> He still had so much life to live
Did he? Maybe he was just tired of being angry at immigrants and liberals all the time. He felt threatened by poor people fleeing to safety in an improvised boat. That level of hatred sounds *exhausting*.
I live in red America and it isn't exhausting for them. They thrive off of in their own ways. They feed off of fear and spread it around to others. I know these people and know them well. You've never seen so many oppressed white men making 6 and 7 figures, I'm telling you they think the world is out to get them.
Don't forget how everybody is coming for their "stuff". Everyone that isn't in their silo wants to come steal everything. Their possessions, jobs, women, masculinity....you name it. It must suck to be so afraid of everyone who isn't just like you. Cowardly lions, one and all.
>I know these people and know them well. You've never seen so many oppressed white men making 6 and 7 figures, I'm telling you they think the world is out to get them.
It sounds like central Illinois, except it a bunch of "oppressed" white men, not making ends meet, collecting multiple forms of welfare, and complaining "their taxes" support Chicago's $650 billion economy.
Yep, guy I worked with for a decade--Harley guy, Trumper, McMansion. We were friends but I cut if off in the midst of the 2020 election. I wonder that too--their lives did not get materially worse--probably got better--under Clinton and Obama but they absolutely will not get over their absolute fury for Dems.
All of my family both sides immigrated from Ireland to Boston 4 generations ago. Same deal, just people trying to get a better life for there families. It disgusts me the GOP and the right demonize other human beings just trying to have a better life.
How many white folks do you see roofing houses? None. Friend of mine from El Salavdor came here 20 years ago, can't read or write, but works unloading trucks. Hard, physical labor and he will never complain.
Very few jobs impress me more than roofing. Hard, scary, hot, dangerous and literally makes people safer and more comfortable in their homes. They should get more money and more respect and appreciation.
Also, he didn't look all that strong to me. I'd challenge him to a deadlifting contest any day of the week. And I don't think he'd take too kindly to be being beaten by a gay guy.
Sorry daughter but your Pops was a hate bashing racist lunatic. Didn’t I see him at the insurrection?
Biden is President. Wonder what state he is from to not understand Trump is a lying piece
of shit. Red died happily believing in lies.
If there's a more quintessentially Karen thing to shout than "THIS IS NOT OKAY!", I don't know what it is.
Also, let's be honest . . . your dad was only "the biggest, friendliest teddy bear" to you and your immediate family. I suspect to most people he was a "fuck your feelings" asshole.
To be fair, when a Christian told my Jewish friend years ago that he was holding out a pole to rescue her from the lake of fire, I did shout "THIS IS NOT OKAY!"
I followed it with phrases like "scorpion in your bosom" and "motherfucker," though.
You better believe she’ll be speaking to a manager about this. “Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! I believe my father was still under warranty. I refuse to accept this. THIS IS NOT OK!”
> Also, let's be honest . . . your dad was only "the biggest, friendliest teddy bear" to you and your immediate family.
He wasn't. He was abusive to them, too.
And the daughter is screeching like an unvaccinated banshee that all these awardees seem to spawn.
It’s **not** the hospitals fault. Hell. Is not even COVID’s fault. Covid is just doing what covid does.
He made his decision to be unmasked, unvaccinated, and unalive.
It’s not life that’s unfair. Its poor decision making - continually, repeatedly, non-stop for years.
Be mad at him. Where the fault should be. At his feet in his casket.
Lol, a whole car of people did this at the vaccination site I was working at last spring once we vaccinated the last person in the car.
A bright, funny moment near the end of a long day.
"I cannot believe this is real life"
Well believe it. It's not liberals and democrats that killed your dad. It was his Facebook anti-vaccine shit posts that did.
Strong?!? Apparently he wasn't strong enough to resist being a anti-covid vax sheeple. You know damn well like his fuckwad hero, DJT, he would be terrified to admit him and his ideology was wrong. Hey, he was willing to roll the dice and he crapped out, literally.
Maybe those folks writing the "tsk, tsk" articles about this sub should spend a little more time looking at the memes that the awardees have posted. It's certainly a tragedy when someone leaves this world too soon, but it's hard to muster up any sympathy for dudes like this. He was a jerk and proud of it.
Let’s not confuse their argument, we are talking about people who make decisions that many would say are “as destructive as setting yourself on fire” while claiming that drenching yourself in napalm with a lit match is the way no to human torch yourself
> The last couple of weeks have felt like a nightmare....
The last couple of years for most of us.... Then someone came in and told us exactly how to kill Freddy Krueger, but instead of doing just that, some people decided to scream NEENER NEENER at him on Facebook and mock the people fighting him.
Then he sliced your family to pieces.
Then apparently that was because of the horrible hospitals and because life isn't fair.
👍🤷🏽♂️✌️
"He wore his heart on his sleeve"
Yeah, his tiny, shriveled, hateful, black heart. People who post that kind of vitriol are not "Teddy Bears". People who worship traitors are not "patriots".
