Illinois state House lawmakers voted to remove state Rep. Darren Bailey (R) from the building on Wednesday after he refused to adhere to the House’s mask requirement amid COVID-19.
Moran. Of the first order.
"You’re silencing millions of voices of people who have had enough.”
Not millions, and it’s amazing how the democratic process works, isn’t it?
The testing should be mandatory.
10 bucks says he returns with a mask. The bipartisan vote calls him out for being an ass.
“The Republican lawmaker, who had also declined to take a COVID-19 test before entering the chamber, brushed off concerns that his actions may cause his staff or coworkers to catch the virus during an interview with the on Wednesday.
“How on earth would you be able to pinpoint that onto anyone?” he asked.“
He seems to belong to the school of thought articulated by the Chosen One.
“When you test, you have a case. When you test, you find something is wrong with people. If we didn’t do any testing, we would have very few cases.”
I don’t think that’s anywhere NEAR the right question to be asking during a f**king pandemic.
“How on earth would you be able to pinpoint that onto anyone?”
He is in a public servant position. And this is malpractice.
Don’t count on it, he’s the same jerk that got a court to allow him, and just him not to have to abide by the IL Governors stay at home orders.
And what’s not state here is that the IL assembly wasn’t meeting in their usual chambers but in the Bank of Springfield Center.
On the first day of the Illinois General Assembly’s special pandemic session, in a makeshift chamber in the Bank of Springfield Center, the first order of business was to vote that everyone must wear a mask — a rule that passed overwhelmingly with bipartisan support.
But there was one Republican holdout on Wednesday: state Rep. Darren Bailey, who sat smiling at his desk on the floor of the arena and refused to put one on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/21/illinois-gop-lawmaker-removed-mask/
And he’s proud of being one.
No, dufus, you’re not being silenced, just put out of ear shot.
The people you might kill definitely would be silenced.
“How on earth would you be able to pinpoint that onto anyone?”
Republican “values”: “If I can’t be blamed or won’t get caught and will never be held accountable, then it’s ok to do it.”
So… He’s not worried about harming others, just getting caught
Beat me to it! (And said it better)
Whatever happened to the law and order Republican Party? Donald Trump does this all the time - pick and choose the laws you want to follow. If everyone felt that way, we would be a lawless society; anarchy at best. So this guy does not agree with the rule. Too f-ing bad. Put the mask on asshole.
I’ll double that on him going to court instead.
It’s actually the “law and order for thee, but not for me” Republican Party.
ETA: And it pretty much always has been, since the 1960s
The voices of these fine folks are being silenced: the faces of stupid.
Cannot be overstated.
Congrats Trump, GOP.
More than 3,600 cases of disinfectant exposure were reported in April to the US poison control centres compared to 1,676 in February.
Experts warn against using cleaning products beyond their intended use, such as wiping down groceries.
Dr Kelly Johnson-Arbor from the National Capital Poison Center said there was no medical reason to be “drinking or bathing in disinfectants”.
In April, President Trump seemed to suggest injecting bleach as way of “cleaning” Covid-19 from the inside but appeared to recant the following day, telling journalists: “I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen.”
Every day, Republicans seem determined to demonstrate why it is called The Stupid Party.