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MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 12:24 PM Dec 2020

Right-Wing Republicans Are a Self-Thinning Herd

Photo after photo shows large gatherings of Trump followers and other Right-Wingers in close proximity to each other with masks rarely to be seen.



The irony of this does not go unnoticed.

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The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,900 posts)
2. It's not every day that you see people actually competing for a Darwin Award.
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 12:30 PM
Dec 2020

Unfortunately a lot of these people have already reproduced, and even more unfortunately, they'll spread the virus to people who aren't interested in that particular contest.

zeusdogmom

(999 posts)
4. After they have infected others by their careless behaviors
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 12:45 PM
Dec 2020

they get really sick themselves and suck up space, supplies, and staff time in our already overburdened hospitals

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. If and when...
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 01:10 PM
Dec 2020

If and when the time comes, I encourage them to chant, (or gasp slowly):

"Take the tube!"

I mean at least take it all the way to the grave. No regrets.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Sad part of this Reality Show is,
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 01:21 PM
Dec 2020

these same suckers and losers are taking innocent caring people with them.

Mariana

(14,861 posts)
7. They're going to spread the virus to other people
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 01:37 PM
Dec 2020

who prudently stayed out of churches. Some of those other people won't survive. Then these fine churchgoing folks will say it was God's will.

0rganism

(23,975 posts)
8. that "self-thinning" isn't going to apply exclusively to the right-wing Republicans
Mon Dec 7, 2020, 01:44 PM
Dec 2020

those people are the living breathing equivalent of IEDs
deployed stochastically across the country by authoritarian leaders

suicide bombers, every one of them

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