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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Pretty much shorter Tucker et al: "How dare that n****r show herself in public?!?!?"

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Or maybe it’s just easier not to yank your mask down for a nanosecond and then put it back on immediately when you’re only giving your spouse a welcoming peck, as opposed to reenacting Rick and Ilsa’s emotional love scenes from Casablanca.

Again, normal people do not care about this. It’s all outrage porn for the base.

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when i get asked why i'm still wearing a mask, i always reply that it's too trigger sensitive right-wing snowflakes.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable...

When it comes to you, Tucker, you're probably right.

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Wearing a mask should be de rigeur in cold & flu season from here on out (if not only because it will be lingering mutating COVID season as well).

RW idea of "socialized medicine": all of us equally share a deadly virus.

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Yeah, right, Edward Roso... "try..." <eyeroll>

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Presented for your consideration: “When I write of ‘best columnists,’ I’m thinking of George Will.” Fred Hiatt, 5/9/21. Another installment is “this is why we can’t have nice things.”

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"[Emma Green] suggested that “progressive politics” made people “neurotic” because it “focuses on fighting against everyday disasters, such as climate change and poverty..."

So what are they supposed to fight against? Skeletor?

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"We are watching the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable..."

Wow, that's top notch projection.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

"[S]ince when do conservatives, who make up most of the vaccine abstainers, take their social cues..." from facts?

"Dumber conservatives like Meghan McCain... insisted that if vaccinated persons were themselves safe from serious illness, they have no need to concern themselves with the welfare of anyone who may not be."

I confess: I'm pretty much in agreement. Happy torso my vaccinated self against the possibility of infecting whatcha can call a Republican or likely Republican voter's health and wellbeing. You know, doing my share is supporting Jehovah's plague of the 'rona by which he attempted to send a message to Xian heretics, the sociopathically greedy, et al.

As for the efforts described in today's post, the snowflakes need all the reassurance they can get because they're far too cowardly to own their beliefs. They need bullshit for reinforcement. Then again, being complicit -- actually accomplices -- in the gratuitous, avoidable Covid deaths caused by their beloved Donnie choosing to ignore the pandemic as much and as long as he could, they need even more reassurance of lies than normal.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

Just slap me on my mask. I like my pandemic play a little rough.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

A new study from IMHE estimates that almost 900,000 Americans have died of COVID. That Trump and his propagandists turned every element of this pandemic into yet another idiotic means to divide the populace and score political points has resulted in mass murder. The fact that there is now an oversupply of the vaccine due to the lack of demand is just obscene. In a just world Tucker Carlson would be burned at the stake.

For anyone who doesn't know about it, here's what happened in a more enlightened time, when there was a brief outbreak of smallpox in NYC in 1947:

"Within three weeks of the discovery of the outbreak, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction with New York City health officials, had procured the smallpox vaccine and inoculated over 6,350,000 adults and children.[1] Of that number, 5,000,000 had been vaccinated within the first two weeks. The rapid response was credited with limiting the outbreak to 12 people, 10 of whom recovered, while 2 died."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_New_York_City_smallpox_outbreak

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

So it's possible they were just trolling the wingnuts?

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

'We are ... the crudest kind of propaganda designed by the cynical for the benefit of a population they consider stupid and weak and malleable'...is Fox's real slogan.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

I can’t wait for fall when Emma Green scolds everyone on the propriety of wearing white after Labor Day. Maybe just mind your own fking business, Gladys Kravitz.

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May 10, 2021Liked by Roy Edroso

EAIAC - Every Accusation Is A Confession - without Trump dominating the political discourse of hate, we are left with this bunch of losers and their screeching about sensible health politics. This after the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation has estimated that the US had more than 900,000 excess deaths since March 2020 including the more than 500,000 confirmed Covid-19 deaths. They have no credible policy responses to Biden so it's just the truly endless culture wars.

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