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Another GOP Gov turns and says unvaccinated people fucking everyone
- Thread starter Vanillalite
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Serious question: what exactly prompted all these Republican leaders to turn around like this? Republicans never do the right thing unless it profits them directly. Seeing all these turnarounds in rapid succession is just confusing. I can't believe a bunch of Republican politicians all suddenly and in unison grew a conscience in one week.
Their states are getting hammered by Delta. The divide is basically Trump country versus the rest.
There's something particularly vile about governors of states actively fighting Medicaid expansion turning heel like this and blaming the unvaccinated without a modicum of critical thinking.
EDIT: an article on why simply hating on unvaccinated people doesn't cut it
EDIT: an article on why simply hating on unvaccinated people doesn't cut it
Woops! Edited.
I always assume the GOP are old white men lol
You certianly should put blame on them, but also put blame on your party and all of the media outlets linked to them, because they've played every bit of a role in it. It's not a coincidence that the states with the highest vaccination rates voted for Biden while the ones with the lowest vaccination rates voted for Trump.
Data is increasingly showing that it's killing their voters. All the scummy voting laws that they're pushing won't matter if their voters are literally dying.
Data is increasingly showing that it's killing their voters. All the scummy voting laws that they're pushing won't matter if their voters are literally dying.
Money. Turns out prolonging the pandemic is going to be expensive.
They don't actually give a fuck about any of the people affected.
I'm going to guess it's pulling numbers among independent voters. They have their base on lock and they aren't capable of widening that base.
Opinion shifts and opinions in general are discussed and coordinated in daily strategy meetings. Talking points are then distributed among party leaders.
I can only imagine that polling shows that swing voters will blame them for the increasing death count, especially as it's only affecting the unvaccinated.
Possibly going to hurt them at the polls too (even aside from the morbid consequence of their voters being dead and thus literally unable to show up). I wouldn't be surprised if the public starts linking "unvaccinated" with "Republican."
Good, any little bit of these conservatives finally fucking speaking out for people to get vaccinated is a good thing.
Covid killing a disproportionate amount of their voters compared to dems now, and it's a bad fucking look for them to have all these deaths in their states when next year is an election year.
Covid killing a disproportionate amount of their voters compared to dems now, and it's a bad fucking look for them to have all these deaths in their states when next year is an election year.
Because COVID is sky rocketing in those states while blue state are doing much better. Also their senior voters are impacted very badly by this. They can't keep the illusion that COVID vaccines are hoax anymore to keep their voters stupid.
Maybe they finally realized that their dumbass rhetoric is primarily killing the people that vote for them?
And I think it's too late for them to change the minds of these people. What's going on with vaccine denial didn't start last year. It started with all the conspiracy theory rabbit holes that Republicans have been going down for well over a decade. Their voters are far down those holes now and they'll just view Republicans telling them to get vaccinated as another ploy by the Deep State.
Yep.
Tucker, Candace Owens, The Idiot Brigade (MTG and others), etc.
I mean, it's too late. The 'don't get vaccinated!' grift is probably a multi-billion dollar one now if you factor in the clicks and snake oil sales and the GOP has poisoned the well where stopping misinformation = censorship.
On top of the Trump Fed government spent first 8 months insinuating it's a hoax and not a big deal.
Better start begging the Fed for more hospital beds, respirators and aid instead. It's going to be a cold winter. And don't doubt for a second the blood isn't on your hands
On top of the Trump Fed government spent first 8 months insinuating it's a hoax and not a big deal.
Better start begging the Fed for more hospital beds, respirators and aid instead. It's going to be a cold winter. And don't doubt for a second the blood isn't on your hands
I agree. The GOP have successfully eroded government trust in their constituents to a great extend that the GOP can't control them anymore. They are basically reaping what they sawed.
Same two things that always move republicans, money and power
Delta spiking in their states is costing them and the market money
Delta spiking in their states in red communities hurts their pull with swing voters and is killing off their die hard base
If they thought they could get away with blaming it on Biden/the liberals they would, and we saw them try... but it's not sticking so they did a hard pivot.
Nope. I wish that was true, but it isn't. If Saban did that they would show up on his doorstep with pitchforks and torches.
Its also killing the cheap labor pool and keeping things from getting back to business as usual.
Thanks for this.
This disproportionate focus on loud anti-vaxxers has definitely made the jump from Twitter to here on Era too.
Delta. They probably assumed enough people would get vaccinated despite them saying it's a hoax to at least keep numbers at bay, but with Delta and their hospitals being swamped again they realized there are enough people not getting vaccinated that they fucked up their gambit
Peddled in the conspiracy theories to earn political points but didn't bank on a more aggressive, more deadly variant coming to fruition, despite the warnings.
Now, deflecting the blame from themselves, the swindlers, to their ignorant base, the swindled.
The pro-life party sure likes playing fast and loose with people's lives.
Now, deflecting the blame from themselves, the swindlers, to their ignorant base, the swindled.
The pro-life party sure likes playing fast and loose with people's lives.
Kids under 12 are not keeping us from good vaccination rates. There are kids under 12 in every fucking state.
Same reason the mayor of NYC let the Ghostbusters out of jail.
hospitals are filling up in the south
but yeah these are witching hours for the entire nation
ny is back up to october levels and that was right before the fucking massive explosion in the fall
these stupid motherfuckers are about to breed covid-22
its literally 'profits'; they know that another lockdown is bad for business; and it has to be very obvious to even the dumbest person that the vaccines are very effective.
To be honest, she's saying what we are ALL thinking right now. I mean, we've got a thread talking about some dude who was in the hospital with COVID who says he'd rather go BACK to the hospital than get the vaccine. You can't fix stupid.
Covid's death rate is close to 1% overall, and this increases to around 5% for boomers. As such, the Republicans have realized letting Covid rip and kill tens of thousands of what would otherwise be a reliable GOP voting bloc could conceivably swing a major election.
GOP when all their voters refuse the vaccine after years of cultivating a conspiracy driven base:
All their efforts to stop certain people voting while allowing a huge amount of their people to actually vote easily kind of goes to shit when the people they expected to vote for them are refusing a life saving vaccine and catching a variant of covid that is wrecking places badly. If their voting base dies so does their chances at their power obsessed dreams. On top of that a bunch of them probably fear long term illness for those who survive making the push for universal healthcare an easier sell to their base, as well as fearing their communities causing economic issues because that would effect their chances of staying in power etc. As you said, it isn't about saving lives, it's about keeping their power and position in society.
This is yet another short term gain without looking more than 2 minutes ahead by the GOP. They were all in on the antivax shit while it looked like it would bring them more power and votes, but they completely ignored the issues doing so would cause long term until suddenly it effects them and they realise everyone telling them it would bite them in the ass was right. It's happened over and over, remember their whole "corporations are people and have first amendment rights" shit and arguing for businesses to be allowed to refuse service for any reason to make it harder for gay people to buy a wedding cake? Well that bit them in the ass when social media started banning them for any reason etc. Same as always for these idiots.
Yup. Literally all it does for them is maintain the Trumpian Bravado. At some point the economic and political side effects outweigh even that.
You just need to incentivizing smart, if red states started requiring anyone 18+ to provide proof of vaccination to enter sporting arenas, restaurants, etc a lot of people would sign up for a vaccine tomorrow. Perhaps a 4th stimulus check worth like 2,000 for every vaccinated person from the federal government regardless of income. It's sad it would have to come to things like that, but it would absolutely get a large number of dumb fence sitters to take the plunge.