McConnell is the sane one now
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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He outlived polio. I can't blame him.
Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.
Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.
To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.
Which is the only response to those morons is "so you'd rather your kid die than be autistic?"
Make them admit it. Preferably in front of the kid.
There’s the issue though. They genuinely don’t believe the diseases are that bad. They don’t believe there is any risk of death, (or at least, that the risk is so low it’s negligible). So they wouldn’t admit it even if asked, because they would just say that you’re exaggerating.
If "crunchy moms" wasnt a typo whats it mean
new age-y
Crunchy moms are the moms who push for the all-natural holistic new-age stuff. They tend to keep their kids away from technology, strive for all natural diets that avoid processed foods, homeschool their kids to keep them out of institutional systems, and (to the point I was making) they tend to avoid modern medicine vaccines. Because vaccines aren’t “natural”.
Basically, they’re the essential oil moms.
Jesus fucking Christ
Only because it personally impacted him, if not he probably wouldn't have said anything.
downvote or upvote?
McConnell has been "pushing back" on Trump since 2016. You can see how good he is at it
Pushing back with all the strength a man his age can muster.
It is complicated for someone like McConnell to try to push something without a spine, no leverage to do anything but whine more
McConnell is looking like the bug from Men In Black, wearing a Mitch suit.
bro cause he is.
the aliens are telling their human thralls to get back in line this gon be a shit show
His old-ass lived it. Mitch McConnell being right about something wasn't on my 2024 bingo card.
Lich who drew undead power from the suffering of others realizes his life is near its end and wants to make some fake gesture toward goodness and sanity.
Just go burn in hell. You made this bed, and now everyone under 70 is going to have to live in it.
It's because he's old as fuck and has experienced seeing polio firsthand. Republicans are generally too stupid to believe in anything they haven't experienced themselves.
Well the admin can just lie to get him confirmed.
I’m not even kidding or saying that bitterly. It just… seems like fact now.
He may be slow, he may be lagging behind, but either way:
GO TURTLE GO
for this time he kind of get what he needs to do.