600,000 Americans are dead, and Republicans are still telling people that the pandemic is a hoax

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/5/22/2031608/-600-000-Americans-are-dead-and-Republicans-are-still-telling-people-that-the-pandemic-is-a-hoax

It’s wrong to define any group by the actions of some outrageous, but obscure, member. There are Democrats who are rabidly anti-vax, and Democrats who hold all manner of racist, sexist, or equally unpleasant positions. But finding those people takes a search, because those outliers are not leaders of the national party, at the center of Democratic fundraising efforts, or frequently held up at at gatherings of Democrats as the future of the party.

But consider this cluster of interviews, from members of the Republican Party who are viewed as national leaders by that party, and who are using that position of leadership to spread what are—at best—harmful lies, if not sick delusions that create genuine danger to other Americans.

First up, Michael Flynn. Once the National Security Advisor, and before that the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Flynn is the man who shaped much of the strategy behind America’s counterintelligence operations. He’s also the man who not only lied to the FBI and got away with it because Bill Barr forced U.S. attorneys to drop the charges, but the man who met with Donald Trump at the White House following Trump’s defeat and urged him to suspend the Constitution while having the military conduct a new election.

And now …

This is Flynn explaining that COVID-19 doesn’t affect other countries, that the entire pandemic is a hoax, and that the virus was created in order to give them a distraction from the election and force people to hand over control of their bodies. Because voluntarily getting a vaccination is just like people being told they can’t control their own reproductive health.

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[underpants]

1. It's all in defense of Trump

Everything is right now for them. They may not realize it but the dance he is watching them do thrills him immensely. Masks, vaccines, Fauci, the big lie, all of it is to defend Trump.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. If the COVID 19 Pandemic death toll was in the double-digit millions,

The Republicans would STILL claim that it was a hoax.

[AZ8theist]

3. The silver lining to that dark cloud....

Would be the vast majority of those deaths would be Trumpanzees......
...since the vast majority of the survivors are intelligent, science believing, VACCINATTED NORMAL citizens....