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And you believe that BS because you've seen a TV personality stage a 30 second clip of his orange self breakdancing? Wow, look at those moves! Check out that range of motion. That dazzling footwork! And that was three years ago when he was a spry 75 year old. Wow, look at that plant go! Here's your little problem with your made up made for TV statement. The absolute fact is that Biden kept himself way healthier (eating properly to maintain a good weight, exercising--not just BS golf) than Trump did their entire lives and that is scientifically known to give a person what is medically called a "reserve capacity" of health going into one's elder years. That doesn't mean Biden (or Trump) won't have other problems, but it does mean that the odds of maintaining good health from here on out are way worse for Trump. Anecdotally, my brother's motto was always "I'll eat anything that's lived". While I lived as a vegetarian who swam a mile a day for most of my life, biked 20 miles road, 10 miles trail a few times a week, walked about 5 miles a day, gym, etc. So today in my 60s, though I have arthritis that was always beyond my control so I've the joints of a 90 year old and am losing range of motion, I've also got a zero coronary calcium score and the arteries of a 40 year old. My brother? not so much, clogged arteries, stents, heart attack, strokes, already in dementia. Yikes! But you go ahead and keep thinking this was living more healthy YIKES!

I thought the high number was the jury calling him out for a curtain call after his staged antics. And all he wanted an Emmy. instead he got their 83.3 million dollar judgement. I can only imagine his truth social so I'll wait for the real news to sift through it. You missed his latest (is there ever a latest, rapid fire latest maybe? How about his attempt to disenfranchise his own Republican voters by rigging his own RNC primaries before walking that back. What a mess the GOP has become. https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnns-kaitlan-collins-reveals-that-trump-was-secretly-behind-rnc-plan-to-coronate-him-that-he-publicly-rejected/ Trump Was Secretly Behind RNC Plan to Coronate Him That He Publicly Rejected Trump was secretly behind the Republican National Committee’s plan to name him the presumptive GOP nominee for president, even though he publicly renounced it after it faced widespread backlash. The Dispatch reported on Thursday afternoon that the RNC was considering a resolution to recognize Trump as its presumptive nominee despite the fact that only two primary contests have taken place so far

Yes. This award absolutely was about the defamation, not about the sex. Your arguing with a joke about sex is your own personal problem. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/donald-trump-net-worth-how-much-of-a-hit-will-83-3-million-e-jean-carroll-verdict-be/ar-BB1hklGG Trump has been ordered to pay... $83.3 million in damages to ... E. Jean Carroll for defamatory statements he made against her ... The jury determined that Trump should compensate Carroll with $18.3 million in total—$11 million allocated for a reputation repair program and $7.3 million for the emotional distress caused by his remarks. Additionally, Trump is required to pay $65 million in punitive damages for acting maliciously in his statements about Carroll. (bolding mine)

not quite and this wasn't even for that but for the defamation aspect, not the rapey aspect, but monetary compensation for sex translates similarly, he just custom ordered his with all the expensive options.

A jury of his peers found his bar fine to be $83.3 million. You couldn't pay me that to go anywhere near that toadstool. Ick! https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/verdict-reached-e-jean-carrolls-defamation-damages-trial-trump-rcna135919 Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million in defamation damages, jury rules... The award included $11 million for damage to Carroll's reputation, $7.3 million for emotional harm and other damages, and $65 million in punitive damages.

