Fauci Decries ‘Paradoxical’ GOP Vaccine Hesitancy After Jordan Feud | Talking Points Memo

White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday expressed his frustration over vaccine hesitancy among Republicans, following his tense exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) last week.


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Not all Republicans are idiots but all idiots are Republicans.

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“Paradoxical”? How about a POTUS who boasts he’s responsible for the creation of the vaccine yet when he got the shots he kept quiet about it?

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Let’s face facts. You can never convince irrational people that their behaviour is irrational. If you don’t believe that, ask Hannibal or Wayne.

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TBF, some idiots are Libertarians.

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Psst! Hey, Doc. Stop me if you’ve heard this: You can’t fix stupid.

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I know right?
I told dad I wanted to be a Libertarian when I grew up but he said I couldn’t do both.

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"This is a public health issue. It’s not a civil liberties issue.”

This is being a f^cking idiot issue.

I’ve no more patience.

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The republicans right now are like the ants in a suddenly-exposed ant colony. They have lost their cover (fat donnie), and they are running around in chaos, doing anything they can to distract from what they have wrought.

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I’m stealing that :slight_smile:

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Dr. Fauci, your next task, if you choose to accept it, is to develop a vaccine against stupidity.

Micro-chip optional.

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This article is a perfect example of why many parts of the country are doomed.
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“On the one hand, they want to be relieved of the restrictions,” Fauci said. “On the other hand, they don’t want to be vaccinated. It almost doesn’t make any sense.”

It does make sense if you recognize that many Republicans who champion ‘freedom’ and ‘individual liberty’ also refuse to accept or acknowledge any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions on other people. For a society to be truly healthy it must embrace both individual liberty and the common good. Both are necessary and either to excess is dangerous to society.

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All Republicans are idiots but not all idiots are Republicans.

Fixed it for you. Even such Republicans as you may believe are not idiots are idiots for remaining in that party.

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“On the one hand, they want to be relieved of the restrictions,” Fauci said. “On the other hand, they don’t want to be vaccinated. It almost doesn’t make any sense.”

Almost?

Not making sense is what happens when they speak.

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Oh, we have our fair share of idiots on the left. In my solid blue part of WA there are believers in Reiki touch healing, auras, crystals, Akashic records, 5G cell paranoia, you name it.

Idiots, but at least they vote Dem and most of them are getting vaccinated. Not all though. I’ve talked to a couple of people who are hesitant, want to see more people get it first because they’re afraid of side effects. At least it’s a much lower number than Republican-heavy parts of the country. And mask compliance is almost 100% out here.

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Any vaccine approved by Gym Jordan would have to be delivered by showerhead.

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My bi-weekly helper who does yard work for me and is a flaming Fundie said yesterday he’s not getting the shots because he doesn’t like “gene therapy”.
I asked him to explain gene therapy to me. He just looked at me. I said let’s get back to the yard work.
This is what we’re dealing with.

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Fauci replied that he finds vaccine hesitancy among Republicans “quite frustrating” because it “actually works against where they want to be.”

You could say the same about almost every single Republican issue and 90% of Republicans who support it.

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I wish Fauci wouldn’t mince words. Rather than ‘paradoxical’, how about ‘perverse’, ‘depraved’, ‘murderous’?

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