The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Simply Diabolical !
Same plan ,
Lie
C***t
And
Steal !
Milosia2 wrote:
Simply Diabolical !
Same plan ,
Lie
C***t
And
Steal !
you're looking in the mirror fool. Thats not GOP, thats you, you see!
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
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I stopped reading this BS right after "Trump's followers promote death and disease...." Ugh!!
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
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You got us again, Columbo.
Makes one just shake their head a sheepish grin, and then move on.
Strycker
Loc: The middle of somewhere else.
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
show quote)
There is enough BS in this to fertilize all the corn in Iowa. Try not to push so hard or you may blow a hemorrhoid.
microphor wrote:
Get a brain!
Should sell his. Very low mileage.
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
show quote)
It appears that the W***n v***s jab has now effected your brain. While some NFL players suffer from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) you appear to be suffering from Acute Traumatic Encephalopathy (ATE) and it has eaten your brain cells.
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
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Why in God's name would anyone buy into this guys bulls**t?
Milosia2 wrote:
Simply Diabolical !
Same plan ,
Lie
C***t
And
Steal !
Milo,
Citing the dem creed, go Milo, chug that purple kool-aid.
Milosia2 wrote:
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns
Thom Hartmann
by Thom Hartmann | May 14, 2021 - 7:22am
Authoritarian Trump followers within the GOP are actively promoting death and disease among Americans to win e******ns. The brutality and cynicism is breathtaking.
As we saw yesterday, Rand Paul and several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, grilling Dr. F***i, did their best to advance one of the GOP's two major 2022/2024 e******n strategies.
The first of those strategies, of course, is to replace actual e******n officials with Republican hacks so they can throw out the v**es they don't like and simply decide e******ns on their own. That strategy also includes suppressing the v**e and stopping people from v****g, as GOP Governor Ducey did yesterday, throwing 140,000 v**ers (including 30,000 Latinos) off the rolls.
As I wrote yesterday, they've passed those laws in several states now and are proposing them in nearly every state in the union, and the only defense American democracy has against them is the For The People Act, which hinges on changing or ending the filibuster.
But the second, and most evil part of their strategy — at least in the context of their total disregard for human life — has to do with the c****av***s.
Their logic goes something like this:
1. Convince enough Americans not to get v******ted that the country never reaches herd immunity and President Joe Biden therefore cannot get the v***s crisis under control.
2. The failure of Biden to control the v***s will mean, like what happened to Trump, that the economy will not get back to full functioning, either.
3. As any first-year Political Science student can tell you, the biggest single variable in most e******ns, particularly federal e******ns, is the economy. If Republicans can keep the economy off-balance by keeping the v***s circulating, they'll have a much better chance of winning e******ns in 2022 and particularly in the p**********l race in 2024. And if they can use uncertainty about when the c****av***s crisis may end here to crash the stock market, that gets them double bonus points!
This strategy, aggressively supported by right-wing media, requires creating doubt about the v***s generally and the v*****es in particular. It's why about half the Republicans in Congress refuse to say whether they've been v******ted or not, and why Trump and his wife took their shots in secret before they left the White House.
Tucker Carlson has been "asking questions" about people who died after getting v******ted, as if the v*****es had anything to do with their deaths (it didn't), echoing similar lies told by America's dumbest senator, Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.
Right-wingers and conspiracy nuts on radio and across the Internet, and bots and trolls from multiple foreign countries filling thousands of Facebook groups, are coming right out and warning people against getting v******ted.
Their freak-outs include everything from the theory that Bill Gates is putting tracking chips in the v*****es so he can know where you are (presumably these people don't know about cell phones?) to suggestions that m**A v*****es "alter your DNA" (they don't) and could turn us into zombies, mutants, or even make us all liberals.
In yesterday's hearing, more than one Republican senator tried to produce a clip worthy of getting themselves on Fox News by suggesting that people who have had the c****av***s don't need to get v******ted because they are "already immune."
F***i has already shot that one down; people who had the "wild" variety of c****av***s earlier in the year can still get just as sick or even die from the South African variant, which is spreading across the United States right now, and because the Indian variant contains some of the same mutations presumably it can also infect and k**l people who have already had the "wild" first-generation c****av***s.
The v*****es, however, actually produce an immunity to all of these variants that's stronger than the natural immunity of having had c****av***s in its original form. None of that actual science, however, mattered to the Republicans speaking yesterday.
Rand Paul, for his part, tried his best to promote the idea that somehow F***i was in on an evil plot years ago to send money to China to develop a weaponized c****av***s that they would then unleash on the world like, you know, a year ago.
It's a classic example of how a grain of t***h can be turned into a sand castle of lies.
It's true that governments, including China and the United States, have been engaged in biological warfare experiments for decades, which includes weaponizing v***ses. When anthrax (a bacterium) was mailed to leading Democrats and news media after 9/11 just in time to promote passage of the PATRIOT Act, it was traced back to a US weapons lab, for example.
What's not true, however, and what Rand Paul was trying to get people to believe is that labs doing basic v******y research, including the lab in W***n, are not only involved in this kind of research but are intentionally responsible for the p******c.
There's a remote possibility that some part of his hypothesis is correct — the part about the C***d v***s escaping from the lab in W***n — but nobody knows for sure at this point in time and it's considered extremely unlikely by most credible sources. Even if true, though, it has nothing to do with Paul's questioning.
Because that wasn't the point he was trying to make: what Rand Paul was trying to do is discredit Dr. Anthony F***i and the entire public health team surrounding President Biden, so Americans will not believe what they say and therefore won't get v******ted.
Which takes us back to the second of the two Republican e******n strategies: keep the v***s circulating in America; thus keeping the US economy in chaos; then run ads complaining about the "bad Democrat economy" and use that to win e******ns in 2022 and 2024.
The raw brutality of this e******n strategy is extraordinary.
The number of new c****av***s infections in the United States has now dropped below 30,000 a day, and the number of deaths is consistently well below the 400-a-day mark. This is a huge contrast to the time when Donald Trump was pushing people back into the workplace to get re-elected and we were seeing hundreds of thousands of people infected and thousands dying every day.
No matter how hard Rand Paul and his Republican colleagues try, enough of us are v******ted now that they won't get America back to those kinds of terrible numbers. But they think they can get the numbers to stay high enough that the economy will remain in crisis and Republicans can use it as a wedge issue.
And they don't care how many Americans die to get them there.
This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The GOP's Dark Plot to Win E******ns br Thom Hartm... (
show quote)
It seems that you already see the handwriting on the wall and are preparing excuses for your losses in 22 and 24. It's always a good idea to plan ahead.
Milosia2 wrote:
Simply Diabolical !
Same plan ,
Lie
C***t
And
Steal !
Just taking a page out of the Democrat playbook. And if we get caught we'll deny it till the very end.
microphor wrote:
Why in God's name would anyone buy into this guys bulls**t?
Milktoastia has a soft spot for ignoramuses and science fiction.
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