The republicans tried to kill you and your loved ones because they believed that would buy them votes and keep them in power so they could continue their crime spree. There should be a vast and relentless class action lawsuit against all their propaganda outlets and it should invite anyone who was harmed by their misinformation and deliberate fraud. They should all be sued into nonexistence. They all got the vaccine, but sold a different story. They knew what they were doing. They killed people.
Imagine saying Trump saved anyone while report after repot puts over a million American lives and millions more abroad directly on his tiny little hands and his constant undermining of one of the best funded and supposedly most capable health organizations on the planet. Our way of life got fucked over by the pandemic either way - and still hasn't recovered. All Trump did was shrug at death counts and hope the spread through cities would help his poling numbers.
*And* he was too stupid to realize that -- since the pandemic preyed more on the old than the young, and the old *tend to vote Republican* -- the fact that TRUMP LOST THE 2020 ELECTION was highly likely due to the fact that *he helped kill off his own voter base*. 🤦‍♂️
Got to love Republican doublespeak, the "quarantines" we had were the most devastating thing to happen and ruined our economy.
But Trump saved us from having to do those by letting people die against a virus that "didn't exist". This is why you don't engage these people with good faith debates.
Distraction time. That's all this is. MAGA needs fresh meat to hate daily, or their minds might actually pay attention for once and realize who the problem is.
The fact that these people follow the advice of scientists when it comes to themselves and their own families while counseling that the rest of us drink bleach and eat horse paste and shove UV lights up our bums is proof that they're hoping to kill off the rest of us.
University studies found that the federal response to COVID-19, mainly due to Trump's example, statements, and 'leadership'; when compared to the leadership at other levels of government, both state and local, contributed to roughly 70% of fatalities. There were approximately 1.5 million 'excess deaths' beyond what would have been normal for the period. Extrapolating from that, Trump killed over 1 million Americans, while Fauci TRIED to keep him from doing so and saved as many as he could.
That’s a funny way of saying that trump caused the pandemic to run longer and kill far more people which caused far more damage than extending the lockdown would’ve done
Who’s the idiot? The member of Congress grilling Fauci, Stephen Miller, or both? Definitely not Fauci—who did his best to save us while Trump played politics by opposing safety measures and suggesting a bottle of Clorox could cure you!
If you can legally argue in court that you're entertainment rather than news, you shouldn't be legally allowed to have news be part of your name. You're either news or you're not, it's insane that Fox News gets to pick which depending on how much trouble they're in
We were there too. The rotten pumpkin excuse for a human said "no responsibility" at all and wanted to treat people with horse medicine. And the cocksuking looser from fox said they older people would gladly die for economy
I remember being actually shocked for the first time in my life when the president of the united states of America suggested we look for ways to get UV light inside of the body to cure covid.
And yet...so many dumbass old people still voted for him. For fuck sakes, even parents who lost their kids to covid still voted for him even though his lack of action and incompetence got sooo many killed.
But the other candidate was a woman of color. We can't have someone like that running things. What if she got all hormonal and started pushing for more EVs, taxing the rich, and giving everyone healthcare. Gross. (/s)
The line of amazing people in different walks of life are taking notes and will possibly sit out of public service to avoid this. The American exceptionalism with quality is taking a big hit
Intelligence is beset on all sides by ignorance, ridiculed and ostracized by small minded individuals who lack the basic situational understanding to have an informed opinion. This is why the world is a painful progress-less place. We are outnumbered.
Poe's Law states that without a clear marker of intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views that someone will not mistake for the real thing <- in case it is relevant
To be fair we all should at this point the fascists need to be dragged through the streets and taught the lessons the Nazis and the Confederacy never was given.
Give me immunity and I will be willing to publicly best them to death with my fists and my shield. They deserve it. But I'm not going to jail and having my kids lost their dad over it.
They're in charge in countries that were liberal democracies 80 years ago, they're in charge of countries that were communist 80 years ago. I don't see how you can put that on Germans. You can't kill an idea, especially not one as simple as nationalistic supremacy.
