Let Them Eat Twinkies
Florida Governor Rick Scott is pushing to open public schools, but his grandchildren aren’t going.
He says parents should have a “choice” between distance learning and brick-and-mortar buildings.
His grandchildren will chose distance learning.
“My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe,” Scott told Varney.
So, he’s saying that brick-and-mortar in-person school is not safe. So, why would people make the choice to send their children to a place that’s not safe?
“Other parents are going to want to make sure their kids are in the classroom.”
Scott said parents have their own reasons for sending their kids to school, such as free lunches.“
Some [parents] are going to do it because it’s a way for students to get a subsidized meal, things like that,” Scott said.
Excuse me for a minute while I bang my head against the wall.
Florida is at a place where children have to risk their lives to get food. Children have to play Corona-Roulette to sustain life. That’s where good ole Republican Florida is.
So, public school is only good enough for poor kids? Kids of parents who are out of work? Kids who have sick parents?
Poor families and their child have to sacrifice their health to appease greedy Republican politicians. I hope those with their children/families who contract Covid, don’t forget the names of those leaders when they’re up for re-election, who refused to give support to vunerable workers and refused to enact common sense laws on the advice of public health officials.
1He who must not be convicted ~
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2Isn’t it Sen. Scott as he handed off the governorship to that fetal alcohol syndrome dude.
The malevolence is strong with Lil’ Ricky.
3senator
4pRick Scott – wake up Florida voters. This ‘individual’ is stating outright that he’s “good” with killing kids over a $1.05 not particularly healthy lunch. What price is human life? $1.05 according to pRick Scott.
So Florida was Ron DohSantis a step up or down from his evil predecessor pRick the Predator?
5Governor? No, he’s a senator now. Simple error that doesn’t change the hypocrisy.
6Considering that in the last two weeks my son and his wife have been laid off, I’m not feeling very Christian thoughts about this man or the GOP in general. I’ve checked locally and notice St. John and Kincaid don’t have any in school information but the Presbyterian School will bring those kiddos right on in. We live in a time I hope to live through!
7When I was young my parents warned me, never get into a stranger’s car if they enticed me with candy.
I think the same principle holds for a governor who offers children food, but only if the hungry youngster comes into their schools
8Sorry. I’m a mess. I’m gonna leave it up to see how many people correct me. Or, in the alternative, make Nincompoop a generic Republican officeholder title.
9ETA Life @ $1.05. That’s pRick Scott and conservative “thinking.” The rest of us can propose way better means of feeding those kids than sending them into the classroom COVID-19 lottery. Many ways like paying their parents a living wage, extending unemployment benefits for those who have lost jobs, and maybe another round of stimulus checks for those whose incomes levels cannot keep up with rising food prices brought on by the ***king moron* and his* maladministration totally bollixing the pandemic response.
Next stimulus bill? Let’s flip the $trillions grifted and wasted by this maladministration to actually help feed, house people and provide medical care this time.
10Not at all surprised that he “thinks” this way!
11He really is dog shit
12Philquat @ 3:
Yep. The governor’s mansion was just a pit-stop for Scott so he could put the kibosh to any investigation [halfhearted though it already was] into his Medicare fraud.
Then, with that bit of business handled, it was off to DC to see what more damage he could do.
The only reason he managed either ploy was because Florida is so gerrymandered that the FL Supremes regularly call the R’s out. In 2016, they ruled that 4 districts [mine among them] were so egregiously drawn as to have not even a nodding acquaintance with the Constitution. The court ordered them [not some objective body but the party that had committed the crime in the first place] to redraw the offensive districts. Even given that reprieve, they dragged their feet till the court offered to do it for them. Then they got busy.
And hey, why should they mend their ways? They got off scot free and got to profit from their crime for 6 years before they got called on it.
Even so, Florida is better than Georgia where it took EIGHT years for the court to get around to rectifying a similar situation. Just in time for the districts to get gerrymandered — uh, I mean drawn — again.
And Jand & PKM @ 5:
13There’s not a sliver of light to be seen between the two of them. Gerry Mander is quite popular in Florida — at least among the Tea Partiers and the donor class. The rest of us aren’t fond of him at all.
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself what’s in a name? “Nincompoop” would certainly cover as conservative nomenclature. What would you suggest to cover the evil unleashed by Libertarians like Koch, et al? Those who errantly refer to themselves as ‘fiscal conservative’ drown government in a bathtub types, except of course those portions of government that cover military and police spending. No money for education, health care and infrastructure. But yee doggies with the establishment of DHS after 9-11, the Patriot Act then the NDAA legislation, Nincompoops are well on their way to burying the Posse Comitatus Act in their bathtub of concentrated executive power. Nixon would be envious.
14I like the take of Brian Gordon “Fowl Language Comics”:
15https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dad-comic-school-reopening-brian-gordon_l_5f1600cdc5b6cac5b730360e
Just as the way too early opening of businesses resulted in a
16huge resurgence of cases and deaths, reopening schools while the pandemic is raging will result in the same. Are we not able to learn from the horrendous mistakes already made? Children, teachers, parents and extended family will be hit straight on and there will be no coming back by wearing masks and social distancing. Please urge your friends and family not to send their
children into what was already a Petri dish of disease.
For those who insist that it is impossible to learn anything via computer, tell me if you know how to turn your computer off without stomping on the switch on the power bar on the floor? I’m betting that there are still hordes of folks who still do that. And spend a good deal of tie hollering and fussing about the bleepy da bleepy computer won’t do what you want it to. Recommend cave walls and a handful of charcoal sticks.
17Joyce @ 12. Bingo.
Many decades ago, when I was a sportswriter, I got to know the careful gradations by which baseball players defined various kinds of *shit.
Bullshit: fake, phony
Horseshit: worthless
Chickenshit: cowardly
Dogshit: vie, disgusting
18Why does every picture I see of this loon look so CREEPY? Same with Michelle Malkin and Michelle Bachman…
19maggie: Thanks. I didn’t realize the power bar on the floor had a switch. I have been pulling the plug out of the wall.
20Getting back to the well being of the students of Fla: Who are we kidding? The students of Fla are packed into the cheapest boxes possible. Unless the parents are well off.
This is just the quiet part of reality spoken out loud, or accidental truth…
21If he was so concerned about kids eating, maybe he should push for the House version of the 2nd coronavirus aid package instead of bickering and pushing their own agendas. Instead, like Ted Cruz says, he’ll not just vote no, but hell no.
22Expect the school restarts to go to another level as Trumpf tries to blackmail states. Cut funding and send in the G men.
We really need to open the schools soon so that the NRA can have target practice. We can’t expect them to go door to door looking for innocent victims. This is a Second Amendment issue.
23Some parents will send their kids to school because infanticide is illegal, but this way their kids’ deaths can be blamed on someone else.
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