I’d rather die owning the libs with a tube down my throat than take a lib vaccine to live on my feet https://t.co/VvoQkTBxHN
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 22, 2021
perfect illustration of why “guy who will get the vaccine if the libs are just nicer” is a totally invented character
— kilgore trout, terminal hiccups patient (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 22, 2021
"Oh yeah, well how many Democrats have been vaccinated?"
"Actually all of them."
"Oh yeah, but they can't prove that."
"Yes they can."
"Okay well I think my point is made." https://t.co/fvqBbAx0tJ— Seth Masket (@smotus) July 22, 2021
I think @tedcruz genuinely believed this, because he is unable to imagine anybody has non-venal motives for governing. https://t.co/CXECfOmtoF
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 22, 2021
debbie
“Too much agenda in that jab!” ?
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: Is that something the Louisiana guy said?
hueyplong
@mrmoshpotato:
What he does say in that clip is arguably dumber/worse.
Baud
Tire rims and
anthraxCoviddebbie
@hueyplong:
If I had been interviewing him, I would have smacked him with that boom mike.
dmsilev
So, when told ‘ask your doctor’, Trump asked Ronny Jackson? Explains a lot.
Baud
@hueyplong:
At least he wasn’t shrill.
jl
@Baud: Anthrax and lockjaw and SARS, Oh My!
jl
The summary of that Ronnie Jackson clip was much more coherent than the exchange in the clip itself.
Jeffro
I think I’m starting to see why GQP officials and Fox News hosts (save Tucker, blessed Tucker) went into panic mode this week about getting folks vaxxed.
(well, ‘their’ folks, anyway)
sorry homeboys, you done fucked up but good this time…killing your base and reinforcing to the whole rest of us that you can’t be trusted, not even to save your own voters…
Jeffro
and kilgore trout’s tweet is the perfect rejoinder to Gary Abernathy’s utter BS in the Post today…show us an example, just one person, Gary, one right-winger who calmly thought about it and said, “you know, given the science and all that, I should probably get vaccinated – even if it boosts the economy and Biden’s chances for re-election”
Percysowner
Off Topic, First it was Joyce Beatty Congresswoman Joyce Beatty arrested while protesting on Capitol Hill
Now it’s Hank Johnson Rep. Hank Johnson arrested at ‘Black Voters Matter’ protest for voting rights
Guess what they have in common, besides being pro voting rights.
lol chikinburd
I don’t have time right now to elaborate or address inevitable objections, but my only words now, and increasingly, are “Kick them out.”
Baud
The moral of the story is:
We were into something when, all those years ago, we urged Obama to warn people not to drink bleach.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Baud: Yes. Had he done that, Clinton might have won.
Baud
Reddit commenter
jl
@Baud: ” We were into something when, all those years ago, we urged Obama to warn people not to drink bleach. ”
Forget it, bud, your nanny state is not the master of ME!!
Jeffro
@Baud: it would have been like “Left Behind”, only in reverse.
Best not to entertain such thoughts…sigh…
NotMax
It was exactly one year ago today when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on camera and made a bold prediction about the coronavirus pandemic.
jl
@NotMax: All the GOP immigrant caravan crises go away within 3 months after an election. The debt crises go away after a Republican is elected president. Cruz was just following the data and the science.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
The party of “personal responsibility” continues to blame others for their failures.
The party of “fuck your feelings” continues to act like snowflakes
NotMax
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
“Our problem is with these neoconservatives, the radical right, the religious extremists whose interpretation is very narrow, and who want to destroy everyone who doesn’t agree with them. I see them as betrayers of the fundamental principles of conservatism. A lot of so-called conservatives don’t know what the word means.”
– Barry Goldwater
Jeffro
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: “if only the libs had been nicer, I would have followed their recommendations” said no RWNJ, ever
(choke gasp wheeze) said many RWNJs, while watching Tucker fade to black on their hospital TV
I’m still trying to think of what, if anything, would work with these people. Biden going on national TV and going, “If I were a cold-hearted son of a bitch like Mitch McConnell, I’d let all of you idiots die and make 2024 a cakewalk. But Democrats are different…get. vaccinated. Even if it means you live to vote against me.”
Nah, never mind
Gin & Tonic
DougJ just Tweeted a link to this piece, and yes, we love to hate Thiessen, who is a bit overwrought here. But he’s more right than wrong on the substance. As I’ve said, Zelensky is being served a shit sandwich and told to like it. He gets a WH visit in August, when everybody’s on Martha’s Vineyard and Congress isn’t in session (in contrast with Poroshenko and Yuschenko, who got to address a joint session), and he has to agree to a deal which fucks his country while giving him no tangible benefit.
