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Op Ed: Educating bigots is futile. Killing them is easy. Just saying. Had moral Germans started picking off Nazis in the 1930's there would be no holocaust. There would be a whole lot more Jews and per capita Jews have done more for humanity than any other group. Imagine were humanity would be if those Jews survived and millions of bigots were killed in their place. Am I advocating the killing of right wing human trash? No. Would I oppose the eradication of right wing trash through executions and sterilizations? No.
For the bleeding hearts who say there is good in everyone, you all need to go fuck yourselves.
If you know of a bigot you should do everything in your power to legally destroy that person and make their life a living hell. Cancel them. Provoke them and capture it on video and get them arrested and fired.
You may be tempted to do unlawful things to them. That's up to you and I don't want to put my own morality on to you. If you bashed one of them with a baseball bat for instance and I were on your jury I would vote to acquit you but that is not me endorsing violence. It is me upholding true justice.
COVID is killing a lot of Trumpers and that's good and I would not want to see that stop and besides I would not waste my breath on those turds. I would just keep telling them what they already believe. Vaccines are dangerous, COVID is a Democrat hoax, Jesus will protect them and masks are an infringement on their rights. The truth is, I like Trumpers, dead ones.
The spread of white supremacist propaganda across the United States nearly doubled over the last year, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Researchers who track the distribution of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, posters, stickers and other paraphernalia by members of far-right and white supremacist groups found that there were a total of 5,125 such cases in 2020 — an average of 14 per day — the highest number ever recorded by the ADL.
“White supremacists appear to be more emboldened than ever,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, said in a statement. Greenblatt suggested that “the election year, the pandemic and other factors may have provided these extremists with additional encouragement.”
According to the report, hate propaganda appeared in every state in the country in 2020 except for Hawaii, with the most activity taking place in Texas, Washington, California, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Though white supremacist literature is designed to intimidate a variety of groups, including nonwhite immigrants as well as Black, Muslim and LGBTQ communities, the ADL found that anti-Semitic propaganda in particular increased by 68 percent over 2019, with 283 incidents specifically targeting Jews.
A volunteer repaints a pride mural in Bellefonte, Pa., on Jan. 9 after it was defaced with graffiti from the white supremacist group Patriot Front. (Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
While white supremacist groups will post photographs of their propaganda online to further increase its exposure, the report focuses specifically on content observed in the physical world. For example, the report found that there were at least 130 white supremacist banner drops, mostly over highway overpasses, in 2020, compared to 53 in 2019.
According to the report, at least 30 white supremacist groups were involved in disseminating propaganda in 2020, but 92 percent of all activity could be traced back to just three groups: Patriot Front, New Jersey European Heritage Association and Nationalist Social Club. Patriot Front, a Texas-based group that was formed in 2017 following the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., was responsible for 4,105 propaganda incidents last year, or 80 percent of the nationwide total.
The ADL report notes how Patriot Front uses “its own iteration of ‘patriotism’ to promote its white supremacist and neo-fascist ideology,” eschewing traditional white supremacist language and symbols in favor of phrases like “America First,” “United we stand” and “Reclaim America” on stickers, posters and fliers printed in red, white and blue.
Jessica Reaves, editorial director at the ADL’s Center on Extremism, told Yahoo News that the dissemination of propaganda by such groups, which is often done discreetly and unannounced, is indicative of the lasting impact of the Unite the Right rally, which left white supremacists fearful of being exposed to their employers, schools and others.
“The vast majority of white supremacists want to stay hidden,” Reaves said, suggesting that propaganda has emerged as a substitute for organized, in-person events. “It helps them maintain some visibility while maintaining anonymity.”
Reaves speculated that coronavirus lockdowns may have contributed to the massive spike in propaganda seen in cities and towns across the country in 2020, allowing white supremacists to more freely distribute their materials without being seen. “The goal is for it to just appear,” she said.
Reaves also suggested that school closures and the move to remote learning during the pandemic may account for the significant decrease in propaganda incidents on college campuses, which dropped by more than half in 2020, according to the ADL report.
Neo-Nazis, alt-right members and white supremacists march the night before the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Aug. 11, 2017. (Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Propaganda gives white supremacists the ability to maximize media and online attention while limiting their risk of exposure or arrest,” Oren Segal, vice president of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, said in a statement. “The literature helps to bolster recruitment efforts and spreads fear.”
Federal law enforcement officials have identified white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terrorist threat now facing the U.S. Earlier this month, Yahoo News reported that the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence division had circulated an internal report warning that it expects threats from white supremacists and other right-wing extremists to persist and potentially escalate this year.
