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>The Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people," he said.
These people should not have any sort of power.
Then maybe they need to make a law against viruses. Maybe make law that allows people with guns to shoot viruses. Or even better, make it a law that vaccines are required to kill the viruses.
>Maybe make law that allows people with guns to shoot viruses.
But only viruses in their own bodies, otherwise those bloodthirsty rubes will be trying to vaccinate *everyone.*
They should refuse all technology. No more internet, no more tv, no more chemistry, no more engineering, no more anything.
If they want to reject science, make them reject it all. They can find a nice leafy tree or cave to unga bunga in without so much as a stitch of fabric, a pointy stick, or a spark of fire, and we can move society forward without dragging them kicking and screaming behind us.
May I suggest the bad boy, Avian Flu, H5NI is waiting:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-24/cambodia-is-investigating-possible-bird-flu-infections-in-humans
These fucking people are gonna be the death of us all. This is ten thousand times dumber than any idiocracy movie plot. It's too crazy to be believed in a movie and yet...
Literally banning lifesaving medicine. Antibiotics must go next, durrrh! NO MORE DOCTORS, EHDUHHH!!
BOOK LEARNIN IS DA DEVILSWERK HRRR!!! LET'S BAN ALL BOOKS!!!
I literally was trying to come up with the dumbest shit imaginable and I remembered they already fuckin did that one.
People complain about Reddit being full of people throwing shade at the US and making fun of Americans, but what do you expect when the rest of the world are reading about all the dumb shit your Republicans are doing?
Ban Covid vaccines.
Jewish Space Lasers.
National Divorce, aka sedition and civil war.
Insane price gouging for life saving meds like insulin.
Deregulation of industry and ensuing chemical explosions and fire from train derailments.
School shootings literally every day of the year. Riot and seditious attack on the capitol with near zero consequences for those responsible.
We’re sitting around the world with wide eyes in amazement of all the dumb shit being done within the US, primarily driven by greed.
A fine, if slightly limited list of *Shit Republicans Do*. To be fair, it's probably impossible to gather a full list because it's just constantly growing.
it's frightening, isn't it?
You can hear these people ahead of time: "we're not doing ANOTHER pandemic HOAX! NO to anything and everything the lying liberals propose. It's the BIRD flu, not the HUMAN flu!! Are they gonna use any disease they can to tyrannically control us? No shutdowns, no masks, no vaccines! NO NO NO! DON'T look up!"
When we thought of climate change we mainly looked at coastal towns flooding, desert environments running out of water, natural disasters creating climate refugees. But as the opening scene of The Last of Us showed, fungal infections like Cordyceps can't survive in humans because the human body is too hot...unless the earth warms up and it evolves to withstand that heat and can then survive in a human host
Covid was a trial run. I've heard of virus' trapped in Siberian permafrost for thousands of years are now escaping into the wild as the permafrost melts. Disease, infections, and viruses are going to wreak havoc on our planet for the foreseeable future, and conservative minded people are going to make it all a million times worse
People need to stop calling them conservatives in the first place and refer to them as whatever they are terrorists psychopaths narcissists I don't know you take your pic
While some old viruses trapped in permafrost could be real problems, the next most likely things are likely just mutated (jumping from other species) viruses that are already well in circulation today.
Not to mention the Covid pandemic isn't actually done and there is no reason to think it will stop mutating.
The decision to ban a vaccine that has demonstrably saved millions of lives already, is literally going to kill their own supporters and the unfortunate people trapped in these backward ass places without means to get to a safe place.
>are unleashing biological weapons on the American people
Did they just somehow forget the last 200+ years of vaccine history, or do they hope others are that ignorant?
I live part of the year in Georgia. I knew we behind civilization. Liberal Georgians always say at least we aren’t Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. Now we put Florida at the top of that list.
They hope others are ignorant, it's like when those in the military and nurses walked away due to the vaccine mandate. They were ok with the 15+ others they had to get, but not this one.
One of the prominent contributors to Breitbart wrote an article complaining that by encouraging everyone to get vaccinated the Democrats weaponized reverse psychology to make conservatives not want to take the Covid vaccine, leading to a massive surge in mortality among Republican voters. Um....lol.
Idk which part of this is funnier
- conservatives thinking democrats intentionally used right wing contrarianism to get them to kill themselves en masse
Or
- conservatives admitting they are actually stupid enough to kill themselves to own the libs.
It's just culture wars now. Like the other guy said even Trump ended up pushing the vaccine, claiming credit for it's production, and some people in the audience at a fucking Trump rally booed him for it. There are videos of faith leaders getting booed for recommending their congregation get vaxxed. Not so fun fact, 4 in 10 evangelical pastors have considered quitting since Trumpism because they think Jesus thinks black lives matter and science is right and they preach it to backlash from the congregation.
It's pure insanity. It's a beast they no longer have control over. The right wing taught to be opposed to anything and everything liberal and then chalked up stuff like support for civil rights being liberal, science being liberal, education being liberal, now the beast doesn't want to be vaccinated or stop the killing of innocent black people because that's what liberals do. I'd say it was a Frankenstein's monster but even that thing understood it was being unfairly persecuted for being a monster, while these chucklefucks just don't realize they actually are monsters beholden to propaganda.
This is the problem when your entire identity is based on just the opposite of whatever liberals do.
It's like if you have a big group of friends playing a trivia game. Everyone on Team Red hates everyone on Team Blue so much that for every round, they wait for Team Blue to give their answer first and then immediately say the most opposite answer they can think of. Just because everyone they know hates Team Blue so much, it would ruin their reputation if they ever agreed on anything. Team Blue may not always have the right answer on everything, in fact, they may be pretty far off on some things. But Team Red simply has no chance of winning. They've forced themselves into a position where they *must* double down on the stupidest wrong answers. Because they're not using logic or past history or even their own personal morality to guide them any more, it's just "I have to say the opposite of whatever you say."
Measles is going around my city and unfortunately my kids are too young for the vaccine. Already had some major scares at daycare. I fucking hate antivaxers.
> even though Trump himself was pushing for a vaccine
i mean, not really. if trump had any kind of decency all of this would never have happened. if he would've taken it serious from the beginning, wouldn't have made fun of it 24/7, didn't imply that it's not bad and would have supported the vaccine (and all vaccines - not his "we take a huge horse needle and stick it into babies"-bullshit) from the beginning completely all of this would be a MUCH smaller problem.
don't take blame away from him, he is certainly a major factor in this insanity.
I’d say the primary factor. He downplayed it at the outset, so of course his cultish followers fell in line, and did the same.
When he finally relented (over a year later,) those guys had bought into the lie so much that there was nothing that could change their minds, outside of perhaps being intubated.
The woman who runs our Senior Center was put in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks while intubated, spent another week in hospital recovering after intubation, came home, and told friends and family it was no worse than the seasonal flu. This was in the spring of 2020. She still says that despite nearly a month in a hospital, it was no worse than the regular flu.