There's a 7th grade picture circulating on internetz including me looking damned good haha so I've been contacted recently by a variety of old grade school friends from anti-vaxxer MAGA Republicans (who I purposely, as politely as I could, distanced myself from ever since orange escalator descent) to health-conscious Democrats (who I've remained in at least intermittent contact during this political period and thru all these many decades). One thing strikes me similar in both: either a lack of good information or an over-abundance of disinformation. But the problem goes beyond this because even those I know properly informed --if just by me as I peruse medical journals for fun and regularly share that info in casual conversation--even many who vax to stay out of hospital or morgue have dropped all or most masking & social distancing safety measures. I was not at all surprised that an anti-vaxxer who called still shows signs of the dementia I first noticed in him a few months or a year back (time flies when you're avoiding pandemic) which began during covid, about which earlier on he'd brought up in conversation himself but would admit only to having had "that flu" that he allowed into his body at least a few times and as to vaccines insists "I'm not putting that into my body." Again, will put virus but not vaccine in body, which is beyond bizarro to me. But even a different guy who called who I always considered to have common sense, not the brightest guy but I've never heard him say anything I absolutely disagreed with, he had no idea that covid can get into the brain. Even though he knew of brain fog, he hadn't connected in his mind that with dementia which is of particular concern now in our aging. So I sent him some of the journal info and he was definitely surprised, thinking that he had been keeping himself safe enough with vaccines alone. So on top of the disinformation and a lack of information (journal news is rarely mainstream headlined), there is also a fatigue in this new to us experience. School kids once got air-raid drills, fire drills, today, so sadly, they get mass shooter drills, but no one gets pandemic drill and "experience is a hard teacher". Hopefully by the end of 2024 the US will have a mucosal vaccine (possibly Coviliv by Codagenix). My understanding is that China is already distributing some other intranasal (or otherwise breathed in) vaccine. I haven't seen efficacy numbers yet. My hope is that these new vaccines will further reduce risk of covid spike proteins infecting the skull meninges brain axis and then maybe I'll start to risk less masking, more socializing again with those who now risk daily long covid and voluntary dementias. What a long strange trip it's been. https://molecularneurodegeneration.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13024-022-00529-9 "...these three studies support the notion that SARS-CoV-2 (or its shed spike protein) does not utilize the olfactory nerve to reach the brain, but rather uses a shortcut: neurons of the nervus terminalis (the little-known cranial nerve “0” [12]) which innervates the nasal cavity, and within the olfactory epithelium specifically the ACE2-expressing (and virus-accumulating) cells in Bowman glands [7] (Fig. 1). The nervus terminalis neurons have central processes that project directly to targets in the brain including the hypothalamus, bypassing the olfactory bulb. Once the hypothalamus is reached, SARS-CoV-2 can penetrate the blood-brain-barrier and can reach various neural circuits connected to the hypothalamus, including brainstem nuclei that are involved in respiration."

I suspect the fundamentalist views on abortion are less about their being offended by the fate of a fetus (though that's their claim) -- so much so that some of them today would consider even a documented medical miscarriage to be a criminal fault of the woman* -- and more about their being offended that in pregnancy women get to play (their version of) God (a major threat to patriarchy), to bring within themselves the creation of new born life or to disrupt that biological process be that by will or not. There was a time when it seemed normal to religious fundamentalists to complain about masturbation, that it was the murder, they'd even claim, of future generations. So the fascist anti-choice movement (this attempt to control the lives of others) is nothing new; we've seen this before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_on_masturbation#:~:text=Today%2C Roman Catholic (including Eastern,masturbation as not a sin. "...Today, Roman Catholic (including Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and some Protestant Christians consider masturbation to be a sin... ...procreative accent of the Hebrew interpretation regarding sexuality, where survival of the tribe depends on abundant procreation. The story was written by a "prescientific mind" that considered the child to be contained in the sperm the same way a plant is contained in its seed... ...Matthew 5:29–30, Matt. 18:6–9, and Mark 9:42–48 state that, if they cause one to sin, one should tear out one's eye and cut off one's hand or foot. Will Deming states "The sinning by eye, hand, and foot may come from a tradition of formulaic warnings against lustful gazing (by the eye), masturbation (by hand)... ...Greek-Egyptian Church Father Clement of Alexandria ... Seed should not be sown on rocky ground nor scattered everywhere, for it is the primary substance of generation and contains imbedded [sic] in itself the principle of nature. It is undeniably godless... ...The Coptic Orthodox Church views masturbation as a sin because it is regarded as a "form of sexual pleasure outside of God's design..." etc. etc. etc. * https://www.npr.org/2022/07/03/1109015302/abortion-prosecuting-pregnancy-loss "Losing a pregnancy could land you in jail in post-Roe America ... Chelsea Becker spent 16 months in a California jail awaiting a murder trial after her pregnancy ended in a stillbirth ... Prosecuting pregnancy loss has been a quiet, but upward trend across the nation... Twenty percent of pregnancies in the U.S. end in a loss, according to Kliman, who has worked as an expert witness with NAPW on several cases. He says over 90% of these losses are caused by genetic abnormalities, which are often undiagnosed..." (bolding mine)

