Month: December 2021

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Anti-Vaxxers Coronavirus Donald Trump

Alyssa Milano Laid Some Major Truth On The MAGA Faithful – And They Lost Their Angry Minds

The daily totals in the War on COVID-19 are staggering, with 214,000 cases being reported in the United States every day, an increase of 83% over the past two weeks alone. Hospitalizations are up 8% and deaths have increased 3% over that same two-week period.

That’s the bad news.

The good news is that the fully vaccinated who contract COVID are experiencing only mild flu-like symptoms which quickly abate, especially if the person has contracted the Omicron variant, which is more transmissible than Delta but far less lethal.

Clearly, as every study across the world has shown, the key to battling COVID is to get vaccinated and boosted, a three-shot regimen that is virtually painless and has almost no side effects.

And yet, a closer look at the data shows that those who voted for Donald Trump are less likely to get vaccinated and more likely to die from the virus, according to NPR:

NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates.

In October, the reddest tenth of the country saw death rates that were six times higher than the bluest tenth, according to Charles Gaba, an independent health care analyst who’s been tracking partisanship trends during the pandemic and helped to review NPR’s methodology. Those numbers have dropped slightly in recent weeks, Gaba says: “It’s back down to around 5.5 times higher.”

All of this led actress and progressive activist Alyssa Milano to post a tweet which spelled out the need for everyone to get vaccinated:

Fully vaccinated means no hospitalization, no ventilator, and no long-term health impact from COVID. It’s really that simple.

But to the MAGA faithful, Milano might just as well have been telling them they should stop breathing altogether as a precaution. So they vented their enraged, stunted minds on Twitter as if doing so would place a magic veil of immunity around them and their loved ones:

https://twitter.com/ASwan24294281/status/1475573474781507586?s=20

https://twitter.com/AbducteesT/status/1475446473722449920?s=20
https://twitter.com/DavePianoGuy/status/1475481450778705920?s=20
 

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Capitol Insurrection GOP WTF?!

Alleged Capitol Riot Conspirator Jim Jordan Claims His Job Is To ‘Tell The Truth’

Even though he’s refusing to voluntarily testify to the House Select Committee on the January 6th Capitol insurrection, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wants us to believe that he’s the only person telling the truth to the American people about what transpired on that fateful day that left five people — including a police officer — dead.

Appearing on the Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures,” Jordan made it sound as if he’s the only believable person in the 1/6 debate even though we know he communicated with the White House on multiple occasions during the Jan. 6 riots, telling host (and fellow Trump lackey) Larry Kudlow:

“It doesn’t surprise me that they want it one way and then try to fool the American people. They have been doing that for such a long time. But remember Joe Biden said he was going to unite the country and he has done anything but that. And it is our job to tell the truth and take the truth to the American people. The good job is that the American people are figuring it out.”

Truth? That’s pretty rich coming from a man who has yet to tell what he knew and when he knew it about the sexual assault of male wrestlers on the Ohio State wrestling team while he was serving as an assistant coach.

And now Jordan is digging in his heels and will probably have to be subpoenaed to testify before the Jan. 6 committee. If he wants to make sure the “truth” comes out, shouldn’t he be glad to cooperate fully with the panel and tell what he knows? Only a guilty man tries to avoid telling what he knows.

When all is said and done with the House Select Committee, don’t be surprised if Jim Jordan is named as one of the main culprits. He’s been lying and evading his entire life. He doesn’t even know the meaning of the word “truth.”

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Coronavirus Donald Trump

Alex Jones: Donald Trump Is Either Ignorant Or ‘One Of The Most Evil Men Who Has Ever Lived’

Alex Jones is only good at one thing: Spinning bullshit conspiracy theories about everything that takes place in the United States.

Remember how Jones said the Sandy Hook shooting was a “false flag” staged by the U.S. government as a way to implement gun control? He’s still paying for that lie, and is on the hook for a cool fortune after he was sued by families of the 20 children who were gunned down on that horrific day back in 2012. Courts have said Jones has to pay damages for his lies about the massacre.

And now Jones is claiming that when former President Donald Trump defended taking the COVID-19 vaccine during an interview with right-wing activist Candace Owens, he was either too stupid to know what he was saying or is one of the most “evil” people in world history.

