Why won't media SAY the truth: Republicans are weaponizing COVID to regain power.

[CousinIT]

I believe that what is REALLY behind all this anti-vaxx and anti-masking bullshit is just that: PREVENT Dems and Biden from making headway on COVID and getting America back to some semblance of normal.

THEN Republicans can, in 2022 and 2024 - after they SABOTAGED Biden Admin efforts to finally end this virus in the US - run for congress and as POTUS on Biden's "failure" to get the virus under control.

They're not ignorant. THEY'RE EVIL.

DO YOU THINK THEY CARE that this is KILLING people? Including children? Because they don't. I guarantee you, they do not. And they still call themselves "pro-life" (conditions apply: pro-life only applies when the fetal tissue is attached to a woman or girl they want to enslave and control). Outside that, all bets are off.

Is there a REASON the goddamned media can't point out that this is likely what is behind all this?

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Republicons,

their backers, their enablers, and their donors own and/or control nearly all the media.

That's why.

[abqtommy]

2. Most of the U.S. media wouldn't know the truth if it bit them on the knee. They're too busy doing

the bidding of sPUTIN and their reTHUG overlords.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. They'd need SOME kind of proof ... some documentation or someone high-up RePuQ admitting it

Otherwise they're not going to bring it up.

It's too big of a liability for them.

[lagomorph777]

6. It's blatantly obvious. The proof is in front of our eyes every day.

But you are correct; the media would need a signed, notarized confession to actually report it.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. I don't think it quite rises to that level of certainty, personally ...

I think it's a possibility.

If someone RePuQ tweets out something like 'this COVID mess will help us regain power in 2022', then it becomes something the media can talk about, and I'd imagine they would ... for a few minutes anyway.

You know, however long their algorithms detect clicks and eyeballs.

Truth is, people expect this behavior from Republicans, even a signed notarized confession would, sadly, just lead to a bunch of shrugs and 'yup, that's politics for you'.

[lagomorph777]

8. So why are they doing it? Obviously they know they're killing people.

They're evil, but it's not possible they are that stupid (most of the ringleaders are vaxxed).

Could it be that Putin pays per body bag?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Because their entire base is a bunch of morons, and the GQP leaders feel they have no choice

But to entertain these idiots and their fantasy-world bullshit?

Plus some of their 'leaders' are utter morons themselves.

The idea that Russian's are in part behind all these people (all over the world) having these ridiculous views is not that far-fetched to me.

But the 'damage is done' because they're been working on the wingnuts for a year and a half at this point, pumping their propaganda.

The only way I think this changes is when ENOUGH wingnuts see some loved one die, and see with their own eyes that the people who ARE vaxxed are NOT dying. They won't believe what 'science' and 'Democrats' are telling them until it becomes so blatantly 'real' that they can't deny it anymore.

[lagomorph777]

10. Yeah, pretty much.

Some are so far down the rabbit hole that even deaths of loved ones won't do it. But we will peel off some at the margins.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Only a Republican...

Only a Republican would think killing off their own base is a smart idea.

D'OH.

[PortTack]

5. This strategy didn't work for the orange mass...it isn't going to work in '22 or '24 either

[Hugh_Lebowski]

11. It could if there's knock on effects apart from just people dying of COVID

Economy going down the tubes, if there's significant shortages in grocery stores around election time, those kinds of things.

They only need to pick up ONE Senate seat, and/or what like 9 House seats?

I wouldn't discount the possibility entirely based on 2020.

[apnu]

12. Strange strategy. They are killing their own.

Biden is pro-vax and getting us out of COVID. Republicans are anti-vax, anti-mask, and have promoted dangerous snake oil as alternatives. Their base is suffering under this delta variant, it is literally killing them.

Weird strategy, literally dying to own the ‘Libs’.

[CousinIT]

13. They are not the smartest tools in the shed. But they are ruthless, desperate and

evil. They likely figure 'winning' against Biden is worth some dead people - even if most are from their own party. We know Republicans can't do math.