Sieg heil: CA official Ken Turnage II calls for reopening so coronavirus can kill off the old & weak

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[lame54]

1. Right before Mother's Day

[tirebiter]

2. City official isn't very specific

Wtf does he do for which city? Just askin’...

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3. From the attached Daily News article:

A California city official said COVID-19 should be allowed to run its course, killing elderly and homeless residents to “fix what is a significant burden on our society.”

Now his public position could be a pandemic-era casualty, and he’s calling that a violation of his rights.

Ken Turnage, a member of the city planning commission in Antioch, said in a now-deleted April 23 Facebook post that coronavirus lockdowns should be lifted to “let nature take its course.”

“We would have significant loss of life, we would lose many elderly, that would reduce burdens in our defunct Social Security System, health care cost — once the wave subsided — make jobs available for others and it would also free up housing in which we are in dire need of,” Turnage 47, wrote, according to the East Bay Times.

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-calif-official-who-said-coronavirus-could-fix-society-may-lose-job-20200501-crcpsikwejbnvpahwo5racbdgm-story.html

[roamer65]

4. I hope he gets infected.

This virus doesn’t discriminate and he should learn that the hard way.

That’s the only way these MAGAts learn....the hard way.

[malaise]

5. Ditto

[roamer65]

6. Hi malaise

Hope you are safe and well.

[malaise]

8. So far so good

How are you and yours?

[roamer65]

9. We are well.

Finally feels like spring up here.

[malaise]

15. There are advantages to weather in my parts - it's spring or summer all year

[roamer65]

16. Very true.

[catbyte]

29. I think it's precious that he's whining about how "his rights were violated" now that he was outed

He should be proud of his values! Did numbnuts think Facebook was private?!? They're all Big Man Nazis until they get called out for it.

[dalton99a]

7. Consumers have a right to avoid his business:

http://k2gcinc.com/about-ken-turnage-ii/

The shelter in place needs to end, we as a species need to move forward with our place on Earth... In my opinion we need to adapt a Herd Mentality. A herd gathers it ranks, it allows the sick, the old, the injured to meet its natural course in nature. With this the Herd is strengthened, and the Herd once again becomes symbiant with the planet!

https://www.facebook.com/ken.turnageii/posts/10215565062430959

[BuddhaGirl]

10. Whooosh!

Said FB page says: "Sorry, this content isn't available at the moment"

LOL!

[Bengus81]

12. Oppsss....bet his business is booming!!

[oasis]

14. Expose and boycott. nt

[BuddhaGirl]

21. The FB page for his business is still active

https://www.facebook.com/K2GCInc

[Bengus81]

11. Like a 47 year old couldn't die from CV? DIE you POS, DIE!!

[BuddhaGirl]

13. Update: He's been removed!

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/antioch-city-council-removes-planning-commissioner-after-viral-uproar-over-remarks/2283277/

[dalton99a]

18. +1. Zero remorse. Fucking sociopath.

[Nancy Waterman]

17. This attitude underlies many GOP policies

I have said for a while that this attitude underlies many of their policies. Starve the poor, let the old and the sick die off, let the prisoners and the minorities weaken and die, no immigrants allowed in without significant money: essentially cull the herd. This is where they sound a lot like Nazis. Be robust and healthy, with no deformities, and of the preferred race, or be killed (even passively if not directly).

Instead of helping the weak, as is put forth in the scripture they claim to love, it is more about demonizing the weak as an unnecessary burden. Remember Romney's 47% speech. That was about the 47% who need government help and so must be weak, lazy and sponging off the rest of us. Remember the GOP health care plan when they tried to destroy Obamacare: don't get sick, but if you do, die quickly.

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[Grokenstein]

24. Yep, and just like the Nazis

...the people who talk like that aren't exactly paragons of Aryan perfection themselves; they're just "fortunate" at that moment in time. When they're facing the other end of the stick, they drop to their knees and wail for the mercy they would never show anyone else.

[smirkymonkey]

34. It's kind of ironic that most of them don't realize that they ARE the old and the weak.

Look at many of them. In congress, they are mostly old geezers, grossly overweight or apparent alcoholics. Trump is an obese, elderly drug addict in poor health. Look at Trump's base. Have you ever seen a less healthy looking crowd of people in your life? These people are under the impression they are the "Master Race" simply by virtue of the fact that they are white. They don't realize how vulnerable they are.

[StarryNite]

19. I knew it.

And he's not the only one who believes Covid is a good thing. He's just been vocal about it.

[Grokenstein]

20. He's demonstrated that he is weak of character.

He's no spring chicken.

He's screwed his business with his callousness, so his financial future is not great.

Once I would have said, "I hope he appreciates the irony"...but instead I just wait for him to pop up again rattling his tin cup and wailing that he's the victim of forces beyond his control.

[dameatball]

23. Odd that this ass thinks he is some kind of self-made man, when he was born into a job and

inherited a company more or less. His bio makes it sound like he had it so rough. Hell, he never had to worry about a job. F'em!

[CurtEastPoint]

25. His personal FB page is filled w/people..how do I say this....pointing out his flawed thinking...

https://www.facebook.com/ken.turnageii/posts/10214170259961769

[mr_lebowski]

26. I will admit that there is a certain cold logic to this manner of thinking that I don't entirely

reject.

From a 'saving the planet' standpoint, there ARE way too many human, and we are destroying the natural world due to our numbers.

In purely cold scientific terms, we are, as a society, keeping many, many people alive who would not survive if humans were living in a manner more congruous with nature.

A scientist saying something like this might be a logical solution to climate change and environmental destruction, in their professional capacity, I wouldn't come apart over it, put it like that.

However, if some yahoo who calls themselves a 'Christian', who thinks Gawd created the planet, hates abortion, disbelieves science and evolution generally ... but proposes these sorts of eugenics-based ideas on the grounds of 'economic burden' (especially anyone who goes out of their way to include the homeless) and that sort of thing ... well fck those people.

They're really saying it out of hate, not out of a heartfelt feeling of sympathy for our animal brethren on our planet, who's habitat we are ruthlessly destroying.

Nazis, basically.

[sdfernando]

35. Part of the irony of his posting in his mention of "herd mentality"

That is evolution plain and simple, science at its base.

These people disgust me and the sooner we are rid of them the better!

[MarcA]

27. Another loser who whines nothing should be done to him

because His Actions are protected by the Constitution while hypocritically proclaiming
the Actions of Others against him are not protected. Here's an opinion, others who have
the opinion of advocating murder are imprisoned and let's do the same to him.

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. He needs to go first. nt

[Paladin]

30. Hey, Turnage II! Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to have sex with you.

Plenty of prelim dirty talk about old folks dying, to get you two boys in the mood. Have fun, take pictures.

[Demonaut]

31. I visited his FB page a fews days ago, he's fixated on Darth Vader

no trump info though, no likes, quotes or images

[redstatebluegirl]

32. He is a general contractor, I wonder if he rips off as many people as his mentor in the White House.

[MineralMan]

33. He's no longer a city official:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/antioch-city-council-removes-planning-commissioner-after-viral-uproar-over-remarks/2283277/