WaPo: "Liberals Are To Blame For RFK Jr." The Fuck We Are, You Lying Cockweasels!

And so continues the tradition of blaming the left for literally everything republicans do.

“This is the face I make before eating small children.”

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Saturday morning, a white, male, anti-abortion, bigoted follower of Republican Jesus who voted for Donald Trump and despised Democrats assassinated Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband. The MAGA-inspired shooter also tried to assassinate state senator John Hoffman and his wife, but only succeeded in severely injuring them. Both are expected to survive. The far-right, Alex Jones-loving domestic terrorist had a list with multiple other Democrats and had researched his victims.

The press is somehow not calling the killer a terrorist and Republicans are blaming…Democrats:

I’m giving you this context because as RFK Jr. is turning American healthcare into a death cult dedicated to killing as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time possible, the Washington Post’s Megan McArdle knows exactly who is to blame for the coming death and horror: Both sides, but really, the left. Always the fucking left.

McArdle kicks off her article by lamenting decisions made after the COVID-19 vaccine became available. After setting the mood, as it were, to make sure you’re good and annoyed at those damn progressives and their insistence on equality and equity, McArdle gets to the “Everything is the fault of the left” bit:

That 2020 committee meeting was one of many widely publicized mistakes that turned conservatives against public health authorities. It wasn’t the worst such mistake — that honor belongs to the time public health experts issued a special lockdown exemption for George Floyd protesters. And of course, President Donald Trump deserves a “worst supporting actor” award for turning on his own public health experts. But if you were a conservative convinced that “public health” was a conspiracy of elites who cared more about progressive ideology than saving lives — well, there was our crack team of vaccine experts, proudly proclaiming that they cared more about progressive ideology than saving lives.

This is one of the reasons we now have a health and human services secretary who has devoted much of his life to pushing quack anti-vaccine theories.

I need you to read that again.

“…was one of many widely publicized mistakes that turned conservatives against public health authorities.”

“President Donald Trump deserves a “worst supporting actor” award…”

Let me be more blunt than usual here. McArdle is a fucking liar. The Washington Post allowed her to lie in its filthy pages. They all know she’s lying, and they put out the lies anyway. That’s called “propaganda,” and they all deserve to be slapped across the face with a hot frying pan for what they’re trying to do here.

I know a lot of people have tried very hard to put as much of the Covid years out of their minds as possible. It was scary and a lot of people died. It’s a worldwide trauma most of us would like to forget. But I spent a good amount of the Covid years writing about what was happening and why, so I don’t have the luxury of hitting the “erase” button.

Covid shut down the country in the middle of March. I remember this vividly because the schools closed and work became remote. So I went from spending most of the day by myself to dealing with an apartment filled with people 24/7. We even had two extra kids for months as friends of ours were still working and needed someone to keep an eye on their elementary school-aged kiddos.

By the middle of April, the right was raging against lockdowns and masks and social distancing. Trump was insisting covid was no big deal and telling us the experts in his own administration didn’t know what they were talking about. By May, the right was so relentlessly hostile to the experts and people protecting themselves from a deadly virus, two little shits threatened to beat up my autistic son for wearing a mask. The only reason their father still has functioning kneecaps is because I was not there. If I had been, he would be in a wheelchair, and I would be writing this from prison.

It’s really important to understand the timeline here. Covid entered the public awareness in late January/early February 2020. The first known case was in mid-January but the public didn’t really start to understand what was coming until early March. Then the Great Panic hit and everyone freaked out in different parts of the country over the course of three weeks or so. Less than a month later, the right had pivoted to be violently opposed to anything that might prevent the spread of the virus.

McArdle’s meeting that she places so much importance on? The one that was the big fucking turning point? That really turned the public against medical experts?

That was in November of 2020.

Were mistakes made? Of course. It was a brand new disease and we didn’t know anything about it. But those mistakes came later and McArdle fucking knows it. She also fucking knows, for an absolute fact, that the GOP went to war against safety measures immediately. Not because of any “mistakes” or because of “government overreach” or whatever bullshit excuses she’ll cook up when called on her convenient omission of SEVEN FUCKING MONTHS in her fantasy timeline.

The GOP used covid as a culture war issue and killed half a million Americans in a desperate bid to keep Donald Trump in power.

