That's the fucking snowflake-est thing I've seen since Twitter banned Trump.

You're just saying that to triple-reverse engineer them into NOT getting the vaccine until Trump doesn't win in 2028.

I'm saying we should outlaw putting your penis in a Hoover Dustette just in case it works.

Cuck me once, shame on me. Cuck me twice...won't get cucked again.

Just everyone get their own vacuum.

Anyway, the number of people fighting with the invisible liberal in their head must just be astounding if someone is willing to put that thought into print.

And isn't Biden planning to deport Haitian refugees in Texas?

Like the miniature angel/devils on their shoulders have been replaced with miniature Biffs/McFly's. The only metric is "can I beat it up or will it beat me up?"

7: that's what I've heard. It's pretty horrible.

I think Biden should try breaking the tension by mispronouncing "Haitians" like Cher in Clueless.

And trying to get Wallace Shawn laid.

I wonder if that article will convince any Trump supporters to get vaccinated.

oh, encuckify themselves? Maybe.

Wallace Shawn is probably too old to sleep with that many wives.

Literally nothing is ever their fault, no? But I see this as hopeful, indirectly. Vaccines work. Sensible people would take vaccines, if only they weren't bullied into not submitting to bullies by taking vaccines. Thus, the rising death rate is the fault of liberals. It's almost engaging with reality!

What the hell is wrong with people?

Given that the people who read that website already think dangerous, hateful thoughts, this article seems like an improvement. I hope it does lead to people being vaccinated. And I think prominent liberals should be whining on Twitter about how awful and unfair this article is, to make it more effective.

They hate us for our freedom to get life-saving vaccines.

I think we should require the needle used to look like an erect penis.

Ideally, Wallace Shawn's if he's open to licensing.

Dalriata has a constructive suggestion here.

Can anyone explain the reference to "drone striking seven children"? Is it that seven is a magic number or something, or possibly that the deaths of foreign children should only be allowed in the Sonoran desert?

It's from the news.

We don't get that over here.

The steam packets, you know.

It's the latest right wing outrage that Biden is a monster because the CIA and army fucked up and bombed civilians for probably the 1000th time in the last 20 years, but only Republican presidents are allowed to bomb brown people with no criticism. When Democrats do it it's "wah the dog" to distract from some other controversy because of course Trump never had any of those.

See here.

Subsequent reporting has confirmed the intelligence was almost certainly false and misread patterns- eg the target was part of an NGO and the suspected explosives were actually drinking water cans, the "secondary explosion" was just the gas in the car.
Also I prefer Wah the Dog because it sounds more like something the big babies in the modern conservative movement would say.

"Every box of vaccinations is personally teabagged by President Obama to reflect the Democratic Party's ownership of all the science. "

Wasn't that great when the Tea Party started out calling themselves the Tea Baggers for a moment?

Yes, but this is better. The upper arm is the fourth hole. We must protect it. Aaaah.

So the Trump supporters still have their upper arm hymens intact and are saving themselves for ...Trump, I guess?

It makes more sense that the horse de-worming medication.

My kids are very fond of asking me to explain how a Trump supporter could believe [this] and [this other apparently contradictory thing]. There's never a satisfactory answer.

I can only handle schadenfreude in small doses any more. For one thing, I am being won over to the side of sympathy and sadness for these idiots. Also, I am filled with dread that ultimately, the Trumpists are going to be Darwin's winners, along with the cockroaches and rats.

But for those of you who haven't had your fill of the misfortunes of idiots, I recently came across SORRYANTIVAXXER.COM, a web site compiling the stories of dead anti-vaxxers.

Haven't you ever heard of the Herman Cain Awards?

The link in 34 is worse than the Herman cain awards, because it keeps emphasizing how many children are losing a parent. And a surprising number where both parents die of Covid.

25: It's the latest right wing outrage that Biden is a monster because the CIA and army fucked up and bombed civilians for probably the 1000th time in the last 20 years

Also the media because they are still fucking out of their gourds* over the Afghanistan thing. An occasional actual clarifying story with some nuance but the bigs are mostly still all in on the outrage. For instance my wife watches NBC nightly to see what the no-crazy old people of the country see each night and last week there was some random non-newsy piece where Andre Mitchell talked with Leon Panetta who more in sorrow than anger lamented how much less safe from terrorism we are now.

*For instance Jonathan Swan of Axios tweeted a heartfelt sentiment about the kids. He or Axios has not to my recollection written or responded to anything of that sort prior.

36: the one that was just heartbreaking to me was a pregnant woman in Alabama who got COVID and died. Her first kids was born, and then 3 weeks later the father died. It was reported that the baby was now a ward of the state. Much desired, but likely to be adopted out. I don't think she was a crazy anti-vaxxer, but she wasn't sure if the vaccine was safe in pregnancy. Not sure why her husband wasn't vaccinated.

He was in fear for his balls.

The posts and comments at 34.2 are all so shitty and cruel.

