Yes, yes, and yes. This is exactly what I'm seeing happen.
Those right leaning folks who were most vocal about how Biden was at fault for the last time egg prices went up are now suddenly fully willing to blame it on bird flu and not worried about it because prices will come back down soon. And already the increasing rate of inflation isn't the president's fault, inflation is high all around the world, there's little the president can actually do to control it, and it's actually Biden's fault. Funny how that works.
It takes a minimum level of introspection and critical thinking for someone to recognize that they're a low-information hypocrite who parroted back what the media told them until they believed it. Combine that with the type of personality who thinks everyone else is a propaganda-brainwashed simpleton except them, and it brings us to today—where people still justify, argue for, excuse, and defend people acting against their interests.
It's because stupid gets amplified. The other side doesn't play these games typically with the same energy as the right. Mainly because they're mocking how stupid it is than actually believing it. Then you still have some people in the middle, somehow, or maybe some younger folks that are like: that's a good point!
I'm all for knocking down Vance for saying obviously non-factual shit, but this is a terrible example. He's not looking at any pricetags there except the ones behind him on the right (his left), very briefly, which are all, actually, around $4. He's shooting from the hip and uses the realistic price that came to mind and may even be the average price where he lives.
Yeah man, the high profile person in a situation that was easy to rehearse and hard to fuck up definitely just misspoke in a way that affirmed his beliefs and spread misinformation to millions of Americans, strengthening his team's claim to the throne.
It was totally benign and nothing negative happened recently that was directly tied to misinformation like this.
Yeah buddy we all know this. We knew it then. We knew he was lying. He promised he would lower the prices of eggs day one. He's a liar. But he made the promise, so as stupid as is I'm going to keep holding him to it. I'mma keep bitching.
I agree that's definitely true going forward, but has fucking with the CDC etc. for -- jeezus, it's only been three weeks -- had time to have a material effect on the bird flu epidemiological trajectory yet?
It's been like this for decades. Republicans wreck the economy, but it takes a minute so the effect isn't seen until a Democrat is in power. The democrats fix it, then the Republicans get back in and fuck it up again.
Only this time the democrats aren't going to regain power.
“This idea that science cannot continue until there’s a political lens over it is unprecedented,” said Anne Schuchat, a former principal deputy director at the CDC. “I hope it’s going to be very short-lived, but if it’s not short-lived, it’s censorship.”