Yet another conspiracy theory about the pandemic has arisen after a writer for far-right media outlet Breitbart accused Democrats of trying to trick Republicans into passing up the vaccine so they will die of the virus.
How?
Via "reverse psychology" of course.
And the plot supposedly involves not only Democratic Party leadership like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Joe Biden, but also celebrities like Howard Stern.
According to writer John Nolte, the reason conservatives won't get vaccinated is because Democrats are berating them about it for the express purpose of making them not want to get vaccinated so that they will all die and Republicans will lose more elections.
Writer John Nolte says Democrats are using "reverse psychology" to trick opponents into dying of COVID-19.https://www.huffp.st/2MqFKdb— HuffPost (@HuffPost) 1632182190
In his September 10 op-ed for the far-right publication, Nolte named also name-checked Dr. Fauci as part of the cabal he says are trying to Jedi mind-trick conservatives into killing themselves by not getting vaccinated.
Nolte's bizarre screed comes after Stern went on a rant on his radio show about unvaccinated people filling up hospitals across the country and needlessly dying of the virus.
Suffice to say, Stern wasn't exactly feeling sympathetic towards these people.
As he put it:
"Go fu*k yourself. You had the cure and you wouldn't take it."
But to Nolte, this somehow spoke to a sinister plot on the part of Stern and Democrats everywhere to convince members of the so-called "Party of Personal Responsibility" to kill themselves by eschewing the vaccine.
"If I wanted to use reverse psychology to convince people not to get a life-saving vaccination, I would do exactly what Stern and the left are doing…
"I would bully and taunt and mock and ridicule you for not getting vaccinated, knowing the human response would be, Hey, fu*k you, I'm never getting vaccinated!"
So conservatives are apparently pro-vaccination now, eh?
Neat!
Nolte went on to say:
"Could it possibly be that the left has manipulated huge swathes of Trump voters into believing they are owning the left by not taking the life-saving Trump Vaccine?..."
"Have you ever thought that maybe the left has us right where they want us?"
On Twitter, people could not believe what they were reading.
u fuggin wot m8https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1440102599542427648\u00a0\u2026— Sarah \u26c8\ufe0f\ud83e\udde1 Thompson (@Sarah \u26c8\ufe0f\ud83e\udde1 Thompson) 1632241010
So, according to John Nolte, if you tell a person not to jump into a volcano, and your political idealogy is different than them, and you explain the dangers of volcanos...\n\n... they will jump in, die, and it's all your fault for "manipulating" them into dying?pic.twitter.com/RZghSrxtcW— The Fish in a Barrel (@The Fish in a Barrel) 1632047004
So I finally read the John Nolte article. What is striking to me is how Nolte embraces the victimhood narrative. It\u2019s \u201cThey are so mean to us that\u2019s it\u2019s rendered us completely incapable of doing that which we ought to be doing for our own benefit\u201d. It\u2019s truly remarkable.— Jeff Kemp (@Jeff Kemp) 1632107308
So in this weirdo upside down land we're talking about, we actually need to tell a certain subset of the population not to get vaccinated in order to get them vaccinated because the only way to get them to do something they don't want to do is tell them not to do it?— IVoteAndI'mNotStupid (@IVoteAndI'mNotStupid) 1632182790
Bwah ha ha ha!\nOur diabolical scheme has been discovered.\nBack to the drawing board.— Calavera Anti-Fascists (@Calavera Anti-Fascists) 1631985383
I love how they are never, ever ever responsible for their own actions.\n\nIt's like a magic trick!\n\nShazam! Watch personal accountability disappear!— Isa-Lee Wolf (@Isa-Lee Wolf) 1632002938
You know how you can TRULY own this libs?\n\nBy getting vaccinated.https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/\u00a0\u2026— Aaron Blake (@Aaron Blake) 1632099982
yes as a liberal i would feel so owned if all the republicans got vaccinated. i\u2019d be so destroyed inside a shadow of myself, idk if i could ever look into the mirror again oh no i hope none of the republicans find out and get vaccinated https://twitter.com/aaronblake/status/1439757797382627331\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/Li4SDfHdCo— Lisa \ud83c\udff9\ud83d\uddfd\u2764\ufe0f (@Lisa \ud83c\udff9\ud83d\uddfd\u2764\ufe0f) 1632240845
\u201cTo survive this virus or be a cuck\u2026\u2026that is the question\u201d. \n\n - John Noltepic.twitter.com/fi5liGryzW— Jeff Kemp (@Jeff Kemp) 1632138392
Man, first everybody made them into Nazis by being gay or black and now everybody\u2019s making them kill themselves by begging them to get vaccinatedpic.twitter.com/zH4e38scOo— \ud83d\uddef (@\ud83d\uddef) 1632087725
This may be deeply unhinged, but if it convinces right-wingers to get vaccinated so we can finally end this pandemic?
Well, any port in a storm!
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