Former college wrestling coach Rep. Jim Jordan took a break from tweeting about how President Biden is responsible for the rising cost of Christmas trees to instead bitch about how he is just sooooo over COVID-19.
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This morning, the homophobic lawmaker from Ohio tweeted: “Real America is done with #COVID19. The only people who don’t understand that are Fauci and Biden.”
Real America is done with #COVID19.
The only people who don’t understand that are Fauci and Biden.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) December 2, 2021
OK, first… As the old saying going, “The pandemic isn’t over just because you’re over it.” Not only is the Omicron variant now sweeping across globe, bringing with it the potential for another huge wave of infections and deaths, but the U.S. reported over 2.5 million COVID-19 cases last month alone and ICU beds are still in short supply all across the country. So, sadly, this thing isn’t done. Not even close.
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And, second, WTF is “real America”? That’s what most people want to know. Twitter’s been talking about it all morning.
Here’s how people are responding to Jordan’s tweet…
I guess I’m not “Real America”
— Diamond Jackson (@eatadog) December 2, 2021
a thousand people are still dying of covid every day. it’s a fact. and facts aren’t like wrestlers being assaulted in a shower room, you can’t just look the other way
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 2, 2021
If only COVID-19 was done with “real America” https://t.co/VyitYNJ7RP
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) December 2, 2021
A good friend of mine has been in the hospital for a month with Covid but yeah… real America is done with Covid. I’ll text him the message.
— Angela Belcamino (@AngelaBelcamino) December 2, 2021
Real America is done with sleazy politicians who said nothing while dozens of boys were being molested on the wrestling team.
How you managed to stay in Congress this long is a mystery.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) December 2, 2021
“Real America is done with gravity!”
*Steps out of 10th story window*
Narrator: “Gravity, however, wasn’t done with Real America.”
— P.D. White (@whitepatrick) December 2, 2021
Why didn’t you say that before 750k Americans died? I mean really, if you had the power this whole time to end it, why didn’t you use it?
Are we done with cancer, too?
— Leslieoo7 (@Leslieoo7) December 2, 2021
damn man, I can’t believe you admitted this pic.twitter.com/vMDLkMjN6d
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) December 2, 2021
REAL AMERICANS get the vaccine so we can get rid of Covid
— Michael (@Michael98529582) December 2, 2021
The unvaccinated on ventilators aren’t over it Gym
— BFQ5280 (@bill_quillen) December 2, 2021
Last week, Jordan accidentally let it slip during an interview that he had COVID-19 over the summer and didn’t tell anyone.
“I’ve had the virus. I don’t talk about my health status with reporters, but I’ve had the coronavirus and recovered,” he told Spectrum News, adding that he believed he was infected “back early in the summer when, that’s when I didn’t feel well, was back when I was in Ohio.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
ptn2719
“So, sadly, this thing isn’t done. Not even close.”
Funny, this is from the same site that, earlier this week, declared that it IS, in fact, same as over!
Welcome back to the real world, guys. I personally am expecting most places to be back in lockdown by Christmas (like Europe is now).
Cam
The anti-American Republicans have been pulling this B.S. about “Real America” for years. 52% of the U.S. population lives on the coasts but they’ll sit there and keep screaming about how people who live in a town of 500 with one church, no minorities, and a hatred of anybody not like them are the “REAL” America.
Republicans have hated this country for a long time.
Creamsicle
“Real America” has always been a dog whistle for White America. Preferably Christian White America who listens to a steady stream of AM radio that blames all economic woes and inequity on immigrants while ignoring that the inequality is baked into the power structure they worship.
SamB
I’m tired of the fear mongering with this. I got vaccinated, twice, will get the booster, and I want to be able to go out without a mask. I don’t care how many people died per day with covid listed as the cause of death, what I want to see is underlying factors/illnesses, age, etc, then we can make an informed decision. almost 70% of covid deaths in the US in 2021 so far, are people 65 and over. Of all covid deaths there is a very high percentage of multiple factors leading to the deaths such as regular flu, pneumonia, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, diabetes and sepsis.
This is all available on the CDC website.
We should be able to assess the risk to oneself, and then make the decision on how to proceed. Those at high risk can stay home if they want, and others can live freely again. Keeping us locked up has done nothing, the us has roughly the same amount of covid deaths last year and this year so clearly staying home is doing nothing.
ondaboat0069
Said the noted virologist from frump university
d3clark
No, “we” can’t make an informed decision on how to proceed. Unless we’re trained epidemiologists, virologists, physicians. We need to rely on them to decide. They are trained for this, most of us are not. Letting “us” decide this is ludicrous -that’s what the idiot Republicans propose.
“We” don’t get together, review data and then set foreign policy, or change banking laws, or any of hundreds of other things that the government and its advisors do. We rely on experts. Using your idea, if you get gall bladder disease, get together with your relatives and neighbors, discuss it then let them take your gall bladder out. Good luck with that.
Creamsicle
“Keeping us locked up” actually did a lot to slow the spread of the virus and keep hospitals from being overwhelmed up until this past summer, when many hospitals had to turn away patients because of the number of covid patients occupying beds.