But while Reaves said that the rise in propaganda is “cause for concern,” as it means white supremacist “ideology is reaching more and more people,” she emphasized that she and her colleagues have not observed a direct correlation between white supremacist violence and fliers promoting their message.
“I can certainly see why it’s extremely unnerving to find these fliers out there,” but, she said, “I don’t want people to perceive these fliers as an imminent threat.
“My goal is to make sure as many people as possible understand what these things look like.”
Poll: 50% of unvaccinated Trump voters say they will 'never' get inoculated for COVID. How Biden hopes to change their minds.
Last week, all the living former U.S. presidents, Democratic and Republican, joined together for an ad campaign touting the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines — except Donald Trump.
At the same time, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that a full 50 percent of unvaccinated 2020 Trump voters now say they will “never” get vaccinated for COVID-19, up 6 percent from last month.
According to the survey of 1,629 U.S. adults, which was conducted March 4-8, no other unvaccinated group is nearly as likely to say they will “never” get inoculated: not Biden supporters (8 percent), not Black Americans (33 percent) and not Hispanic Americans (22 percent), all of whom have moved in the opposite direction and become less hesitant over time.
Asked Monday if President Biden “want[s] to see President Trump” — who is also the only president who chose to keep his own vaccination private — help persuade his supporters by getting “involved in this messaging,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki did not mince words.
“Well, if former President Trump woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, certainly we’d support that,” Psaki said. “Every other living former president ... has participated in public campaigns. They did not need an engraved invitation to do so.”
The growing concerns about Trump’s lack of involvement in America’s vaccination campaign underscore a looming challenge for the Biden administration: how to ensure that vaccines don’t become the latest public-health precaution to fall prey to partisanship and polarization, much like masks before them.
In recent days, the White House has begun to publicly acknowledge that it might have trouble reaching conservatives, who could become even more hesitant the harder Democrats push. “We recognize as a Democratic administration with a Democratic president that we may not be the most effective messenger to communicate with hard-core supporters of the former president,” Psaki said at Friday’s press briefing when Yahoo News asked about the administration’s plans. “We have to be clear-eyed about that.”
But according to a source familiar with the White House’s plans to address vaccine hesitancy among conservatives, who was granted anonymity to discuss strategy, Team Biden is still finalizing plans on who to enlist in that effort.
By nearly every measure, America’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is rapidly improving. All of the available data from clinical trials and real-world studies has shown the approved vaccines are safe and extremely effective. The U.S. is now administering an average of 2.4 million doses each day, up from 900,000 a day when Biden took office; 21 percent of the population has received at least one shot, which ranks among the highest rates in the world. All told, the U.S. has administered more than 107 million doses to date, nearly a third of the global total given so far. By May, Biden announced last week, providers will have enough supply to vaccinate every adult in America.
But there’s a problem, or there will be soon: Not every adult in America plans to get vaccinated — particularly the adults who identify as Republicans. In order to end the pandemic and resume normal life, experts say, the U.S. needs to maximize the number of people it inoculates. Yet while vaccine acceptance in general is rising as the rollout gains steam, hesitancy among Republicans is actually hardening. In fact, demand for the vaccines may already be waning in conservative states such as Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana.
According to the Yahoo News/YouGov poll, most Americans (54 percent) say they’ve either gotten vaccinated (22 percent) or plan to get vaccinated in the future (32 percent). Nearly three-quarters of Democrats (74 percent) say the same. But even though Democrats (28 percent) and Republicans (26 percent) say they’ve already gotten jabbed in roughly equal numbers, the share of Republicans who are currently unvaccinated and plan to remain that way (35 percent) is three times as large as the corresponding share of Democrats (just 12 percent).
A nurse gives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a man in Seattle on Saturday. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)
The combined number of Americans who plan to forgo vaccination means that tens of millions of citizens may be helping to undermine U.S. progress toward herd immunity, lengthening the pandemic and leaving the country vulnerable to future outbreaks. That’s why convincing the skeptics to do otherwise is so important.
Over the weekend, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said it would be a “game changer” if Trump used his “incredible influence” among Republicans to help reach a demographic that Biden may not be able to reach alone.
“If he came out and said, ‘Go and get vaccinated. It’s really important for your health, the health of your family and the health of the country,’ it seems absolutely inevitable that the vast majority of people who are his close followers would listen to him,” Fauci told “Fox News Sunday.”
