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Dayton, Ohio has a Karen problem as well. It's these white nationalists and enablers of color who promote bigotry, anti-science and anti-human rights at the expense of others.
Premier Health Network and Kettering Network have ordered all their employees to be vaccinated or be fired out the cannon. Some of these employees are protesting against the vaccination decree.
They launch protests across the city of Dayton and were demanding the health providers to resend their vaccinate mandate.
Karen Creech a state representative from West Alexandria said he joined the demonstration because vaccines should be a matter of personal choice, and it's not an employer's place to require them.
In an interview, he denied any description of himself as anti-vaccine. However, he falsely claimed there's no evidence COVID-19 vaccines will save lives; said he's “100 percent" certain that COVID-19 deaths are overcounted; and said he's not putting any vaccine “poison" in his body.
“If those people are in the hospital, and they chose not to be vaccinated, I support them," he said. “It's personal choice, it really comes down to their choice. Maybe they feared the vaccine more than they do getting deathly sick from the virus."
Creech joined a protest outside administrative offices of Kettering Health, one of three related protests outside hospitals that opted to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for staff. Hundreds joined the protests, wielding signs like, “We don't need no vaccination, we don't need no forced control."
Anti-Vaxxer Karen joins the protest.
Karen protest at Kettering Health over the weekend. He along with many anti-vaxxers staged a honk and wave to those who support their right to not be vaccinated. They rather risk the lives of others just because they don't want to wear a face mask or get vaccinated.
A Kettering Health spokeswoman said in a statement the hospital respects the rights of individuals to assemble and peacefully protest, and that “we continue to have productive conversations with our colleagues as we navigate this next phase of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic."
This antagonistic relationship to COVID-19 vaccination is not unique among the Ohio General Assembly. Earlier this year, lawmakers passed legislation prohibiting schools and universities from requiring students take any vaccine that has not yet received full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — the three available COVID-19 vaccines are available under an emergency use authorization, a streamlined regulatory approval used during a health crisis.
The House Health Committee is also considering broader legislation that would outlaw vaccine mandates from any employer, including hospitals and nursing homes. It would also prohibit insurers, governments and others from incentivizing or asking about one's vaccination status.
More than 63,000 Ohioans have been hospitalized with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and more than 20,600 have died. Slightly more than 61% of Ohioans have received vaccination against the disease, even as a more transmissible variant of the virus that causes it has sparked a resurgence.
In a Facebook livestream of the Kettering protest, a woman can be heard noting that the Proud Boys were in attendance. The Proud Boys are a far-right, all male gang known to engage in street fights with liberal protesters at political events. On Jan. 6, some of their members were among the first to enter the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to thwart certification of the presidential election, and they face some of the most serious criminal charges of the day.
Even a controversial Republican candidate running for U.S. Senate decided to promote the QAnon bullshit.
Karen Vance, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate is a 37-year old man child who wrote the book Hillbilly Elegy. He is a venture capitalist, former military officer and conspiracy theorist. He joined
In the race to replace Sen. Karen Portman (R-OH), the Republicans are hoping to win the endorsement of Washed Up 45. They are hoping his endorsement could help win a campaign. They are likely to face off against Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), a moderate candidate who is giving up his seat to run. He is considered a sacrificial goat because he's not lighting a fire.
Two Republicans caught up in a sex trafficking ring.
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The QAnon folks are going to love this.
Perhaps they're just mislabel the accused as Democrats or fake Republicans. Who knows more than diversons than the Grand Old Party!
Two Republican strategists are caught up in a federal sex trafficking sting operation. They are both being held in the federal time out awaiting a trial. A 19-year old woman and a 30-year old man are both being held on prostitution, sex trafficking and sexual abuse of minors.
The two were indicted on multiple federal offenses on August 12, 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota.
She was the former Minnesota College Republicans chair at the University of St. Thomas. She was arrested at a hospital in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. She was wanted by the FBI Minneapolis Field Office as an out-of-state fugitive from justice.
The predator is facing charges in connection to an underage sex trafficking operation allegedly led by a Republican strategist He was arrested separately last week.
