not all depressing. This is very useful advice: "Register new voters instead of wasting your breath. Organize your neighbors rather than beating a dead horse. Leave the cult behind and link arms with the willing. If we are going to stop another Trump presidency, we have to work with those who have left the cult or never joined in the first place…"
Diana, 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉 WE can do this! Women in both parties do NOT want to be controlled by men!, everyone has a friend or family member belonging to LGBTQIA, sane people aren’t afraid of equity and equality for people of color. As Paul Wellstone (former US senator from Minnesota) used to say, We all do better when we all do better!
There are more of us. We will fight and we will win! We have to!
It's true that these fanatics cannot be talked into seeing what a liar and a fraud Trump is. They're high on their resentments and their delusions, it feels good to love Trump and share their delusions with the like-minded.
Tough lady you are Jess. Thank you for describing the awful mindlessness of the orangeman cult. Frightening isn't it? Nothing to do with truth or logic.
Keep it up. Take care of yourself and stay safe. The mountains sound beautifully awesome.
The reason trump’s popularity is so high is something the tv talking heads will never say out loud.
He’s so popular because there are SO many breathtakingly stupid people out there who are angry at the world about their perceived problems, fears, inadequacy, and hate of others.
Trump gives them permission to act out on those feelings.
Like the lady in Florida who was asked how she'd handle a big trump loss. "Oh, we're gonna get our militias together and we're gonna hurt the Demo-rats. Hurt 'em baaaad."
"That's, um, not very American," the horrified young interviewer said.
The woman laughed. "We quit giving a f*ck about your America.a long time ago."
I feel they worship him for being somebody they cannot be: An asshole who can insult and hurt people, commit crimes, and face no consequences. To them, he is strong and clever—an idol.
When he said, “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote,” they were fine with it, because…they don’t care about people, either. Same as they’re fine with him being a tax cheat who pays less in taxes than they do: they’d also like to pay no taxes, and get away with it, too.
Scott, I did notice that comment in Las Vegas where he had to pay his MAGAts $75 per idiot to show up in 103 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures and listen to his BS for over an hour! About 15 succumbed to the heat but remember their Orange Fuhrer told them he did not care about them he just wanted their vote! I hope the $75 was worth it to end up in the hospital!
Nazis were antisemitic and since most Conservatives are Christians who support Israel, this whole attempt to label them as Nazis is simply ridiculous. And again, which side is it that acted like total Nazis during Covid?
It was Biden who forced fascist vaccine mandates on everyone. The left imposed, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, vaccine, passports, and total censorship to any dissenting opinion, information, or discussion that questioned the big Pharma/big government narrative. They destroyed peoples careers for not complying with experimental medical treatments and segregated people, the way that Hitler did the Jews. You Leftists love to throw out that fascist term. You need to get a big mirror!
Fascist is as fascist does. The Left showed clearly that they are all too willing to give up freedom for the illusion of safety. There were a number of kind, gentle Liberals advocating for the unvaccinated to be hauled off to internment camps. You people really bought into the fear that was promoted by a media that gets 75% of their ad revenue from big pharma. And you Literally turned into fascists overnight.
Also, that bumper sticker starting “ Eaton ….” is just gross. I think one of the worst things about Trumpism is the rudeness and public lack of civility that has ensued.
I am ignorant about the Eaton/Busch reference, and afraid of what all I'll see if I search for it (using DuckDuckGo, never Google: I reallllly don't want Google monetizing that search off of me, or attaching it to me: that kind of thing can haunt a person).
Not surprised at all that there is nothing made in America in a shop selling MAGA wear. It reminds me of Toby Keith after 9/11. Shortly after "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" and "American Soldier." came out. He was out on tour. I was still in the entertainment biz as a production manager & lighting designer. His tour stopped at two of the arenas where I worked. The entire concert was "America....." At the end of the night, the tour manager handed out Toby's "America" baseball caps. We all looked at the inside label, looked at each other, and proceeded to pelt the tour manager with said caps. The label read, "made in China." I hear that it continued to happen across the country.
Jess, That last comment you got was perfection. And you made an issue out of something right wingers always SAY they want…made in the USA! Kudos to you! Love it! That’s the seed of thought I talked about before. 🎉
My father, a lifelong Republican, WW2 and Korean conflict veteran, refused a flag handed out at a Veterans' Day celebration because it was not made in the USA. He did not vote for Donald Trump either.
Mossy Oak in the beginning could have made everything right in their home state of MS. Instead, they shipped everything out of the country and hundreds of sewing factories throughout the south were shuttered. My Dad owned a sewing factory in Adamsville TN for a while. They would have sewn in the owners custom designed label at no extra charge, but they couldn’t find enough work to keep the place open. Nothing new here- corporate profits over American workers
EVERY DAMN DAY. I’ve spoken with a member of the electrical union I. The last month- doesn’t even understand that the rethuglikkjans vote against his union every chance they get.
On another note, the state where I was born is blanketing the state with news of federal dollars for infrastructure- and yet- every damn representative in congress with the exception of Benny Thompson voted against every dollar. And those idiots will vote for the R’s because they don’t know the difference. Their local stations and papers are complicit in their misinformation.
Jess, my sister and her partner were driving from Chattanooga to Knoxville to visit us. Closer to Knoxville, they saw signs for the mega trump store. (I thought it was probably where all the fireworks stores are also located.) They were repulsed and did not visit! When we conversed later about it, your description is exactly what we pictured! I'm sharing this with them and I appreciate your doing this so I don't have to!🙄😥😕
It was Biden who forced fascist vaccine mandates on everyone. The left imposed, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, vaccine, passports, and total censorship to any dissenting opinion, information, or discussion that questioned the big Pharma/big government narrative. They destroyed peoples careers for not complying with experimental medical treatments and segregated people, the way that Hitler did the Jews. You Leftists love to throw out that fascist term. You need to get a big mirror!