To be honest, the subject of National Socialism was barely discussed in post-war Germany and Austria during the first 15 years. It was not until the early 1960s that a public prosecutor indicted former Nazi criminals and had them imprisoned in the so-called Auschwitz trials. He had to endure a great deal of hostility, yet he remained undeterred. His name was Fritz Bauer. Unfortunately, he died at the age of just 65. Sadly, he is hardly known today.
Yep, And that was just the tip of the iceberg, denazification failed immediately and a lot (really most) did just claim to be victims. They could just get certificates from fellow people saying that they were no Nazi, they were called "Persilschein". The real sort of Denazification was the 1968 movement which enacted a shift in society away from a lot of old authoritarian nazi paradigms and made those undesirables socially unwanted.
the lessons SOME nazis got. plenty more were hired by the american and soviet governments for military r&d (see operation paperclip and operation osoaviakhim) or were otherwise allowed to return to public life across west germany and austria in the name of "stability." the end result of that and east germany's merely surface-level denazification is that the nazis (under the pseudonym "alternative for germany") are the most popular party in germany today.
Hundreds of thousands died in Soviet camps and they weren't particularly reserved when sweeping through Germany, yet AfD voters are heavily concentrated in east Germany. Where did they go wrong?
nazism's popularity in the former east germany is mainly a combo of strongman nostalgia + the fact that east germany's denazification was of the kind where they claimed that nazism was wholly defeated and never coming back thanks to the glory of communism (kinda like how the "post-racial era" optimism of the obama era and consequent white liberal diffidence towards the whitelash against obama was a major contributor to the resurgence of mask-off white supremacy since the 2016 election cycle)
He was losing money because of the lockdown affecting his resorts so he just opened everything up against all medical advice and over a million Americans died. This administration is so corrupted that we don't even talk about that.
And he still DEFINITELY thinks the song—every song—is about him. If Carly ever agreed to sing to him—it should be that signature song and then she should walk out.
Which shows that MAGA has a life of its own & isn’t all based on him. It predated him & will certainly postdate him. If he goes away they’ll find another leader, and another…until the MOVEMENT itself is discredited once and for all.
The justice would have been too sweet if he had passed away from the very virus that he spoke out against and told people to inject bleach or shine a light into their bodies
Not while he was in office. That would have made Pence prez, and since Oence would’ve served < 2 yrs of DJT’s term, he could’ve been elected in his own right 2x under the 22nd amendment. He might’ve been HARDER to beat—presenting himself as “reasonable” by comparison—yet gotten more right-wing stuff done bc his rel competence & being a true believer rather than transactional. We could have an even > right-wing SC now if Pence’d been elected in 2020.
Point is, dethroning DJT with < 2 yr left could’ve paved the way for 12 rather than 4 consecutive yrs of GOP reign. (Same risk if Vance inherits the WH but only after this yr) In any case we needed Joe in the WH from 2021-2025 to ensure that the SC vacancy went to KBJ (who might someday be a MAJORITY-opinion writer when the SC shifts again) instead of sone Heritage-Foundation rightwinginger. (Six conservatives on a 9-member court is too much already.)
tbh trump put a lot of money on vaccines and pushed it pretty hard. He also admitted openly to get vaccinated and tried to get people in on it but gave up very fast when he got booed for it, but overall HE wasn't against it.
Which shows that MAGA is more than a cult of personality. He grew & shaped an existing movement, and that movement will continue & seek another leader unless we discredit not just DJT, but all that he “stands” for.
Dems will have to push for a lot of new laws & possibly several constitutional amendments when they next have a trifecta in order to outlaw as much of this corruption as possible. They won’t LEAD with such themes in the campaigns, but it’ll have to be on the agenda if they are to get any of the stuff they’re running on done.
BTW, a party can’t accomplish anything w/o a popular “movement” behind it. If we want to not only take our country back but undo the corruption, concentration of wealth, & Power of The Few, then we have to MAKE them do it. Make it clear to Dems—esp. the “establishment”—that they must do these things by any means necessary once in power, even if they don’t say so beforehand.
as for the vaccines, i credit the career professionals at the NIH (deep state) for following protocol. trump reluctantly signed it after spending years linking vaccines to autism on twitter. damage was already done by then
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-get-vaccinated-n1277404 i remembered this.. and it still holds. Him getting it "in secret" and telling at a rally isn't really that secret overall in my world. It was overall the rest of the republican establishment that ran anti-vaccine on Corona.. trump was tbh for.. and mad as fuck that it first came out right after the election. He just ended up caving to the overall republican direction on this.
