- The Palmer Report brings background news from the Fox Network. Seems that, while Fox campaigns against any private or public vaccination or mask mandates they are demanding their own employees provide proof of vaccination or wear a mask at all times while at work.
- Tommy Christopher reports as President Biden’s White House Communications Director blasts some media outlets for disinformation about COVID vaccines, but has a bit of praise for Donald Trump.
- Dave Dubya looks at vaccination rates vs demographic data, and sees one identifiable group that engages in a deadly celebration of ignorance.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has a theory on why Mitch McConnell and a few other conservatives have, with varying degrees of unenthusiasm, begun to turn toward vaccinations.
- Frances Langum watches Joy Reid relaxing on set with Colbert. Reid is a Joy as she explains how conservatives connect the dots, joining bamboo shards, chicken poop, ballots, China, and Trump winning by a bazillion votes. “…those same people are saying ‘don’t get vaccinated.'”. Funny because it’s ridiculous. Tragic because it’s deadly.
- driftglass carefully listens to pundit advice. Seems we must empathize with Trumpsters by humoring their fragile belief systems with voting restrictions, and by gently coaxing them into abandoning deadly COVID vaccine fantasies. Then we must hope they will finally see reality before it is too late. driftglass isn’t buying it.
- NOJO seems to pretty much agree, taking aim at National Review’s review of just who is at fault for deadly decisions not to vaccinate. Turns out it’s us for being insufficiently respectful of their vaccine resistance. Damn liberals every damn time!!
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors is also skeptical of the gentle approach, or really any approach, to anti-vaxxers, suggesting instead a gentle, empathetic approach to the next of kin.
- News Corpse sees Jim Acosta of CNN channeling Sean Connery in The Untouchables as he believes a Trump outburst. In the face of open lawlessness, Acosta asks law enforcement, What are you prepared to do?.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson takes a look at the interplay between Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy on what might have become a bipartisan committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection, which is to say the Trump lynch mob that invaded the Capitol looking for legislators to kill. McCarthy’s inept response, pulling away from any cooperation, ends up advertising Democrats as the only adults in Washington.
- Andy Borowitz summarizes the objections of Republicans who protest the committee to investigate the riot and the lack of rioters on the committee.
- Scotties Toy Box sees an additional bit of irony in the Republican position on the Jan 6 riot investigation.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson finally finds something on which he agrees with conservative Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson:
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