Both are scheduled to make appearances in federal court on Monday.
"We as an organization are absolutely disgusted by the actions of Ms. Medina, and have cut all ties with her effective immediately," Minnesota College Republicans said. "Our prayers go out to the victims – we believe you. We stand with you. May justice be served."
The woman recently assumed the role of chair at the University of St. Thomas’ chapter and she "was not an active member nor had she begun working in an official capacity on behalf of the Minnesota College Republicans," the organization said in a statement.
From May 2020 through December 2020, the former GOP strategist allegedly conspired with others to recruit and solicit six minor victims to engage in commercial sex acts, according to an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. It’s unclear whether the woman was charged as his co-conspirator, whose name was redacted in court documents.
The predator has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, five counts of sex trafficking of minors, one count of attempted sex trafficking of a minor, and three counts of obstruction. His defense attorney, Zachary Newland, said the predator denies the charges, adding to the Minneapolis Star Tribune that, "It is always unfortunate when the federal government abuses its power."
For clarification, for the past year campuses have been shut down and/or operating at a limited capacity as a result of the pandemic. Additionally, the 2021-2022 school year has yet to start. All chapters are currently inactive.
Minnesota GOP Chairwoman Karen Carnahan also reacted to the predators' arrests.
"The arrest and charges involving Ms. Gisela Castro Medina, in conjunction with Thursday's arrest and sex trafficking charges of Mr. Anton Lazzaro, are heinous and disturbing. Conviction of these charges warrants punishment to the fullest extent of the law and we fully anticipate justice will be served.
"While we work for the same cause, the Republican Party of Minnesota has no jurisdiction over the Minnesota College Republicans, including the chapter at the University of St. Thomas. Minnesota CR chapters are independently run organizations," Carnahan said, according to Fox 9 Minneapolis. "We stand with victims of sex trafficking and encourage anyone with information to contact the FBI Minneapolis Division at 763-569-8000."
This comes after four state GOP House lawmakers sent a letter last week calling for Carnahan’s resignation, arguing there is a deep rooted conflict of interest because he was her close, personal friend, and the Minnesota Republican Party must move forward with an independent audit into donations handled by the sexual predators or any PAC with which he is affiliated in order to restore public trust.
"We have an elected leader with toxic conflicts of interest surrounding herself with a board that fails to act. Chair Carnahan needs to resign," the letter, signed by Republican state Reps. Karen Drazkowski, Karen Miller, Karen Bahr and Karen Munson, said. "There are simply too many questions about actions taken under watch as the leader. Answers will only be trusted if there is no conflict of interest by those leading, investigating and reporting."
"The news of a close, personal friend and advisor to our state party chair being indicted and arrested for heinous crimes against children doesn’t just look bad. It is bad," the letter continued. "It affects members, volunteers, and donor’s ability to trust the integrity of our organization."
Rep. Karen Hagedorn (R-MN), who is married to Carnahan, as well as other GOP politicians in Minnesota who accepted campaign contributions from the sexual predators in the past, have vowed to donate those contributions to various charities serving women and victims of sex-trafficking or domestic abuse, the Star Tribune reported.
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Chair Ken Martin said the overall total GOP take from one of the predators amounted to more than $150,000.
One of Dr. Dre's eldest children is living homeless.
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Andre Romelle Young known as Dr. Dre is one of the richest media personalities in the world. He has a net worth of $1 billion. Right now he's facing a nasty divorce from his longtime wife Nicole and is now engaged in a feud with one of his oldest daughters.
LaTanya Young is calling out her father. She believes he is cutting her loose when she's in dire need of help. She is allegedly homeless and living in a car. She has asked friends to create a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds after Dre reportedly refuse to give her a dime.
Dr. Dre is working on Kanye West's Donda album.
The 38-year old woman has been left with no choice but to appeal to strangers for money.
