It’s important to remember the difference between Trump/Vance (Tr/ance) zealots and literally every other political party in America.
Trump/Vance supporters will believe anything, even if that means making shit up about actors in the process of acting if they happen to post an opinion about Trump or Vance.
In Tr/anceworld, this image is righteous retribution! MAGA24! (because Jennifer Aniston expressed her First Amendment rights and dared go on record against the Republican party nominees. Because you know, celebrities can have those, and vote too).
Meanwhile in the real world, those are paid extras and this is going to be in the upcoming season.
This fucking sucks.
This all fucking sucks.
There was a point in the not too recent past where flagrant, ridiculous lies weren’t the default, go-to tactic of the right. One could reasonably criticize each side for any misinformation and a conversation could even be occasionally productive—at least for people who cares more about understanding the topic.
Now, that’s literally all they have. I was on the right, politically. In some senses I still am, in principle. But I’ll be goddamned if I stand shoulder to shoulder with people who feel they need to rely on lies, fabrications, and an entirely fictional version of reality in order to attain power.
If that’s how you achieve power, you are not worthy of welding it. And if you make excuses for those tactics, you certainly do not fucking belong here.
The entire history of tabloid media and the fact that tabloid articles are now being autogenerated hourly by AI suggests that the internet is no longer a safe place to get information. About anything. It’s literally become The Matrix, which is why people like Andrew Tate, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump thrive in it. It’s not fair to call it “right wing” so much as a safety blanket for fools.
Thank Rupert Murdoch, News Corp, FOX, for making this happen. All the rest were sharks joining the frenzy.
Those of us who used the internet 30 years know know it was actually HARD to find bullshit, and when you did it was usually fan fiction porn about Smurfs.
The only solution going forward is to go full John Connor.
Never trust any thinking machine.
In this timeline, Frank Herbert actually was our Lisan al-Gaib.
The outsider’s perspective needs to include women and LGBT people, whose rights have and are being eroded thanks to a supreme court appointed by Republicans that is systematically rolling back those rights.
The outsider’s perspective should take into account how common an ectopic pregnancy is, and how states like Texas have banned the treatment for it up until the absolute last minute when the woman is about to die on the table, because of their bullshit ideas.
The outsider’s perspective shouldn’t be just a middle-aged white dude’s perspective. For those people, there is a substantial difference between the parties.
Hell yeah, that’s awesome.
Apologies for the assumption, it’s just that 99% of the time when I’m arguing with someone, that’s both the case and the cause, sadly.
It’s really not laughworthy, @anon31557976.
Trump is pretty directly responsible for the worst health catastrophe in US and world history. That’s what the historians will say about him. Handed a virus, fucked it all up. With the entire American medical arsenal at his disposal, continues to fuck it up.
If you look at the numbers, it’s anywhere around 4x10^6, 7x10^6, or 2^n dead people.
Just imagine the timeline where the US led that charge. It wasn’t this one.
Let me put Cuomo’s EO into context for you, and mind you, all he did was tell nursing homes they couldn’t refuse positive patients, for a few weeks.
Trump, on the other hand, blasts out medical bullshit because he listens to conspiracy idiots all day long. He can’t stop and he slave-controls the minds of tens of millions.
That little yellow bit is where the Cuomo nursing home thing happened. The red line is the effective end of the Trump presidency (Election Day).
A lot of the spikes are also the fault of Trump supporters, because for some reason they no longer believe N95 masks work, they still refuse to wear them, even when coming to work sick with the same disease that just killed 7 million people.
I’d still call this a win, strategic.
We don’t have a “Democrat government”.
We have a Democrat White House, a Republican Supreme Court, and Republican House of Representatives, and a Democrat Senate. We call that “Separation of Powers”.
As far as the UK government, they did almost everything in unison with the CDC and WHO.
But make no mistake: Trump killed Britons, by the thousands. Believe it or not, the anti-vaxx, pandemic conspiracy crowd doesn’t recognize national borders.
Trump’s cult is multi-national. There are MAGA Canadians trolling the Bullshido Facebook group.
So when he spread all of his nonsense about COVID, it had global impact.
Time will tell if that was a good idea …
Exactly.
Trump has fucked up the GOP for almost 20 years. From Obama’s birth certificate to Haitians eating cats.
And yes it’s every single Republican voter’s fault. They eat this bullshit up. They nominated him again, after all his shit. And it’s worse than ever because he’s now survived 2 assassination attempts, which I think puts him in a tie with Gerald Ford.
They could find someone better, but they all want a convicted felon and sexual bully? Ok, folks are going to organize against that.
Hey, if they can get Puff Daddy on RICO charges…anything goes. It’s all dildoes, lube, and death beepers from here on down.
Where did the CDC differ from the EU and WHO?
“Mish mash of whatever”, not really, again unless you mean the massive cult of science-ignorant morons we have (which the UK has as well). That lunatic mob is transglobal.
I mean, name a single piece of CDC guidance that was in error. They actually do their homework, unlike Trump supporters who binge cable news and Twitter. The CDC has prepared for pandemics since inception, but they weren’t counting on Trump and his cult fucking everything up.
“Vaccines don’t work”
“masks don’t work”
“Social distancing don’t work’
'lockdowns don’t work”
These are all false, logically and empirically, and the presence of people who believe them and sabotage them doesn’t change that.
How many USSS agents did Trump infect with COVID because he refused to wear a mask? He’s no better than these POS gym rats who come to lift even though they’re Sars-Cov2 positive…
No, the CDC is the federal authority for all 50 states, and that place is not a political agency. It’s run by doctors, epidemiologists, etc.
You definitely implied the CDC in your comments, when you compared them to the WHO and UK government and suggested there was a difference. Especially your comment about “conservatives” in the UK Parliament.
This is just rambling to avoid admitting your point was stupid.
No, it’s not rambling. There is exactly one political party in the US trading and voting on medical lies, and it’s the Republican party. From Obama’s legal birthplace , to “Tea Party” assault on the Affordable Care Act onward to the Sars-Cov2 human catastrophe enabled by Donald Trump and his cult army.
Have you ever even rambled, bruh? I don’t think you know what that word means.
Why do I get the feeling I’d smoke you in the Octagon? I have a natural born (some say killer) instinct on matters like this. You’re starting to smell like stale scallops.
You know how to remove that smell, right? A milk bath.
You ready?
I can smell it through the screen.
But they can’t when it comes to national emergencies, like COVID. Or 9/11. It’s law.
This is another one of those “local sheriffs run Bartertown” tropes being peddled, especially in rural areas…mostly by local sheriffs…
Do you know who this guy is? One of my heroes, he knows quite a bit about how often the national defense has to rush in to help a state. My favorite command was…
