Some liberals are mocking him rn. We're not doing that. We're honoring him because he was genuine & anyone could catch Covid.

That was a classy move KylieAlt_89 I would caution people from taking a victory lap here. Remember every Covid-19 death is a tragedy. For sure it's a teaching moment for the deniers. All but the most stubborn will realize sooner or later their arguments of it being "no big deal" are folly. But "I told you so" isn't a remedy. Just get it out there that this disease isn't and never should have been a political issue. It's indiscriminate and all of us need to work together. Not a call to squash freedom but a call to save lives and restore freedom faster through coordinated effort.

Weeeeeeell I did sorta-kinda mock him in my first meme out the gate after hearing the news. imgflip.com/i/49x566

I mean, this was the hilarious guy from the '12 GOP primary campaign who had the 9-9-9 tax plan after all that sounded like a pizza deal.

Then I took a step back and decided it's better to play this one classy.

Safe to say, most if not all of us here disagree with Herman Cain's politics. But I hope we can all take a breath and recognize the humor and positivity he brought.

Skipping over his business career to his political legacy: Cain came out of the Tea Party Movement, and as a Washington outsider with a business background he was similar in some ways to Trump. He had a good TV presence and a tendency toward oversimplification. Similar to Candace Owens he parroted the "Democrats are the real racists" line (and we should afford a bit more weight to his lived experience, as he is a person of color). He also swallowed the reckless anti-masker stuff, perhaps fatally. Some things we could expect, as he was a staunch supporter of Trump's after all.

But had Cain become President, I think it's safe to say he would have at least governed with more genuineness and compassion than the current Oval Office occupant.

I submitted a few more memes about Cain here. imgflip.com/m/political_jokes

He wasn't wrong about pizza toppings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/herman-cain-2012-presidential-contender-dies-after-contracting-covid-19/ar-BB17nGdS?li=BB141NW3

He was at the Trump Tulsa rally on June 20, not wearing a mask, where many other unmasked attendees crowded together and proper social distancing was not observed. That was dumb. He was admitted to a hospital on July 1. The timeline suggests he could have caught it at the rally, but truth is, no one knows.

He could have caught it anywhere. And so could we.

Until we beat this thing for good.

It could be a Darwin Award.

But it's too late now to do anything about it.

We should at least commend Trump (belated though it is) for masking up himself, and calling off further campaign rallies and the planned Republican convention in Florida.

You know how difficult that must have been for him.

Let's see if his impulsive sociopathic will can stick to it.