Meh. As you, yourself, have pointed out repeatedly over the years, the conservative grass roots are viewed as something to be clipped at every opportunity. Whether it's hawking gold or silver or prepper supplies or magic elixirs that cure baldness and impotence and stop you from having to pee in the night, the conservative movement is just one giant carny made up of barkers like Alex Jones and marks like the inhabitants of The Villages in Florida.<br>
So it's no surprise that conservative sites and shows should start hawking coronavirus preventatives. It's what they do an how they live!
"...I’ve been getting a new wave of emails from the rightwing crap farms — emails offering coronavirus defenses and cures."
As I've said now ad nauseam, I'm an Old Testament -- maybe Lewis Carroll, now that I think about it -- guy. Bad acts deserve punishment, not forgiveness and enabling more; let's the punishment fit the crime. What the GOP base has done for decades in electing patently unfit assholes, well, it's a capital crime in my book. If deaths of despair, drug addiction, etc., isn't enough, sure let them get Covid-19 (even if not a fatal case, the after effects are permanent; gonna be hard for survivors to smoke their crystal meth and crack) or, more appropriate, take Dr. Trump's cure and drink some poison.
So what's the problem here for Roy other than a toxic mailbox? I mean, as always, fuck their feelings. And given the harm they've done the nation and, indeed, the world, fuck their feelings. Indeed, fuck them.
You know, possibly because I never much followed the comics apart from the works of Carl Barks, I had seen only the Pythons’ mid-seventies takeoff on the ad: “FEAR NO MAN! I’ll make you a MASTER of LLAP-Goch.”
“WHY ‘At his own risk’?
“BECAUSE if his fellow masters of LLAP-GOCH DISCOVER his IDENTITY, they will PUNISH HIM SEVERELY for revealing the DEADLY secrets he has promised to keep SECRET, without giving them a piece of the ACTION, and also BECAUSE of the TERRIBLE risk of PUNISHMENT he runs under the Trades Description Act.”
Meh. As you, yourself, have pointed out repeatedly over the years, the conservative grass roots are viewed as something to be clipped at every opportunity. Whether it's hawking gold or silver or prepper supplies or magic elixirs that cure baldness and impotence and stop you from having to pee in the night, the conservative movement is just one giant carny made up of barkers like Alex Jones and marks like the inhabitants of The Villages in Florida.<br>
So it's no surprise that conservative sites and shows should start hawking coronavirus preventatives. It's what they do an how they live!
"P.S. You can be 'coronavirus proof' in just a day."
Heck, I can be 86 proof in just a few minutes, but that won't "cure" anything but sobriety. (Doubly so for me since I don't drink.)
You nail it. I think their end game is The Rapture (whether they consciously know it or not).
"...I’ve been getting a new wave of emails from the rightwing crap farms — emails offering coronavirus defenses and cures."
As I've said now ad nauseam, I'm an Old Testament -- maybe Lewis Carroll, now that I think about it -- guy. Bad acts deserve punishment, not forgiveness and enabling more; let's the punishment fit the crime. What the GOP base has done for decades in electing patently unfit assholes, well, it's a capital crime in my book. If deaths of despair, drug addiction, etc., isn't enough, sure let them get Covid-19 (even if not a fatal case, the after effects are permanent; gonna be hard for survivors to smoke their crystal meth and crack) or, more appropriate, take Dr. Trump's cure and drink some poison.
So what's the problem here for Roy other than a toxic mailbox? I mean, as always, fuck their feelings. And given the harm they've done the nation and, indeed, the world, fuck their feelings. Indeed, fuck them.
The National Lampoon had a funny parody of those ads called "Lung Fu: Learn The Mysterious Oriental Art Of Blowing Your Opponent's Lungs Apart."
You know, possibly because I never much followed the comics apart from the works of Carl Barks, I had seen only the Pythons’ mid-seventies takeoff on the ad: “FEAR NO MAN! I’ll make you a MASTER of LLAP-Goch.”
“WHY ‘At his own risk’?
“BECAUSE if his fellow masters of LLAP-GOCH DISCOVER his IDENTITY, they will PUNISH HIM SEVERELY for revealing the DEADLY secrets he has promised to keep SECRET, without giving them a piece of the ACTION, and also BECAUSE of the TERRIBLE risk of PUNISHMENT he runs under the Trades Description Act.”
Image at the linky:
https://americymru.net/gallery/image/gallery_image/558/1280/_v=4256c1219082874
“... after a while.” ?!
Here's a predicsh... Alex Jones will bump himself off when the bills become due. And that's not going to be long...https://tinyurl.com/ww5bxmo