She is a single mother of four. In her GoFundMe pledge, Young said: "I think GoFundMe campaigns are for people in desperate situations and I'm in a desperate situation. Some people were in awe of what I am going through and asked if I had a GoFundMe. I really don't want to accept any handouts but I appreciate anything that is offered. I have worked all my life and I know how to work for money but I'm in a difficult place right now. I believe in investing in your kids. That's what I want to do for my kids so they are never in a position like I am right now."
Young added that she hasn't given up on seeing her estranged father who she admits haven't seen him in nearly 20 years.
"I know my dad (Dr. Dre) is a busy man but I hope he will see it and reach back out to me on a father-daughter level."
Folks were shocked that Dr. Dre's daughter was reportedly living out of her rental car in Tarzana, California. She is taking odd jobs as a delivery driver for DoorDash and as a warehouse assembler despite her father being a huge celebrity.
LaTanya is the daughter of Dr. Dre and former girlfriend Lisa Johnson. Johnson and Dre split when she was five years old. The family doesn't even have Dr. Dre's number to contact him. She has to communicate with him through his management team.
She has four children, Tatiyana, 17, Rhiana, 14, D'Andre, 9 and Jason III, 4.
Her children are staying with friends and LaTanya refuses to let them suffer her fate.
Dr. Dre's lawyers spoke on the matter. They had a non-disclosure agreement for all members of his family. LaTanya may have violated the NDA when she criticized him publicly.
Dre had helped LaTanya out back in the past but he cut off financial support in January 2020.
Some believe that Dre should help while others say that LaTanya should be able to take care of herself without exploiting her famous father.
Who knows?
We know family matters! But when it comes to celebrity parents and estranged children, it's a matter of speaking in tongue.
Republicans back in January were plotting their Taliban-style takeover.
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Republicans embraced the insurrection that could have toppled America's governance. The former president incited a mob to attack the peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021. Ten House members and seven Senators bravely held the former Republican president accountable for this.
They decided to not hold any bipartisan committee on the insurrection. They have no room to talk.
Matter of fact, the Republicans should be able to learn from the Taliban on how to take back a country.
And these ridiculous members on the left who refused to support bringing in Afghani translators and fund the U.S. Capitol Police are now calling for more action. You idiots in the Squad can't write a damn bill or get people to back a fucking bill. All these lawmakers want to do is win clicks on social media.
Same with the America First/Freedumb Caucus. The Republicans continue to push against mask mandates, refuse to get vaccinated and pushing conspiracies about how Washed Up 45 will regain his power are dangerously similar to the Taliban.
Love the blatant hypocrisy of some on the far-right and far-left. They literally are shameless in their attacks on President Joe Biden. The decision to pull out of Afghanistan was completely sponsored by the former president and the Republican Party.
Karen Pompeo met with the Taliban.
The Republicans literally bragged about Washed Up 45 taking the lead "in peace talks as he signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which would end America's longest war."
Now all of sudden, the Republicans scrub the page on GOP.com and now resort to their baseless claims that Biden decided to pull out too early and the Taliban decided to reclaim the country.
Washed Up 45 had decided to reduce the number of troops and Biden obligated to the decision for a full pullout.
The Taliban has completely toppled the Western-back, corrupt government. This was days if not months in the making. The junk food media's "The Fall of Kabul" is dominating the news cycle just as we're ignoring the deadly week of coronavirus deaths. Within two weeks we will surpass over 650,000 deaths from the coronavirus.
The Biden Administration is standing by its decision. He believes Americans are tired of having a place in the country. He believes its up to the Afghanistan government to decide on whether they depose the current government or the Taliban.
The white junk food media agitators are so hyping up this "scary Muslim" narrative.
Look, we've spent 20 years in Afghanistan chasing after al Qaeda, not the Taliban. The subject Osama bin Laden was captured in neighboring Pakistan.
The war was unwinnable the moment George W. Bush decided to take the fight to Iraq. He literally had everything at his disposal. He had gave up the moment he left Afghanistan to deal with Iraq.
I am sick and tired of the white media agitators trying to justify American imperialism. We were told that we were not in the business of nation building. We spent 20 years training the Afghanistan military.
They folded like chairs and now the Taliban took an opportunity. For the last four years, Washed Up 45 was strategic in fading American presence in Afghanistan. He literally was working out a deal with the Taliban.
