"The GOP is criminally reckless on COVID"

[archives]

"In a preview of coming political games, many Republican politicians and conservative talk-show hosts are already trying to distract from the fact they’ve been discouraging Republicans from getting vaccinated."

"Instead of admitting guilt for the virus gaining strength in Republican strongholds, the Trump crowd is positioning themselves as the lifesavers — betting that enough voters will forget they were the arsonists who started the blaze. Republicans are positioning themselves to blame Biden and Fauci if schools and workplaces have trouble opening in the fall"

“I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently told reporters. He appeared to never have heard the defiant, anti-vaccine message coming from so many Republicans, in statehouses, in Congress and in conservative media."

"99.5 percent of all the Americans now dying from COVID-19 are people who are not vaccinated. Republicans are putting the lives of people listening to them at risk in order to stir up votes for the midterms."

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-the-gop-is-criminally-reckless-on-covid?rl=1

And it wasn't that long ago that exploiting Americans would have been unacceptable, yet we learned on January 6th nothing was beyond some, but by any standards pimping a vaccine that could save American lives for political gain may be reaching an even lower bar

 

[cawacko]

"In a preview of coming political games, many Republican politicians and conservative talk-show hosts are already trying to distract from the fact they’ve been discouraging Republicans from getting vaccinated."

"Instead of admitting guilt for the virus gaining strength in Republican strongholds, the Trump crowd is positioning themselves as the lifesavers — betting that enough voters will forget they were the arsonists who started the blaze. Republicans are positioning themselves to blame Biden and Fauci if schools and workplaces have trouble opening in the fall"

“I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently told reporters. He appeared to never have heard the defiant, anti-vaccine message coming from so many Republicans, in statehouses, in Congress and in conservative media."

"99.5 percent of all the Americans now dying from COVID-19 are people who are not vaccinated. Republicans are putting the lives of people listening to them at risk in order to stir up votes for the midterms."

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-the-gop-is-criminally-reckless-on-covid?rl=1

And it wasn't that long ago that exploiting Americans would have been unacceptable, yet we learned on January 6th nothing was beyond some, but by any standards pimping a vaccine that could save American lives for political gain may be reaching an even lower bar

Out of curiosity, did you have any of these similar concerns pre election when democratic leaders and liberal influencers were saying not to trust the vaccines, or take them, because they didn’t trust Trump? Not that Republican leaders can’t be called out today, they certainly can. But seems rather ironic you are complaining about political gain here. It’s the old it’s ok when my side does it but not the other deal.

 

[Concart]

Out of curiosity, did you have any of these similar concerns pre election when democratic leaders and liberal influencers were saying not to trust the vaccines, or take them, because they didn’t trust Trump? Not that Republican leaders can’t be called out today, they certainly can. But seems rather ironic you are complaining about political gain here. It’s the old it’s ok when my side does it but not the other deal.

I think you are misrepresenting what was said. Trump was pushing to get approval before the election. Pointing that out is not saying 'don't trust the vaccine'. It's saying 'don't trust Trump'. Which is sound advice.

 

[Darth Omar]

Does the left ever tire of politicizing the damn CCP virus?

Are blacks and Hispanics ‘GOP’?

 

[Geeko Sportivo]

Out of curiosity, did you have any of these similar concerns pre election when democratic leaders and liberal influencers were saying not to trust the vaccines, or take them, because they didn’t trust Trump? Not that Republican leaders can’t be called out today, they certainly can. But seems rather ironic you are complaining about political gain here. It’s the old it’s ok when my side does it but not the other deal.

I never heard any Democrat say they didn't trust vaccines because of Donald Trump!

Do you have a reliable quote verbatim source you would like to share with us here today?

NEVER MIND IF YOU CAN'T- WE'LL UNDERSTAND!

 

[Darth Omar]

I never heard any Democrat say they didn't trust vaccines because of Donald Trump!

Do you have a reliable quote verbatim source you would like to share with us here today?

NEVER MIND IF YOU CAN'T- WE'LL UNDERSTAND!

There’s actually a good video clip of verbatim democrats slamming the vaccines—while Trump was pushing them lol.

