"I cajoled, encouraged, threatened, and nagged for him to get vaccinated"

💡VACCINE MANDATE?—a young 20-year-old UNC student is now brain dead from #COVID19 complications—his mother begged, cajoled, nagged him to #vaccinate—she now begs you. ➡️damning—@UNC_System doesn’t mandate vaccines—he caught COVID 2 days after arriving. 🧵

Tiedrich: "I was disappointed when the email lady lost, but..."

The Maga Variant

John Fugelsang
Q. How can the GOP keep sacrificing their own voters to Red Covid?
A. They’ve realized they don’t need voters to win elections anymore.

Not Patriots.

Goodbye and Good Riddance

Judge to US Capitol rioter: 'You've disgraced this country in the eyes of the world'

(CNN)A federal judge erupted at a Capitol riot defendant as he pleaded guilty on Friday, chastising him for participating in an "attack on our government" and warning him to stay on the "straight and narrow," in the latest strong reaction from the judiciary to the insurrection.

"You've disgraced this country in the eyes of the world, and my inclination is to lock you up," Judge Reggie B. Walton said to defendant Anthony Mariotto, who pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge moments before. "I found it outrageous that American citizens would do what you did."

"To see someone destroy, or try to destroy, the Capitol is very troubling to me," Walton added.

Walton has been outspoken in his disdain for the events of January 6 and has repeatedly said that the riot would undermine his ability to teach "about the greatness of America abroad."


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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/24/politics/judge-says-capitol-rioter-disgraced-this-country/index.html

I think it's really hard to talk about politics right now...

STILL The Reason Why We CAN'T Have Nice Things In The USA

If you’ve been following the reconciliation debate — in which people have been absolutely obsessed with the supposedly terrifying number of $3.5 trillion — you might have thought the defense bill would produce enormous breast-beating about out-of-control spending and debt. After all, that $3.5 trillion is over 10 years, or $350 billion a year, less than half of what we’re going to spend on the military.

But that’s not what happened. Apart from a brief to-do over whether the bill would include funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, the defense bill moved through the process efficiently and with little controversy.

There were no painful negotiations, no ultimatums, no desperate threats. President Biden did not have to beg and plead to secure anyone’s vote. And you sure didn’t see centrist members of Congress expressing deep concern about its size, claiming it was irresponsible to add so much to the national debt — although we’ll easily be spending $8 or $9 trillion on the military over the same 10-year period.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/24/meltdown-among-democrats-shows-our-budget-debates-are-insane/

This was not some crazy plot of some obscure dude in a shack in the mountains-It was TFG's Plan.

On Monday, we learned that after last year’s election, John Eastman, a well-connected lawyer advising former president Donald Trump, outlined a six-point plan to overturn the outcome of the election and install Trump as America’s leader. They planned to cut the voters’ actual choice, Democrat Joe Biden, out of power: as Trump advisor Steve Bannon put it, they planned to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” This appears to have been the plan that Trump and his loyalists tried to execute on January 6.

That is, we now have written proof of an attempt to destroy our democracy and replace it with an autocracy.

This was not some crazy plot of some obscure dude in a shack in the mountains; this was a plan of the president of the United States of America, and it came perilously close to succeeding. The president of the United States tried to overturn the results of an election—the centerpiece of our democracy—and install himself into power illegitimately.

BOSTON AP: Judge denies state police union bid for vaccination delay

BOSTON (AP) — A Superior Court judge has turned down a request by the union that represents 1,800 Massachusetts State Police troopers to delay Gov. Charlie Baker’s state employee coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The State Police Association of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit last week saying the Oct. 17 deadline would cause troopers “irreparable harm” and they wanted more time to “negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment.”

A delay in implementation of the mandate would not serve the public interest, Judge Jackie Cowin said in Thursday’s decision.

“Specifically, the public interest is, unquestionably, best served by stopping the spread of the virus, in order to protect people from becoming ill, ensure adequate supply of medical services, and curtail the emergence of new, deadlier variants of the virus,” the decision said.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-police-lawsuits-charlie-baker-008c5800781d4d8cadf245750edebbb8