I'm danish. I have nothing but contempt for him. But people making up stuff about him working against vaccines is a lie. Part of being danish is we like to hate people on facts :P
Conservatives getting upset over masks never ceases to amaze me. They are convinced people wore them to protect themselves instead of to protect others.
Pretty sure it's the other way around. They love to wear masks to protect themselves, case in point how ICE and all the other little fascists squeal like stuck pigs any time someone tries to ban them from wearing masks while they're doing their nazi rallies or murdering people.
They hate hate HATE the thought of wearing a mask (or doing literally anything else) to protect anyone else, however.
Apparently they never heard of Typhoid Mary—who infected and endangered several people with a disease that she was asymptomatic to. Even if 1 doesn’t get sick 1self, 1 can still get others sick—something I kept reminding people of during the pandemic.
I remember reading the name from a Daredevil comic , one of Kingpins assassins is named Typhoid Mary. So as a kid I looked into the history and my parents taught me about her as well. The whole situation was messed up. AFAIK she genuinely wanted to help the people around her .
There was a REAL woman with that name who had contracted typhoid fever and infected many others with it—apparently without getting sick herself or even knowing she had it. In my high-school health texts she was referred to as an “immune carrier”. Which is the thing with the coranivirus: Even if you didn’t succumb to it or know you had it, you could be a carrier w/o masks & social distancing. (Continues)
(Continued) A lot of folk would say, “If it’s my time, it’s my time.” Fine, if you just want to risk your own life & health for the sake of convenience; but if you feel compelled to risk OTHER people’s safety, then I draw the line. People don’t seem to realize that you can get a bug w/o getting sick yet still be able to transmit it & sicken others. What part of “carrier” don’t people get? Says something about the state of health-care education in our society.
Bc they don’t buy into the idea that America—let alone humanity—is all 1 big family, so that you’re not just your brother’s keeper, but you’re fellow human’s. They should read the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man was neglected by the holy & respectable only to be helped by the Samaritan—people who most Jews at the time regarded to be heretics. The point is that your “neighbor” is whoever is good to you, regardless of group identity.
Samaritans in Jesus’ time were regard to be heretics by most Jews—anything but “good”. But Christ said that character, not group identity, makes 1 good or bad. The reason most right-wing Xian fundamentalists are very un-Christ like us that they are really practices of Old Testament vertical morality (based on loyalty) rather than on horizontal morality (based on justice)—which is what JC preached, what, with the Golden Rule and all.
rockmanx853000
The country did shut down! For all the bullshit Trump did he STILL listened and do some of the things fauci and the CDC recommend.
Myothercarisadelorean
SecretAgentSuperBooger
"Saved"
irondragoon
Fauci should get a Nobel Peace Prize just to rub it in their faces.
bikergeek6249
*Nobel Prize in Medicine, but yeah.
CallMeMcGyver
The republicans tried to kill you and your loved ones because they believed that would buy them votes and keep them in power so they could continue their crime spree. There should be a vast and relentless class action lawsuit against all their propaganda outlets and it should invite anyone who was harmed by their misinformation and deliberate fraud. They should all be sued into nonexistence. They all got the vaccine, but sold a different story. They knew what they were doing. They killed people.
Navrodel
Imagine saying Trump saved anyone while report after repot puts over a million American lives and millions more abroad directly on his tiny little hands and his constant undermining of one of the best funded and supposedly most capable health organizations on the planet.
Our way of life got fucked over by the pandemic either way - and still hasn't recovered. All Trump did was shrug at death counts and hope the spread through cities would help his poling numbers.
Bizarkly
*And* he was too stupid to realize that -- since the pandemic preyed more on the old than the young, and the old *tend to vote Republican* -- the fact that TRUMP LOST THE 2020 ELECTION was highly likely due to the fact that *he helped kill off his own voter base*. 🤦‍♂️
ItsACrazyWorld
stephen miller needs to catch lead. end of story.
BastardMan1977
Who taught that broken penis how to talk
Bigemedic
Like anyone wanted to "shut down our way of life" for fucking funsies.
