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DependentAd235 t1_j914sc0 wrote

Reply to comment by EdisonLightbulb in Brazil's vaccine-skeptic Bolsonaro got the shot, document indicates by batmaninwonderland

Trump was weirdly pro vaccination for a while. I remember him getting booed talking about it.

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FireSparrowWelding t1_j919och wrote

Lol our towns most infamous Trump mobile took down all his flags and posters after that.

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Chippopotanuse t1_j91ejwt wrote

It’s like when the Pope says “hey, be kind to gay people” and every asshole Catholics responds with “welp, he’s not MY Pope anymore!”

The only appeal Trump has for some folks is that he validated their antisocial and horrific viewpoints.

But by that same token, anything remotely reasonable that Trump might say (like “vaccines work”) is going to cause these assholes to flee to a more insane figurehead.

And that’s how we get Ron DeathSantis and Marjorie Taylor White Fur Coat.

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jigokubi t1_j93q8jr wrote

This was the exact moment when the huge trump flag finally went down in my neighborhood, too.

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AudibleNod t1_j91adof wrote

They called him a "New York elitist" in Oklahoma after his shot in Oklahoma. Candace Owens told him to "do his research" after he ever so subtly suggested the shot can save MAGA lives.

Just because you're placed in top of the elephant doesn't mean you're in charge of the elephant.

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Ashkir t1_j91xg5k wrote

A lot of these GOP media strongholds have vaccine mandates as well.

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Ipokeyoumuch t1_j92b5nj wrote

Fox News mandated that everyone working under them get the vaccine.

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Witchgrass t1_j926gif wrote

> Just because you’re placed in top of the elephant doesn’t mean you’re in charge of the elephant.

I love this

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LasVegas4590 t1_j93amot wrote

>Just because you're placed in top of the elephant doesn't mean you're in charge of the elephant.

I like, thinking about stealing it.

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zakabog t1_j91uj8x wrote

> Trump was weirdly pro vaccination for a while.

Nah, it wasn't weird, he wanted to take credit for the vaccine but didn't understand his base hated it.

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macweirdo42 t1_j92cwv5 wrote

Mostly because he had already convinced his base that it was a Democrat hoax. He thought he could have it both ways, "Liberals made up a fake disease," and "Trump defeated the fake liberal disease." Even his own base couldn't follow that insanity.

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laptopAccount2 t1_j91esg4 wrote

Because they were developed under his tenure so he got to take credit for them.

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OS6aDohpegavod4 t1_j91bfiu wrote

It's almost like politicians just say stuff that their constituents want to hear.

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TheDodoBird t1_j91diba wrote

Well in this case, Drump said stuff his constituents did not want to hear.

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OS6aDohpegavod4 t1_j91gcjn wrote

Yeah I meant he started with something he actually believed and then changed once he realized his constituents didn't like it.

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TogepiMain t1_j91lqxo wrote

Uh no, that rally was late. What many people here consider "post pandemic".

Trust me, hearing Donald J Trump suggest his party his vaccinated against covid was the wildest and most unlikely thing I ever heard that man say

For a brief, shining moment far far far far far far far too late anyway, he said something based on the science. For the most selfish reasons possible, because he was terrified of his party killing themselves and ruining his reelection (See : Arizona where this actually looks to be one of the biggest reasons Lake didn't win, too many GOP fucks had died)

Frankly, it was the coolest thing Donald trump had ever done. Not just for, selfish or not, trying to get people to do the right thing for the first time ever??? But the fact that instantly he had lost people. Instantly. The speech was the most important moment of his career because it proved to everyone in the world paying attention that the the GOP is lost. They can not be recovered. Maybe a few % will trickle away but that core, that 30ish percent of America? They don't care. They just want others to suffer and lose, and even their shining gold god was so quickly defaced and replaced.

The man pulls in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, in "help me fight the big bad courts" money from people to this day, and yet we know every single of of those nuts would now do the same to him as he would to them; if Trump ever sees the inside of a jail, his base will let him rot.

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Ryllandaras t1_j92gc6i wrote

I don't think he was worried about his base dying - he wanted to claim credit for Operation Warpspeed (the expedited development and rollout of the vaccines), with the usual "They said it would take 5 years, 10 years / it couldn't be done, but Trump did it in one!!!!" routine. He "deserves" some credit for doing a good thing (but certainly not the lion's share that he wants to claim, as usual).

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TogepiMain t1_j939zn4 wrote

But why? The people who wanted the vaccine wouldn't even put his name on it, and the people who hate it are the only ones who would spout that praise.

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LasVegas4590 t1_j93ae2n wrote

>Trump was weirdly pro vaccination for a while

The reason that he was pro-vax is that "Project Lightspeed" was the only thing his administration got right. Otherwise he'd be just as bad as Hannity, Carlson and Ingraham

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jigokubi t1_j93ropl wrote

Remember antivaxxers saying the vaccine was rushed, and some of them even suggesting Biden was getting money for it?

Well, Trump literally rushed the vaccine's approval, and Pfizer was a donor to Trump.

Republicans wanted to keep making money, so they didn't want to shut down, and so they convinced their base that Covid wasn't serious. But when the vaccine was developed that could help get thing back to normal, said base had by that point decided any precaution against Covid was bad.

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