Virginia GOP Goes Full Trump, Says Dem Gov’s COVID-19 Rules Are ‘Not About Your Health’ | Talking Points Memo

The Virginia Republican Party went full Trump on Monday, asserting that Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s social isolation orders are “not about your health.”


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Exactly! And climate change can’t be real because Greta Thunberg is a vegan and from Socialist Sweden.

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There we go…the election 2020 mantra would be democrats killed the economy just to hurt Trump. The only way to counter that, would be if we get a huge Covid-19 mortality in states that didn’t close up or in places like Texas where they are reopening early.

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Full Trump? The GOP has gone full negligent homicide, batshit, wankoff.

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Their protests and denial are also not about health or even freedom – it’s all about power and dominance.

Look a little bit closer and you’ll see the jackboots.

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They’re not called the Guardians Of Pandemics for nothin’.

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I wonder if the Virginia GOP has read Trump’s federal guidelines for re-opening? I wonder if Trump has read them?

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Greta unleashed Covid-19 when her earlier pleas for action went unmet by governments. Just look at the reduction in pollution since this began. Clearly, a liberal plot.

We need a big car protest, do some rolling coal and the like, can’t be pwned by the libtards!

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Monday’s press release also warned readers that Northam would try to “enchant you with a canned ‘now is not the time for partisanship’ answer in his Eastern Shore drawl.”

You mean like “now is not the time to talk about gun control”, like that canned, disingenuous talking point?

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Not a single state gov’t employee laid off?

OK, we’ll start with you

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The MAJORITY of Virginians have tuned out GOP entirely!

Their GOP news release is totally senseless! Virginians continues to pay their taxes and we expect to receive the services that our state provides. Where do they get this idiotic mindset? They truly know NOTHING about GOVERNING. So GTF OUT

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Evidently the Virginia GOP needed to show, once again, why the voters were smart to elect Democrats to run the state.

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It’s amazing how quickly the GOP totally fell into line as the suicide caucus, vigorously advocating for collective group suicide.

It’s like they have no idea that the virus doesn’t differentiate between political affiliations of its victims.

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Can I assume without checking that dentists are not, in fact, banned, and that emergency dental surgery is still available? So it’s basically the exact same as abortion, where time-sensitive medical procedures still happen?

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So has the majority in Texas.

And the only “early reopening” Texas is doing is letting nonessential retailers open for curbside delivery of whatever is ordered online. No browsing, no shopping around and masks are mandatory in Dallas Co now.

Abbott at least had enough sense to make a show and nothing substantial is changing. He opened the state parks but distancing is mandatory in the parks.

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The Virginia Republican Party went full Trump on Monday, asserting that Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s social isolation orders are “not about your health.”

But GOP requirements for transvaginal ultrasounds are totally “about your health”.

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I have impeccable credentials other than the times I was sacked.

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If you don’t want to gag or throw-up don’t go to the site above!
I’d like to know why no one from the Virginia GOP would put their name to this press release?

Republican Party of Virginia
Richard D. Obenshain Center
115 E. Grace Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Phone: (804) 780-0111
Fax: (804) 343-1060
E-mail: Info@Virginia.GOP

https://virginia.gop/

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I must say that this entire “against health care pact” of the GOP has surprised me. And I am sure most of you.

It is the most powerful social indicator that Trump, Trumpism and the GOP will fail.

The virus is not a Republican who kills only Democrats.

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I stopped tuning into the VA GOP after they wheeled out McDonnell and Cuccinelli on the general population. Now you see why they control nothing in the Commonwealth. Call us again when you get your shit together.

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