Politics Thread

Dude runs on Doritos and Mountain Dew.

Have friends whose parents are absolutely batshit insane and are all about all things trump and pretty closely follow the qanon insanity.

So I got some information this weekend from this friend, it is her mom and her mom's bf. Her mom's bf's daughter came over and said hey I got a vaccine, they were so focused on which one she said pfizer, her own father told her good luck being infertile.

Apparently the pfizer vaccine causes infertility in everyone who takes it, but it's covid efficacy is only active for 3 weeks (but infertility is obviously forever ...).

So these two think that the only acceptable vaccine is the jnj shot, this is apparently common across the right, it's a more traditional vaccine and is only one shot, so the mental gymnastics are already beginning. Now I haven't spoken to them or discussed how this blood clot issue is going to further cause then to go even deeper down the rabbit hole but I can only imagine the misinformation has only just begun though.

I just hope they at least still want the jnj shot, gotta get ahead of these crazies.

Derek Chauvin guilty

My brother's conspiracy minded friend just shared with this comment.  I could blow things up and make future gatherings more uncomfortable, but it's not worth it:

To be fair... the Black South hasn’t been vaccinating either, so this article is a bit of a spin. The issue isn’t really left vs right. There’s a distrust in government/science by certain portions of the population.

April experienced our highest inflation since 2008

www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/consumer-price-index-april-2021.html

My friend and I were joking that the Trumpees would blame him for this. Guess we forgot that those people really are that fucking dumb.