There was a fucking airborne pathogen loose worldwide and nobody knew how to stop it. Assholes.
animatronicChristmasChickens
*Fauci was asked 111 bad-faith questions
fixed the Faux News banner for them
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Got to love Republican doublespeak, the "quarantines" we had were the most devastating thing to happen and ruined our economy.
But Trump saved us from having to do those by letting people die against a virus that "didn't exist". This is why you don't engage these people with good faith debates.
Bojovnik84
Distraction time. That's all this is. MAGA needs fresh meat to hate daily, or their minds might actually pay attention for once and realize who the problem is.
Sh4rKSe7eN
Stephen Miller wouldn’t know the truth if it stuck a plunger to his bald head and smacked him on the ass.
chewballs
You mean Stephen miller and his wife who turned to Dr Fauci for covid advice during the pandemic? Hmm... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fauci-diary-stephen-miller-covid-b3024550.html
bikergeek6249
The fact that these people follow the advice of scientists when it comes to themselves and their own families while counseling that the rest of us drink bleach and eat horse paste and shove UV lights up our bums is proof that they're hoping to kill off the rest of us.
Catumi
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZTIya2J0bXZlc2VycnFzdXN1bXJxZDl6ejViMWR3MHVjMmJ0bG83dCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/l4pTalq1oto4B8nvi/200w.webp
NickRivieraMD
I think it's more like they view us as sort of like human livestock, just fodder for their profit mills.
oldguyexlurker
University studies found that the federal response to COVID-19, mainly due to Trump's example, statements, and 'leadership'; when compared to the leadership at other levels of government, both state and local, contributed to roughly 70% of fatalities. There were approximately 1.5 million 'excess deaths' beyond what would have been normal for the period. Extrapolating from that, Trump killed over 1 million Americans, while Fauci TRIED to keep him from doing so and saved as many as he could.
SleazyBijou
Ya know swallow some bleach and inject light… MF was elected again! (w/ Russian, Musk help)
Iblamemyparentstoo
Harm
Miller being here in our reality is a big part of the problem,yeah.
XXXSpork
That’s a funny way of saying that trump caused the pandemic to run longer and kill far more people which caused far more damage than extending the lockdown would’ve done
TheDoctorCrankenstein
But think of the shareholders! /s
PerthAussieMike
And the GOP was silent when their lord and master invoked the 5th all those times a while back.
thornedrose27
The Orange Pedo took the Fifth over 400 times. Just saying.
bearded3d
Hey Miller, I remember someone else pleading the 5th over and over and over.. funny how it works both ways, right? You fucking cock wart.
RobertAG25772
Who’s the idiot? The member of Congress grilling Fauci, Stephen Miller, or both? Definitely not Fauci—who did his best to save us while Trump played politics by opposing safety measures and suggesting a bottle of Clorox could cure you!
Hexidimentional
the trump administration trying to pin its own failings on the one guy who actually tried to prevent the disaster
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
It’s par for Nazis and Fascist.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
And distract from the Epstein files, endless wars, etc
Hexidimentional
trump sent life saving ventilators to russia
iidky
xmaneds
Don't forget PLAYED GOLF
cgt9803
Told the NIH to slow down testing to keep the numbers down.
gemaeuer
don't forget the injecting bleach stuff ....
xmaneds
The list above (already) includes 'pushed dangerous treatments'
nimeton0
FOX "News" should not be allowed to broadcast anything.
kleinbotl
If you can legally argue in court that you're entertainment rather than news, you shouldn't be legally allowed to have news be part of your name. You're either news or you're not, it's insane that Fox News gets to pick which depending on how much trouble they're in
JAPONfan
We were there too. The rotten pumpkin excuse for a human said "no responsibility" at all and wanted to treat people with horse medicine. And the cocksuking looser from fox said they older people would gladly die for economy
NorthmanoftheNorth
I remember being actually shocked for the first time in my life when the president of the united states of America suggested we look for ways to get UV light inside of the body to cure covid.
pandemicmodedad
And yet...so many dumbass old people still voted for him. For fuck sakes, even parents who lost their kids to covid still voted for him even though his lack of action and incompetence got sooo many killed.
