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11. Maybe. However,

Sat Sep 23, 2023, 03:03 PM

Sep 2023

As Peter Hotez says in today's LA Times,

...Analyses by myself and colleagues have found that 200,000 unvaccinated Americans died during this period.

Overwhelmingly, those deaths occurred in Republican strongholds, including 40,000 in my state of Texas. A closer examination reveals that the redder the county, the lower the immunization rates and the higher the death rates...

The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement.

It accelerated at the CPAC conference of conservatives in Dallas in the summer of 2021, when prominent anti-vaccine activists were featured speakers and one Republican lawmaker from the House Freedom Caucus announced that vaccinations would lead to government confiscations of Bibles and guns.

Just before CPAC, another prominent Freedom Caucus member had disparaged vaccinators as “medical brown shirts,” meaning Nazis, and she later attacked me and other scientists by name on Steve Bannon’s podcast....

So you can write off Joe and Sally as dying off to own the libs. The numbers won't be there for Trump in either the primaries or the general.

Right, Trump wasn't the pick of the monied and powerful, but he remains their tool for destroying democracy's important structures. That's all they care about. Not who's in office, but who follows their instructions no matter who's the front man. Could be Trump or McCarthy or Gaetz or some AI.

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Shutting down gov't. will end the political careers of Reps. Gaetz, Taylor Greene, says Rep. Raskin [View all] Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 OP

I disagree. MAGA voters want the government to shut down. They will reward Gaetz and Greene. LonePirate Sep 2023 #1

Sorry Rep. Raskin. It will solidify their base. Boomerproud Sep 2023 #14

Will also greatly hurt our 401k's and the lives of millions, many will suffer badly Eliot Rosewater Sep 2023 #2

And, as Thom Hartmann said on yesterday's show, the Republicans are following TFG's orders Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 #3

And millions cant wait to vote for them again, which is why this cant and wont be fixed. Regardless Eliot Rosewater Sep 2023 #12

anybody taking money on this one? stopdiggin Sep 2023 #4

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 #5

lol who are you betting on, Raskin or the Unfreedom Schemer Caucus? ancianita Sep 2023 #6

unless there's been a sea change stopdiggin Sep 2023 #7

Well, ancianita Sep 2023 #9

Joe and Sally MAGA stopdiggin Sep 2023 #10

Maybe. However, ancianita Sep 2023 #11

I would always bet on Jamie Raskin! Rhiannon12866 Sep 2023 #13

Nope. They will be reelected. dalton99a Sep 2023 #8