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hay rick

(7,624 posts)
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:36 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus? I blame the Democrats!

You know it's going to happen. The Republicans are focus group testing memes and talking points as you read this. They are going to blame Democrats for the pandemic, they just haven't figured out how to make the claim yet. But blame they will.

We've seen this movie a hundred times before. Previous fact-free installments included Obamaphone, Benghazi, and Hunter Biden (to be continued). Millions of people will immediately cling to the next scapegoat story like it's a life raft. There is one important difference between the coming right-wing coronavirus fiction and all the previous scapegoat stories- it will be offered as an explanation of why many thousands or even millions of people have died.

Buckle up.

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Coronavirus? I blame the Democrats! (Original Post) hay rick Mar 2020 OP
And their followers will believe ALL of it. BigDemVoter Mar 2020 #1
Exactly. guillaumeb Mar 2020 #2
You KNOW you're right................ MyOwnPeace Mar 2020 #3
It's like a bad Bogart movie..."We'll always have Benghazi." hay rick Mar 2020 #4
O-M-Fn-G!!!!!!!! MyOwnPeace Mar 2020 #5
Well, "we" are already being blamed for the hype. Now that they see it's real, blame for the virus Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #6

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
2. Exactly.
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:37 PM
Mar 2020

And if they can include HRC, Obama, and Hunter Biden into this lunatic idea, social media will seize on it.

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
3. You KNOW you're right................
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:39 PM
Mar 2020

especially, as you stated: "Previous fact-free installments included Obamaphone, Benghazi, and Hunter Biden (to be continued)."

I've gotta' take issue with you there.

We have NO scientific proof (get it?) that they're done with Benghazi!

hay rick

(7,624 posts)
4. It's like a bad Bogart movie..."We'll always have Benghazi."
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:43 PM
Mar 2020

And don't count out Obamaphones. I volunteer at the local Democratic office and got a prank call about a week ago from someone who claimed he was using his Obamaphone.

MyOwnPeace

(16,927 posts)
5. O-M-Fn-G!!!!!!!!
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:47 PM
Mar 2020

Wasn't that the MOST bizarre one ever? It was as if you had convinced millions of people that indeed, the Tooth Fairy IS real!

I ache for what America has become............

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)
6. Well, "we" are already being blamed for the hype. Now that they see it's real, blame for the virus
Thu Mar 12, 2020, 07:48 PM
Mar 2020

will be next for sure. It's their MO.

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