Many of them think that the Evil Medical Industry is the one spreading those diseases.
Here’s one I made earlier, from the old Andrew Wakefield thread.
Some of those MAGA morons thought that getting a VAX for COVID meant you where getting injected with micro chips.
Trying to reason with them is just, well… just. “I have no response to that”.
Microchips (no dip I bet) LUCKY YOU!
All I got was AIDS worms!
All we have to do is stop testing! If there is no testing, then it doesn’t exist.
‘If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.’ – Donald Trump, on COVID, 15 June 2020
I got it from my dad’s shingles outbreak when I was, like, 7.
I read so many books about Communism in the 20th century. If you have not, you probably think it is an economic system. In practice, that it is not its essence. Subservience to the leader is its essence. Because of that, this part of the Zelensky setup – it was posted too quickly not to be planned in advance – is as important as the headline news:
I hesitate to post this because it sounds paranoid, but it is hard to think that the instant GOP subservience, shown in my last link, is not at least partially explained by this claim, made by Larry Diamond, a centrist scholar who is a senior fellow at the conservative Hoover institution, eleven days ago:
Not sure why you posted a link from web.archive.org, but that astonishing bullshit is authentic and was just posted on the White House news site. Very disturbing stuff. The Trump and Vance meeting with Zelensky was the most extraordinarily hostile, juvenile, and petulant event perhaps ever witnessed in the Oval Office. Kudos to Zelensky for maintaining his dignity but the fallout for Ukraine from this pair of vengeful, petulant bullies will probably be bad.
It was always going to be bad. There was never any doubt that Trump will sell Ukraine down the river. Nothing Zelensky says or does can alter that.
I do that when linking to a Trump administration web page.
I think it possible they will take it down or change it in some 1984ish way. Maybe this is paranoid in terms of February or March 2025, but it seems to me that’s the world we are headed towards.
Exactly why he should tell Trump to fuck off/ die in a fire, and walk the fuck away. If Ukraine is gonna get fucked either way, then don’t give the US a damned thing.
I haven’t read it yet, and don’t have a spare moment right now, but am I alone in thinking that attributing their obsequiousness to “fear of being killed” is sorta letting Republican politicians off the hook to a degree? I mean, Democrats are still heavily criticizing Trump, and they’re just as vulnerable to political violence.
This would harm Ukrainian national unity. Zelenskyy needs to show his people that he did his best to obtain whatever American support was possibly available.
Trump’s claim, or implication, that he’d do something to let Ukraine live, if only they would give him those mineral rights, seems to be a bluff. Maybe Trump is a confused old man as claimed in another thread, but, if not, think about the implications of this:
Agreed. They’re afraid of losing their elected positions, especially after seeing what happened to Liz Cheney. The GOP are by and large made up of cowards at this point.
The New Yorker has a major article today titled “Why Aren’t We in the Streets?” with the subhead: Trump is power-tripping like never before, and Democrats in Washington seem to have agreed on the strategic response of doing nothing.
It’s extraordinary to see a venerable institution like the New Yorker practically calling for revolution, but we live in extraordinary times.
Seems like a rather obvious rhetorical question. It seems obvious to me that there aren’t yet enough people who feel that the personal risks of “taking to the streets” are worth contemplating yet.
I’ll have to read the article later to find out what the writer would consider as Democratic politicians (Congress only, I assume) “doing something.” That’s unclear a lot of the time with that complaint.
‘Take to the streets? How’d that work out for us? (Other than us getting laid, high, and Nixon for a second term.)’
~ The Sixties
It may be that more Democrats than Republicans are brave enough to stick their neck out. Consider:
It may also be that if a Democratic member of Congress heavily criticizes Trump, this doesn’t distinguish them from other Democrats. A Republican who did that would need bodyguard coverage.
This doesn’t apply to someone like Jeffries or Schumer. The must already be in the situation of needing constant protection.
The extent to which Stalinist GOP submission to Trump is due to fear of being primaried, as opposed to safety fears, cannot be judged until the history of this era is written by historians who themselves can write without fear.
“Fear of being primaried” translates into “fear of losing their jobs”. Boo-f…ing hoo. Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of people currently losing their livliehoods as a result of these cowards’ inaction in the face of Trump’s malevolence. I have no respect or sympathy for them.
I understand the fear of personal violence but I still have no sympathy because they bought it on themselves. They could have gotten rid of him after Jan 6 and chose not to. Cowards is the kindest thing history will say about them. I am trying to show restraint as this is not the Pit.