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dixiegrrrrl

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21. In Italy, you can get arrested by the police if you are outside

Reply to BeckyDem (Reply #20)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:01 PM

Mar 2020

with no reason. Only 1 person can go shopping for a family, and the lines are long because you have to stand 3 feet apart.
The docs are shattered to their last nerve, they have to do life and death triage over which patient gets the rapidly scarce ventilators. First responders are falling out from overwork and the virus.

We are maybe 3 weeks away from that. Plan accordingly.

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Rachel @RachelAbrams:NEWT GINGRICH:I Am in Italy Amid the Coronavirus Crisis. America Must Act NOW [View all] BeckyDem Mar 2020 OP

Wow even Newt. Guess that says something. Though I still hope he gets sick. captain queeg Mar 2020 #1

Yea, he is there and even he can't find it in himself to lie about the gravity of the crisis. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #3

Fuck off Newt - you helped give us Trump Blues Heron Mar 2020 #2

I nearly posted this myself DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #4

Quite right, he is scared. To be in Italy is to see it up close and personal, frightening I am sure. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #6

He says Trump "must do even more," but it would be an improvement if Trump tblue37 Mar 2020 #9

If Trump had been President in World War II Frances Mar 2020 #5

I'd be dead. 33taw Mar 2020 #28

I thought he wanted to drown our government in the bathtub crazylikafox Mar 2020 #7

That was Grover Norquist, anti-tax scumbag rickyhall Mar 2020 #27

Where the fuck was Newt two fucking weeks ago? Freethinker65 Mar 2020 #8

Probably not frigtened like he is now. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #10

praising Trump edhopper Mar 2020 #29

Fuck Newt. He's praising the useless travel bans & saying Mitch says congress should stay in session Roland99 Mar 2020 #11

Wasn't he saying a couple of weeks ago it was overblown hype? SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #12

I believe he was Amishman Mar 2020 #14

"Using the kind of intensity of implementation which served us so well in World War II" JHB Mar 2020 #13

Maybe he should come up with a list of words to use against the virus Leith Mar 2020 #15

Hah! Seeng that list for the first time at DU was incredibly enlightening for me... Hekate Mar 2020 #33

asshole crying wolf RT Atlanta Mar 2020 #16

Yeah, I hope they sneeze all over you. You fucking piece of shit phony! nt Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2020 #17

Fuck you Newt - you thought this idiot could be President malaise Mar 2020 #18

Newt can lick every doorknob in Milan for all I care. nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2020 #19

He is scared and it helps he says so. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #20

In Italy, you can get arrested by the police if you are outside dixiegrrrrl Mar 2020 #21

I was told today that a grocery chain near me was flooded yesterday, a hundred people BeckyDem Mar 2020 #22

Wow factor. Hate the guy wow GusBob Mar 2020 #23

He is despicable but I do believe he is scared straight. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #24

It was posted on FB by a bible thumping Trumper friend GusBob Mar 2020 #25

it takes covid-19 to destroy gop AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #26

Newt got his wife appointed Ambassador the the Vatican in Rome. Because they're such pious ... Hekate Mar 2020 #34

Is there a link to his earlier comments? 33taw Mar 2020 #30

I do not, sorry. BeckyDem Mar 2020 #31

Well Newt you *hole, you worked hard to bring us this government. NOW you recognize the danger? Hekate Mar 2020 #32

Note to Newt: The act together means: Never Repukes!1 UTUSN Mar 2020 #35