String together coverage of COVID-19 “stay-at-home” orders in The Federalist, the conservative website, and it begins to resemble an ode to death itself.
If you want to continue the war metaphor (and no one who actually went to war would do so) then you should consider how you would treat a Commander who ordered his troops into battle without training, equipment, ammunition, or medical support, when all of those could be made available. This is what we face with COVID-19. The Commander in Chief wants his army (citizens) to go into battle without testing, anti-virals, vaccines, contact tracing, or financial support. If these right wing yahoos want society to open up, get off your ass and on Trump’s ass about doing his job. Otherwise, relive the Commander and replace him with someone who can do the job.
These people are FASCISTS. There is no other word that describes them better.
To protect their precious “Liberties” they are not only willing to let you die, but would prefer that you do (thus reducing the “Surplus Population”.)
Their MASTER RACE (White, Evangelical, Conservatives) is the only one that “Deserves Life” and all of the “Mud People” and “Commie-lovers” only deserve DEATH.
The Federalists grew out of the ashes of the John Birch Society, and adheres to their “principles” of White, Male, Christian, Conservative dominance of the entire World (just as Rambo Jesus intended.)
hand-to-paw combat with bears and panthers,
I’m not sure if this is pure comedy, or an NFL reference. These people are toddler-esque cartoonish in their imaginations.
Armchair warriors saluting from the back row while chanting, 'lets you and him fight."
…
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
from Dulce et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen - 1893-1918
These articles in the Federalist demonstrate exactly why the Conservative movement is totally out of intellectual steam and we are ready for a paradigm shift emphasizing the value of every human life over the naked accumulation of capital.
“What I am talking about is the general fear that so quickly and easily overtook our politicians, media, and then citizens at large, resulting in an overreaction of total lockdown and now, presumably, a permanent health emergency,” Stanglin wrote.
“But enough about the War on Drugs” he continued.
There is no such thing as THINK in the Republican Party.
A buddy of mine works at RAND
they consider truth decay an existential threat to the republic
how do you argue with folks who just make sh!t up?
Time to revisit John Kenneth Galbraith, who said of people like Federalist Society adherents, “the modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
They’re WWI Generals ordering their men to charge machine gun nests in No Mans Land with no plan to achieve any sort of success or meaningful gains all from the safety of a luxury chateau miles to the rear.
These are the same people who come close to singing Every Sperm is Sacred when it comes to controlling women’s bodies.
I don’t see any of these Federalist writers lining up to be guinea pigs testing out the coronavirus vaccine. Put your money where your mouth is, cowards.
So do I. Those folks at RAND are pretty smart.
Altogether now: It’s the Trump Flu!
Imagine for a moment that the nation were ruled by dictatorship of doctors…”
“ Is it right for the nation to require our children’s futures be destroyed to keep alive less than 1 percent of our population until the next flu season?”
“ It seems harsh to ask whether the nation might be better off letting a few hundred thousand people die.”
“ So the barbaric , panicky elevation of mere life as the only good worth conserving is becoming increasingly shameful.”
“ Is death the worst thing that could happen to you?”
Thank Dr Mengele. . . . . Now, why don’t you and your friends go back to Hell, where you rightfully belong.
Let them do battle against the virus - earn their honors the old fashioned way - be willing to put their lives on the line let them sign up … should be no problem since they really think it is just a trivial little bug!
Human challenge trials deliberately expose participants to infection, in order to study diseases and test vaccines or treatments. They have been used for influenza, malaria, typhoid, dengue fever, and cholera. Researchers are exploring whether human challenge trials could speed up the development of a vaccine for COVID-19, saving thousands or even millions of lives.
What do you expect from The Federalists and their fossilized minds?
God so do I.
