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babylonsister

(172,601 posts)
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 10:17 AM Aug 2021

The Rude Pundit: Maybe We're Just Sick of Ignorance and This Time We Can Do Something About It


The Rude Pundit
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8/04/2021
Maybe We're Just Sick of Ignorance and This Time We Can Do Something About It


The easiest way to describe the genuine anger at the anti-vax idiots is that we're fucking sick of their shit. We're tired of having the direction of our lives decided by the most credulous and easily manipulated motherfuckers in the population. We've reached the end of our proverbial ropes and, goddamnit, we're done buying longer ropes.

You saw that today when New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who successfully guided his state through the worst shit in the first part of the pandemic, was fucking done with the anti-vax protesters at a news conference he was having. "Because of what you are saying and standing for people are losing their life... and you have to know that," he told the hooting morons, calling them "knuckleheads," a favorite term of his.

I could go back a long fucking time in detailing all the shit we've been forced to eat, but let's just concentrate on the last few years. So much of it was assholishness and savagery that we had no fucking say in and no control over. We've had to sit there while knuckle-dragging, Fox-lobotomized cock dribbles cheered for all the brute bullshit that Donald Trump and the various infected pustules in his administration could do, like banning people from mostly Muslim-majority countries for no rational reason and separating migrant children from their families for the specific purpose of being dicks to them. We could do nothing when the perverse Republicans in the Senate not only prevented Barack Obama from making a Supreme Court pick nearly a year before the next president would be inaugurated, but then decided it was cool to rush through a nominee after people had already started voting for the 2020 election, thus allowing a SCOTUS face-fucking on issues like abortion and voting rights all but inevitable. We watched in horror as the federal government was used as a weapon against Black Lives Matter protesters and as open, enthusiastic racists were welcomed, even honored, by the GOP, who couldn't be bothered to do a goddamn thing about the ongoing execution by cop of black people. We couldn't do a fucking thing as Trump pranced around the globe, dicking over the United States's longtime alliances, wiping his ass with the Paris Agreement on climate change, and pissing on the Iran nuclear deal. And speaking of climate change, we've had to watch dumbfounded for years as Trump reversed even the small bit of progress that the country was making, essentially declaring that he'll be dead, so fuck it, burn all the fossil fuels you can, fuckers, because wind turbines are ugly and kill birds. And that's not even getting into the scandal upon scandal upon scandal, all happening while the sinister cuntmites in the GOP grinned, their teeth slicked with MAGA jizz, discovered that they fucking loved being openly evil, and enabled, supported, aided, abetted, and cheered the filthiest urges of this filthiest of presidents and his mongrel circle, making celebrities out of the skeeviest, stupidest of their pitiful lot.

And then we were helpless for the first year of the Covid pandemic, aghast as we saw the White House simply refuse to do basic things to help not just the sick, but the front line workers who were working themselves sometimes to death trying to keep the rest of us alive. We saw organized groups threaten to fucking murder leaders over efforts by state governments to mitigate the spread of the virus. And we saw Trump and the GOP act as if this was all just the price to pay for some debased notion of freedom, one that was contorted around allowing a certain number of people to die rather than raise taxes on the wealthy in order to prevent economic collapse.

And, through it all, we had to watch the idiot hordes of MAGA cretins whoop it up, acting like every fucking day was asshole Christmas, electing rank boobs to Congress just because they promised to be Trump's ass remoras while doing nothing except piss off the liberals. The last fucking straw was the vaccine. That was it. That was the breaking point. When these yahoos who aren't fit to live in sewage ditches refused to get vaccinated from the very vaccine that their great and powerful leader bragged about helping create, when they decided that that vaccine was a plot to control their brains or poison them, and when their monstrously dumb decision allowed the virus to regroup and fill the hospitals with patients again in places where their idiocy ran amok, when the yahoos and their skeevy leaders mock the idea that masks might be needed again because of the actions of the very yahoos who need to masks, well, that fucking does it. E-fucking-nough.

So, yeah, we have some fucking control, some power here, and we're gonna use it. Companies are saying, "Get fucking vaccinated or fuck off." Cities and schools and other places are saying, "Get fucking vaccinated or stay in your homes, you plague rats." And while some states have banned mandates for localities and schools, many of those are based on the emergency authorization and would expire once the Covid vaccine receives full FDA approval, which is expected in the next couple of weeks.