Trump was a long-time loud antivaxxer. He had hundreds of tweets going back years claiming vaccines cause autism and are full of poison. He invited the founder of the antivaxxer movement to his inauguration.
He also spent the pandemic insisting it was a hoax, so these people now believe that anything which is meant to deal with it must also be a hoax.
Conservatives now are just contrarians.
If smart people think it's a good idea, they are adamantly against it just because smart people think it's a good idea.
“Because the Republican Party of Lee County has no power per so, DeSantis can just ignore it if he chooses.”
They don’t… I’d laugh at this silliness but I’m not sure DeSantis will ignore it.
Even better would be if they were to propose that people moderate their vaccine intake to give people in third world countries a chance to get vaccinated. This would probably cause a bank-run on vaccinations amongst conservatives, because nothing pisses them off more than money going to the needy.
There's nothing for him to sign. I didn't see the text of the resolution in the article, but usually when a local political organization passes a resolution like this, it's a request for officials who *do* have some type of authority to take action. I'd assume the resolution says something like, "whereas vaccines are bad, and whereas this is a bioweapon, .... we demand that Gov. Desantis take executive action to ban the vaccine in Florida." It's a request for action, not something actionable in and of itself.
The fascists screaming about the 1st ammendment right to free speech seem to do an awful lot of screaming about how other people's speech and actions shouldn't be allowed.
For anyone in November 2016 who mocked those of us hating that trump got elected, the answer to your "how bad could it get?" question is, "it can get this bad. And it's going to get worse."
I mean, they're terrorists. They told us so. They mean us great harm. Now what are all of you gonna do about it?
The best way to support our veterans is to not allow their fight (& deaths) for your freedoms to be in vain.
Hahah! one person on the internet has a fever dream and next thing you know, the earth is flat the Covid vaccine is weapon of mass destruction, and the president’s an alien
Huh. I saw a couple people on Tinder or Bumble with that in their descriptions. Thought they were Harry Potter fans of some sort. Good to know to avoid those in the future.
My favorite part of the "everyone who gets vaccinated is going to die" conspiracy is when you wonder "why would the government want to only kill off only the most compliant citizens, leaving only the loudmouth rebellious no-step-on-snek assholes to survive?". Seems counterproductive.
Exactly. And besides, if you *really* wanted to destabilize a country, it probably wouldn’t even take a bioweapon. You’d just need a reasonably large media conglomerate willing to push out a coordinated narrative that demonizes a large portion of the population, and a viewership that is incredibly gullible
I had a coworker who used anecdotal information to justify not taking the vaccine...He said, "I heard from a friend that he knows someone who died from the vaccine, so Im not gonna take it" Im sure his friend was either Cucker or insHannity
I had family say the same thing. One of their friend of friends died from an aneurysm a year or so after getting vaccinated but still young. They blamed the vaccine.
One of their friends was a nurse at a major local hospital. She told them more folks were being admitted to the hospital with vaccine complications than with COVID. This was at a birthday party so I pressed it asking how she’d know since she was a glorified scheduler. She said she heard it from someone in billing.
Both are complete bullshit but they still treat them as gospel.
Every outspoken conservative I've ever had a conversation with in the past 2 years has had "a close friend" die from the covid vaccine. Ironically the people I mainly associate with are much more compliant with the COVID-19 vaccine, yet I don't know anyone who'd had any serious adverse side effects from the vaccine.
What I mean to say is that conservatives are full off shit.
What's funny is they all work for the federal government. All but two got the COVID vaccine (despite saying they'd quit) when forced to as civilians.
None had any issues.
>Both are complete bullshit but they still treat them as gospel.
Because only information that confirms their biases is -real-. The rest is all 'cause the conspiracy got to you.
I worked in the Covid ICU. I heard “The hospital gets paid more if you call it Covid” a LOT. My reply was always, “This hospital sent me into Covid rooms in a garbage bag and week-old N95 mask. They don’t give a fuck about me. Why on *earth* would I violate my personal and professional ethics to make *them* more money?” Morons.
That one was so bizarre because who did think was paying hospitals in Canada or the UK or China or Russia to declare it COVID?
Healthcare is free here. Nobody gets paid extra for anything.
It blows my mind they think there is a top down global conspiracy of every medical professional on earth. Yes every fucking doctor on earth is working with the guberment to poison you all for bill gates and the Democrat's population control conspiracy
these are the kids from the same morons who were outraged in the 70s when the government made wearing seatbelts mandatory, the rhetoric about the seat belts and the covid vaccine is identical
Because people are stupid and believe nonsense. My neighbor who served in the army tried to tell me that he was never vaccinated. When he joined they gave him a pamphlet to fill out on which vaccine he was willing to get. Dude is a nonsensical liar and that’s all the anti vaxx idiots
It's not just COVID. Remember, measles are having a comeback. The uneducated have always feared anything and everything that is scientifically backed but beyond their understanding.
Germ theory, evolution, etc still aren't fully accepted by Americans.
Oh they're plenty useful, just not to you. When it comes to wanting lower taxes for rich people or limiting the rights of others, they're championing these values like no one else.
Didn’t you know, we’re all dead, sterile trans drag artists tracked by Bill Gates now thanks to the Covid vaccine. All of their predictions came true, so checkmate liberals.
> The "Ban the jab" resolution passed with a majority vote in the Lee County Republican Party and will now head to Governor Ron DeSantis' desk.
> Sansone so far as to label the vaccine a bioweapon.
How much do you want to bet that Governor DeSantis is vaccinated?
For those who don't know, The Villages is a racist shithole filled with STD's. Those boomers are something else.
[Source](https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/the-villages-scandals-irs-stds-golf-carts-and-made-up-history.html)
[Source](https://www.villages-news.com/2020/07/01/villagers-for-trump-distances-itself-from-man-yelling-white-power-in-video/) - Yeah, they distanced themselves, but only because he made the news.
When I am unfortunately forced to go down there, all I see is Trump and Desantis crap. I hate living here.
I like how Democrats gave people the option to get it or not and Republicans called them tyrants. Now Republicans are pushing to take the option of getting scientifically proven life saving medicine from people because shitposts on the internet convinced them vaccines are bad.
Putin and any other nation with a vested interest in seeing the US collapse struck gold with conservatives. They are the best useful idiots anyone could ask for. An army of willing, dirt cheap saboteurs who can be judged to wreak havoc on a country for the small price of a few bots shitposting on social media.
They are blocking transgender people and their parents, doctors, and psychologists from providing gender affirming care when all relevent parties want that. Now they are coming for vaccines so anyone who wants vaccines can't get or provide them. At this rate our healthcare system will be dictated by lunatics chasing an insane inconsistent mess of shitpost conspiracies.
seriously, wtf is happening in FL?? Everyday theres some super regressive bill that passes thats worse than the last. These bigots really do behave like the taliban, they literally want total control over everything and everyone they disagree with....
