Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

(1) Thread: Bad far right takes on the San Jose shooter that killed 8 innocent people and himself today.

One dodgy ex-cop says the Covid vaccine made him do it:

https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1397582489980395522

(2) I had never heard of Patrick Brosnan until today. I want to read a transcript of the interview that appeared on FOX News to see if the interviewer questioned his ridiculous claim at all.

IMO. OANN, RSBN & Newsmax have replaced FOX as the kooks' networks of choice anyway...

(3) I became a #NeverTrump conservative on 1/6/21 because he let the mask drop and started proving his critics right. I had spent more than four years defending him by treating his critics as crybaby sore losers and fantasists. Then he did some things they had always predicted.🤦‍♀️

(4) Gotta get that out of the way before the rest of a thread bc some still don't get it. Accusing me of supporting Liz Cheney is dumb. I'm damn proud of it, lol.

The term RINO is redundant now. Most of the Rs in Congress are simps for Trump. The 17 heretics are the good guys.

(5) I'm looking forward to getting my Covid vax soon (New Zealand is a bit slower than the US in rolling them out.)

The issue became such a political football because of the way Trump talked about the pandemic while in office. He grew the anti-vaxxer fringe by a lot. Then,

(6) The asshole had the temerity to get his own Covid vax verrrrry quietly before he slunk out of the WH at dawn on 1/20.

Every moral/ethical/intelligent US and world leader made sure to get his or her vax on camera, to lead by example & help those most at risk to choose life.

(7) Each time a leader got the vax on camera they helped save a few more lives. The Queen doesn't do such things on camera but I think we can all have confidence she's telling the truth about it. At age 95 she listens to her doctor.

Here's what Gov Abbott told the TX Tribune:

(8) Trump's own Secretary of HHS and the CDC's Redfield said leaders can help save lives by promoting the Covid vax.

I know those on the left who read this have strong views about Trump's appointees but you need to know: they all promoted the vax, and he himself did not.

(9) In 2015-2016 Trump nurtured the anti-vaxxer community, claimed the child vax schedule was bad for saying it's safe to get several vaccines at once, & once in office, appointed RFK Jr to a committee.

Despite this, I was initially pro-Trump, bc of his other policy positions.

(10) At the time I figured he needed the votes of every fringe group & the bigger policy gains would save many more lives than the (at that time) small anti-vaxxer faction would lose. Eg better border security, the Middle East peace process, addressing the opioid crisis etc.

(11) Once he started dominating about 90% of his public utterances with what critics have called "The Big Lie" and assembling the gasoline, matches, and a tinder dry home to bring known arsonists to on 1/6, I knew that any gains from the policies I had supported, would be lost.

(12) Of course I'm NOT insinuating that Trump caused today's mass shooting by not promoting the Covid vax enough. I'm saying that at least one kook has been allowed to spout anti-vaxxer nonsense on FOX.

So, back to the topic of why they do this:

(13) There are many subcultures w/in the evidence-free zone that is the far right anti-medical science "community."

Incl. a group claiming that pharma meds, esp. antidepressants, can make an otherwise "normal" person into a mass murderer.

Kirstie Alley is one of the leaders.

(14) A few in this group are far left but IMO right now the overwhelming majority are far right.

They may be Covidiots now, but they've been getting in the way of life-saving medical care for others for a long, long time. Especially regarding children.

(15) So, I already knew about the "SSRIs make people kill" rhetoric pushers, but the "Covid vaccines make people kill" trope is a new on for me.

I figured it would be helpful to spread the word.

IMHO, anti-vaxxer activism kills more people than guns do, in the US & worldwide.

(16) Trump's huggy friend Mr Modi in India is an anti-vaxxer.

He's also against taking any of the cheap, simple, effective steps he had a duty to take in responding to the pandemic in India.

False beliefs can kill.

(17) Anti-vaxxers & other Covidiots will no doubt reply shrieking "my body my choice." They're right, it is their choice.

But many of them can deny the vax to their kids or to cognitively impaired adults.

The courts can step in, but...

(18) While the courts have a long record of acting in loco parentis when it comes to taking medical advice requiring a child's treatment, the process is fraught with challenges.

Often, the parent absconds with the child.

(19) I explored these issues in my 2018 Taos Compound, New Mexico 5-thread magnum opus, below.

The Cliff Notes version: As citizens we all have a duty to help improve outcomes for children when a "parent" fails.

https://twitter.com/FreedomFriesInc/status/1034936710352711680

(20) Covid vaccination is a public policy issue.

People who claim the vaccine can turn someone homicidal should be allowed to speak, so we can counter their bullshit with the truth.

Paid media companies (eg FOX) have a duty of care to the public.

(21) Things have gotten to the stage where the far left doesn't trust right wing media companies and the far right doesn't trust left wing media companies.

All media need to lift their game. But they aren't likely to, any time soon. Buyer beware.