Hell, before the pandemic, the former president was going to host the Taliban at Camp David.
Republicans have no shame. The might as well call themselves the Taliban because they're surely engaging with extremists.
It took two months and the Taliban retake Afghanistan.
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Ashraf Ghani was ousted from power.
I could care less about what goes on in Afghanistan. Half of the bark squad are complaining about the fall of installed government. "The Fall of Kabul" is the new talking points of the junk food media. Many of these idiots cannot point the country on a damn map.
It has been 20 years, the war was not winnable. We have a motherfucking pandemic in this country that has killed over 645,000 Americans. We have other problems to be dealing with. The United States was never in the business of building a nation.
When the U.S. entered the longest war in history, the goal was to capture the sponsors and financial backers of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
When Barack Obama ordered the capture of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, it immediately ended the "Fight on Terror."
Why did we continue to stay in Afghanistan?
Washed Up 45 negotiated an exit strategy. President Joe Biden honored it. The United States spent billions of dollars, lost over 30,000 American soldiers, spent years trying to prop up a corrupt government and now they move on to leave the problems in the hands of Afghanistan.
The leaders and its military already folded and the Taliban is in control of Kabul with hopes of a peaceful transfer of power from the Western-backed leader Ashraf Ghani.
The Karens in Congress are already ankle biting and claiming that Biden lost the war. The very same folks who allowed the former president incite a mob to overthrow the U.S. government because he didn't win the election. The House of Representatives impeached him but the Senate led by its Republican minority leader refused to convict him. The Republicans should take lessons from the Taliban on how to overthrow a government.
Cause the MAGA Taliban gathered to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, attacked police officers, broke into the House Speaker's office. They stole her property. They smeared feces and graffiti over the U.S. Capitol.
They rose the flag of the losing candidate over our country's capital.
American media cover the Taliban returning back to power. The American junk food media is calling this a defeat for the U.S. despite polls showing the war needing to end.
So I don't want to hear any of these lawmakers make noise when they refuse to hold those accountable.
The Taliban swept into Afghanistan’s capital Sunday after the government collapsed and the embattled president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade U.S. campaign to remake the country.
Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman and negotiator, told The Associated Press that the militants would hold talks in the coming days aimed at forming an “open, inclusive Islamic government.”
Earlier, a Taliban official said the group would announce from the palace the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the formal name of the country under Taliban rule before the militants were ousted by U.S.-led forces in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, which were orchestrated by al-Qaida while it was being sheltered by the Taliban. But that plan appeared to be on hold.
Kabul was gripped by panic. Helicopters raced overhead throughout the day to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed important documents, and the American flag was lowered. Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their people out.
Fearful that the Taliban could reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights, Afghans rushed to leave the country, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings. The desperately poor — who had left homes in the countryside for the presumed safety of the capital — remained in parks and open spaces throughout the city.
Though the Taliban had promised a peaceful transition, the U.S. Embassy suspended operations and warned Americans late in the day to shelter in place and not try to get to the airport.
Commercial flights were suspended after sporadic gunfire erupted at the Kabul airport, according to two senior U.S. military officials. Evacuations continued on military flights, but the halt to commercial traffic closed off one of the last routes available for fleeing Afghans.
Many people watched in disbelief as helicopters landed in the U.S. Embassy compound to take diplomats to a new outpost at the airport. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected comparisons to the U.S. pullout from Vietnam.
“This is manifestly not Saigon,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Biden is dealing with the fallout of Afghanistan.
The American ambassador was among those evacuated, officials said. He was asking to return to the embassy, but it was not clear if he would be allowed to. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing operations.
As the insurgents closed in, President Ashraf Ghani flew out of the country.
“The former president of Afghanistan left Afghanistan, leaving the country in this difficult situation,” said Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council and a longtime rival of Ghani. “God should hold him accountable.”
Ghani later posted on Facebook that he left to avert bloodshed in the capital, without saying where he had gone.