Vengeraxe
I had to work rather quickly during his second run to keep my elderly mother from pulling most of her 401k out to donate to his cause....
crazyspelling
But the other candidate was a woman of color. We can't have someone like that running things. What if she got all hormonal and started pushing for more EVs, taxing the rich, and giving everyone healthcare. Gross. (/s)
RubberMonkeys
drumpf literally gave Dr. Fauci a presidential commendation in 2021 for his work on Operation Warp Speed.
curialis
Fauci should be enjoying lifetime achievement awards, not dealing with this bullshit
kubi
Can we give Fauci a Nobel Prize too?
oprahslovechild
Imagine the MAGA getting sweaty angry
noneedtodoxme
The line of amazing people in different walks of life are taking notes and will possibly sit out of public service to avoid this. The American exceptionalism with quality is taking a big hit
Gotnobrain
Intelligence is beset on all sides by ignorance, ridiculed and ostracized by small minded individuals who lack the basic situational understanding to have an informed opinion. This is why the world is a painful progress-less place. We are outnumbered.
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
Yeah but what were people going to do? Vote for Harris? Sure, Dr Fauci gets recognition and we advance pandemic response for the next time
But, that would have ended horribly for Gaza
SlickWithaLimerick
I'm sure she would be planning a big resort there with her name in gold.... oh wait, that's YOUR douchebag.
TheLastBootyBender
Pandemic response was fine before trumpty Dumpty, then he scrapped the pandemic response plan.
curialis
Poe's Law states that without a clear marker of intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views that someone will not mistake for the real thing <- in case it is relevant
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
Meh. In practice, people catch the sarcasm 99% of the time. No worries if people miss it that 1%.
BeatsBearsBattlestarGallactica
Sorry…. How would Harris be worse for Gaza? How does Gaza have anything to do with fauci?
bahukiba
So instead we get the moron who has held up none of his campaign promises.
Yoshimaster
I'm assuming there's a fat /S missing there because... wut?
DraxxorT
Next time don't forget your /s because people obviously suck at understanding sarcasm on the internet.
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
Meh. I'm not watering down my sarcasm with /s.
Sarcasm is like cocaine; I want it pure and uncut with a little risk
Most of the time it hits, sometimes it takes a bad bounce. I take no offense to downvotes by people who miss it.
thedarklord187
To be fair we all should at this point the fascists need to be dragged through the streets and taught the lessons the Nazis and the Confederacy never was given.
joshuasplinth
I believe Darth Helmet said it first my friend, “Evil will always triumph… because good… is dumocrat…”
thedarklord187
Blackmetalhappiness
For said dragging; can we use motor vehicles, or just by hand? https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1N3U2b2cwdWxsYm15MTY2Nmx0ZjVhMWFjd2UyY3Z6Mmdsc2FybHZpayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/SG8xwInM4UKaTrgIyq/200w.webp
Bowtie8bit
Give me immunity and I will be willing to publicly best them to death with my fists and my shield. They deserve it. But I'm not going to jail and having my kids lost their dad over it.
5KthisPLACE
Give us both immunity I think he's gonna need help
Camelspotting
I think the lessons the Nazis got worked really well.
Teratoid
If it had, in any way, actually worked, they wouldn't be in charge now.
Camelspotting
They're in charge in countries that were liberal democracies 80 years ago, they're in charge of countries that were communist 80 years ago. I don't see how you can put that on Germans. You can't kill an idea, especially not one as simple as nationalistic supremacy.
Teratoid
Your knowledge of history is perplexing. We didn't punish the Nazis. We brought them here.
Thorketil
To be honest, the subject of National Socialism was barely discussed in post-war Germany and Austria during the first 15 years. It was not until the early 1960s that a public prosecutor indicted former Nazi criminals and had them imprisoned in the so-called Auschwitz trials. He had to endure a great deal of hostility, yet he remained undeterred. His name was Fritz Bauer. Unfortunately, he died at the age of just 65. Sadly, he is hardly known today.
MaterialisticWorm
Damn, I had no idea!
rayleon0702
Yep, And that was just the tip of the iceberg, denazification failed immediately and a lot (really most) did just claim to be victims. They could just get certificates from fellow people saying that they were no Nazi, they were called "Persilschein". The real sort of Denazification was the 1968 movement which enacted a shift in society away from a lot of old authoritarian nazi paradigms and made those undesirables socially unwanted.
