Incentives to vax

[wolfriverjoe 980]

Kinda funny how all the 'Covid is a hoax' crowd claimed that everyone who died had their death blamed on Covid, yet THEY are now claiming that everyone who dies is dying from the vax.

[DougH 220]

1 hour ago, wolfriverjoe said:

Kinda funny how all the 'Covid is a hoax' crowd claimed that everyone who died had their death blamed on Covid, yet THEY are now claiming that everyone who dies is dying from the vax.

At this point I find nothing funny about this. I am so beyond mad that so many people I held in high regard have turned out to be absolute fucking morons. 

[BIGUN 891]

4 minutes ago, DougH said:

I am so beyond mad that so many people I held in high regard have turned out to be absolute fucking morons. 

Welcome to the Republican Party. 

[DougH 220]

Just now, BIGUN said:

Welcome to the Republican Party. 

You misunderstood, my anger has been bi-partisan but not evenly distributed. 

I was a Republican from the time I could legally vote, I could argue for small government, personal liberties, and fiscal responsibility with the best of them. Maybe you can find some hint of that still remaining in the party but I have a hard time seeing it. I think the last few years have laid bare how hollow some of those ideals truly were.

I'll continue to have some major disagreements with Democrats policy agenda, but I would need electroshock therapy before I could consider myself to be aligned with the Republican party ever again. 

How's that saying go about the company you keep? Jewish space lasers, election deniers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, science deniers, religious bigots... no thanks.

 

[BIGUN 891]

38 minutes ago, DougH said:

no thanks.

It was a joke. But, I failed to put the smiley face. 

[DougH 220]

2 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

It was a joke. But, I failed to put the smiley face. 

I gathered. I guess with two kids under the age of 4 I am feeling less humorous about it because I don't see it getting any better in the future for them.

[BIGUN 891]

26 minutes ago, DougH said:

I gathered. I guess with two kids under the age of 4 I am feeling less humorous about it because I don't see it getting any better in the future for them.

I understand. Got a 15 year old about to charge head-on into the world and the knowledge that I won't always be able to protect her. We'd like to think we're making a better future for them - and then realize we're not.  

[wolfriverjoe 980]

1 hour ago, DougH said:

You misunderstood, my anger has been bi-partisan but not evenly distributed. 

I was a Republican from the time I could legally vote, I could argue for small government, personal liberties, and fiscal responsibility with the best of them. Maybe you can find some hint of that still remaining in the party but I have a hard time seeing it. I think the last few years have laid bare how hollow some of those ideals truly were.

I'll continue to have some major disagreements with Democrats policy agenda, but I would need electroshock therapy before I could consider myself to be aligned with the Republican party ever again. 

How's that saying go about the company you keep? Jewish space lasers, election deniers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, science deniers, religious bigots... no thanks.

 

Same here. I voted R for just about every major election until 2012. I haven't voted R AT ALL since 2016. And doubt that I ever will again.

MTG tweeted that the 'red states' should 'divorce' the rest of the country. 
She seems to forget that:

A - The stupid fools tried that 160 years ago. And failed.

B - The 14th Amendment bars those who participate in an insurrection from holding office. I'm not sure where the 'participation' line is, but she's getting closer & closer.

Funny how the R 'leadership' is not really answering any questions about this.

[JerryBaumchen 773]

1 hour ago, DougH said:

I was a Republican from the time I could legally vote, I could argue for small government, personal liberties, and fiscal responsibility with the best of them. Maybe you can find some hint of that still remaining in the party but I have a hard time seeing it. I think the last few years have laid bare how hollow some of those ideals truly were.

I'll continue to have some major disagreements with Democrats policy agenda, but I would need electroshock therapy before I could consider myself to be aligned with the Republican party ever again.

Hi Doug,

I totally agree.  As I have posted numerous times, I was a Republican for over 40 yrs.  I did NOT leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.

Jerry Baumchen

[lippy 388]

2 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

Funny how the R 'leadership' is not really answering any questions about this.

The whackjobs have McCarthy by the short'n curlys, he can't afford to try to inject reason (or eject treason).

[mistercwood 269]

11 hours ago, BIGUN said:

I've been trying to educate him and he responded the other day with, "How come you see all these people falling over dead." My response was, "We've always had that many people falling over dead. What we haven't had is camera phones in everyone's hands filming it." 

Worth also inviting him to source the events in these videos as well. Most of them didn't die, and most of them occurred either pre-Covid or at least pre-vaccine. It's an active disinformation campaign.

 

EDIT: And I don't mean that as a "challenge" him type thing, I mean it as an actual investigative exercise. If he can see for himself that the people pushing these narratives are actively fluffing it with fake data, the better the odds that he'll be more sceptical in future off his own back.

Edited February 21 by mistercwood