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applegrove

(118,444 posts)
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:46 PM Jun 2020

McConnell and Cheney are now pro-mask. I bet the calculation was that not wearing masks

was a wedge issue not working in the GOP's favour. So they are trying to blur the sharp edges of the issue and erase the wedge. Took the pandemic to hit the South to get them to do it. If they cared about people they would have done it earlier and would be for things like great healthcare for Americans.

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Eliot Rosewater

(31,104 posts)
1. So in effect, they want to do SO much killing and harm to Women, doctors, POC
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:50 PM
Jun 2020

that they cant do if they lose power, so they will straddle the fence to make sure they can BUTCHER Women in back alleys and EXECUTE Women who get caught having reproductive healthcare.

Anybody think I am exaggerating now?

agingdem

(7,803 posts)
3. you're so right
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:00 PM
Jun 2020

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wearing a mask Mitch will continue to load the courts with no-nothing white wing morons, dictate who I marry, park his miserable ass in my womb and deny me healthcare...got it...

Eliot Rosewater

(31,104 posts)
4. It makes people like Moscow Mitch and Bill Barr see RED as they say when a god damn
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:05 PM
Jun 2020

WOMAN has the god damn NERVE to speak up or insist on having a right to their own body. (it is they putting in the GOD DAMN next to Woman, of course, not me)

They hate it when a POC does the same thing, and I mean it makes them insane.

Remember Tom Cotton refusing to allow a vote on a Woman of Color that Obama wanted as an ambassador and he admitted he did it solely to hurt Obama personally.

These are the worst humans on earth, all of them.

FloridaBlues

(4,002 posts)
2. Alittle late GOP. Senators up for reelection will start to come alive soon
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 06:56 PM
Jun 2020

Esp start hearing voters must keep the Senate to ck on Biden WH. Predicable.

Ms. Toad

(33,976 posts)
5. Cheney is immune suppressed because of his heart transplant.
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:07 PM
Jun 2020

Even without COVId 19, transplantees (of any major organ) are recommended to avoid activities as innocuous as eating from a buffet.

So - I'm very glad they are both pro-mask, but there is some important context as to Cheney.

applegrove

(118,444 posts)
6. Thanks. The Cheney's can be counted on being on the right side of an
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jun 2020

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issue if their families welfare is at stake. Remember of how forward Cheney was on lgtb rights after his daughter was out?

LisaL

(44,967 posts)
8. Guess so.
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:19 PM
Jun 2020

Cheney is immunocompromised. He has to wear a mask, I have no doubt his doctors told him to not go out without one.

applegrove

(118,444 posts)
9. Yes but why did he not go public with it until masks became a wedge
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:22 PM
Jun 2020

that worked against the GOP?

 

PTWB

(4,131 posts)
7. They can blur the lines all the want but until Trump and Pence come out pro-mask in a big way ...
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 07:19 PM
Jun 2020

No one will remember what they do.

Timewas

(2,190 posts)
10. The so called leadership
Sat Jun 27, 2020, 09:56 PM
Jun 2020

Are directly responsible for thousands of deaths in many ways and will never pay more of a price than possibly not getting reelected.

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