{"id":176772,"date":"2020-03-24T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/24\/dan-patrick-while-you-are-doing-your-patriotic-duty-and-expiring-could-you-please-also-dine-on-excrement\/"},"modified":"2020-03-24T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T01:43:00","slug":"dan-patrick-while-you-are-doing-your-patriotic-duty-and-expiring-could-you-please-also-dine-on-excrement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/24\/dan-patrick-while-you-are-doing-your-patriotic-duty-and-expiring-could-you-please-also-dine-on-excrement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Patrick, While You Are Doing Your Patriotic Duty and Expiring, Could You Please Also Dine on Excrement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wC3Ngvtsbj\">pic.twitter.com\/wC3Ngvtsbj<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ndrew_lawrence\/status\/1242245135129346050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, I am suggesting that the Lt. Governor of the Great State of Texas eat sh%$ and die.<\/p>\n<p>After all, he is a grandparent, and apparently a card carrying member of the Cult of Trump<sup>\u2122<\/sup>, and he is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/03\/24\/viral-on-air-plea-captures-an-essential-truth-about-trump\/\">suggesting that we need to throw <b>HIM<\/b> from the train to help the US economy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Everyone is talking about Dan Patrick\u2019s on-air death plea.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, touched off an outpouring of anger when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danpatrick.org\/tucker-carlson-tonight-march-23-2020\/\">declared to Tucker Carlson<\/a> that people like him \u2014 grandparents in their twilight years \u2014 should risk death so people can stop social distancing to avert economic calamity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Patrick, a Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danpatrick.org\/tucker-carlson-tonight-march-23-2020\/\">noted<\/a> that it\u2019s time to \u201cget back to work,\u201d adding that seniors such as him should be willing to be \u201csacrificed\u201d if necessary, so our children don\u2019t \u201close our whole country\u201d to an \u201ceconomic collapse\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"> No one reached out to me and said, \u201cAs a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?\u201d And if that\u2019s the exchange, I\u2019m all in.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, eat sh%$ and die dude.<\/p>\n<p>It will make the world, and America, a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tx Lt Gov Dan Patrick says grandparents would be willing to die to save the economy for their grandchildren pic.twitter.com\/wC3Ngvtsbj \u2014 Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 24, 2020 Yes, I am suggesting that the Lt. Governor of the Great State of Texas eat sh%$ and die. After all, he is a grandparent, and apparently a card &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,364,588,387,572,374,460],"class_list":["post-176772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economy","tag-evil","tag-fail","tag-hypocrisy","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}