😳 THE GOP BLAME GAME: It started just over two weeks ago with a Wall Street Journal opinion headline: “Biden’s covid Death Milestone: More Americans have died of the virus in 2021 than in all of 2020.”
That unleashed the pig pile.
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That unleashed the pig pile.
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"Republican politicians and their right-wing media sock puppets fell over themselves claiming Biden and Trump were somehow the same on covid. Or perhaps – gasp – Trump was better. It’s hogwash.
This maneuver is actually an intentional, subversive attack on our brains, a gateway
This maneuver is actually an intentional, subversive attack on our brains, a gateway
drug for an even more devastating reframing of how we think about the pandemic.
A lot is riding on whether Republicans can pull this off.
The pandemic is the fulcrum of our politics, the most important dynamic in all of our lives, the key to most Americans’ economic experience,
A lot is riding on whether Republicans can pull this off.
The pandemic is the fulcrum of our politics, the most important dynamic in all of our lives, the key to most Americans’ economic experience,
and the likely reason we aren’t living through a second Trump term. With the omicron wave probably around the corner, Americans are about to rethink our internal narrative on what has happened to us, why and who is responsible.
And as our recall of 2020 grows fuzzier – with Trump readying for a comeback and voters souring around perceptions of continued instability under @POTUS Biden – the timing is right for Republicans to try to invert voters’ sense of reality and pave the way for a Trump resurgence."
🔥 TFG response to #COVID19: Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’s spread.
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🔥 The @GOP is actively sabotaging all meaningful attempts by @POTUS Biden and the Democrat, to halt the virus.
Republican lawmakers are continuing to try to block vaccine mandates at the local, state and federal levels. In September, a proposal by nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/…
Republican lawmakers are continuing to try to block vaccine mandates at the local, state and federal levels. In September, a proposal by nytimes.com/2021/11/24/us/…
Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas, an obstetrician, to block the use of federal funds to carry out the president’s vaccine mandate for businesses with at least 100 employees failed by one vote, after all 50 Republicans in the Senate backed it
Later that month, Republican senators
Later that month, Republican senators
introduced legislation to prohibit federal agencies from requiring proof of vaccination. And Mr. Marshall and 10 other senators wrote a letter this month to Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, vowing to “oppose all efforts to implement and enforce
” vaccine mandates “with every tool at our disposal, including our votes on spending measures.”
#GOPDeathCult
#GOPDeathCult
🔥 Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has issued an executive order threatening to cut funding from school districts that defy a statewide ban on classroom mask mandates. He’s now suggesting his office could direct officials to withhold pay from
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superintendents who impose such rules anyway.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is threatening to withhold funding to schools in his state’s capital of Columbia over masking rules, while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to enforce a similar order against mask mandates — despite
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is threatening to withhold funding to schools in his state’s capital of Columbia over masking rules, while Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to enforce a similar order against mask mandates — despite
large school districts around the state, including Dallas and Austin, promising to go ahead with classroom face covering requirements.
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