As night fell, Taliban fighters deployed across Kabul, taking over abandoned police posts and pledging to maintain law and order during the transition. Residents reported looting in parts of the city, including in the upscale diplomatic district, and messages circulating on social media advised people to stay inside and lock their gates.
In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly 20 years to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated that the capital would not come under insurgent pressure for a month.
The fall of Kabul marks the final chapter of America’s longest war, which began after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. A U.S.-led invasion dislodged the Taliban and beat them back, but America lost focus on the conflict in the chaos of the Iraq war.
For years, the U.S. sought an exit from Afghanistan. Washed Up 45 signed a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that limited direct military action against the insurgents. That allowed the fighters to gather strength and move quickly to seize key areas when President Joe Biden announced his plans to withdraw all American forces by the end of this month.
After the insurgents entered Kabul, Taliban negotiators discussed a transfer of power, said an Afghan official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details of the closed-door negotiations, described them as “tense.”
It remained unclear when that transfer would take place and who among the Taliban was negotiating. The negotiators on the government side included former President Hamid Karzai, leader of Hizb-e-Islami political and paramilitary group Gulbudin Hekmatyar, and Abdullah, who has been a vocal critic of Ghani.
Karzai himself appeared in a video posted online, his three young daughters around him, saying he remained in Kabul.
“We are trying to solve the issue of Afghanistan with the Taliban leadership peacefully,” he said.
Afghanistan’s acting defense minister, Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, did not hold back his criticism of the fleeing president.
“They tied our hands from behind and sold the country,” he wrote on Twitter. “Curse Ghani and his gang.”
The Taliban earlier insisted that their fighters would not enter people’s homes or interfere with businesses and said they would offer “amnesty” to those who worked with the Afghan government or foreign forces.
But there have been reports of revenge killings and other brutal tactics in areas of the country the Taliban have seized in recent days. Reports of gunfire at the airport raised the specter of more violence. One female journalist, weeping, sent voice messages to colleagues after armed men entered her apartment building and banged on her door.
“What should I do? Should I call the police or Taliban?” Getee Azami cried. It wasn’t clear what happened to her after that.
An Afghan university student described feeling betrayed as she watched the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy.
“You failed the younger generation of Afghanistan,” said Aisha Khurram, 22, who is now unsure of whether she will be able to graduate in two months. She said her generation was “hoping to build the country with their own hands. They put blood, efforts and sweat into whatever we had right now.”
Sunday began with the Taliban seizing Jalalabad, the last major city besides the capital not in their hands. Afghan officials said the militants also took the capitals of Maidan Wardak, Khost, Kapisa and Parwan provinces, as well as the country’s last government-held border post.
Later, Afghan forces at Bagram Air Base, home to a prison housing 5,000 inmates, surrendered to the Taliban, according to Bagram district chief Darwaish Raufi. The prison at the former U.S. base held both Taliban and Islamic State group fighters.
Sen. Karen Sasse (R-NE) decided to toss a statement into the public arena claiming that Biden and Washed Up 45 created an unmitigated disaster. The Nebraska senator claims this is "Biden's Saigon."
This is the chest beating from arm chair generals and keyboard warriors who refuse to serve a day in uniform. They rather see "suckers" (as Washed Up 45 called it) serve a winless war.
American lawmakers who believe that the United States is always the "good guys" are clueless as fuck.
Like the Soviets, we were viewed as invaders, forced gentrification and cultural disappropriation.
When the U.S. entered the war, George W. Bush had demanded the Afghanistan government give up Bin Laden or we deposed the Taliban. We narrowed the field to finding Bin Laden. However, Bush took his focus off Afghanistan and led us into Iraq.
The wars were costly to thousands of lives. I believe leaving Afghanistan was a good decision. We wasted enough money trying to fix the world. We need to stay focus on our own issues. It's time to close the book on the longest war in American history.
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GET VACCINATED! IF THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE, GET IT WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! THE MEDICAL EXPERTS SAY THE VACCINES DO WORK AND IT REDUCES THE RISK OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION. OVER 645,000 AMERICANS ARE DEAD FROM THE CORONAVIRUS.