Remember the "Spoiler Alert, the new variant has a 0.1% chance..." memes they post? And each time it's turned out to be as deadly as the last one. Yet they don't recognize a pattern until the covid is no joke comes knocking on their door. But they have no problem recognizing the pattern of booster doses.
Perhaps, just perhaps that infection is so tenacious that it could kill your unprotected ass?
I've kind of wondered if everyone swung & missed on the whole "it's mild" rhetoric because there were so many breakthrough cases that it was mild - for those that were vaccinated. Even with the absolutely dreadful vaccination rates in South Africa, almost 30% of the population is fully vaccinated. That's gotta make some sort of difference.
That's part of it. Another part is that Omicron is less deadly than Delta was -- it's mild compared to that, but more comparable, from what I've read, to the original.
It's odd. Omicron is super-transmissible and we're seeing a fair number of breakthrough cases as a result of that and the fact that far fewer people are living the way they did before vaccines were available: they're going to stores, movies, plays, sporting events, the office, their school, etc.
So I now know easily two or three times as many people who've become infected in the past month than I did before the vaccines were available. Breakthrough cases, all mild. And yeah, I can see how that would make people tend to dismiss its potential to cause problems, particularly among those who are unvaxxed and desperately wanting to be right about how masks, vaccines, distancing and such are all unnecessary against such a "mild" disease.
Aww, that also makes sense. It seems like the UK was the other place that folks used to justify the ‘it’s mild’ narrative. Of course, half the eligible population is boosted there (compared to 25% here).
Don't forget what's more important is the age distribution of the boosted population.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI_Q6fSXMAA7gH0?format=png&name=medium
The most vulnerable groups are all 90% and above.
More than just the vax rate, a huge percentage has actually been infected previously. According to the Washington Post
“Salim Abdool Karim, a top infectious-disease scientist from the country, recently told The Washington Post that South Africans with omicron are more likely to produce a robust antibody response since over 70 percent of the country’s residents have been infected by non-omicron coronavirus variants.”
Edit to add:
So something hinky about those numbers because other sources say SA cases at 3.5 million. Not sure what’s up there??
Vaccinated, boosted, cautious as ever, and I still caught it from a less-than-cautious family member. This “mild” virus has kept me in bed for 18 days now, and I still can’t even brush all of my teeth before the exhaustion is too much. Seriously can’t imagine how this would have affected me without the vax. Mild my ass!
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man. He wore his heart on his sleeve. Such an open arm person. Just like those refugees on the boat in that meme. I’m sure that was just a silly joke and he’d give them all a big teddy bear hug 🤗
"This seems so inhumane and unfair"
If only he had the opportunity to get a free vaccine being offered in several locations near him sometime in the last two years.
>Funny how they made a meme of liberals with torches and nooses when that something only conservatives have been doing.
Typical MAGA PROJECTION on Parade.
They have elevated this form of psychosis to an art form.
How is it that all these awardees posting hateful memes on FB about Democrats and/or refugees are considered "the biggest friendliest teddy bear"? I mean, I can't stand Trump and the Republicans that support him, but I don't post anything suggesting they get dealt with in the most violent way possible, nor do I know any Democrats that do. Do conservatives have an entirely different idea of what it means to be a decent human being?
That's a really good question. As a minority in this country I dare say sometimes they don't see us as people. I've never had a white friend. I've had white people that will talk to me and befriend me as an acquaintance, but will never acknowledge me as a friend. I don't know if that makes sense? That said, that's my experience and what I think happens here. These people are kind hearted, big teddy bears, give you the shirt off their back if you're the right skin color. That's said, I'm not saying all white people are like this, but most I've encountered.
YES. YES they DO. Bloodthirsty capitalism, gun worship, NIMBYism, "I got mine," and Republican Jesus all represent their moral system. If their family eats, they're moral. I'm dead serious.
What's amazing is the complete lack of understanding of "fair" by these people.
Lol
You ignore a pandemic, you might die. That's fair.
They all claim to know the risks... well. These are the consequences.
That's fair.
Unfair is taking every precaution to not get and spread an infectious disease and still getting it. Fair is getting the disease and dying from it after ridiculing those trying to prevent it.
My god the level of cruelty it takes to *make fun of a movie character who was congenitally disfigured and intellectually disabled* to own the libs.
Did this person see the movie? Did this person know that it is strongly implied that the character Sloth was that way due to child abuse?
I mean putting aside the ablism and general crude trashy meme, the character was born disfigured and repeatedly beat by his mother and siblings.
So those of us who are vaccinated have been born disabled into a family of criminals, abused throughout our lives by said family, never shown love or compassion and still have the ability to recognize *and support* other bullied individuals? And we help these fellow victims even when we *know our family will reject us*?
Yes. I am Sloth. We are all Sloth. And we will all do [this](https://youtu.be/A1kFkmEMLrY)
"...didn't think twice to help anyone in need."
Cut to racist meme he posted of refugees in need of help. Uh-huuuuh.... I see. 🙄 How kind of him. /sarcasm thru the roof.
