In today’s news and poll of the day - part 2

Those with friendly doctors will have a convenient D&C. It has always been available. Money helps even in that circumstance.

They might worry that one or both of them would change parties.

A couple of articles are trying to decide who's going to rat out whoever.. whether TFG let's his kids take the fall or if they will bail on him. If it all goes through with NY AG James there may be no more company for any of them.

VA Youngkin retaliation.... Oh right, it was the new VA. AG who did it..

Chief Jan 6th investigator fired from his state job by Virginia's new Republican attorney general: report
Tom Boggioni
January 23, 2022

According to a report from the Washington Post, a University of Virginia counsel who has been on leave to help with the Jan 6th investigation has been fired by Virginia's new Republican attorney general.

AG Jason Miyares took over as the 48th Attorney General of Virginia on January 15 and has proceeded to conduct a mass purge of approximately 30 staffers which included attorney Tim Heaphy.

On August 12,2021, Heaphy was designated by House riot committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) as the Chief Investigative Counsel for the Select Committee. In his annoucement he stated, "It’s good news for the Select Committee and for the American people that Mr. Heaphy has agreed to come onboard as our top investigator. Mr. Heaphy is a committed public servant with deep experience tackling complex and high-profile challenges. The Committee will need his expertise as we push ahead quickly on a number of fronts. I’m grateful for his willingness to support the Committee’s work getting answers about January 6th and protecting our democracy."

That didn't stop Miyarres from firing Heaphy, the WaPo reports.

"Tim Heaphy, who had worked at the state school for about three years, was among roughly 30 staffers who were let go by Jason Miyares shortly before he took office a little over a week ago. Democrats have questioned the firings and how they were carried out," the Post is reporting. "Victoria LaCivita, a Miyares spokeswoman, said the attorney general’s office had also fired the counsel for George Mason University, Brian Walther, but offered no explanation for why he was let go. George Mason referred questions about Walther’s firing to Miyares’s office. Walther did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Both Heaphy and Walther are Democrats."

www.rawstory.com/capitol-2656464060/

I would like to point out, just for the record, that the rally today in DC is NOT antivaxx. It is anti-mandate. There is a huge difference. I believe that over 70 percent of the attendees are vaxxed. And, although it isn't shown on American news much, the same crowds of thousands of people are marching throughout the world to protest the mandates.

That is true in many cases. But I know many, many people who personally believe in the vaccines and are vaccinated, but absolutely do not believe in the mandates. After reading and studying both sides of the arguments, I remain committed to the vaccines. But I have joined the anti-mandate group.

Respectfully, I would disagree.  Perhaps that was the intention or maybe it was advertised that way.  However, RFK Jr and some of the other well known speakers are loudly and clearly anti-vax.  If he and the other anti-vaxxers were scheduled to speak and invited by the organizers, in my opinion, the rally was both. The rally was advertised by Joe Rogan, a decidedly anti-vaxxer and Tucker Carlson who has also spread vaccine misinformation.  According to news reports, speakers delivered a mix of anti-vax and anti-mandate with regrettably and inexcusably, anti-Semitism. I think at least some of the people there were both anti-vax and anti mandate.  And many of the protesters were not wearing masks. Maybe that's OK because it was outside, but in the pictures I saw of the protest in DC, there were lots of people close together.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/23/dc-anti-vaccine-rally-mandates-protest/

parts of the article

Thousands of protesters from across the country — including some of the biggest names in the anti-vaccination movement — descended on the nation’s capital Sunday for a rally against vaccine mandates.

The marchers carried posters and flags that included false statements such as “Vaccines are mass kill bio weapons” and “Trump won.”

Justin Perrault was demonstrating in D.C. for the first time. The 38-year-old from Fairhaven, Mass., said he had watched his body therapy and spiritual counseling business dry up as clients — afraid of catching the virus from an unvaccinated practitioner — stopped coming. He said he started using food stamps for the first time in his life but was ashamed and worried what his 8- and 4-year-old children would think of him. He said he came to D.C. with his wife and her best friend not only to protest vaccination mandates, but also to take a stand against the scientific consensus that the vaccines are safe.

Jaedyn Wetzel, 12, stood nearby holding a sign that read “I have natural immunity.” She said she was infected with the coronavirus over Thanksgiving. She stood with her sister, Jessie, 14, and their parents, who didn’t want to be named for fear of discrimination based on the family’s unvaccinated status. They drove to the District for the day from Warfordsburg, Pa., for their first protest in the nation’s capital.

The march was billed as a protest of mandates rather than the medicines themselves. But similar rhetoric — emphasizing individual autonomy rather than untenable scientific ideas — has long characterized the broader anti-vaccine movement, and the march’s speakers included movement veterans such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Del Bigtree, founder of the anti-vaccine group Informed Consent Action Network. The event was being live-streamed on Bigtree’s website, the High Wire, which includes a prominent link that allows viewers to donate to ICAN.

Two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first studies based on real-world data showing that the vaccines continue to provide strong protection against hospitalization related to the omicron variant, Malone stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and falsely told thousands of cheering spectators that “the science is settled. They’re not working.”

The group had dwindled to a few hundred by midafternoon, when one speaker recited long-debunked claims about a link between a common childhood vaccine and autism.

The rally benefited extensively from publicity in recent weeks on prominent social media and podcasting platforms. Tune said the march’s website saw a “huge spike” in traffic after Malone mentioned it on Joe Rogan’s popular podcast. Malone’s appearance provoked a condemnatory letter to Spotify, which hosts the podcast, from hundreds of doctors and public health experts. Tucker Carlson also plugged the event during an interview with Malone.

I would also disagree that it was organized as strictly anti-mandate. The organizers invited prominent anti-vaxxers and it was advertised/ promoted by anti-vax personalities. And the rally itself was clearly both.

But but but...... he didn't even attempt to correct himself...

It's all, as in everything, is Biden's fault...