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It is hard for ordinary citizens to wrap their heads around the fact that there are prominent people in positions of great power and influence who are severely character disordered.

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2 years into the seriousness of this and people still have to be told that their mask needs to cover their nose. It's absurd and horrible, and even those of us who do the right things are suffering as a result.

I presented to a city council in a bright red state last night. One council member was out - with Covid. The other council members joked "it's going around again" 🙄

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"There’s been a conscious decision to unleash on America a special kind of anti-science, anti-vaccine campaign."

Makes sense from a business perspective... Australia and UK are probably too educated to fall for this kind of con... In the US however, where public education has been woefully underfunded for years, this con riles up the "base" beautifully, gets deplorable eyes on ads, while the Murdochs laugh all the way to the bank.

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What I dislike the most about all of those party line science deniers dying is that my first thought is,”less of them to vote their nutty authoritarians in to office”, and it breaks my heart. My heart used to be bigger and more inclusive. It’s very tainted with cynicism now. All we can do is work hard to make the country more blue in the next election - and it won’t be easy.

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Fox News is a cancer that is metastasizing across this country. No need to add to what you so eloquently have pointed out regarding their stance on Covid. I just want to add how that network is also touting Putin as a great leader with Tucker Carlson and company falling all over the clips of Trump and Pompeo virtually caressing the balls of the fierce dictator who's about to invade Ukraine. The left better unite this November and turn out to the polls in huge unheard of numbers. Our country is in deep peril being attacked from within. Imagine a world in a year or two where the United States takes sides with Russia in their attempt to dominate Europe. If you think Putin will stop at Ukraine, Vlad has a bridge that crosses the Volga that he would like to sell you.

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This is nothing new.

Daily Kos has multiple diaries about people who refused to sign up for Obamacare because they hated the black man in the White House so much that they were willing to die for the GOP.

Now it's on a larger scale. Just check out the profiles over at sorryantivaxxer.com and see a whole bunch of fools who are now 6 feet under or burned in an urn because the GOP told them not to get the vaccines.

Honestly I do believe that Screwpert Murderoch and his evil son Lackey are getting off on that. They love to see people die. Which is why their toady Tucker is endlessly kissing Putin's ass on his White Power Hour.

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"Today, the network remains perfectly aligned with the GOP, which is clearly pro-Covid."

Difficult to distinguish between the tail and the dog, here.

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"We’re watching a slow-motion, political mass suicide as millions refuse the vaccine and hundreds of thousands have died since the arrival of the inoculation one year ago."

I used to care that the willfully unvaccinated were dying from their own stupidity but not anymore. I still think it's awful for the immunocompromised and health care workers who have to take care of them (One nurse I know has been screamed at multiple times because she wouldn't administer Ivermectin and/or told she was "wrong" about the diagnosis) but if they cannot be bothered to save their own lives, we should the rest of us care?

Republicans have decided that prolonging a deadly pandemic suits their purpose. We will see if their cynical, despicable calculation is correct in the next election in toss-up areas.

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My favorite journalistic name, Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, said that when he took over the top editing job at The Washington Post, his predecessor, Russell Wiggins, gave him some advice: "Always edit with your hat on." Meaning, the day may come when the publisher tells you to do something you simply cannot do, and you have to be prepared to walk out--as Wiggins threatened to do a couple of times when Phil Graham was at the worst of his depression. Bradlee said he came close when Kay Graham wasn't clearly going to approve publishing the Pentagon Papers.

The point is, it isn't as if Neil Cavuto cannot survive without Fux. The trouble is, I'm not sure he can survive WITH Fux.

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Avarice pure and simple. Ignoble. Despicable. The question I ask myself is whether or not FOX/Murdoch actually get their kicks from trolling the libs at the expense of/because of the negative impact it has on real lives and R voters while ‘owning’ us . A bit of sadism mixed with greed? God complex? Ugh. Awful people. As to ‘Harvest Moon,’ Neil Young’s imo best version was ‘our’ song while my husband was alive. I can’t bear to hear it even 6 years later. Fabulous song either way. Thanks Eric.

