These people have the memory of a goldfish and Trump is such an ideological mercenary that he’ll do whatever nets him the most money and prestige and back in 2020 that was stopping the pandemic.

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    seems like rfk was playing a ‘libertarian sweeper’ role for trump, he ran his antivax leaning campaign as a dem and then independent and then endorsed Trump in the end, not a big surprise but I guess that gave Trump an official seal of approval with the antivax crowd right before the election, I think rfk is basically a grifter opportunist

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    Related question that I always wonder about:

    • Conservatives: Fuck Fauci for telling us to wear masks
    • Liberals: We love Fauci for telling us to wear masks
    • Leftists: Fuck Fauci for telling us not to wear masks
    • ???: We love Fauci for telling us not to wear masks

    What would this be? Some kind of ecofascist, maybe?

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    I don’t really know how much they care at this point about the substance of trump, he is just a vessel for the desires of the everychud.

    Actually they do care when it gives them a chance to own the libs by saying trump created the vaccines.

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    I really think it’s down to the timing of when vaccines became available. The Pfizer mRNA vaccine that was partially developed through operation warp speed was first made available in the UK in December of 2020. I think in the US in February of 2021?

    Well yeah Biden had already won the election in the tail end of 2020 and was president in 2021. To the average uninformed reactionary it looked like Biden rolled out the vaccines, despite development and funding happening with Trump.

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        https://www.fox29.com/news/trump-takes-credit-for-covid-19-vaccine-i-hope-everyone-remembers

        “I hope everyone remembers when they’re getting the COVID-19 (often referred to as the China Virus) Vaccine, that if I wasn’t President, you wouldn’t be getting that beautiful ‘shot’ for 5 years, at best, and probably wouldn’t be getting it at all,” read a statement from the former president. “I hope everyone remembers!”

        His comments come ahead of President Joe Biden’s planned primetime address on Thursday night, his first prime-time address since taking office, to discuss the “next phase” of the fight against the pandemic that has killed more than 529,000 Americans.

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    either they are really just too ignorant to know (involuntarily in some cases) or they tell themselves he was pressured to do it by the woke deep state

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    cognitive dissonance causes discomfort and either leads to change or denial

    “I know this cigarette I am smoking causes cancer” either the person will enact change and quit or reduce smoking, or they will deny the extensive reality that smoking causes cancer

    The people who go with excessive denial ultimately need to rely on avoidance behaviors and may become irritable and anxious when confronted with the reality that’s been making them uncomfortable for quite some time.

    Guess which side they fall on

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      At least in the smoking example, it’s not necessarily denial; addiction is a powerful thing. People are used to their way of life, and Trump represents the status quo (which so do Democrats, but whatever) People are too afraid of the change, or afraid they’ll be unable to handle the change, so they may hold their nose and vote for him. Denial is certainly a possibility, and in the case of Trump it may be the more likely option. But fear and routine certainly influence people too without necessarily driving them into deep denial.