After the wall-to-wall reversal by the GOPee on vaccines I find myself . . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . . highly suspicious. Completely untrusting. Trying to figure out why. There is ZERO altruism with the GOPee.

[SheltieLover]

1. News broke yesterday that Faux has employee vax "passport"

Not joking.

Of course they cannot be trusted.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Yeah, I read that. I got the impression they did it on the down-low

But maybe not. I can imagine them doing it for selfish reasons - to protect their "talent".

[SheltieLover]

7. Seems so

If so, their emoty heads must be imploding about who leaked passport story.

[fishwax]

2. I know what you mean -- one must always wonder ... it's possible they just came to the conclusion

that their states and their voters were the ones who were going to be left vulnerable

[spanone]

3. maybe they know that a variant shitstorm is coming

[sheshe2]

4. Lawsuits.

Lots of lawsuits.

[wnylib]

37. Bingo! When Biden called them out

in plain, direct language as killers with their disinformation, they knew that they might be sued by angry people who believed them and got sick or lost loved ones to covid. Self interest motivated them to distance themselves from anti vax BS.

[sheshe2]

38. Yep.

Exactly.

Aiding and abetting?

May be to late for them. It has been over a year and now it is escalating. Wonder if some doctors and nurses can sue them as well.

Fugg Fox.

[wnylib]

40. I would love to see successful class

action suits put Fox and the rest out of business. Don't suppose it will happen, but sure wish it would.

[Blue_true]

19. I doubt that they are that forward looking.

Remember, those are the assholes who called our side alarmist about climate change and made all types of degrading jokes about us.

My guess is their numbers people have shown them the county map of where people are dying of the a Delta variant, and they realize that they will be losing a lot of toss up House and Senate races in 2022 unless they stop the carnage in red America.

[DBoon]

5. I bet internal polling indicated a wipeout for the GOP if Covid continued

I think Fox News is a follower and not a leader.

I think there is NO concern about the well being of their voters.

My suspicion is that if the pandemic continued in red states, the GOP would suffer humiliating defeats.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Now **THAT** is a delicious thought.

[sheshe2]

12. That is already a done deal.

The delta virus is out of control. They are a little late.

Fact is we are all back to being screwed.

[Ms. Toad]

28. Agreed.

We're on track to have well over 200,000 cases by September 8 (that was the calculation when the 2-week increase was 109% - now it's around 200%).

Even if they start the vacciation process today, and get Pfizer (the shortest, highly effective vaccination), it will be August 25 before they are fully vaccinated. That's already well over 100,000 cases a day (again, using the 109% increase, not the current one). I don't even want to plug the number in for the current rate of increase.

[keithbvadu2]

47. Hannity seems to have reversed course.

Hannity seems to have reversed course.

Will Tucker also follow along?

[NanceGreggs]

8. I don't think it's suspicious at all.

They've finally figured out the bleedin' obvious - that it's mostly Republican supporters who are refusing to be vaccinated and/or take other precautions. Ergo, it's their own voters who will be dying as a result.

So the GOP is down to two choices: (a) promote the vaccine to their constituents, or (b) figure out a way to make it legal for the dead to vote.

[Cha]

13. What I guessed.. only not in so many

words.

[Mister Ed]

30. What was remarkable was the orchestration.

The entire right wing turned on a dime, in unison - politicians and pundits alike.

[NanceGreggs]

43. Yeah, the talking point spread in a hurry ...

... when the stats started being reported. Kind of hard to push the 'vaccinations are pointless' meme - when it's the unvaccinated who are sickening and dying at such an alarming rate.

Given the gullibility and abject stupidity of the average Republican voter, one can only wonder how many of them will finally realize that they've so obviously been lied to all along.

[Captain Zero]

48. YEP, The people who watch their advertising are dying in droves

They won't have an audience for their advertisers and what advertiser wants to spend money if the audience has died?

[Cha]

9. I wildly guessed that "..their

voters are dying off.. "

They're seeing the numbers in red stantes?

[Mad_Machine76]

14. And the stock market took a hit the other day

That's when s**t REALLY starts to get real for them.

[Cha]

15. I believe it.. but in what

way does this effect the stock market?

TY

[Maraya1969]

20. Uncertainty. And fear of lockdown and the economy breaking down again. When

Covid first hit in 2020 the stock market took a blood bath. It came back up but it's starting to fall again.

The stock market does not like uncertainty. I guess people are fickle.