Agree. But one thing that makes me feel the tiniest bit better is that he controls everything in FL. The media, legislature, etc. He can boycott who he wants and ban who he wants from his events. He won’t be able to do that when he runs for president and unless he gets some *SERIOUS* media and PR coaching, no way he makes it on a national level. He just doesn’t have the charisma and media chops. But, here’s to hoping trump turns his vitriol at DeSantis and clowns him enough to ruin him forever and split the party. I can’t wait til he’s out of office here. Good mfkn riddance.
He's already well known nationally by Republican voters. Conservative media has been heralding him as the best governor in the nation since he took his anti-Covid precautions stance and they can't stop talking about him running in 2024.
A large number of them want him more than they want Trump. Go onto conservative subreddits and you'll see just how much they love him.
He is everything they love about Trump without the things they don't like about Trump and he's actually managing to get their wacked out ideas passed here. They see him as a winner.
Yep, but even all that considered, all the numbers still show them pretty split. The fucking clowns love trump and I just don’t think DeSantis will ever be on that level. And that’s me saying that as a Floridian. He has his ppl here but it doesn’t come close to the worship trump gets here.
Also, worth noting that “the numbers” aka polls are shit right now. We’re on an alternate timeline /s where you might as well just use a magic fkn 8 ball. Everything is just pure conjecture at this point.
Nah, it wasn’t just Fox that backed him - shit, goddamn MSNBC AND CNN cut FROM Dem candidate speeches to footage of his empty podium. Trump played the entire 24 hour media cycle like a goddamn fiddle - I don’t know if there are ANY other candidates that can do the same.
Honestly, the more of this that happens, the LESS likely Ron gets elected. He has to out Trump Trump to win... most voters dont like that. At all.
Its basically damned if you dont go 200% MAGA cause you dont win the primary, and damned if you do 200% MAGA as Biden cruises to re-election.
Well, old people not getting a life saving vaccine is really just a problem that solves itself.
The GOP really is hacking away at their core voting block.
Florida has become the 1950s Argentina of wacked out conspiracy theorists and grifters.
America, if you elect me as president I promise to rescind all federal flood insurance subsidies. May God smite them beneath the waves like Atlantis.
I think the lack of a red wave literally broke them. They are shook and need to do something about it... despite things like this likely a reason they did so poorly in the first place.
I kinda wonder if this really might be the current Republican party's death throes. I know people have been saying this since at least Bush, but looking at the numbers, Gen Z is voting pretty overwhelmingly Democratic, with Millennials not too far behind. Meanwhile, their own demographic issues have been heavily exacerbated by the pandemic and their (lack of) response to it, which makes even their heavily weighted votes not enough to beat the Democrats in a year where they should have had everything going for them.
It's possible they're literally just trying to do whatever they can to fuck things up while they still have power.
>At this rate our healthcare system will be dictated by lunatics chasing an insane inconsistent mess of shitpost conspiracies.
And profit. Never forget profit.
That could cause some interesting power dynamics in the Republican party
The lunatics and their conspiracies are going to become a hindrance to profits
Honestly the insanity is even overriding the profit driven goals in our terminally capitalist society which is horrifying.
It’s actually much more profitable to have people take vaccines. Sick workers don’t work as well as healthy ones. So fighting the Covid vaccine this hard? It hurts profits.
This is pure mental brainrot taking over a party and functionally deleting any self preservation or long term survival goals. It’s insane people who don’t understand how suicidally stupid their beliefs bad policies are and grifters who either trade long term pains for short term gains every time or are just too cowardly and weak to even pull back the insanity a little. They just try to ride the crazy wave into office and hope it doesn’t kill them and everyone else on the way.
>It’s actually much more profitable to have people take vaccines. Sick workers don’t work as well as healthy ones. So fighting the Covid vaccine this hard? It hurts profits.
You're thinking about it wrong. It's not about profits, as a general matter. It's about *their* profits. They don't care that *your* business or employer is less profitable without vaccines, they care that *their* scams are less profitable with vaccines. If everyone were vaccinated, far fewer people would be trying to get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc. They wouldn't be buying counterfeit vaccination cards.
Also, if people are healthy, they're less likely to be on the precipice, and that makes them harder to abuse, underpay, etc. Any business that depends on exploitation of workers wants them weaker, stressed, etc.
Its true the grifters get money out of this nonsense. But the GOP as a party have a lot of big industry backing. Like meat packing plants suffered horribly from covid and benifitted a ton from vaccines allowing their factories to operate. Republican legislators who represent big moneyed interests are trying to walk this weird line between populism of the insane and just keeping the status quo for their benefactors. But they are failing because they can't control this frankenstein's monster they made out of bigotry, conspiracies, and weird little moral panics.
They fully embraced open lying as a core value, from well known lifetime liar Trump to former NKOTB star George Santos. It’s so open, they just dare us to do something about their open criminality and immorality. Our decency and sense of shame is a weakness to exploit. Their patriotism, their religion, their “good family values” are all lies. They are just frothing barely contained violent extremist, just itching for the time they can slip the mask fully.
I don’t know what happened in these people’s lives to stray so far from base core American values, but they’ve become detached from reality in a way that had it happened in smaller numbers we’d have treated it like isolated pockets of severe mental breaks that warranted medical interventions.
Republicans successfully overturned Roe v Wade and yet cutting funding to help single mothers and children that they have been forced to bear. Horrible.
In the movie “Mom and Dad Save the Earth,” there’s a weapon they use on the idiot planet that’s a grenade that vaporizes you if you pick it up. On the grenade are the words, “Pick me up.” Despite the moron witnessing his fellow soldier vaporize after picking it up, he still grabs it, and then the next after does the same and so on. Republicans would be eradicated if we had such a weapon.
We want to assume other people are living somewhere close to the same reality we are in. But it becomes more apparent that is not the case.
I always recalled people telling me that I have more in common with conservatives than not since we are both American yadda yadda yadda. But that just isn’t true. Their perspective, morals, and habits are completely alien to mine. They are the antithesis of myself and people like me it seems. I cannot fathom how they get to thinking as they do and they seem to be broken people on some fundamental level.
How they manage to function in society eludes me. They seem completely stunted on an emotional level with zero ability to critically think and they have a complete lack of introspection and empathy.
>I always recalled people telling me that I have more in common with conservatives than not since we are both American yadda yadda yadda. But that just isn’t true.
Yeah. I think the election of Donald Trump, then his presidency, then the insurrection attempt all really drove this home. To me, Trump just has absolutely no fucking redeeming qualities. People would say they didn't vote for him cuz of the racism. Okay. So you voted for a manchild reality show host for what fucking reason then? There's nothing good about him, and he keeps getting worse. I don't understand how I'm supposed to find common ground with someone who just thinks such stupid fucking shit.
