The GOP doesn't care about the suffering it causes -- even among its own base

[Nevilledog]

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Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin
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The results are predictable: More Republicans are dying because Republican leaders and the right-wing media are misleading them.

Opinion | The GOP doesn’t care about the suffering it causes — even among its own base
Republicans' nihilism is intensifying.
washingtonpost.com
8:25 AM · Nov 30, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/30/gop-doesnt-care-about-suffering-it-causes-even-among-its-own-base/

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Axios reported on Monday that “Florida, Iowa, Kansas and Tennessee have changed their unemployment insurance rules to allow workers who are fired or quit over vaccine mandates to receive benefits.” Yes, they are incentivizing people to quit work and remain unvaccinated. So much for the party of “work” and “life.”

Meanwhile, former White House physician and now-Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Tex.) — known for his unintentionally comedic flattery of the former president and for describing the Biden administration’s vaccine program as “socialist communist Marxist” — has piped up again with an insane conspiracy theory:

Other Republicans are attempting to nix federal mandates that have proved successful in getting more than 90 percent of the federal workforce vaccinated. As NPR reported, “Conservative lawmakers in Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wyoming and North Dakota have already completed special sessions and passed bills aimed at nullifying new federal mandates.”

The results are predictable: More Republicans are dying because Republican leaders and the right-wing media are misleading them. My colleague Philip Bump reports: “The vast majority of those now dying of the coronavirus were unvaccinated, a group that’s disproportionately Republican. Florida has now seen more than 61,000 coronavirus deaths, about 284 for every 100,000 residents. New York, by comparison, has seen 56,645 deaths, 280 per 100,000 residents. One year ago, before the vaccines, New York’s per capita toll was nearly twice Florida’s.”

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[zaj]

1. Sado-Populism: their base loves the suffering, it's a loyalty test.

1) promise impossible rewards if elected
2) win election and gain power
3) refuse to deliver on promise
4) cause deliberate pain
5) watch outrage grow
6) blame your opponent for the pain
7) demand voter loyalty by promising to fix it
8) gain more power
9) deliver more pain

[Kablooie]

2. Because they know the fools will still vote them back in.

They would rather, literally, die than vote a Democrat because Democrats are pure evil.
Propaganda works.

[The Magistrate]

3. I Don't Know, Ma'am --- Enjoyment Is A Kind Of Caring....

It was said some while back the bliss of the blessed was incomplete without the howls of the damned.

[Irish_Dem]

4. I think the GOP might even enjoy causing death and suffering.

Makes them feel powerful.

And like in the case of Trump, some are sexual sadists. They get off on the suffering and pain of others.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. The mob killed two of their own January 6. . . .nt