@raphjd said in Voter Suppression - a new twist:
@bi4smooth
Wait, you are blaming conservatives, but ignoring that your side loves to go maskless despite the rules they put in for everyone else.
Do you remember what your side said while Trump was still in office, but switched the second Biden was sworn in?
Do you remember how your beloved Honest Joe signed the Exec Order requiring masks on ALL federal properties, only to be photoed at the Lincoln Memorial with his family, and none of them were wearing masks?
The sister of Scotland's First Minister tweeted a picture of her maskless on the train, while there is an absolute mask mandate on public transport. Police Scotland said it was not something they are gonna investigate.
Scotland's First Minister and several other people in power (not the opposition parties) have flouted the mask mandate. This included some that had tested positive for C-19.
The UK and other countries, allow celebs and athletes to skip the quarantine mandates.
John Kerry was photoed on a flight without a mask.
Texas Dems tweeted countless photos of themselves on those 2 private planes without masks, spreading C-19 as they went.
You claim to be a libertarian, while you demand that everyone walk in lockstep.
I posted a video of the BBC office and none of them were wearing masks, despite the strict mask mandate and their screeching about the doom and gloom if everyone didn't mask up. The video's purpose was for the BBC's coverup of pedophilia throughout the UK, but the video also showed that they clearly didn't believe their own shit.
Before you go on about conservatives, you need to clean up your own party.
You keep presuming that I'm a liberal Democrat in disguise - simply because I don't follow Trumpism. If I were to do the same, I'd constantly be calling you a "Fascist, Nazi Trumpite"!
This is not the straw-man you are looking for! (hand waving slowly in front of your face)
Look, my posting wasn't about hypocritical politicians saying one thing and then doing another - those are BOUNTIFUL on both sides!
My post is about LARGE GROUPS of people deciding to listen to Politicians (vs. Physicians) with regards to MEDICAL advise... and now they're DYING as a result!
It's about the LARGE NUMBERS of my fellow Republicans burying their heads in the sand about this virus, and the Democrats (seldom the smartest in the room!) doing what's needed to stop the spread of this (very real!) virus!
And, it's about the MATH: far FAR more Republicans are dying from this disease now (esp here in Florida) than Democrats - and it's our own fault!
Yes, the medical science has changed on COVID over time - science isn't about getting it right the first time, REAL science is about guessing (it's called a hypothesis - remember middle school science class?), and then testing that guess against the facts. And when your GUESS is proven wrong, you refine your guess with another one... and repeat the process... until your guess is right!
When you enter into the process EARLY in the data gathering stage (like in early 2020 - when Trump was still President), there are more erroneous guesses... but the more data is gathered, the better the guesses become. In scientific terms, this is called "learning."
Look, you love it when I point out things Trump did right: and his early response to COVID-19 was completely correct, even if all the contact tracing and belief that the virus was spread by surface contact vs aerosol was actually wrong. In those early days, he "went with the science" and likely saved a LOT of lives with the early "shutdowns" - again, even if in hindsight it was over-broad and hurt the economy in ways that didn't HAVE to be. It was the best known course of action at the time. ... and it saved lives!
The early reaction of Trump to devote millions of Federal dollars to fast-tracking vaccine research also paid off! Unfortunately for Trump, it paid off a few months too late... had the vaccine been available in large quantities in July, 2020 the outcome of the election might have been very different! But that's not what happened.
The problem with Trump later in the year was that he lost confidence in his scientists. So he started looking around for new scientists... some that would tell him something other than "hundreds of thousands of people will die, you will be blamed (even though it isn't your fault), and you will likely lose re-election as a result"... While that was the truth he didn't want to hear it, and there were plenty of yes-men who would tell him the Sun was made of ice-cream if that's what he wanted to hear!
Because it's germane to the conversation about Trump's COVID response, let me say that Trump wanted to fill his administration with "the impossible dream" - the best of the best in every field (doable) who would do his bidding without question (doable). He expected to find people that could be both... and that turned out to be exceptionally rare! Even Pence and Barr couldn't meet Trumps standards of total and unquestioning loyalty like he expected!
But to get back to the point....
This vaccine and COVID-19 denial bullshit is killing US! - Not the other guys - just US!!!
[Mike drop] LOL