Major shade from General Hayden

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

[demtenjeep]

1. that is awesome

love it

[onecaliberal]

2. Call the bloated tic. Oh wait, call someone who cares. Oh wait.

[calimary]

52. Sounds like you're referring to the donald.

[onecaliberal]

54. I'm referring to the morally bankrupt criminal traitor who killed 600,000 Americans.

[EndlessWire]

3. I think we should

make him sign an agreement to be quarantined, and then send a government plane to pick him up. Why can't he get home, they won't let him on a public plane?

I agree that payback is a beach, but he's a citizen and we could use some good PR here. Let's retrieve him and treat him. We lose nothing by doing that except the fuel costs, etc. Why haven't the Repubs picked him up?

[malaise]

5. Eff that n/t

[tulipsandroses]

10. +1

I don’t mind mailing him a care package with bleach and horse de wormer. Hopefully Dejoy doesn’t screw it up and he gets it soon.

[okaawhatever]

21. Hilarious. nt

[malaise]

40. Love your idea

[orleans]

30. lol!

your pithy response has me extremely amused -- the combination of the short and direct sentiment and your spelling is "eff"-ing perfect!

[malaise]

39. I try to keep it simple

[Pobeka]

7. Because you don't put someone with active COVID19 in an enclosed environment.

That's the whole point of quarantine -- to keep others safe until the patient is no longer a threat to transmission.

You quarantine until you test negative.

Then you get to be on a plane with the flight crew and other passengers.

[EndlessWire]

12. The military

could handle it. I think we should rescue this guy and push the PR to the limit.

[quakerboy]

61. Theres No PR to be done

Your proposal is that we risk military personnel, and burn a whole bunch of jet fuel.

To bring a dangerous loon home a couple weeks quicker than hed be home anyway.

In order to try and do PR to bunch of people who dont even believe covid exists?


All you accomplish is them saying "see, its not even really dangerous, we were right" and emboldening them to attack another School board or some other such nonsense. And then the next day to have a "rolling Coal" event because you also just proved to them you dont actually believe in climate change, if your willing to send a jet to pick up a nobody for a couple week convenience run.

[Rebl2]

15. He should

also pay for the government plane ride back and quarantine for three weeks. Why was he there anyway.

[JI7]

35. How the Fuck is providing a Govt plane for someone infected with Covid

that opposes Vaccines good PR ?

[yardwork]

43. Lots of Americans are stranded around the world for various reasons.

Why should he he be treated differently?

[KS Toronado]

46. Nay, leave him there

where he can enjoy the same health care their citizens do. Probably down there plotting another coup
anyway. Mother Nature or Karma is teaching him a lesson and we should allow it. He can come back in
a coffin as far as I'm concerned.

[ancianita]

59. We've done that & get no good PR, anyway. One condition: he writes a full report about his

official & unofficial activities in El Salvador, then has all parties with whom he had contact sign his report to confirm its veracity, then send it by courier. Upon receipt and perusal, Repubs can then fly him back, charge expenses to the appropriate accounts, and he must quarantine.

I hope that while he's doing all that in order to get back, he catches hell from Salvadorians.

[OrangeJoe]

62. Play stupid games...

There is no way our taxpayer dollars should be wasted on this piece of crap by chartering a plane for him. He chose not to be vaccinated, he uses his position of power to push anti-vax nonsense, he gave legitimacy to the corrupt leaders of Cambodia by endorsing a crooked election, he passes himself off as a United States Senator when he is just a piss ant Washington state Senator, he was in El Salvador trying to cook up business lobbying for right wingers from there and is just a general asshole.

I know Dougie. He's represented me for too many years. Basically fuck him and I hope he croaks.

[MontanaMama]

66. Give this jerk a ride home with our tax dollars?

And, how would this POS give us good PR here? What the? Let him stay there and deal with the consequences of his shitty actions. Antivaxxers deserve no treatment on the public dime. Zero.

[Evolve Dammit]

68. Fuck him. He made his bed. Now he can lie in it.

[NBachers]

72. Yeah, just like all the jovial hail-fellow good will we generated with the Afghan Airlift.

[LudwigPastorius]

4. "Republican Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen is stranded in El Salvador..."

[gopiscrap]

8. fuck him

hope he dies

[EndlessWire]

14. That's not the point.

The point is to use him for PR.

[StocktonNative]

17. This guy gets it!

[FoxNewsSucks]

20. and I hope he takes a few more MAGAts with him

when he goes to hell.

[gopiscrap]

28. me too

[oldtime dfl_er]

9. We don't want him back

I speak for most Washingtonians.

[gopiscrap]

29. exactly

[PJMcK]

34. I'm curious

If you speak for a majority, how did he get elected?

I hate him, too, but your hyperbole is a bit much.

[wryter2000]

49. He could be popular in his district

And hated everywhere else. He’s a state senator, not US Senator

[OrangeJoe]

64. Gerrymandering

We have a pretty fair bipartisan commission drawing voting districts. Unfortunately the give and take of the process means each side has to allow the other side some "wins" with districts giving them an advantage. The 42nd, where I live and which Dougie represents, was drawn to give the Rs a slight advantage. Now we have managed to take back both of the Washington state House seats, flipping them to Democratic representatives. Dougie, however, serves a 4 year term which always comes due on the off years (2022, 2018, etc.) so he benefits from the lack of Democrats turning out in off years.