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/23/trump-moderate-republicans-problem-00137112 "Donald Trump has a big problem ahead A whole swath of GOP voters appears firmly committed to not voting for Trump in November.... There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to not voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee. It’s an issue that became starkly apparent in polling ahead of the Iowa caucuses, when an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of voters in that state found that fully 43 percent of Nikki Haley supporters said they would back President Joe Biden over Trump..." I'd say don't let the door hit ya in the ass on your way out but some things seem unavoidable

I doubt the data supports your "content" or "overjoyed" commentary at all correct or ever appropriate. If your only concern was being right on the weeks, then close but no cigar. You said “up to 12 weeks” But a trimester lasts up to 14 weeks, as pregnancies are not precise, being 9 months more or less. Some clinics define first trimester as 14 weeks. Here’s the Cleveland Clinic at 13: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9699-first-trimester Pregnancy has three trimesters or stages. Each trimester is about 13 weeks or three months long. A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks or between nine and 10 months. Also, per April 2023 data printed here “https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/support-for-abortion-rights-has-grown-in-spite-of-bans-and-restrictions-poll-shows “ a growing number of Americans — 34 percent — think abortion should be allowed at least up until the first six months of pregnancy, if not throughout the entire pregnancy. That support has more than doubled since May 2009, when 14 percent of Americans felt that way” So to be fair, the July 2023 Gallup polling data shows 69% want abortion legal for the first trimester which is minimally at the end of 12th week up to & including the 14th week depending on criteria used. And those weeks of majority approval might be increased (I don’t have the precise data yet at hand) to x degree by including the 37% who approve into the 2nd trimester or the 34% approving up to the first 6 months, with I’d assume more approving earlier on into the 2nd trimester than later, which could add a few additional weeks to absolute majority approval of full legality, possibly extending beyond even 14 weeks to something more like 4 months, further eroding the accuracy of your “up to 12 weeks” statement.

I enjoyed a few hours decades ago with Sarah Weddington*, who I'd been chatting with after her lecture when we were asked to be seated so I wound up her dinner partner for the evening. Super impressive lady. We got along great. She died right before her SCOTUS win was overturned. Harris began her current pro-choice campaign on the 51st anniversary of Weddington's initial win with Roe. *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Weddington "...American attorney ... best known for representing "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the United States Supreme Court." I don't know if I'd be able to make such a decision for myself were I woman, I do think this a woman's not a man's decision (were votes so cast), and am glad to be a gay man with the best of both worlds, capable of enjoying men as determined by my orientation & to the extent of my preferences without any pregnancy concerns whatsoever. As to what most Americans think, here's Gallup poll from July 2023: https://news.gallup.com/poll/321143/americans-stand-abortion.aspx "When asked about the legality of abortion at different stages of pregnancy, about two-thirds of Americans say it should be legal in the first trimester (69%), while support drops to 37% for the second trimester and 22% for the third. Majorities oppose abortion being legal in the second (55%) and third (70%) trimesters. In line with Americans’ broad support for first-trimester abortions, the majority oppose laws that would “ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, usually around the sixth week of pregnancy.” Also, 63% favor allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be available in the U.S. as a prescription drug... In line with Americans wanting abortion to be legal to some degree, 61% currently say that overturning Roe v. Wade was a “bad thing,” while 38% call it a “good thing.” Those views are similar to what Gallup measured in 2022, when asking about Roe hypothetically being overturned, as well as more than 30 years of trends showing opposition to overturning Roe." My own view is that the existing woman in her existing life is sovereign over her own existing out of the womb body and that no soul (for lack of a better term) on this side of the womb or that has rights over her life. None. So to me, her health always comes first regardless of trimester. That doesn't mean I'd want some crazy lady ripping out her own 8 month old fetus onto the curb while I'm enjoying coffee and croissant at a sidewalk cafe so I certainly can see some restrictions after viability but not while its life depends entirely upon hers for its own. Generally, to me, there is no inherent right to life, but a privilege bearer bestowed. Her life, her body, her decision. Your privilege is not her obligation; it is by her grace alone that you are born into the world. Thank your mother.

