She’s trending so brief🧵thread🧵chronically the times that @JoyAnnReid used her platform to push unfounded vaccine fears because she didn’t like the guy in the Oval Office.

Starting with this interview in August 2020 (there are plenty more⤵️)
But to stay on this one for a second: in August 2020, @JoyAnnReid had a doctor on to say that she wouldn’t advise her patients to take the vaccine *even if* the head of the FDA signed off on it before clinical trials were complete.

What happened to trust the science?
And this was far from the only time this happened.

A few weeks later, in early September, she doubled down, endorsing an article titled “Trump’s vaccine can’t be trusted.”

You may remember that the vaccine (which Reid now firmly endorses) rolled out under Trump.
But her tin-hatted criticisms really took off in the middle of September 2020.

Here she is on the 17th, asking rhetorically “who on God’s earth would trust a vaccine approved by the @US_FDA ??”

That’s more than enough to get you kicked off Twitter these days.
@JoyAnnReid doubled down on her conspiracy the next day, September 18th.

“Why would any sensible person take a vaccine Trump had anything to do with?” she wonders.

This is textbook vaccine disinformation. The same kind she now laments.

How can she not see the hypocrisy?
Around that same time, Reid was pushing on other narratives, too. She had numerous voices on to spread fear and doubt around a vaccine being out on the original timeline. Yes, Trump missed that deadline, but only by about a month. Calling it “a total fantasy” is absurd.
Even after her guy won the election, she continued to insist that the vaccines couldn’t be trusted.

“I wouldn’t go near anything they Trump or his politicized FDA had anything to do with” she said, while criticizing the government program that helped develop lifesaving vaccines.
(This also just wasn’t true, as would be clarified the following day)
Later that month, she added an explicit racial element, suggesting that “science has been a tool of white supremacy” mere days before a vaccine that many people of color were initially skeptical of was set to roll out nationwide.

(H/t @chadfelixg)
The problem in all of these is that what a responsible person should have done, if you’ll pardon the phrase, was trust the science. Trust that our incredibly rigorous process would produce the needed results - which it did, thank God.

But Reid couldn’t help herself.
Now, of course, Reid has entirely changed her tone, because it’s politically advantageous. Now she can’t possibly understand why any knuckle dragging moron wouldn’t take a vaccine that public health experts have endorsed.

I would encourage her to look into the mirror.

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18 Sep
🧵Thread🧵

Today’s “Justice for J6” rally consisted mostly of reporters, cops & FBI agents, fizzling out in about an hour.

But in the last few days, the corporate press fearmongered constantly about it.

Will they follow up now that it, unsurprisingly, amounted to nothing? ⤵️
Perhaps the worst of it came from @CNN, who pushed nonsense for days leading up to the event.

“Renewed fears of political violence grip Capitol Hill” actually turned into “more press than protestors.”

Will CNN tell that story now? ImageImage
Bringing on a former FBI official who abused his power for political reasons to talk about this “rally” and why it should be taken “very seriously” is laying it on a little thick, don’t you think, @CNN? Image
Read 20 tweets
10 Sep
Few topics create as much hypocrisy as executive use of power.

Quick🧵comparing how the press has covered Biden’s vaccine mandate announcement vs. Trump’s threat to override governors on houses of worship.

Spot the difference? ⤵️
Back in May 2020, President Trump said he would override governors who wouldn’t allow houses of worship to open. Yesterday, President Biden said he would do the same about governors who wouldn’t enforce a vaccine mandate.

Can you spot the difference in how @CNN covered it?
Honestly, this could’ve been a thread just dedicated to @CNN.

Can you spot a difference in tone when it comes to who supports each approach?
Read 9 tweets
9 Sep
Whatever your thoughts on vaccine mandates, Biden’s new order is like 8,000x more tyrannical than anything Trump ever did.
Something tells me we won’t get a wave of these takes (check the date lol). washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-…
I will light myself on fire if I have to go through another 4-year news cycle like this.
Read 7 tweets
5 Sep
🧵THREAD🧵

We’ve got to talk about the Rolling Stone invermectin article. Turns out the story about rural hospitals so flooded with ODs that they couldn’t treat other patients was made up, entirely invented.

A lot of people took the bait, and I’ve got the screenshots.⤵️
First, for context, here’s the original piece from @RollingStone and the follow up from the actual hospital saying the story was BS and that the one (one!) person the story quotes doesn’t work at that hospital anymore (and hasn’t in months). ImageImage
But it wasn’t just a single story out in the ether. Plenty of other places picked up the story, too, with no additional sourcing or research.

Here’s @BusinessInsider (@thecherylt) parroting the scoop that wasn’t true to begin with. Image
Read 28 tweets
4 Sep
This incredibly thinly sourced account about hospitals in Oklahoma being underwater because of invermectin smells funny to me.

And if it is, boy, there are screenshots.
Called it.
I think you guys know🧵what🧵this🧵means
Read 4 tweets
17 Aug
🧵THREAD🧵

I don’t know the right answer to what’s going on in Afghanistan.

But I do know that nearly everything the Biden Administration has said about it for the last few months has been wrong or a promise unkept.

I revisit what was said and predicted.⤵️
First, important framing. We’ve known that the rebuild of Afghanistan has been a failure and a fraud for years.

If you haven’t yet, I encourage you to read The Afghanistan Papers from @washingtonpost, which unpacks the depth of the deception: washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/…
Despite that, President Biden plowed ahead with his withdrawal plans.

He was confident enough that, just last month, he rejected comparisons to Saigon because “the Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army.”

That might be fair. They proved far more capable.
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