Meet Rep. Danny McCormick.
He’s an antigay Republican state lawmaker from Louisiana who just released a video in which he pretends to set a mask ablaze with a blowtorch and then shred it to pieces with a chainsaw.
“Your body is your private property,” 59-year-old McCormick declares in the video, which was posted to his Facebook page earlier this week.
“If the government has the power to force you to wear a mask they can force you to stick a needle in your arm against your will. They can put a microchip in you. They can even make you take the mark. After all, it’s for the greater good.”
How about we take this to the next level?
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McCormick goes on to say that “masks aren’t bad, mandates are” before declaring that “people who don’t wear masks will be soon painted as the enemy just as they did to Jews in Nazi Germany.”
“Now is the time to push back before it’s too late,” he warns. “We can preserve America.”
Speaking to USA Today, McCormick says his constituents absolutely love his new video.
“It’s a tremendous response,” he alleges. “The liberty message is strong. It’s amazing more politicians don’t take on the liberty movement because it’s so popular.”
Now, here’s what some of the commenters on Facebook have been saying…
“You are wrong,” one person wrote. “The Constitution and the Supreme Court both say govt may constrain freedom for the sake of the health and well-being of the people. There is also common sense and community spirit. Mandates are required when too many people refuse to do the right thing.”
“You, sir, are willfully ignorant of scientific facts,” another said. “When you are unwilling to share the collective burden we have to eliminate this, you are are not just some ridiculous side-show politician.”
“Seat belts are good but mandates are bad right?” a third person asks. “So you are against seatbelt laws right? Getting places fast is good but mandates are bad right? So you’re against speed limits right?”
We’d just like to add that wearing a mask is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.
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WSnyder
So I guess going naked should be ok? It is YOUR body and ‘decency’ laws are mandates right? Sex in public should be ok too. I mean, what’s a little BJ between two good buddies relaxing in the park, right? Just SO many ways we can make going out in public FUN again.
Thanks Danny!
Matthewnow
I’m with you! Now I need your address for my next Tupperware party.
Chrisk
Hilarious listening to a republican saying this is your private body. Of coarse that goes right out the window when it’s a women making reproductive decisions.
Paul Nadolski
I’m generally a nice, compassionate person, but honestly, I’m starting to hope all these idiots get COVID-19 and die. After all this time of home confinement, my patience with these idiots is starting to wear VERY thin.
Could enough Republican idiots die from this virus to throw the election? We can only hope I guess!
Raymundo
Unless the rule is designed to hurt you obey it.
toronto
So, I assume he is pro-women`s rights to have an abortion. Your body is private property right
Kangol2
This batsh!t nut will be the first clamoring for the best healthcare possible if he or some loved one of his comes down with serious complications from Covid-19! You do not have the right to infect others if you are sick and can prevent it; if they feel this is the case, then why do right-wingers push to criminalize people who have HIV and knowingly infect others?
If we had an ebola crisis again and the government mandated measures to prevent it, would Covidiots like this still be screaming about their freedom? They became hysterical at Obama, who managed to contain the ebola situation to almost no cases in the US, but they are absolutely blind to the damage that Don the Treasonous Con is doing. It’s almost like they’ll have to be one of the 133,600 US Covid-19 dead for them to…well, they won’t wake up then!
Kevan1
Another politician, like Trump, who does not understand the constitution. Being required to wear the mask is not the same as taking the mark of the devil or a microchip implant. I do however agree that the government should not have a right to tell you what you can or cannot do with your body, that is a personal decision between you and your maker, if you believe in a maker.. I cannot smoke pot which harms no one else not even myself, but the government won’t allow me to do it in my state. Which I believe is a violation of my rights. Public safety is not the same as being forced to take a mark or take something in your body that you do not want.
ShowMeGuy
You know that skidmark votes to make abortion illegal every chance he gets.
I was done with him the second he started talking about *the mark of the beast*.
He’s a crackpot. Maybe he can catch the covid and join the half percent.
Toofie
Unfortunately it’ll probably pass over him and get good people. Ironic screaming your body Is private property while mandating what women should do with their’s.
BobNO
You might think that the fact that one of his fellow La. legislators died from this recently would scare some sense into these people. But I guess they’re so far up Trumps butt that they can’t get any air to breathe and it’s stifling their thought process.
Mister P
The stupidity of all these douchebaggots out there is scary than the virus.
Cam
Republicans LOVE to play victim.
Invader7
It would be HILARIOUS if the chainsaw KILLED this ass wipe !