An added insult is that about 40% of Dougie's district is the very liberal college town of Bellingham. Our precinct went 92% for Biden. The rest of his district is in the rural area of the county including the Dutch descendent farming town of Lynden famous for its ban on dancing in taverns. Pop quiz: What's the COVID rate in the Lynden school district compared to Bellingham? Try 5 times higher in Lynden.

Short answer as to how he got elected? Too many stupid people voting.

[oldtime dfl_er]

71. My hyperbole?

That's rich. Washington is a solidly blue state, with two female Democratic senators. There are pockets of conservatism and even fringe right, but the majority of the state is blue.

[dchill]

11. Darn!

[Poiuyt]

13. Build the wall!

[okaawhatever]

23. OMG. Too funny. na

[StocktonNative]

16. All of A Sudden..the Repubs forgot how to 'bootstrap'

the General is right: make it happen and start walking!

[ShazzieB]

18. Irony or poetic justice?

Either way, I love it!

[dflprincess]

19. Love it

.

[BComplex]

33. I like this!

We've all seen it, and that's how it feels! ..... Except when it's biting us in our OWN ass!

[Joinfortmill]

22. Oh, well, thoughts and prayers.

[aggiesal]

24. "Dumba$$ is as Dumba$$ does." ...

On multiple levels.
Was he there for Congressional work or
was he there for pleasure?

[FakeNoose]

25. Maybe he can book a cruise ship

I believe that's how Covid got into the US in the first place, wasn't it? The cruise ship full of sick people who weren't allowed to get off the boat. So they all stayed together on the boat, and the sick infected the healthy people. Hmmmm.

[Hekate]

60. COVID was already here long since, the planet being interconnected by aircraft as well as ports...

… and roads.

[Whiskeytide]

26. I'm sure there will be a caravan along any minute now. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. My thought too. Or he could pay a coyote. . . . nt

[marieo1]

27. Right On

Good for him!!!

[orleans]

31. found this

"It was unclear Friday why Ericksen visited El Salvador — but it’s not his first visit to that country or others in recent years.

"Ericksen in 2019 registered with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent to conduct lobbying work on behalf of the Cambodian government, scoring a $500,000 contract for his new firm.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-sen-doug-ericksen-tests-positive-for-covid-19-while-in-el-salvador-seeks-medical-help-from-lawmakers/

[yardwork]

44. I'm sure he's up to no good.

Extreme right wing Republican politician regularly visiting El Salvador?

[czarjak]

47. Humanitarian effort I'm quite sure.

[yardwork]

56. For certain humans, anyway.

[Cha]

32. Burn!

[denbot]

36. He could get his financial backers to organize another caravan..

And walk like the people who actually believe in the fruits of democracy.

[ZonkerHarris]

37. "Be a drug mule" they told him. "It's easy work." they told him.

[onetexan]

41. The heck's he doing in el salvador?

Leave him to rot over there. We dont want him back.

[Evolve Dammit]

69. Screwing someone or some country for $$. What else do Repukes do?

[BlueJac]

42. Karma will get you!

[llmart]

45. I happily K&R this response!

Short, sweet and to the point.

[wryter2000]

48. Whoa

Amazing

[twodogsbarking]

50. He can walk to the border.

Then put him in a cage.

[Heartstrings]

51. "I really don't care, do you?"..........nt

[Nittersing]

53. He lobbies for the Cambodian government. Maybe they can help. nt

[BobTheSubgenius]

55. Is there not another caravan he could travel with?

[KatK]

57. Ericksen asked colleagues to send him monoclonal antibodies

In an email sent to his GOP colleagues in the Seattle House and Senate on Thursday, Ericksen said he had a doctor who was willing to administer monoclonal antibodies but said the treatment was not available in the country, the Seattle Times reported.

"I took a trip to El Salvador and tested positive for COVID shortly after I arrived," he wrote, according to a copy of the email obtained by the Seattle Times. "I cannot get back home, and it's to the point that I feel it would be beneficial for me to receive an iv of monoclonal antibodies (Regeneron). I have a doctor here who can administer the iv, but the product is not available here."

...

"Do any of you have any ideas on how I could get the monoclonal antibodies sent to me here," Ericksen asked in his Thursday email, according to the Seattle Times. "Ideally, I would like to get it on a flight tonight so it would be here by tomorrow."

One GOP senator told the Seattle Times that lawmakers were "looking into it."

[link:https://www.businessinsider.com/washington-lawmaker-stranded-el-salvador-covid-19-2021-11| (dated Nov 13)

[Aristus]

58. This is my state, goddammit. I wish the repukes would all move to fucking Idaho or someplace.

[Deep State Witch]

63. That's My Homeboy!

Gen. Hayden is my former Pittsburgh homeboy! He grew up on the North Side, and went to the same high school as my Dad - albeit a lot later.

[3catwoman3]

65. "Walk." One of those times when...

…a single word suffices.

[crickets]

67. Best laugh of the day! 👍

[Hulk]

70. Outstanding!!

There really is such a thing as "karma".

I love it !!