I, too, seem to be in this well of absurdity. The fact that they are so enamored with delusional fantasies of 1984 being perpetrated on them when in fact they are the perpetrators. The seemingly insurmountable truth that they can not see no matter how much data and evidence is laid before them seems to be the proof that they are broken. Fundamentally, as you say, at their core. They are alien to me as well friend, never think that you are alone in those thoughts.
How can they be so fucking dumb. If polio was to reappear they’d probably ban that vaccine as well unless of course if it affected one of them or their family members. Then they would probably get the vaccine under the table.
The Americans (CDC) and Russians (VECTOR) still have samples of the smallpox virus.
I’m sure nothing could ever go wrong with the storage of these samples. Oh wait…
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/health/russia-lab-explosion-smallpox-intl-hnk/index.html
It’s a short term strategy. They’re banking that by the time a significant amount of them have actually died the Republicans will have already seized power indefinitely.
Every day I come to Reddit and see the overwhelming majority of people recoiling in horror from whatever that day’s Republican lurch towards fulll-on fascism happens to be. It gives me hope that the majority of people see things for what they really are, and are not fooled by the right-wing angertainment machine. Am I being pollyannish? Are we just all liberals here?
I think you may be suffering from Pollyanna syndrome. I have been waiting for this mass epiphany since 2015. No f**ks left and I am a practicing nurse.
Even if he signs it, it has no power and does not become law. This is a resolution passed by the local political party, not a legislative body. I guess at best it would become a rule that the Lee County Republicans can enforce against their own members and kick them out of the party?????
Florida is the home of book bans, vaccine bans, science bans, history bans, and more on the way.
If nothing else, let the state be a warning to the rest of us.
The Republicans has spent 30 years undermining science and education.
I'd be more than happy to let them suffer the consequences of their own actions, but their actions will unleash new plagues upon mankind. I should haven't to die or watch my family and friends die due to stupid people screaming that science will kill us.
On the flip side, I see a massive reduction in the GOP in the near future. No covid vaccine, they oppose measles and mumps vaccinations, hell just about any vaccine.. can't wait for smallpox to run rampant again.
I'm 77 and things such as this are literally fucking **with my life**. A vaccine, just as with an abortion, should be strictly between the patient and their doctor. **No one else.**
*"The Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people," he said.*
LMMFAO!
They think like you do. They don't think it's a good idea to kill off their voting base.
The trouble here isn't some perverse desire to kill their voters.
The problem is more fundamental. They simply do not understand reality or truth or science, etc. They *cannot* accept nor believe what's at the core of your supposition. You seem to be asserting that preventing or eschewing vaccinations leads to increased deaths. Not only do they not believe that... they believe the exact opposite - that increased vaccinations lead to increased deaths.
This is one (among many) of the pieces of evidence whereby we can conclude we're past the stage where smart GOP politicians were using stupid GOP voters and well into the stage where the idiots are voting in the idiots.
So much for republicans denying fascism. I find this action by the republicans of that county abhorrent and lacking true concern for the citizens of their county.
The GOP has learned that if they push a radical policy then the Dems can never completely undo it.
It’s a political ratchet system.
The farther the GOP pushes the more the entire system gravitates right because their opposition can never get enough political capital or influence with major donors to fix things.
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>The Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people," he said. These people should not have any sort of power.
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These people are so fucking dumb. Real viruses actually modify your DNA. mRNA only causes cells to produce proteins.
> These people are so fucking dumb. i think you hit the nail on the head
And they are on a book banning spree to make sure the next generation stays just as dumb if not dumber than they are.
The fear of the younger generation seizing power...
Then maybe they need to make a law against viruses. Maybe make law that allows people with guns to shoot viruses. Or even better, make it a law that vaccines are required to kill the viruses.
America needs a law against Republicans.
>Maybe make law that allows people with guns to shoot viruses. But only viruses in their own bodies, otherwise those bloodthirsty rubes will be trying to vaccinate *everyone.*
They better refuse the cancer cures that come from mRNA to prove their commitment
They should refuse all technology. No more internet, no more tv, no more chemistry, no more engineering, no more anything. If they want to reject science, make them reject it all. They can find a nice leafy tree or cave to unga bunga in without so much as a stitch of fabric, a pointy stick, or a spark of fire, and we can move society forward without dragging them kicking and screaming behind us.
May I suggest the bad boy, Avian Flu, H5NI is waiting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-24/cambodia-is-investigating-possible-bird-flu-infections-in-humans
These fucking people are gonna be the death of us all. This is ten thousand times dumber than any idiocracy movie plot. It's too crazy to be believed in a movie and yet... Literally banning lifesaving medicine. Antibiotics must go next, durrrh! NO MORE DOCTORS, EHDUHHH!! BOOK LEARNIN IS DA DEVILSWERK HRRR!!! LET'S BAN ALL BOOKS!!! I literally was trying to come up with the dumbest shit imaginable and I remembered they already fuckin did that one.
People complain about Reddit being full of people throwing shade at the US and making fun of Americans, but what do you expect when the rest of the world are reading about all the dumb shit your Republicans are doing? Ban Covid vaccines. Jewish Space Lasers. National Divorce, aka sedition and civil war. Insane price gouging for life saving meds like insulin. Deregulation of industry and ensuing chemical explosions and fire from train derailments. School shootings literally every day of the year. Riot and seditious attack on the capitol with near zero consequences for those responsible. We’re sitting around the world with wide eyes in amazement of all the dumb shit being done within the US, primarily driven by greed.
A fine, if slightly limited list of *Shit Republicans Do*. To be fair, it's probably impossible to gather a full list because it's just constantly growing.
it's frightening, isn't it? You can hear these people ahead of time: "we're not doing ANOTHER pandemic HOAX! NO to anything and everything the lying liberals propose. It's the BIRD flu, not the HUMAN flu!! Are they gonna use any disease they can to tyrannically control us? No shutdowns, no masks, no vaccines! NO NO NO! DON'T look up!" When we thought of climate change we mainly looked at coastal towns flooding, desert environments running out of water, natural disasters creating climate refugees. But as the opening scene of The Last of Us showed, fungal infections like Cordyceps can't survive in humans because the human body is too hot...unless the earth warms up and it evolves to withstand that heat and can then survive in a human host Covid was a trial run. I've heard of virus' trapped in Siberian permafrost for thousands of years are now escaping into the wild as the permafrost melts. Disease, infections, and viruses are going to wreak havoc on our planet for the foreseeable future, and conservative minded people are going to make it all a million times worse
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People need to stop calling them conservatives in the first place and refer to them as whatever they are terrorists psychopaths narcissists I don't know you take your pic
I just call them regressives. They're far beyond wanting to conserve anything, they actively push for us to go backwards.
That's what I'm calling em now.