So far, Trump has limited his promotion of COVID-19 vaccines to a single public quip.
“So everybody, go get your shot,” Trump said during his Feb. 28 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
John Bridgeland, co-founder of the Covid Collaborative, a coronavirus education initiative that co-created the recently released presidential PSA, agreed in an interview with Yahoo News that Trump could help much more than that.
“If President Trump were to convey to his supporters that the vaccine is safe and effective, that he played a key role and his administration played a key role in moving this vaccine in record time, and that trials showed safety and efficacy, and that he himself and the first lady got the vaccine, that will help improve the larger context in which people are making their individual decisions as to whether to get vaccinated,” said Bridgeland, who served as domestic policy chief under former President George W. Bush.
Yet Bridgeland added that engaging with local leaders is just as important as nurturing national “atmospherics” when trying to persuade hesitant communities.
“At one level, creating the atmospherics, the larger context, that’s an environment that is more conducive to people getting the shot,” Bridgeland explained. “Then [we have to get] extremely local with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, faith-based leaders — places that have direct trusted influence on these millions of Americans that are going to make an individual choice that will help us get to herd immunity or not.”
It’s unclear if the White House has reached out directly to Trump’s team; Psaki dodged a question on the subject at Friday’s briefing, and the current administration has been reluctant to credit or communicate with Biden’s predecessor. Equally unclear is whether the norm-busting Trump would even agree to participate in such a campaign.
Yet Trump probably shouldn’t expect an “engraved invitation” anytime soon. The White House source told Yahoo News that officials there are basing their strategy in part on findings by veteran Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who recently published data in the Washington Post showing that hesitant conservatives trust local health officials far more than national politicians, Trump included. Likewise, the Biden administration has been working with outside groups such as Bridgeland’s to identify leaders who might sway conservatives.
According to the Post, the 19 participants in Luntz’s focus group “blamed their hesitation on factors like the unknown long-term effects of new vaccines” and “accused politicians and government scientists of repeatedly misleading them this past year — often echoing Trump’s charges that Democrats used the virus as an election-year weapon and overhyped its dangers.”
The participants rejected direct efforts by prominent Republican politicians (including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy) to persuade them, adding they would trust their spouse or doctor more than Trump. Instead, the group responded positively to apolitical, data-driven pitches from Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Barack Obama, who emphasized that it took two decades of research to develop the vaccine and that nearly every doctor who has been offered a dose has accepted it.
Asked Monday how he planned to reach reluctant Republicans, Biden sounded as if he’d been briefed on Luntz’s findings. “I discussed it with my team, and they say the thing that has more impact than anything Trump would say to MAGA folks is what the local doctor, what the local preacher, what the local people in the community say,” Biden explained. “I urge all local docs and ministers and priests to talk about why it is important to get that vaccine.”
Initially Psaki seemed to be caught off guard when asked Friday about hesitancy among Republicans, redirecting her response toward nonwhite communities hard-hit by the virus and neglecting to reveal specifics about conservative outreach.
Asked again Monday afternoon, however, Psaki offered up a more substantive framework — a sign that Biden’s effort to reach conservatives is finally ramping up.
The new focus on hesitant Republicans comes as the West Wing becomes increasingly confident in its vaccine rollout. To help deliver an accurate message about vaccine safety and efficacy to conservative communities, the White House has already partnered with groups such as the National Rural Health Association, the National Farmers Union, NTCA - the Rural Broadband Association, the Country Music Association Awards and NASCAR.
Former President Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando on Feb. 28. (Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Bridgeland’s group — which has met weekly with Biden staffers since the transition began in December and works closely with key members of the White House COVID team — is co-chaired by several bipartisan bigwigs, such as former George W. Bush administration staffer and Idaho Sen. Dirk Kempthorne, Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Trump ally.
Christie’s vaccine advocacy was particularly effective with Luntz’s focus group — not chiefly because of his proximity to the former president but rather because of his personal experience attending a superspreader event at the White House and subsequently spending a week in an intensive care unit with COVID-19.
“We really shouldn’t be all marching in lockstep like lemmings to go and do what the government tells us to do,” the former two-term governor told Luntz’s focus group, according to the Post. “They’ve screwed up too many times for us to do that. But I really do believe the facts that I’ve learned, and the experiences I’ve had, should make at least everybody ... think hard” about getting vaccinated.
According to Bridgeland, stories like Christie’s “are so critical to get.” In the coming weeks, Psaki said Monday, Americans should expect “earned media partnerships with trusted messengers” as part of “a big public campaign run out of HHS” with funding from Biden’s recently passed $1.9 trillion stimulus package.
