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I read the entire interview.

That Jake Tapper didn't go and haul off on this lying piece of sorry shit is because Jake is very well brought up to not hit people with obvious mental deficits. Answer after answer was nothing but word garbage, and of course Reeves did not answer this question:

Tapper: "So, with all due respect, Governor, your way is failing. Are you going to try to change anything to change this horrible statistic from what you're doing already?"

In the end, of course, Jake himself had to answer his own question.

TAPPER: You're not going to change anything?

REEVES: "That is the best way in which to do that."

I guess Reeves must have meant the question was-"How do you kill the most people with the least amount of trouble?"

With, of course monoclonal antibodies. Which are expensive and hard to get because they so much in demand.

Tate Reeves and every single Republican governor in this country should be charged with negligent homicide and stripped of their offices.

Better yet, charge them with genocide.

Because they're all guilty of it. Throw in Donald Trump to make it official.

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Here is the core message of Governor Tate. His Audience are the great 6X generation of the defeated south. Mr. Tate has to understand what Mississippi is about and he dose:

Read it and be honest with yourself:

"Mississippi has been bullied by the Yankee regime in Washington for 150 years. That genocidal thug U.S. Grant killed thousands of Christians with guns and fire, seized Oxford in the war of Northern Aggression. The Yankees took labor away and lied to the Black race about freedom. We have suffered violent criminals ever since. Yankee banks charge us higher interest rates, foreigners come and corrupt our culture and sneer at our God. The Yankee liberals have murdered 30 million unborn. The Yankees told the sodomites they are human and their northern supreme court legalized degeneracy and perversion. Joe Biden was VP to the worst president ever. Obama inflicted his communist heath care and radical liberal environmental regulations. We have millions of drug addicts, terrorists and rapists coming over the border. Nancy Pelosi stole the 2020 election to put a feeble minded Hippie Liberal in our White House. The Yankee regime hates us, and abuses all of our Christian South everyday. CNN is a tool of the radical socialist left.

Remember, Gov. Tate is not talking to you, but the frightened white people of Mississippi.

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If I may repeat the first part of Lucian's transcript:

"....JAKE TAPPER OF CNN: Governor, why are you and the Mississippi legislature willing to impose mandates for other vaccines, but not when it comes to the COVID vaccine that you yourself have gotten?

GOV. TATE REEVES (R-MS): Well, the Mississippi legislature has enacted laws for many years regarding vaccines of many types. It is unique to kids and their ability to go to our public schools. It's not vaccines mandated in the workplace. But the question here is not about what we do in Mississippi. It's what this president is trying to impose upon the American worker. The president very much wants you and everyone else to believe that this is a fight between politicians. The reality is, this is an attack by the president on hardworking Americans and hardworking Mississippians, who he wants to choose between getting a jab in their arm and their ability to feed their families. And I just believe that's a false choice....."

My comment: Note how he cleverly avoided the direct question as to why state mandates for all the other earlier viruses but not this one. Instead he attacks Biden over the workplace mandate:Also, what did he mean by Americans having to choose between getting a jab in the arm and feeding their families? They have a choice to get weekly testing. Mr. Tapper didn't mention that in response, unfortunately as his answer would have been interesting. The governor also didn't seem to understand the significance of the red state/blue state problem,. that red states had lower vaccination rates in general and consequently higher infection rates. If every state had from the beginning mandated vaccinations or weekly testing for all residents (including the importance of masks) it stands to common sense that infections and deaths would have been a fraction of what they are today. But common sense does not appear to be a common trait in mostly Republicans. They rather make up all kinds of stories around vaccinations and masks and conjure up weird conspiracy theories like an insidious plan by the left to control the masses.Frankly I think many of them are paranoid. Also they all feel they must follow the party line. Just one example is are not independent thinkers either, for example in addition to the above discussion on their common beliefs around vaccinations, etc.,they seem to be all in agreement that global warming is a leftist hoax, or as signs become obvious, it isn't man made.

