“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

This is apparently the point where the “moderate” Republicans are willing to start pushing back — where they’ve got personal experience with just how evil a policy is.

      • @[email protected]
        23•4 months ago

        Yeah, my personal theory on antivaxxers is that they’re actually more afraid of autism.

        Because autism is a very visible thing; Everyone knew that one autistic kid growing up. But there are no crunchy moms who remember life before the polio vaccine, because they’re all too young. They literally can’t even comprehend how bad some of these diseases are, because they’ve never seen the effects of them. They never lost a childhood friend to measles, or had a sibling end up infertile due to the mumps. They never saw the entire hospital wings full of iron lungs for polio patients.

        To them, these diseases are boogeymen. But autism is very real, because they have seen it.

        • Irremarkable
          7•4 months ago

          Which is the only response to those morons is “so you’d rather your kid die than be autistic?”

          Make them admit it. Preferably in front of the kid.

          • @[email protected]
            3•4 months ago

            There’s the issue though. They genuinely don’t believe the diseases are that bad. They don’t believe there is any risk of death, (or at least, that the risk is so low it’s negligible). So they wouldn’t admit it even if asked, because they would just say that you’re exaggerating.

        • Poplar?
          2•4 months ago

          If “crunchy moms” wasnt a typo whats it mean

          • @[email protected]
            3•4 months ago

            Crunchy moms are the moms who push for the all-natural holistic new-age stuff. They tend to keep their kids away from technology, strive for all natural diets that avoid processed foods, homeschool their kids to keep them out of institutional systems, and (to the point I was making) they tend to avoid modern medicine vaccines. Because vaccines aren’t “natural”.

            Basically, they’re the essential oil moms.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•4 months ago

    McConnell has been “pushing back” on Trump since 2016. You can see how good he is at it

    • @[email protected]
      7•4 months ago

      It is complicated for someone like McConnell to try to push something without a spine, no leverage to do anything but whine more

    • Doom
      6•4 months ago

      bro cause he is.

      the aliens are telling their human thralls to get back in line this gon be a shit show

  • @[email protected]
    15•4 months ago

    His old-ass lived it. Mitch McConnell being right about something wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•4 months ago

    Lich who drew undead power from the suffering of others realizes his life is near its end and wants to make some fake gesture toward goodness and sanity.

    Just go burn in hell. You made this bed, and now everyone under 70 is going to have to live in it.

    • @[email protected]
      5•4 months ago

      It’s because he’s old as fuck and has experienced seeing polio firsthand. Republicans are generally too stupid to believe in anything they haven’t experienced themselves.

  • andrew_bidlawEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    He may be slow, he may be lagging behind, but either way:

    GO TURTLE GO

    for this time he kind of get what he needs to do.

  • @[email protected]
    4•4 months ago

    Well the admin can just lie to get him confirmed.

    I’m not even kidding or saying that bitterly. It just… seems like fact now.