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Cavuto might be the last actual journalist at Fox News, and this is not saying much. Compare and contrast him with his colleague and fellow Fox News Business journalist Maria Bartiromo, and you’ll see my point.

I honestly don’t understand why he returned.

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Feb 23, 2022·edited Feb 23, 2022

Americans have a history of throwing their lives away for the sake of politics, but up until now it's mostly been via useless wars that benefit big corporations. The power of human stupidity cannot be denied when someone like Neil Caputo, a man with serious health problems who almost died of covid, decides he will follow his career on his knees to his bosses.

I feel terrible saying it, but I lost all respect for him. He is in a position where he could be a powerful influence on people who refuse the vaccines, but those mutterings about "choice" are simply jaw-dropping. He's going to stay there and feed bullshit to Fox viewers, and they'll continue to die. The selfishness of Neil Cavuto is disgusting.

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For many people, when it comes to vaccines, their ability to be rational is on par with someone who has a severe addiction or has been brainwashed by a Cult. Logical arguments are useless. Their only chance is to suffer a consequence that is severe enough to break through their denial and delusional thinking, but not so severe that it kills them. Even then, it's a toss-up.

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If you stand for wrong you'll stand for anything. Neil Cavuto near death is ANYTHING

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Feb 23, 2022·edited Feb 23, 2022

As a non-American, I can honestly say that the anti-vaxxer B.S. being trumpeted by the right-wing jackasses at Faux, Newsmax, O.A.N.N. & other outlets isn't limited to the United States.

I'm from the Philippines where supposedly well-educated people like my mother & relatives from my father's side of the family don't want to get vaccinated.

One of my aunts (the wife of my father's cousin) even got herself infected with Covid-19 from her son in order to get immunity risking her personal health despite the possibility of being infected by a fatal variant of the virus (luckily it was mild, but it was an act of stupidity).

Recently, my younger brother got in trouble for saying he didn't want to seat with unvaccinated people at a female cousin's wedding last week.

He mentioned it to me & my sisters and later told the sister of the bride organizing the seating arrangements. However, he didn't expect our cousin to tell her mother about the changes of seating. He also didn't know that the mother of the bride would blab about it to my other aunt (father's youngest sister) whose entire family is unvaccinated.

That led to a lot of unnecessary drama and my mother siding with my relatives claiming that taking the vaccine was a "personal choice", my brother shouldn't have gone to the wedding despite his youngest daughter being part of the entorauge, and hurting the feelings of my unvaccinated relatives (although they allegedly received their first shots before the wedding).

Anyway, my point is why did a life-saving vaccine become a divisive issue to the point that it strains family relationships?

We're already two years into the Covid-19 pandemic yet people like my mother are still afraid to take the vaccines because of side effects despite the statistical low chances of people getting them.

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My favorite used book website sent me two older books that intrigue me. Both are by Erich Fromm, of whom I am a great admirer. One is "Escape from Freedom," first published in 1941, and it discusses how an actual collective fear of freedom will lead us to authoritarianism. The blurb says the rise of freedom has driven people to feel dehumanized and alienated. I have had something rattling in my brain that sort of touches on this - that the anti-vaxxers are using covid as the hill they want to die on because they see the swift governmental action against the pandemic as, ironically, action against themselves. The "freedom" they are attempting to escape from is actually embodied in a vaccination that would preserve their freedom, thereby keeping that alienation and dehumanization in place. They would rather die "beating the system" because they feel strong and righteous without that covid shot.

The other Fromm book I received is "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness,"published in 1973. I doubt I'll read this cover to cover, but I've been looking for a reference work that would explain to me the human behavior I've seen over the years that makes no sense to me, namely, wars fought on false pretenses and the embrace of state sponsored terror. Lately I've also questioned why people deny facts about everything from Michael Jackson's sexual behavior to Tucker Carlson's willingness to watch people die of covid, and how his obvious lies are enjoyed by millions of people. And then, our secret enjoyment in stories of covid deniers who die of covid.

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