I’m sorry your confused and no if I can recommend a healthy lifestyle choice it would be for all you red neck Neo fascist pot hole jumping dirt road stomping women abusing Quacks to start sucking down some purified water in between your beer and Coke diets in the hopes it might filter out some of the toxins ya red states been dumping into your Water wells and water systems that’s only going to increase, because maga court yet you crying about mask & a vaccine that’s saved the lives billions 🍻 bottoms up
America wasn’t the first country to use mask mandates and travel bans & lock downs we were late which helped Trump administration kill hundreds of thousands of Americans he weapon Covid against minority’s our seniors & immune compromised he should never be allowed to hold any type of office other than that 🫴🏼🚽 oval Orifice which I hear he even has major challenge governing that 😜
Isn’t it amazing how you liberals always spout off about not judging people by their ethnicity or gender, but the first thing you do with Conservatives is spout out a bunch of judgments. You are the biggest hypocrites going. For instance, despite your ignorance, I rarely drink any alcohol. I don’t drink any soda and I consume almost no sugar. I do not eat any seed oils. And at age 62 I can run 10 back to back 100 yard uphill sprints. I am highly conscious about my health. Which is exactly why I was not willing to take the chance on experimental technology, when I know that big Pharma cannot be trusted with your health. They constantly try to push statins on people that do nothing but damage your liver and give you diabetes. I find it amazing that all the Liberals who won’t eat GMO or non-organic food, were willing to rush out and put experimental toxins in their body. But Liberals were easily manipulated by appealing to their ego. All they had to do was say “You are the smart, educated people. You’re not stupid redneck trailer trash that believe in God and Bible fairy tales. You’re superior.” And you morons rushed out to prove how much smarter you were by getting multiple experimental jabs, only listening to science provided by sources financially corrupted by big pharma. Your ego made you easy to manipulate.
I’ve got every vaccine since 1964 I’ve gotten all the Covid vaccines flu vax shingles vax & hep vax and raised 5 kids that are all vaxed & fine so a your hyper hysteria can eat shit vaccines have been proven to be safe for the masses sure there will be some who are genetically compatible but for the masses it’s a no brainer
Covid vaccines are not traditional vaccines. mRNA technology has never been tested for long term safety. And we also didn’t give children 72 vaccines either. Autism rates are 35 times higher than they used to be. Again, the average age of death from Covid was literally ABOVE the average age of life expectancy. Not a virus that should make you hide under the bed. The vaccines should not have been forced on young, healthy people. Why anyone would trust a media that gets 75% of its ad revenue from big pharma is mind boggling. I always thought that the Left were mistrusting of big corporations? But, as I said, they used your arrogance against you and manipulated you via your ego. And you were all too happy to prove how much smarter you were than ignorant Conservatives. Not realizing how easily you had been manipulated.
There will be people who can’t tolerate vax but for society as a whole they have prevented so much more grief than they caused not that that makes someone affected by incompatibility feel any better but society in a whole has been blessed with the work these scientists do and the preventive measures they provide us all
Yet every country in the world is still sounding off on how important it is to get vaccinated against Covid !! and still providing the vax to their populations so I guess we are all duped
I had multiple coworkers injured by those rushed out for profit vaccines. My coworker and his wife had their hands and forearms go numb and they couldn’t grip objects. The coworker sitting next to me had his hands in so much pain he couldn’t sleep at night. My coworkers wife got myocarditis. Two coworkers suffered severe tinnitus after vaccination. Another coworker was hospitalized for three weeks with blood clots in her legs after vaccination. My supervisors daughter lost her best friend who died of heart failure at the age of 18 after his vaccine. The average age of death from Covid was literally above the average age of life expectancy. The media lied about how many people died from Covid. Because the media gets 75% of its ad revenue from big Pharma. Anyone who died with Covid but not from Covid was still counted as a Covid death. Multiple boosters induce IgG4 antibodies which dramatically increase your risk of cancer and autoimmune disorders. I simply upped my vitamin D levels and took zinc and NAC, and I still have not had Covid. I would not put that poison in my body for a billion dollars. My fiancé‘s family are jabbed to the hilt and they keep getting Covid over and over and over. They literally lied about everything. They lied about the origin. They lied about vaccine safety. They lied about vaccine efficacy. They lied about the vaccines stopping transmission. They lied about the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns. This was a SCAMDEMIC.
We just got back from a camping trip to Lake of the Ozarks. Here I am excited that I only saw one very small Trump sign. Four years ago, it was heartbreaking to see the Trump/Pence signs everywhere! Well, they can’t re-use those signs since Trump tried to get his cult to hang his then vice president! On a side note, I haven’t seen any Trump signs on 169 on the way to Smithville Lake for camping. Four years ago was a different story and I actually knew one of the people with a huge Trump sign on their property. So will Trump actually debate Biden? I’m betting no!
I just did the drive from NW MO down to Lake of the Ozarks, and other one Rump store, I was surprised to see only one or two signs. I’m hoping that is a good sign!
Was in the area recently. Saw that store on the main drag. Think it was the same one. There's also one in Branson Landing with a full size Trump standing outside to take photos with.
They don't follow the party any longer. Or the rules or beliefs of the party. They follow a man. And that man has them all figured out. Get into their hearts and nothing else matters. Just like religion.
Right, and I don’t doubt that once they could get Trump back in power, the rest of these Project2025 Fascists will try to get rid of trump (25th Amendment? ) and take over themselves which would be even more scary.
“ March 29, 1875: The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that American women are “persons” and “citizens,” but not persons or citizens entitled to vote as a result of passage of the 14th Amendment. The ruling in Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162), written by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, could have successfully ended the struggle for woman suffrage had it been decided differently. But though disappointed, supporters of equal suffrage are not discouraged or defeated.“
“ Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.”. And we still don’t have equal protection, opportunity, drug trials, pay for equal work, representation as CEO’s or on Boards. Female doctors now out number male, but still on average make 29% less. Some who claim to be originalists claim they know who was meant to be included in the word citizen creating a caste system in the United States. Anyone who tries to make another group inferior does so for the sole purposes of using them for their own power and wealth, Watching Jordan Klepper interview people at Trump rallies ot is hard to believe the lack of rationale thinking and the cruelty in these peoples heart. Horrid violations of human rights usually said with a smile or a laugh. We made a grave error in not outlawing any Confederate show of support or pride after the civil war. These people fought for the right to own slaves, keep women second class citizens, deny rights to workers and immigrants, and not even acknowledge two spirited people. I have no more tolerance for them. They are vile cruel bullies who use discrimination to their power and wealth. I also don’t understand the people who see both Biden and Trump as equally bad choices and don’t want to vote. I have to hold onto hope that their are still enough people who want freedom, equal rights, and financial programs for safety nets for the common good.
Thank you for so many facts and I completely agree with you in hoping that enough of us want freedom, equal rights, and collective support for the common good.
