Texans plan to turn out Saturday calling to reopen the country

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

A group of Texans will protest at the Texas state capitol in Austin Saturday for a “You Can’t Close America” rally as demonstrators across the country rally against stay-at-home orders and other social distancing measures amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The protesters will violate state and local stay-at-home orders to hold the event, echoing rallies that took place earlier this week in Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and elsewhere.

The rally is being organized by Owen Shroyer, the host of a show on Infowars, a media outlet based in Austin that is known to disseminate conspiracy theories. Shroyer has claimed that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party and bashed reports of overwhelmed hospitals as propaganda.

Protesters against the stay-at-home orders got a boost of support Friday when President Trump appeared to back the demonstrations in Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia. The apparent endorsement from Trump contradicted his own policy leaving the decision to roll back restrictions up to governors and advice from his own health officials, who have warned it is far too early to ease the orders.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493466-texans-plan-to-turn-out-saturday-calling-to-reopen-the-country

[beachbumbob]

1. NICE, may make winnning Texas so much easier in November

[llashram]

2. since only

the low information and the willfully ignorant will want to be out there, let them laugh at them and I won't, don't care how many get sick and die

[MoonchildCA]

8. That would be fine if there was someway to contain it amongst themselves.

Unfortunately, they will shop and frequent essential businesses, and everyone they come in contact with will too.

[llashram]

18. I know

yet it does remain the fact that their fuhrer told them to "liberate" themselves from logical and health-driven information. Liberate connotates prisoners. So this fuhrer is trying to get social disruption going at full steam so that when he loses in the fall, he can try and start Civil War II. He and his fellow traveller fascists in his administration and immediate family are understood by any democratically leaning human being to be trying to get his 66 million+ AR-15 with extended mags carrying base to start shooting anyone who stands against their fuhrer.

[tanyev]

3. I've shook my head in disbelief at stories in developing nations

where the locals attacked medical teams that were there to help fight some terrible disease. Thank goodness, I thought, that I live in a country where science and education prevail and people don't react in such a dangerously illogical manner.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

19. Certainly not in Texas

Said a sad Texan

[Blues Heron]

4. Another bodybagger protest "you can't cure stupid"

AKA American Zombie

American Zombie
Stay away from me-eee
American Zombie
Mama let me be-ee
Don't pound on the State House door
Your kind always leaves nasty spoor
Don't want your Virus eyes
Don't want your nasty lies

American Zombie......

[Sucha NastyWoman]

20. Need to adopt the term "SPREADERS" in relation to these idiots.

Use it whenever you can.

[Blues Heron]

21. good idea, will do

[Stuart G]

5. Stupid is just plain....STUPID!!!!!

..The protesters know more than the doctors who urge them to stay home.

[ananda]

6. Whew, I was concerned that ..

.. insanity no longer rules in Texas!

But it definitely does!

[Javaman]

7. Which Texans? The ones they trucked in from west Texas or

The plants the brought in from Louisiana?

[turbinetree]

9. Host.............................Owen Shroyer, is a "HOST"

I bet he arrives with mask and gloves on or he drives around in his car with his windows rolled up................you know the the word "Host" reminds of the movie Aliens......................I just wonder if he is a "Host"..............

[NonPC]

14. Not!

We won't show up with a mask and gloves -- he won't show up at all. Count on it.

[Botany]

10. Call 'em what they are "Brownshirts" / "You Can't Close America" rallies.

They are a minority of a minority trying to force their Fuhrer's way of thinking on all of us
in order to gain a political and economic advantage for the right wing. Trump, Betsy DeVos,
Eric Prince, Vlad, Steven Miller, and low level clowns like Owen Shroyer are trying to whip up these beer
gut warriors into a strike force under the guise that their constitutional rights are being taken away with
the shut down in response to the C-19 pandemic. We have seen this movie before and it was the
rise of Hitler* in Germany 1930s. Trump is on the ropes because he was part of the biggest fuck
up of all times w/the outbreak of C-19 and he wants those dumb ass "freedom fighters" out there
raising hell. Hence the red meat Trump throws out to them with his "they want to take away your 2nd
amendment freedoms."

And in the end if the wind up sick and die from C-19 or get shot by law enforcement because they
like to flash their AR-15s as they protest their "oppressors" aka Governors, Mayors, & State Health
Dept. leaders who are trying to fight the virus by the only means at their disposal and that is
shut downs, social distancing, and staying @ home Trump/Barr/Hannity ... don't give a shit about
these modern day brownshirts they are just a means to an end.

* According to Trump's wife #1 Donald kept a copy of Hitler's speeches by his bed.

[Lady_Chat]

11. Wasn't their Governor suppose to open up Texas today, anyway?

So why do they need to protest?

[yaesu]

12. That nut called for people to take pictures of hospital tents, to prove whatever, local PD here had

to respond to one at our local rural hospital that set tents up in the parking lot. Now they have an officers patrolling that area 24/7 because of it.

[KatyMan]

13. Not Texans--

Idiots.

[benfranklin1776]

15. Arrest their sociopathic asses.

They are in violation of a lawful order and their malicious violation is a threat to public health since they are likely to spread their disease to others. There is no constitutional right to wantonly endanger the health and safety of others. As John Finch famously declared: “Neither in law nor equity can there be personal liberty to any man which shall be bondage and ruin to his fellow-men.” Stated another way in language even they can understand, “the right to flail your puny fists ends at your fellow human beings’ faces.” Although they are following the degenerate example of lawbreaking set by their rancid leader the cretin in the White House merely because he got his criminal cronies in the Senate to enable his lawbreaking doesn’t mean they get to harm the public-they should pay the legal price for their reckless disregard of the basic tenets of human civilization.

[asiliveandbreathe]

16. Maybe Fhrer der Nation will join them, considering he has all the answers, and only

der fuhrer can fix it...cowards..

[machoneman]

17. Call out the state's National Guard. Start shooting over their heads if they violate any E.O.

If they bum rush the soldiers, start knee-capping them. If the uprising contnues, shoot to kill.

Hey, if they were African-Americans, do you think for a minute the local and mainly white Texas cops wouldn't open fire at the drop of a hat?

Gimme a break!

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. Not this Texans

If course, there can't really be a counter protest.