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Demovictory9's Journal"So so disappointed in you!" , "How could you." GOP response to Ivanka getting vaxxed
Not Even Ivanka Can Save the Nearly Half of Republicans Refusing to Get VaccinatedResistance to a coronavirus vaccine remains high on the political right, with yet another poll showing that nearly half of Republicans say they don’t plan to get a jab. And not even the return of one of MAGA-world’s most beloved bit players can convince them otherwise.
On Wednesday, after months of self-imposed silence, former first daughter Ivanka Trump emerged on Twitter to post a photo of herself receiving the vaccine and encourage others to follow suit. The tweet comes amid Ivanka’s long record of questioning the science of lockdown measures and ignoring federal guidelines to avoid nonessential out-of-state travel. But of course, that’s not what the right took issue with.
“So so disappointed in you!” one Twitter user responded, adding sad emoji faces. “How could you.” It was part of a flood of tweets expressing apparent betrayal. Others poured in with conspiracy theories questioning both the photo’s timing and its authenticity. “Does anyone really believe that she JUST got the shot? #OldPhoto,” read one tweet.
“Bill Gates is tracking you now,” another, falsely, claimed.
https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1382435705847226369
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/04/ivanka-trump-vaccine-republican-resistance/
Born After 2004? New Zealand May Never Let You Smoke
Born After 2004? New Zealand May Never Let You Smoke
Nation considering various proposals as it aims to be smoke-free by 2025
New Zealand has proposed several plans as part of a goal to be smoke-free by 2025, including a permanent ban on sales of any tobacco products to anyone born after 2004, reports the Guardian. Cigarettes are already heavily taxed in the country. But "we need a new approach," Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall said Thursday in revealing the proposals, noting that "about 4,500 New Zealanders die every year from tobacco." Verrall said the "most extreme" proposal toward a smoke-free generation is one that would ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2004 beginning in 2022. That ban would be permanent—meaning a person born after 2004 couldn’t buy tobacco products even after reaching adulthood.
Verrall also said the government—which is seeking input from the public—could instead choose to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco to 20 or 25, "where taking up smoking is much less likely," per Stuff. Other proposed rules would see limits on the amount of nicotine allowed in products, a mandatory minimum price, and a ban on cigarette filters. The hope is this will encourage people to abandon the habit, which accounts for one in four cancer deaths in New Zealand. But even smokers who support some of the proposals tell Stuff that the goal of a smoke-free nation by 2025 is unrealistic. Some say it will only expand the black market for tobacco. Others worry about the effect on small retailers. As for the proposed ban on filters, "it's not going to make any difference," says one smoker. "Does the needle bother the heroine junky?"
https://www.newser.com/story/305018/born-after-2004-new-zealand-may-never-let-you-smoke.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login
protests in Portland tonight after man killed by cops
https://twitter.com/gravemorgan/status/1383307375478665223https://twitter.com/gravemorgan/status/1383304545908912129
https://twitter.com/gravemorgan/status/1383302280519118848
https://twitter.com/gravemorgan/status/1383296844034236423
https://twitter.com/gravemorgan/status/1383290664549453829
lesson.. don't ever invite a goose to bite you
Man Picks Up And Hurls Away Rabid Bobcat In Wild Viral Footage
and pulls out a gun, who has a gun just handy in their pocket? 12 seconds in you see the "bobcat" launch onto the woman's back. I wonder if it was after the animal she had in the pet carrier
https://twitter.com/Evi3Zamora/status/1382781106269818884
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bobcat-attack-viral-video_n_60791405e4b0deb3d5b20f4c
The US has reported at least 45 mass shootings in the last month
CNN considers an incident to be a mass shooting if four or more people are shot, wounded, or killed, excluding the gunman; so does the GVA.
Here are the 45 incidents reported since March 16.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/us/mass-shootings-45-one-month/index.html
having a seizure while black
https://twitter.com/StaceyTVJourno/status/1382822300521623554
A black grandfather was punched and kicked by white police officers after suffering an epileptic seizure while walking his autistic grandson to school, his family says.
A female bystander captured footage of the Thursday morning incident in Minden, Louisiana, which saw five cops - four of them white, one black - gather around Robby Bailey, 53.
Bailey was already on the ground by the time the woman and another bystander began filming, with one of the white cops seen kicking him, and another filmed punching him.
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At one point an officer yells 'stop resisting!' while Bailey's grandson, who family said is autistic, watches helplessly a few feet away.
His mother Margia Bailey, 80, told DailyMail.com on Friday morning that her son is being treated in hospital, although she is unsure how severe his injuries are.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9478695/Black-Louisiana-grandpa-punched-kicked-white-cops-suffering-fit-grandson.html
She says that she has yet to see footage of the incident, and refused to comment further on the altercation.
Minden Police Chief Steve Cropper says the officer filmed kicking Bailey - who has not been identified - was placed on leave, KSLA 12 News reported.
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