TheDodoBird t1_j91diba wrote on February 18, 2023 at 2:20 PM

Reply to comment by OS6aDohpegavod4 in Brazil's vaccine-skeptic Bolsonaro got the shot, document indicates by batmaninwonderland

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

OS6aDohpegavod4 t1_j91gcjn wrote on February 18, 2023 at 2:42 PM

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

TogepiMain t1_j91lqxo wrote on February 18, 2023 at 3:22 PM

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.

Ryllandaras t1_j92gc6i wrote on February 18, 2023 at 6:53 PM

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).

TogepiMain t1_j939zn4 wrote on February 18, 2023 at 10:28 PM

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.