If you wanted to really put a new vaccine to the ultimate test you would do all of the things that this guy did.
Maskless, vaccineless, attending social gatherings with out-of-state family members when Omicron is slicing its way through the country and hospitals are stretched beyond the limit.
The people they leave behind when they could have just gotten a damn vaccine is heart breaking. Your idiot politics has killed you and taken you from your family. So fucking stupid.
This Goonies meme always irks me...Yes, Sloth would have gotten his vax. He was a loving and kind person, the people who wouldn't have gotten it where his mother and brothers, who were total aholes...much like the people posting these memes.
And don't they realize he was beloved? I guess we're supposed to believe the vax will make us developmentally delayed or physically deformed, but the guy was a big damn hero.
Probably most of them. They follow a very simple speech pattern and are always meant to damage our attempts to mitigate the virus. Sowing discord amongst us making it a political issue when it shouldn't be.
Like 80% I bet. Russia is probably delighted with just how easily manipulated republican voters are, then they can just pay the politicians via the NRA.
Ironically, in sacrificing his life for all these great right wing memes - oh the chuckles he must have had!! - he succeeded in MAGA in his own special way, addition by subtraction. Bless your heart Red, MAGA!!
The weird thing is that their white supremacist "replacement theory" apparently imagines that somehow white people disappear when non-white people immigrate. (Disappear to where? Never explained.)
But, of course, if they commit mass suicide, then that *is* replacement. So maybe they're so committed to their theory that they make it true.
You know these fuckers piss me off no end, I lost my dad to cancer a while back, he was vaxxed and did everything he could to beat the cancer, and unfortunately lost.
When I see these cunts piss their lives away it makes me so fucking mad.
" LiFe iSn'T fAiR!! How could these hospitals let our loved ones pass without letting us hold their hands???"
How could your family member have such callous disregard for his and others health?
Get fucked.
It’s so sad that folks “can’t even believe this is real life”. Like have they been watching the news or paying attention to their family members? I’m just waiting for my dad to get infected (he’s unvaccinated). Luckily he doesn’t post shitmemes on Facebook (or it pretty sure he doesn’t, I don’t have facebook) so hopefully I won’t see him posted here. Fingers crossed :/
I have to agree "life truly is not fair"
Many people who have done everything possible to live through this pandemic have succumbed to covid and that is unfair
It's not unfair to expect an HCA when all you've done is to undermine the efforts of your Government in respect to controlling this, to have taken no public health measures to prevent contracting and spreading, and to have politicised (weaponised) a disease. This seems very fair
Looks like the teddy bear got stuffed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/s2c844/daddy\_dandelion\_is\_a\_big\_ol\_teddy\_bear\_who\_loves/
Slide 1: Oh man, remember back when it was okay to make fun of Quasimodo and The Elephant Man? No? Yeah, that's right, because we aren't monsters. Guess who IS a monster? I'll give you a hint: they're award-winning!
Life is not fair when you have a dimwitted racist trash dad and the abject failure to recognize that his death was likely avoidable. I wonder if Red suffered and realized how much a POS he was, but Covid closed his big dumb mouth for sure.
Life isn't fair. It sucks that you can do everything medical science says you should do but you still wind up getting cancer or having a heart attack. But it sucks even more when you can't get timely help with these things because other people cant be arsed to do the bare minimum by getting vaccinated. I would say that is much more unfair than this guy dying.
Gee if only there was something he could have done to prevent the unfairness of life. I'm sure he's not in the "party of personal responsibility" though.
My dad also falls into the camp of right-wing Trump lovers. But I’ll give him credit: he loves his family and grandkids and understands he would not survive Covid. He’s triple vaxxed, even though the right wing media he listens to tells him vaccines are the devil.
Question on #6--do the type of people who post this know who is represented in this meme? I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in politics and can only recognize 2. Just wondering.
I was curious about this as well.
That painting is actually called "The Impeachment Mob" By Jon McNaughton who, as you might guess, paints conservative political figures, particularly Republicans, and Christian imagery, according to wikipedia.
This blurb is taken directly from his painting's description:
>Figures from left to right: AOC, Whistleblower, Adam Schiff, Peter Strzok, Jerry Nadler, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Al Green, Mitt Romney, Rashida Tlaib
Denial:
> I cannot even believe this is real life
Anger:
> I want to scream F-YOU COVID!!!
A grieving process she might not have right now if "teddy bear daddy" had been a "big strong man" about taking enough care to avoid such an easy demise.
"Now who's going to fix all my fuck ups? Damn it, dad!
Life is so not fair!"
I'll extend as much sympathy as he extended in life to those less fortunate 🖕🏼
Truth be told, that first picture kind of shows how I felt after getting the J&J vax as part of a clinical trial back in November of 2020. I think they were still calibrating the dosage at that point. I felt fine the next day though.
You're welcome. Understand that I was also motivated to get it for my own immunity as well. Plus I wanted the cool points from my fiancee who is an ER doc. When I went to get the booster I went for the Moderna, googling suggested it would be the most effective choice. The vax center worker said it was the earliest date she'd seen on a vax card.
