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https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/17/gop-rift-grows-over-social-distancing/GOP Rift Grows Over Social Distancing
April 17, 2020 at 8:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
They are taking cues from and breathing energy into a grass-roots conservative movement of resistance against government-ordered quarantine measures one that President Trump appeared to back in several tweets Friday but are facing defiance within their own party from Republican congressional leaders, governors and fellow lawmakers who warn that a rash reopening could reinvigorate the viruss spread.
NBC News: Trump says some state orders are too tough.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)This "movement" is straight from the addled tweets of Caligula J. Twaddlefuck himself.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)It's already been rooted out.
He's paying the organizers of these idiot rallies.
Tool!
mopinko
(70,239 posts)was wondering who was writing checks.
ProfessorGAC
(65,212 posts)Which should surprise nobody here.
mopinko
(70,239 posts)hopin he follows his brother soon.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Harker
(14,040 posts)distance from them at all times.
genxlib
(5,542 posts)mopinko
(70,239 posts)mr darwin will be stepping up to the plate, whether we like it or not.
i just keep telling myself- the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance. the plague was followed the renaissance.
PSPS
(13,617 posts)There were stories about this a couple of weeks ago:
Right-Wing Extremists Seeking To Infect Cops, Jews With Coronavirus, FBI Says
https://www.ibtimes.com/right-wing-extremists-seeking-infect-cops-jews-coronavirus-fbi-says-2944943
Trump Fansite The Federalist Hits New Low: Telling People to Get Infected With Coronavirus
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fansite-the-federalist-hits-new-low-telling-people-to-get-infected-with-coronavirus
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)I hate these things that try to pass themselves off as humans
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)This is a Betsy Devos paid for corporate shill movement.
eShirl
(18,504 posts)Firestorm49
(4,037 posts)DFW
(54,445 posts)I say, let them hold megarallies organized by the God Squad in every stadium they can find. Once they are inside, quarantine their asses for a month, and let their ranks thin out they way both God and Darwin wanted them to.
KPN
(15,662 posts)dlk
(11,578 posts)Any governmental action that would promote public safety and save lives is an anathema to their propaganda that government is the problem.