As the coronavirus outbreak batters the economy and businesses close,
— Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick Patrick made the comments Monday night during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
Is that what your good book says... “sacrifice the old and infirm so the young and healthy can go out and work and party on the weekend”
So lost in the critical point of view... Human life is much more precious than the economy. I know some seniors don't have much to look forward to in life but a lot of other seniors are contributing to the younger generations. COVIDー19 marketwath
DanPatrick is unethical and deserves to be removed from his position ASAP.
Makes me sooo angry that we have people like this running our country.
They want to be heroes but being realistic, if they get infected, they should be willing to be sick at home (not able to work), not spreading the virus and not stressing the healthcare system. Put ppl first not money!
Soylent green are people! Charlton Heston (movie Soylent Green)
C'mon. Would do anything for the sake of my children and grandchildren, but the world recovered from the Great Depression that lasted a decade. DanPatrickHyperbolist
If I’ve asked it once, I’ve asked it a thousand times! How do these people continue to be elected?
jacquibassocpa Then grandchildren would be left to run the economy. You assume that grandparents are old and useless. Perhaps but some are running companies and the grandkids are playing video games.
more crazy than that you die
That's what you get for paying too little taxes for 25 years.
Free MAGA hat day.
Wise man.
Bullshit
Not precisely true. Listen to Patrick’s full quote in context. He’s merely discussing trade offs, those things which delusional utopians don’t discuss in their frivolous quest for heaven on earth.
Materialism at it highest level. COVIDー19 coronavirus Coronavid19 StupidityHasNoCure
Idiot
Would and should are different. Context
Damn right they would
WTF
He can be the first in / or help out in the hospital.
GOP in a nutshell
Ouch
If that's the case, tell the boomers to forego their gov't pension payments and social security. No? I thought not.
No
Start with the potus
Dear dad: Don't die so my 401(k) balance will be higher or we can go to a restaurant or see a ball game.
Don’t do that as a human being!
Yeah, sure...or they may end watching their grandchildren pass...be careful what you ask for...
LtGovTX well now if you big boys and girls didn’t panic and take all your money out of the market, maybe we could stay afloat longer. But on a happier note, please feel free to take you whole family; I mean all of your blood to a hot spot and report back to me how that worked.TY
Coronaviruses will not pick people by age.
Where the fuck is the draft!?
adjordan Seniors? What say you?
Would he?
Personally, volunteering others for cannon fodder could be a stretch, not to mention a major red flag
LtGovTX You're about that age. You go first.
Bold statement from a 69yo grandfather. Hell of legacy Dan.
Even Tucker Carlson looked at him like “really?” That’s when you know you said something truly absurd.
He can go first! Start with him.
He's got a point. The virus is communist (or certainly anti-capitalist) and a lot of Americans have sacrificed their lives fighting communism.
The problem with ignorance and a representative democracy is that the ignorant don't have the knowledge to choose wisely. The prejudiced vote for the prejudiced. The greedy vote for their self-interest. The Executive Office and Senators ought not be elected by popular vote.
He wants the ppl that put him in power to be sacrificed .😒
Because they have done and continue to do selfless acts? Yeah, right. We got into this mess somehow in the first place.
Name some. Does he have a list? Is this the Hunger Games?
What is our country coming to?
How old is he?
'willing to die' is different from 'willing to take a chance'. But sensationalism and outrage sells, and we are too eager to buy, if only to feel... something. We are ratcheting up our anger and division, and scandal mongers are profiting. This isn't healthy.
And just like that, he lost the AARP voters.
This is patently false. These seniors spent their working lives using their vote to obliterate many things that could’ve benefited their grandchildren. Education. The environment. The housing market. Exporting of manufacturing jobs. The list goes on
Wasn't this an episode of StarTrek TNG?
Stupidity.
WTF
insane
I get it now, No abortions but if you are over 60 you are just a drain on society.
I don’t know if this has sunk in yet, but there probably will not be a College Football Season this year...due to trump’s piss poor crisis mismanagement & Fox News misinformation.