Virginia State Sen. Ben Chafin (R) died on Friday after losing a battle against COVID-19, the Virginia Senate Republican Caucus said in a statement.
Scary how a hoax can kill…
Meanwhile, the GOP once again strongly responds to the COVID crisis
Happy Holidays to the maskless.
Was he a liberty loving mask-free American.
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
He may have received his wish!
I do not wish death on anyone. However, every time a story like this comes up, I can’t help it.
Honestly, we know so many people now who actively have the disease it feels like the walls are closing in. It went from knowing someone who knows someone, to knowing someone remotely, to people a little closer - the last week has brought news of my wife’s best friend’s daughter, a close friend of mine’s wife (he is trying to survive following a bone marrow transplant 3 years ago) to last night discovering that 3 more people we personally know getting it including my daughter’s best friend from pre-school through high school - a nurse. It is like an expert said on the TV last night, we have to stop talking about surges and recognize that we are at the beginning of a tsunami.
Taking their chances that Trump’s base and imaginary power will be able to put a bit of a wobble in Moscow Mitch?
I guess he really did have an infectious smile…
Reality can be unforgiving to the ignorant. #TrumpVirus
In 2018, Chafin became one of four Republicans who successfully supported the expansion of Medicaid in Virginia.
I don’t know where he stood on masks and so forth, but for this, I am grateful. I shouldn’t have to be, but a Republican supporting Medicaid expansion is a unicorn these days.
This was equally scary to read. The attitude infesting these people is unfathomable. Not taking it seriously while the body count stacks up is criminal. And it even infects the vaccine rollout. Read through a few to see the rest of it. Right now,I do not want to know anyone from Oklahoma or Florida.
Jesus Christ. Oklahoma doesn't even have a *statewide* rollout plan and is leaving it up to the counties to organize their own individual vaccine rollouts.
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) January 1, 2021
My county is using a free SignUpGenuis page to sign people up for vaccines—which has no verification or data security. pic.twitter.com/bjI7kC9pLP
At this point the Coronavirus virus is entirely out of control worldwide (with a few exceptions like Taiwan and New Zealand). In most countries (Israel is an exception) the vaccine will come too late to prevent an extraordinary illness and death rate, and a resulting economic collapse.
He supported the expansion of Medicare. Don’t know anything else about him. That alone puts him in a rare class of Republicans.
I found out in the last couple of days that my niece tested positive – that was the first I knew within the narrower family circle (although I found out at the same time that another niece’s new hubby tested positive a few weeks before – after they slashed their summer wedding to the bone and did all the right things … but that news hadn’t reached me until I found out about the second case).
Here in Germany the stricter lockdown is likely to be extended. One of the (better informed) politicians in favor of a tighter lockdown predicts the next three months will be the worst yet for the virus.
I’m staying home and out of the way of everybody. Like you said, it’s moved from “somebody who knew somebody whose wife caught it” to family.
Gives “an infectious smile” a whole new meaning.
I don’t know if Chafin, personally, was an antimasker, but – in a very real sense – it doesn’t even matter. One glimpse of his own web page tells you everything you need to know: gun nut, homophobe, pro-coal, and Republican to the end.
Anyone who stood by Trump and his party of lunatic-abetting cowards – let alone a public office holder who did so – shares blame in this Nightmare facing our world. Did he publicly denounce Trump? I have no idea, but he certainly didn’t resign from the Frankenstein Party that created and enabled his madness and homicidal cruelty.
Donne (correctly) said that any man’s death diminishes us. Chafin’s is no exception, but Trump’s – when it comes, and for whatever reason – just might be.
Well that sounds a little bit better than what the reporting on how FL is handling vaccinations.
I know it’s been said many times, many ways DeSantis is an idiot. Have elderly people line up over night to try and get the vaccine is just plain stupid and dangerous.
Note their names. Put it on the “Seditionists List”. Seriously. We’re fast approaching 400,000 dead. It is now on the GOP to take full responsibility for the inhumane train wreck they’ve created following Trump down his dark little hell hole. This is a traitorous continuation of that zealotry.
I am really curious, if they truly believe that they might succeed in overturning the election results, what then? Have they thought that far forward? What happens if Trump actually retakes the helm?
Do they understand the upheaval that will result? Because I for one won’t stand idly by and let them actually steal the election. I will fight to defend the country and Constitution, as I have already done in the past. I didn’t risk life and limb in service of this nation just for these miscreants to rob the People of their most basic right.
They have to know that we WILL rise up against this, because it is a true and present danger to our nation. The propagandists are projecting all this onto the left, but we know the truth of it.
This will not happen, and if it does, it must not stand.
Those involved with this MUST be held to account. Beginning with the motherfucker inciting the whole mess, Herr Drumpf himself.
“In 2018, Chafin became one of four Republicans who successfully supported the expansion of Medicaid in Virginia.”
Good for him.
He was an actual Republican. Relatively moderate and reasonable. Not like the assfuckers who have more recently laid claim to the label (e.g. Matt Gaetz, et al… extrapolate from there).