I know that seems racist, but you’ve gotta remember: it’s a dry hate (you absolute nob)

July 2020

Samantha Bee took a state-by-state tour of Covid-19 government malpractice called “Deniers, Dimwits, and Lies”. First stop: Georgia, whose governor, Brian Kemp, banned city and county governments from mandating the wearing of masks. Brian fucking Kemp, you absolute nob. 

I wish we never didn’t elect you, a reference to the voter purge scandal just before his election over Stacey Abrams in 2018, when Kemp was in charge of overseeing the election as Georgia’s secretary of state. In Arizona, the state with one of the highest Covid-19 infection rates in the nation this summer, where Governor Doug Ducey refused to mandate face masks, and barred cities and counties from imposing any stricter measures. 

It’s not surprising that Arizona would drag its feet on mandating masks. After all, in 1992, it became one of the last states to make Martin Luther King Day an official holiday, nine years after the US government. I know that seems racist, but you’ve gotta remember: it’s a dry hate.” —Samantha Bee

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