Just like the way women are still having to repeatedly fight for equality, Black people are always having to fight the systematic racism in our culture. It's really sad that we have to continue to have these discussions after all these generations, but when it comes to putting on blackface for a costume, just don't do it. As in never ever. It shouldn't even need to be explained to anyone.
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A nurse who claims to have a religious objection to vaccines went viral over the weekend after she claimed to lose her job at Kaiser Permanente.
In a video that had been viewed over a million times on Twitter, the nurse says she is being escorted out of the building by security because she refused the Covid-19 vaccine.
"I am being escorted out of Kaiser Permanente hospital for my religious beliefs because I don't want to get the jab," she explains. "And I asked all day for someone to explain to me why my sincerely held religious beliefs are not good enough for Kaiser. And no one was able to do that for me. So now they're escorting me out because I wanted an answer and I'm not leaving without an answer."
"I'm willing to lose my safety, security, my house, everything for freedom," she adds. "I want you to think about that."
As the video continues for over five minutes, a security guard can be seen following the woman as she exits the hospital and walks to her vehicle.
You can view the video here.
Remember the horrific incident on a Texas highway where a "Trump Train" of psycho, flag waving, Trump supporting Nazis tried to run a Biden bus off the highway? The incident happened in late October 2020, right before the election. The incredibly dangerous situation involved "a group of Trump supporters, driving trucks and waving Trump flags, surrounded and followed a Biden campaign bus as it drove up I-35 in Hays County." One minor collision occurred, and based on the dangerous situation, the Biden team of Texas Democrats cancelled three events scheduled for that weekend, citing "safety concerns."
Well, it looks the San Marcos police were aware of what was going on, and instead of reporting to the scene to escort the bus, they mocked the 911 callers as they frantically called the police for assistance, while the dangerous situation escalated in real time. Wow.
A speaker at a protest against vaccines in Staten Island suggested that town halls and schools would be "burned to the ground" unless vaccine mandates are reversed.
Video of the Sunday rally was shared on Twitter by ScooterCasterNY. The protesters were said to have gathered outside a venue where Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) was speaking.
"If they're going to push this on the kids," the speaker says, "I can guarantee you one thing: town halls and schools will be f--king burned to the ground."
The remarks were met with raucous cheers from the crowd.
"In 1776, nobody went to court, nobody went to court, anyone grabbed a gun and they f--king shot each other!" he exclaimed.
"Yeah!" people in the crowd shouted.
"I do not condone violence and hope we do not get to that," the man added. "But just understand that there are plenty of people that are ready to go there."
Watch the video below.
Fox News contributor Marie Harf reminded viewers -- and her colleagues -- on Sunday that many of the allegations claiming that members of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with Russia turned out to be true.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal belatedly fact-checked a column written by Trump that was filled with lies about the 2020 election. In its fact check of the president, the Journal suggested that progressives had no room to complain because they "fell so easily for false Russian collusion claims."
For his part, Trump has called on the Pulitzer prize board to rescind its 2018 awards to the
New York Times and Washington Post for their reporting on the Russia investigation. Trump has repeatedly referred to the investigation as a "hoax."
While discussing the column on Fox News, Harf confronted Washington Examiner writer Susan Ferrechio after she complained that the media was reporting on Trump "as if he were an alleged Russian agent."
"A lot of those allegations turned out to be true," Harf noted. "We know a lot about what people like Paul Manafort did. For example, Mike Flynn. I think this is Donald Trump gaslighting us. His whole politics is based on grievance politics. Us vs. them."
The extreme right-wing Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz told the America First audience that we need to seize Chinese assets if we do not get reparations for COVID-19.
Rep. Gaetz, who is under investigation for his sex trafficking of an underage girl, gave his MAGA-approved litany of grievances against President Biden.
Gaetz then made his recommendation for the GOP's next move.
"Speaking of China," he said.
"We need to demand $5 trillion in reparations from the Chinese Communist party for unleashing this virus around the world."
He continued, "And, we should be willing to seize the assets from the Chinese Communist government right here in America to pay for it."
America just got out of its long war in Afghanistan, but to whip up the MAGA cultists, Rep. Gaetz wants the GOP to declare war on China. (This would be a neat trick, as both houses of Congress are under Democratic control.)
Gaetz is still fully promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory that China unleashed the virus on the world purposely, just to hurt Traitor Trump.
Talking like a tough, strong-man dictator is typical of these MAGA coward politicians. They need to lie as much as they can to keep their cultists angry.
QAnon and Trump-coup supporter Flynn was probably seizing on the recent right-wing assault on Fauci over animal experiments the anti-vax science haters think justifies their demonization of the world’s top infectious disease specialist - for the real sin of daring to put medicine and public health over Trump.
I’m fine with objecting to animal experiments but, as PolitiFact makes clear, Dr. Anthony Fauci is no poster child for the widespread practice. But truth and facts are not the point, an excuse for demonization is.
Flynn compared Fauci to Dr. Szell, the fictional Nazi from the Marathon Man film, as long ago as June, long before the latest excuse for a Fauci pile-on.
Michael Flynn just compared Dr. Fauci to Dr. Christian Szell, the Nazi doctor who removed gold teeth from Jews at Auschwitz. pic.twitter.com/ZivZwHfELF
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Right-wing Stew Peters interviewed Scott Taylor, who claimed he was magnetized after being around vaccinated people but when he demonstrated, he failed spectacularly.
Anti-vaxx, anti-mask, MAGA cultists are populating right-wing media sites, making all sorts of wild claims which inevitably and immediately are proven false via their own stupidity.
The chyron on Peters' screen said: "VAX SHEDDING NOT 'CONSPIRACY - Unvaxxed Man Completely Magnetized After Exposure'."
As the CDC has stated: "None of the vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. contain a live virus. mRNA and viral vector vaccines are the two types of currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines available."
That means nothing to serial liars, of course.
Peters asked Scott for a demonstration of being Magneto.
Peters said, "Do you have anything there that you can stick to yourself now? There's gonna be a lot of people who say, 'Well, that's not true.'"
While Peters was talking, Scott pressed a coin onto his forehead, and it fell off immediately
Oops.
Lying and lying often are now key to the GOP platform, and Republicans have embraced it whole-heartedly. No level of shame exists for these cretins, so long as they are able to tell their lies.
In what came perilously close to a "color-blind" argument for decarceration, Georgetown Law professor Rosa Brooks disagreed with the Nation's justice correspondent, Elie Mystal, about who should be punished for Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly murdering two protesters in Kenosha.
After Mystal explained in the most definitive terms why everyone should expect Rittenhouse to walk away from this trial a completely free young man, Tiffany Cross played a clip of an audience member at Charlie Kirk's Turning Point U.S.A. event, who quite literally asked when he can start killing liberals.
Cross reminds us, "No, it's not a joke. No, we {Black and brown people} have been on the receiving end of this treatment. This is serious, we're sounding the alarm, it's getting worse. What are we to do with comments like that and how should the infrastructure of this country address when that is the rising thoughts of a lot of people, millions of people in this country?"
Brooks correctly places responsibility for racist kids with guns on the adults around them.
"That's exactly how you get Kyle Rittenhouses, when have you all the adults around him saying, 'We need to protect ourselves, it's tyranny, they're taking away our rights,' I'm not at all surprised a 17-year-old kid thinks, 'Oh, gee, I oughta pick up my gun and go protect this empty store here,' and he ends up killing people," said Brooks.
Then, though, she argues against jailing Rittenhouse.
