04-29-2020, 03:16 PM
(04-29-2020, 10:35 AM)GMDino Wrote: This is the kind of dumb stuff that we have to deal with.
From a friend on FB.
And people believe it.
The same people who defend everything Trump says about the virus or defend what he says because he's just "thinking out loud".
Sad times.
Bill Gates has joined the cast as one of the boogeymen of the Right. As a proponent of vaccinations (he has done absolutely incredible work in India), he has been a boogeyman for anti-vaxxer/conspiracy idiots for years. Anti-vaxxers and Covid Conspiracists have now overlapped.
One of the impacts of the GOP validating Trump and his constant lying is that they have allowed fringe conspiracists to move into the mainstream of conservative politics. Diamond and Silk are nobodies who gained internet fame because they're black women supporting Trump. Somehow that turned into a show on Fox Nation that only just got shut down because Fox realized how dangerous two unqualified idiots spreading conspiracy theories can be when it impacts our health in a pandemic. And yet prior to that, racist Steve King invited them to testify to Congress about being "censored" on Facebook for spreading conspiracies and they were paid by the Trump campaign lol... now Trump is publicly complaining about them being removed from Fox.
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