[Cha]

26. Mahalo, Maraya!

[Mad_Machine76]

25. The stock market was presumably reacting to

the surge in COVID-19DV and the Republicans are now freaking out about it?

[Cha]

27. TY!

[Hamlette]

41. Bingo. We have a winner.

Even if another half million die that's not enough to turn an election, IMHO. Business is freaking out about another closure or not getting back to school. Kids don't go to school, parents can't go to work. Business suffers. In addition to stock prices going down.

My guess is business people told Fox to knock it the F off on anti vaccine BS.

[sheshe2]

16. Lawsuits.

I am seeing lawsuits, so many lawsuits.

[Cha]

23. Lawsuits?.. What kind of lawsuits? TY!

[sheshe2]

29. Dunno.

Ha! Not a lawyer and don't play one on TV, Cha.

However it cannot be legal to spread this type of propaganda. Personal lawsuits from viewers? It could tie them up in court for years and a huge amount of money spent to counter said suits. People have been sued for far less, see Rudi.

Dunno, it is just a guess.

[Cha]

32. Oh I see what you mean now.. Mahalo, she!

[sheshe2]

33. Sorry.

Late and I am tired.

I do believe there is some there...there.

Fox, Tucker and Hannity (only names I know) could be facing some hard times.

[Cha]

36. In a Just World they would be.

[Lovie777]

10. The GOP only care about itself . . . .

Corporations only care about profit . .. .

Both want complete power and control while hogging all the monies.

For now, elections are important. If the republican cult is sick and dying even gerrymandering won't help win elections as well as voter suppressions laws because in my opinion we out number them and by far more vaccinated.

Infection rates are high in the rural areas and areas that have less vaccinations, hospitalizations are up.

[dalton99a]

17. They're trying to prevent a mass suicide by deplorables

which should NOT be prevented

[Blue_true]

18. You aren't the only one. Those assholes found out something.

Maybe they looked at the county hotspots map and realized that if they allow deaths among their voters to keep growing, they won’t do well in 2022. Smart voters should punish their asses regardless.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. They are taking a huge hit with negative publicity. Always

Thought Biden should get on TV once a week and just praise the top vaccinated states. Create competition to save lives.

[TheProle]

22. History will forever preserve the fact

That conservatives’ response to both the pandemic and vaccination efforts was abysmal. Therefore it will remain a cudgel with which to beat them about the head.

For now, what is important is that their getting on board will save lives.

[ego_nation]

24. They did the math and realized their voter suppression

efforts would be offset by their voter base dying.

[Blue Owl]

31. Dumb shits finally realize they're decimating their base

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. They HAD to already know it was mostly killing...

... their Republican voters, right?

If some trusted GOP consultant had to point that out to them, the GOP leadership clearly hasn't been paying attention even slightly!

Which might be true, since former Ohio Governor Kasich became very upset at a CNN reporter for even suggesting that Republicans were more vaccine hesitant! That happened only two or three mornings ago, I think.

Kasich raised his voice while stating that Ohioans in higher age groups had the highest vaccination rates overall, as if that disproved the CNN reporter's assertion immediately.

He then pointed his finger at vaccine-hesitant African Americans, young people and rural people who never want to be told what to do.

Never mind the polls that show Republicans are much more vaccine-hesitant than others! Kasich acted like he wasn't going to tolerate such "lies"!

[keithbvadu2]

45. Yet Jared's and Donald's plan was to finagle resources to enhance more deaths in democrat areas.

Yet Jared's and Donald's plan was to finagle resources to enhance more deaths in democrat areas.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

46. Maybe so. It was so strange to me how Kasich...

... was so irate about it a few mornings ago!

I figured it was common knowledge by now! What the hell do Republicans actually do most of the day? Look at their bank accounts?

[Renew Deal]

35. A bunch of vaccinated people telling unvaccinated people to not get vaxxed doesn't look good.

They want to claim they behaved responsibly. The hypocrisy is too much.

[AlexSFCA]

42. delta is a perfect killing machine for unvaccinated republican voters

It is targeting trump supporters in purple states, maybe enough to turn those blue, or change the outcome of some of the house races, state and local elections.

[JI7]

44. Fox Employees are Vaccinated and Lawsuits. I think it could be those two considering how sudden it

was .

[agingdem]

49. the market tanked...

Murdoch not happy...affected the bottomline..Mitch and his band of loathsome creatures are invested in the stock market...