Remember When Ebola Was Going To Kill Us All?
Republicans loved Ebola. It was a helluva way to scare people.
Right before the election last year, Darrell Issa touted a phone app to use to see if you have Ebola, Louie Gohmert was just certain that the President was importing Ebola, David Vitter wanted a detailed emergency Ebola plan while Erick Erickson said the outbreak was caused by fat lesbians, Republicans demanded an Ebola Czar, and Ted Cruz drooled.
And this happened in October, right before the mid-term elections, and Republicans ran around with their hair on fire yelping that only they cared about this being the end. of. the. damn. world.
Well, once again, they were wrong.
Republican cannot be wrong. They just can’t do it.
So, our friends over at GOP USA have an explanation.
Yep, that says Ebola was simply a ruse to keep our eyes off something even worse coming from Mexico. That’s a news flash, my friend.
And since there’s no elections coming up, this time they want to sell you something for just $49. It’s a book telling you how to put on a band-aid, put together a first aid kit, get your medicines in 3 month supplies, and “putting a shoulder back in place.” Warning: do not try to do that to me. I will hurt you. Badly.
So anyway, Ebola is not a thing now but you still need to be scared poopless.
We’re here to keep you up to date on your Republican scare tactics.
Fear makes for great politics but piss poor leadership.
Don’t the sheep ever get tired of it? The evidence says no.
1Well, according to the bartender, who thought he was Jesus Christhisownself and that Boehner is the devil, and who could have poisoned Boehner’s wine at the Country Club at any damn time he wanted, said Boehner was the cause of ebola being here. Mr. Hoyt is currently back on his meds and he won’t be bartending at the club any longer!! And, he said he heard voices coming from his car radio, which doesn’t seem so odd, except the radio wasn’t turned on!!
Now this morning, I see there was a soldier in Texas who was self assessing himself for signs of ebola and has, it seems, died of same!!
2That’s the Republican Game Plan — keep people ignorant and scared. It’s so much easier to manipulate ignorant, scared people. Without that game plan, the Republicans have nothing.
3Hey, Marcia! That bartender thing has an easy explanation: No tips from TheTanMan! (Cheap bastard.)
4Just the usual despicable, miseratin’ behavior. As predictable as mosquito season.
5JJ hasn’t given us the original link, but, just to be fair to how it looks from here, that green banner says “A message from one of our sponsors.” So it’s not GOPUSA itself trying to scare you THIS time, but an ad on their site trying to sell you an overpriced first aid kit. (Definitely overpriced, because if you click to close the page, it gives you a $20 discount if you don’t.)
That’s not to say that the GOP don’t stoke and feed off the fear that leads people into the GOP in the first place, but this Ebola – immigration garbage doesn’t seem to be theirs.
… Doesn’t “Gopusa” sound like a sea creature? Probably a rather slimy one with lots of poisonous tendrils that won’t actually kill you but will make you feel real sick for a couple days.
6I’ll give the Republicans credit on this one. Half credit anyway.
I do believe there was a coordinated effort to use Ebola as a distraction. While Republican members of the Ebola Orchestra blew away on their tubas and pounded the tympani, they distracted us long enough for them to sneak into the Senate majority.
7Fear-mongering can also be profitable (e.g., Glenn Beck who hawks gold and meals). Buy this program and you’ll “discover the TeCaMoLo Diagnosis Method”, which the author no doubt learned and got a badge for at Camp TeCaMoLo the summer of 1989. You’ll need this program, you see, to know “how to fight back deadly diseases in post-apocalyptic America” after “Disaster-day”.
8I’ve never been scared of Ebola, and if, somehow, I contracted it, I’d get ozone therapy, which works (google Dr. Rowen).
This is what scares me: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/climate-change-ted-cruz-marco-rubio-nasa-noaa
9“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.” – Noam Chomsky
This should remain a quote, not elevated as it has to plank in the GOP Platform.
10Then there are are conservative religious wackos who tell their followers that vaccinations are a socialist tool to enslave them. Actually, maybe those folks shouldn’t get vaccinated. Wait a few years and an epidemic will come along to purge their ranks. I’d feel sorry for their innocent kids, though.
11Protecting the border from immigrant kids went by the wayside before the election. Just more wingnut fear mongering. They do it every two years and it keeps working.
12If lie number one won’t do, go to number two.
13Thats what their damn book is? Shoot. I had one even better than that. Everything about growing your own food, preserving it, storing it, cooking it, etc. And “growing” your own clothing (wool from goats and sheep etc.) and how to build your own log cabin. And when you get hurt doing all this stuff, there was even a very, very complete medical section. Not that it showed you how to amputate your own leg, but you know, just enough info until the rescue team popped in. And it was put out by — ready for this? Readers Digest. Years ago. Before there was a P Tardy.
14If the radical right didn’t have fear then they wouldn’t have an issues at all.
15Fear: It worked for every despot in history, it worked for the KKK, worked for Joe McCarthy and now the rwnj’s have it down to a science.
16Maryelle, fear is omnicarnivorous. It will eat the peddler as easily as anything else. Look what happened to Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy. He was revealed as a hallucinating drunk and his political career ended. He crawled off somewhere and became a zero. The KKK eventually discovered just how many of their flock were actually undercover agents and lost enough of their clout to break up with Lady Pepperel. No more sheets for them. Why, they were now some kinda civic minded organization, all fangs and talons nubbed just enough to keep them off the streets at night. For an outfit that ran on hate and testosterone, that is a real come-down.
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