VinchVolt
the lessons SOME nazis got. plenty more were hired by the american and soviet governments for military r&d (see operation paperclip and operation osoaviakhim) or were otherwise allowed to return to public life across west germany and austria in the name of "stability." the end result of that and east germany's merely surface-level denazification is that the nazis (under the pseudonym "alternative for germany") are the most popular party in germany today.
Camelspotting
Hundreds of thousands died in Soviet camps and they weren't particularly reserved when sweeping through Germany, yet AfD voters are heavily concentrated in east Germany. Where did they go wrong?
VinchVolt
nazism's popularity in the former east germany is mainly a combo of strongman nostalgia + the fact that east germany's denazification was of the kind where they claimed that nazism was wholly defeated and never coming back thanks to the glory of communism (kinda like how the "post-racial era" optimism of the obama era and consequent white liberal diffidence towards the whitelash against obama was a major contributor to the resurgence of mask-off white supremacy since the 2016 election cycle)
yikesaroni
trump mocked masks and made sure to get vaccinated discreetly so as not to look "weak"
wejustdontknow
He was losing money because of the lockdown affecting his resorts so he just opened everything up against all medical advice and over a million Americans died. This administration is so corrupted that we don't even talk about that.
cgt9803
So vain he wouldn't wear a mask because it would smear his orange clown makeup
RobertAG25772
And he still DEFINITELY thinks the song—every song—is about him. If Carly ever agreed to sing to him—it should be that signature song and then she should walk out.
NothingPrince
Actually he openly said he took it and it's good at a speach but was booed so he quickly Bach flipped
RobertAG25772
Which shows that MAGA has a life of its own & isn’t all based on him. It predated him & will certainly postdate him. If he goes away they’ll find another leader, and another…until the MOVEMENT itself is discredited once and for all.
creegro
The justice would have been too sweet if he had passed away from the very virus that he spoke out against and told people to inject bleach or shine a light into their bodies
RobertAG25772
Not while he was in office. That would have made Pence prez, and since Oence would’ve served < 2 yrs of DJT’s term, he could’ve been elected in his own right 2x under the 22nd amendment. He might’ve been HARDER to beat—presenting himself as “reasonable” by comparison—yet gotten more right-wing stuff done bc his rel competence & being a true believer rather than transactional. We could have an even > right-wing SC now if Pence’d been elected in 2020.
RobertAG25772
Point is, dethroning DJT with < 2 yr left could’ve paved the way for 12 rather than 4 consecutive yrs of GOP reign. (Same risk if Vance inherits the WH but only after this yr) In any case we needed Joe in the WH from 2021-2025 to ensure that the SC vacancy went to KBJ (who might someday be a MAJORITY-opinion writer when the SC shifts again) instead of sone Heritage-Foundation rightwinginger. (Six conservatives on a 9-member court is too much already.)
Mohareb
tbh trump put a lot of money on vaccines and pushed it pretty hard. He also admitted openly to get vaccinated and tried to get people in on it but gave up very fast when he got booed for it, but overall HE wasn't against it.
RobertAG25772
Which shows that MAGA is more than a cult of personality. He grew & shaped an existing movement, and that movement will continue & seek another leader unless we discredit not just DJT, but all that he “stands” for.
bahukiba
If you go back Trump sat on his ass and told everyone there was nothing to worry about for a long time.
joshuasplinth
I’m here to save you! I agreeeeeeee! Operation Warp Speed was his!
cgt9803
Rupert Murdoch jumped the queue to get vaccinated and Fox employees were required to, all the while Fox News was thundering against it. Fucking evil.
RobertAG25772
Dems will have to push for a lot of new laws & possibly several constitutional amendments when they next have a trifecta in order to outlaw as much of this corruption as possible. They won’t LEAD with such themes in the campaigns, but it’ll have to be on the agenda if they are to get any of the stuff they’re running on done.