I did not misunderstand your own misunderstandings. I do indeed understand your desire to rationalize having left the USA, whether you did so as a matter of finance (good to have options) or attraction to Thai Buddhist culture (that I've long loved--though not crazy about its animism which I can find at least amusing) or fetishizing cheap sex or enjoying easily available street food or whatever your initial motivation, even to step away from problems you found yourself unable to detach from in the homeland you were born to in favor of living within the problems of a different society about which you might feel by not being born there freer to ignore. Whether be your physical ability or psychological inability to step away from an issue does not change the facts of the issue. Nor does you inability or refusal to detach personally affect actual social remedy (life goes on). Meanwhile, policing does not make a police state. A police state would be the totalitarianism of authoritarianism which is what the MAGA Republicans and Trump show they want in their efforts from policing women's bodies to library books. They are despicable and hopefully they will be voted out, just like Trump was voted out at his & his ilk's last attempt to illegally grab power. Rather, the United States of America is a constitutional state, Trump's stated authoritarian desire for “the termination of all rules ... even those found in the Constitution” not withstanding. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/constitution.htm :Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789, the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government. Its first three words – “We The People” – affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens. The supremacy of the people through their elected representatives is recognized in Article I, which creates a Congress consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives. The positioning of Congress at the beginning of the Constitution affirms its status as the “First Branch” of the federal government. The Constitution assigned to Congress responsibility for organizing the executive and judicial branches, raising revenue, declaring war, and making all laws necessary for executing these powers. The president is permitted to veto specific legislative acts, but Congress has the authority to override presidential vetoes by two-thirds majorities of both houses. The Constitution also provides that the Senate advise and consent on key executive and judicial appointments and on the approval for ratification of treaties. For over two centuries the Constitution has remained in force because its framers successfully separated and balanced governmental powers to safeguard the interests of majority rule and minority rights, of liberty and equality, and of the federal and state governments. More a concise statement of national principles than a detailed plan of governmental operation, the Constitution has evolved to meet the changing needs of a modern society profoundly different from the eighteenth-century world in which its creators lived. To date, the Constitution has been amended 27 times, most recently in 1992. The first ten amendments constitute the Bill of Rights." There actually are objective measures of democracy.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index "The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions.... The index is based on 60 indicators grouped into five categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorizes each country into one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, and authoritarian regimes."

https://www.aclu.org/documents/bill-rights-brief-history#:~:text=The Constitution was remarkable%2C but,did not apply to everyone. "The Constitution was remarkable, but deeply flawed. For one thing, it did not include a specific declaration – or bill – of individual rights. It specified what the government could do but did not say what it could not do. For another, it did not apply to everyone. The “consent of the governed” meant propertied white men only. The absence of a “bill of rights” turned out to be an obstacle to the Constitution’s ratification by the states. It would take four more years of intense debate before the new government’s form would be resolved. The Federalists opposed including a bill of rights on the ground that it was unnecessary. The Anti-Federalists, who were afraid of a strong centralized government, refused to support the Constitution without one. In the end, popular sentiment was decisive. Recently freed from the despotic English monarchy, the American people wanted strong guarantees that the new government would not trample upon their newly won freedoms of speech, press and religion, nor upon their right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures. So, the Constitution’s framers heeded Thomas Jefferson who argued: “A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” The American Bill of Rights, inspired by Jefferson and drafted by James Madison, was adopted, and in 1791 the Constitution’s first ten amendments became the law of the land."

Even if Fani Willis' personal relationship was handled inappropriately to her position (& I think she should step down), that has nothing to do with Georgia's rightful charges against Trump's criminal attempt to steal an election by dishing up a fake slate of electors and pressuring officials to "find enough votes". Any inappropriate behavior by her does not redeem his criminality. Orange supporters who use firearms in the breaking of laws will be jailed or killed. The United States of America, though a flawed democracy, is still more of a democracy than Thailand, by far. Meanwhile, by his actions and his failures to act, Trump did indeed support insurrection against the United States of American. Any common sense reading and certainly any reading by a SCOTUS Federalist Society Justice (aka those appointed by Trump) ought read the Constitution itself denies Trump candidacy for the presidency. You might have misread what I'd written above. By allowing, I mean that the Constitution allows by 2/3 vote to stop the prevention of his running for office, not the other way around as you seem to have taken it. The Constitution does not call for a 2/3 vote to bar him based on his insurrection from running. It allows for a 2/3 vote that would allow him to run, should SCOTUS rule in favor of their own originalist view of how to read the Constitution.

