In order to prove your loyalty to TFG, you have to skip being vaccinated and offer to die for this

[LetMyPeopleVote]

In order to prove your loyalty to TFG, you have to skip being vaccinated and offer to die for this asshole

Link to tweet

“People are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don’t trust his Administration,” the former president said in a statement Sunday, referring to President Biden. “They don’t trust the Election results, and they certainly don’t trust the Fake News.”

There you have it: Trump is telling his supporters that they are correct not to trust the federal government on vaccines, because this sentiment should flow naturally from their suspicion that the election was stolen from him. Expressing the former has been magically transformed into a way to show fealty to the latter.

This suggests the anti-vaccine mania on the right may only get worse, at exactly the moment that we need it to get better. This vile new Trump claim hints at how this is likely to happen, with the complicity of even relatively responsible Republicans.

We’re seeing a new surge in coronavirus cases due to the delta variant and the lag in vaccinations, with new cases overwhelmingly concentrated among the unvaccinated. Both trends — surging cases and lagging vaccinations — are unfolding primarily in red states.

It’s bad enough that Trump has now recast the question of whether to trust the federal government on vaccines as a proxy for whether the election was stolen from him. What makes this worse is that other Republicans are playing a version of this game.

It is sad that that to be a loyal TFG supporter you have to be willing to die for him

[Renew Deal]

1. He is vaccinated by the way.

[Lovie777]

12. So are the republican leaders . . ..

[kimbutgar]

2. Then his herd needs to be thinned

I am so sick and tired of these mentally ill vile ignorant cultists. Just go away.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[empedocles]

9. In triage situations, seems that vacinated people, should get priority

[ck4829]

3. It's funny because he was demanding credit for the vaccine not too long ago

[Andy823]

4. True followers of

the trump "death" cult.

[empedocles]

6. Hitler, as obvious defeat became more apparent, turns his destructive hate against the Germans.

'The German people were about to learn the harshest lesson of all. The Führer's contempt for human life was not exclusive to the Slavic peoples or the Jews, but would soon be visited upon the Germans themselves, because of their inability to achieve the things he had set out for them.

Throughout his life, Adolf Hitler had never been able to admit a single mistake or accept responsibility for any failure. And as the thousand-year Reich he founded teetered on the brink of collapse in early 1945, he blamed it on the weakness of the German people and a military organization riddled with timid, disloyal and incompetent officers. If only they had really listened to him and let themselves be inspired. If only they had possessed the same will and determination as him – certainly everything would have turned out differently. . . '


https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/enter-bunker.htm


[trump may be going down the same road as his 'hero' hitler. Crazy. There's more hope there - for sane peoples. ]

[moondust]

11. Sure sounds familiar.

"...contempt for human life..."

"Throughout his life, Adolf Hitler had never been able to admit a single mistake or accept responsibility for any failure."

(The copyright on this piece is 2010 so clearly no reference to TFG.)

[SheltieLover]

7. Now they are putting their kids on the altar of TFG!

1 in 12 kids with covid gets long haul...

[lame54]

8. If they really want to be like Trump...

They should get the shot and then lie about it

[lagomorph777]

10. On the bright side, his supporters are volunteering to die for him.

This will certainly have electoral consequences.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Trump's rhetoric on vaccines takes a dramatic turn for the worse

This is scary. TFG wants his supporters to die in order show that they believe the Big Lie about election results.

Link to tweet

Four months later, the Republican's message has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Trump issued this written statement yesterday:

"Joe Biden kept talking about how good of a job he's doing on the distribution of the Vaccine that was developed by Operation Warp Speed or, quite simply, the Trump Administration. He's not doing well at all. He's way behind schedule, and people are refusing to take the Vaccine because they don't trust his Administration, they don't trust the Election results, and they certainly don't trust the Fake News, which is refusing to tell the Truth."

....In July, Trump's new message implicitly suggests that only those who believe President Biden, election results, and independent news organizations are getting the shots.

As infection numbers inch higher, this is plainly dangerous. The more vaccinations are politicized, the more it undermines public health.

Also note the degree to which Trump is blaming Biden for far-right vaccine opponents' refusals. The rhetoric introduces the possibility of a twisted incentive: Those who want to keep the Democratic White House "behind schedule" suddenly have another reason to avoid vaccinations.

[Lovie777]

14. I'm fine with that . . ...

BUT, they are allowing the virus to thrive and infect others and mutant and that is not ok.

The GOP don't mind killing and maiming their cult, the same cult that probably have shitty health insurance or non at all.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Fareed's Take: Why America's anti-vax problem is unique