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A Democrat political consultant took to Twitter to smear unmasked students as “d-ckheads” who should be penalized with low grades and then defiantly invited those who disagree to ratio him.
Ben Tribbett is the founder and president of northern Virginia-based Pocket Aces Consulting, which describes itself as “a full service political consulting firm specializing in helping Democratic campaigns and causes tell a persuasive story.”
“My favorite part of the ‘optional masks’ at schools crowd is that the teachers can identify the d-ckheads and make sure their grades reflect their caring for others,” Tribbett wrote on Twitter.
“I said it and I meant it. Ratio away,” he added, ‘ratio away’ meaning that he seemingly knew he was going to receive a ton of negative feedback.
My favorite part of the “optional masks” at schools crowd is that the teachers can identify the dickheads and make sure their grades reflect their caring for others.
— Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) February 1, 2022
I assume the reaction to this is because these anti vax parents were too dumb to think about the reactions of their kids teachers? Better homeschool then!
— Ben Tribbett (@notlarrysabato) February 1, 2022
Upon taking office, Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s new GOP governor, issued an executive order that overturned a statewide mask mandate and prevents local school boards from imposing a face mask requirement on students.
Youngkin wants to leave it up to parents to decide whether or not their kids wear masks in school, i.e., making it optional.
Several school boards in the state have taken Youngkin to court, and the matter is currently pending before an Arlington County judge who intends to rule quickly. Further court challenges are likely.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends indoor masking in the K-12 environment regardless of COVID vaccination status.
Although the once-rebellious, suspicious-of-corporate-America left seems to have bought into the vaccine and mask idolatry during the coronavirus pandemic, some liberals appear to be having second thoughts about restrictions that have been imposed, particularly masks in class.
For example, an article in The Atlantic, a progressive outlet that Fox News host Tucker Carlson has described as a shameless corporate mouthpiece and a place for the ruling class to talk to itself, published an article in late January 2022 headlined “The Case Against Masks at School,” which you can read in its entirety for the full context.
The authors, two scientists and an ER doctor wrote, in part:
…We reviewed a variety of studies—some conducted by the CDC itself, some cited by the CDC as evidence of masking effectiveness in a school setting, and others touted by media to the same end—to try to find evidence that would justify the CDC’s no-end-in-sight mask guidance for the very-low-risk pediatric population, particularly post-vaccination. We came up empty-handed…
Therefore, the overall takeaway from these studies—that schools with mask mandates have lower COVID-19 transmission rates than schools without mask mandates—is not justified by the data that have been gathered…
In the meantime, Twitter has taken up Tribbett’s offer to respond, and it’s not coming up aces or persuasive for the consultant.
Here is just a small sampling (*warning for language):
Give us some more health advice pic.twitter.com/SQbP4JX5Cr
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 1, 2022
Ben – you must reduce your weight to lower your chances of taking up a hospital bed. If you don’t, you don’t care about others.
— Mike Giancotti (@giancotti_m) February 1, 2022
Please show is the data that masks , espeically cloth masks doing anything to stop the spread of the virus. One dickhead to another.
— essential worker (@ChrisCampbell32) February 1, 2022
your high blood pressure, obesity, and possible diabetes, puts a HUGE strain on the medical community.
— MEANDME (@SeaObsession) February 1, 2022
This fat fuck is advocating for teachers to give bad grades to students that follow the science…masks don’t work.
You do know that the vast majority of people that die from covid were obese, right? Or are you data illiterate too?
— jerome refusenik 🚛🚜🇨🇦 (@jeromeChappelle) February 1, 2022
Ben Tribbett runs “a full service political consulting firm specializing in helping Democratic campaigns and causes tell a persuasive story.”
And this 👇 is why so many of us are no longer Democrats. https://t.co/X6ScrZZD7o
— Calm Down Gorf (@Listen49698651) February 1, 2022
I just identified a dickhead and its Ben Tribbett.
— Carl Jackson (@jcarljacksonjr) February 1, 2022
If teachers are, as you suggested, determining the grades of students based upon compliance with the educator’s virtue signals, those teachers should be collecting an unemployment check.
— Keith Burgin – The Toxic Something Podcast (@KeithBurgin) February 1, 2022
You can’t possibly be a father. Posts like this expose the fact that this isn’t even close to being a health concern for you. I do hope you get to encounter a father or two of one these children you have disparaged here.
— J. Rio (@jondelrio76) February 1, 2022
As an educator, grades are based an knowledge, not empathy. Grades are not morally handed out. Keep your political and moral views out of the classroom please. I agree with the mandate. I don’t agree with an adult calling kids “dickheads”
— Bob Garcia (@bobgar79821) February 1, 2022
Kids who don’t wear masks should get an A in Science.
— $hane o mac (@DieselDevil88) February 1, 2022
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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
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