"It's time to open up the United States now," she insisted. "We are not a communist nation."

[Botany]

The stupid is strong with this one, Obi Wan Kenoboi.
Kristi Nichols- Kansas City resident, "I understand viruses. This is no worse than the flu."

Link to tweet

Watch Fox News and DIE. End of Story.

[MythosMaster]

1. The stupid is strong with this one

[redstatebluegirl]

2. You should go see her facebook page it is frightening.

She is a has been beauty queen with all kinds of trumper posts. Seems to hate immigrants most of all. Sorry I don't know how to link it. Not real tech savvy.

[Botany]

7. She really is special ... a 50 year old want a be beauty queen

n/t

[roamer65]

3. Useless eater.

[BlueJac]

4. Shut the fuck up!

Go read a good book. The Stand would be a good start, although you might not get it!

[lark]

5. Karma got the Ohio guy, is she next? nt

[SoonerPride]

12. Karen Kolb Sehlke

Look her up.

She was a rabid COVID is a hoax ranter and now she is dead. Karma.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Hope so.

It would be fitting.

[Aristus]

6. There's a certain luxury to not knowing the definition of Communism.

You can use it as an excuse to oppose everything you fear or don't understand. (And with these douchenozzles, that's everything.)

[JHB]

16. It's a luxury conservatives have long become accustomed to.

They've spent so long calling everything they don't like "communist" or "socialist" that they decry "European socialism" in the same breath as talking about the "free world" that we used to be the leader of. Doesn't make them bat an eye that they're talking about the very same countries.

[LastDemocratInSC]

24. I have learned that when right wingers say "communism"

They are referring to "totalitarianism". I doubt they understand that communism is an economic system and that it doesn't require a totalitarian government. Although communist governments are usually totalitarian because their leaders want that level of power.

And given their dislike of totalitarian government it is ironic that they worship and adore Trump who said last week that his power as president is absolute. They are OK with that. Odd stuff.

[tanyev]

8. You go first, Kristi.

We’ll just wait at home and see how it goes.

[treestar]

9. She does not understand viruses at all

Why does she suppose this tyranny would be imposed? And she still has the right to protest. Does it occur to her that indicates a lack of tyranny?

[BSdetect]

10. Its her "right" to spread a lethal virus? One that she clearly does not understand.

[Newest Reality]

11. Vapid!

The only analogy she can come up with is "communist nation"?

I guess that's one of those brains with the "insert propaganda word here" default.

Talk about vapid. Yeah, she understands things alright.

[RobinA]

20. I've Seen A Lot

of these nuts hitting the "communism" label. At first I kept thinking, What does the government owning the means of production have to do with any of this? Then I realized it was, as you say "insert propaganda word here." I haven't heard this particular bugaboo hauled out for awhile and thought it was dying off as we got further from the cold war.

[Newest Reality]

27. Yes, I agree,

Well, to be blunt about it, (but not uncaring) it is dying off at this rate in a Darwinian fashion.

I am seeing more Famous Last Words posts online of people who think that way, and then, suddenly the reality hits THEM and it's too late.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Can we just tax all the stupid people?

To help us pay for the cost of this virus and it's repercussions? Because I think there would be some money in that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. The good news us that only about 80 people

showed up here in KCMO. Other places had a whole lot more.

[WePurrsevere]

17. "I understand viruses"....

No, you obviously don't (or if you do you're deliberately lying) when you say, "This is no worse than the flu."

This is a whole new beast and it's a lot more dangerous than the "flu". From new information starting to come out about people who have actually dealt with and/or died from this, if you catch it, you're very very lucky if all you and/or your loved ones get are "flu-like" symptoms.

Picture this... the people you love most in the world, your child, grandchild, spouse, parent, etc are lying in a hospital bed (or at home), gasping for breath, possibly dying alone/without loved ones. Even if they don't die and thankfully survive there could be a good chance that they'll have to spend a lifetime with badly damaged lungs, kidneys, heart, etc. Now picture that their death or lifelong disability was caused by YOU. YOU, yes YOU, held the proverbial 'gun' and pulled the 'trigger'.

I'm all for freedom and liberty but your right to those ends when what you're doing threatens the health and the very lives of others.

[Botany]

19. C-19 is way worse than the flu

https://www.wallowa.com/coronavirus/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-a-ferocious-rampage-through-the-body-from-brain-to/article_fcdff1a6-8357-11ea-9b45-5fcaa7955212.html

[WePurrsevere]

23. Yes, thanks, I know. SHE certainly doesn't. nt

[Botany]

26. Well it does attack the lungs, the brain, the heart and circulatory system, the liver, the sense ...

... of smell, the eyes, and the intestines which can lead to diarrhea and that might lead to 10s of millions
of deaths in third world countries because a person sick with C-19 might relieve themselves in a rice
paddy or upstream from where people get their drinking water.

And to think we and the world had epidemiologists and scientists in Wuhan looking for coronaviruses until Sept.
2019 along with people there in 2018, the CDC was working on coronavirus vaccine which Trump and company
defunded, and Obama left Trump with a pandemic task force to deal with just this kind of outbreak.

[GemDigger]

18. I love Google. Another failed republican that ran for office that thinks she is smarter than the

average Dr.

[Botany]

21. No college, no experience, but she is a 50 year old "beauty queen."

But she is big on Jesus.

[GemDigger]

22. She does have an education on stupid though. I have to give her credit for that.

[Wednesdays]

25. Well, she and her posse could spread the virus

But at least stupidity isn't contagious!

[Newest Reality]

28. I vote for...

I vote for "freedumb" to be added to the official dictionaries. We have a good idea now of what that means and it is befitting an entry.