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Give me a fucking break. “Donald Trump goes full hydroxychloroquine on an unverified vaccine to manipulate the election” is something he’s contemplating right out in the open. People aren’t as stupid as you seem to think. https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1305862290567200769
If FDA approves a vaccine after the election, many conservatives will freak out. Some on standard “vaccines cause autism” antivax conspiracy theory grounds, others on “ThE DeEp StATe suppressed the vaccine to hurt Trump” conspiracy theory grounds. Both will be false.
Vaccines don’t cause autism and the deep state isn’t manipulating the vaccine process to hurt Trump, but Trump is openly interfering with the approval process so he can announce and take credit for a vaccine before the election.
At the same time Trump’s made clear repeatedly that he has no problem hawking deadly or untested medicine if he thinks it’ll help him personally. I’ll leave it to you to piece together why conservatives like @philipaklein muddy these obvious distinctions.
So here’s a test for Phil. If Trump makes the announcement and no independent public health experts (who aren’t also, like, Fox News contributors) vouch for the safety of whatever he announces, will Phil inject that inoculum into his children? https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1305865731100340228
As Cunningham said at the NC debate, if Fauci and Frieden and (on the political side) the non-crooked leaders of other democracies also say it’s safe, then liberals will be confident in saying it’s safe. But GTFO with this idea that maybe Trump isn’t a dangerous liar. https://twitter.com/ericcolumbus/status/1305695548842881025
Conservatives are desperate so they’re acting like people were born yesterday, or too recently to remember the Trump Steaks presser or any of his many other vaporwear acts. Trump is going to lie to people, and they’re out here saying the real liars are people with working brains. https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1305871558347546624
Nobody says Trump can conjure fake vaccine that he can then provide to people to dose themselves with. He can lie and use props to to convince them an authorized vaccine exists, and that he’s responsible for it, then try to race a vaccine that isn’t fully tested into production. https://twitter.com/jrpsd/status/1305876211889922049
