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| No Corona beer has nothing to do with a virus |
I don't want to be a part of that competiton. However, I can gawk at it, because there's tons of examples out there.
I'll start with a relatively mild one, and then let it go downhill from there. You are going to be rolling your eyes and shaking your head, guaranteed.
CORONA BEER CAUSES COVID-19?
Then there was the poll that suggested 38 percent of Americans would never drink a Corona beer because it's similarly named to the Coronavirus. As if you could get the illness from anything with the word "corona" in it.
By that logic, I guess you could get the illness by going outside on a sunny day. After all, the sun has a cornona, right?
To my relief, this 38 percent number in the poll could easily be misleading because the poll was poorly worded.
According to HuffPost, the questions and some of the answers went like this:
Question: "Is Corona related to the coronavirus?" Disconcertingly, 16 percent of beer drinkers were "confused" at this. Hopefully, the respondents were drunk when they were asked. Everybody is confused when they're drunk.
Question: "In light of the coronavirus, do you plan to stop drinking Corona?" Four percent of people who say they usually drink Corona beer would stop because of this. Dummies.
Question: "Would you buy Corona under any circumstances now?" This was the magic question that got all the publicity. Thirty-eight of beer drinking Americans said they would not. I'm just hoping and praying most of those who said they would not simply don't like Corona beer and wouldn't drink it even if the coronavirus wasn't a thing.
Or, as HuffPost notes, people might stop drinking Corona because it reminds them of something unpleasant they'd rather not think about, or that drinking a Corona in front of friends or in public would set them up to be the butt of a joke.
So, my bad for not thinking through the logic, or lack thereof, in the way the poll question was worded.
That doesn't mean there's a lot of stupid people out there. It gets worse. Keep reading.
IT'S THE DEMOCRATS' FAULT
Some of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters have noted that so far, early in this coronavirus epidemic, the majority of cases have been reported in states and cities run by Democrats.
There could be lots of reasons for that. Bad luck? More widespread testing in those districts? More people in these areas that have traveled to countries that have been particularly hard hit? All plausible explanations. Who knows, right?
Well, the MAGA crowd sure knows what's going on, apparently. According to Raw Story, here are some of the reasons why the coronavirus has hit places like Washington State and California, both blue states.
I don't want to provide links to these people's Twitter accounts because I don't want to reward them, here's a sampling:
Some moron named Bob Berger tweeted, "Have you noticed all new cass of the coronavirus are in Democrat states Wash. Or. Cal. I'll (sic) RI. do you think the dems are dumb enough to get sick to make Trump look bad just saying."
Yes, because people always want to come down with a potentially deadly illness to own the MAGAs.
They get worse: "Prediction: Democrat run cities in the US will start announcing many sick people with coronavirus "symptoms" to crash the Mkts to hurt Trump. It's sad that this is where we are as a country but it's the truth. Democrats know the only chance to beat Trump is a mkt crash."
I'll repeat the above refrain: Destroy their own 401ks to own the MAGA's? Really?
A couple more before my headache gets too extreme: "Notice how the virus is located in Democrat states? Are the Dems purposely contaminating these people? It's a fair question." So Democrats are into committing genocide?
The answer is apparently yes according to the most stupid MAGAs. Like this tweet: "Democrat run Blue States will infect the poor with the virus in State Run Hospitals to exploit their deaths against Trump, because, well, it's the Democrats."
This almost, but not quite, makes me wish these ignorant tweeters would come down with the virus. But that would be mean.
GARTH BROOKS AND NOT THAT SANDERS
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| Garth Brooks wearing a Sanders football jersey. It references Barry Sanders, not the Bernie Sanders. But people are too stupid to understand that, apparently |
He was in Detroit and part of the plan was to honor Barry Sanders, one of most notable running backs and Detroit Lions NFL players on record.
Brooks wore a #20 Sanders football jersey at his show, and shared a photo of him wearing it on Instagram.
I get it that not every Garth Brooks fan knows who Barry Sanders is. But it was clearly a football jersey, right?
Nope. Some now erstwhile Garth Brooks fans exploded in anger. The football jersey Brooks wore said "Sanders" so these ignoramuses just automatically assumed Brooks was campaigning for presidential candidate and Democratic-Socialist Bernie Sanders.
As Snopes reported, one person wrote: "I had no idea you wer a big freaking liberal socialist! I've listened to your songs for the last time!" Another wrote, "If this is for Bernie Sanders, I'm done with you. I thought you wer a true American that loves our country."
You wouldn't believe how many similar declarations there were out on social media over the past few days.
As far as anybody can tell, Garth Brooks has in actuality not given any kind of opinion on who he favors for president. Other than perhaps Barry Sanders, who tweeted, "Hey @garthbrooks, want to be my VP? #Number20For2020."
Brooks tweeted back, "I would run any race with you." At least the country music star is keeping a good sense of humor about this whole thing.
TIN HAT TIME!
I'll leave you with this, um, creative theory from an actual U.S. Congress candidate Joanne Wright who apparently approvingly retweeted the following now-deleted missive:
OK, my headache just got much worse. Time to shut this post down for today.
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