According to the White House source familiar with operations, Biden’s team sees Dr. Francis Collins, the geneticist and devout Christian who leads the National Institutes of Health, as a “significant asset.” In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and he frequently appears on faith-based outlets such as the Christian Broadcasting Network. On Tuesday, Collins and Fauci will meet with evangelical leaders at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
President Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House on Monday. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The same source adds that the White House’s health equity task force is intimately engaged with vaccine-hesitant communities and is developing specific plans to reach religious and rural Americans.
With vaccine eligibility and availability set to skyrocket in the weeks ahead, one of Biden’s biggest challenges will be ensuring that the pace of vaccination — particularly on the right — keeps up.
“The president’s goal is to vaccinate all Americans, not just those who voted for him,” Psaki said Monday. “Right now, the phase we’re in is that demand for the vaccine still outstrips supply. We won’t be in that phase forever.”
My Op Ed: As I have said in other articles, the more Trumpers who die the better off America will be. Democrats should be happy about this. I know I am. When all of us humans are vaccinated, we will have normalcy and we won't get sick and die. If a MAGAt sneezes of coughs the virus on us we won't die nor will be spread it. They will spread it to their own kind.
To understand how evil and death deserving MAGAts are think about the fact that their adoration of Trump will allow them to put their family members and other Americans at risk. Sure, Trumpers are stupid and ignorant but they are far more evil than they are stupid and ignorant. Let COVID-19 kill as many of them as possible.
Let's not kid ourselves, God is evil if it exists. Mark Twain put it best when he said that God gave his angels pain free lives unearned while subjecting us to all the biting maladies of being sentient corporeal beings and when he tortuously sucks the life force out of us one of two things happens, our souls are tortured in hell for all eternity or are forced to massage God's insatiable ego for all eternity.
The theist will tell you to suck God's celestial cock and kiss his ass during our short stint here as a way to avoid eternal torture while the atheist tells us, Yeah life sucks and there is no rhyme or reason for it and there's nothing you can do about it and that you can't prove there is anything responsible for it and there's nothing you can do about it so make the best of it.
The atheist will equivocate on the concept of good and evil but some of them will admit that there are bad people. Mental health professionals are a bit more forthcoming when it comes to evil people and they have given them somewhat detailed and varied explanations called the personality disorders. People will the cluster B disorders to a lot of damage to humanity. There is no cure for them and there is a general agreement among mental health professionals that the best way to deal with these people is to avoid them at all costs while allowing them to prey on the uninformed and vulnerable victims when the moral thing to do with them is to destroy them. Evil is insidious and unrelenting. Evil destroys our sanity and physical health. Evil stalks us. Evil plagues us. Evil tortures us. Evil breaks us. Evil camouflages itself as good and demands that we serve it. The theist dishonestly tells us that evil somehow exists independently of all powerful and all knowing God who has mysterious reasons for not destroying it. The atheist will turn a blind eye to it and tell you, that's the way the cookie crumbles without acknowledging the fact that some people are born lucky such as Donald Trump while others are fuck. The mental health community will tell the victim of venomous fate that it's all about the victim's perception and if that doesn't work for you, here are some happy pills to make you numb.
There may not be much that were can to about our fate and the evil in our lives but we can do a little something. We can fight the evil. We can beat, discredit and expose God for the evil that he is. We can make the lives of all the evil people horrible.
It would seem that God needed a fix. Since our suffering is his pleasure he created COVID-19. He created Trump supporters to spread it but once we humans figured what it is, we were able to take counter measures and his MAGAts haven't. God doesn't care that most of the COVID-19 deaths going forward are his evil agents. God is not the sharpest cheddar. God is so drunk with lust and power that he is blinded to the fact that COVID-19 is killing mostly evil people. Sadly the good people who are still brainwashed by God are trying to enlighten the anti-vaxxers and and anti-maskers who have been created by God to torture others. We should be making certain that Trumpers continue to drink the Kool Ade and continue to suffer and die. Whether you think the MAGAts are pure evil or not is beside the point. They are dangerous and the do evil things. They have no redeeming value. Help them be gone.
COVID-19 will remain endemic for many years to come before God comes up with something worse to unleash upon us. The COVID-19 hot spots will be mostly in the Bible belt where COVID-19 deaths and cases will continue to be under counted and under reported.
Don't let the slight lull in cases and deaths fool you. COVID-19 is killing American at around 1200 per day and the spring break surge is about 3 weeks away. The Bible is about to get another dose of what it deserves.