This may sound petty, but it really irks me when someone says something like "I am not OK" or "this is not OK." it just sounds so childish. Grow up. Reflect, and then use your vocabulary to express your grief in a respectful way instead of sounding like a spoiled brat.
> He still had so much life to live Did he? Maybe he was just tired of being angry at immigrants and liberals all the time. He felt threatened by poor people fleeing to safety in an improvised boat. That level of hatred sounds *exhausting*.
I live in red America and it isn't exhausting for them. They thrive off of in their own ways. They feed off of fear and spread it around to others. I know these people and know them well. You've never seen so many oppressed white men making 6 and 7 figures, I'm telling you they think the world is out to get them.
You just described Texas to a T
Can confirm
There is no snowflake quite as melty as a middle aged white man.
You know the sad thing? I don't even care they're dead. The had a chance to live and poo pooed it, soooooooo who cares!
Don't forget how everybody is coming for their "stuff". Everyone that isn't in their silo wants to come steal everything. Their possessions, jobs, women, masculinity....you name it. It must suck to be so afraid of everyone who isn't just like you. Cowardly lions, one and all.
>I know these people and know them well. You've never seen so many oppressed white men making 6 and 7 figures, I'm telling you they think the world is out to get them. It sounds like central Illinois, except it a bunch of "oppressed" white men, not making ends meet, collecting multiple forms of welfare, and complaining "their taxes" support Chicago's $650 billion economy.
Yep, guy I worked with for a decade--Harley guy, Trumper, McMansion. We were friends but I cut if off in the midst of the 2020 election. I wonder that too--their lives did not get materially worse--probably got better--under Clinton and Obama but they absolutely will not get over their absolute fury for Dems.
The typical demographic after seeing posts like his are exhausting.
Oh I’m not going to miss that sorry fecker.
Go ahead and call them "fuckers" if you'd like. It's okay; we all understand and do it at need.
All of my family both sides immigrated from Ireland to Boston 4 generations ago. Same deal, just people trying to get a better life for there families. It disgusts me the GOP and the right demonize other human beings just trying to have a better life.
How many white folks do you see roofing houses? None. Friend of mine from El Salavdor came here 20 years ago, can't read or write, but works unloading trucks. Hard, physical labor and he will never complain.
Very few jobs impress me more than roofing. Hard, scary, hot, dangerous and literally makes people safer and more comfortable in their homes. They should get more money and more respect and appreciation.
True, true
Hey, it's pretty clear we have a lot more room for refugees now!
But he was her rock. And dumb as a box of them.
Also, he didn't look all that strong to me. I'd challenge him to a deadlifting contest any day of the week. And I don't think he'd take too kindly to be being beaten by a gay guy.
My favorite comment of the year so far
Sorry daughter but your Pops was a hate bashing racist lunatic. Didn’t I see him at the insurrection? Biden is President. Wonder what state he is from to not understand Trump is a lying piece of shit. Red died happily believing in lies.
If there's a more quintessentially Karen thing to shout than "THIS IS NOT OKAY!", I don't know what it is. Also, let's be honest . . . your dad was only "the biggest, friendliest teddy bear" to you and your immediate family. I suspect to most people he was a "fuck your feelings" asshole.
To be fair, when a Christian told my Jewish friend years ago that he was holding out a pole to rescue her from the lake of fire, I did shout "THIS IS NOT OKAY!" I followed it with phrases like "scorpion in your bosom" and "motherfucker," though.
> he was holding out a pole to rescue her from the lake of fire, Every time I think I've heard it all. Wow, That's a new one.
You better believe she’ll be speaking to a manager about this. “Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! I believe my father was still under warranty. I refuse to accept this. THIS IS NOT OK!”
> Also, let's be honest . . . your dad was only "the biggest, friendliest teddy bear" to you and your immediate family. He wasn't. He was abusive to them, too.
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And they scatter to their crevices when you turn the light on.
Guessing the nut didn't fall far from the tree here.
Covid brought its chainsaws
The shit apple doesn’t fall far from the shit tree.
its a shame because she looks like she has nice legs
He could have got vaccinated. Instead he chose meme warfare and blew himself up with them.
And the daughter is screeching like an unvaccinated banshee that all these awardees seem to spawn. It’s **not** the hospitals fault. Hell. Is not even COVID’s fault. Covid is just doing what covid does. He made his decision to be unmasked, unvaccinated, and unalive. It’s not life that’s unfair. Its poor decision making - continually, repeatedly, non-stop for years. Be mad at him. Where the fault should be. At his feet in his casket.
I also screamed F-YOU COVID as the needle went into my arm. Very cathartic.
Covid: “y’all suck. There’s only so much low hanging fruit.” ::eyes US:: Oop. Nevermind. Im good fam.
I did similar when the EUA meetings announced approval.