A brief afterthought on the various reasons given for not getting vaccinated: This quote from Jimmy Kimmel's monologue Monday night. "....others who’ve refused the vaccine said it was because they could just get monoclonal antibody treatment if they get ill. Keep in mind this is an IV hookup that helps reduce the symptoms of COVID. Pretty incredible that people who don’t trust vaccines do trust being pumped full of lab-created antibodies. This is like skydiving and instead of using the parachute, you’re gonna be like, ‘Yeah, I’ll just crash near a hospital.’”

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best line in the entire interview? "fatalities IS a lagging indicator.

Yes, indeed they are? Of sheer stupidity and absolute political fecklessness.

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There’s a reason why I call him Tater Tot—guy has the brain of a potato (apologies in advance to potatoes)

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And people wonder about how to overcome southern stereotypes…which in most cases are untrue and trying to overcome historic biases and then you have one of the worst managed, worst educated states in the union elect an obviously self promoting self dealing idiot who lies to the uneducated, Trump fascinated base. It’s a damned travesty but who’s going to attempt a recall in a corrupt self dealing state. It’s a race to the bottom by a moron.

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Jake Tapper shows how the media keep enabling these charlatans. Why didn’t he challenge the utter gibberish of Tate’s 1st response & then call out his lies? He lets him ramble on thinking we all get it. I guarantee there are fools out there who think Tate did well.

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Tate Reeves = Epsilon semi moron (at its finest)

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OMG….Does Mississippi belong in a whole new circle In Dante’s Inferno, or just toss it in the 5th with the other corrupt politicians?

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I. Just. Can’t. There should be a remedy in place for politicians who commit dereliction of duty, negligence, malpractice…MALFEASANCE, or just, plain lying (like fraud).

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I actually saw this interview and I can't say I was surprised, but rather disgusted with his thoroughly nonchalant attitude. A death cult, pure and simple and while I am extremely frustrated with people who accept all of this garbage, I am also extremely sad about those who do. The needless deaths of thousands of Americans is deeply tragic and I mourn for those who for wahtever reasons have been conned. I only wish I could could have been able to help those so utterly tricked. What a national travesty. May the perpetrators of these lies rot in hell in perpetuity.

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Honestly— I couldn’t finish this—kudos to readers who waded through the waist-high bullshit all the way to the end.

This excuse for a governor arouses in me once again the suspicion that there is some intrinsically inferior subspecies of white people, especially prevalent in the South, who are just BORN dumber than goose shit and get even stupider, stubborner and meaner as they age. And to think that there are millions just like him who voted for this POS….

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My first reaction was: God help us all. My second reaction was Malthusian: Perhaps we, as a species, would be better off if his genes were taken out of circulation along with those of most of these demented unvaccinated Americans. May they all get Covid. Sorry but I'm turning into a nasty 80 year old I fear.

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I haven’t yet read it all. I’m doing that in a bit!

We have exceeded 675,000 making it more than the 1918 Flu pandemic. My dad was 2 years old living in Jersey City NJ on Pamrapo Ave. My grandparents whom I never met were Albanian immigrants from Calabria Italy. They kept to themselves pretty much on their Pamrapo Ave farm where they had everything they needed. Meaning they were isolated. Had my father not lived I wouldn’t be typing this!

More to come after I read this long, long newsletter.

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On the face of them, Reeves has a disturbing physical similarity to my home state KY representative Thomas Massie. Both also share tenets of the freedumb policy in their political position, a viral epidemic that's infecting too many.

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How stupid can he be?

Lucian...in regards to your post Covid symptoms....Have your hemaglobin levels checked.

I am anemic and what you have described as fatigue is how I feel when my iron drops way down.

You and Tracy may need an infusion of blood stuff to re balance. No iron, no oxygen , dull brain and aches and pains.

Check it out and feel better soon.. Nancy

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