JOE BIDEN IS DONE CODDLING CONSERVATIVES AND THEIR ANTI-VACCINE BULLSHIT

GOOD!

ITS ABOUT TIME!

And what about the number of unvaccinated and COVID positive illegals that are crossing our Southern borders? Is he through coddling them?

I'm curious if other countries have large numbers of anti vaccine paranoiacs as well. Or is this primarily an American phenomenon?

R3, does your fantasy life satisfy you? I think not.

I found this interesting r4

No^. The black and brown unvaccinated are “understandable” R3. If he focuses only on Republicans not getting vaccinated and black and brown people who simply don’t give a fuck about getting vaccinated and won’t—then he needs to lose the senate, the House, and some governors (Michigan, NY, and Virginia) next year.

^ He never coddled them

Biden should withhold MAGA Social Security, Medicare, SNAP benefits, welfare benefits, and veterans benefits, until those conspiracy bastards get vaccinated and prove it.

and *not black and brown

[quote]some governors (Michigan, NY, and Virginia) next year.

And California—HOPEFULLY!

[quote]And what about the number of unvaccinated and COVID positive illegals

Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.

[quote]Whataboutism

This is why Democrats need to be voted out. Completely.

Our country continues to have this problem because OUR OWN PEOPLE won’t get the shot. Fuck the fuck off with your borders bullshit. The call is from inside the house, mmkay?

[quote]France Has 1 Of The Highest Rates Of Vaccine Skepticism

Which is why French President Macron has ordered all health are workers in his country to get the vaccine, and mandated special passes for anyone who wants to go to a restaurant, shopping mall or hospital, or get on a train or plane.

If only American could follow suit.

R5 My fantasy life is satisfying. It's the reality of the border crisis that's concerning.

R6 that is interesting. Though france is certainly lucky that their leaders are not tolerating this nonsense as r14 points out.

you know what? These are words. I'm kind of tired of the way my Democatic Party is not ACTING. Joe could have declaed a national emegency, and mandated eveyone get vaccinated. EVEYONE. How hard would it be to design a plastic card like a fucking credit card that had a chip in it recording your vaccination (and anything else you wanted included.) and you cannot travel, you cannot go to work or school, and you can't participated in anything public without being vaccinated. National mandate. Be firm. We have a bunch of loose cannons running around out here having tantrums and citing nonsensical conspiracy theories and we need to just tell them, fuck you. Because the lack of a national mandate is fucking with everything. And the cost is going to be passed on to all of us. Every single part of our lives is affected by these anti vaxxers.

"It's the reality of the border crisis that's concerning."

The usual Republican Reich wing talking points about barbarians at the gate and you must be very, very scared is hardly reality, R15.

You probably also believe Donald Trump is a populist.

“It’s Biden’s fault that deplorables are trash”

R11, you're clever, and I like you. I am using that tactic.

Red states in the south are seeing more cases NOW than they did last July

And then the First Lady quipped “At least I have a career and an education, and I wasn’t brought here as a mail order bride.” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki nodded in approval…

R18 The comments here are fantasy scenarios. Stop hiding in fear and worrying about others go out and live your life. I'm vaccinated and am doing exactly that. Enjoy your life.

R19 that's not what I'm saying at all. I get frustated because IMO we need to get tough and all we seem to do is talk. I love Pelosi. But all she can do is hold hearings. Republicans and their supporters ignore subpoenas, they refuse to testify, they ignore requests for infomation, they flat out do not show up for her hearings and her committees. I know she is very limited in what she can do. But the GOP is not playing from the same book of rules. They flaunt our laws and rules.

We need to get tough and move with a sense of urgency on all fronts. I think even the people who don't agree will at least recognize that we are not playing around. New day. New administation, New rules. As long as this virus is active it will produce variants as it continues to adapt. Some of those variants will become much harder to fight. The cost of researching and developing and producing and distributing the vaccines is expensive.

The workes who contract the virus and have to be hospitalized is expensive. The risks to our economy, our supply chains, our education system, our healthcare system are aleady ridiculous. The Anti vaxxers are in our faces. They put our first responders at risk. They put a store clerk earning $7 an hour at risk. They put kids at risk. We need to act tougher and stonger.

R21 Link please.

R18 When gay men were partying on FI last year like it was 1999 or in Puerto Vallarta over the New Year's Holiday were you calling them Trumpers?

