The Yellow Star business is just so outrageous. For one, you voluntarily put that star on yourself, so from the jump, the analogy falls to pieces. It's so disrespectful, and the rubes doing it, probably even the ones in Congress, have no idea how idiotic it is. And the Republicans who know exactly how idiotic it is have no desire to p…
The Yellow Star business is just so outrageous. For one, you voluntarily put that star on yourself, so from the jump, the analogy falls to pieces. It's so disrespectful, and the rubes doing it, probably even the ones in Congress, have no idea how idiotic it is. And the Republicans who know exactly how idiotic it is have no desire to put corrective condemnations on the public record.
JVL is spot on when he says Democrats police their own while Republicans police dissent. If any Democratic official or voter opposed to vaccine mandates were so brazen and stupid enough to liken themselves to people who were rounded up, worked to death, gassed to death, experimented on, tortured, all because of their ethnicity, the condemnation would be swift, severe, and universal. And make no mistake, there are people who vote for Democrats who aren't ok with mandating vaccination, eg, the whole Robert F Kennedy, Jr crowd. But while most people don't share their views, they at least have enough sense not to liken themselves to victims of the Holocaust. But on the other side, this pure madness gets either swept under the rug, or proactively encouraged.
Republicans are so terrified of their voters. The 13 in the House who voted for infrastructure, they're getting death threats from the same jackasses who have been filling up the inboxes of Democrats with death threats for years. They need security, not to protect them from angry Democrats, but from angry, unhinged, well-armed, psychotic Republicans. This is what Republican officials and the rightwing media have stoked for three decades and the chickens are coming home to roost. And with the likes of Trump. Flynn, Mandel, Bannon, Hawley, and so many more, there isn't a hint of course correction in sight, because even if they wanted to, they're terrified of their own voters, the party paradoxically of Brown Shirts and people pinning Yellow Stars on their shirts. They've got the Nazis and the Polish Jews. Such a big tent.
Not Collectively Insane Citizen: So you are now equating vax mandates to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen?
GQP Nut Job: What the f*** you talkin' 'bout? Auschwitz? Bergen-Belsen? I don't listen to that sh**. Kenny Chesney and Florida Georgia Line! Them's for Patriots! Like me.
Amen Don! The Republican Party started down this path a long time ago. I was a registered Independent for 20 years until I wanted to vote in a primary for Mayor some years back (live in DE) and had to register D to do so.
I have come to accept that many people are very busy in their daily lives and disconnected from politics and many others are just too damn ignorant to care.
However, I have to give the R's credit for seeing their voters for what they are......easily manipulated fools that will vote for craven, criminal, conspiracy peddling, crackpots! It isn't moral, not even a little bit, but it is a winning strategy.
The Yellow Star business is just so outrageous. For one, you voluntarily put that star on yourself, so from the jump, the analogy falls to pieces. It's so disrespectful, and the rubes doing it, probably even the ones in Congress, have no idea how idiotic it is. And the Republicans who know exactly how idiotic it is have no desire to put corrective condemnations on the public record.
JVL is spot on when he says Democrats police their own while Republicans police dissent. If any Democratic official or voter opposed to vaccine mandates were so brazen and stupid enough to liken themselves to people who were rounded up, worked to death, gassed to death, experimented on, tortured, all because of their ethnicity, the condemnation would be swift, severe, and universal. And make no mistake, there are people who vote for Democrats who aren't ok with mandating vaccination, eg, the whole Robert F Kennedy, Jr crowd. But while most people don't share their views, they at least have enough sense not to liken themselves to victims of the Holocaust. But on the other side, this pure madness gets either swept under the rug, or proactively encouraged.
Republicans are so terrified of their voters. The 13 in the House who voted for infrastructure, they're getting death threats from the same jackasses who have been filling up the inboxes of Democrats with death threats for years. They need security, not to protect them from angry Democrats, but from angry, unhinged, well-armed, psychotic Republicans. This is what Republican officials and the rightwing media have stoked for three decades and the chickens are coming home to roost. And with the likes of Trump. Flynn, Mandel, Bannon, Hawley, and so many more, there isn't a hint of course correction in sight, because even if they wanted to, they're terrified of their own voters, the party paradoxically of Brown Shirts and people pinning Yellow Stars on their shirts. They've got the Nazis and the Polish Jews. Such a big tent.
Not Collectively Insane Citizen: So you are now equating vax mandates to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen?
GQP Nut Job: What the f*** you talkin' 'bout? Auschwitz? Bergen-Belsen? I don't listen to that sh**. Kenny Chesney and Florida Georgia Line! Them's for Patriots! Like me.
Amen Don! The Republican Party started down this path a long time ago. I was a registered Independent for 20 years until I wanted to vote in a primary for Mayor some years back (live in DE) and had to register D to do so.
I have come to accept that many people are very busy in their daily lives and disconnected from politics and many others are just too damn ignorant to care.
However, I have to give the R's credit for seeing their voters for what they are......easily manipulated fools that will vote for craven, criminal, conspiracy peddling, crackpots! It isn't moral, not even a little bit, but it is a winning strategy.
Re: the Star of David nonsense, I often see a meme from much more liberal people than me going around: "conservatives want to be oppressed SO badly."
And lately it really is true.