Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday said that he has decided against attending this year’s Republican National Convention for the first time in 40 years because of “the virus situation.”
There’ll be a whole lot more of this. It’s one thing to sit safely in your living room telling reporters that fears about the pandemic are overblown. It’s an entirely different thing to go out and actually put yourself at risk. Republicans don’t care how many Americans die of Covid as long as one of those people isn’t them.
“There’s generally a rule that if you’re six feet apart you don’t have to wear a mask, but I think doing both makes common sense and I’m going to encourage people to do both,” Grassley said, according to the Des Moines Register.
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I’m still waiting on an Inhofe diagnosis. He was at that Tulsa rally without any mask on, sitting next to others also without any masks on and shaking hands with others. I can wait. If anyone deserves to get this thing its those that deny science for purely political reasons like Inhofe.
Chuck, 99% of Corona virus cases are harmless. Young guy like you…what’s the problem?
Ok, Grasshole, so it’s NOT a hoax?
Terrible. So much talent in this lady. Don’t you dare not get better.
Keisha Lance Bottoms on testing positive for COVID: “It leaves me for a loss of words, because I think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is. And we’ve taken all of the precautions that you can possibly take … I have no idea where and when we were exposed.”
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“where the governor feels that it’s safer,”
Or, where the governor doesn’t give a shit?
The virus is known, in rare cases, to cause a certain kind of brain damage that makes victims want to throw snowballs in indoor venues.
Chuck, you won’t be missed. Keep bringing those good “Christian” judges along through your committee and we don’t care if you sleep with your granddaughter. By the way, I’ve heard that people are saying, really the best people, that you sleep with…no, no, it couldn’t be true that you sleep with your granddaughter. You f-ing schmuck.
Grassley told reporters that moving the convention to Jacksonville is “probably the right thing to do” since it makes sense to hold the convention in a place “where the governor feels that it’s safer”
At which point, we verify that two politicians are unqualified to hold any office of public trust.
Ah, snow. I dream of snow right now. We’ve have 90+ temps this week and had several days last week of the same. The lawn is brown and no rain until possibly Thurs or Friday. I’ve felt sick to my stomach for days from the heat. How people can live with this ickiness is beyond me.
Or in the state that is having the worst outbreak currently and the governor doesn’t give a shit about doing anything to slow it down.
In a country that has set a record number of cases for 27 straight days find the state that is leading the country in infections and where it is so hot you can’t be outside - let’s all go there for our convention. It’ll be fne.
Typical Republican chickenhawk.
The pandemic version of an armchair warrior.
The GOP oughta award him the Bonespur Cross, with Pilonidal Cluster.
106°F in Tucson today. 110°F predicted by the weekend. Hot enough to melt the cloaca off a desert tortoise.
Eta.
Come for the Mexican food, stay for our balmy desert breezes.
They are all like him. Even Lt Governor of Texas Dan Patrick who volunteered all old folk to die to save the economy, has himself worked from home. Patrick, like Pence is a former talk radio host, and those guys by definition are all talk and no walk.
I think this choice is very wise of Senator Chuck Grassley in terms of his personal health.
Too bad he never used any of his suddenly revealed capacity for wisdom to actually help our country.
I don’t know how people do it in Arizona or Texas. Dry heat or not, that’s oppressive. I can only imagine what people pay for running their A/C constantly. My brain starts to go on the fritz at about 85 degrees and my legs give out after a half hour of being in 90 degrees or more. I’ve got a neighbor that’s a snowbird in Arizona and she still hasn’t come back to MI yet, probably because she doesn’t want to risk traveling on a plane still with the virus raging. I hope she stays safe and same for you. I keep rolling my eyes every time I hear that remark about how the virus was supposed to go away when the weather got warmer. Another epic miscalculation. Sorry if I sound disjointed. I’ve been in a rather semi-permanent state of heat exhaustion for days it seems.
Your assley is grassley, Chuck. Take cover–tweets incoming.