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Dr. Anthony Fauci said he was stunned on Sunday that former President Donald Trump was jeered by some of his supporters over the revelation that he had received a COVID-19 booster vaccination shot.
In recent days, the disgraced ex-president has made headlines over his support for the vaccines, which has resulted in loud criticism from many of the MAGA faithful who have actively embraced anti-vaccine rhetoric. During an event he co-hosted with former Fox News star Bill OReilly this month, Trump drew groans from the crowd for both enthusiastically endorsing the vaccine and noting he had recently been boosted.
Days later, in an interview with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens, Trump rebuked Owens anti-vax talking points, repeatedly noting that the vaccine works while encouraging viewers to get their shots. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good, and if you do get it, its a very minor form. People arent dying when they take the vaccine, he declared.
Interviewing Fauci on Sundays broadcast of ABCs This Week, guest anchor Jonathan Karl noted that after Trump was booed by his fans he really pushed back against Owens suggestion that the COVID-19 vaccines arent effective or safe. At the same time, Karl wondered if the ex-presidents supporters will listen to his advice.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-stunned-and-dismayed-that-trump-supporters-booed-booster-revelation/ar-AAS9W5e
Initech
(100,129 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)
could control it, and now it is escaping his grasp.
HUAJIAO
(2,407 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)He sniffed the air, his mind wondering where the MOST applause lies.
We can almost see his thoughts. Will people value and praise me more if I change my tune?
He is manipulable. Putin knows this. Every shrink knows it.
bahboo
(16,380 posts)HUAJIAO
(2,407 posts)And very naive about human nature and who and what these stupids really are.
For they are stupid..
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from After Ten Years in Letters and Papers from Prison.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless.
Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict ones prejudgment simply need not be believed in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
Full Letter at link.
https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/12/bonhoeffer-on-stupidity/
ProfessorGAC
(65,337 posts)If he's stunned, he's the only one.
The cult is so far off the rails that TFG isn't radical enough anymore.
Tens of millions know this. How could Fauci not?
Perhaps "disappointed" would have been more appropriate.
HUAJIAO
(2,407 posts)Boomerproud
(7,976 posts)He doesn't seem to accept how the outside world, including media, have changed for the worst. We need a fighter in front of the cameras who takes on the liars and haters. He acts like he just doesn't understand.