Dwight - you don't know US citizens. You are a foreigner. We have no problem cheering for people dying. We basically obliterated the Indians. We destroyed Caribbean islands, one that you live on today. Go look at Haiti. At one time it was the richest place on the planet until we went there and stole their shit. Black people were brought into this country, many of them dying on the boat ride in order to build this country. Do you know how many black men were strung up and lynched in front of hundreds of cheering white people? We put Asian people in prisons here and stole all their beachfront property on the West coast. We dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed tens of thousands. Turn on the evening news and there's at least a dozen people shot dead in every major city across the country. We revel in deaths. A shooter went into a school and killed defenseless young people and we all said they were in our thoughts and prayers but we don't give a damn about citizens dying.
This country was built on cheering people dying. Wake the fukk up. Antivax people are traitors. Forgive me if they become fertilizer.
The first one came when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) about a hypothetical situation involving a sick, 30-year-old man without health insurance. Here’s the exchange, with video afterward:
Blitzer: Let me ask you this hypothetical question. A healthy, 30-year-old man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, “You know what, I’m not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I’m healthy, I don’t need it.” Something terrible happens, all of a sudden he needs it. Who’s going to pay if he goes into a coma, for example?
Paul: In a society that you accept welfare-ism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of it.
Blitzer: Well, what do you want?
Paul: He should do whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself. My advice to him would be have a major medical policy. But not forced—
Blitzer: But he doesn’t have that. And he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?
Paul: That’s what freedom is all about. Taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody.
Blitzer: But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?
Crowd: [Yeah! Yeah! Laughs.]
“Society should just let him die.” Cheers.
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The non sequiturs and talking points dished out by the GOP presidential candidates in Monday night’s CNN-Tea Party Express debate were as perplexing as they were frequent. But almost as bizarre were some of the reactions from the tea party-heavy crowd in attendance. Consider two incidents from tonight’s debate.
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The first one came when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) about a hypothetical situation involving a sick, 30-year-old man without health insurance. Here’s the exchange, with video afterward:
Blitzer: Let me ask you this hypothetical question. A healthy, 30-year-old man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides, “You know what, I’m not going to spend $200 or $300 a month for health insurance because I’m healthy, I don’t need it.” Something terrible happens, all of a sudden he needs it. Who’s going to pay if he goes into a coma, for example?
Paul: In a society that you accept welfare-ism and socialism, he expects the government to take care of it.
Blitzer: Well, what do you want?
Paul: He should do whatever he wants to do, and assume responsibility for himself. My advice to him would be have a major medical policy. But not forced—
Blitzer: But he doesn’t have that. And he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?
Paul: That’s what freedom is all about. Taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody.
Blitzer: But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?
Crowd: [Yeah! Yeah! Laughs.]
“Society should just let him die.” Cheers.