Maybe one of the readers will share it for you so you can be enlightened. The partisan crap is tiresome.

 

[Lionfish]

"In a preview of coming political games, many Republican politicians and conservative talk-show hosts are already trying to distract from the fact they’ve been discouraging Republicans from getting vaccinated."

"Instead of admitting guilt for the virus gaining strength in Republican strongholds, the Trump crowd is positioning themselves as the lifesavers — betting that enough voters will forget they were the arsonists who started the blaze. Republicans are positioning themselves to blame Biden and Fauci if schools and workplaces have trouble opening in the fall"

“I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently told reporters. He appeared to never have heard the defiant, anti-vaccine message coming from so many Republicans, in statehouses, in Congress and in conservative media."

"99.5 percent of all the Americans now dying from COVID-19 are people who are not vaccinated. Republicans are putting the lives of people listening to them at risk in order to stir up votes for the midterms."

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-the-gop-is-criminally-reckless-on-covid?rl=1

And it wasn't that long ago that exploiting Americans would have been unacceptable, yet we learned on January 6th nothing was beyond some, but by any standards pimping a vaccine that could save American lives for political gain may be reaching an even lower bar

Are you talking about those unmasked superspreader democrats that fled Texas to save democracy?

 

[Darth Omar]

Out of curiosity, did you have any of these similar concerns pre election when democratic leaders and liberal influencers were saying not to trust the vaccines, or take them, because they didn’t trust Trump? Not that Republican leaders can’t be called out today, they certainly can. But seems rather ironic you are complaining about political gain here. It’s the old it’s ok when my side does it but not the other deal.

Ironic and totally predictable.

Trump was pushing hard to get the vaccines out before the election. Trump bad. But since Trump pushed so hard to get the vaccines out now vaccines good and Biden good. For democrats it’s kind of like splitting the baby in the Old Testament.

Every bit of it is palpable partisan nonsense. The vast majority of vaccine hesitant are hesitant for purely non-partisan reasons. Conservatives tend to be less trusting of big government [they were that way long before Trump came along] so yeah, a fair amount of them are hesitant.

And well, so are many blacks and Hispanics. It probably correlates best with ‘how worried/not worried’ people are about the CCP virus and not so much with partisan politics.

Or Trump.

 

[Whythink]

Out of curiosity, did you have any of these similar concerns pre election when democratic leaders and liberal influencers were saying not to trust the vaccines, or take them, because they didn’t trust Trump? Not that Republican leaders can’t be called out today, they certainly can. But seems rather ironic you are complaining about political gain here. It’s the old it’s ok when my side does it but not the other deal.

They did during the development phase as trump was suggesting sunlight as a cure.

It was irresponsible but logical in some ways.
The big difference, it was a political game before the vaccine was available. It isn't excusable at all.

What is happening now is completely irresponsible and anti-American. The vaccine is available. Republicans are lying about it. People are getting sick and dying as a result.

Nobody knows if the dems would have continued to question the vaccine had trump won so you can't equate the 2.

It says more about how much party influences citizens. How stupid we can be in the name of politics. A vaccine developed under the administration of a republican and distributed under the administration of a Dem is not being accepted as safe because of an election.

That may be the most dangerous example of partisan division.

And yes, Fauci is now the target, the distraction for fox and Republicans. Let's remember, I hire great people, put Fauci in charge and kept him there.

Yikes

 

[cawacko]

I never heard any Democrat say they didn't trust vaccines because of Donald Trump!

Do you have a reliable quote verbatim source you would like to share with us here today?

NEVER MIND IF YOU CAN'T- WE'LL UNDERSTAND!

Jesus dude... for starters we can go to the current Vice President. Here's a progressive site discussing it. And when I can find the long string of quotes I read yesterday I'll post that for you as well. FFS, you think I just made it up?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302551106611015682

 

[mentor59]

""The GOP is criminally reckless on COVID"

Yep.

