I think the GOP has things to offer! Two at least.
The first is poison. The poison of constant warfare, requiring the constant presence of Enemies. (I paused here to check-- yes, my mental image was from the fifth circle fo Dante's Inferno.) The poison of vapid self-righteousness. The poison of paranoid self-defense and the rejection of knowledge.
They don't want to offer that poison explicitly, because it's not that attractive. Rather, it founds their parades and keeps their troops marching.
And the second is sloth. I think that a major reason for Reagan's revolutionary success was his appeal to laziness. "Ah, everything's fine. We don't need to fix anything, change anything, plant the crops or mend the leaking roof! Let's just stretch out, eat the seed corn, and condescendingly diss our neighbors." A robust tradition that has us startlingly tapped-out, as a society.
Out of such treasure, moral indignation over Big Bird, the Murphy Brown of our times.
Ah, but are those considered attractive? Well, they do offer prurient moralistic hypocritical lust.... And avarice is of course upheld as an Ultimate Good.
They don't understand the most basic aspects of epidemiology. I don't know why people listen to these idiots! Infection in anyone, regardless of age or how sick they get, provides opportunity for potentially another variant to develop. Variants come from someone who is infected (could be an asymptomatic 5 year old). While kids are less likely to end up hospitalized from COVID than adults, some do end up hospitalized. Ask the pediatricians in the hospitals/ICUs, especially in areas of the country where vaccination rates are low.
ALL kids who become infected provide opportunity for potentially a more virulent variant to develop, just as infected adults do. That could end up harming all of us.
Development of mutations during replication of viruses is a naturally occurring thing. Most mutations are harmless, some are not. The more the virus spreads, the higher the odds the virus will mutate into a more virulent variant.
I really really really wish this nonsense would stop. We could quell this pandemic -- or greatly reduce its effects on us -- if people would just use their heads.
I think the GOP has things to offer! Two at least.
The first is poison. The poison of constant warfare, requiring the constant presence of Enemies. (I paused here to check-- yes, my mental image was from the fifth circle fo Dante's Inferno.) The poison of vapid self-righteousness. The poison of paranoid self-defense and the rejection of knowledge.
They don't want to offer that poison explicitly, because it's not that attractive. Rather, it founds their parades and keeps their troops marching.
And the second is sloth. I think that a major reason for Reagan's revolutionary success was his appeal to laziness. "Ah, everything's fine. We don't need to fix anything, change anything, plant the crops or mend the leaking roof! Let's just stretch out, eat the seed corn, and condescendingly diss our neighbors." A robust tradition that has us startlingly tapped-out, as a society.
Out of such treasure, moral indignation over Big Bird, the Murphy Brown of our times.
Oh! I'd forgotten Murphy Brown. Of course. Remember the lil' vp making hay over the television character's out-of-wedlock birth? Lord.
Why stop with the poison of pride and short-sightedness of sloth when they so perfectly embody envy, gluttony, avarice, lust, and wrath as well?
Ah, but are those considered attractive? Well, they do offer prurient moralistic hypocritical lust.... And avarice is of course upheld as an Ultimate Good.
They don't understand the most basic aspects of epidemiology. I don't know why people listen to these idiots! Infection in anyone, regardless of age or how sick they get, provides opportunity for potentially another variant to develop. Variants come from someone who is infected (could be an asymptomatic 5 year old). While kids are less likely to end up hospitalized from COVID than adults, some do end up hospitalized. Ask the pediatricians in the hospitals/ICUs, especially in areas of the country where vaccination rates are low.
ALL kids who become infected provide opportunity for potentially a more virulent variant to develop, just as infected adults do. That could end up harming all of us.
Development of mutations during replication of viruses is a naturally occurring thing. Most mutations are harmless, some are not. The more the virus spreads, the higher the odds the virus will mutate into a more virulent variant.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/10/21/study-finds-children-to-be-vectors-of-covid-19-and-emerging-variants/
I really really really wish this nonsense would stop. We could quell this pandemic -- or greatly reduce its effects on us -- if people would just use their heads.
A “fake bird”!!!
You take that back!!!!
OHGODOHGODOHGOD. I do. I take it back. He's real. He's absolutely real.
I’ll give Texas Teddy (or should it be Tijuana Teddy?) a big bird., and one to grow on.
Considering that a goofball has been attacking a fake cow is it really surprising that a goofball would attack a fake bird ??
That is a very good point.
I thought surely... SURELY... after the humiliation at Dealey Plaza, they'd give it a rest, even for just a little while.
There's no bottom to this spit, is all I can figure.
"Pit." I meant "pit." Crapola. But I guess spit works, too.