Being a conservative Catholic, Connolly has a soft spot for Donald Trump. He is, for example, defending Trump's deliberate and childish continuation of calling Covid-19 the "Chinese virus". Never mind that this virtually guarantees Trump wingnuts will continue abusing Asian Americans on the street for infecting their nation.
I was reminded on Twitter that George Bush after 9-11 went to a mosque within 6 days of the attack - but this was in the day when Republican presidents were not narcissistic emotional cripples whose appeal to the base was, from the very start, based in large part on drumming up fear of foreigners.
Basically, if you're a Catholic who isn't repulsed by this aspect of the Trump presidency, you're not following your Church's teaching and you are an embarrassment to your religion.
Next up: Connolly doesn't like it that there are some doctors questioning the medical advice coming from the Australian government's CMO:
Being a conservative of military background (I think), he yearns for strong compliance with whatever the top says:
The problem is that, as I showed in yesterday's post about school closures, anyone can see (based on widely available credible material - not just what Twitter armchair "experts" are saying) that there is clear conflict between international experts on the details of a "best" policy response to this medical crisis. And we also know that responses have consequences beyond the mere medical - obviously governments worry about the economic effects of (some) parents having to stay home to look after kids out of school.
Of course it is possible that the CMO could be giving questionable advice, and I think it is just a foolish version of conservatism to tell people that, in a field like this, there is only one expert who has to be given credence. (And no - any smartarse reading this who thinks I should take the same line on climate change - there is no credible contrary opinion on the fact that it is real and requires urgent attention. There is room for discussion as to the best policy response, though.)
Third of this tour of Stupid Takes of Connolly: he tweeted this -
Again, any conservative who thinks they are smart yet cannot see the danger in the way Trump deals with all media criticism is just foolish and an embarrassment to what used to be intelligent conservatism.
A President who operates by teaching his base to disbelieve any and all news outlets that are critical of him because to do so is ipso facto proof that they are corrupt and out to get him - that is a "danger to the republic" - assuming, of course, that you want the republic to be one that is based on a democracy that has a concept of objective truth that is not dependent on what the Dear Leader tells them to believe (as endorsed by his de facto State media known as Fox News.)
For a conservative with a military background, Connolly seemingly has no interest whatsoever in the propaganda techniques and habits of authoritarian regimes.
That's all for now.
being critical of the media. how euphemistic.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah he is another intellectual wannabe.
ReplyDeleteA person wo claims to be a conservative but is a Trump apologist is not a conservative and of course never an intellectual
He's kind of all over the place a bit like you. Any doctor ought to speak up. So he's wrong and that score. But on the other hand he's right when he's on Trump's side with regards to the media. So you are just the flipside to that. There is neither rhyme not reason to what you are about also. Thats if you scrape a bit further to the underlying zionist racism.
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