I used to chuckle when assorted wags called the people who are obsessed with All-Things-Covid "Branch Covidians" but things have gotten so out of hand that it's not funny anymore. Thanks in no small part to the lunatic raving of the governor of New York, I have become convinced that they are indeed a creepy, narcissistic authoritarian cult: NY Governor Kathy Hochul goes on unhinged religious rant, says “The vaccine is from God” and “I need you to be my Apostles” https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1442604025954799618 Text: Vaccine from God. People who aren't listening to God and what God wants. Be my apostles. Wearing a Vaxed necklace to demonstrate your religion. Yep, it's a cult. Are you a Branch Covidian? Or are you one of The Other - the infidels, heretics and blasphemers who aren't listening to God and what God wants? Can you be someone in between, or if you're not with the Cult are you against it?
Please stop referring to my religion as a cult! Instead you should follow it Rule #1. No covid before marriage Rule #2. Thou shall not covid thy neighbors covid Rule #3. Sorry. Ran out of stuff to say. Bye
Chris Cillizza writes, "In his victory speech after the 2020 election, Joe Biden said this: "I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify. Who doesn't see red and blue states, but a United States." "Roughly nine months into his presidency, however, red states and blue states have widely diverged on what should be the least political of issues: Vaccination rates for Covid-19. "More than 9 in 10 self-identified Democrats (92%) report that they have had at least one dose of one of the three vaccines for Covid-19. That number among Republicans? Just 56%. "That's a stunning data point that tells a very clear story: there are Republicans who are getting seriously ill -- and even dying -- as some sort of distorted political stance. "How did we get here? There's no single person to blame, but in my mind it's quite clear that former President Donald Trump and Fox News bear the lion's share of the responsibility. "Trump spent the first 16 months of the pandemic doing everything he could to downplay it. He insisted that the virus was "going to disappear." He was openly dismissive of mask-wearing; on the day he announced CDC guidance that people should wear masks indoors, Trump said that he had no plans to do so. "I just don't want to be doing -- I don't know, somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I just, I just don't." "Trump also worked to make the debate about masking -- and steps to mitigate Covid-19 more generally -- about attempts by Democratic leaders to limit your freedoms. "Meanwhile, Fox News served as a sort of force multiplier for the politicization of the virus. That charge was led by prime-time hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, both of whom sought to cast the vaccine debate in terms of freedom abridged rather than a public health good." Of course, forum Republicans will continue their tradition of complete silence. Republicans avoid what Republicans are doing. They are too busy making up unflattering fantasies about Democrats.
When you start taking away peoples choice, you can expect them to start worrying about their freedom. Seems pretty simple...
So it's either your way or the highway You are the ultimate arbiter of who has true religion and who does not????
This governor is just doing what's best for the people. I heard she's just finishing her album of COVID worship songs! Some of the highlights... COVID Row the Boat Ashore. Amazing COVID How Sweet the Sound What a Friend We Have in COVID On the Wings of a COVID Just a COVID Walk With Thee So many more! And just wait for the All Inclusive Winter Holiday Album! Featuring such favorites as Rudolph the Red-Nosed COVID. COVID Night. Have a Holly Jolly COVID White COVID. Frosty the COVID The Little COVID Boy Have Yourself a Merry Little COVID. Order now and get a special free gift: A signed poster-sized photo of the sexiest man alive, St. Fauci himself! Suitable for framing. Proof of vaccination required.
Vaccine from God. People who aren't listening to God and what God wants. Be my apostles. Who's speaking and acting like they're a member of a cult? The creepy high priestess in New York...
Of course, the LW MSM hyper-politicized the WuFlu from Day One for its own political purposes. Methinks Chris Cillizza of CNN doth project too much. As for the Branch Covidian high priestess in New York and her rhetoric, if it quacks like a cult...
Hey, she sounds like a typical Sunday morning mass preacher. Or are people only allowed to preach God's will that are Trumpers? In any case, if God would exist, it would be much more likely that he would give us the vaccine, rather than the "chosen one".
Don't be silly. High Priestess Hochul is free to preach the Branch Covidian Gospel, strap the Article of Faith across her face and anoint herself with the Holy Vax. By the way, why wasn't she wearing the Article of Faith during her Sermon on the Mount? Governor Hochul Announces Series of Universal Mask Requirements to Protect New Yorkers amid Rise of Delta Variant https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...sk-requirements-protect-new-yorkers-amid-rise Oh, I know. Masks for thee, but not for me....
If God is telling people to get the vaccine, then surely he must be telling them to lose weight too. Most of the people dying from the Wuhan Flu are fatties. They should be stopped just like the unvaccinated... I mean if we are being logical and following "Science"... right?
Funny that the states with the highest obesity rates are also among those with the lowest vaccination rates. Incidentally, they are red states. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/202011/why-red-states-suffer-greater-obesity
How is this any different from the multiple (some now dead) religious leaders screaming from the pulpit that the vaccine will kill everyone because it is the devils work?
Which explains why so many conservatives are dying from Covid https://www.ft.com/content/39ff87ce-57b7-4007-9504-7eb2c7bc911f
Terrible to associate evil cultural marxists with innocent Branch-Davidians... including children.... who the US GOVERNMENT psychologically tortured for days via loud speakers blaring loud harsh noises including babies crying and sounds of animals being slaughtered... who were then mass-murdered in a fire holocaust caused by your evil draconian government.
Not necessarily. I can remember when most of the Covid cases and deaths were Lefties. There are commonalities amongst each group, ex., where most Lefties and Righties tend to live, that have nothing to do with politics, but I would expect political hacks like Chris Cillizza and his colleagues at CNN to politicize everything anyway.
Ummm...."Branch Covidian" is a play on words, and yes, the Branch Davidians were a cult just like the Branch Covidians are a cult.
