“I can’t help but think that if I hadn’t been wearing a mask so much in the last ten days or so… I really wonder if I would’ve gotten it” - actual Gohmert quote this morning.
Meanwhile, Gohmert may be positive for COVID-19 but he’s still ignorant as to what that means. He says he has been wearing a mask for the last two weeks (spoiler alert: not always) and thinks he may have become infected when he used his hands to adjust his mask. So masks are still bad in Louis’ world.
You can’t fix stupid. The problem is there are a ton of idiots that will take this quote as further evidence wearing a mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 doesn’t help. So, Gohmert’s stupidity doesn’t just affect him; it affects many other people around him, and many other people brought in contact with his supporters that agree with his insane perspective.
Republicans are no more “stupid” than were Nazis. Republicans are evil. Many of the rank-and-file are stupid. But the movement is based on out-and-out evil.
One side passed legislation 10 weeks ago to head off the personal and economic disaster that will happen if unemployment benefits aren’t extended.
The other side cannot agree on what its position is, but is kicking around ideas that include slashing the extended benefits by 2/3rds while throwing in a ton of pork including earmarking billions for a project specifically for the benefit of Trump, and only Trump. Or maybe just doing fuck all.
They also want to give immunity to employers whose employees are forced to work in unsafe conditions (because their benefits have been cut/erased) and who catch COVID-19 at work (like Robert O’Brien, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Katie Miller and Louis Gohmert did). This other side is actively trying to rip away health insurance from 20+ million people in the middle of a global pandemic.