Can I also mention how the history you so clearly showed is linked to the continuation of enslavement? In the early 1990s there were studies referenced in Equal Employment Opportunity seminars and classes that showed how human trafficking and pornography were part of the behaviors directly liked to the enslavement of women and children. From that work, they linked a huge number of other behaviors and legislation to acts of enslavement, not just harmful to one person or another. From that, it becomes easy to see that all the people who smile and laugh while designating groups of people by physical characteristics and religious affiliations are supporting the enslavement of those groups by them. Those people choose to believe that the group that they are in is the group that will have power over all the others. So, women have been enslaved not discriminated against. Even when given the right to vote, the enslavers found other ways to make sure that a women’s vote was inconsequential. Just as they have done over and over again during Jim Crow and beyond. Human Rights? When someone supports behavior that, even like bullying, subjugates another person, it is just another form of slavery.
Well that is my simple truth.
Freedom means all people everywhere get to do what they choose to do as long as what they do does not infringe upon or harm anyone else’s freedom.
That means that we are all free to do everything we can to help, empower, and support everyone around us: All of us, not just some of us.
No one is allowed to harm another, and especially not harm their rights to vote or participate freely in our society.
The term “Harm” is a very broad term. It is meant to be.
I fully agree with all you have said. Many monied people who are running our corporations believe they are superior. Their actions tells us this otherwise they could never do what they are doing, CEO’s making 1000+ more than their workers, using stock buybacks to increase CEO pay while not using the money to increase product or service quality, or worker pay, benefits, or safety. They lobby to reduce regulations in their favor damaging workers rights. They bring lawsuits to decrease the ability of workers to unionize, They often pay no taxes at all, or if they do it is less than the average sectarian. They use the services our taxes pay but don’t feel they need to contribute, They use fear, othering, gaslighting, and out and out decrepit to get people emotionally jacked up so they don’t pay attention to how they are robbing them blind. I fully agree, no one should have the right to get their needs met at the expense of another or our environment, If you like to follow what big corporations are doing to labor, I think you would like Robert Reich’s substack, https://robertreich.substack.com/. He is another of my favorite people speaking truth to power like Jess Piper.
Freedom from what?. Who has you in chains? Keep voting for Ob#ma acolytes you’ll end up in a berka and not be allowed to go outside without a man. You goofy women who think you’re so oppressed because you may have to go to another state to murder your baby need to grow the hell up and look into the future. How’s your grocery bill, you taxes, do you need a new car, how’s you energy and gas bills? Single issue voters are just ignorant. You shouldn’t be allowed to bote until you pass a civics test.
I also agree with number two, to a point. Everyone thinks that the division if Church and State means no religion anywhere in government. It was written so that the government could not make a national religion such as the church of England. Our founders for the most part were deeply devout christians (small exception for Jefferson), but he did come around. We are a Judeo/Christian Nation. I believe we are in the sorry state we’re in because we too God out of everything. I don’t care if you believe it or not, but don’t tell me I offend you….. tough sh#t.
I am a second ammendment advocate. In this world with all the craziness, I have the God given right to defend me and mine. When you’re in dire consequences, the cops are only 10 minutes away, that usually doesn’t work out well. Secondly, our founders saw that down the line we may have to defend ourselves from our own government. Remember the first thing that dictators do is disarm the population.
Disarming police???? Once again, they are supposed to be around to help keep the peace. This administration has kneecapped our cops to the point that they’re afraid to shoot the bad guys. That’s where it’s nice to have a good guy with a gun. There are statistics to back me up, but I’m too lazy to get them for you.
I’d like citizens to vote too. I think it would great if they had to pass the same test that immigrants take to become a citizen. Ask people simple civics questions…..I get get upset when they answer. Our population is beyond uninformed.
If you want to go to college you should be educated, not indoctrinated. If you want a good education you should be willing to pay for it, I did as did my husband. You should also learn relevant things that will get you a job and get you through life. Women’s studies is not a serious route to being an educated person, neither is Rock and Roll studies and more that I can’t think if right now. Primary education is pretty much the same. Unfortunately the schools are run run by the teacher’s union that do not have their education and well being upmost on their agenda.
My doctor, like most doctors now days have to join “Hospital Inc.” in order to help cover the malpractice insurance. Now medicine is big business and like most large businesses, they are run by bean counter administrators and not usually in the best interest of their patients. It’s bad enough now, I can’t imagine how bad it would be if it was free. If you get something for free you usually get what you pay for. As a good example of that look at the VA, since you brought it up.
And lastly
I agree with most of your “lastly”. We’re in our 70’s and travel 4-6 weeks a year on our motorcycle. We travel backroads and stay in small towns, have been in every state in the union including Alaska. That is the only thing that keeps me optomistic about people and the love of this country. Americans, by and large, are nice, giving people. You have to get out of the city and visit fly over country. We’ve had our faults, but we are the only country willing to correct those mistakes. Sometimes that correction is ugly but the end result is usually right.
This has been the most fun I’ve had in an on line conversation. Thanks for being non confrontational, I get told to pound salt a lot. It all goes back to
asking people to provide real facts if they they have a gripe. It finally rained here but don’t think it’s enough to help. Poor farmers, that’s a hard life.
Well Dave, I’m tired of women crying about how oppressed they are. If you think you’re oppressed give a detailed explanation. And it seems like it all comes down to abortion. I’m more than happy to listen to their other discussions regarding their oppressed viewpoints. Personal? They are attacking over 1/2 of the country, calling us members of an occult. We have facts on our side, you have malicious attacks on every one of us that believe in freedom of speech, religious freedom, freedom to build a business and keep our hard earned money. Freedom from government intervention in our lives. I want to eat meat, I love meat, Kamala wants to regulate our diet and eleminate meat. Not her business what I eat. She wants to defund police, she believes in open borders, we absolutely do not. So don’t bitch to me about personal when all you folks do is get personal, btw, with no facts to back you up.
Please stop watching FoxNews or wherever you are getting your information. I am tired of women crying out about misogyny and being oppressed too. Maybe we should help change things so they have nothing to complain about!
Ok, what did I say that wasn’t factual. I get my news from a lot of different sources. Seems we agree on one thing and that’s whining women(btw, I am a woman) so I’m confused about the rest of your comment unless it was supposed to be sarcastic? I am woman hear me roar….. most rediculous phrase in any song that started all this crap about mysogyny and men bashing. I like men and most of them ate great guys, ladies if you have a bad one and you’re still there that’s on you, quit bitching and fix it yourself.
