Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves Claims Biden Called Middle America 'Neanderthals'-- Did He?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republican Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has claimed that President Joe Biden said everyone in "middle America" are "Neanderthals," although the president's actual remarks do not appear to justify the claim.

Biden criticized the GOP governors of Mississippi and Texas for recently easing COVID-19 restrictions, Texas, including the ending of mask mandates, as ill-advised "Neanderthal thinking" due to the ongoing pandemic on Wednesday. Reeves compared the comments to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's infamous remarks describing some supporters of former President Donald Trump as "deplorables," while falsely claiming that both of the Democrats had directed their remarks towards "all of us in middle America."

"Today, I feel the same way that I did the day that Hillary Clinton called all of us in middle America deplorables," Reeves said during an appearance on Fox News. "When President Biden said that we were all Neanderthals, it struck me as someone who needs to get outside of Washington, D.C. and actually travel to middle America."

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday that he was ending the mask mandate, as well as fully reopening the state, citing falling numbers of new COVID-19 cases and increased efforts to vaccinate residents of the state. Reeves quickly followed suit with a similar announcement, although businesses in Mississippi remain subject to some limits on capacity.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mississippi-gov-tate-reeves-claims-biden-called-middle-america-neanderthals%e2%80%94-did-he/ar-BB1edQOT?li=BBnb7Kz

[treestar]

1. I think he was referring to the governors

But look at this guy, trying to get everyone else to feel insulted.

[marble falls]

6. He wants to share his pain, to get others to take it up and vote against their own interests.

[lagomorph777]

2. No, Tater. He was calling YOU a Neanderthal.

I think Biden was too kind. Tater is more like an Australopithecus.

[spanone]

3. No, he called gubner reeves a neanderthal...if he's a republican, he's a liar.

[marble falls]

4. Who really cares? Whatever it is that Joe's doing is working fine and I for one am not going ...

... let that Mississippi butt pimple even draw my attention away for a second from the real problems that Biden/Harris is providing real solutions to.

[Moostache]

5. Get some originality, please Governor Goober...

This is simply "Basket of Deplorables" part two...

You are a fool Tate. Also a liar and conman, but that was assumed by your party affiliation.

Yes, YOU are guilty of Neanderthal-level thinking and actions.
Yes, YOU are guilty of risking the lives of your constituents to appear Trump-ish.
Yes, YOU are a horse's ass...

AND...IF your constituents agree with you, then they too are all of the above.
Now kindly fuck off and slink away the fatuous piece of excrement.

[marble falls]

8. I think you owe Neanderthals an apology.

[Moostache]

16. I am in line...the Geico people and the producers of that show are ahead of me! (n/t)

[Midnightwalk]

7. Nice try spud. Your policy is the topic

You are the neanderthal.

[msongs]

9. has this governor got the water fixed in his capital city yet? nt

[PatSeg]

10. Republicans will go out of their way

to read into everything Biden does or says, but he has been around a long time, so this is nothing new to him. It doesn't matter what he says, they will try to use it against him.

[Budi]

11. Well if the forehead fits....

Hey Gov, your State is a backwards mess right now. Join Abbott in your whine fest against the President. You're both deplorable neanderthals

[Haggard Celine]

12. He's such an embarrassment.

I don't know if Biden should insult the Neanderthals by comparing them to Reeves and Abbott, but they certainly must have taken the short bus to school. Reeves has already lifted restrictions once or twice and then had to bring the restrictions back. You would think he would have learned by now that you can't let your guard down with this disease. I think even Neanderthals were capable of learning from their mistakes. More people will die because Reeves can't learn and can't lead.

[Laffy Kat]

13. I he did I applaud him.

[LaMouffette]

14. Neanderthals "most likely went extinct due to great climatic change, disease, or a combination."

Sounds like history is repeating itself!

(Quote is from Wikipedia.)

[stillcool]

15. if the shoe fits...

snowflake.

[WHITT]

17. Biden and Clinton

were both CORRECT.

[CatMor]

18. President Biden would like to apologize....

he meant to call them Homo Erectus but figured they would take it as a compliment.