Is this the same?
One of the things I’ve noticed on social media lately are the cries from conservatives that liberals were apparently rooting for Donald Trump to die when he had COVID. Yet, they are all adults and none of them have wished death on Joe Biden. See, they are the adults and those that believe in civility unlike all of these nasty liberals. Of course, they forget that we have receipts.
Unhinged One America News anchor Alison Steinberg suggests Joe Biden’s covid is a false flag to perhaps get people to accept vaccine boosters or to install Kamala Harris at president. #OANN pic.twitter.com/yJYU4Rc0pu
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 22, 2022
I know many of you do not follow Twitter, so I need to add to this little gem. Steinberg later went on a private twitter video off air where she gleefully asked her followers if Joe Biden would die. Naturally, I first saw this in one of my social media echo chambers and the comments got pretty sarcastic when it came to her fashion and beauty choices. I’m just a simple guy, so I won’t get into any of that.
I only have two points when it comes to all of this. First of all, my memory may be a bit fuzzy, but I don’t remember anyone on MSNBC, The Young Turks, or any prominent member of the progressive media wishing death on Donald Trump. Of course, I don’t spend all my waking hours watching those channels or networks. Hell, I don’t watch a whole lot of television to begin with. So, maybe someone could help me out there. If I’ve missed a major progressive politician or news anchor wishing death on Donald Trump please provide the receipts.
We had an election where over 150 million people voted. More than 80 million voted for Joe Biden and against the former guy. There is absolutely a non-zero chance that a few of those 80 million people might have uttered those sentiments out loud. There’s a decent chance it was more than a few. I’m not answering for them. I refuse to. What I will do is apply pressure on any elected official or prominent talking head to clean up their act. However, I tend to doubt that I will have to do that.
Furthermore, this ignores the irony that the former guy gaslit the nation about the dangers of the virus and then ended up getting it. He spread it to others and allegedly attempted to spread it to more (including Joe Biden) knowingly and on purpose. More than a million people are dead and the vast majority probably didn’t need to die. I certainly don’t condone wishing death on anyone, but many of those people probably lost family members to the virus and maybe some close friends. Maybe those family members and close friends neglected to wear masks or vaccinate because their commander in chief said that was okay. I can’t condone anything, but under those conditions I certainly understand it.
The good news is that OAN is soon to be a relic of the past. They’ve lost their streaming contracts.
1Look, most of us know damned well that TFFG attempted to assassinate Joe Biden at their debate by willfully concealing his active COVID and breathing all over Biden.
The bilious asshole is such a loser that even his COVID germs were weak and ineffective, and failed to harm the older, healthier Biden.
Now that Biden has contracted a mild case of it, the Rethugs are gleefully hoping for the worst.
Eff ’em all, with an ocotillo branch up their wazooties.
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2https://twitter.com/EandPCartoons/status/1550267193916641280
Well, if I’m not mistaken, Twitter will quickly flag comments like that (unless you’re someone “important”) and put a person in a time out or block them permanently. I’ve said things far less radical and gotten kicked off there.
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” (Either Mark Twain or Clarence Darrow)
3The criticism of Trump was when he had COVID was that he paraded around with the SS while he should have been in Walter Reed.
4While I never said I hoped Trump would die, I have said that I would not go into debt buying flowers for his funeral. And while I never said that I would piss on his grave, I do have a can of asparagus saved back for some special occasion.
5I’ve never wanted him to die, I want him to live a long life in an un-airconditioned hovel with no TV or internet and never be allowed out!
6She seems nice.
7slipstream @7,
8Yes.
But the blond may go better with decaf.
OAN’s contract with Verizon, their last major carrier, expires at the end of this month. They will officially become small time and can howl at the moon all they want.
9Obviously, OAN is small time, but I think what gets me is when I have conversations on Twitter with people that just openly assert that conservatives are not doing this and liberals did it all the time in October of 2020. Point it out to them and suddenly it then becomes 100 to 1 in the case of liberals to conservatives doing this.
Yet, this person doesn’t watch OAN so they had no idea. They don’t watch liberal media, so they went with the vague “people are saying” gambit that the former guy loved to use. Again, I asked for receipts because I gave her the names of prominent talking heads that were saying it on the right. Crickets.
10I have no one to impress or anything. I would have been happy to see and am still happy and will continue to be happy tfg dead or impaired or enjailed for eternity! There, you may hang on my coat tails if you like, climb on!
11I only wished his genitals would shrivel. Did I get my wish, does anybody know?
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