Cleaning the Gene Pool
Phil Valentine; Jimmy DeYoung; Dick Farrel; Marc Bernier. These four guys have several things in common – Syndicated hate radio talkers, anti-vaxxers, anti-science, racists, climate-deniers, religionists, and all dead. Marc Bernier, who had dubbed himself “Mr. Anti-Vax” was the latest hate talker to have died after spreading disinformation on vaccines and conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus pandemic. His death, along with the others, not only demonstrates in real time the dangers of playing Russian Roulette with a deadly virus, but also lays bare the cesspool of disinformation they helped create and perpetuate.
Rush Limbaugh was the most significant figure in the rise of modern hate radio in the 90s, casting the Clintons as objects of hyper partisan hate, conspiracy theories, and grievance. Remember the list of people that the Clintons supposedly murdered? That vicious lie was so pervasive that it is now embedded in the DNA of political conservatives and formed the foundation of the idiotic Q Anon conspiracy theory culminating in a violent attack on the US Capitol in an attempt to overthrow the US government.
These four deplorables, included in a much larger group of deplorables like Alex Jones, feed a steady diet of anger, lies, distortions, gross exaggerations, conspiracy theories, and right wing red meat into a counterculture drowning in obsession and devotion to self-destruction. Trump is one of the most successful politicians to tap into this counterculture which has formed the core of his base, dominating all of rightwing politics today and destroying what’s left of the Republican Party. The ecosystem they enable has sickened millions, caused untold deaths, and is holding back the entire country from recovery from the pandemic. These low budget hate talkers are the heartbeat of this ecosystem, pumping toxic disinformation into syndicated networks that is literally getting people killed including those doing the pumping.
I wish no harm to anyone, but it’s almost impossible for me personally to have any empathy for the self-inflicted death these hate talkers caused themselves and untold others, not to mention the financial burden of huge hospital bills left to their families to carry. Is this the way nature cleans the gene pool? That judgment is above my pay grade, but my observation is that this is exactly what’s happening; unfortunately they’re taking untold numbers of innocents with them, and that is nothing but tragedy in its purest form. Perhaps all this senseless ignorance and death will drive at least some of their adherents to rethink their devotion. We can only hope.
Guess I should offer up “Tots and Pears” to any loved ones left behind.
1Every & anyone can commit suicide as they wish. I applaud their success! But that gets them off easy, I would have preferred surviving and suffering for many years!
2I go with Moms Mabley’s statement:
3“Don’t say nothing but good of the dead.”
“He’s dead. Good!”
They have our deepest sympathy. We return now to our regularly scheduled programming.
These SOBs consider their so-called freedoms so important that they can freely impose on the freedoms of others. I’m tired of having to wear a mask, too. I’m tired of social distancing, too. But I understand that if we had done the right thing in, say, March of 2020, we’d probably be past this thing now, and the orange man would still be president. I guess we can at least thank COVID for that.
4Just a suicide…unless they infected someone else, who infected someone else who died.
Unless they can prove the didn’t give anyone else COVID (kinda difficult with an R(0) between 5 and 8) they go to their grave with the mark of Cain.
5Research: “the majority of COVID misinformation was spread by 12 people, aka *The Disinformation Dozen* — they may end up in the same place as these four deplorables, sooner than later.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13/996570855/disinformation-dozen-test-facebooks-twitters-ability-to-curb-vaccine-hoaxes
6.. feed a steady diet of anger, lies, distortions, gross exaggerations, ..
Often when you talk to right-wing MAGA/Jesus types you will find that they are convinced that the “leftists” are all “Antifa” and full of hate.
Hard to deal with.
7And under the category of hard to deal with.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/01/coronavirus-texas-hospital-attacks-health-workers/
8Phil Valentine, Jimmy DeYoung, Dick Farrel, and Marc Bernier: yep, you totally owned the libtards. Feel free to say so on your headstones.
9I’m glad these people were not around during WW2 when we had government mandated rationing. We would all be speaking German now.
10From NYT… WASHINGTON — Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump.
That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38 percent of the overall “misinformation conversation,” making the president the largest driver of the “infodemic” — falsehoods involving the pandemic.
The study, to be released Thursday, is the first comprehensive examination of coronavirus misinformation in traditional and online media.
In conclusion, go Mr Quackers!
11Why would any self respecting Lib give a hoot in hell about anything a magat had to say? Or alleged kristians?
12This afternoon it was announced that podcast giant Joe Rogan has contracted Covid after a recent trip to Florida
13God exercises a sense of humor that goes far beyond the capabilities of mere mortals.
She has the unique power of assuring that the anti-vaxxers and mask deniers succumb at a slow enough rate to avoid spooking the rest of the herd into changing their behavior.
Otherwise, how could God’s plan of genetic selection succeed in culling humanity’s ranks of intellectual deficients?
But I assume that this idea won’t go over too well in fundamentalist pulpits!
14Karma’s a bitch and stupid has consequences. No sympathy to waste on these morally abhorrent excuses for humanity.
15I’ve spent the vast majority of my teaching career in high school, so I can’t tell you exactly when this happens, but I know we are taught the difference between fact and opinion at some point. I mean, they are still teaching that right? Somewhere along the line we have lost that.
My college roommate subscribed to the Limbaugh Letter. Even in the 1990s that was a series of deranged utterings that I wouldn’t line a parakeet’s cage with much less read regularly. So, I know exactly where this bullshit started. It still pisses me off that he got the congressional medal of freedom. Now, they might as well give them away in a box of Cracker Jack’s.
16From Carl Newman’s Twitter feed:
GrasshopperWoman
17@GrasshopperWom1
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Texas: where a virus has reproductive rights and a woman does not
Maybe C19 is cleaning the Meme Pool.
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