The 4th surge is coming. The death deserving Spring breakers will usher this COVID-19 surge. We are already seeing images of these asshole not wearing masks. The variants in Florida and Texas are more deadly to young cocksuckers than the other variants. If their parents were OK with them going to Spring Break for the debauchery.
Clearly these piglets were raised by swine and in most cases the depravity of MAGAts is genetic. These scum will spread the virus for weeks to come. They will kill mostly anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. We humans will have to remain extra vigilant until there is herd immunity. When that happens we vaccinated humans will be safe but pocket of the virus will simmer in red counties killing off MAGAts at 3 or 4 times the rate of the most virulent flu.
I urge all my readers to go onto social media and Trumpist social media and continue to spread the Trump anti-mask narrative and embolden these assholes to tempt fate, get sick, die and spread the virus to others of their ilk.
Here Comes the Surge
Little MAGAts you caused a long and shitty winter
Because of you the pandemic is still here
Here comes the surge. Here comes the purge and I say, keep lying
Little MAGAts don't get vaccinated
Little MAGAts shed you masks and have a beer
Here comes the surge. Here comes the purge and I say, keep dying.
Surge surge surge brings the purge, Surge surge surge brings the purge.
Little MAGAts a smile's returning to my face now
As you commit suicide.
Here comes the surge. Here comes the purge and I say, keep dying.
‘I won’t wear that diaper on my face!’ said woman.
A woman in Galveston, Texas was arrested at a bank on Thursday for refusing to wear a mask — one day after Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the statewide mandate which was imposed eight months ago to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“Removing statewide mandates does not end personal responsibility,” said Abbott earlier this month. “It’s just that now state mandates are no longer needed,” he said.
65-year-old Terry Wright entered a Bank of America and refused to wear a face covering. Staffers reportedly asked Wright to respect the rules of business or vacate the premises. When she refused, police were called and their confrontation with the woman was captured on police bodycam.
“What are you going to do, arrest me?” she said to a police officer, according to The Washington Post.
“The law says that I do not have to wear a mask,” Wright insisted. She explained that she was there to make a withdrawal. An officer said she had to wear a mask to do so, just as bank management requested, or she would have to leave the bank.
In video of the incident, an officer tells the woman, “Ma’am, listen, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Wright’s refusal to comply resulted in her being wrestled to the ground, handcuff and arrested.
“Police brutality right here, people,” she said at the customers waiting in line, many of whom vocalized their disapproval of her no-mask stance.
Wright’s defiance reportedly resulted in her being charged with criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Police issued a statement noting that they responded to the bank’s call about criminal trespass and that the department is not enforcing mask-wearing.
In an interview Friday with Eyewitness News, Wright said she had stopped in Galveston as part of an RV road trip and was at the bank to close her account.
She said she is “very opposed” to masks and doesn’t believe the coronavirus pandemic is a real threat.
“I won’t wear that diaper on my face!” she told ABC13.
Terry Wright / screenshot
Wright said she was “attacked” by police, who confirmed she “sustained minor injuries” and was taken to the University of Texas Medical Branch Health in Galveston to be treated. However, Wright claims she suffered multiple fractures. She also noted that people “can’t cancel me, I’m retired.” She told The Washington Post that she plans to call police on Monday.
“I feel like I took one for the team, because people need to wake up,” she said.
In response to the incident, the bank issued a statement on its mask policy.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other medical experts continue to reinforce the importance of using face coverings and practicing physical distancing in all public spaces,” said spokeswoman Carla Molina. Customers who do not want to wear a mask are advised to use ATMs or drive-through windows.
My Op Ed: This cunt was a threat to everyone in that Galveston bank someone in the bank should have killed her on the spot. Luckily the cop got her out of the bank fairly quickly but he was exposed to her germs and so was his patrol car.
For all liars and hypocrites on both sides of the "race issue" I hope you all die of rectal cancer. It turns out that Sharon Osbourne is having the race card played on her by Holly Robinson Peete. Sharon Osbourne is a cunt but I doubt if she's a racist. When has been Holly Robinson Peete tried playing the race card on Sharon Osbourne it backfired catastrophically. It seems that Holly Robinson Peete tried to pile on Sharon for defending Piers Morgan for defending the Royal Family against the lies of Meghan Markle and her pussy whipped husband Prince Harry. Meghan Markle is also playing the race card but more than that she's also a trouble making cunt and drama queen.