Interestingly, most people in cults don’t realize they’re in a cult. Indeed these are EXTREMELY dangerous times as the very essence of democracy is in serious jeopardy should Trump win (Read the book ‘How Democracies Die’). Unfortunately, this phenomenon goes well beyond Trump as it’s en entire movement (cult) now and has made most of the GOP unrecognizable and without conscience and shamelessly enabling. I live in Springfield (just North of Branson) and am sickened by the Trump pop-ups/stores and all the many MAGA vehicles I see in traffic. As you suggest Jess, getting out the vote and encouraging new voters in is part of the key to victory in November. My Spiritual faith is deep and I pray every day we are protected from him ever, EVER being in power again. I also pray more generally for our country and our world that is hurting in so many ways. Thank you Jess and also Heather Cox Richardson for your wonderful and much needed work. May we have peace. That is my prayer.
I well remember the horror stories out of Springfield during COVID, the huge hospital tent, the thousands of dead, the guy who went like Nicodemus in the night to get vaccinated at a church after his best friend and two family members succumbed. And the ICU nurse who said that many of her patients (who were going to die) were proud of how they'd "owned the libs."
I grew up in MO too. To say that this story made me both sad and furious is a vast understatement.
The average age of Covid death was literally above the average age of life expectancy. You people were completely scammed by a media that gets 75% of its ad revenue from big Pharma. What a bunch of chumps.
There were no tents full of dead people. The vax killed way more people than Covid. It’s still killing people. The tents were a ruse to get the uninformed scared…. Seems it worked. How many family businesses closed never to open again? How many people had their life savings invested in those businesses wiped out. How many do you think killed themselves because of it. Why was home depot open but the little hardware store owned by your neighbor closed. Why were churches closed but you could go to Lowes. Why were the least suseptible, like our kids, kept out of school and still forced to get the shot? Why has our military been decimated because people won’t join up and people were kicked out because they wouldn’t get the shot, that goes for police and fire too. Why are we fighting 3 proxy wars now and there was peace in the middle east
3 1/2 years ago? Why are we selling our emergency oil reserves to China and buying gas from comunist Venezuela when we were the largest gas and oil producer 3 1/2 years ago? Tell me I’m wrong. Do you homework and give me facts. I’m always willing to listen to the other side. Orange man hitler doesn’t deserve a conversation.
You really only get half the story don’t you. Try thinking you are a virus that must go from person to person to survive. How would you go from person to person? Airborne is the best way because it is quick and easy if you are a very very small easily aerosolized particle. And that is what COVID is. If Trump had shared this information with everyone in January 2020 when he found out, the only defense anyone would have needed was a mask on all the infected people. But since no one can tell who is infected, everyone would need to wear a mask. And if we had all known that, no one would have had to stay at home or telework. Thank our President at that time for hosing that one up. And all the rest of us? Being honest is not enough. You have to have the facts and be accurate.
And what about schools? Still would need to shut them all down. Why? Because the children all go home once a day to hug and kiss their parents after sharing all their viruses and bacteria in class. If one of the parents is infected, sending their kids to school means that everyone in the school could be infected. They might not die from COVID but children are super distributors of viruses.
I just love all the anti-vaxers and death-by-COVID deniers. They live in their own safe world of fantasies and myths. I sure hope that their entire lives are spent in that la-la-land and that they are happy for their entire lives. They will have achieved what most look for but never have a hope of getting.
Back to reality:
According to Statista.com, there were 2.85 million deaths in the US in 2019 and 3.38 million in 2020 and 3.46 million in 2021. Total deaths had been going down since 2018. This leaves about 530,000 people in 2020 and 610,000 in 2021 dying of causes not seen in previous years. Since all causes of death are something other than COVID because the actual mechanism of death is lack of oxygen or heart failure, none of the statistics show that COVID was involved. Method, cause and mechanism never show the real culprit.
Where were all the dead bodies? Well ask the morgues and undertakers. But my guess is that when a nation is used to taking care of 2.84 million bodies a year, if you distribute an additional 1 million over two years over the whole country, there were only a few places that saw numbers that they had to use extraordinary measures to deal with.
But all the medical experts in the world agree that COVID was the disease that resulted in over one million deaths in the US that would not have occurred at that time except for COVID.
There are a million US families that lost someone because of COVID.
All the people in denial are going to stay in denial because they choose to and the rest of us will continue to try to protect ourselves from them.
One last fact: Vaccines do not make you immune, they never have because they don’t work that way, never did. Please read about vaccines and what they really do if you are confused.
Latest data I can find shows just under 2000 COVID deaths in Greene County Missouri since the start of the pandemic. Your county has about 300,000 people.
Contrast this to the 660 deaths in Dane County Wisconsin, where I live, that has almost exactly twice the population of Greene County.
Hmmm.
I have friends all over the US and Europe who have been vaxxed (my entire family included), and I have never heard of a single death or even significant illness due to the vax. Just saying.
Yes,half of my family is part of the cult enablers. They are too well educated to be in the cult, but are happy to see tax cuts and more poison flushed into the commons.
The misogyny, cruelty, racism and despotism is brushed off, just as it was in 1933 Germany.
I agree. I wish we could get it through to these people that the majority of economists predict that the economy of the country (and the globe) would be severely damaged by another Trump presidency. His proposed tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, combined with his ridiculous tariff idea, would seriously eat into their precious retirement nest eggs, and inflation would be on the rise again.
Thank you again, so much. I always wanted to go into one of those shops just to look but have never trusted myself to not do something stupid. Thank you so very much.
I try to write sane comments on Fox once a month. I literally get physically uncomfortable in my body after being in that internet environment—cannot imagine being inside a domestic terrorist store. Jess and others have stronger s
not all depressing. This is very useful advice: "Register new voters instead of wasting your breath. Organize your neighbors rather than beating a dead horse. Leave the cult behind and link arms with the willing. If we are going to stop another Trump presidency, we have to work with those who have left the cult or never joined in the first place…"
Diana, 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎉 WE can do this! Women in both parties do NOT want to be controlled by men!, everyone has a friend or family member belonging to LGBTQIA, sane people aren’t afraid of equity and equality for people of color. As Paul Wellstone (former US senator from Minnesota) used to say, We all do better when we all do better!
There are more of us. We will fight and we will win! We have to!
This is the way
Love your handle.😆😆
It's true that these fanatics cannot be talked into seeing what a liar and a fraud Trump is. They're high on their resentments and their delusions, it feels good to love Trump and share their delusions with the like-minded.
Tough lady you are Jess. Thank you for describing the awful mindlessness of the orangeman cult. Frightening isn't it? Nothing to do with truth or logic.
Keep it up. Take care of yourself and stay safe. The mountains sound beautifully awesome.
I second all that you beautifully said!
The reason trump’s popularity is so high is something the tv talking heads will never say out loud.