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The Rude Pundit: Maybe We're Just Sick of Ignorance and This Time We Can Do Something About It (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2021 OP
K&R Wicked Blue Aug 2021 #1
Reason and gentle words don't work. 2Gingersnaps Aug 2021 #9
I don't know that I've ever read anything with which I agree more! -misanthroptimist Aug 2021 #2
Plague Rats -- OMGWTF Aug 2021 #3
Plague Rats is the phrase of the day Gregory Peccary Aug 2021 #4
Kick kick kick... mountain grammy Aug 2021 #5
His rudeness has a way with words. 😂 SergeStorms Aug 2021 #6
They really are the kind of evil FoxNewsSucks Aug 2021 #8
He did get me by the dark humor, 2Gingersnaps Aug 2021 #10
Well, I'm old too. SergeStorms Aug 2021 #16
I feel your pain, Rude Pundit. "Plague Rats" is a keeper. Hekate Aug 2021 #7
K&R MustLoveBeagles Aug 2021 #11
Quality rant. ShazamIam Aug 2021 #12
it's always a pleasure to read the Rude One RussBLib Aug 2021 #13
a Missouri redditor's name for his state's plague rats... alterfurz Aug 2021 #14
THAT is perfect. Beartracks Aug 2021 #26
I love how 'fuck' is used 19 times and it's not even the whole article Bonx Aug 2021 #15
Spot on, RP. niyad Aug 2021 #17
The likes of MTG, Boebert, and Gaetz can go fuck themselves Blue Owl Aug 2021 #18
Bravo! I shared. Joinfortmill Aug 2021 #19
"most credulous and easily manipulated " bucolic_frolic Aug 2021 #20
Are they called "independent"? fwvinson Aug 2021 #22
Some may be, but I would call them agnostic or disengaged bucolic_frolic Aug 2021 #31
Kick....n/t Upthevibe Aug 2021 #21
LOVE the Rude Pundit Skittles Aug 2021 #23
My only point of disagreement with what Rude wrote is "a plot to control their brains". thenelm1 Aug 2021 #24
"Trump's ass remoras" tanyev Aug 2021 #25
That one got me, too. mnhtnbb Aug 2021 #28
Well said again walpurgis Aug 2021 #27
AMEN. Mike Niendorff Aug 2021 #29
I love Rude LittleGirl Aug 2021 #30
I suspect there is only one thing on which the Trump anti-vaxxers and I agree. Lonestarblue Aug 2021 #32
Rude is right on Evolve Dammit Aug 2021 #33
Couldn't agree more and so eloquently written! housecat Aug 2021 #34

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
9. Reason and gentle words don't work.
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 01:20 PM
Aug 2021

Rude states it in no uncertain terms. We are WAY beyond pearl clutching and fainting couches. Worst part? These Pro lifers and family values types are some pretty depraved mofos. Maybe on their way to grab that noose meant for Mike Pence to go give Cuoma a bad day, they might want to quit sniggering about Gaetz.

-misanthroptimist

(1,566 posts)
2. I don't know that I've ever read anything with which I agree more!
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 11:54 AM
Aug 2021

Completely fed up with the plague rats, the plague rat mentality, the plague rat media, and most of all the plague rat political party.

OMGWTF

(5,017 posts)
3. Plague Rats --
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 11:57 AM
Aug 2021

I shall endeavor to use that in a sentence today. Rude sure does have a way with words.

SergeStorms

(20,022 posts)
6. His rudeness has a way with words. 😂
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 12:31 PM
Aug 2021

"all happening while the sinister cuntmites in the GOP grinned, their teeth slicked with MAGA jizz, discovered that they fucking loved being openly evil..."

It's not really a laughing matter, because it's true, but if I can't find some humor in the MF45 shit-show I'll go completely, stark raving mad! 🤪

2Gingersnaps

(1,000 posts)
10. He did get me by the dark humor,
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 01:23 PM
Aug 2021

this laughing to keep from crying shit is getting old. A little righteous indignation is not a bad thing.

SergeStorms

(20,022 posts)
16. Well, I'm old too.
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 05:42 PM
Aug 2021

And I'm used to Democrats always "keeping their power dry". I've been sick of that for the past 25 years. If we don't protect voting rights I'm afraid there won't be any democracy to "keep our power dry" for.

We can't convince certain Democratic Senators of that though. They want to "keep their powder dry", by protecting the filibuster instead.

RussBLib

(10,437 posts)
13. it's always a pleasure to read the Rude One
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 03:04 PM
Aug 2021

It's good to see vaccinations picking up again. Better get vaxxed before the next, more lethal variant emerges.

Blue Owl

(58,215 posts)
18. The likes of MTG, Boebert, and Gaetz can go fuck themselves
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 08:07 PM
Aug 2021

Whoever is dumb enough to follow these Putin stooges can perish in the swamp where they belong

bucolic_frolic

(54,126 posts)
20. "most credulous and easily manipulated "
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 08:22 PM
Aug 2021

Sort of defines the last minute, poorly informed, infrequent voter. The Achilles heel of democracy.

bucolic_frolic

(54,126 posts)
31. Some may be, but I would call them agnostic or disengaged
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 05:43 AM
Aug 2021

independents at least are informed, if on the fence and unable to decide.

thenelm1

(912 posts)
24. My only point of disagreement with what Rude wrote is "a plot to control their brains".
Thu Aug 5, 2021, 10:12 PM
Aug 2021

Beyond having a basic brain stem to control bodily functions, this crowd has demonstrated time and time again that the space between their ears is a vacuous void. There is absolutely no thought there whatsoever beyond "sticking it to the libs" as based on the latest orders from Command Central and Dr. Evil. In many ways it's like a silly comedic villain has metastasized into real life - but it's not really funny anymore.

Lonestarblue

(13,249 posts)
32. I suspect there is only one thing on which the Trump anti-vaxxers and I agree.
Fri Aug 6, 2021, 07:47 AM
Aug 2021

Neither of us wants the other in their country. I don’t want people like them, with their white privilege, in my country and they don’t want people like me, with my notions of civil rights and freedom from stupidity and religion, in their country. I wish we could just get a divorce and never be part of one another’s lives again.

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