Holly Robinson Peete Dealing the Race Card From the Bottom of the Deck
Of all the people involved, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Meghan Markle are the assholes with Holly Robinson Peete and Meghan Markle being to straight up cunt and Prince Harry being a sap. That said Prince Harry is a wounded and vulnerable man, the type predatory bitches zero in on.
The worst part about people playing the race card is it diminishes the struggle of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Middle Easterners.
Piers Morgan is an ass but he's right about Meghan Markle and he ripped the bitch a new one.
Whether you think the British Monarchy is is good or bad thing is beyond the point. Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton are real people and by all accounts they are good people. Queen Elizabeth has always been a class act.
Holly Robinson Peete got shit canned from the talk because she sucks and not because she was "too ghetto" as she lied and said Sharon Osbourne said it. See how Sharon Osbourne busted her.
Meghan Markle reportedly took 13 trips despite claims passport was taken away This story has been shared 7,079 times. 7,079 Piers Morgan's 14 celebrity feuds beyond his beef with Meghan Markle
Meghan Markle sits down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey on March 7, 2021 (Photo credit: Joe Pugliese/CBS) I have never watched The Crown , Netflix’s ongoing historical drama about the British monarchy, and I didn’t watch the royal wedding in which Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s union was broadcast to millions of viewers.
Meghan Markle is to get a bit of a break during International Women’s Day, for up to six minutes. The media has been incredibly keen to paint the artist formerly known as Prince Harry’s wife as a conniving witch determined to separate Harry from his famously affectionate, caring, not-at-all-dysfunctional family, with little to no evidence.
Despite how accurate (or inaccurate) the reports are, such widespread, negative press has lead searches like “is Meghan Markle a bitch?” to reportedly spike online.
PIERS MORGAN: Meghan and Harry's nauseating two-hour Oprah whine-athon was a disgraceful diatribe of cynical race-baiting propaganda designed to damage the …
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday he wishes former President Donald Trump would use his popularity among Republicans to persuade more of his followers to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a round of interviews on the morning news shows, the government's top infectious disease expert lamented polling showing that Trump supporters are more likely to refuse to get vaccinated, saying politics needs to be separated from “commonsense, no-brainer” public health measures.
Fauci said it would be a “game changer” for the country’s vaccine efforts if the former president used his “incredible influence” among Republicans.
“If he came out and said, ‘Go and get vaccinated. It’s really important for your health, the health of your family and the health of the country,’ it seems absolutely inevitable that the vast majority of people who are his close followers would listen to him,” Fauci told “Fox News Sunday.”
My Op Ed: No fucking way! Trumpers should be dying by the millions. Why would any decent human not want more of these MAGAts to see and early grave? You're a fuck up Fauci.
There was no immediate comment from the former president's office Sunday.
Related: Fauci: US virus shots ramping up toward immunity
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Trump has urged people to get vaccinated, doing so again two weeks ago at a conservative political gathering in Florida.
But he hasn’t been among former presidents and other public officials who have been vaccinated on camera to encourage others to get the shot. It was revealed only recently that he was vaccinated in private at the White House before leaving office in January.
Trump would not appear in a new public service campaign for the COVID-19 vaccine that included former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Polls have shown Republicans joining Black people and other groups in expressing greater skepticism than others about the safety of the vaccine.
Fauci said he doesn't understand the resistance.
My Op Ed: It's simple. These people are stupid. Fuck em!
“What is the problem here? This is a vaccine that is going to be lifesaving for millions of people,” he said on NBC's “Meet the Press.” He added: “I mean, I just can’t comprehend what the reason for that is when you have a vaccine that’s 94-95% effective and it is very safe. I just don’t get it.”
My Op Ed: Get a clue Anthony, they're fucking stupid. Don't even try to reason with them. These are the assholes who spread the virus. It's better that they die.
The number of vaccine doses distributed and administered each day in the U.S. is rising, with more than 2.5 million daily shots in arms on average in the last week.
About 1 in 5 Americans have received at least one dose, with about 1 in 9 fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The coronavirus is blamed for over 547,188 deaths in the United States. Deaths and newly confirmed infections per day have tumbled over the past two months. But cases are running at a still-troubling average of about 55,000 a day.
Fauci repeatedly warned against pulling back on public health measures too early, saying the virus could come surging back, endangering the goal of getting the country closer to normal by early July.
He pointed to Europe as a cautionary tale. Rising virus cases this winter followed rollbacks on restrictions on the continent.
My Op Ed: Good people will take precautions and survive and bad people won't and bad people die. Let this virus kill them.
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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
