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From the annals of horrible biased journalism

This bullshit from UN News and World Report:

Woman Who Survived 1918 Flu, World War Succumbs to COVID
Primetta Giacopini’s life began and ended with pandemics.

What the headline implied:

COVID is worse than the 1918 flu.  So much worse that COVID is killing Spanish Flu survivors.  You need to be terrified of COVID.

What anyone with an iota of critical thinking noticed:

That was 103 years ago, how the fuck old was that woman?

The answer is, she died at 105.

Of course any death is sad, but at 105 she could have died from being put directly underneath an air conditioning vent.

She lived a good long life and that should be respected.

The media is turning that into COVID panic porn.

Texas Democrat magazine is utterly insane

I swear when I first saw this article I thought the LivingBlueTx was a parody site.

Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning On Killing You?

Unfortunately, as much as it sounds like satire, it isn’t

I made a new Tik Tok account intending to get over to the right-wing side of the platform. For one, unlike Facebook or Twitter, since my feed (FYP, for your page) aligns so well with my interests, I never come across Republicans on Tik Tok. And two, I thought I would find idiots sticking spoons to their arms (vaccinations) or some other moronic thing. Instead, what I came across was shocking.

The more I dug and the further I tailored my FYP, the more shocking the content became. Although I don’t think they have given it a name, I’m pretty sure I curated my Tik Tok feed to #DomesticTerroristTok.

It didn’t take long to find hundreds of videos where these Trumpers and so-called patriots were hanging black American flags.

Black American flags are the flags that mean “no quarter shall be given.” They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender.

It means that they will not surrender, will not take prisoners, and are willing to die for their cause. It means they will execute their enemies.

Who are their enemies? Pretty much any non-Conservative. You know, Democrats, Liberals, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and the vaccinated.

Over the last few years, the right has been vocal about calling non-Conservatives the enemy and make it apparent through their actions that they think we are their enemies.

The article goes on from there about how horrible and racist and violent Republicans are.

Now would be a good time to bring up this article from Slate:

The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward, the Subreddit That Catalogs Anti-Vaxxer COVID Deaths

HermanCainAward, one of the fastest-growing subreddits on Reddit.com, is exactly what it sounds like: an archive of those who have been hospitalized and/or killed by COVID and didn’t believe the disease could harm them.

These people also doxx and harass the families of people who die of COVID.

Then there has been social media post after social media post and OpEd after OpEd, many covered on this blog, of Leftists outright saying Conservatives/Republicans/Trump supporters and the unvaccinated should be denied every form of health care and left to die in the streets.

Not to mention years of internet commando Leftists saying “if you want me to take your guns from your cold dead hands that’s what we’ll do.”

So even if this black flag of no quarter thing is real, is the people like minded to LivingBlueTx who have been fucking around and now they are clutching their pearls and diving on their fainting couches at the thought their neighbors are finally saying “go ahead and find out.”

If you want an insight into the mind of the people ruining Texas, this is it and it’s utterly insane.

Holy crap! I can’t believe I did this. (Update)

I went to bed yesterday thinking that I could not remember what was my caloric intake when I began my diet last year. I am now down to 1,400 calories a day and I always try to actually stay under it by 100 calories or so knowing that at least once or twice  a month I may go over because an unsuspected sausage biscuit may happened to cross my path in a moment of weakness.  The Noom app is worth its code in gold just for the extensive database of meals with its calories by portions which makes easy as hell to control what you eat.  But I found out it also keeps your history of calories consumed along with your weight and I have to say, modesty aside, I impressed the hell out of myself.

I reduced my calories by more than 1,000!

I weighed myself this morning at 236 pounds, but I do not declare that being official unless I keep it or go under that for three days on a row.  So, for accounting purposes, I have lost 163 pounds since I began dieting almost a year and a half ago.  Back then, I was starting to buy 4XL clothing (one of the things that hinted strongly I needed to lose some pounds) and I am now having to buy new clothes in Large because most of my stuff is simply too big and I look like the youngest kid in the family who inherited the older brothers’ apparel.

Although the “experts” say I should be weighing 160 pounds (Not since 1977, so screw that), my final goal is 220 pounds/100 kilos, a nice even number.  According to Noom, I should be reaching that number sometime before Thanksgivings which means I will celebrate with a plateful of the Missus “Four to Six Cheeses Thanksgivings Lasagna.” after that, I’ll just worry about staying in the neighborhood with a plus/minus 2 pounds variation which is (for some mysterious reason) what you gain when you eat one single Cracker Barrel Country Ham biscuit, go figure.

So I could never dance, I quit drinking decades ago, I quit smoking 5 years ago in November and now I stopped overindulging myself with food and moved back to Tennessee. Shit, I believe I became a Baptist when I wasn’t looking 😀


UPDATE: I have been told apparently there is some sort of unwritten law where I am supposed to post before and after photos. The only one I have of me “before” showing the circumference is one from 7 years ago and I reckon some 350 to 360 pounds.  The after photo is from 10 days ago.

One more thought on the CDC going after guns

Maybe my tinfoil hat is getting tight but I can’t help but think the plan is:

Step 1: Use CDC COVID-powers to grab the guns and disarm us.

Step 2: Crack down on disarmed America the same way disarmed Australians are being cracked down on right now.

This is very bad, terrible news for gun rights

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1443296683224408069

Eighteen months ago the CDC was another government bureaucracy that you mostly heard of in the context of zombie movies.

Them came COVID.

Now the CDC has the power to shut down the economy, force you into lockdown, demand you wear a mask, cost you your job if you don’t get a vaccine, and can decide if landlords can evict deadbeat tenants.

Eighteen months ago the CDC going after guns as a public health threat would have generated a few studies that few people would have read.

Today, only God knows what powers the current COVID supercharged CDC has to go after guns.

It was because of the CDC that police filled in skate parks with sand, arrested people sitting alone outside, shut down business, stopped Christians from going to Church, raided Synagogues, and welded the gates of Jewish cemeteries closed.

This is what the CDC can unleash against gun owners.

Then there is the public.

The words “public health threat” have driven people into insanity, grocery shopping in homemade biohazard suits.

Imagine every Branch Covidian having a conniption, streaking about someone else not wearing a mask in public, feeling empowered to do the same about guns because their spiritual leaders at the CDC described guns as the next “public health threat.”

The last 18 months have shown just how much power the CDC has to overrule to US Constitution.  When the Supreme Court told the CDC they didn’t have the authority to extend eviction moratorium, they did it anyways.

This is the agency that will come after our guns.