Would the Constitution be at fault to allow a criminal candidate had during the prior administration the MAGA Republicans somehow captured all three branches and criminalized prior to a following election all Democrats? The Constitution rightfully allows (barring a 2/3rds vote of Congress, I believe it is, would have to google) stopping an insurrectionist who'd previously held office & vowed to support the Constitution from running again. This is entirely in line also with another founding document, to be celebrated in 2026 for its Semiquincentennial, the Declaration of Independence which cites as reason for independence insurrections incited by monarch.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are Humility gives it its power --Tao Te Ching Ch'ien (modesty) "It is the law of heaven to make fullness empty and to make full what is modest; when the sun is at its zenith, it must, according to the law of heaven, turn toward its setting, and at its nadir it rises toward a new dawn. In obedience to the same law, the moon when it is full begins to wane, and when empty of light it waxes again. This heavenly law works itself out in the fates of men also." --I Ching

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn1077 "Acute infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cause a respiratory illness that can be associated with systemic immune cell activation and inflammation, widespread multiorgan dysfunction, and thrombosis... Patients with Long Covid display signs of immune dysfunction and exhaustion (1), persistent immune cell activation (3), and autoimmune antibody production (1), which are also pathological features of acute COVID-19..." https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240118150800.htm "In patients with Long Covid, the complement system (aka the innate immune system) no longer returns to its basal state, but remains activated and, thus, also damages healthy body cells... Continued activation of complement system damages tissue and blood cells... More than 6,500 proteins in the blood of the study participants were analyzed both during the acute infection and six months later. "The analyses of which proteins were altered in Long Covid confirmed the excessive activity of the complement system. Patients with active Long Covid disease also had elevated blood levels indicating damage to various body cells, including red blood cells, platelets and blood vessels,"" https://weather.com/en-IN/india/coronavirus/news/2023-12-28-covid-reinfections-increases-long-covid-risk "The study shows that the more reinfection cycles a patient endures, the more the disease alters our immune system. Over time, it obliterates the T-cells responsible for helping our body remember how to fight the virus. The virus seems to thrive on repetition, exploiting our weakened defences with each encounter and increasing the risk of long-term organ system damage. This is true even for low-risk groups such as the vaccinated, younger people or children."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseem_Malhotra Aseem Malhotra is a controversial British cardiologist,[1] health campaigner,[2] author, and, contrary to public health consensus, an anti-mRNA vaccine activist.[3] He contends that people should ... reduce their use of prescription drugs... ... His views on diet and health have been criticized by the British Heart Foundation as "misleading and wrong", and his public questioning of the need ever to use statins has been condemned as a danger to public health ... ...Despite initially campaigning for the COVID vaccine,[12] he later campaigned against the use of COVID mRNA vaccines[13] contrary to the available evidence..." Yikes!

I'm stealing your term because another fun aspect would be that SCOTUS boxed in by their own radioactive duplicity wouldn't know if they were still alive or dead upon granting immunity because Biden could then simply have them shot, and their little orange dog too. Replace them with reasonable scholars and then beat the pants off Haley in November. Even MAGA would vote for him. They love a strongman.

