In the world of shit-you-thought-was-an-onion-headline-but-is-just-more-maga-stupidity…

An op-ed published in Breitbart a couple of days ago (I won’t link it, because I refuse to give them the clicks), claims that the reason liberals are pushing Covid vaccines so hard, and the reason personalities like Howard Stern are mocking the intentionally unvaccinated and the dying, is *checks notes*, because liberals are using reverse psychology on MAGA and conservatives in a bid to get them to die off. 

Yes, you read that correctly. The same nihilistic, cynical talking heads and right wing apparatchiks who convinced their sheeple that Covid isn’t a big deal, that masks are an assault on freedom, and that the vaccines Trump himself ushered through are dangerous, because they will magnetize you…or have tiny little trackers in them…or will something-something-turn-you-into-5G, have finally realized that they are reaping what they’ve sown: they’re killing off their base. Yeah, look at that, there’s an apparent correlation between counties that voted Trump, and current Covid infection/death rates. Who’d have thunk it?

However, instead of admitting that they were wrong—or rather that they cynically weaponized MAGA fervor and far right ideology, to push a culture war that is now killing their base—these pundits and hate mongers are using insane troll logic to extricate themselves from their own fuckery, while still trying, apparently, to own the libs. It’s so crazy, it sounds like someone pitching an X-Files reboot, while on acid, channeling Hunter S. Thompson. 

I can readily admit to a certain level of schadenfreude about the toll Covid is taking on some of these folks, and for some time now I’ve been entirely out of give a fucks when hearing the sob stories on the news about some MAGA fool, who elected to toss common sense out the fucking window, who, as he is about to be put on a ventilator, starts begging for the vaccine, while their family sets up a GoFundMe. What is so broken inside of these folks that they lack any and all compassion about the victims of this pandemic until it happens to them or their loved ones? They bombard school board meetings, and threaten teachers with violence over mask mandates, only to die gasping for air, without their families around them. 

I’m done with these people, most of whom could have avoided getting sick and hospitalized, causing the deaths of other people who cannot get the care they need because ICU’s and emergency rooms are full, or about people using fucking sheep dewormer as a treatment being rushed to the hospital—and never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined such immense irony existing in the world, as people who call us sheep, making themselves sick on sheep dewormer. 

I also must uncomfortably admit to having reached a point with our socio-political landscape, where I do not believe most of these people can be reached with education, reason, or compassion, and I fear Darwinism is just going to deal with it, which really sucks, because they keep taking other people down with them.

Does that make me as nihilistic as they are? Maybe, but I don’t think so. As I said, I’m actually uncomfortable with that admission, and I think my cynical outlook is simply rooted in exhaustion, and grief, not only over the needless loss of so many lives—including people I know and the loved ones of several friends—but over what has become of our country and society, whereas they employed that nihilism for an agenda that is now biting them in their collective asses. 

I just hope the teeth are sharp, and tears a chunk right out of them.