RobertAG25772
BTW, a party can’t accomplish anything w/o a popular “movement” behind it. If we want to not only take our country back but undo the corruption, concentration of wealth, & Power of The Few, then we have to MAKE them do it. Make it clear to Dems—esp. the “establishment”—that they must do these things by any means necessary once in power, even if they don’t say so beforehand.
Mohareb
Yeah. Murdoch was full in on the scheme to be against it from start. Feels like it should be illegal to do shit like that
crazyspelling
They were still high on winning that court case with the defense that no reasonable person would believe what they said.
yikesaroni
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-former-first-lady-quietly-received-covid-vaccine-january-n1259196 he got vaccinated in secret
as for the vaccines, i credit the career professionals at the NIH (deep state) for following protocol. trump reluctantly signed it after spending years linking vaccines to autism on twitter. damage was already done by then
DarthVaderDidNothingWrong
Um...two Germans invented the vaccine you guys know as the Pfizer vaccine
yikesaroni
ehh i got moderna, but i was moreso referring to the implementation and distribution of vaccines within the US
Mohareb
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-booed-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-get-vaccinated-n1277404 i remembered this.. and it still holds. Him getting it "in secret" and telling at a rally isn't really that secret overall in my world. It was overall the rest of the republican establishment that ran anti-vaccine on Corona.. trump was tbh for.. and mad as fuck that it first came out right after the election. He just ended up caving to the overall republican direction on this.
yikesaroni
just look at the difference in date between your article and mine. trump was insanely irresponsible, no way youre trying to polish that turd
Mohareb
I'm danish. I have nothing but contempt for him. But people making up stuff about him working against vaccines is a lie. Part of being danish is we like to hate people on facts :P
Casually
Conservatives getting upset over masks never ceases to amaze me. They are convinced people wore them to protect themselves instead of to protect others.
Daliena06
Pretty sure it's the other way around. They love to wear masks to protect themselves, case in point how ICE and all the other little fascists squeal like stuck pigs any time someone tries to ban them from wearing masks while they're doing their nazi rallies or murdering people.
They hate hate HATE the thought of wearing a mask (or doing literally anything else) to protect anyone else, however.
RobertAG25772
Apparently they never heard of Typhoid Mary—who infected and endangered several people with a disease that she was asymptomatic to. Even if 1 doesn’t get sick 1self, 1 can still get others sick—something I kept reminding people of during the pandemic.
thedudeman519
I remember reading the name from a Daredevil comic , one of Kingpins assassins is named Typhoid Mary. So as a kid I looked into the history and my parents taught me about her as well. The whole situation was messed up.
AFAIK she genuinely wanted to help the people around her .
RobertAG25772
There was a REAL woman with that name who had contracted typhoid fever and infected many others with it—apparently without getting sick herself or even knowing she had it. In my high-school health texts she was referred to as an “immune carrier”. Which is the thing with the coranivirus: Even if you didn’t succumb to it or know you had it, you could be a carrier w/o masks & social distancing. (Continues)
RobertAG25772
(Continued) A lot of folk would say, “If it’s my time, it’s my time.” Fine, if you just want to risk your own life & health for the sake of convenience; but if you feel compelled to risk OTHER people’s safety, then I draw the line. People don’t seem to realize that you can get a bug w/o getting sick yet still be able to transmit it & sicken others. What part of “carrier” don’t people get? Says something about the state of health-care education in our society.
Tardis1217
The conservative mind cannot conceive of doing something for somebody else's benefit, especially when it's at their own inconvenience.
RobertAG25772
Bc they don’t buy into the idea that America—let alone humanity—is all 1 big family, so that you’re not just your brother’s keeper, but you’re fellow human’s. They should read the parable of the Good Samaritan, where a man was neglected by the holy & respectable only to be helped by the Samaritan—people who most Jews at the time regarded to be heretics. The point is that your “neighbor” is whoever is good to you, regardless of group identity.
RobertAG25772
Samaritans in Jesus’ time were regard to be heretics by most Jews—anything but “good”. But Christ said that character, not group identity, makes 1 good or bad. The reason most right-wing Xian fundamentalists are very un-Christ like us that they are really practices of Old Testament vertical morality (based on loyalty) rather than on horizontal morality (based on justice)—which is what JC preached, what, with the Golden Rule and all.
RobertAG25772
“In-Christ-like IS that…” I meant to say