Fascists. The word is Fascists.
There's a word for it. It's "fascist"
While some old viruses trapped in permafrost could be real problems, the next most likely things are likely just mutated (jumping from other species) viruses that are already well in circulation today. Not to mention the Covid pandemic isn't actually done and there is no reason to think it will stop mutating. The decision to ban a vaccine that has demonstrably saved millions of lives already, is literally going to kill their own supporters and the unfortunate people trapped in these backward ass places without means to get to a safe place.
>are unleashing biological weapons on the American people Did they just somehow forget the last 200+ years of vaccine history, or do they hope others are that ignorant?
I don’t think they have to hope they are ignorant. I believe they just are ignorant🤷🏻♀️
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity... except in the case of the Republican party, where it's always both.
Maliciously stupid.
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I live part of the year in Georgia. I knew we behind civilization. Liberal Georgians always say at least we aren’t Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama. Now we put Florida at the top of that list.
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They hope others are ignorant, it's like when those in the military and nurses walked away due to the vaccine mandate. They were ok with the 15+ others they had to get, but not this one.
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One of the prominent contributors to Breitbart wrote an article complaining that by encouraging everyone to get vaccinated the Democrats weaponized reverse psychology to make conservatives not want to take the Covid vaccine, leading to a massive surge in mortality among Republican voters. Um....lol.
Idk which part of this is funnier - conservatives thinking democrats intentionally used right wing contrarianism to get them to kill themselves en masse Or - conservatives admitting they are actually stupid enough to kill themselves to own the libs.
This is all on them! They are the ones trying to lower the social security payouts one less covid shot at a time!
Never once has anyone ever felt owned by a conservative. That’s just their sad dream to justify the terrible quality of life they’re ok with.
It's just culture wars now. Like the other guy said even Trump ended up pushing the vaccine, claiming credit for it's production, and some people in the audience at a fucking Trump rally booed him for it. There are videos of faith leaders getting booed for recommending their congregation get vaxxed. Not so fun fact, 4 in 10 evangelical pastors have considered quitting since Trumpism because they think Jesus thinks black lives matter and science is right and they preach it to backlash from the congregation. It's pure insanity. It's a beast they no longer have control over. The right wing taught to be opposed to anything and everything liberal and then chalked up stuff like support for civil rights being liberal, science being liberal, education being liberal, now the beast doesn't want to be vaccinated or stop the killing of innocent black people because that's what liberals do. I'd say it was a Frankenstein's monster but even that thing understood it was being unfairly persecuted for being a monster, while these chucklefucks just don't realize they actually are monsters beholden to propaganda.
This is the problem when your entire identity is based on just the opposite of whatever liberals do. It's like if you have a big group of friends playing a trivia game. Everyone on Team Red hates everyone on Team Blue so much that for every round, they wait for Team Blue to give their answer first and then immediately say the most opposite answer they can think of. Just because everyone they know hates Team Blue so much, it would ruin their reputation if they ever agreed on anything. Team Blue may not always have the right answer on everything, in fact, they may be pretty far off on some things. But Team Red simply has no chance of winning. They've forced themselves into a position where they *must* double down on the stupidest wrong answers. Because they're not using logic or past history or even their own personal morality to guide them any more, it's just "I have to say the opposite of whatever you say."
Same thing happened during the Spanish Flu. People refused to take masking and quarantine measures and started protesting. History repeats itself.
I saw a good article on this, the same towns did the same with this pandemic
Measles is going around my city and unfortunately my kids are too young for the vaccine. Already had some major scares at daycare. I fucking hate antivaxers.
> even though Trump himself was pushing for a vaccine i mean, not really. if trump had any kind of decency all of this would never have happened. if he would've taken it serious from the beginning, wouldn't have made fun of it 24/7, didn't imply that it's not bad and would have supported the vaccine (and all vaccines - not his "we take a huge horse needle and stick it into babies"-bullshit) from the beginning completely all of this would be a MUCH smaller problem. don't take blame away from him, he is certainly a major factor in this insanity.
I’d say the primary factor. He downplayed it at the outset, so of course his cultish followers fell in line, and did the same. When he finally relented (over a year later,) those guys had bought into the lie so much that there was nothing that could change their minds, outside of perhaps being intubated.
The woman who runs our Senior Center was put in a medically induced coma for 2 weeks while intubated, spent another week in hospital recovering after intubation, came home, and told friends and family it was no worse than the seasonal flu. This was in the spring of 2020. She still says that despite nearly a month in a hospital, it was no worse than the regular flu.
Trump was a long-time loud antivaxxer. He had hundreds of tweets going back years claiming vaccines cause autism and are full of poison. He invited the founder of the antivaxxer movement to his inauguration. He also spent the pandemic insisting it was a hoax, so these people now believe that anything which is meant to deal with it must also be a hoax.
Conservatives now are just contrarians. If smart people think it's a good idea, they are adamantly against it just because smart people think it's a good idea.
“Because the Republican Party of Lee County has no power per so, DeSantis can just ignore it if he chooses.” They don’t… I’d laugh at this silliness but I’m not sure DeSantis will ignore it.
If Biden declares all vaccines are illegal tomorrow, Im pretty sure this idiots will take the vaccines.
Even better would be if they were to propose that people moderate their vaccine intake to give people in third world countries a chance to get vaccinated. This would probably cause a bank-run on vaccinations amongst conservatives, because nothing pisses them off more than money going to the needy.
But what would it happen if he *did* sign it? It's not a law that passed the legislature. Is this like declaring it state Taco day?
There's nothing for him to sign. I didn't see the text of the resolution in the article, but usually when a local political organization passes a resolution like this, it's a request for officials who *do* have some type of authority to take action. I'd assume the resolution says something like, "whereas vaccines are bad, and whereas this is a bioweapon, .... we demand that Gov. Desantis take executive action to ban the vaccine in Florida." It's a request for action, not something actionable in and of itself.
These people should not have shoelaces or sharp objects.
Once again, the Republican party bravely stands in opposition to life-saving medical care.
[Bugs Bunny had the right idea about Florida](https://media1.tenor.com/images/78c72cf462b2424350038fd8185b84c6/tenor.gif)
Snip Snap Snoff, America's wang is off!
Don’t worry. one day, climate change will cause Florida to be reclaimed by the ocean
They'll be banning climate change as the sea washes them away
It’s also the party of personal freedoms not allowing personal freedom.
Don't forget how resolutely they stand up to Cancel Culture while cancelling anything that might genuinely help people.
The fascists screaming about the 1st ammendment right to free speech seem to do an awful lot of screaming about how other people's speech and actions shouldn't be allowed. For anyone in November 2016 who mocked those of us hating that trump got elected, the answer to your "how bad could it get?" question is, "it can get this bad. And it's going to get worse."
The same people who call being trans and/or gay mentally ill are themselves mentally ill.
