More TWATs for Week Ending 4/3/22

 

So I wasn't planning on a second video for this week, but shit hit the fan after I started to script. At that point I had one extra story, now I have 10. So again here some more twatwaffles for last week.

 

Full disclosure, I am diabetic and I also am on Medicaid. Prior to PA enrolling in expanded Medicaid, I fell through the cracks for many years. The following story could have been a major issue without expanded Medicaid; I still am not insulin dependent thankfully.

Without insurance, insulin can cost a shit tonne of money. Anywhere from $300-$1000. The current bill, which has passed the House, caps cost-sharing for a month's supply of insulin starting in 2023 at (whichever amount is lower) $35, or 25% of a plan's negotiated price. Twelve Republicans along with Democrats voted yes to the bill, while the remainder said fuck you. https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/how-did-you-get-elected/

Why the dissension, case in point, this shit bucket has the gall to bitch “about Joe Biden not fixing the price of gas for months” in order to save some pennies to spend at Starbucks. https://twitter.com/ash_says_what/status/1509610768773398529 Versus saving hundreds if not thousands per month and avoiding another meal of mac-n-cheese. And FYI, the shit bucket highlighted is Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-R).

Janet Folger Porter Christian nationalist, anti-abortion zealot and anti-vaxxer who believes “that COVID-19 vaccines, not COVID-19, are the enemy. And Porter is saying that Christians who have been vaccinated for COVID-19 need to pray to God for forgiveness and not get any more booster shots.”

https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/this-gop-congressional-candidate-believes-christians-needed-forgiveness-for-getting-19-vaccines/

Did I say she is also running for a U.S. House seat in Ohio?

And to be clear, Covid vaccines have not been linked to any deaths according to a March 2022 study published in The Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00054-8/fulltext

Safety data from more than 298 million doses of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine administered in the first 6 months of the US vaccination programme show that most reported adverse events were mild and short in duration. 

 

This is Clay Clark again, from the ReAwaken America Tour. Same speech as his baseless Google screed. He's not toxic, he's a male body part that will remain nameless. https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/clay-clark-call-in-gay/

 

No Lauren, sexual identity and/or sexuality is not a choice.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/lauren-boebert-twisted-proposal-lgbtq/

Blackburn has stated https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1510379532360077313 what approximately 22% of ALL Americans are thinking. Both sides of the isle.

The issue as numerous comments note, “Critical Race Theory isn’t taught until law school. Teaching kids about racism and slavery is just called history.” https://twitter.com/m_clarkson78/status/1510661386573021186

So I hemmed and hawed at whether to add the audio clip. I decided against it as Jones' channel is banned by YT. Anywho this is about homophobe MTG. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-lgbtq-movement-predatorial-promises-alex-jones-legislation/

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene joined radical conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his “InfoWars” show Wednesday, declaring that the LGBTQ movement is “predatorial,” while simultaneously insisting that she is not homophobic. By the end of the segment, she promised Jones that she would introduce federal legislation like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill to eliminate federal funding for any school that is “indoctrinating children.”

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Greene’s latest comments highlight how the right has revamped troubling false narratives about gay men being predators and pedophiles and applied them broadly to the LGBTQ movement. Both Jones and Greene also returned to another false narrative: that by exposing people to LGBTQ issues, kids could essentially “catch” being gay or trans.

 

So this episode ended up shorter than I thought as 2 stories didn't pass the smell test and the others weren't as thought provoking as originally thought. I apologize for the choppy verbalization as these stories didn't flow together in the manner I prefer. But I tried,,,,