He’s so popular because there are SO many breathtakingly stupid people out there who are angry at the world about their perceived problems, fears, inadequacy, and hate of others.
Trump gives them permission to act out on those feelings.
Like the lady in Florida who was asked how she'd handle a big trump loss. "Oh, we're gonna get our militias together and we're gonna hurt the Demo-rats. Hurt 'em baaaad."
"That's, um, not very American," the horrified young interviewer said.
The woman laughed. "We quit giving a f*ck about your America.a long time ago."
Well, there you are.
Wow ❗
Not surprising at all.
I feel they worship him for being somebody they cannot be: An asshole who can insult and hurt people, commit crimes, and face no consequences. To them, he is strong and clever—an idol.
When he said, “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote,” they were fine with it, because…they don’t care about people, either. Same as they’re fine with him being a tax cheat who pays less in taxes than they do: they’d also like to pay no taxes, and get away with it, too.
Scott, I did notice that comment in Las Vegas where he had to pay his MAGAts $75 per idiot to show up in 103 degrees Fahrenheit temperatures and listen to his BS for over an hour! About 15 succumbed to the heat but remember their Orange Fuhrer told them he did not care about them he just wanted their vote! I hope the $75 was worth it to end up in the hospital!
Oh come on, "it was just a joke! He didn't mean it, he loves the American people!" 🤮
This is the best explanation I've read.
Just like Hitler did in 1930’s Germany.
Exactly. His cult would fit right in with the Nazis of the ‘30s and ‘40s.
Nazis were antisemitic and since most Conservatives are Christians who support Israel, this whole attempt to label them as Nazis is simply ridiculous. And again, which side is it that acted like total Nazis during Covid?
It was Biden who forced fascist vaccine mandates on everyone. The left imposed, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, vaccine, passports, and total censorship to any dissenting opinion, information, or discussion that questioned the big Pharma/big government narrative. They destroyed peoples careers for not complying with experimental medical treatments and segregated people, the way that Hitler did the Jews. You Leftists love to throw out that fascist term. You need to get a big mirror!
whataboutism
/ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/
noun BRITISH
the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.
Fascist is as fascist does. The Left showed clearly that they are all too willing to give up freedom for the illusion of safety. There were a number of kind, gentle Liberals advocating for the unvaccinated to be hauled off to internment camps. You people really bought into the fear that was promoted by a media that gets 75% of their ad revenue from big pharma. And you Literally turned into fascists overnight.
Total censorship? Yet, here you are spouting nonsense and lies. I'll be happy to get a mirror if you get an education.
Indeed, spot on.
Also, that bumper sticker starting “ Eaton ….” is just gross. I think one of the worst things about Trumpism is the rudeness and public lack of civility that has ensued.
It was disgusting.
It is. That shirt and everything else in the store.🤮🤮
I am ignorant about the Eaton/Busch reference, and afraid of what all I'll see if I search for it (using DuckDuckGo, never Google: I reallllly don't want Google monetizing that search off of me, or attaching it to me: that kind of thing can haunt a person).
don't, you won't like it.
It's a reference to oral sex.
Ahhhhhh. Good ol' 69.
Not surprised at all that there is nothing made in America in a shop selling MAGA wear. It reminds me of Toby Keith after 9/11. Shortly after "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" and "American Soldier." came out. He was out on tour. I was still in the entertainment biz as a production manager & lighting designer. His tour stopped at two of the arenas where I worked. The entire concert was "America....." At the end of the night, the tour manager handed out Toby's "America" baseball caps. We all looked at the inside label, looked at each other, and proceeded to pelt the tour manager with said caps. The label read, "made in China." I hear that it continued to happen across the country.
You expected something different?
Jess, That last comment you got was perfection. And you made an issue out of something right wingers always SAY they want…made in the USA! Kudos to you! Love it! That’s the seed of thought I talked about before. 🎉
My father, a lifelong Republican, WW2 and Korean conflict veteran, refused a flag handed out at a Veterans' Day celebration because it was not made in the USA. He did not vote for Donald Trump either.
Mossy Oak in the beginning could have made everything right in their home state of MS. Instead, they shipped everything out of the country and hundreds of sewing factories throughout the south were shuttered. My Dad owned a sewing factory in Adamsville TN for a while. They would have sewn in the owners custom designed label at no extra charge, but they couldn’t find enough work to keep the place open. Nothing new here- corporate profits over American workers
EVERY DAMN DAY. I’ve spoken with a member of the electrical union I. The last month- doesn’t even understand that the rethuglikkjans vote against his union every chance they get.
On another note, the state where I was born is blanketing the state with news of federal dollars for infrastructure- and yet- every damn representative in congress with the exception of Benny Thompson voted against every dollar. And those idiots will vote for the R’s because they don’t know the difference. Their local stations and papers are complicit in their misinformation.
Jess, my sister and her partner were driving from Chattanooga to Knoxville to visit us. Closer to Knoxville, they saw signs for the mega trump store. (I thought it was probably where all the fireworks stores are also located.) They were repulsed and did not visit! When we conversed later about it, your description is exactly what we pictured! I'm sharing this with them and I appreciate your doing this so I don't have to!🙄😥😕
Thank you for all you do. In exposing threats to our democracy showing the vile ideology’s of Christian Nationalism’s Trumpisum aka Domestic terrorism
It was Biden who forced fascist vaccine mandates on everyone. The left imposed, lockdowns, vaccine mandates, vaccine, passports, and total censorship to any dissenting opinion, information, or discussion that questioned the big Pharma/big government narrative. They destroyed peoples careers for not complying with experimental medical treatments and segregated people, the way that Hitler did the Jews. You Leftists love to throw out that fascist term. You need to get a big mirror!
I’m sorry your confused and no if I can recommend a healthy lifestyle choice it would be for all you red neck Neo fascist pot hole jumping dirt road stomping women abusing Quacks to start sucking down some purified water in between your beer and Coke diets in the hopes it might filter out some of the toxins ya red states been dumping into your Water wells and water systems that’s only going to increase, because maga court yet you crying about mask & a vaccine that’s saved the lives billions 🍻 bottoms up
America wasn’t the first country to use mask mandates and travel bans & lock downs we were late which helped Trump administration kill hundreds of thousands of Americans he weapon Covid against minority’s our seniors & immune compromised he should never be allowed to hold any type of office other than that 🫴🏼🚽 oval Orifice which I hear he even has major challenge governing that 😜
Isn’t it amazing how you liberals always spout off about not judging people by their ethnicity or gender, but the first thing you do with Conservatives is spout out a bunch of judgments. You are the biggest hypocrites going. For instance, despite your ignorance, I rarely drink any alcohol. I don’t drink any soda and I consume almost no sugar. I do not eat any seed oils. And at age 62 I can run 10 back to back 100 yard uphill sprints. I am highly conscious about my health. Which is exactly why I was not willing to take the chance on experimental technology, when I know that big Pharma cannot be trusted with your health. They constantly try to push statins on people that do nothing but damage your liver and give you diabetes. I find it amazing that all the Liberals who won’t eat GMO or non-organic food, were willing to rush out and put experimental toxins in their body. But Liberals were easily manipulated by appealing to their ego. All they had to do was say “You are the smart, educated people. You’re not stupid redneck trailer trash that believe in God and Bible fairy tales. You’re superior.” And you morons rushed out to prove how much smarter you were by getting multiple experimental jabs, only listening to science provided by sources financially corrupted by big pharma. Your ego made you easy to manipulate.
