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Liam O'Dell
Aug 01, 2021
In the absence of Donald Trump – who was permanently banned from Twitter at the start of the year following the Capitol insurrection on 6 January – social media users now have tweets from his son, Donald Trump Jr, to mock and ridicule instead.
On Saturday, author Ryan James Girdusky tweeted: “The left: you should have to carry a vaccine card to go anywhere in public.
“Also the left: you shouldn’t have to have an ID to vote.”
The post was then quote tweeted by Trump Jr, who proposed a combination of the two ideas.
“Someone should introduce a bill mandating that you have to show your vaccination card to vote and watch everyone on the Left’s brain malfunction and explode,” he wrote.
However, the stance was quickly torn apart by other Twitter users, many of whom had the same response to his suggestion: that it was, in fact, a “great idea”:
@DonaldJTrumpJr Explode with joy you mean? Not only will your people not be able to vote but lots more of them are dying now.— That Vaccinated Karen (@That Vaccinated Karen) 1627751239
@DonaldJTrumpJr The irony of antivaxers saying "they don't want to be part of an experiment" is they don't realize… https://t.co/afEjwkIFWE— Bert Gilfoyle (@Bert Gilfoyle) 1627678772
@DonaldJTrumpJr Ok..sounds good. Now let's see who gets to vote! Do you ever check yourself? 😂— Jan202021 (@Jan202021) 1627750821
@DonaldJTrumpJr This entire Twitter thread is progressives agreeing with you. FYI - the Voter ID Laws are adjacent… https://t.co/RjX4looBkN— Walter Masterson (@Walter Masterson) 1627767414
@DonaldJTrumpJr Hmmm since the left is all vaccinated and the right is not. This might just be the most perfect idea I have ever heard!!!!— Katheleen Mitro Artist (@Katheleen Mitro Artist) 1627750851
@DonaldJTrumpJr Actually we would be very happy to support such a bill. Thanks for the great idea.— Madame deFarge (@Madame deFarge) 1627746461
@DonaldJTrumpJr LOL! Ok Genius! Great idea Jr. Democrats would win every single seat in the house and senate then… https://t.co/gLXYh7m467— Human☮ (@Human☮) 1627678871
@DonaldJTrumpJr Um, Mr. Junior, who do you think that bill would benefit? We’d win every major election going forw… https://t.co/jh1WcULNyy— Jay Black (@Jay Black) 1627678881
@DonaldJTrumpJr That’s a great idea, Jr. I mean, there’d be no Republicans voting.— Roger Tansey 🌊🐕🌈 (@Roger Tansey 🌊🐕🌈) 1627680118
@DonaldJTrumpJr Given the extremely low vaccination rates in red states, I'm not sure this would turn out to be the… https://t.co/fu05h26tAr— 𝔾𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕦 🏳️🌈🧚🏻💉💉💉 (@𝔾𝕒𝕪𝕖𝕣 𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕦 🏳️🌈🧚🏻💉💉💉) 1627752379
@DonaldJTrumpJr Yeah, we’d be super upset if half you dipshits couldn’t vote. That would teach us. You should tota… https://t.co/jxX2ux4DfV— The Hoarse Whisperer (@The Hoarse Whisperer) 1627762762
It’s a stance backed up by a CBS News poll, too, with their survey from March this year revealing that 71 per cent of Democrats have had, or plan to have, the coronavirus vaccine, compared to just 47 per cent of Republicans.
Trump Jr went on to criticise support of his suggestion, describing the trending hashtag ‘#VaxToVote’ as a “hilarious self-own” for liberals.
Accompanied by three clown emojis, he tweeted: “After years of crying about voter ID as a supposedly ‘racist’ restriction on voting rights, the left is now un-ironically calling for vax cards to be required to vote… You know, an ACTUAL restriction on voting rights.
“I make a joke about an obviously crazy idea to highlight the hypocrisy of the left, but these authoritarian libs are so unhinged and braindead, that they of course think #VaxToVote is a good idea. You can’t make this s**t up!”
However, as one Twitter user pointed out in response to Girdusky’s tweet: carrying a vaccine card “solves a problem”, while “the second one doesn’t” - that being voter ID.
“The second one *causes* a problem,” another added.
Oh dear.