We’re thick in the election nonsense here in Minnesota (so are you other Americans, you betcha), and this is an ad that was running in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, against Democrat Mark Dayton.
He says he’s ready for Ebola.
HE ISN’T.
33 million travelers per year at our airport, yet no travel ban from infected areas.
Seriously, Republican Jeff Johnson? This is your argument? That we’re supposed to freak out over a disease that so far, has only been diagnosed in FOUR people in this country? This seems to be the new Republican strategy for the election: stir up lots of unnecessary fear and blame the Democrats, while endorsing draconian quarantines and absurd travel restrictions. And of course, as another example of Republican sleaziness, Christie is politicizing it all.
Oh, excuse me…stirring up fear and blaming the Democrats is the old Republican strategy.
Read more about Ebolanoia, or if you prefer, you can always wallow in misinformation being peddled by exploitive crackpots.
At least the fearmongers are quickly recognised by the hoi-poloi and never voted into office.
Ha, that’s nothing. Our local democrat “Loebsack” is being accused of voting to keep our government running, as in voting to raise the debt ceiling.
Republicans really seem to work the terror angle. And who cut investment into the CDC? I may be 100% wrong, but a lot of these same people are also kinda working the End of Times.
“Yeah, we defunded CDC but it’s same-sex marriage bringing about the rapture through those terrible brown people. Benghazi and cats and dogs!”
Aren’t they supposed to rapturous about the rapture? (I was only indoctrinated into Mormonism as a kid, and very half-assed so my religion understanding is mainly standing back, clasping back laughter and wondering How The Fuck.)
That is a seriously ugly ad.
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There must be a connection to ethics in gaming journalism.
Unfortunately, gop is a connoisseur in the art of lying and taking advantage of the those with just a vague knowledge (aka. FOX crowd) of things. I mean they have been quite effective in making cowboys into thinking that they are climate change experts. So this is nothing.
Wait, I’m confused. Is the CDC a branch of Obama’s secret Muslim-atheist shadow government poised to use its quarantine power to lock up Real American Patriots™ or a heroic part of God’s America that we want working hard to protect the glorious White race from the threat posed by sneaky, diseased brown foreigners? Someone over at FOX has to be keeping track of which narrative we’re using this week, right? They must be doing something with all their time and money, and it certainly isn’t journalism (becasue, as chigau alludes, journalism is dead even since Zoe Quinn broke it).
@myself #6: Crap, that last line should read, “…ever since…” not, “…even since…”
Ugh, I know. We don’t even have an election coming in Canada, but we’ve gone and barred visas for anyone who’s been in the three west African countries worst affected in the last three months. Idiotic and counterproductive. Travel bans mean getting medical personnel to volunteer there will be less willing, which makes the epidemic worse, which makes our chances of it making its way here HIGHER.
It’s idiotic, as our medical pros have been saying, ignorably. :/
Fucking reactionary bigotry as always from our corporate owners.
It’s becoming a mental cliche with me: When you have wingnuts, who needs terrorists? Fear seems to be their major driving force, and somehow they’ve manage to spin aggressive panicking as “courage.”
I don’t see any hysteria over ISIS. This is an amateur ad.
@6:
Yes. Obviously. Because Obama.
I’m telling you, it’s all a false flag to distract us from BENGHAZI!!!eleventy11!!
from Daily Kos: Nurse takes a bike ride, governor clears his schedule
from NYT via another
DailyKos:
and from ABC:
So if it creates discrimination, or gives a reason to forcibly restrict someone or force medical procedures on them, then right-wingers like it, seems to be the pattern here.
By the way: What Quarantine Feels Like (Atlantic)
This reminds me of the insane fear of suspected terrorists in Guantanamo – the argument that they’re somehow too dangerous to try on American soil.
Criminals like that exist in anime. They’ve NEVER existed in real life.
It’s a deliberate tactic of creating fictional, scary monsters to “beat”. The scarier and easier to defeat, the better.
Obama’s missing a real chance to be pro-active here. Those people who are calling on him to use quarantine orders to prevent the spread of ebola could be relocated to special camps where they’ll be protected from outside, possibly infected persons. I believe FEMA could manage those…
The sad part is that there will be no real refutation of this. They will be not called out on their shit. They will not be taken to task for their smearing, idiocy, and fearmongering. As always.
Ebola really is a Republican wet dream. The mainstream media has done most of their work for them, hyping up irrational fear just like it did for terrorism. Republicans just see that fear, politicize it and blame Democrats for not doing enough and secretly wanting the Ebola-ists to Win, maybe even seed a few conspiracy theories. Before you know it, they will have stolen some moderate (aka low information, high fear) voters and will have made their extremes more extreme. All in a fucking day’s work.
Unfortunately, fear sells really well into the GOP mindset. It’s as if the average GOPper’s prefrontal cortex has been replaced by a faulty Identify Friend or Foe chip.
He won’t be called out for this, but he also is pretty certain to lose. I haven’t spoken with a single MN person who thinks Ebola is a campaign issue. Most voters are up in arms over a football stadium project pushed through by Dayton. We actually have five different candidates for Governor this year. I predict that Dayton will win reelection.
My personal favorite (read, turn the radio off and want to throw things) local ad features a GOP candidate complaining about the state Supreme Court demanding “more and more money for education, driving up our taxes”. OH NOES!! Not education!!11! Of course, the same ad claims the state and national deficit “kills jobs” and that an initiative to require background checks for private gun sales and at gun shows is “disarming Washingtonians”.
Bronze Dog wrote:
You’ve got their relationship all wrong. These two groups don’t have an adversarial relationship but a symbiotic one, regardless of if we’re talking about domestic or international terrorism. A terrorist attack, regardless of if it’s from their own allies or the Great Evil of the Day (henceforth Great Evil), will be pinned on the Great Evil, often before the name of the person(s) responsible is even known, and used to justify their policies. The policies aimed at the Great Evil will create new terrorists in that group, but will also validate the existence of the would-be domestic reactionary terrorists. Eventually, one of these will commit a terror act, which completes the cycle.
This is a sure winner. There are lots more documented Ebola cases in the US than documented cases of voter fraud.
And these are the people who may just take control of the Senate tomorrow. I’m sure that, if they do, they’ll try to cut CDC funding and simultaneously continue to fearmonger on Ebola.
33 million travelers per year at our airport?
I’m not sure which airport is being referenced but my calculator says that’s about 90,000 passengers per day. The entire population of Minnesota is only 5.5 million. Something seems wrong.
ck @20:
I have no illusions that they have an adversarial relationship, given that I’ve heard some hoping that there’d be a major terrorist attack on US soil before various election days. I just think the wingnuts are getting so good at creating a climate of fear on their own that the terrorists are no longer necessary.
@23 33 million peeps is right https://www.mspairport.com/about-msp/statistics.aspx
and weirdly enough 54% of that traffic is originating there so that almost 3 flights for every person in the state…wow
what planet do you live on, and are they taking immigrants?