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW! VOTE THESE DUMBASS LAWMAKERS OUT OF OFFICE! STOP SUPPORTING ALL FORMS OF EXTREMISM!
GIVE PUERTO RICO, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS! GRANT STATEHOOD TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MAKE IT THE DOUGLASS COMMONWEALTH.
GOOGLE'S BLOGGER IS STRAIGHT UP TRASH! THE BLOGGER INTERFACE IS A TOTAL DISASTER AND IT'S RIDICULOUS!
WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!
WE'RE NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT! WE ARE THE VOTERS WHO SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT AREN'T THE NOISE! REJECT EXTREMISTS ON THE LEFT AND ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT!
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
EXPECT MORE!
The far right media personality is still in the hospital in critical condition. He contracted the delta strain of the coronavirus and he wasn't fully vaccinated. Now his family confirms that he is on a ventilator and they will be making the final arrangements.
There has not been any improvement for Karen Valentine, a nationally syndicated talk radio host out of Nashville, Tennessee. He was considered an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist.
His brother, Mark Valentine, shared an update on his condition on Friday, saying he needs to be placed on an ECMO machine. ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and is said to be similar to the heart-lung by-pass machine used during open-heart surgery.
“Phil made it through the nite [sic]. He needs to be on an EKMO [sic] machine which is lung part of a heart/lung machine. We’re trying to get him to a hospital with that equipment via helicopter. The protocol requires he be able to be on his back for several hours which I didn’t think he could do…but he did! We’re checking bed availability now and if he is a candidate for transport. It ain’t over,” Mark Valentine wrote.
I mean he fucked around and now he's found out.
Last week, Mark Valentine, spoke at length on WWTN-FM about his brother’s condition and said his brother now regrets not being an advocate for vaccination.
Karen Valentine has had an afternoon talk radio show on the station for years. He previously advised listeners to get vaccinated only if they thought they would likely die from COVID-19.
On July 11, Valentine confirmed via his Facebook page that he had been diagnosed with the virus.
After contracting the coronavirus, his family released a statement urging his listeners to get vaccinated. It was ignored by the far-right.
After all, Karen Travis, who replaced old fart Limbaugh when he died in February 2021, is leading the crusade against vaccines and mask mandates.
Of course, there's folks who are fully vaccinated but end up getting the coronavirus. As with vaccines, nothing is 100%. The vaccines are capable of preventing the coronavirus. At best, it's a 94% prevention rate which means 1 out of 500 could be infected even if they're vaccinated.
President Joe Biden had hopes that Americans would take this shit seriously. Unfortunately, Republicans so fucking eager to return to power will keep Americans fixated on the culture wars. Now vaccinations are part of this culture war.
But those fighting the culture war by not vaccinating, not wearing face mask in public, not following protocols, and deliberately ignoring federal and international rules when traveling are going to be the first casualties of the war.
With this pandemic mostly affecting states where Republican governors are, we may have to return to wearing facial protection and cutting back services to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
We came so far only to have a bunch of selfish idiots set it back. Just because they hate President Joe Biden.
The Republicans are so devoted to destroying Biden and the country for what....to regain power.
Pathetic.
According to the CDC, there is still not enough information on antibodies for COVID-19 and whether they can prevent someone from getting reinfected. It still recommends that people with a positive antibody test follow recommendations for protecting themselves and others.
The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about anything. It's a living organism that causes mild symptoms that include: fever, sore throats, chills, respiratory issues, loss of taste or smell and other unknown symptoms. If you have a weak immune system or health issues, your risk increases.
Death does happen to at least 40% of those who are affected by COVID-19.
If you're not vaccinated, your chances of death increases to 48%.
Healthy people can die from this. Take this seriously. You only have one life!
If you need more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at cdc.gov.
WEAR A DAMN MASK! SAVE A LIFE! TRUST SCIENCE AND MEDICAL EXPERTS! THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS FUCKING REAL!
