This is not my idea—credit is due to my friend and fellow bass player Sean Dorn—but I have an actual modest proposal for the “Willing to Die” conservatives, including Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (aged 63), Glenn Beck (aged 56), Brit Hume (aged 76), whoever this dipshit is, and so on.
If you’re waiting for me to say something like “go on TV and show us how it’s done,” you’re going to be disappointed.
My question is this: if all you older conservative commentators “are willing to die to save the American economy,” why are you not volunteering at COVID-19 wards already?
FEMA is understaffed. The country’s nurses are exhausted and frustrated. It’s a huge mess, no matter how you look at it.
So if you are willing to put YOUR life on the line as you claim, why are you not lending a hand, Glenn Beck?
Brit Hume, I’m sure you have something to offer besides your unnecessary opinion.
Lieutenant Governor Patrick, your state has a weak governor system. You are probably almost wholly unnecessary in the state house right now, and you announced on television for the world to see that “if that’s the exchange, I’m all in.”
Receding hairline guy, if your law firm is so slow that you have time to dick around on Twitter all day, you have time to help some patients, maybe with last wills and bequests.
And since you’re willing to die for America, you won’t have to use any of the masks, PPEs, and other equipment that are in such short supply for first responders and health care workers.
Here’s your chance to walk your talk, save America’s economy for future generations, and help some of the younger, fitter people (including children) that are winding up in emergency rooms because of your president’s failure to protect us from a deadly pandemic disease. You might die, but you might not—either way, you’d be living up to your stated ideals and making a REAL contribution to mitigating the impact of the disease and treating patients.
Unless you’re full of shit. You’re not full of shit, are you? Say it ain’t so…
Just make sure they sign a legally binding document before they start, declining all COVID related hospital care. We don’t want them clogging up the hospitals with their hoaxes!
“A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.”–Wikipedia
Kind of fits well with 2020 Republicanism.
Good thinking. These “willing to die” Trump Warriors need to volunteer at our hospitals, clinics, etc. and put themselves on the frontlines. Walk the Talk! I bet zero, none of them, step up. However, I am willing to be proven wrong.
Look, they may be idiots but none of them deserve to die. Keep in mind the humiliation and indignity of families that have always managed to get by by just taking a lower paying job, suddenly impoverished by not working, not being able to work when everything in America is accessed by money. have a little compassion for your fellow (albeit stupid) Americans.
What are you afraid of, there is a very real chance that they might understand where we are coming from by this experience.
I personally have had three friends die for stupid health care related reasons. In all three times it was totally avoidable. One was a suicide, a really brilliant young guy who literally had his life ahead of him, but the struggle for basic health care just basically broke him and stole his life.
Just my $0.02