 

[Darth Omar]

Jesus dude... for starters we can go to the current Vice President. Here's a progressive site discussing it. And when I can find the long string of quotes I read yesterday I'll post that for you as well. FFS, you think I just made it up?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302551106611015682

There’s a video clip that’s even better with a bunch of democrats and democrat activist ‘journalists’ getting their anti-vax on while Trump was president. It’s actually pretty comical lol. I should have saved it.

 

[cawacko]

I think you are misrepresenting what was said. Trump was pushing to get approval before the election. Pointing that out is not saying 'don't trust the vaccine'. It's saying 'don't trust Trump'. Which is sound advice.

Someone had compiled a list of comments pre-election from Democratic politicians and blue check mark types that I read yesterday or the day before so it's on the brain. I'm pissed off I can't find it but when I do I'll post it here.

Here was one pre-election article discussing the topic. (I chose Newsweek because it's not a right-wing magazine)


Anti-Vaxxers Feed Off Democrats' Skepticism of COVID Vaccine

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism-democrat-politicization-1535559


As I stated, I have no issues if people choose to criticize Republicans. They aren't above reproach here. But after reading all those pre-election comments/quotes the other day, there is a lot of partisanship/hypocrisy at play here.

 

[Darth Omar]

Someone had compiled a list of comments pre-election from Democratic politicians and blue check mark types that I read yesterday or the day before so it's on the brain. I'm pissed off I can't find it but when I do I'll post it here.

Here was one pre-election article discussing the topic. (I chose Newsweek because it's not a right-wing magazine)


Anti-Vaxxers Feed Off Democrats' Skepticism of COVID Vaccine

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism-democrat-politicization-1535559


As I stated, I have no issues if people choose to criticize Republicans. They aren't above reproach here. But after reading all those pre-election comments/quotes the other day, there is a lot of partisanship/hypocrisy at play here.

Democrats politicized the CCP Virus to the hilt in 2020.

After consecutive failures at removing Trump [Russian investigation/Ukraine] the CCP virus fell into their lap and what followed was predictable. Everything *was going to be* Trump’s fault from the death count to the economy. We all know the story.

Part of what’s going on now is there’s a ‘news’ vacuum in the media. Several of the liberal outlets have lost viewers now that Trump is gone. They prefer to not talk about Biden’s inflation, Biden’s border invasion, Harris’ tanking poll numbers or Biden’s latest gaff or etc, so they have gone back to the well on Covid. The Delta variant is the fault of Trumpers yada yada yada.

Democrats are nothing if not predictable.

 

[Son of the Revolution]

"In a preview of coming political games, many Republican politicians and conservative talk-show hosts are already trying to distract from the fact they’ve been discouraging Republicans from getting vaccinated."

"Instead of admitting guilt for the virus gaining strength in Republican strongholds, the Trump crowd is positioning themselves as the lifesavers — betting that enough voters will forget they were the arsonists who started the blaze. Republicans are positioning themselves to blame Biden and Fauci if schools and workplaces have trouble opening in the fall"

“I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently told reporters. He appeared to never have heard the defiant, anti-vaccine message coming from so many Republicans, in statehouses, in Congress and in conservative media."

"99.5 percent of all the Americans now dying from COVID-19 are people who are not vaccinated. Republicans are putting the lives of people listening to them at risk in order to stir up votes for the midterms."

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-the-gop-is-criminally-reckless-on-covid?rl=1

And it wasn't that long ago that exploiting Americans would have been unacceptable, yet we learned on January 6th nothing was beyond some, but by any standards pimping a vaccine that could save American lives for political gain may be reaching an even lower bar

our body... our choice you fucking cunt bitch

 

[gemini104104]

"In a preview of coming political games, many Republican politicians and conservative talk-show hosts are already trying to distract from the fact they’ve been discouraging Republicans from getting vaccinated."

"Instead of admitting guilt for the virus gaining strength in Republican strongholds, the Trump crowd is positioning themselves as the lifesavers — betting that enough voters will forget they were the arsonists who started the blaze. Republicans are positioning themselves to blame Biden and Fauci if schools and workplaces have trouble opening in the fall"

“I’m perplexed by the difficulty we have in finishing the job,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) recently told reporters. He appeared to never have heard the defiant, anti-vaccine message coming from so many Republicans, in statehouses, in Congress and in conservative media."