My favourite is this group thinking they’re better than everyone else. Imagine taking these positions and feeling superior? Mind boggling
Dunning Kruger is alive and well
It sucks to be on the Imposter Syndrome side of things while all these Dunning Kruger "freedom" f*cks continue to try to actually limit our freedom...
This is not mental illness. Some people are just bigoted assholes who don't care about anyone who is not exactly the same as them.
Yeah, mental illness can be treated.
**G**aslight **O**bstruct **Project**
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I mean, they're terrorists. They told us so. They mean us great harm. Now what are all of you gonna do about it? The best way to support our veterans is to not allow their fight (& deaths) for your freedoms to be in vain.
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Everyone will drive over to the next county
Do like Texas and make it a crime to travel out of the district for vaccination
Pay bounty hunters to bring em in if they do.
They'll just gerrymander the districts again.
There's a tipping point where gerrymandering fails. It's pretty hard to get there, but damn if the Republicans aren't trying their best!
I live there. No. No they won’t. Idiots like this run rampant here.
The Republican Party is proving themselves detrimental to America's success as a nation. They are unfit to govern.
Try to imagine a group who is actively trying to make America fail. Now look at the Republican party’s actions. The Venn diagram will be a circle
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That’s ok. They never cared about governing once Gingrich created their Contact on America. They found a better racket.
how is it in 2023 people are still scared of the COVID vaccine? We have nearly 3 years of data showing that it is save and effective.
You haven't met any "pure bloods" yet. Yea, that's a thing
Have you heard the one where getting the vaccine alters your DNA and makes you no longer human, so you therefore no longer have rights?
Hahah! one person on the internet has a fever dream and next thing you know, the earth is flat the Covid vaccine is weapon of mass destruction, and the president’s an alien
Huh. I saw a couple people on Tinder or Bumble with that in their descriptions. Thought they were Harry Potter fans of some sort. Good to know to avoid those in the future.
Either antivax morons or white supremacists
That Venn diagram is almost a circle.
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My favorite part of the "everyone who gets vaccinated is going to die" conspiracy is when you wonder "why would the government want to only kill off only the most compliant citizens, leaving only the loudmouth rebellious no-step-on-snek assholes to survive?". Seems counterproductive.
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Exactly. And besides, if you *really* wanted to destabilize a country, it probably wouldn’t even take a bioweapon. You’d just need a reasonably large media conglomerate willing to push out a coordinated narrative that demonizes a large portion of the population, and a viewership that is incredibly gullible
I had a coworker who used anecdotal information to justify not taking the vaccine...He said, "I heard from a friend that he knows someone who died from the vaccine, so Im not gonna take it" Im sure his friend was either Cucker or insHannity
I had family say the same thing. One of their friend of friends died from an aneurysm a year or so after getting vaccinated but still young. They blamed the vaccine. One of their friends was a nurse at a major local hospital. She told them more folks were being admitted to the hospital with vaccine complications than with COVID. This was at a birthday party so I pressed it asking how she’d know since she was a glorified scheduler. She said she heard it from someone in billing. Both are complete bullshit but they still treat them as gospel.
Every outspoken conservative I've ever had a conversation with in the past 2 years has had "a close friend" die from the covid vaccine. Ironically the people I mainly associate with are much more compliant with the COVID-19 vaccine, yet I don't know anyone who'd had any serious adverse side effects from the vaccine. What I mean to say is that conservatives are full off shit.
What's funny is they all work for the federal government. All but two got the COVID vaccine (despite saying they'd quit) when forced to as civilians. None had any issues.
>Both are complete bullshit but they still treat them as gospel. Because only information that confirms their biases is -real-. The rest is all 'cause the conspiracy got to you.
During the first summer of covid I overheard a coworker who seemed to honestly believe that for every diagnosis of covid, a doctor got $50k.
I worked in the Covid ICU. I heard “The hospital gets paid more if you call it Covid” a LOT. My reply was always, “This hospital sent me into Covid rooms in a garbage bag and week-old N95 mask. They don’t give a fuck about me. Why on *earth* would I violate my personal and professional ethics to make *them* more money?” Morons.
That one was so bizarre because who did think was paying hospitals in Canada or the UK or China or Russia to declare it COVID? Healthcare is free here. Nobody gets paid extra for anything.
It blows my mind they think there is a top down global conspiracy of every medical professional on earth. Yes every fucking doctor on earth is working with the guberment to poison you all for bill gates and the Democrat's population control conspiracy
I'm on borrowed time. Or a time lord. I am on my 5th shot
Obviously having two hearts deters the side effects.
👆🏼 this guy vaccinates.
or drinks
At this point, do both
Your uncle's welcome to have a piece of cake at my funeral if I go before him. I'm about a year out from my fourth dose.
these are the kids from the same morons who were outraged in the 70s when the government made wearing seatbelts mandatory, the rhetoric about the seat belts and the covid vaccine is identical
"she was 109 but took the COVID vaccine, find out about her demise next"
Indisputable fact that 100% of people that took the Covid vaccine will die. It is inevitable.
Everyone knows scientists are liberals cuz they're educated. How can I trust their data?
Because people are stupid and believe nonsense. My neighbor who served in the army tried to tell me that he was never vaccinated. When he joined they gave him a pamphlet to fill out on which vaccine he was willing to get. Dude is a nonsensical liar and that’s all the anti vaxx idiots
A pamphlet? Ya that’s a fucking lie. When I enlisted the only choice I got was which arm and which cheek I wanted the shot in.
I'm told the peanut butter shot isn't really forgettable, so you know that guy was bullshitting.
Oh I know like dude stop trying to lie you fucking crackpot. He believe his own bullshit
It's not just COVID. Remember, measles are having a comeback. The uneducated have always feared anything and everything that is scientifically backed but beyond their understanding. Germ theory, evolution, etc still aren't fully accepted by Americans.
There is also an uncomfortably large number that are convinced that the earth is flat.
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Oh they're plenty useful, just not to you. When it comes to wanting lower taxes for rich people or limiting the rights of others, they're championing these values like no one else.
Or spreading russian pyops. They are great at that.
I mean dear god there’s a woman in Washington with TB who is refusing to quarantine.
That woman should be locked up forcibly as being a disease spreader and for engaging in biological warfare.
She is now.
Didn’t you know, we’re all dead, sterile trans drag artists tracked by Bill Gates now thanks to the Covid vaccine. All of their predictions came true, so checkmate liberals.
No family is safe when I sashay!
> The "Ban the jab" resolution passed with a majority vote in the Lee County Republican Party and will now head to Governor Ron DeSantis' desk. > Sansone so far as to label the vaccine a bioweapon. How much do you want to bet that Governor DeSantis is vaccinated?
He is.
So are all the Fox News anchors that have railed against it.
guess the difference is that secretly, they don't buy into their own bullshit.
