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Republican Blogger Receives Experimental Coronavirus Treatment; Breathless Base Awaits Governor Noem’s Tweet-Snark

Governor Kristi Noem sneers that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But there is free medicine for her spin blogger:

Last week after purposely avoiding as much contact as I could with the outside world over the last several months, my household got an unexpected visitor when COVID showed up on my doorstep….

I think I have a comparatively mild case, strictly body aches and low grade fever….

…I do find myself back in the ER again today.. but not for a bad thing. My doctor called this morning and said that she thought I was a good candidate for the experimental infusion treatment….

They did mention that there’s no charge for the medicine itself because it’s experimental. Free experimental medicine? Sure…I’m go for a little medical experimentation.. why is my foot tingling? [Pat Powers, “So, Covid Decided to Come for a Visit…,” Dakota War College, 2021.02.17].

I wish good health to all… but Governor Noem, of course, is morally and politically obliged to issue a tweet criticizing such socialism and the Republicans who embrace it.

10 Comments

  1. Donald Pay

    When your life may be on the line, people tend to find religion and socialism. They are linked inextricably. If there is an afterlife, and I’m not saying there is, it is a socialist paradise. The Bible says so. Jesus was big on free lunch and free medicine. Religion is the socialism of the people.

  2. jerry

    Powers doesn’t say how he and his got the virus, probably from the superspreader herownself, sad sack NOem. Keep those masks on boys and girls, even after you get your vaccine.

  3. Richard Schriever

    Donald Pay, Interesting take on “paradise”. My mom (who was a devout Lutheran) always claimed to believe that i n heaven, one would be always engaged in activities that one truly found joy and happiness in. Now, one could imagine that some folks find great pleasure and happiness in working, and making gobs of money, or being a purely charitable soul and giving away other people’s money, or perhaps, simply couch potatoing. She imagined that for those condemned to “the other place”, much of their pain and suffering would be the result of being able to observe their “rivals” being happy and successful at everything they engaged in in paradise, while their own endeavors serially and perpetually failed. Maybe under that scheme, your own paradise would involve living happily ever after in a socialist paradise, while folks in the other place would be perpetually promoting capitalism and having it fail them?? PS; My dad’s take on all this was “Heaven and hell are right here on earth.”

    Ahhh, the human imagination.

  4. SD is 20 per cent nonwhite

    Ravnsborg got 3 mideameanor charges? 90 days sentence max? $1500 fines.

    Prosecutor is a USD school of law class mate of 2001. Recusal?

    Something great has to be done for the Boever family and for Joe Boever. Justice. No plea deal. 90 days of hard time. Resignation of Borg.

    There was once a car accident in Clay County where one lady was driving the right way on highway 50 (she died) and another lady was driving the wrong way on 50 ( her car killed the lady). The survivor probably felt bad her mistake killed someone- Her consequences- 2 misdemeanor fines totalling $112! That’s all! The cost of a human life.

    SD laws are amazingly soft on non booze related accidents. Basically the laws are weaponizing cell phone use.

    I don’t know what state of SD will do.

    Perhaps build a memorial garden for Joe Boever, where the gardener can get a salary 50% higher than Jump Suit Ravnsborg. His life was sacred.

  5. Mark Anderson

    Oh Richard you know darned well that heaven is taking other peoples money then declaring bankruptcy.

  6. mike from iowa

    Last updated: February 19, 2021, 14:13 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    28,526,513
    Deaths:
    505,325

    2620 new bodies.

  7. grudznick

    Has anybody heard yet if Mr. PP has recovered? We all must be more kind and empathetic to our fellow humans’ sufferings. It is, after all, the way moderate libbies and Conservatives with Common Sense normally act, without calling names.

  8. mike from iowa

    Last updated: February 20, 2021, 13:18 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    28,604,576
    Deaths:
    507,756

    Friday’s body count 2624,

  9. grudznick

    It is perhaps ironic, that just as South Dakota approaches herd immunity levels, poor Mr. PP get struck down by the covid bugs. He is truly an unlucky fellow, and soon only the unluckiest will be prostrated by the covid. Let us hope all so inflicted recover fast.

  10. mike from iowa

    The only herd immunity possible in magat land Northern Mississippi is immunity from reality. It is an inbred trait from too many decades of one party rule.

    Last updated: February 21, 2021, 14:30 GMT
    United States
    Coronavirus Cases:
    28,707,292
    Deaths:
    509,897

    1831 moar bodies donated to the drumpf/noem cause.

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