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Herman Cain: "There is no virus". (Original Post) Cattledog Jul 2020 OP
. magicarpet Jul 2020 #1
... Aristus Jul 2020 #2
Oh, I think Hell will be worse than the virus. LakeArenal Jul 2020 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author hedda_foil Jul 2020 #20
Isn't that Ben Carson, the neurologist? nt Ilsa Aug 2020 #38
uhh...delete this Demonaut Aug 2020 #39
Right. hedda_foil Aug 2020 #41
I've been away for a couple of days. HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #4
pointing out the rank hypocrisy Demonaut Aug 2020 #40
Oh, is that what it is? HotTeaBag Aug 2020 #50
opinions are like assholes Demonaut Aug 2020 #51
you betcha! SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #42
nein, nein, NEIN!!!! CatWoman Jul 2020 #5
Sorry Traildogbob Jul 2020 #16
i was making a joke, Hon CatWoman Jul 2020 #35
😂 we can do it Aug 2020 #49
Simple and true. Cain fought for his right to contract CV19 and earned Maru Kitteh Jul 2020 #6
Variations on God and Nietzsche. PCIntern Jul 2020 #7
Wow, talk about famous last words! MoonRiver Jul 2020 #8
Kick dalton99a Jul 2020 #9
Here Lies Herman "There is no virus" Cain JDC Jul 2020 #10
Play stupid games..... Coventina Jul 2020 #11
And infect others along the way! jayschool2013 Jul 2020 #12
He wrote a book: They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2020 #18
Not much question as to who won THAT agrument. n/t DFW Jul 2020 #13
should be on his tombstone beachbumbob Jul 2020 #14
Remember this one DownriverDem Jul 2020 #22
Oops! idziak4ever1234 Jul 2020 #15
Tacky. mahannah Jul 2020 #17
More accurate than tacky. MerryBlooms Jul 2020 #21
Yes. He was. Crunchy Frog Aug 2020 #46
"He chose. . . poorly". niyad Jul 2020 #19
Cain's legacy is............... MRDAWG Jul 2020 #23
Aww Shucky Ducky Now! Caliman73 Jul 2020 #24
Thanks, I've been so wanting to post that nilram Jul 2020 #26
Sad, very very sad. Don't wish dying alone when Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 #25
Thank you for that. robbob Jul 2020 #32
I hear ya! Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2020 #34
Exactly Raine Aug 2020 #45
He was probably under heavy sedation, Crunchy Frog Aug 2020 #47
Herman wasted all that healthcare coverage money for a hoax. keithbvadu2 Jul 2020 #27
I didn't wish dying alone on him. nilram Jul 2020 #28
He was the one who called it a hoax malaise Aug 2020 #48
Dumber than a box of rocks to the end. Hulk Jul 2020 #29
No TimeToGo Jul 2020 #30
It's really heartbreaking. In some ways Cain was such an American success story. Bucky Jul 2020 #31
Agree with North Shore Chicago Jul 2020 #33
We, who are trying to stay safe to Herman Cain.. Cha Aug 2020 #36
All I will say is, his political impact of those words has been negated. herding cats Aug 2020 #37
Those were his last words....right? Doreen Aug 2020 #43
Caincel Culture Blue Owl Aug 2020 #44
De mortuis nil nisi bonum. NT. anamnua Aug 2020 #52

Response to LakeArenal (Reply #3)

Traildogbob

(8,739 posts)
16. Sorry
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 06:34 PM
Jul 2020
I am not gonna express sympathy. Him and all trump nuts, can suck it, look at the maskless crowds today in Florida. They have a choice to live. My daughter works in ICU. They lose the ability to chose life because of these stupid assholes. So, fuck you and all like you Cain. No tears from me. Used them all for medical workers dying without a choice to attend ICU. How many will die from his comments and actions. He DID not give a fuck for them. Buh Bye Pizza man. Enjoy covidiot covidiot covidiotstan. It’s gonna feel like a pizza oven down there.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,001 posts)
18. He wrote a book: They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 06:38 PM
Jul 2020

They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It. 2011 before Obama's second term.

MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts)
21. More accurate than tacky.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 06:58 PM
Jul 2020

This virus knows no political lines. If it doesn't wear the mask over the nose and chin, it gets dead or phase 1 again.

MRDAWG

(501 posts)
23. Cain's legacy is...............
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 07:46 PM
Jul 2020

America’s first minimum-wage law, passed by Congress in 1938, allowed states to set a lower wage for tipped workers, but it wasn’t until the ’60s that labor advocates persuaded Congress to adopt a federal tipped minimum wage that increased in tandem with the regular minimum wage. In 1996, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who was then head of the National Restaurant Association, helped convince a Republican-led Congress to decouple the two wages. The tipped minimum has been stuck at $2.13 ever since.

robbob

(3,530 posts)
32. Thank you for that.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:39 PM
Jul 2020

Reading some of the comments on this thread make me wonder why the hell I bother coming here.

Raine

(30,540 posts)
45. Exactly
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 03:24 AM
Aug 2020

very sad to see this kind of stuff continuing. Cain died Thursday and some can't let it go and keep posting crap.

keithbvadu2

(36,804 posts)
27. Herman wasted all that healthcare coverage money for a hoax.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:22 PM
Jul 2020

Herman wasted all that healthcare coverage money for a hoax.

nilram

(2,888 posts)
28. I didn't wish dying alone on him.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:26 PM
Jul 2020

I never even wished for him to die. Even though the policies and values he advocated were mean, selfish, hurtful, and short-sighted. He denied reality and science. In the end, reality bit him in the ass and he wanted science to save him from it.

malaise

(268,998 posts)
48. He was the one who called it a hoax
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 06:19 AM
Aug 2020

He was 74 years old and decided that despite other health issues he would attend that Tulsa rally, sit close to others and not wear a mask.
He killed himself - not a tear here

 

Hulk

(6,699 posts)
29. Dumber than a box of rocks to the end.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:28 PM
Jul 2020

You can't argue with stupid.

Amazing of how intelligence is so lacking with theae GOPutin clowns...everyone of them. ...and they loathe "intellectuals"....such a party of the moron fringe of the country...morons and cowards. I know we have our own too, but sheeet😖

Bucky

(54,013 posts)
31. It's really heartbreaking. In some ways Cain was such an American success story.
Fri Jul 31, 2020, 08:35 PM
Jul 2020

He built a successful restaurant chain from the ground up. Unfortunately he succumbed to another disease long ago: millionaire-itis. This is the sudden rightward turn in ideology that afflicts many self made business builders. They confuse success in the business world with competence in managing public policy. Looking out for number one requires a kind of myopia, an exacting focus on belief in one's own flawless judgment. It's an admirable skill, but it doesn't translate well into navigating the dangers of a killer environment where you have to put your trust in scientists, who are by profession naysayers.

The same hubris that let Herman Cain build an empire led him to ignore the dangers of a virus that did not respect his unique personal drive. It's a harsh lesson. I hope more people learn it from his mistakes instead of their own.

herding cats

(19,564 posts)
37. All I will say is, his political impact of those words has been negated.
Sat Aug 1, 2020, 12:05 AM
Aug 2020

This is the obvious outcome of attempting to politicizing a health crisis.

Viruses don't care about your political affiliation. They just want to replicate.

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