I’ve got every vaccine since 1964 I’ve gotten all the Covid vaccines flu vax shingles vax & hep vax and raised 5 kids that are all vaxed & fine so a your hyper hysteria can eat shit vaccines have been proven to be safe for the masses sure there will be some who are genetically compatible but for the masses it’s a no brainer
Covid vaccines are not traditional vaccines. mRNA technology has never been tested for long term safety. And we also didn’t give children 72 vaccines either. Autism rates are 35 times higher than they used to be. Again, the average age of death from Covid was literally ABOVE the average age of life expectancy. Not a virus that should make you hide under the bed. The vaccines should not have been forced on young, healthy people. Why anyone would trust a media that gets 75% of its ad revenue from big pharma is mind boggling. I always thought that the Left were mistrusting of big corporations? But, as I said, they used your arrogance against you and manipulated you via your ego. And you were all too happy to prove how much smarter you were than ignorant Conservatives. Not realizing how easily you had been manipulated.
There will be people who can’t tolerate vax but for society as a whole they have prevented so much more grief than they caused not that that makes someone affected by incompatibility feel any better but society in a whole has been blessed with the work these scientists do and the preventive measures they provide us all
Yet every country in the world is still sounding off on how important it is to get vaccinated against Covid !! and still providing the vax to their populations so I guess we are all duped
Incomplete
I had multiple coworkers injured by those rushed out for profit vaccines. My coworker and his wife had their hands and forearms go numb and they couldn’t grip objects. The coworker sitting next to me had his hands in so much pain he couldn’t sleep at night. My coworkers wife got myocarditis. Two coworkers suffered severe tinnitus after vaccination. Another coworker was hospitalized for three weeks with blood clots in her legs after vaccination. My supervisors daughter lost her best friend who died of heart failure at the age of 18 after his vaccine. The average age of death from Covid was literally above the average age of life expectancy. The media lied about how many people died from Covid. Because the media gets 75% of its ad revenue from big Pharma. Anyone who died with Covid but not from Covid was still counted as a Covid death. Multiple boosters induce IgG4 antibodies which dramatically increase your risk of cancer and autoimmune disorders. I simply upped my vitamin D levels and took zinc and NAC, and I still have not had Covid. I would not put that poison in my body for a billion dollars. My fiancé‘s family are jabbed to the hilt and they keep getting Covid over and over and over. They literally lied about everything. They lied about the origin. They lied about vaccine safety. They lied about vaccine efficacy. They lied about the vaccines stopping transmission. They lied about the effectiveness of masks and lockdowns. This was a SCAMDEMIC.
As far as red necking lol I have relations in the south so I kinda know a little bit about the culture of rural red necking
We just got back from a camping trip to Lake of the Ozarks. Here I am excited that I only saw one very small Trump sign. Four years ago, it was heartbreaking to see the Trump/Pence signs everywhere! Well, they can’t re-use those signs since Trump tried to get his cult to hang his then vice president! On a side note, I haven’t seen any Trump signs on 169 on the way to Smithville Lake for camping. Four years ago was a different story and I actually knew one of the people with a huge Trump sign on their property. So will Trump actually debate Biden? I’m betting no!
I’m seeing fewer signs and flags too!
YES! Here in MN, too! This is SO ENCOURAGING!
Same here in North Dakota.
Could that be bc there are these stores now? 🤷🏻♀️
I just did the drive from NW MO down to Lake of the Ozarks, and other one Rump store, I was surprised to see only one or two signs. I’m hoping that is a good sign!
Was in the area recently. Saw that store on the main drag. Think it was the same one. There's also one in Branson Landing with a full size Trump standing outside to take photos with.
They don't follow the party any longer. Or the rules or beliefs of the party. They follow a man. And that man has them all figured out. Get into their hearts and nothing else matters. Just like religion.
The Republican Party has no rules other than follow trump. No platform, no policies. There is no party anymore.
They have Project 2025 😩
Scary
And the Wholly God Fraudster
Right, and I don’t doubt that once they could get Trump back in power, the rest of these Project2025 Fascists will try to get rid of trump (25th Amendment? ) and take over themselves which would be even more scary.
If you’d read their platform instead of listening to Joy Reid, maybe you’d learn something.
Get into their wallets is his primary goal.
More like go to their wallet..
That's his bottom line.
“ March 29, 1875: The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that American women are “persons” and “citizens,” but not persons or citizens entitled to vote as a result of passage of the 14th Amendment. The ruling in Minor v. Happersett (88 U.S. 162), written by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, could have successfully ended the struggle for woman suffrage had it been decided differently. But though disappointed, supporters of equal suffrage are not discouraged or defeated.“
“ Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.”. And we still don’t have equal protection, opportunity, drug trials, pay for equal work, representation as CEO’s or on Boards. Female doctors now out number male, but still on average make 29% less. Some who claim to be originalists claim they know who was meant to be included in the word citizen creating a caste system in the United States. Anyone who tries to make another group inferior does so for the sole purposes of using them for their own power and wealth, Watching Jordan Klepper interview people at Trump rallies ot is hard to believe the lack of rationale thinking and the cruelty in these peoples heart. Horrid violations of human rights usually said with a smile or a laugh. We made a grave error in not outlawing any Confederate show of support or pride after the civil war. These people fought for the right to own slaves, keep women second class citizens, deny rights to workers and immigrants, and not even acknowledge two spirited people. I have no more tolerance for them. They are vile cruel bullies who use discrimination to their power and wealth. I also don’t understand the people who see both Biden and Trump as equally bad choices and don’t want to vote. I have to hold onto hope that their are still enough people who want freedom, equal rights, and financial programs for safety nets for the common good.