You really aren't ready for the Herman Cain Awards.

Honestly, I keep trying to quit looking myself.

At least I learned that there's a Letterkenney in Ireland in addition to the one in Canada.

That's what I appreciates about you, Moby.

And there's a Kilkenny in Ireland in addition to the one in South Park.

The Herman Cain awards at least just focus on the social media posts of the person who died of Covid, as opposed to the tragedy of their passing. Maybe it's still just as awful and mean-spirited, but it seems more impersonal and limited to their public persona.

I guess. But if Herman Cain were a real person, it would seem cruel.

When I was a kid riding through Omaha, my uncle would point out Cain's house.

I did guess it was that drone strike, but considering the tens of thousands of children that the US must already have killed in that way, I thought it was maybe too obviously hypocritical even for the -- oh, forget it. Nothing is too obviously hypocritical any more.

49: I still do not know how conscious this is. It's so ubiquitous that I would think the shift to "overt and proud" hypocrisy would have happened by now-- dominance is the only rule!-- but maybe not.

Lili L on the Herman Cain Awards.

Despite reading loads of statistics and case histories and news articles about the pandemic, r/HermanCainAward became my most thorough source on what it's like for a person to die from COVID. I understand the disease more deeply because I have read so many viciously curated "stories" in which ordinary people blathering about politics end up narrating their decline from it--with help from their families--as optimistically as they can. They are younger than COVID patients used to be. Trying to put a positive spin on things. Soliciting prayers. Generally avoiding conversions. They do not expect to die. It's relentless reading. And it keeps ending up the same way.

50.2: That's a really thoughtful and interesting piece. Thanks for linking it.

Seconding

Now I'm wondering if r/dumbassgraveyard has a certain poignancy that I'm missing by avoiding it.

The Herman Cain awarders seem displeased with the article and its (qualified) implication that they're a bunch of ghouls. I have no idea if this is fair or not. Obviously far, far more of the terrible people survive the disease than die, so the comeuppance-gratification experience is largely fantasy. While I don't wish the death rate were higher, it does seem to fall in this range where it's both quite destructive and still easy to minimize. Just like climate change! Hooray!

I have to believe that you can experience the full poignancy of "r/dumbassgraveyard" while still avoiding it.

I think the last bit from that link is correct:

I'm not sure that matters; no one could argue that a place where people gather to mock the dead is "moral," or accuse it of hypocrisy, or of virtue signaling, or of coastal elitism. It is an anti-persuasive venue, a place that dispenses with rational appeals for people to behave better in favor of something much more primal and horrifying. And who knows? Maybe it's persuading people specifically because it's not trying to.

We're all jaded on things that sound like they're try to persuade us. You can let your guard down and be more easily openminded when you know the person is actually indifferent to convincing you.

55 is right. Its scope is very different but, I guess owing to the state of the world, the content isn't.

Reading the covid death stories I keep thinking back to when my dad was dying of pneumonia and literally nobody involved (including my dad though he was in no way competent at that point) was willing to encourage the kind of aggressive breathing support you see described for so many covid cases. I don't think the people getting the intubation and such are as old as my dad, but it seems like they often have no realistic chance of recovery.

I'm not calling for death panels. Just wondering if the families still aren't thinking covid isn't really deadly so they keep trying.

Anyway, I trust science and like 60% of doctors. I don't get the people who don't trust the medical establishment on vaccination but do implicitly trust them for far more aggressive treatments that leave your relative completely under a doctor's control for weeks and months.

Not getting vaccinated and then staying home to take horse-deworming paste is at least consistent.

Plus, I hear it tastes like apples.

60: I like maybe 40% of doctors. I trust them on vaccination, less on some other stuff.

I have to decide if I trust them enough to let them butt-cam me this year.

64: Where a I am, they've stopped doing covid tests on colonoscopy patients, because it is not considered an "aerosolizing procedure."

I just went to a meeting where they were talking about opening up upper respiratory infection patients to regular primary care as opposed to dedicated clinics. They plan on using a single room for them, but the precautions are all around extra cleansing between patients per Infection Control. All the patients in that room who are going to be tested will have their mask off and breath out a bunch of aerosols. That doesn't feel safe to me as a patient, particularly if I'm sick enough to need to go to a doctor.

Moby Hick, if you scroll through enough Herman Cain Awardees, you will find a few whose relatives frantically tried to get them out of hospital ICUs so they could be dosed with ivermectin. I wish I were kidding.

Unfortunately, Flynn is on to the put-the-vaccine-in-salad-dressing caper. The Libs just can't put anything over on these guys.

66: I've seen those too. I'm not surprised the hospital won't do that. I'm surprised you don't see many cases where they refuse intubation.

Our governor just activated crisis standards of care statewide. Not really a surprise as we currently have the highest per-capita rate of new cases in the country and it keeps going up each day.

The Chinese word for "crisis" is written by combining the symbols for "opportunity" and "horse de-worming medication."

I just learned 67 isn't a clever parody.