OP-Is Joe Biden ALSO done CODDLING his drug addicted son and his shady investments in the Ukraine and China?

^Hunter's artwork is selling for up to half a million $ to private donors. I wonder if they'll be looking for special favors from Papa Joe?

r25, this is from a friend who is a doctor who works in alabama:

[quote]Right on schedule and completely unsurprisingly, the Delta variant of Covid is starting to spike in red states. There are now more cases of Covid in Arkansas than there were in July of 2020. New hot spots are emerging in Nevada, Louisiana, and Florida. The curve is shifting upward again at a steep pace. The relative numbers of cases remain low but it's not going to stay that way with a more infectious strain and large unvaccinated populations in which it can easily run rampant. The number of deaths daily is back up in the 100s nationally, not on the scale of 2-3000 a day at the peak of the winter surge, but definitely going the wrong direction, especially as the individuals now heading to intensive care units and ultimately the morgue are tending to be in the 20-60 age group. (Those older have, for the most part, gotten their vaccines and are less likely to congregate in groups). It's become very clear from the data that we have separated into two distinct populations when it comes to public health - divided by politics into red and blue, for want of a better shorthand. Blue populations are much more likely to be vaccinated and in regions where they are dominant, the line against Covid is being held. Red populations are less likely to be vaccinated and are playing host to the vast majority (upwards of 95%) of new infections. Data out of Florida shows that case rates in red voting counties are double those in blue voting counties. We here in Alabama, currently in last place when it comes to percentage of the adult population who are fully vaccinated (not yet to 40%), can't seem to get anyone out to vaccine centers so they have, for the most part shut down. There is plenty of vaccine to be had through commercial pharmacies and county health departments but no takers. I'm just waiting for Delta to fully take hold. It's here. It will happen. We could easily see local numbers similar to last year. I don't know what to do about it and I think there's very little I can do as an individual other than gentle encouragement on a one to one basis with patients (pretty much all my friends and acquaintances are vaccinated) and their families and patiently answer questions and try to dispel myths. But when a political party at its rallies and conventions has turned anti-vaccine rhetoric into applause lines, there's not much else to do but hunker down and let them learn the hard way. If I was running a political party, I would not want to take positions that were likely to kill off my most ardent adherents, but that's just me. What happens when numbers really start to take off in August? I don't know, but I plan on being here continuing to observe and write and help us all muddle through this rather peculiar time in history. And if they do, a second volume of The Accidental Plague Diaries is pretty much a guarantee. Do the completely different political realities of blue and red America devolve into civil war? I certainly hope not but I put nothing past the major mental health crisis the country seems to be going through. I think an actual shooting war would be difficult as the populations are so intermixed. There are blue and red states, but even in the red states, the cities and economic engines are blue and it would be very bad for business to round up all your educated city dwellers and run them out of town. The Khmer Rouge tried that in the 1970s and we all know how well that turned out. Perhaps we would go the way of 1980s Northern Ireland with blue and red neighborhoods with a sort of no mans land in between. I don't think either side would stand for that as waste ground and barbed wire in the middle of your subdivision is bad for property values and likely against your HOA policies. I think we're going to be stuck in a sort of mutual revulsion for a while longer until some sort of major existential threat forces us back together again. One would think a global pandemic would have done it, but obviously that's not the case.

