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It was, in accelerated fashion, a parallel to how living through climate change is making Republicans far worse on emissions & pollution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.

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They've been bad for my whole lifetime, but they've definitely gotten (and are still getting) worse over the past few decades. I think it has a lot to do with the couple disastrous SCOTUS rulings around campaign finance and elections we all know about, and it is on track to keep getting worse.

Every fossil fuel executive and every politician who has accepted fossil fuel lobbying money should have to drink a whole barrel of crude oil. They have literally always known that it's rapidly destroying the planet and yet they CONTINUE to do so for the sake of making the most money

For as long as I can remember, the Republican reaction when faced with the stark reality that we are all fragile biological organisms living within the harsh limits imposed by physical systems… Has been Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

republicans refuse to acknowledge the efficacy of vaccines because accepting medical science as fact means they would have to accept the science of climate change. the core principle of modern conservatism is that nothing should determine how they should inhabit the world.

I think it is as simple as them deciding they want to create a big tent of all every fringe social media community. The manosphere, the cryptobros, the tradwives, the COVID conspiracy theorists, the antivaxxers. They are all useful idiots for the oligarchs want to burn the world to make a buck.

Scammer solidarity. Every single one of them is a flimflam man running one or several cons, and they know so long as they all go along with each other’s shit they can collectively fence all their marks into one big paddock where they can be fleeced over and over again, never to leave

What's great is when people finally come around and vote in a Dem to do something, they will then vote that Dem out in 4 years because they didn't fix it fast enough but it's way too late at this point

republicans just like getting worse on things. we can't talk sense into them. we need to remove them from power and then completely ignore them. who cares what they think, if this is what they think?