oppressively regressive racist laws in purple states will be very hard to overcome, and the MSM will lick the Rethugs feet when it all goes down.
Trying to be optimistic but also realistic.
We gotta get the filabuster out of the way any way we can. ANY WAY.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)being used to ignore/exacerbate the emergency. More precisely, he is actively fighting measures known to work, all for political reasons.
sarchasm
(1,012 posts)Thanks to DUer "S/V Loner" for this ...
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"To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's conduct must be 'so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendants conduct, not the injuries actually"
Lonestarblue
(9,988 posts)Remember that Lt. Governor Patrick said in 2020 that the elderly should be willing to risk their gives so that the economy could stay open. As governor, he would be likely to mandate that no one but Covid patients could be treated at hospitals and everyone else should just die. As bad as Abbott is, Patrick would likely be worse.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Dan Patrick would be even worse than Gregg Abbott. Patrick is a Texas right-wing Republican extremists Texas right-wing Republican extremist and would govern Texas so badly that hed make Ms and Pa Ferguson look competent.
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)bahboo
(16,337 posts)"DeSantis is a sentient hemorrhoid that was cut off Donald Trump's asshole"
crickets
(25,976 posts)at crafting powerfully evocative phrases. This was one of them. *gag*
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,628 posts)Thank you.