also

[quote] I don't know what to do about it and I think there's very little I can do as an individual other than gentle encouragement on a one to one basis with patients (pretty much all my friends and acquaintances are vaccinated) and their families and patiently answer questions and try to dispel myths. But when a political party at its rallies and conventions has turned anti-vaccine rhetoric into applause lines, there's not much else to do but hunker down and let them learn the hard way. If I was running a political party, I would not want to take positions that were likely to kill off my most ardent adherents, but that's just me. What happens when numbers really start to take off in August? I don't know, but I plan on being here continuing to observe and write and help us all muddle through this rather peculiar time in history. And if they do, a second volume of The Accidental Plague Diaries is pretty much a guarantee. Do the completely different political realities of blue and red America devolve into civil war? I certainly hope not but I put nothing past the major mental health crisis the country seems to be going through. I think an actual shooting war would be difficult as the populations are so intermixed. There are blue and red states, but even in the red states, the cities and economic engines are blue and it would be very bad for business to round up all your educated city dwellers and run them out of town. The Khmer Rouge tried that in the 1970s and we all know how well that turned out. Perhaps we would go the way of 1980s Northern Ireland with blue and red neighborhoods with a sort of no mans land in between. I don't think either side would stand for that as waste ground and barbed wire in the middle of your subdivision is bad for property values and likely against your HOA policies. I think we're going to be stuck in a sort of mutual revulsion for a while longer until some sort of major existential threat forces us back together again. One would think a global pandemic would have done it, but obviously that's not the case. Today was definitely a Monday at work. No Covid, but a lot of significant mental health issues complicating family dynamics and patient care. Individuals have just reached their breaking point due to societal stress and brains awash in catecholamines and, when you add elder care responsibilities on top of all that, things are starting to go a bit haywire. The current elder generation, with their very long lives, don't die rapidly. They decline slowly over years to decades and children, who take them in, thinking it's going to be a year or two are feeling rundown after a decade or more with no end in site. Covid has made communal living for the elderly a less attractive option and hiring in home care, not a Medicare benefit, is prohibitively expensive for most. It's going to get even worse over the next decade when you add in the denial of the realities of aging evidenced by the mind set of the aging baby boom. If I have day after work day like today marching into the future, I won't be able to stick with it long term. I can absorb a lot with my empathic abilities but even I have my limits. My usual ten hour work day stretched to twelve and I arrived home with no energy to do much of anything other than feed the cats. The legal cases I am working on will have to wait. I no longer think I have to end these posts with my litany of wash your hands, wear you mask, stay distant as only the first of these is really required if you're fully vaccinated and moving among other vaccinated populations. That, however, may change as the variant spreads. There are more and more reported breakthrough cases of Covid infection in the fully vaccinated including some clusters. However, the vast majority are infections that can be treated at home and are not life threatening. Just use common sense out there. And if you have unvaccinated friends or family, gently urge them to begin the process now before things start to get hairy later this summer.

Is the world done coddling murderous, treasonous man-child Donald Trump, thrice bankrupt, thrice wed, twice impeached presidential election loser. Is the world done coddling Donald Trump, Junior, coke head extraordinaire and his equally addicted skank girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle?

And speaking of access, the ex-first lady is currently running an afternoon delight special: $50.00 for no holds barred access to her Slovenian cooter. Hurry, R27 and R28, you don't want to miss a deal like this one.

Let's just let the virus run wild in red states: Hooray individual freedom! No vaccine no problem - until the herd is thinned out or they wake up to reality. It's called natural selection and I know, it's science, but it will work.

So many are afraid of the 'other'. Whether it's a virus or brown people.

Wow, r29/r30, that's scary, but extremely well-written and informative. Was that a private email to you from your doctor friend, or is he a poster online somewhere? Thank you for the warning.

Percent of Total Population that Has Received at Least One COVID-19 Vaccine Dose by Race/Ethnicity, March 1 to July 6, 2021​

Asian 62%

White 47%

Hispanic 39%

Black 34%

R32, and as covid runs through the red states, it may mutate enough that current vaccines are ineffective and everyone is back to square one.

[quote]Joe could have declaed [sic] a national emegency[sic], and mandated eveyone[sic] get vaccinated.

I get your sense of frustration, but do you have any idea of not only how awful this sounds, but is blatantly unconstitutional and would be struck down by a unanimous SCOTUS within minutes of any such declaration? It's why the MAGAts immediately sounded the alarm over what the Administration was trying to do with the vaccine passport idea (which was using the Republicanazi's market-based solution rhetoric against them), and sadly, it worked and the administration gave up.

The Republicanazis think that turning vaccination into a wedge issue is good for them. If I sat across the table from Joe, I'd quote Napoleon: "Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself."

The doctor R29/R30 quotes was wrong on only one count, but his confusion (denial?) was apt. We are already in a civil war, and it's going to be difficult to know on which side somebody identifies because not all of the opposition wears a bright red hat announcing their allegiance. If the pandemic (at least in the US) has a silver lining, this is it. We don't have to declare a side and put ourselves out there as warriors. We just get vaccinated and go on with our lives, and let the MAGAts fight for their right not to get vaccinated... to their dying breaths.