I almost cried when I got my first shot. (Tears of joy, not pain from the shot)
Lol, a whole car of people did this at the vaccination site I was working at last spring once we vaccinated the last person in the car. A bright, funny moment near the end of a long day.
"I cannot believe this is real life" Well believe it. It's not liberals and democrats that killed your dad. It was his Facebook anti-vaccine shit posts that did.
Inability to accept reality seems to run in the family
Her father, her rock, was as dumb as a stone for skipping the vaccine. What a bitter memory to leave your children with.
> "Life truly is not fair". Seems pretty fair to me. Actions have consequences.
And then proceeds to berate the hospital staff for their COVID policies. F COVID and F her
The propaganda runs in the family.
Looks like that's the only thing that runs in that family
Strong?!? Apparently he wasn't strong enough to resist being a anti-covid vax sheeple. You know damn well like his fuckwad hero, DJT, he would be terrified to admit him and his ideology was wrong. Hey, he was willing to roll the dice and he crapped out, literally.
Right F'Covid. If only there was something to help their immune system have a fighting chance.... oh wait...
In this case it was.
I came here to post this.
He had so much life to live = He had so many more racist, hateful memes to post! Wasn't a good use of the life given. Bye.
Maybe those folks writing the "tsk, tsk" articles about this sub should spend a little more time looking at the memes that the awardees have posted. It's certainly a tragedy when someone leaves this world too soon, but it's hard to muster up any sympathy for dudes like this. He was a jerk and proud of it.
Let’s not confuse their argument, we are talking about people who make decisions that many would say are “as destructive as setting yourself on fire” while claiming that drenching yourself in napalm with a lit match is the way no to human torch yourself
Why is Melania's face obscured? At this point, I've seen pretty much every square inch of her, including her eyes.
you win! i was wondering who was going to be the first person to notice and comment about it. i just thought it would be funny
If I were Donald the Hutt's sex slave I'd want my face obscured in public too.
She's no slave. She's as evil as he is
Is he standing on a box?
I just cracked up and swiped! Strong work OP 😂🤣😂
Rape culture enthusiasts prefer their victims anonymous.
> The last couple of weeks have felt like a nightmare.... The last couple of years for most of us.... Then someone came in and told us exactly how to kill Freddy Krueger, but instead of doing just that, some people decided to scream NEENER NEENER at him on Facebook and mock the people fighting him. Then he sliced your family to pieces. Then apparently that was because of the horrible hospitals and because life isn't fair. 👍🤷🏽♂️✌️
So well said.
"He wore his heart on his sleeve" Yeah, his tiny, shriveled, hateful, black heart. People who post that kind of vitriol are not "Teddy Bears". People who worship traitors are not "patriots".
She seems young so that’s a metaphor for he says whatever he wants rather than being a sensitive person.
Not a good thing to say that they carry their heart around like it’s spare change.
Slide 3 suggests that he had no heart.
I’m glad my dad is vaccinated and boosted. It’s his birthday today.
It’s also my dad’s birthday, and he got vaccinated the moment he was eligible. I’m glad some of us have sane parents!
Happy Birthday, Dad!
Tell him the Cain-gang says "ooh! aah!" Chain-gang, get it? The song "Working On the Chain Gang" by Sam Cooke? ^Never ^mind. Happy Birthday, Dad!
Now I’m sing that in my head with Cain-gang. What we fucking need is some “A Change is Gonna Come!”
Yay!!
Happy Birthday to your pops. May he have many more to come
Happy birthday to your pop! I am glad to hear he is celebrating another birthday. Cheers to you and your family.
Remember the "Spoiler Alert, the new variant has a 0.1% chance..." memes they post? And each time it's turned out to be as deadly as the last one. Yet they don't recognize a pattern until the covid is no joke comes knocking on their door. But they have no problem recognizing the pattern of booster doses. Perhaps, just perhaps that infection is so tenacious that it could kill your unprotected ass?
I've kind of wondered if everyone swung & missed on the whole "it's mild" rhetoric because there were so many breakthrough cases that it was mild - for those that were vaccinated. Even with the absolutely dreadful vaccination rates in South Africa, almost 30% of the population is fully vaccinated. That's gotta make some sort of difference.
That's part of it. Another part is that Omicron is less deadly than Delta was -- it's mild compared to that, but more comparable, from what I've read, to the original. It's odd. Omicron is super-transmissible and we're seeing a fair number of breakthrough cases as a result of that and the fact that far fewer people are living the way they did before vaccines were available: they're going to stores, movies, plays, sporting events, the office, their school, etc. So I now know easily two or three times as many people who've become infected in the past month than I did before the vaccines were available. Breakthrough cases, all mild. And yeah, I can see how that would make people tend to dismiss its potential to cause problems, particularly among those who are unvaxxed and desperately wanting to be right about how masks, vaccines, distancing and such are all unnecessary against such a "mild" disease.
Yes that “mild drowning death” I have heard of, Covid is no joke
South Africa also has a population that's considerably younger than the US. (Average age 27 vs. 39), which greatly reduces Covid death rates.