Thank you for so many facts and I completely agree with you in hoping that enough of us want freedom, equal rights, and collective support for the common good.
Can I also mention how the history you so clearly showed is linked to the continuation of enslavement? In the early 1990s there were studies referenced in Equal Employment Opportunity seminars and classes that showed how human trafficking and pornography were part of the behaviors directly liked to the enslavement of women and children. From that work, they linked a huge number of other behaviors and legislation to acts of enslavement, not just harmful to one person or another. From that, it becomes easy to see that all the people who smile and laugh while designating groups of people by physical characteristics and religious affiliations are supporting the enslavement of those groups by them. Those people choose to believe that the group that they are in is the group that will have power over all the others. So, women have been enslaved not discriminated against. Even when given the right to vote, the enslavers found other ways to make sure that a women’s vote was inconsequential. Just as they have done over and over again during Jim Crow and beyond. Human Rights? When someone supports behavior that, even like bullying, subjugates another person, it is just another form of slavery.
Well that is my simple truth.
Freedom means all people everywhere get to do what they choose to do as long as what they do does not infringe upon or harm anyone else’s freedom.
That means that we are all free to do everything we can to help, empower, and support everyone around us: All of us, not just some of us.
No one is allowed to harm another, and especially not harm their rights to vote or participate freely in our society.
The term “Harm” is a very broad term. It is meant to be.
All the best,
David
I fully agree with all you have said. Many monied people who are running our corporations believe they are superior. Their actions tells us this otherwise they could never do what they are doing, CEO’s making 1000+ more than their workers, using stock buybacks to increase CEO pay while not using the money to increase product or service quality, or worker pay, benefits, or safety. They lobby to reduce regulations in their favor damaging workers rights. They bring lawsuits to decrease the ability of workers to unionize, They often pay no taxes at all, or if they do it is less than the average sectarian. They use the services our taxes pay but don’t feel they need to contribute, They use fear, othering, gaslighting, and out and out decrepit to get people emotionally jacked up so they don’t pay attention to how they are robbing them blind. I fully agree, no one should have the right to get their needs met at the expense of another or our environment, If you like to follow what big corporations are doing to labor, I think you would like Robert Reich’s substack, https://robertreich.substack.com/. He is another of my favorite people speaking truth to power like Jess Piper.
Freedom from what?. Who has you in chains? Keep voting for Ob#ma acolytes you’ll end up in a berka and not be allowed to go outside without a man. You goofy women who think you’re so oppressed because you may have to go to another state to murder your baby need to grow the hell up and look into the future. How’s your grocery bill, you taxes, do you need a new car, how’s you energy and gas bills? Single issue voters are just ignorant. You shouldn’t be allowed to bote until you pass a civics test.
David, I totally agree with your first “I want”
I also agree with number two, to a point. Everyone thinks that the division if Church and State means no religion anywhere in government. It was written so that the government could not make a national religion such as the church of England. Our founders for the most part were deeply devout christians (small exception for Jefferson), but he did come around. We are a Judeo/Christian Nation. I believe we are in the sorry state we’re in because we too God out of everything. I don’t care if you believe it or not, but don’t tell me I offend you….. tough sh#t.
I am a second ammendment advocate. In this world with all the craziness, I have the God given right to defend me and mine. When you’re in dire consequences, the cops are only 10 minutes away, that usually doesn’t work out well. Secondly, our founders saw that down the line we may have to defend ourselves from our own government. Remember the first thing that dictators do is disarm the population.
Disarming police???? Once again, they are supposed to be around to help keep the peace. This administration has kneecapped our cops to the point that they’re afraid to shoot the bad guys. That’s where it’s nice to have a good guy with a gun. There are statistics to back me up, but I’m too lazy to get them for you.
I’d like citizens to vote too. I think it would great if they had to pass the same test that immigrants take to become a citizen. Ask people simple civics questions…..I get get upset when they answer. Our population is beyond uninformed.
If you want to go to college you should be educated, not indoctrinated. If you want a good education you should be willing to pay for it, I did as did my husband. You should also learn relevant things that will get you a job and get you through life. Women’s studies is not a serious route to being an educated person, neither is Rock and Roll studies and more that I can’t think if right now. Primary education is pretty much the same. Unfortunately the schools are run run by the teacher’s union that do not have their education and well being upmost on their agenda.
My doctor, like most doctors now days have to join “Hospital Inc.” in order to help cover the malpractice insurance. Now medicine is big business and like most large businesses, they are run by bean counter administrators and not usually in the best interest of their patients. It’s bad enough now, I can’t imagine how bad it would be if it was free. If you get something for free you usually get what you pay for. As a good example of that look at the VA, since you brought it up.
And lastly
I agree with most of your “lastly”. We’re in our 70’s and travel 4-6 weeks a year on our motorcycle. We travel backroads and stay in small towns, have been in every state in the union including Alaska. That is the only thing that keeps me optomistic about people and the love of this country. Americans, by and large, are nice, giving people. You have to get out of the city and visit fly over country. We’ve had our faults, but we are the only country willing to correct those mistakes. Sometimes that correction is ugly but the end result is usually right.
This has been the most fun I’ve had in an on line conversation. Thanks for being non confrontational, I get told to pound salt a lot. It all goes back to
asking people to provide real facts if they they have a gripe. It finally rained here but don’t think it’s enough to help. Poor farmers, that’s a hard life.
Oh Bobbie, Bobbie, Bobbie,
Since you tried to be personal and offensive to people trying to have a discussion, please consider the following:
Better to be silent and have everyone think you are ignorant than to open your mouth and confirm it.
Ignorance is not a bad thing. It can be corrected by education.
So you have some work to do.
Best of everything to you,
David
Well Dave, I’m tired of women crying about how oppressed they are. If you think you’re oppressed give a detailed explanation. And it seems like it all comes down to abortion. I’m more than happy to listen to their other discussions regarding their oppressed viewpoints. Personal? They are attacking over 1/2 of the country, calling us members of an occult. We have facts on our side, you have malicious attacks on every one of us that believe in freedom of speech, religious freedom, freedom to build a business and keep our hard earned money. Freedom from government intervention in our lives. I want to eat meat, I love meat, Kamala wants to regulate our diet and eleminate meat. Not her business what I eat. She wants to defund police, she believes in open borders, we absolutely do not. So don’t bitch to me about personal when all you folks do is get personal, btw, with no facts to back you up.
Please stop watching FoxNews or wherever you are getting your information. I am tired of women crying out about misogyny and being oppressed too. Maybe we should help change things so they have nothing to complain about!
