Trump promoted the vaccines (it's one of the few things he was willing to get booed at his own rally for).
Trump hid the fact that he got the vaccine. While other leaders were getting vaccinated on camera, Trump did not.
Trump was promoting HCQ when his scientists were saying that although it looked promising, that there wasn't enough evidence yet to support/promote it.
Likely, he likes to take credit for "operation warp speed" and claim the covid vaccines as his own as if he was in the lab working on them.
Yeah, he went a bit overboard. Even claiming that since he had an uncle that was a scientist that somehow he has "science" in his being.
But anyway, I'd rather him brag and promote the vaccine than not promote it. He left it very late, but he did eventually promote it.
If you recall, Trump was trying to get the vaccines rolled out earlier (for selfish reasons abeit) so he could take credit for them.
Yes, he was purely political about the matter.
Kamala Harris and Biden both cast shade on it for reasons resembling "I'm not going to take something just because Trump says it's okay and he wants to act like a hero".
Well, the Right have been casting a weird spin and apparently you have been listening and taking this on board.
What Karmala and Biden said was that if the Science professionals say its good then they will take their word for it, rather than Trump's.
I think it is reasonable for people to be worried about operation warp speed, worried about whether important corners were cut.
Ultimately the qualified scientists said this was properly tested and was safe and effective, and Biden and Fauci took their vaccines on camera.
..fast forward a few months "if you don't take the very same vaccine I cast shade on a few months back, you're selfish and not doing your part to end the pandemic"
Well, you know. Once Fauci and CDC and FDA and such said the vaccine was tested, safe and effective.
Mainstream media is largely on the left (he may use harsh language to convey that point), but it's true none the less
I don't believe this.
I do think though that the USA 24x7 news channels have too much time to fill in, so they insert lots of opinion and indepth talking and this waters down the actual news so much that it is hard to find the actual news.
Social media companies are/were largely on the left. The fact that a moderate like Musk buying one of the companies caused pearl clutching is evidence of that
Musk is destroying Twitter. The guy is weird.
Social media companies are mostly not left or right. They have some rules like anti discrimination, anti violence etc.
I find it weird how some on the right think that the Right need to get their message across using discrimination, violence and lies about Covid related stuff.
Filtering that stuff off Social Media doesn't mean that Social Media are leftists.
Trump never said any gun restrictions were bad...another thing he took flak from his own party for was when he supported red flag laws and made the comment of "I say we should take the guns first"
Trump has flip flopped.
His biggest trope is that he says "They want to take your guns", to instil fear into those that are excited about guns, so that they will vote for him.
As far as I know Trump isn't a gun person.
Obviously he's wrong when he said the election was rigged and courts are leftist...the courts are balanced, and he claimed the election was rigged because his ego won't let him believe he lost.
Look, if my favourite party, my favourite leader did everything right, but tried to instil anger and violence in the people by lying about a "stolen election". I would not vote for them ever. Free and fair elections are the most necessary thing in a democracy.
Many on the left do identify with socialism now...they may have an incorrect definition of it. But when you have groups of left leaning protestors waving hammer and sickle flags and groups (that the left wing supported) saying they support marxism and wanting to dismantle capitalism, they kinda giftwrapped that talking point for him.
Sorry, who in congress, who in the white house wants out and out socialism?
many people may prefer Bernie's economic policies, but not at the expense of having to embrace modern gender theory or change their tune on abortion.
But then again Biden and Karmala aren;'t promoting gender theory. They aren't forcing that on anyone.
there are plenty of people who support the policies of the left, but the thing that stops them from voting for the are the cultural issues.
These cultural issues are fabricated by the right. They mischaracterise the position of the left.
If you want to know the position of the left, look to Joe Biden and Karmala. Look to the policies and campaign promises.
Don't ask Hannity, Ingram, Piro and Tucker what the left are promoting and promising.
They're not forcing people to partake in those activities, but there certainly is a push to make people to accept those things even if they don't want to (right or wrong)
How is Biden doing this push?
For instance, if there was a political party that agreed with you 100% economically, but one of the buy-ins was you had to pretend that AR-15's were awesome, and climate change is a hoax, would you support that party? Or would have some issues with it?
Sure, yeah, people need to weigh everything up.
The problem is, that people that listen to right wing propoganda shows are not judging the Democratic party by what the Democratic party are actually doing. They are basing it on a mischaracterisation of the Dems.
At the moment we have on one side a presidential candidate that has been impeached twice
- once for trying to force a foreign leader into publicly accusing the candidates political rival of crimes (without evidence)
- once for inciting an insurrection and trying to steal the 2020 election
As well as three indictments awaiting trial
- one for stealing documents, refusing to return them, lying about them, getting others to lie about them and help conceal them
- one for hush money payments and illegal campaign contributions (of which his coconspirator lawyer served time in prison)
- one for election interference, including the illegal alternate electors scheme
vs a perception of Democrats forcing people to accept CRT, LGQBT, abortion - none of these things are in Biden's policies or campaign promises. But are merely assumed to be so by Right Wing opinion show hosts.
Sure, the big example is LGBT issues. When some on the left frame the arguments around "Life saving care" (implying that if you disagree with them on anything, you must be okay with people committing suicide), that's a level of emotional manipulation and gaslighting that people wouldn't tolerate in most other circumstances when considered rationally.
What is Biden and Karmala doing regading LGBT issues? How are they forcing people to accept it?
Don't paint Biden by what just any random person professing to be on the "left" says.
When people like Beto O'Rouke get up and say "any church that refuses to perform same sex marriages should be striped of their 501c3 status" to a massive round of applause, that's an implication that "you do things our way or face consequences"
What has Biden said about this topic? He is a Catholic right, I'm sure he isn't trying to force the Catholic church to perform same sex marriages