Topic: I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

Sep 15, 2021 11:49PM Nkb wrote:

Love the memes.

IllinoisLady- Toodle do!!!

I heard 30 nurses quit the OB unit in NYC because they didn't want a vaccine.

also glad I live in California and sad at all the money wasted - hopefully recall election rules will change now.

Sep 16, 2021 05:48AM HomeMom wrote:

They are killing off thier own voters.

Sep 16, 2021 07:49AM IllinoisLady wrote:

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. -Anna Brownell Jameson

Sep 16, 2021 08:01AM - edited Sep 16, 2021 12:19PM by IllinoisLady

Ruth, I really like your avatar picture.

I've been thinking that the Reps. will dissolve their party for a really long time and I'm feeling it even more since they've shown such an ability to hang onto almost all orange behavior since 1/6. As well being willing to off themselves too. Sort of amazing to watch. Sometimes makes me wonder what am I missing here -- but like orange loon I think they got in well over their heads and no longer have a way out. I also think when you decide to put up with something so despicably in error and cross that line, you just might no longer be able to hear reason if it comes.

Sep 16, 2021 08:09AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Sep 16, 2021 08:14AM IllinoisLady wrote:

Do we have to build another boat???

What rubber rooms were made for.

Sep 16, 2021 10:44AM - edited Sep 16, 2021 10:46AM by ruthbru

Thanks, Illinois!

Sep 16, 2021 10:55AM ruthbru wrote:

Sep 16, 2021 11:23AM AliceBastable wrote:

I'm wondering how bad the right-wing nutters will be on the 18th. There's a gathering being very lightly publicized in a St. Louis suburb, in a small park that's unfortunately right across from Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. I hope all the events are very sparsely attended. And I really hope nothing bad happens in Washington that day.

Sep 16, 2021 12:34PM IllinoisLady wrote:

Did I read somewhere that actually a small crowds are expected at the " rally ". Seems the Proud Boys and likely other groups feel that the rally could be something of a set up. They seem to be telling their people not to go. This rally was set up by Matt Branyard who was one of the other guy's campaign staffers and I guess more or less small potatoes. Maybe he wanted to try and get some of the possible gravy off the train. If memory serves he advertised the event by letting everyone know that it would cost a lot to sponsor the event. DHS thinks about 7oo will show.

I do hope ( they might gather in other places besides the Capitol ) that it all stays quiet because I really don't see that standing up for the J'6 patriots is going to do a darn thing for those people. It may be that there is some other reasoning for this "rally".

Sep 17, 2021 07:53AM IllinoisLady wrote:

I also think it is a whole lot of karma. I will remain amazed at how easy it seems for people to watch these things happen and be able to NOT IS it as covid, and substitute some other reason. Then again, maybe they were always 'leery' of scientific things. Likely they don't have issues with going up in an airplane or taking advantage of all the other scientific conveniences. Like aerosol spray cans, or picnic coolers or all the other things we have. Some sort of science is behind almost all of it.

Sep 17, 2021 08:03AM IllinoisLady wrote:

I am certainly hoping that things go this way, but I have learned not to be too over-confident because we didn't get our female president. It does seem though that the Reps. seem somewhat impervious to wading in where angels fear to tread -- something they seemed to have learned fro their former disgraced leader.

Sep 17, 2021 10:04AM - edited Sep 17, 2021 10:04AM by DivineMrsM

An Alabama couple known on YouTube for reselling vintage items and their staunch anti-vaccine stance have both died from COVID-19, relatives said.

Dusty and Tristan Graham, better known as the "Alabama Pickers," died from the virus less than a month apart. The pair from Huntsville ran a since-deleted YouTube channel sharing tips on how to resell vintage items, antiques and collectibles, AL.com reported.

Dusty died Thursday, more than three weeks after his wife "passed suddenly in her sleep" due to coronavirus complications on Aug. 25, according to an online fundraiser set up by their children.

"Unfortunately Dusty and Tristan have both passed away," wrote the couple's daughter, Windsor Graham. "Thank you for all the kind words and helping us during this difficult time."

Weeks earlier, Dusty announced his wife's death — and also revealed he was in an ICU bed "battling it out" against the virus himself.

One of the last videos posted by the couple on their deleted channel was reposted elsewhere on the video-sharing site, AL.com reported. In the 90-minute clip, showing the couple as they drove, Dusty made his anti-vaccine stance abundantly clear while discussing local mask mandates.

"Still haven't gotten the you know what," Dusty said on the clip before mimicking a syringe jab. "Still not planning on getting it."

"But if you want to, bully for you," Tristan said, agreeing with her husband's take.

Dusty said he had his "own passport" while referring to his birth certificate and the Constitution, which he claimed allowed him to travel wherever he wanted without trouble.

"I think this will be all behind us in a couple years," Dusty continued. "Then they'll be like 'You don't need that anymore.'"

Dusty added that he had survived without a vaccine for a year and knew friends who contracted the virus. Two of their children did as well, according to the couple, who had more than 1,200 followers on eBay, where they sold their vintage finds.

Tristan, meanwhile, said on the clip she had survived bone cancer.

"We will dig through garages, estates, and closets," the husband-and-wife team's bio read. "All to bring the BEST antiques, collectibles, and unusual Items to market."

Sep 17, 2021 10:22AM AliceBastable wrote:

I guess they could call that site a shrine to stupidity.

Sep 17, 2021 01:48PM IllinoisLady wrote:

Here is one of those nay-sayers that will actually know where-of she speaks and she better pray she is alive to speak later on.