Ok, what did I say that wasn’t factual. I get my news from a lot of different sources. Seems we agree on one thing and that’s whining women(btw, I am a woman) so I’m confused about the rest of your comment unless it was supposed to be sarcastic? I am woman hear me roar….. most rediculous phrase in any song that started all this crap about mysogyny and men bashing. I like men and most of them ate great guys, ladies if you have a bad one and you’re still there that’s on you, quit bitching and fix it yourself.
Interestingly, most people in cults don’t realize they’re in a cult. Indeed these are EXTREMELY dangerous times as the very essence of democracy is in serious jeopardy should Trump win (Read the book ‘How Democracies Die’). Unfortunately, this phenomenon goes well beyond Trump as it’s en entire movement (cult) now and has made most of the GOP unrecognizable and without conscience and shamelessly enabling. I live in Springfield (just North of Branson) and am sickened by the Trump pop-ups/stores and all the many MAGA vehicles I see in traffic. As you suggest Jess, getting out the vote and encouraging new voters in is part of the key to victory in November. My Spiritual faith is deep and I pray every day we are protected from him ever, EVER being in power again. I also pray more generally for our country and our world that is hurting in so many ways. Thank you Jess and also Heather Cox Richardson for your wonderful and much needed work. May we have peace. That is my prayer.
I well remember the horror stories out of Springfield during COVID, the huge hospital tent, the thousands of dead, the guy who went like Nicodemus in the night to get vaccinated at a church after his best friend and two family members succumbed. And the ICU nurse who said that many of her patients (who were going to die) were proud of how they'd "owned the libs."
I grew up in MO too. To say that this story made me both sad and furious is a vast understatement.
The average age of Covid death was literally above the average age of life expectancy. You people were completely scammed by a media that gets 75% of its ad revenue from big Pharma. What a bunch of chumps.
There were no tents full of dead people. The vax killed way more people than Covid. It’s still killing people. The tents were a ruse to get the uninformed scared…. Seems it worked. How many family businesses closed never to open again? How many people had their life savings invested in those businesses wiped out. How many do you think killed themselves because of it. Why was home depot open but the little hardware store owned by your neighbor closed. Why were churches closed but you could go to Lowes. Why were the least suseptible, like our kids, kept out of school and still forced to get the shot? Why has our military been decimated because people won’t join up and people were kicked out because they wouldn’t get the shot, that goes for police and fire too. Why are we fighting 3 proxy wars now and there was peace in the middle east
3 1/2 years ago? Why are we selling our emergency oil reserves to China and buying gas from comunist Venezuela when we were the largest gas and oil producer 3 1/2 years ago? Tell me I’m wrong. Do you homework and give me facts. I’m always willing to listen to the other side. Orange man hitler doesn’t deserve a conversation.
Dear Bobbie,
You really only get half the story don’t you. Try thinking you are a virus that must go from person to person to survive. How would you go from person to person? Airborne is the best way because it is quick and easy if you are a very very small easily aerosolized particle. And that is what COVID is. If Trump had shared this information with everyone in January 2020 when he found out, the only defense anyone would have needed was a mask on all the infected people. But since no one can tell who is infected, everyone would need to wear a mask. And if we had all known that, no one would have had to stay at home or telework. Thank our President at that time for hosing that one up. And all the rest of us? Being honest is not enough. You have to have the facts and be accurate.
And what about schools? Still would need to shut them all down. Why? Because the children all go home once a day to hug and kiss their parents after sharing all their viruses and bacteria in class. If one of the parents is infected, sending their kids to school means that everyone in the school could be infected. They might not die from COVID but children are super distributors of viruses.
I just love all the anti-vaxers and death-by-COVID deniers. They live in their own safe world of fantasies and myths. I sure hope that their entire lives are spent in that la-la-land and that they are happy for their entire lives. They will have achieved what most look for but never have a hope of getting.
Back to reality:
According to Statista.com, there were 2.85 million deaths in the US in 2019 and 3.38 million in 2020 and 3.46 million in 2021. Total deaths had been going down since 2018. This leaves about 530,000 people in 2020 and 610,000 in 2021 dying of causes not seen in previous years. Since all causes of death are something other than COVID because the actual mechanism of death is lack of oxygen or heart failure, none of the statistics show that COVID was involved. Method, cause and mechanism never show the real culprit.
Where were all the dead bodies? Well ask the morgues and undertakers. But my guess is that when a nation is used to taking care of 2.84 million bodies a year, if you distribute an additional 1 million over two years over the whole country, there were only a few places that saw numbers that they had to use extraordinary measures to deal with.
But all the medical experts in the world agree that COVID was the disease that resulted in over one million deaths in the US that would not have occurred at that time except for COVID.
There are a million US families that lost someone because of COVID.
All the people in denial are going to stay in denial because they choose to and the rest of us will continue to try to protect ourselves from them.
One last fact: Vaccines do not make you immune, they never have because they don’t work that way, never did. Please read about vaccines and what they really do if you are confused.
Wishing you all the best,
David
Well, there's this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/15/springfield-missouri-delta-outbreak/
Latest data I can find shows just under 2000 COVID deaths in Greene County Missouri since the start of the pandemic. Your county has about 300,000 people.
Contrast this to the 660 deaths in Dane County Wisconsin, where I live, that has almost exactly twice the population of Greene County.
Hmmm.
I have friends all over the US and Europe who have been vaxxed (my entire family included), and I have never heard of a single death or even significant illness due to the vax. Just saying.
Yes,half of my family is part of the cult enablers. They are too well educated to be in the cult, but are happy to see tax cuts and more poison flushed into the commons.
The misogyny, cruelty, racism and despotism is brushed off, just as it was in 1933 Germany.
These type of people honestly bothers me more than the cultists. I know it's bad, but I just want more money, is so selfish and cruel
I agree. I wish we could get it through to these people that the majority of economists predict that the economy of the country (and the globe) would be severely damaged by another Trump presidency. His proposed tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, combined with his ridiculous tariff idea, would seriously eat into their precious retirement nest eggs, and inflation would be on the rise again.
Thank you again, so much. I always wanted to go into one of those shops just to look but have never trusted myself to not do something stupid. Thank you so very much.
Yep...I couldn't hold my mouth...or keep from sneering at them. And I don't sneer.
I try to write sane comments on Fox once a month. I literally get physically uncomfortable in my body after being in that internet environment—cannot imagine being inside a domestic terrorist store. Jess and others have stronger s
can’t constitutions that I have!
Excellent, though depressing, insights.