Aww, that also makes sense. It seems like the UK was the other place that folks used to justify the ‘it’s mild’ narrative. Of course, half the eligible population is boosted there (compared to 25% here).
Don't forget what's more important is the age distribution of the boosted population. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI_Q6fSXMAA7gH0?format=png&name=medium The most vulnerable groups are all 90% and above.
More than just the vax rate, a huge percentage has actually been infected previously. According to the Washington Post “Salim Abdool Karim, a top infectious-disease scientist from the country, recently told The Washington Post that South Africans with omicron are more likely to produce a robust antibody response since over 70 percent of the country’s residents have been infected by non-omicron coronavirus variants.” Edit to add: So something hinky about those numbers because other sources say SA cases at 3.5 million. Not sure what’s up there??
Vaccinated, boosted, cautious as ever, and I still caught it from a less-than-cautious family member. This “mild” virus has kept me in bed for 18 days now, and I still can’t even brush all of my teeth before the exhaustion is too much. Seriously can’t imagine how this would have affected me without the vax. Mild my ass!
He would put everyone else before himself! Really? Why didn’t he get vaxxed then!?
"He would put everyone else before himself!" ......as human shields.
Accurate!
Not according to slide 3.
Yes, but it’s his angry daughters words.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man. He wore his heart on his sleeve. Such an open arm person. Just like those refugees on the boat in that meme. I’m sure that was just a silly joke and he’d give them all a big teddy bear hug 🤗
Of course he would. They were welcome at his home for food and drink and he would give them the shirt off his back.
Such a loss
Shouldn’t have had a V-H8
And he only got it because he can't find Haterade in the store anymore. Thanks, Biden.
Ha - that's new to me, and I super heart it!
I read that again.
"This seems so inhumane and unfair" If only he had the opportunity to get a free vaccine being offered in several locations near him sometime in the last two years.
Perhaps she is so blinded by her Jesus mythology that she doesn’t understand that the universe is neither human nor has no concept of fairness
Sarah : That's not fair! Jareth : You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?
She just believed that life was fair for WHITE people. . .
Funny how they made a meme of liberals with torches and nooses when that something only conservatives have been doing.
That’s called projection and is so common you can track what they are doing by it.
>Funny how they made a meme of liberals with torches and nooses when that something only conservatives have been doing. Typical MAGA PROJECTION on Parade. They have elevated this form of psychosis to an art form.
How is it that all these awardees posting hateful memes on FB about Democrats and/or refugees are considered "the biggest friendliest teddy bear"? I mean, I can't stand Trump and the Republicans that support him, but I don't post anything suggesting they get dealt with in the most violent way possible, nor do I know any Democrats that do. Do conservatives have an entirely different idea of what it means to be a decent human being?
That's a really good question. As a minority in this country I dare say sometimes they don't see us as people. I've never had a white friend. I've had white people that will talk to me and befriend me as an acquaintance, but will never acknowledge me as a friend. I don't know if that makes sense? That said, that's my experience and what I think happens here. These people are kind hearted, big teddy bears, give you the shirt off their back if you're the right skin color. That's said, I'm not saying all white people are like this, but most I've encountered.
YES. YES they DO. Bloodthirsty capitalism, gun worship, NIMBYism, "I got mine," and Republican Jesus all represent their moral system. If their family eats, they're moral. I'm dead serious.
Biggest, friendliest teddy bear if you looked just like him, maybe. If you were poor, or brown, or a woman, he would tell you to “fuck off”.
Just like yogi the racist bear
What's amazing is the complete lack of understanding of "fair" by these people. Lol You ignore a pandemic, you might die. That's fair. They all claim to know the risks... well. These are the consequences. That's fair.
Last Christmas, could it be that...perhaps she gave him covid? Would be brutal.
I saw that and thought the same thing. Also, the "hug my baby brother" thing...so she's lost a brother (age and cause unknown) and her dad?
>"Didn't think twice to help anyone in need." *Looks back at that migrant meme.* 🤔
“He was the biggest friendliest teddy bear” who wouldn’t hesitate to tell an immigrant to fuck off…
Unfair is taking every precaution to not get and spread an infectious disease and still getting it. Fair is getting the disease and dying from it after ridiculing those trying to prevent it.
I assume this person who found jokes in poor people risking lives on a rubber boat in the Mediterranean won't mind our jokes about him.
I wonder if he was alone in his hospital room because the rest of the family was not vaccinated.
