Now the GOP supports getting vaccinated?

They suddenly realized their supporters are the ones dying.

Were they going along with the anti vax, anti mask because of trump?

Too little, too late. Too many of their followers have had the anti-vaxx rhetoric so embedded in their brains that is a lost cause for most of them. They're willing to die for their false idol Trump than to get vaccinated.

Yes, even the conservative anti-vaxxers won't believe even the GOP politicians and talking heads

Watching MAGAheads attack McConnell & Ron DeSantis for having the audacity to ask them to get vaccinated is my comic relief for the month.

When has Trump and Desantis ever been against getting vaccinated. Trump was against pausing the J&J vaccine and takes credit for Operation Warp Speed. Vaccine hesitancy knows no ideological bounds. The majority of those vaccinated are white while Black and Hispanic rates of vaccination remain relatively low.

R6. While he hasn't been vocally against vaccination, the second he lost the presidency, he also lost any interest in promoting vaccinations. If everyone got vaccinated, Biden would get all the credit, and Trump hates that.

So, instead, Trump has said almost nothing in support of vaccination (just once, I believe, since his loss). In fact, he an Melania got vaccinated very quietly in Jan.

[quote] The majority of those vaccinated are white while Black and Hispanic rates of vaccination remain relatively low.

Because whites are the vast majority, while the majority of those vaccinated are white, the majority of those unvaccinated are also white.

The market is in trouble and effects rich Republicans.

My gut is telling me there is massive litigation down the pipeline. Possi bly directed towards Fox, which is sending marching orders down the pipeline to their puppets like Moscow Mitch and that fat fuck Desantis.

To give the devil his due, McConnell, to his crest, has consistently been pro-vaccine, so he doesn’t deserve to be singled-out as a latecomer to the cause.

R11, but McConnell has never been a vocal promoter of the vaccine at all. Just because you quietly got the vaccine and mentioned it once publicly doesn't suddenly make you "pro-vaccine."

He has a pulpit. He didn't use it.

Most the GOPers and the Fox talking heads had taken the vaccine all while condemning it or, at best, saying little about it.

They're not stupid.

The government shouldn’t compel anyone to take the vaccine. It should be the advice of their doctor.

R14, No govt is compelling anyone. Unfortunately, few are taking the advice of their doctors, They're getting advice from Facebook

R15 then they’re idiots. I was thinking through a legal point of view.

They realize that they are barely in the demographic game as it is and extra losses to their base could imperil Repuglican control of some swingish states.

The amazing thing is the Deplorables won’t get the vaccine in honor of their orange Fuhrer, but him and his entire family has long been vaccinated. Deplorables are just amazingly stupid.

More Deadplorables! More! More!

Not to mention the fact that two of the vaccines were developed as part of Trump's Operation Warp Speed endeavor, so it makes even less sense, except for those who were anti-vaxxers before COVID. They're too far gone.

The irony is that Trump was repeating the bullshit about vaccines and autism when he was campaigning in 2015.

Mon dieu! Give me strength. Isn't this what you wanted?

Yes, but it's nothing more than political calculation. These politicians have been spreading nothing but misinformation or at least been silent in the face of it, which is no better.

Now they're irresponsible behavior has backfired, more on their sick and dying constituents than on them and they're concerned...not about their people but about their reelection.

So let's not act like these people merit some kind of commendation or medal for finally doing the right thing. They spent too much time being part of the problem.

"their irresponsible behavior" that is.

It's Karma. The anti-vaxxers dying of Covid are probably the same people who were saying that AIDS was killing "all the right people" in the 80s.

Not true, R12. He’s been pretty consistently pro-vaccine, particularly in the Kentucky press.

As they are saying on Twitter, somebody sent out the Bat Signal to Republicans the way they are all pushing the pro-vax line. Even creepy Ben Shapiro.

Can you imagine how bad the internal reporting must have been, (along with the stock market losses) that made most of them literally change their minds overnight?

Please stop r25, nobody gives a shit if McConnell was pro-vaccine all this time. The issue is the man never once used his pulpit to reproach FoxNews for their lethal anti-vax reporting. Now had he done that the same way he shits all over Democrats that would be one thing. But he didn't.

