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Absurdities continuing - lets hope for better tomorrow, shall we?

Re Bernie - there was that study that said unattractive people are more likely to still be wearing masks...

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Seeing Bernie in a mask at this stage in the game may be the saddest example of how far he’s fallen from having courage, intelligence, common sense, and the willingess to challenge the powers that shouldn’t be!

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another relic to be removed from public view. together with the other dementing men too old to make decisions of their own, let go make decisions about a 330 million person's country

At the hairdresser's I saw this morning show he has on, kelly and ryan I think, where everyone except themselves and their guests must wear masks in the studio. What hypocrisy is that. As if they are not infected but all the public is. Why do people go there? it is obvious that this is just a masquerade and nothing about health.

Funny though about the cigarettes. I am amazed of how they were a common thing 50 years ago, and now you hardly see anyone with one anymore. I am glad they banned it from restaurants tho. I am allergic to the smoke and had a hard time sittting there eating surrounded by it, coughing.

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I pointed out to someone I knew that people who weren't addicted just stopped smoking, but the addicts such as his mother couldn't stop. I was once in a doctor's office and told the nurse that I was thinking of taking up smoking as I had tried everything else to improve my health. It took her a couple of minutes to get it!

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Bernie never had courage. He was a fraud with promises he never meant to keep. His mission is to placate the left.

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Bernie's schtick is getting tired. His performative health-hysterics need some freshening. He should add a pair of goggles, a face shield over the mask and goggles, and nitrile gloves. That'd make his costume much better.

Air-brushing the cigarettes out of the posters looks like an idiotic make-work project, with a generous helping of free-floating, weaponized sanctimony. The pettiness and uselessness of this sends its own message.

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These people must sit around and be like, how can we act like insufferable, authoritarian pricks? I know, let's sanitize everything and manipulate people into being stupid! Here, consume this, stupid people!

The people who run the world have no imagination. They are not creative. They are only good at keeping it running, keeping it from collapsing. Clearly now they think they are omnipotent and can act like gods. But they are not gods, they are functionary cogs in a leviathan. Down with the leviathan.

We have to start imagining a better world.

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Who’d have thunk that cigarettes would be the new scapegoat? How is it that they can attack the tobacco mob or the opiate cartel but let the big boys at Vaccine Murder Inc get off scot free?

Committed Leftists like Bernie hold up the sign post that many of my friends still consider worthy. Did he really think that face nappy would protect him from the Covid (or Monkeypox, flu etc) bogeyman or is he just a hold out trying to remind everyone there is still more stupidity to come?

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You Can't Make This Stuff Up !

Oh Well, Onward !

Thanx Mick.

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Bernie is a nut. This is just the latest proof.

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And to think Bernie is now the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. They are responsible for health, FDA, etc. 🙄

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😕

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Bernie is the woke-i-est

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... of the wokerati!

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Bernie and his mask, hilarious ! Yes American humor, never ends—please! and most often about ourselves. Try to remember what filled our minds and calendars before 2019, thereabouts? How would one young child now believe what we could tell them of ten, or five years ago?

Speaking of cigarettes, indeed, amazing how much lovelier those pictures look without the cigarette, what a cluttering. I would rather cross the street than encounter a smoker, can’t stand to stink up my hair. And as to my hair, had my head in the sink just now for washing same amd while there, it occurred to me that, creative and irreverent as we are proving to be, why not take out our wrath by suggesting more alternate names for the government alphabets, FBI, DHS, CIA, FDA….no crudes or lewds, please And eventually, resulting in more tshirts and flags incentives at street protests….amen and amen

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I don't like the cigarettes being removed. Many people who smoked did not inhale or inhaled very little. Is the world really a better place without cocktail lounges and cigarettes? Sorry, I'm with Eddie Mueller: It is NOT. In addition, actors loved cigarettes because it gave them something to do with their hands while performing.

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I confess to have been taken in by Bernie's schtick back in 2016. It turned out to be hopium, alas.

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Bernie's old... A lot of elderly folks are still scared. The Grim Reaper could be around any corner. Behind any curtain.

He probably carries hand sanitizer in his pocket too...

Hope that Bernie can still see, and hear what's really going on, and that someone sends him former FBI Special Agent Nicole Parker's testimony...

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/mitigated-and-weaponized-friday-february

The institutional walls are caving in.

"They" can't erase ALL this shit Mickey.

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If they really want to be "woke", why didn't they put a joint in Paul Newman's hand instead of him standing there looking stupid with his fingers by his face?🤔

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Best comment so far!

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Bernie might have been the only one at SOTU address wearing a hospital mask but he certainly wasn’t the only one wearing a mask!

https://twitter.com/tntjohn1717/status/1623241087698497536?s=46&t=Cew9LbqZQf9odJYOUbyRhg

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Speaking of Fallen Angel[s], one of my favorite movies is Fallen Angel with the superb Linda Darnell. Can't remember much about any smoking, but there's nothing under the sun like a hard-boiled femme fatal. (Darnell worked at the studio canteen to prepare for the role, and learned that pros pour coffee out the SIDE of the pot.)

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