"99.5 percent of all the Americans now dying from COVID-19 are people who are not vaccinated. Republicans are putting the lives of people listening to them at risk in order to stir up votes for the midterms."

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-the-gop-is-criminally-reckless-on-covid?rl=1

And it wasn't that long ago that exploiting Americans would have been unacceptable, yet we learned on January 6th nothing was beyond some, but by any standards pimping a vaccine that could save American lives for political gain may be reaching an even lower bar

The GQP is not there to defend Democracy and the well being of society but to continue their war efforts against Democracy and humanity, and will not promote policies to mitigate the affects of the covid-19 they are enabling as they fight against efforts to stabilize the pandemic. The GQP as a pact of taxpayer pilfering rodents is also criminally liable for claiming to be American or human for that matter.

 

[Geeko Sportivo]

Jesus dude... for starters we can go to the current Vice President. Here's a progressive site discussing it. And when I can find the long string of quotes I read yesterday I'll post that for you as well. FFS, you think I just made it up?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1302551106611015682

As you know, the OPed you are referring to is dated September 2020.

This is back during the Trump Administration when Donald Trump was pushing the CDC and the FDA to rush the vaccines out and available before election day for the purpose of helping get himself re-elected. Donald Trump was trying to circumvent normal drug trial efforts required by the FDA.

So Harris's response was about Donald Trump's trying to rush the testing process, or bypass it altogether, just to get the vaccines available- to uphold a promise he made to get the vaccines out and available before election day.

Her comments were totally appropriate for that time frame she made them.

But thanks!

 

[Geeko Sportivo]

There’s actually a good video clip of verbatim democrats slamming the vaccines—while Trump was pushing them lol.

Maybe one of the readers will share it for you so you can be enlightened. The partisan crap is tiresome.

This was all before the vaccines had gone through the normal testing phase for the vaccines the FDA mandated, that DONALD TRUMP was trying to bypass!

So, Harris's comments at that time frame were totally appropriate and her concerns were perfectly understandable!

 

[cawacko]

As you know, the OPed you are referring to is dated September 2020.

This is back during the Trump Administration when Donald Trump was pushing the CDC and the FDA to rush the vaccines out and available before election day for the purpose of helping get himself re-elected. Donald Trump was trying to circumvent normal drug trial efforts required by the FDA.

So Harris's response was about Donald Trump's trying to rush the testing process, or bypass it altogether, just to get the vaccines available- to uphold a promise he made to get the vaccines out and available before election day.

Her comments were totally appropriate for that time frame she made them.

But thanks!

Did you forget what you wrote yesterday?

I never heard any Democrat say they didn't trust vaccines because of Donald Trump!

And there's a lot more where that came from. But now it's acceptable to downplay the vaccine because you don't like Trump? Sounds just like what Trump is saying about not trusting Biden. You either want people taking the vaccine or you are worried about political power. If it's the later then hard to complain when people are skeptical and don't take it.

 

[Concart]

Someone had compiled a list of comments pre-election from Democratic politicians and blue check mark types that I read yesterday or the day before so it's on the brain. I'm pissed off I can't find it but when I do I'll post it here.

Here was one pre-election article discussing the topic. (I chose Newsweek because it's not a right-wing magazine)


Anti-Vaxxers Feed Off Democrats' Skepticism of COVID Vaccine

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-vaccine-covid-trust-skepticism-democrat-politicization-1535559


As I stated, I have no issues if people choose to criticize Republicans. They aren't above reproach here. But after reading all those pre-election comments/quotes the other day, there is a lot of partisanship/hypocrisy at play here.

I disagree with the following. If someone said it, I would not be onboard:

'The Trump vaccine cannot be trusted'

I agree with the following. I do so because Trump had politicized the process to such a degree that no one in his administration could be trusted:

'Do not trust a vaccine that is rushed through the process in order to get it approved before election day'

That's about as clear and succinct as I can be. I got my first shot the day I became eligible for it.