GET VACCINATED! IF THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE, GET IT WHILE IT'S STILL FREE! THE MEDICAL EXPERTS SAY THE VACCINES DO WORK AND IT REDUCES THE RISK OF CORONAVIRUS INFECTION. OVER 645,000 AMERICANS ARE DEAD FROM THE CORONAVIRUS.
HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE NOW! VOTE THESE DUMBASS LAWMAKERS OUT OF OFFICE! STOP SUPPORTING ALL FORMS OF EXTREMISM!
GIVE PUERTO RICO, GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS AND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS THE RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS! GRANT STATEHOOD TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. MAKE IT THE DOUGLASS COMMONWEALTH.
GOOGLE'S BLOGGER IS STRAIGHT UP TRASH! THE BLOGGER INTERFACE IS A TOTAL DISASTER AND IT'S RIDICULOUS!
WHITE PRIVILEGE IS REAL! IT'S "SUIT AND TIE" WHITE SUPREMACY ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET AND AMERICAN POLICY!
WE'RE NOT THE ESTABLISHMENT! WE ARE THE VOTERS WHO SUPPORT CANDIDATES THAT AREN'T THE NOISE! REJECT EXTREMISTS ON THE LEFT AND ESPECIALLY ON THE RIGHT!
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID!
EXPECT MORE!
Tim Drake accepts a date from Bernard.
For you comic book nerds, I am a huge fan of Batman. Besides, the Dark Knight, I am huge collector of The Transformers action figures. I am a DC comics fan. DC stands for Detectives Comics for those who ain't aware. The DC heroes besides Batman are Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, the Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, Aquaman and the Green Arrow.
The Batman has a team of heroes protecting Gotham City. Batman had his sidekick as Robin and Batgirl.
Tim Drake who witnessed the death of Dick Grayson's parents later found out the identities of Batman and Robin. Bruce Wayne would nearly hang up his cape after losing Jason Todd. Grayson, as Nightwing didn't want the mantle of being Robin, Tim decided that he could be the new Robin.
Now there's a breakthrough in the DC Comics world. Drake comes out as bisexual.
The DC Rebirth series has Tim Drake operating under the Red Robin alias. He is also dating Stephanie Brown (the fourth Robin/Spoiler).
Robin finds Annie to be one of his many girlfirends.
In the timeline of the Infinite Frontier, Tim's history is smoother over again, restoring his pre-New 52 histories as Batman's third apprentice and re-establishing him as having been Robin since that time.
Tim's storyline in Batman: Urban Legends sees him deal with unexpressed insecurities while reconnecting with a friend from earlier volumes, Bernard Dowd. Bernard is kidnapped, sending Tim on a rescue mission while trying to understand what he truly desires from life. During the rescue, Bernard tells Robin that his friend Tim helped him come out and understands himself, prompting Tim to have the same realization for Bernard.
Out of costume, Tim was asked on a date by Bernard and he kindly accepts it.
With the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters into American comics, its becoming a step to diversity.
Everyone deserves a hero or heroine to represent. The decision to make Tim Drake bisexual is a step in the right direction.
Now if you're a 1990s kid, I want to remind you that Batman The Animated Series had Tim Drake's most darkest battle. When Batman The Animated Series moved to The WB Network they retooled it as The New Batman Adventures.
Drake was introduced into the Bat Family. It also revealed the rift between Batman and Robin who later left to become Nightwing, the tragic death of Batgirl and introducing Superman into Gotham City.
Robin trying to save Annie from her father. Her father was revealed to be Clayface.
The episode I was referring to was the one where he met Annie. A young girl who Tim found interest in and was helping to seek a memory lost after being chased by her abusive father.
It appears that her father was the Rogue villain Clayface. The villain created his daughter to scout the area for him and allow him to recombine himself. Batman had defeat Clayface in a previous battle but chemicals from his former lover's home revived him. I am assuming that actress and accomplice Stella Bates and Clayface conceived Annie.
Annie sacrificed her life to save Robin.
Robin enraged with the death of Annie threw his slings at a chemical vat to dissolve the villain. Batman stops him before he could kill Clayface. The villain would try to attack him with his metal blades and ends up causing an explosion which dries him out and immobilizes him.
