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.
Yes to the charge of genocide, because these racist bastard GOP politicians have made the coldly cynical calculation that allowing the virus to rage will ultimately kill more minorities/Dems than GOP-voting white people.
However, that assumption is very wrong. More Republicans (I'm betting) are dying of it than any Democrat because the Democrat led states have most of their people vaccinated. We're not dying by the shiploads. True our case counts are higher, but even we have our share of stupid people who are called Republicans..
I agree with you that the GOP assumption in this instance is very wrong. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an authority I trust, stated that 5x as many GOP voters are dying of COVID, compared to Dems. I sure as hell hope he is correct!
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.
I reposted your comment on Facebook, describing it as by an "anonymous commenter" on Lucian's blog. I didn't want to identify you even by the nickname you use here. Your comment deserves a wider audience!
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.’”
About monoclonal antibodies -- MSNBC columnist Zeeshan Aleem (see link) makes the excellent point that monoclonal antibodies are an *individual* solution, whereas vaccination supports the community as well as the individual. All of a sudden the Trump apologists glomming on to monoclonal antibodies seems totally consistent with the rest of their extreme individualist ethos. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/covid-vaccines-are-less-popular-monoclonal-antibodies-some-places-here-n1279677?
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.
Ol' Tate has his work cut out for him. Some other Mississippi rankings from US News and World Report 2020 (not exactly a bunch of liberals): Healthcare #50; Education #43; Economy #49; Infrastructure #48; Opportunity #49; Fiscal Stability #41; Crime and Corrections #33; Natural Environment #22. I'd say that better than middling rating in Natural Environment is due to sloth, not preservation.
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.
I had a similar reaction. It's possible that Tapper was trying to allow this piece of shit that talks to hang himself with his own words. That is (and, in this particular world at this particular time) a big mistake. Yes, there are the many braindead schmucks who will actually think that Reeves gave a fine accounting of himself and his position because they are incapable of anything resembling what has come to be called "critical thinking." In general, the positions these people are enunciating seem to ALWAYS ignore the fact that the vaccination issue is as much about protecting others as it is about protecting oneself. This is largely because introducing that aspect of vaccination would completely invalidate the whole "personal choice line of bullshit. The "personal choice" thing is just a talking point to attack the other party. But it's pretty fucking expensive, since people are continuing to pay with their lives. And I can't even figure out that whole "lagging indicator" line. Lagging for how long? What will we see in the very near future, when today's stats are no longer lagging? One could go on. And he did, continuing to say nothing.
And btw, has anyone else heard about the Texas case a few weeks ago in which a couple with a bay with Cystic Fibrosis was having a rare night out and went for dinner wearing masks to avoid the possibility of transmitting Covid to their kid? They were asked (forget "asked"...they were TOLD) to leave if they continued to be masked. Does anyone else remember Bizarro World?
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).
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.
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….
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.
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.
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.
Trump's Legacy...over 700,000 dead Americans.
Seriously. It could be edited down to a very effective SNL skit without changing a word.
Better, Ernest T. Bass as the Governor, good old Howard Morris.
I'm seeing Jim Varney as the Governor, Ernest P. Worrell. Good likeness, too.
Yes to the charge of genocide, because these racist bastard GOP politicians have made the coldly cynical calculation that allowing the virus to rage will ultimately kill more minorities/Dems than GOP-voting white people.
However, that assumption is very wrong. More Republicans (I'm betting) are dying of it than any Democrat because the Democrat led states have most of their people vaccinated. We're not dying by the shiploads. True our case counts are higher, but even we have our share of stupid people who are called Republicans..
I agree with you that the GOP assumption in this instance is very wrong. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, an authority I trust, stated that 5x as many GOP voters are dying of COVID, compared to Dems. I sure as hell hope he is correct!
Add: “Depraved Indifference”.
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.
Brilliant translation. WTG, Audiea!!
I reposted your comment on Facebook, describing it as by an "anonymous commenter" on Lucian's blog. I didn't want to identify you even by the nickname you use here. Your comment deserves a wider audience!
Thx!!!
Thank you.
Extremely accurate, and all of the South is represented. I can just imagine George Wallace saying this.
Total lunacy, and they will vote for Trump again!
Brilliant! Thank you for this valuable translation.
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.’”
About monoclonal antibodies -- MSNBC columnist Zeeshan Aleem (see link) makes the excellent point that monoclonal antibodies are an *individual* solution, whereas vaccination supports the community as well as the individual. All of a sudden the Trump apologists glomming on to monoclonal antibodies seems totally consistent with the rest of their extreme individualist ethos. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/covid-vaccines-are-less-popular-monoclonal-antibodies-some-places-here-n1279677?
best line in the entire interview? "fatalities IS a lagging indicator.
Yes, indeed they are? Of sheer stupidity and absolute political fecklessness.
There’s a reason why I call him Tater Tot—guy has the brain of a potato (apologies in advance to potatoes)
yes. they even have EYES.
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.
Ol' Tate has his work cut out for him. Some other Mississippi rankings from US News and World Report 2020 (not exactly a bunch of liberals): Healthcare #50; Education #43; Economy #49; Infrastructure #48; Opportunity #49; Fiscal Stability #41; Crime and Corrections #33; Natural Environment #22. I'd say that better than middling rating in Natural Environment is due to sloth, not preservation.
He clearly is a purposeful and dedicated wrong thinker and corrupt politician
But I would bet he’s vaccinated….
Oh, I can guarantee every single Republican governor and legislator in every single Republican held state is vaccinated. "Do as I say, not as I do."
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.
I had a similar reaction. It's possible that Tapper was trying to allow this piece of shit that talks to hang himself with his own words. That is (and, in this particular world at this particular time) a big mistake. Yes, there are the many braindead schmucks who will actually think that Reeves gave a fine accounting of himself and his position because they are incapable of anything resembling what has come to be called "critical thinking." In general, the positions these people are enunciating seem to ALWAYS ignore the fact that the vaccination issue is as much about protecting others as it is about protecting oneself. This is largely because introducing that aspect of vaccination would completely invalidate the whole "personal choice line of bullshit. The "personal choice" thing is just a talking point to attack the other party. But it's pretty fucking expensive, since people are continuing to pay with their lives. And I can't even figure out that whole "lagging indicator" line. Lagging for how long? What will we see in the very near future, when today's stats are no longer lagging? One could go on. And he did, continuing to say nothing.
And btw, has anyone else heard about the Texas case a few weeks ago in which a couple with a bay with Cystic Fibrosis was having a rare night out and went for dinner wearing masks to avoid the possibility of transmitting Covid to their kid? They were asked (forget "asked"...they were TOLD) to leave if they continued to be masked. Does anyone else remember Bizarro World?
A pro lets a moron hang himself.
Tate Reeves = Epsilon semi moron (at its finest)
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?
Perfect. But do we have to retrieve them to throw again?
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).
There is. It is the Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota state houses.
Then, why haven’t they acted?
Because the are Fox fed brain dead racist birthers enrolled by Trump 10 years ago.
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.
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….
The inferior subspecies is known as "Epsilon semi moron" and they keep inbreeding.
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.
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.
Massie? As in the mine disaster?
No, that would be Massey Energy, I believe. West Virginia.
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
Also—boost the B-vitamins, esp B-12…
And interesting article on Covid and the loss of smell...
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/covid-19-took-my-sense-of-smell-then
But…but…where do you get that? 🥸
I saw the interview. I believe we are doomed.