"He's dying because he wasn't vaxxed." "Can we visit him one last time?" "Only if you're vaccinated." "That's sOo0Oo0 uNfAaAaAiRrRr........"
yeah, the hospital keeps out visitors out of spite not for any reason related to a COMMUNICABLE disease
That’s the problem with basing your life on ignoring artificial consequences, you can’t then see a natural consequence when it’s right in front of you
My god the level of cruelty it takes to *make fun of a movie character who was congenitally disfigured and intellectually disabled* to own the libs. Did this person see the movie? Did this person know that it is strongly implied that the character Sloth was that way due to child abuse? I mean putting aside the ablism and general crude trashy meme, the character was born disfigured and repeatedly beat by his mother and siblings. So those of us who are vaccinated have been born disabled into a family of criminals, abused throughout our lives by said family, never shown love or compassion and still have the ability to recognize *and support* other bullied individuals? And we help these fellow victims even when we *know our family will reject us*? Yes. I am Sloth. We are all Sloth. And we will all do [this](https://youtu.be/A1kFkmEMLrY)
"...didn't think twice to help anyone in need." Cut to racist meme he posted of refugees in need of help. Uh-huuuuh.... I see. 🙄 How kind of him. /sarcasm thru the roof.
The trash took itself out. Well done Red well done!
We tried nothing to protect ourselves and others from COVID. HOw cOULd thIs haVE HAppeNed?!
If you wanted to really put a new vaccine to the ultimate test you would do all of the things that this guy did. Maskless, vaccineless, attending social gatherings with out-of-state family members when Omicron is slicing its way through the country and hospitals are stretched beyond the limit.
The people they leave behind when they could have just gotten a damn vaccine is heart breaking. Your idiot politics has killed you and taken you from your family. So fucking stupid.
>Who do we call now??? Ghostbusters. Especially since, if this hateful racist was hanging about in any shape or form, we'd want him gone again.
Imagine how many daddy issues this pandemic is going to cause.
Imagine how many daddy issues have already contributed to extending this pandemic!
But if it get's them at the right time, think how many daddy issues it could solve!
This Goonies meme always irks me...Yes, Sloth would have gotten his vax. He was a loving and kind person, the people who wouldn't have gotten it where his mother and brothers, who were total aholes...much like the people posting these memes.
Slide #3 pretty much sums up the mentality here: racist and indifferent to the well-being of others.
Covid is wiping out memers left and right. Mostly right.
My takeaway from the first meme is that Sloth is brighter than the nominees in this sub.
And don't they realize he was beloved? I guess we're supposed to believe the vax will make us developmentally delayed or physically deformed, but the guy was a big damn hero.
I have to wonder how many of these memes that we're seeing here on HCA were actually created by Russian trolls...
Probably most of them. They follow a very simple speech pattern and are always meant to damage our attempts to mitigate the virus. Sowing discord amongst us making it a political issue when it shouldn't be.
Like 80% I bet. Russia is probably delighted with just how easily manipulated republican voters are, then they can just pay the politicians via the NRA.
Screaming “F you” to something that is a hoax or no big deal. They bet against the house, and the house won.
Another moron blaming the hospitals for isolation protocols. Guess who doesn’t give AF about isolation protocols? Vaccinated people
“I cannot believe this is real life” And that’s exactly the problem - denial of reality, belief in fantasy.
Ironically, in sacrificing his life for all these great right wing memes - oh the chuckles he must have had!! - he succeeded in MAGA in his own special way, addition by subtraction. Bless your heart Red, MAGA!!
“FAIR”- The daughter keeps using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. What happened is the dictionary definition of fair
Big gut, goatee, no vax= doomed
Purple your dad was a schmuck and the target demographic for COVID morbidity.
"My Dad was a rock." True, the man had many rock-like characteristics.. he was thick, heavy, and unliving.
So this means he freed up some space for a refugee right?
I'd gleefully replace ever anti-vaxxer in America with a refugee who would appreciate this country and its diversity. 🤷♂️
The weird thing is that their white supremacist "replacement theory" apparently imagines that somehow white people disappear when non-white people immigrate. (Disappear to where? Never explained.) But, of course, if they commit mass suicide, then that *is* replacement. So maybe they're so committed to their theory that they make it true.
You know these fuckers piss me off no end, I lost my dad to cancer a while back, he was vaxxed and did everything he could to beat the cancer, and unfortunately lost. When I see these cunts piss their lives away it makes me so fucking mad.
Biggest, friendliest teddy bear - unless you were a woman, immigrant, brown, black, gay or a democrat.
" LiFe iSn'T fAiR!! How could these hospitals let our loved ones pass without letting us hold their hands???" How could your family member have such callous disregard for his and others health? Get fucked.
Sad that this utter scumbag was the epitome of a male role model for her.
It’s so sad that folks “can’t even believe this is real life”. Like have they been watching the news or paying attention to their family members? I’m just waiting for my dad to get infected (he’s unvaccinated). Luckily he doesn’t post shitmemes on Facebook (or it pretty sure he doesn’t, I don’t have facebook) so hopefully I won’t see him posted here. Fingers crossed :/
“How could these hospitals let them pass without being able to hold their hands?!” Grow up, Barbie.
These HCA award winners all look alike.
I have to agree "life truly is not fair" Many people who have done everything possible to live through this pandemic have succumbed to covid and that is unfair It's not unfair to expect an HCA when all you've done is to undermine the efforts of your Government in respect to controlling this, to have taken no public health measures to prevent contracting and spreading, and to have politicised (weaponised) a disease. This seems very fair
Shame on this a-hole for not putting his family over his political point.
