Ouchy
The Death Party intensifies its push to kill more of us:
The Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Dallas this weekend has been full of the usual moments from the Republican Party’s most outrageous figures trying to be the most performatively provocative. Notable, however, has been the drumbeat of anti-vaccine rhetoric that has pervaded CPAC’s annual gathering—even as the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to build steam across unvaccinated parts of the country.
Because what, half a million deaths isn’t enough for them?
Fauci is, naturally, horrified.
Fauci was reacting to a talk in which anti-vaxxer Alex Berenson was roundly cheered by a CPAC audience for saying the US government had failed to “sucker” 90 percent of Americans into getting vaccinated.
“It’s horrifying, I mean, the cheering about someone saying that it’s a good thing for people to not try and save their lives,” Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “If you just unpack that for a second… it’s almost frightening to say ‘Guess what? We don’t want you to do something to save your life! Yay!’ I just don’t get that and I don’t think anybody who is thinking clearly can get that.”
You can omit the “almost” from “it’s almost frightening.” Of course it’s frightening that people are happy to promote death for frivolous political or showbiz gratification.
Others carrying the anti-vaccine torch at CPAC included Colorado congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who mocked Biden’s efforts to get more people vaccinated and provide economic relief to states where the economy is still struggling to restart after pandemic-related shutdowns. “We’re here to tell the government we don’t want your benefits, we don’t want your welfare,” Boebert declared, strutting across a stage as she spoke. “Don’t come knocking on my door with your Fauci ‘ouchy’—you leave us the hell alone.”
And then there’s Kristi Noem:
It appears that the sleepwalkers are all wearing T-shirts saying ‘do not disturb; somnambulence in progress.’ Or, to paraphrase Churchill: ‘Never in the history of human endeavour has so much policy and life-and-death behaviour by so many, rested on such a pile of bullshit propagated by so few.’
Rupert Murdoch and Co might have a few questions to answer come Judgement Day.
Not that I want to defend the Distinguised Gentlewoman from Colorado, but I am pretty sure that the “Fauci Ouchy” refers to the actual vaccination, and not the deaths from COVID-19.
People defend their refusal of the vaccination as “their right,” and “not letting the government tell them what to do.” And while I am sure that I probably have the right to do a bungee jump over a 1,000 meter gorge in Colorado using a cord that has not been inspected, I am also sure that it is not very smart to do so.
I agree, and I checked the video. Bobert is talking about people coming by with a vaccine.
Dissent Pins, they of the RBG dissent collar pins and various other liberal-ish adornments, makes a Fauci Ouchie pin.
Nit: it’s usually spelled “Ouchie”, which I think coordinates better with “Fauci”. It is spelled that way in the video captions.
Sorry, I didn’t notice that Winslow got the “ouchy” meaning wrong, or I would have corrected. (Also didn’t mark a quoted passage as quoted.)
Not sorry about “ouchy.” I prefer that spelling, probably because it looks that little bit dumber.
Mike @ 3 – yes but also telling people not to get the vax is a danger to [countless] other people. If Boebert wants to put her own life at risk I can only approve, but she’s doing it to other people in the process.
Good points, but I couldn’t quite figure out how to fit that into the metaphor.
Heh. Metaphors can be so tiresome that way.
How about bungee jumping off a high bridge over a busy interstate with a cord that hasn’t been inspected?
These people really have no idea how much consumer protection, government regulation and inspection keeping them alive, do they? I don’t think they’d be too eager to drive in unregulated cars, fly in uninspected aircraft and eat untested foods, would they. Or, in an example that they might find more personally relevant, they wouldn’t want to handle firearms that had a high probability of exploding in their faces due to shoddy manufacture, would they?*
*Though they are certainly pretty laid back regarding lax obedience to, and enforcement of, safe storage and handling laws that results in lots of dead children and bystanders, so, maybe not a good example after all.
Apparently Boebert herself benefitted to the tune of thousands of dollars in federal COVID relief money for her restaurant. Socialism for her, but not for anyone else. She would have been one of those oblivious Tea Partiers who demanded tax cuts, but carried signs saying “HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!!”
YNNB@#10
When people scream at the government to cut regulations, I would rather they be more specific. Which regulations, and why? Do you mean the regulations that prevent you from dumping toxic waste in the creek bed that runs by my house? The regulations that man you can’t have too many rodent parts in my can of beans? The regulations that state that dangerous liquids must be labeled as so? The regulations that don’t allow more trains on the track than can be monitored by the switch yards preventing head on collisions? Which regulations?
How about bungee jumping off a high bridge over a busy interstate with a cord that hasn’t been inspected?
Communist.
It amuses me how many of my colleagues and students will sit in their offices or desks and blithely inform everyone that government has never done anything for them. While working/studying at a state-supported university, betting there by driving on state/locally funded roads, driving a car subsidized by the government in many ways. Turning on lights with power provided by the government, eating food that is cheaper because the government pays a lot of the cost, and dumping the trash in the can to be taken to the municipal landfill operated by the government. Calling government paid police for petty irritations to major problems. Calling government paid fire departments when their houses or cars (or pants) are on fire.
Yeah, government doesn’t do much for me…as long as I stay home in a totally dark house with no food, no heat, and never flush my toilet.
Right? It drives me crazy. This “don’t tread on me” bullshit from Boebert & Tucker Carlson and the rest of them – where do they think the world they live in comes from? Do they think everyone builds her own from scratch? It’s a massive collective endeavor, collective in time as well as people, and the price for enjoying the benefits of that is that sometimes you have to keep other people in mind. Oh the horror!! Unless you pause to remember that those pesky Other People provide your food and housing and transportation and healthcare and everyfuckingthing else.
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what
have the Romanshas the Government ever done for us?”“Brought peace.”
“Oh. Peace? Shut up!”
This reminds me of a speech given by convicted felon/voter-fraudster Dinesh D’Souza (before Trump took out his #9 Sharpie and zigzagged his “signature” onto a pardon for him), back in the halycon days when debates between atheism and theism were about as contentious as things got. D’Souza was trying to demonstrate the shallowness of modern life based on advances in science, as opposed to the presumably deeply fulfilling spiritual life that he and his followers experience. Standing on an indoor stage built with modern architectural methods and standards, in an air-conditioned room, under fluorescent lighting, and speaking into a microphone amplifying his voice to the crowd with modern low-noise field-effect transistors while reading from what appeared to be a teleprompter computer screen, Dinesh raised his voice, hammered the podium with his tiny fist, and declared with deep conviction that “Science has done NOTHING for us! NOTHING!”
I have long searched for video of that exact event, but it seems lost to time.
@# 16: But de Souza could just be right. All that so-called ‘science’ could well have come from ancient manuscripts found along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and now housed in a top secret archive in the Vatican labelled ‘NOTHING IMPORTANT: for Pope’s eyes only.’
There are none so blind….