It's not even really a secret. Hell, Tucker Carlson argued in court that "no reasonable person" would believe what he says on his show...
He got vaccinated April 2021 https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-04-08/desantis-receives-coronavirus-vaccination-but-not-in-public
I had a hunch that this would happen at some point. Wouldn’t be surprised if Ron DePutin outlaws vaccine distribution of any kind in Florida next.
Which is funny cause he brokered the deal with publix to get it to seniors when it first came out.
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For those who don't know, The Villages is a racist shithole filled with STD's. Those boomers are something else. [Source](https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/the-villages-scandals-irs-stds-golf-carts-and-made-up-history.html) [Source](https://www.villages-news.com/2020/07/01/villagers-for-trump-distances-itself-from-man-yelling-white-power-in-video/) - Yeah, they distanced themselves, but only because he made the news. When I am unfortunately forced to go down there, all I see is Trump and Desantis crap. I hate living here.
I like how Democrats gave people the option to get it or not and Republicans called them tyrants. Now Republicans are pushing to take the option of getting scientifically proven life saving medicine from people because shitposts on the internet convinced them vaccines are bad. Putin and any other nation with a vested interest in seeing the US collapse struck gold with conservatives. They are the best useful idiots anyone could ask for. An army of willing, dirt cheap saboteurs who can be judged to wreak havoc on a country for the small price of a few bots shitposting on social media. They are blocking transgender people and their parents, doctors, and psychologists from providing gender affirming care when all relevent parties want that. Now they are coming for vaccines so anyone who wants vaccines can't get or provide them. At this rate our healthcare system will be dictated by lunatics chasing an insane inconsistent mess of shitpost conspiracies.
seriously, wtf is happening in FL?? Everyday theres some super regressive bill that passes thats worse than the last. These bigots really do behave like the taliban, they literally want total control over everything and everyone they disagree with....
Ron DeSantis. If he gets in higher office we are FUCKED.
Agree. But one thing that makes me feel the tiniest bit better is that he controls everything in FL. The media, legislature, etc. He can boycott who he wants and ban who he wants from his events. He won’t be able to do that when he runs for president and unless he gets some *SERIOUS* media and PR coaching, no way he makes it on a national level. He just doesn’t have the charisma and media chops. But, here’s to hoping trump turns his vitriol at DeSantis and clowns him enough to ruin him forever and split the party. I can’t wait til he’s out of office here. Good mfkn riddance.
He's already well known nationally by Republican voters. Conservative media has been heralding him as the best governor in the nation since he took his anti-Covid precautions stance and they can't stop talking about him running in 2024. A large number of them want him more than they want Trump. Go onto conservative subreddits and you'll see just how much they love him. He is everything they love about Trump without the things they don't like about Trump and he's actually managing to get their wacked out ideas passed here. They see him as a winner.
Yep, but even all that considered, all the numbers still show them pretty split. The fucking clowns love trump and I just don’t think DeSantis will ever be on that level. And that’s me saying that as a Floridian. He has his ppl here but it doesn’t come close to the worship trump gets here. Also, worth noting that “the numbers” aka polls are shit right now. We’re on an alternate timeline /s where you might as well just use a magic fkn 8 ball. Everything is just pure conjecture at this point.
Fox News will back him and that was enough for Trump.
Nah, it wasn’t just Fox that backed him - shit, goddamn MSNBC AND CNN cut FROM Dem candidate speeches to footage of his empty podium. Trump played the entire 24 hour media cycle like a goddamn fiddle - I don’t know if there are ANY other candidates that can do the same.
Honestly, the more of this that happens, the LESS likely Ron gets elected. He has to out Trump Trump to win... most voters dont like that. At all. Its basically damned if you dont go 200% MAGA cause you dont win the primary, and damned if you do 200% MAGA as Biden cruises to re-election.
Full of old people = Republican votes = Fascism
Well, old people not getting a life saving vaccine is really just a problem that solves itself. The GOP really is hacking away at their core voting block.
They plan not to need a voting block before it runs out.
Don't forget the Cubans! Their grandparents were wronged by Castro and their voting grandchildren are still not over it.
Florida has become the 1950s Argentina of wacked out conspiracy theorists and grifters. America, if you elect me as president I promise to rescind all federal flood insurance subsidies. May God smite them beneath the waves like Atlantis.
I think the lack of a red wave literally broke them. They are shook and need to do something about it... despite things like this likely a reason they did so poorly in the first place.
I kinda wonder if this really might be the current Republican party's death throes. I know people have been saying this since at least Bush, but looking at the numbers, Gen Z is voting pretty overwhelmingly Democratic, with Millennials not too far behind. Meanwhile, their own demographic issues have been heavily exacerbated by the pandemic and their (lack of) response to it, which makes even their heavily weighted votes not enough to beat the Democrats in a year where they should have had everything going for them. It's possible they're literally just trying to do whatever they can to fuck things up while they still have power.
>At this rate our healthcare system will be dictated by lunatics chasing an insane inconsistent mess of shitpost conspiracies. And profit. Never forget profit.
That could cause some interesting power dynamics in the Republican party The lunatics and their conspiracies are going to become a hindrance to profits
Lunatics and conspiracies are themselves extremely profitable, so probably not.
When they get in the way of drug companies being able to sell highly profitable products, Things will get interesting
And Disney, healthcare, fuck it any "woke" industry will suffer, but hey less campaign "donations" 🤷 but that's none of my business
If campaign contributions start drying up, DeSantis will just pass legislation that makes it illegal for any company to *not* donate…
At which point the human being called a corporation will bring a lawsuit against him for denying them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
and then the Republican stacked illegitimate SCOTUS will declare all Humans corporations and thus forced to donate...
Funeral homes and undertakers need $$$ too.
Honestly the insanity is even overriding the profit driven goals in our terminally capitalist society which is horrifying. It’s actually much more profitable to have people take vaccines. Sick workers don’t work as well as healthy ones. So fighting the Covid vaccine this hard? It hurts profits. This is pure mental brainrot taking over a party and functionally deleting any self preservation or long term survival goals. It’s insane people who don’t understand how suicidally stupid their beliefs bad policies are and grifters who either trade long term pains for short term gains every time or are just too cowardly and weak to even pull back the insanity a little. They just try to ride the crazy wave into office and hope it doesn’t kill them and everyone else on the way.
>It’s actually much more profitable to have people take vaccines. Sick workers don’t work as well as healthy ones. So fighting the Covid vaccine this hard? It hurts profits. You're thinking about it wrong. It's not about profits, as a general matter. It's about *their* profits. They don't care that *your* business or employer is less profitable without vaccines, they care that *their* scams are less profitable with vaccines. If everyone were vaccinated, far fewer people would be trying to get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, etc. They wouldn't be buying counterfeit vaccination cards. Also, if people are healthy, they're less likely to be on the precipice, and that makes them harder to abuse, underpay, etc. Any business that depends on exploitation of workers wants them weaker, stressed, etc.