Go ahead and keep living like you’re not part of a society. We’ve already failed to contain the virus because of that attitude, and it is now endemic. We’ll all need a booster every 6 months for the rest of our lives now because of the systemic and social failure of America to act as a cohesive unit, because of “muh free dum.”
stonercharles
STOOPID…
SamB
@d3clark: Depends on which doctors & specialists you’re listening to. There is a plethora of data out there from both sides. Why is one right and one wrong, especially since we are not experts. Only one narrative has been pushed up until now, hide and cower. I do agree that vaccinations are needed, and just like the know flu, there will be boosters needed probably yearly going forward and there is nothing we can do to not have to take that booster. But the flu vax and covid vax are not like polio, it doesn’t mean you’re immune. It just means that the symptoms will probably be milder and if you do get it.
Anyone who only listens to one side of a story is bound to get duped.
Cam
@SamB
I love how the right wing troll account is trying this old tactic under it’s screenames. It comes out with one paragraph where it tries to sound reasonable before inserting the Trump B.S antivaxxer crud in.
Your troll game is sad and weak.
SamB
@Cam: I am absolutely not anti-vaxx. I even stated as much, twice. I got vaxed twice, I will be getting the booster. I think the vax is needed and is an important tool to stay healthy with Covid in the world now. And I believe in boosters, just like flu boosters. Please read more carefully.
Cam
@SamB
Oh sweetie, that’s part of the anti-vaxxers game. They claim they aren’t anti-vaxx and then post a bunch of blather about how everybody should have the freedom not get vaccinated, and people at risk can stay home, etc…
You must have had a lot of coffee today because your multiple screenames are all over this site right now. How sad that you keep exposing yourself.
SamB
@Cam: I’m not sure if you don’t understand what I’m saying or if you’re purposely trying to make it seem like I wrote something else. Either way, I think I’m pretty clear in what I’m saying.
Jaquelope
@Creamsicle: The operative word in your comment is in the last quote, “dum”.
wikidBSTN
If only Covid-19 could let us be done with Jim Jordan.
Creamsicle
You’re atill out of work because a global pandemic is an excuse for businesses to downsize and your extended family members died of coronavirus infection?
Too bad, because Gym Jordan is over it!
belugafan
I am with him. Been done with Covid for awhile now. He may be wrong about lots of things, but in this area he is right – the conservative parts of this country have fared so much better and have actually listened to the science by staying open and not masking with mandates. They are done with Covid and so should everyone else.
d3clark
Wrong. The data and epidemiology show your statement to be totally incorrect. What statistics can you cite to prove your claim?
Kevan1
@Bulugafan. Whatever. This is a new virus that everyone is figuring out as we go along. More people die without vaccines than with. Unless you are a Fox or other right wing news listener. Do some research yourself instead of being told what to believe and just believing it.
Mack
@d3clark, he gets his information from FOX News, the National Enquirer of news. The Conservative areas of the country has the most deaths per 1000 and the most infections but then it really hard to see true deaths in Florida and Texas because they ‘fudge” the information.
Cam
Right wing troll lies again.
The conservative areas of this country have a much higher death rate now and their economies have been hit harder. Know how your right wing daddies have been screaming about the high prices in CA and NY? Yeah, because their economies are booming, meanwhile Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi etc. are having to fly patients to other states because their hospitals are full and covid is crushing them.
But I get it, you Republicans trolls are anti-American and will keep lying as long as it harms the country.
Jaquelope
Methinks that both @d3Clark and @Cam cannot recognize sarcasm when they see it.
While I know that sarcasm can be hard to determine in a purely textual conversation, the sarcasm in @belugafan”s comment came through loud and clear for me.
Some of you need to loosen up a little, I’d wager.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Correct
Kevan1
Am I the only one who thinks this guy is a self loathing closet case. A coward.
Heywood Jablowme
Yeah, he’s “wrestling” with his sexuality!
Jaquelope
Good one, @Heywood. Kudos.
petej
hey, we’re both over something. i’m over u.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Where’s the lie? We are done with the continuing covid craze the power hungry dems are so afraid of giving up but u paranoid schizoid types Keep wearing those effective cloth masks to make u feel better.
belugafan
Exactly right!! But get ready for the queerty trolls to attack you like they always do when you have a different opinion from the powers that be 🙂 Tolerant they are not!
mailliw110
Your last sentence is what you need to read again. Because that’s exactly what they are supposed to do…keep you from getting sick and not feeling better.
joverit
Jim Jordan is Jim Jordan… it’s the uneducated toothless cousin-lovin’ fake christians that keep voting for him that are the problem
scotty
G Y M
MikeGinMN
WTF is “Real America”?
The Republican Party has really lost their minds!
The list of differences between ‘actual’ reality… and what the Republican Party thinks is reality
keeps growing larger, and more and more crazy… every day.
I would list them here… but I don’t have that kind of time… and Queerty wouldn’t like a small psycho-fantasy novel posted here in the comments.
In a nutshell… the GOP is totally “CUCKOO… CUCKOO!”
Halfnhalf
You conservative trolls are what’s wrong with this country. You and your fellow republican Fascists are destroying this Country. In a recent poll I read that when polled about the biggest threat to America, The republicans got the most votes as the biggest threat to this Country. You freaking flag waving hippocrites.