RonJon Wants To Know: Why Is The Government Rushing To Vaccinate Everyone? | Talking Points Memo

callmeeric · April 23, 2021, 4:44pm

How are these people still alive?

Paging Charles Darwin

geographyjones · April 23, 2021, 4:44pm

I got my chip shots with a very techie cohort at the Microsoft Conference Center across from HQ.
I’m thinking I’m fairly safe.

lestat · April 23, 2021, 4:45pm

I’m thinking that RonJon’s problem with vaccines comes down to the fact that in order to understand and deal with them, one has to understand that viruses evolve. He doesn’t believe in evolution, so the fact that the human race has already dealt with the Black Plague means that we’re done with that “virus thingy.”

castor_troy · April 23, 2021, 4:46pm

The same way that cockroaches and mosquitos make it.

Survival of the fittest should never be read as Survival of the smartest.

Punchy · April 23, 2021, 4:46pm

Johnson went on to say that he believes COVID-19 is a good enough pretext for the vast left-wing conspiracy to keep the country locked down.

But whatever you do, dont get a vaccine, which would take us out of this lockdown!!!11!1!

The disconnect is absolutely mind-blowing.

callmeeric · April 23, 2021, 4:47pm

I’ve seen the pictures. They ain’t fit.

castor_troy · April 23, 2021, 4:48pm

Now, now. Pretty much everyone is packing the Covid 20 these days.

schmed · April 23, 2021, 4:48pm

Bless you for that. Ever since November, I’ve neglected to refill my Brain Bleach© supply.

exspectator · April 23, 2021, 4:48pm

I wish I could just make fun of this guy, but this idiocy is beyond local and a threat to my family’s health. While I and my partner will be fully vaccinated soon, our 4 year daughter will not. Jerks like Ron will ensure the virus continues to circulate and pose an ongoing threat to our child’s health. This is so freaking irresponsible.

teenlaqueefa · April 23, 2021, 4:49pm

I know I am and I’m not liking it too well.

colinphillips · April 23, 2021, 4:50pm

Makes perfect sense. The evil leftists are pushing you to get a hugely effective vaccine because they want to keep you locked down forever. Super clear logic there.

becca656 · April 23, 2021, 4:50pm

And I will be surprised if some entity during next year’s Senate campaign doesn’t bring up that infamous Russia trip. It might not be the actual candidate on the Dem side of things, but I can envision a whole bunch of Left PACs doing the job in place of the candidate.

Of course, the Right could very well make up a similar accusation, but hopefully we choose a candidate with a clean record on that angle.

castor_troy · April 23, 2021, 4:51pm

I’ve just been annoyed by the voices in my head offering me discounts on Office 365 if I subscribe.

lastroth · April 23, 2021, 4:51pm

I would suggest that people like Cruz, Hawley, Cotton, or that shyster John Kennedy are intelligent. What they are are people who don’t look at the world like we do. And they know how to play on people’s emotions, instead of giving them facts and figures. They are in a word “manipulators”, and their higher educational achievements have allowed them to hone those skills.

becca656 · April 23, 2021, 4:52pm

And he has some disciples here in Hudson WI:

County COVID cases rising; some protest masks | News | hudsonstarobserver.com

This was in the local news this am. Of course our schools have been open for in-person for weeks now, so it makes sense that more kids are showing infected.

LeeHarveyGriswold · April 23, 2021, 4:52pm

So you haven’t looked up the CVEs?

theghostofeustacetilley · April 23, 2021, 4:53pm

I bEg to DiFFer. I drove a RonJon staFFer to worK thiS mornIng and he said thaT rOn is Smart And lives by his convictions. Also, the Staffer haD a good Idea to Get antivaxxers to fax woUld be for Biden to give Trump credit and caLL it the Trump vaX. He was LikeLy the SmartesT just of of CoLLege kid I’ve ever Met. He wanteD me to weigh In on his Magnificent idea. UnforTunately he taLked the Whole time desCribing his Idea I wasn’t ablE to teLL him how awesome it was.

He alsO couldn’t guaGe my leVel of enthusiasm BecaUse we Have to wear these sTupid masks.

True sTory.

bonvivant · April 23, 2021, 4:53pm

In more ways than one.

They need to get a less carbon and pollution emitting way to cremate over there.

tena · April 23, 2021, 4:54pm

You know I hadn’t even thought about that aspect of the crisis over there but yeah.

ClutchCargo · April 23, 2021, 4:55pm

I don’t know if an IQ test is good for anything. Some people are good at taking tests and/or memorizing stuff. I have worked with MIT EE’s who did not understand electricity. I have worked with technical PhDs who could not do simple arithmetic, but were brilliant in their fields of study. Many of the engineers I have worked with (I am an engineer, BTW) can’t construct a sentence, can’t spell, and don’t really understand the meanings of words (e.g. insure/ensure/assure).

None of these people are stupid, but many of them are intellectually lazy. But with these republicans, it is often a case of playing dumb, which allows them to justify their absurd positions. I would put Cruz, Cotton and Hawley in the classification.

RonJon seems to be as dumb as a post.