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riqster

(13,986 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:16 PM Aug 2014

Idiot Repub thinks you can walk 1,500 miles while suffering from Ebola. Dafuq?

What a complete and utter brainless jackass is Congressman Todd Rokita, R-Bedlam. He said on a radio program that some of the illegal immigrant kids that have been conned into coming here are possible carriers of Ebola: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/indiana-congressman-says-immigrant-kids-might-have-ebola/article_6cd84d69-3909-50d7-aa64-cc211b491795.html

Here are the symptoms of Ebola, direct from the CDC. Tell me if you think somebody could make it overland from, say, Guatemala while suffering from this list of ailments:

Symptoms of Ebola HF typically include:
•Fever
•Headache
•Joint and muscle aches
•Weakness
•Diarrhea
•Vomiting
•Stomach pain
•Lack of appetite

Some patients may experience:
•A Rash
•Red Eyes
•Hiccups
•Cough
•Sore throat
•Chest pain
•Difficulty breathing
•Difficulty swallowing
•Bleeding inside and outside of the body

Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 to 21 days after exposure to ebolavirus though 8-10 days is most common.


Yeah, seems kinda unlikely, doesn’t it? Pretty obvious to anyone, you’d say, and you’d almost be right. It’s obvious to anyone but a Teabagging Republican Congresscritter. Tell me, why dafuq does ANYONE for these half-wits?

No, make that quarter-wits. We’re supposed to believe that Ebola sufferers (and children, at that) are trekking across Central America, hundreds and hundreds of miles, over mountains and through deserts? Christ on a Lone Star bottle cap, what stupidity exists between the ears of GOP politicos.

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Idiot Repub thinks you can walk 1,500 miles while suffering from Ebola. Dafuq? (Original Post) riqster Aug 2014 OP
Maybe they meant to say meters... just sayin'. n/t DocwillCuNow Aug 2014 #1
More like 2000 klicks, I think. riqster Aug 2014 #2
This kid could show you a few tricks.... DocwillCuNow Aug 2014 #3
DUzy! riqster Aug 2014 #9
Republican teabaggers are confirmed carriers of stupidity, racism, hate and grifting. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #4
And all of those are highly contagious. riqster Aug 2014 #7
I could walk 1,500 miles and I could walk 1,500 more Initech Aug 2014 #5
Still a great proclamation. riqster Aug 2014 #8
Yeah, but ... Benghazi. lpbk2713 Aug 2014 #6
It happened even if it didn't. So there. riqster Aug 2014 #10

Initech

(100,088 posts)
5. I could walk 1,500 miles and I could walk 1,500 more
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 10:45 PM
Aug 2014

Just to be the guy who walked 1,500 miles while bleeding out every orifice...

Yeah that song just doesn't have the same ring to it.

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