{"id":116024,"date":"2020-04-28T00:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=116024"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T21:01:29","slug":"a-guide-to-the-perplexed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2020\/04\/a-guide-to-the-perplexed.html","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to the Perplexed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It is a commonplace among conservatives who can\u2019t bear to look in the mirror as they support Trump to say, \u201cBoth Sides are the same. Dems are no different from Republicans!\u201d So when Trump says something idiotic for the umpteenth time, the conservative advocate of Both Sides Moral Equivalence can always be counted on to say things like, \u201cWe must spend the week carefully carefully parsing what he meant about injecting disinfectant, just as we have spent countless days carefully parsing what he meant by the Bowling Green Massacre, or when he mocked that disabled guy, or when he said \u2018grab \u2019em by the pussy\u2019 or when he called COVID a hoax, or when he mocked McCain for being a POW, or when he said he had a natural instinct for science, or when he suggested that second amendment people should do something about Hillary Clinton, or when he spent years promoting birther theories.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut let\u2019s never forget that Obama, exhausted on the campaign trail, once accidentally flubbed his words and talked about the 57 states. Never ever ever<\/em> forget that. You shall lay up Obama\u2019s words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and upon your gates.\u201d<\/p>\n

A third of the electorate, God knoweth how, still believes this is a serious argument for the total moral and intellectual equivalence of the Dems and the GOP Crime Syndicate.<\/p>\n

In case you <\/em>are among those still struggling to detect the subtle differences between any Democrat and any member of the Cult of Trump, permit me to explain.<\/p>\n

The GOP is the party that passionately defends the moron who suggests on national TV that we should shoot up with disinfectants to fight COVID. The GOP Cult, instead of saying, \u201cFor the love of God, do not listen to this braying moron one second longer. If you do what he says you will DIE!\u201d instead suggests that we need to hear him out, that Science doesn\u2019t know everything, that we haven\u2019t definitely proven that this might not be a good idea, that the real threat is Bill Gates\u2019 5G mind control nanobot vaccines, and that it is fascism<\/em> to try to stop FREEDOMEAGLEPATRIOTMAGAMERICANS from injecting disinfectants.<\/p>\n

And, of course, they lie right to our faces that he did not say what we can see and hear him say with our own eyes and ears.<\/p>\n

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Riiiiight.\u00a0 Trump has definitely been boning up on the latest medical journals and just chose to say<\/p>\n

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Here is Dr. Birx\u2019s reaction when President Trump asks his science advisor to study using UV light on the human body and injecting disinfectant to fight the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com\/MVno5X7JMA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) April 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n