And let's not talk about Mitch McConnell without name checking the power behind the aging throne : Josh Holmes.

[quote]My gut is telling me there is massive litigation down the pipeline. Possi bly directed towards Fox, which is sending marching orders down the pipeline to their puppets like Moscow Mitch and that fat fuck Desantis.

Now that it's too fucking late and the mortuary refrigerator trucks are filling up.

R1 Yes, that's why.

[quote] Mon dieu! Give me strength. Isn't this what you wanted?

Yes, but that is a bit beside the point. It is not as easy as turning a faucet off or on — as the GQP can now see. They allowed the anti-vax rhetoric to flourish and grow, so that it is now out of control, and no longer in their control. The unvaccinated are so skeptical of the vaccine that even if every Repuke leader, including Cheatolini, told them to get vaccinated they wouldn’t do it.

So yes, we wanted them on board — eight months ago when it would have had the most impact. Now, their belated efforts will not likely have much of a positive effect.

The GQP are not subtle and they follow in lock step. There must be: a) oncoming litigation (and who knows, maybe there were emails/documents sent around Fox directing their anchors to be anti-vax and we know that the RNC was hacked again by Russians, so there are likely emails/docs on that end too); b) Unvaccinated MAGAts dying en masse which is worrying Mitch and the boys for 2022; and 3) nervousness over stock market dips from the recent spike in Delta variant cases.

They do NOTHING that is the right thing to do or in the best interests of America, so there has to be some other ulterior motive.

I wonder what the Delta variant would look like in the U.S. if there were no vaccinations yet? Mass carnage? We're not India; we're not used to bodies in the gutter.

[quote] Yes, but it's nothing more than political calculation

So what? It's ALL political calculation on both sides. That's how it works.

Wave goodbye to that turnip truck.

Too little, too late.

The tards are already infected and spreading it.

They must've seen the calculation for the midterms with their cult base dropping like flies or being locked up for the capitol attack.

I'm laughing at their stupidity.

[quote]We're not India; we're not used to bodies in the gutter.

You obviously don't live in Portland.

R15 children have to have certain vaccines to go to school. It’s government mandated. If the government mandated getting a vaccine that could save countless lives and keep the economy going I am for. It’s the government’s job to protect us. That includes diseases. If you don’t like the government having that power then please tell them I don’t like funding Israel, paying money for Headstart, or allowing the Department of Defense to fund all this patriotic shit at NFL games. Oh and social security and that $1400.00 check you took tax free.

[quote] and they're concerned...not about their people but about their reelection.

This. And only this is all that’s ever concerned them.

Another idiot heard from... the Governor of Alabama. Say one thing, do another.

If the government tried to mandate this COVID vaccine it would go all the way to the Trump-packed SCOTUS. I don't think anyone wants to risk that, because it could potentially set precedent that would prohibit the government from requiring ANY vaccine, and we'd be thoroughly and completely boned if that happens.

Steve Scalise- who hates gay by way,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

That's because he wrestles with it on a personal level....

I think they're in a panic of what happens with an unvaccinated population especially with the fast-transmittable Delta variant. In England, the rate was 45x what it was a month ago. Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, are all starting to be overwhelmed. They're probably getting estimates and in a panic that their Fox-watching supporters are the ones refusing to get vaccinated.

And soon enough, this kind of sudden, lock step reversal will come with climate change--maybe as Florida is sinking.

Then the GOP will gaslight everyone: We never refuted Climate Change...

[quote]If the government tried to mandate this COVID vaccine it would go all the way to the Trump-packed SCOTUS. I don't think anyone wants to risk that, because it could potentially set precedent that would prohibit the government from requiring ANY vaccine, and we'd be thoroughly and completely boned if that happens.

It would also be completely unprecedented. Vaccine mandates are made by states, not the federal government, and even so there are legal exemptions.

Fraida gettin sooed

Instead of the govt mandating the vaccine, it should mandate vaccinations for airline flights, trains, concerts--any place there's a huge gathering of people, shoulder to shoulder.

THAT would convince lots of people to vaccinate because otherwise they can't live life normally.

Instead of the carrot (lotteries, free donuts, chance to win college tuition), use the stick,

R44 = Groundskeeper Willie

^Ok, I just wee-wee’d on myself.