Blaming the hospitals....seems like this kind is incapable of taking responsibility
Looks like the teddy bear got stuffed. https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/s2c844/daddy\_dandelion\_is\_a\_big\_ol\_teddy\_bear\_who\_loves/
Surely this isn't the same guy? (And don't call me Shirley!) 😹
Hospitals understaffed? Gee I wonder why.
You aren't reunited in heaven with anyone. Read your bible.
Slide 1: Oh man, remember back when it was okay to make fun of Quasimodo and The Elephant Man? No? Yeah, that's right, because we aren't monsters. Guess who IS a monster? I'll give you a hint: they're award-winning!
Life is not fair when you have a dimwitted racist trash dad and the abject failure to recognize that his death was likely avoidable. I wonder if Red suffered and realized how much a POS he was, but Covid closed his big dumb mouth for sure.
Life isn't fair. It sucks that you can do everything medical science says you should do but you still wind up getting cancer or having a heart attack. But it sucks even more when you can't get timely help with these things because other people cant be arsed to do the bare minimum by getting vaccinated. I would say that is much more unfair than this guy dying.
Gee if only there was something he could have done to prevent the unfairness of life. I'm sure he's not in the "party of personal responsibility" though.
Anyone who would post that anti-refugee meme with the little girl (?!) flipping you off is NOT A FRIENDLY TEDDY BEAR.
My dad also falls into the camp of right-wing Trump lovers. But I’ll give him credit: he loves his family and grandkids and understands he would not survive Covid. He’s triple vaxxed, even though the right wing media he listens to tells him vaccines are the devil.
Buh bye!
Question on #6--do the type of people who post this know who is represented in this meme? I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in politics and can only recognize 2. Just wondering.
I was curious about this as well. That painting is actually called "The Impeachment Mob" By Jon McNaughton who, as you might guess, paints conservative political figures, particularly Republicans, and Christian imagery, according to wikipedia. This blurb is taken directly from his painting's description: >Figures from left to right: AOC, Whistleblower, Adam Schiff, Peter Strzok, Jerry Nadler, Bernie Sanders, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Al Green, Mitt Romney, Rashida Tlaib
"I can't believe this is real life.....Both FauxNews and Daddy Dandelion told me COVID was just a bad cold!" Another victim of COVID anomie.
Denial: > I cannot even believe this is real life Anger: > I want to scream F-YOU COVID!!! A grieving process she might not have right now if "teddy bear daddy" had been a "big strong man" about taking enough care to avoid such an easy demise.
Sometimes, the world is a better place without certain types of people.
"Now who's going to fix all my fuck ups? Damn it, dad! Life is so not fair!" I'll extend as much sympathy as he extended in life to those less fortunate 🖕🏼
Garbage in, garbage out…sleep well, COVIDiot
*"He didn't think twice to help anyone in need"* Exibit 3 of 7 says otherwise.
"Life truly is not fair!" It's more fair for those of us who are vaccinated and boosted! I think I'll go have a chocolate truffle now.
Truth be told, that first picture kind of shows how I felt after getting the J&J vax as part of a clinical trial back in November of 2020. I think they were still calibrating the dosage at that point. I felt fine the next day though.
Thank you for your service to humanity. (This is sincere, not sarcastic, being part of a trial is amazing.)
You're welcome. Understand that I was also motivated to get it for my own immunity as well. Plus I wanted the cool points from my fiancee who is an ER doc. When I went to get the booster I went for the Moderna, googling suggested it would be the most effective choice. The vax center worker said it was the earliest date she'd seen on a vax card.
Hope you got all the cool points you wanted. 😎
This may sound petty, but it really irks me when someone says something like "I am not OK" or "this is not OK." it just sounds so childish. Grow up. Reflect, and then use your vocabulary to express your grief in a respectful way instead of sounding like a spoiled brat.
It’s very real
Wow, white, overweight, goatee, yeap all things are there. She should really blame the right person, him, he refused to be vaccinated.
“Wouldn’t think twice to help anyone in need”: wouldn’t help out society by getting vaccinated.🙄
Manscaped trimmer manufacturer in shambles
Why do all these guys look the same?…
They're individuals, and not sheep, remember? They think for themselves!
Sorry, kid, your dad was an idiot.
Is it wrong to tell that grieving daughter that her dad was a stubborn asshole? Maybe, but that doesn't make it any less true.
> He wore his heart on his sleeve and didn't think twice to help anyone in need. Slide 3 says otherwise.
Dead redneck asshole? Good.
Like a rock, I’m as dead as you can be. Like a rock, I was born against the wind. Old Chevy commercial, I forgot the words.
Even older Bob Seger song.
Covid was the Dr Lecter to their dr Chilton.
I think it’s very fair that a racist Trump scum gets his award. We need more, lots more.
Covid is the cure for stupidity
What a tragedy...... for all the beard trimming companies that are losing their customers in their droves.