Specifically, Trump told Owens:

“Oh no, the vaccines work. But some people are the ones — the ones who get very sick and go to the hospital are the ones that don’t take the vaccine. But it’s still their choice. And if you take the vaccine, you’re protected.”

That declaration of support for the vaccine, Jones believes, means something horrible is going on, and he wants to make sure his moronic followers know what’s happening, telling them in what he dubbed “an emergency” Christmas message:

“This is an emergency Christmas Day warning to President Trump. You are either completely ignorant about the so-called vaccine gene therapy that you helped ram through with Operation Warp Speed or you are one of the most evil men who has ever lived to push this toxic poison on the public and to attack your constituents who they simply try to save their lives and the lives of others.”

Of course, Jones is right on both points when it comes to Donald Trump: He’s ignorant and also one of the most evil men who has ever lived. Millions of us have known that for years. The fact that it took this long for Alex Jones to figure that out suggests he’s dumber and at least as vile as the failed, one-term ex-president.

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Donald Trump Social Media

Donnie Sends Out MAGA Christmas Message And Gets Pelted With Twitter Karma

For someone who loves to brag that he rescued Christmas, saving it from those who dared to say Happy Holidays, failed, one-term former President Donald Trump certainly knows how to royally screw up a perfectly good celebration.

Even though it’s officially Christmas, Donnie decided he’d pretend that he’s still in charge, even though he’s been banned from both Facebook and Twitter and has to issue his statements via his official spokesperson, Liz Harrington:

Wait a damn minute! Did someone neglect to tell Donnie that he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden by a margin of 306 to 232 electoral votes and by a whopping 7 million ballots in the popular vote tally? Only Barack Obama’s 2008 reelection victory over John McCain was by a larger popular vote margin.

President Donald Trump? Not now, and probably not ever again based on all the criminal investigations underway into the ex-president’s business dealings and actions on Jan. 6 when he failed to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol.

It didn’t take long for Twitter karma to catch up with Trump and stomp him flat:

https://twitter.com/bradcerenzia/status/1474780210226556928?s=20

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Capitol Insurrection Donald Trump Justice Department

January 6 Select Committee Preparing To Refer Trump To DOJ For Dereliction Of Duty: Report

The House Select Committee on the January 6 Capitol insurrection is preparing to decide what criminal referrals it will forward to the Justice Department regarding former President Donald Trump’s actions on the day of the horrific attack on the seat of government.

Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told The Washington Post that the most likely referral would be for dereliction of duty as Trump dithered for over three hours before finally releasing a video instructing his supporters to clear the Capitol grounds:

Of particular interest is why it took so long for (Trump) to call on his supporters to stand down, an area of inquiry that includes obtaining several versions of a video Trump reportedly recorded before finally releasing a message 187 minutes after he told his supporters to march on the Capitol during the rally that preceded the attack.

“It appears that he tried to do a taping several times, but he wouldn’t say the right thing,” Thompson said, basing his statement on information the panel has gleaned from interviews with witnesses as well as media reports about that day.

Thompson made a specific reference to dereliction of duty, but other charges could also be referred to the DOJ once the committee has completed its investigation:

“That dereliction of duty causes us real concern,” Thompson said. “And one of those concerns is that whether or not it was intentional, and whether or not that lack of attention for that longer period of time, would warrant a referral.”

Another possible charge that may be referred to the Justice Department is criminally obstructing Congress in performing its official duties. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), who serves as vice chair of the Jan. 6 panel, has suggested Trump did indeed try to obstruct the certification of electoral votes on that fateful day as both houses were meeting in joint session to declare the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

On December 14, Cheney remarked:

“Mr. Meadows’s testimony will bear on another key question before this committee: Did Donald Trump, through action or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede Congress’s official proceeding to count electoral votes?”

A criminal referral isn’t necessary for the DOJ to take up the matter, and most legal experts suggest the agency is already weighing whether or not Trump and others should be charged for their actions prior to and on the day of the Capitol riots. But a criminal referral from the committee — along with evidence and testimony the panel has gathered — would certainly provide a strong impetus for indictments.