04-30-2020, 03:24 AM
(04-29-2020, 03:16 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: 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.
I think Fox was more worried about legal liability . . .
Fox's firing of Diamond & Silk isn't the problem. Fox's hiring of them is.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/diamond-silk-fox-news-donald-trump/index.html
"Over the last few weeks, the duo has advanced all sorts of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus. They've questioned the death toll. They've questioned whether the virus is being 'deliberately spread.' They've suggested the 'Deep State' is working 'behind the scenes' and that it is 'engineered.'