This is indisputable. As in, you cannot question these facts because they’re all right there in the public record. No one was citing “mistakes” when they became violent abusive assholes over masking and social distancing. They screeched about “MUH FREEDUMB!” and how it was their right, as a ‘Murikan!, to spread disease if they wanted to and fuck you if you told them to stop killing people.

The fact that McArdle calls Trump a “supporting actor” when he was a ringleader gives the game away. He lied nonstop about the dangers of covid. He lied nonstop about ways to protect yourself from it. He suggested injecting bleach on April 23, 2020, and had been promising since February that covid would disappear like magic. He muzzled the CDC because they kept warning people about how dangerous the virus was. By early August, he was regularly attacking his own experts.

For those of you keeping track, this would be three whole fucking months before the meeting McArdle claims is a pivotal moment in the right learning to distrust medical experts.

McArdle knows this because she’s not a fucking imbecile and has access to the internet. Her editors know this because they work for a multi-million dollar NEWS organization and this is literally what they do for a living.

As I never tire of pointing out, I am just some schmuck sitting at a laptop. I have no special expertise. I do not have a photographic memory. I am not paid six figures to write in one of the (previously) most well-respected news outlets in the world with an entire staff to check my work for errors. This is not a simple misspelling or wrong date. This is the wholesale memory-holing of half of 2020 in order to absolve Donald Trump and his death cult party of their responsibility.

Now, McArdle does take a moment to mention Trump but quickly moves on from that:

That’s not to say that public health experts deserve all of the blame. They don’t even deserve most of the blame, which properly belongs to Trump, who appointed Kennedy to curry favor with Kennedy’s supporters, and to the Republican senators who confirmed Kennedy to curry favor with Trump.

This is a game the legacy press likes to play. Get the reader angry at the left. Toss in a little “Oh, Republicans have some responsibility, too,” and then go right back to savaging the left. Then they can claim they were blaming “both sides” while delivering a verdict of guilt against the side they hate the most, which is invariably the left.

This hatred of the left is easy to spot when you look for it. When RFK Jr. declared he was running against Biden, the press slobbered over him. It was unseemly but they were desperate for someone, ANYONE, to weaken Biden. They wanted their golden goose back, and they didn’t care how.

The Press Is Very Worried About Losing Its Golden Goose

This is how the legacy press somehow failed to vet Kennedy as a candidate. Even a little.

That was, at least, until Kennedy took a hard swing to the right and started to pull more support from Trump than from Biden. Then, the press suddenly discovered that Kennedy was actually a delusional monster! The animal mutilation stuff. The pushing his wife to suicide story. The weird, creepy anti-vaxxer stance. All of that got attention from the press only near the end and when Kennedy and Trump became good buddies? Those stories went away! Sooooo fucking weird!

My personal favorite is that almost no one in the legacy press bothered to mention that Kennedy literally does not believe in germs before the election or his confirmation as HHS Secretary. He wrote it in a book in 2021. You’d think the press would have noticed that. They dug into every detail of Hillary Clinton‘s life for 50 years, but overlooked a book written just a few years ago because vetting candidates is haaaaard (when the goal is to help them hurt Democrats).

Now we have a deranged moron poised to kill hundreds of thousands of people over the next several years (the damage will persist loooong after Kennedy is gone). Who’s to blame for this? Well…not one single Democrat, not even Fetterman, voted to confirm Kennedy. He’s in a position to do enormous damage solely because of the Republican Party.

• Republican voters put Trump in power.

• Trump picked Kennedy, the least qualified and most dangerous person imaginable.

• Republicans confirmed Kennedy.

• The Trump regime allows Kennedy to do terrible things.

• Elected republicans turn a blind eye to Kennedy’s dishonesty, incompetence, and deranged conspiracy shit.

Therefore, the fault lies with the left and their damn progressive ideology. Oh, go fuck yourself sideways with a bottle of bleach, McArdle.

The legacy press does this allll the fucking time and once you see it, it’s impossible to unsee. This is why I no longer regularly read the legacy press for news. It’s so broken and biased against reality, I’m not even sure they understand what they’re doing anymore. It’s pathological. They’re fucking diseased and it’s long past time for them to be put out to pasture so news organizations willing to report the truth instead of spin can do the job for real.

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