R36 could/should have been posted after my comment, but the response is the same: don't worry, there will be booster shots and possibly even another whole vaccine coming in response to the variants. But my point remains: we are in a civil war and there will be casualties. If you're on the side of vaccination/staying alive — which is the new liberal position — continue doing what you've been doing for the last year. Wear a mask, socially distance, minimize contact with people you know are not vaccinated, and get vaccinated/get the booster asap. It's the victory garden for the 21st century.

[quote]But my point remains: we are in a civil war and there will be casualties. If you're on the side of vaccination/staying alive — which is the new liberal position — continue doing what you've been doing for the last year. Wear a mask, socially distance, minimize contact with people you know are not vaccinated

Ridiculous. That not the "new liberal position". It's the nutcase position.

As per the CDC:

"Resume activities without wearing masks or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance"

Many vaccines have always been mandatory. I got vaccinated at school. I don’t understand the bullshit about not getting the Covid vaccine since it’s killed more than a half 1 million people.

Why do MAGA idiots always have to be assholes about everything. People who live in red state should not be allowed to travel across state lines if they are not vaccinated.

because they are CUNTS

I definitely think there should be penalties for not being vaccinated since the unvaccinated impose restictions on everyone, de facto. So I think if Delta and the other airlines got together, or the rails and the buses got together, and said no vaccination, no ride, and if companies made being vaccinated a condition of employment all those things are good. You don't want to be vaccinated? Fine. But be ready to face the consequences.

I have seen videos now of cops "escorting" crazy people out of stores. The store policy is wear a mask. The anti maskers have a tantrum and they get thrown out. We need to do similarly to the unvaccinated. Lives depend on it. Yes, do WTF you want, but face consequences. Dress codes, sanitation policies, etc. can all be used to force anti vaxxers to comply.

And yes I think a credit card type piece of plastic with a chip to know your vaccination status ought to be mandatory in the same way drivers licenses and ID cards are. When I was a kid resisting a vaccination was nuts. Unheard of. We lined up for our polio vaccine, we went to the doctor every year before school to make sure our immunizations were up to date. Schools kept records! So WTF can't we get our shit together?

Biden should do an Oval Office address on vaccinations given the rising number of Delta infections.

[quote] the ex-first lady is currently running an afternoon delight special: $50.00 for no holes barred access to her Slovenian cooter.

Fixed that for you.

R31 Do try and move on with your life.

R42 What's you feeling about the need for voter ID?

When the Republican Party moves on from Donald J. Trump and his band of morally bankrupt and deeply corrupt enablers like you, R45 and not one fucking second sooner.

Toodles.

R47 Move on. Living well and happily is the best revenge. You sound like a stuck on stupid Karen.

And you sound like a typical, toadie, lackey, asshole licking, cock sucking, mother fucking Trumpster troll.

R49 But I'm not, but you're obsessed with the former guy in the White House and mono-minded bore. You must be a joy to be with. And you insults sound like a 12 year old with arrested development. Seek professional help.

But ya are, Blanche, ya are a big fucking Trump trollerina, R50.

R51 Fine. Stay mired in your self-imposed misery.

Do avail yourself of the complimentary DL air freshener, r52, as your troll posts are leaving a noxious odor behind. Thank you.

Drop dead, R3.

[quote]Why do MAGA idiots always have to be assholes about everything.

they were always assholes, MAGA just gave them a rallying banner and a carnival barker "leader"

R54 you sound like a Proud Boy: obsessed and psychotic. Your the flip side of the same deranged coin. Those feelings are consistent with lonely boys who shoot up malls and stadiums blame their failures on others and vent their rage/hatred/frustration on websites.

R52, but we’re not miserable at all. Dump isn’t president and he looks like he’s bonkers. All is right with the world.

R57 The posts suggest otherwise They are inarticulate, filled with rage and self righteous talking points and reactionary in their robotic repetition. Nut cases always think their normal and everyone else is crazy.

R58, believe me. We are much happier with Dump stanching up Florida rather than

Oops clicked Send too fast. ^ should say stenching up Florida rather than the WH.

Good!

Yes, cuz Florida gonna be gone shortly...glug, glug, glug...

R63 How soon?

About 3 weeks after July 4th it will hit the fan

R65 Even the gorgeous Naples, Florida just named as one of the Top 10 Best Places to live in the US for 2021-2022 by U.S News and World Report?