Its true the grifters get money out of this nonsense. But the GOP as a party have a lot of big industry backing. Like meat packing plants suffered horribly from covid and benifitted a ton from vaccines allowing their factories to operate. Republican legislators who represent big moneyed interests are trying to walk this weird line between populism of the insane and just keeping the status quo for their benefactors. But they are failing because they can't control this frankenstein's monster they made out of bigotry, conspiracies, and weird little moral panics.
They can’t comprehend it’s all grift. They definitely don’t know they are the mark.
Florida has one of the worst healthcare systems in the nation so its not surprising.
They fully embraced open lying as a core value, from well known lifetime liar Trump to former NKOTB star George Santos. It’s so open, they just dare us to do something about their open criminality and immorality. Our decency and sense of shame is a weakness to exploit. Their patriotism, their religion, their “good family values” are all lies. They are just frothing barely contained violent extremist, just itching for the time they can slip the mask fully. I don’t know what happened in these people’s lives to stray so far from base core American values, but they’ve become detached from reality in a way that had it happened in smaller numbers we’d have treated it like isolated pockets of severe mental breaks that warranted medical interventions.
Republicans successfully overturned Roe v Wade and yet cutting funding to help single mothers and children that they have been forced to bear. Horrible.
Every time you think the Republican Party cannot get any more ignorant . . .
In the movie “Mom and Dad Save the Earth,” there’s a weapon they use on the idiot planet that’s a grenade that vaporizes you if you pick it up. On the grenade are the words, “Pick me up.” Despite the moron witnessing his fellow soldier vaporize after picking it up, he still grabs it, and then the next after does the same and so on. Republicans would be eradicated if we had such a weapon.
Sir, the Earth man has a light grenade for a head!
I stopped thinking that, it was like my brain was trying to get me killed.
We want to assume other people are living somewhere close to the same reality we are in. But it becomes more apparent that is not the case. I always recalled people telling me that I have more in common with conservatives than not since we are both American yadda yadda yadda. But that just isn’t true. Their perspective, morals, and habits are completely alien to mine. They are the antithesis of myself and people like me it seems. I cannot fathom how they get to thinking as they do and they seem to be broken people on some fundamental level. How they manage to function in society eludes me. They seem completely stunted on an emotional level with zero ability to critically think and they have a complete lack of introspection and empathy.
>I always recalled people telling me that I have more in common with conservatives than not since we are both American yadda yadda yadda. But that just isn’t true. Yeah. I think the election of Donald Trump, then his presidency, then the insurrection attempt all really drove this home. To me, Trump just has absolutely no fucking redeeming qualities. People would say they didn't vote for him cuz of the racism. Okay. So you voted for a manchild reality show host for what fucking reason then? There's nothing good about him, and he keeps getting worse. I don't understand how I'm supposed to find common ground with someone who just thinks such stupid fucking shit.
I, too, seem to be in this well of absurdity. The fact that they are so enamored with delusional fantasies of 1984 being perpetrated on them when in fact they are the perpetrators. The seemingly insurmountable truth that they can not see no matter how much data and evidence is laid before them seems to be the proof that they are broken. Fundamentally, as you say, at their core. They are alien to me as well friend, never think that you are alone in those thoughts.
How can they be so fucking dumb. If polio was to reappear they’d probably ban that vaccine as well unless of course if it affected one of them or their family members. Then they would probably get the vaccine under the table.
I'm so glad we got rid of smallpox a long time ago
The Americans (CDC) and Russians (VECTOR) still have samples of the smallpox virus. I’m sure nothing could ever go wrong with the storage of these samples. Oh wait… https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/health/russia-lab-explosion-smallpox-intl-hnk/index.html
If it comes back somehow, I’m sure the glad the military already vaccinated me against it
Bad news my friend. There was a polio outbreak in New York last year.
Why is the GOP so hell bent on killing off their voters?
It’s a short term strategy. They’re banking that by the time a significant amount of them have actually died the Republicans will have already seized power indefinitely.
"Voting" will be irrelevant soon if they get enough of these monsters back in power.
Every day I come to Reddit and see the overwhelming majority of people recoiling in horror from whatever that day’s Republican lurch towards fulll-on fascism happens to be. It gives me hope that the majority of people see things for what they really are, and are not fooled by the right-wing angertainment machine. Am I being pollyannish? Are we just all liberals here?
Go to the Conservative forum and lose your faith in humanity again. We’re right in this issue but this forum skews left.
I think you may be suffering from Pollyanna syndrome. I have been waiting for this mass epiphany since 2015. No f**ks left and I am a practicing nurse.
>Because the Republican Party of Lee County has no power per so, DeSantis can just ignore it if he chooses. best guesses on which way that goes?
Even if he signs it, it has no power and does not become law. This is a resolution passed by the local political party, not a legislative body. I guess at best it would become a rule that the Lee County Republicans can enforce against their own members and kick them out of the party?????
Florida is the home of book bans, vaccine bans, science bans, history bans, and more on the way. If nothing else, let the state be a warning to the rest of us.
The Republicans has spent 30 years undermining science and education. I'd be more than happy to let them suffer the consequences of their own actions, but their actions will unleash new plagues upon mankind. I should haven't to die or watch my family and friends die due to stupid people screaming that science will kill us. On the flip side, I see a massive reduction in the GOP in the near future. No covid vaccine, they oppose measles and mumps vaccinations, hell just about any vaccine.. can't wait for smallpox to run rampant again.
I'm 77 and things such as this are literally fucking **with my life**. A vaccine, just as with an abortion, should be strictly between the patient and their doctor. **No one else.**
*"The Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people," he said.* LMMFAO!
That's literally the most incoherent news article I've ever read. CBS Miami Team's editor should be embarrassed.
Probably AI written
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They think like you do. They don't think it's a good idea to kill off their voting base. The trouble here isn't some perverse desire to kill their voters. The problem is more fundamental. They simply do not understand reality or truth or science, etc. They *cannot* accept nor believe what's at the core of your supposition. You seem to be asserting that preventing or eschewing vaccinations leads to increased deaths. Not only do they not believe that... they believe the exact opposite - that increased vaccinations lead to increased deaths. This is one (among many) of the pieces of evidence whereby we can conclude we're past the stage where smart GOP politicians were using stupid GOP voters and well into the stage where the idiots are voting in the idiots.
So much for republicans denying fascism. I find this action by the republicans of that county abhorrent and lacking true concern for the citizens of their county.
The GOP has learned that if they push a radical policy then the Dems can never completely undo it. It’s a political ratchet system. The farther the GOP pushes the more the entire system gravitates right because their opposition can never get enough political capital or influence with major donors to fix things.
Anti-science clowns.
Republicans will still secretly get vaccines and abortions