1/ The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- Margaret Sullivan reported in the Washington Post on a new study that shows what we all intuited:...
@Thom_Hartmann 2/ ... The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann --people who get their news from Fox and right-wing hate radio—both promoting the idea that the economy is more important than your health...
@Thom_Hartmann 3/ ...The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann --—are less likely to understand the reality of COVID-19 and therefore more likely to get sick and cause themselves and others to die...
@Thom_Hartmann 4/ ...The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann --This bizarre dynamic of putting profits over public health has played over and over again throughout the years--...
@Thom_Hartmann 5/ ...The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann --In the 1960s-- when I was a teenager-- a friend drove his car into a ditch in rural northern Michigan--...
@Thom_Hartmann 6/ ...The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- Although he couldn’t have been going more than 20 or 30 miles an hour-- when we found his car the next morning--The blowback over masks is just the…
@Thom_Hartmann 7/ …latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- he [@Thom_Hartmann's friend] was impaled on the steering column and long dead-- His car had not been equipped with seat belts—they weren’t standard then--...
@Thom_Hartmann 8/ ... --The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- Ralph Nader took on the auto industry on the lack of seat belts and other “unsafe at any speed” aspects of the American car industry in 1965--...
@Thom_Hartmann 9/ ...--The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- and conservatives set up a howl heard from coast to coast--...
@Thom_Hartmann 10/ ...--The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- Lewis Powell cited Nader in his infamous 1971 memo-- saying that Nader’s efforts were “aimed at smashing utterly… corporate power” ...
@Thom_Hartmann 11/ ...--The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- because-- Powell said-- Nader “thinks-- and says quite bluntly-- that a great many corporate executives belong in prison--...
@Thom_Hartmann 12/ ...--The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- ”When a national seat belt law was being debated in 1967 (and passed in 1968)-- there were protests all across the nation...
@Thom_Hartmann 13/ ...--The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage per bit.ly/3iBw0YW per @Thom_Hartmann -- with people refusing to wear them “on principle” and ending up dead in higher proportion to those who buckled up-- (The movement persists to this day)
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