NotMax
@Jeffro
“Give blood, get juice and a cookie. Get vaccinated, nothing.”
//
Another Scott
Meanwhile, Nature (and evolution) never sleeps… Helen Branswell at STATNews:
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
dm
I suppose I’ll get in trouble for pointing out that Ronnie Johnson was talking about those Democratic Texas legislators who flew to DC, then a bunch of them tested positive. Were they really all vaccinated? (Probably they were, thank you, delta. But his remarks are less stupid than it sounds in summary.)
The fellow in the first video is “a small business owner”, so one wonders what his insurance coverage will be like.
Vaccine refusal is a pre-existing condition I could get behind.
dr. bloor
Ronny really reminds me of a resident I worked with as an intern who everyone thought was better suited to be the mayor of a small town in the deep south. Memory like an elephant, authoritarian, Dunning-Krueger Exhibit A.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“in trouble” with whom?
looks to me like he started talking about “Democrats” in general, meaning in Congress, I suppose, and the narrowed in on the TX delegation, and I’ve heard from the first story, which I believe was about a Harris aide a couple of days ago, that they all said they were fully vaxxed.
I think Doctor Feelgood made himself feel good once, or a couple of hundred times, too often, and he’s addled his own pate with happy pills and gin
Lapassionara
@Kay: ??
Jeffro
I do wonder if we’ll ever find out what the modern GQP is hopped up on (besides hate, self-loathing, etc). Steroids? Adderall? Who knows?
We should just wait to see what they accuse Biden of being on, and then we’ll know.
Kay
@Lapassionara:
Just amazing. He raises money then launders it thru his PR firm.
The Logan Circle Group has 3 employees.
smith
@Kay: And the planned TFG-Bill O’Reilly concert series isn’t selling tickets, and TFG is reduced to holding his rallies in county fairgrounds. Could it be the magic is gone?
Another Scott
The Democratic Primary in the Shontel Brown race in Ohio is in 12 days (Tuesday August 3).
Akron BeaconJournal (from 7/14):
ActBlue – Shontel Brown for Congress has a smiling picture of her and Uncle Joe.
Donated (again). Here’s hoping she does well.
Cheers,
Scott.
Lapassionara
@Kay: it’s a grift, all the way down. The Republicans know how to raise and spend money, that’s for sure.
CaseyL
@Lapassionara:
That’s honestly all they care about, how to get as much money as possible from as many sources as possible, into their own pockets.
They especially love diverting public funds to themselves and their cronies. They see the US taxpayer as a sheep to be fleeced regularly. That’s why ending Social Security is an ongoing wet dream for them: trillions of dollars, just waiting to be stolen.
Kay
@smith:
Look how little they pay Roger Stone:
They paid Stone 15,000 out of the million they spent in the 2nd quarter. You can hire Roger Stone for 5000 dollars up front? That’s just….not that much.
Mike in NC
With his mangy beard Ted Cruz looks like the Wolfman.
Bill Arnold
@Kay:
That’s not even wise, on their part. I deeply despise Mr. Roger Stone , but he still has some old-school ratfucking talent and skills, and $5000 could easily be perceived as an insult (unless it was the asking price).
Danielx
Clearly this was the end game: a plague that is only affecting Republicans. Why isn’t the media asking questions? Where’s the outrage?
Other than fuck those guys, I got nothin’.
Danielx
@Jeffro:
All of them, Katie….
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The Stonecutters have penetatred the Alabama Governor’s mansion!
Ohio Mom
Maybe the money to Stone was more of a down payment or a retainer fee? Maybe they don’t need any of his services yet, they are reserving their place in line?
Because it is a weirdly small amount.
The Moar You Know
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Just to be super clear: She’s blaming black folks. Who are not getting vaccinated at anywhere near the rates any of us would like to see. But she’s not blaming MAGATs or Fox or Republicans. She’s blaming black people and everyone in Alabama knows that.
boatboy_srq
@Baud: #KnowNothingsForSmallpox
Omnes Omnibus
@Ohio Mom: I was asking for retainers that size 20 years ago.
Another Scott
@Ohio Mom:
TDB reported in April that Stone wanted $250k to try to get a pardon for Greenberg.
AFAIK, bank transfers over $10k still have to be reported, so lots of $5k transfers in a short amount of time should raise eyebrows…
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@Bill Arnold:
I thought it was $15000 total, 3 payments of $5000.
Still cheap, maybe that’s how much they had to pay him to even get him to talk to them.
Yutsano
@Another Scott:
They do. And although multiple transfers of $5K aren’t reported, bank managers are trained to notice interesting patterns like that. It’s a method of hiding income that I have seen before.
apocalipstick
It brings a tear to the eye to be in the presence of reasoning so circular.