Non-American kings might have complete and total immunity within their own sovereignty. Non-American dictators can have complete and total immunity within their own delusion & regimes. But calling for the American Presidency to have complete and total immunity is by the definition of America un-American. This dotard needs be brought to American justice and not just for allowing his maga minions to attack our Capitol to interfere with our fair and free election, causing death & other harms to our policemen, about which in itself he has no immunity, rather the doturd had responsibility to do his duty, about which he is now legally responsible for his failure to act. Never mind the rest of his post-GOP maga crap. He is absolutely liable for the harm he purposely & willfully caused. Criminal Liability for Omissions - A Brief Summary and Critique of the Law in the United States | Office of Justice Programs (ojp.gov) "...failure to perform a legal duty when one has the capacity to do so is a substitute for the commission of a defined offense when the harm done is the same..." Jan. 6 Panel Presents Evidence of Trump’s Refusal to Stop the Riot - The New York Times (nytimes.com) "to respond to an attack on the United States government, the commander in chief chose for hours to do nothing." Federal judge says Trump has responsibility for January 6, calling rioter a 'pawn' | CNN Politics "...to call out Trump ... for using his supporters for political gain and then abandoning those supporters to suffer the consequences..." McCarthy says Trump ‘bears responsibility’ for Capitol riot - POLITICO "House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy called on President Donald Trump to “accept his share of responsibility” for the violence that overtook the U.S. Capitol... “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” McCarthy said..." etc. etc. etc.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/ "THE BIDEN-HARRISRECORD When President Biden and Vice President Harris took office, our country faced unprecedented crises - a raging pandemic, economic crisis, climate crisis, and racial injustice. The President and Vice President ran for office on the promise to move quickly to tackle these crises head-on and deliver results for working families. That’s what the Biden-Harris Administration has done. TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS Lowering Costs of Families’ Everyday Expenses More People Are Working Than At Any Point in American History Making More in America Rescued the Economy and Changed the Course of the Pandemic Rebuilding our Infrastructure Historic Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans The First Meaningful Gun Violence Reduction Legislation in 30 Years Protected Marriage for LGBTQI+ and Interracial Couples Historic Confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Federal Judges of Diverse Backgrounds Rallied the World to Support Ukraine in Response to Putin’s Aggression Strengthened Alliances and Partnerships to Deliver for the American People Successful Counterterrorism Missions Against the Leaders of Al Qaeda and ISIS Executive Orders Protecting Reproductive Rights Historic Student Debt Relief for Middle- and Working-Class Families Ending our Failed Approach to Marijuana Advancing Equity and Racial Justice, Including Historic Criminal Justice Reform Delivering on the Most Aggressive Climate and Environmental Justice Agenda in American History More People with Health Insurance Than Ever Before OK, now you guys list what you've done in your 70s.

More to the point which is not propaganda, nobody is forcing the unvaccinated to stay in their job, besides that accommodations are made for extreme cases (religious, other documented health issues, etc.) Meanwhile employers have legal & moral responsibilities (even if you don't find your own moral responsibility to not spread your virus) to other employees to provide as safe as possible a place to work. Just as an employer would be remiss to allow employees to shoot off their guns into the air to celebrate lunchtime because one of those random bullets coughed out of your little pistol might hit someone. So we allow for guns, we allow for shooting in certain circumstances, but you don't get to shoot off your gun whenever and where ever you please because others have rights too and you don't have a recreational right to violate their more primary life and safety rights. I realize this is a terrible inconvenience for you as you are probably, vaxxed or not, a fabulously invaluable worker, but the fact remains that your headache does not affect anyone but you. Your hangover affects no one but you and the only person your obesity has ill effect upon is the guy in the coach seat next to yours.

And yet the anti-vaxxers aren't complaining online about aspirin. Nor do they complain when they pop their aspirin in the morning after a night of excessively consuming alcohol, another killer they fall silent on. And it is only after their hangover has settled and they've wolfed down 350 x's the recommended dose of chocolate cake leading to life threatening obesity that they finally waddle back online to complain about life saving vaccinations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/16/trump-iowa-evangelical-vote/ "Trump’s biggest Iowa gains are in evangelical areas ... Republican front-runner Donald Trump added Iowa’s most religious regions to his strongholds in Monday’s caucuses. He combined religious areas with the state’s lower-income and less educated counties to pull a majority of all caucus voters"

You are wrong and nothing in the universe makes you right, not your God however your perceive that to be, not any empirical evidence objectively known to man, not your choosing to experience life as an idiot, not your anonymously blathering your blatant stupidity on the internet, not your reading back to yourself your witless words on your computer screen, not refusing yourself to evolve within your own mind, not the willful ignorance you embrace & encourage, not your bigotry, not your self-hatred, not your failure to examine your own thinking: nothing nothing nothing in the universe makes you right. You are wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual_reproduction "Asexual reproduction is the primary form of reproduction for single-celled organisms such as archaea and bacteria. Many eukaryotic organisms including plants, animals, and fungi can also reproduce asexually.[1] In vertebrates, the most common form of asexual reproduction is parthenogenesis, which is typically used as an alternative to sexual reproduction in times when reproductive opportunities are limited. Komodo dragons and some monitor lizards can reproduce asexually."

Now all you have to do is resolve your little paradox of how the mad scientist got a single cell to asexually divide into two daughter cells to begin evolution of life some 3 billion years before that mad scientist had yet evolved into existence and then one of your learned colleagues will be able to nominate your "theory" for a Nobel Prize in Gibberish. May I be the first of many congratulations.