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Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers isn’t the only NFL quarterback who’s been holding out. Joe Flacco, of the New York Jets, revealed that he, too, is unvaccinated. Flacco told the media he doesn’t want to get into his reasoning because it would be a distraction to the team, and the most important thing is to focus on going out there and losing football games right now.
— Jimmy Kimmel
New York Jets quarterback Joe Flacco announced he’s not vaccinated against the coronavirus. But don’t worry about his teammates — it’s rare for the Jets to catch anything.
— Seth Meyers
Why are they even having a bill-signing celebration? Passing laws is their job. Nobody else gets to do that at their job. Like, after you make photocopies for your boss at the office, you don’t get to pose for pictures while shaking hands… “I didn’t think you could get it double-sided. Well done, Billy. Well done.”
— Trevor Noah Mr. President, if I could say one thing to you, I would urge you to go back and watch the trial and understand the facts before you make a statement.
- Kyle Rittenhouse, age 18, on Fox News, after his acquittal, responding to Pres. Biden having called him a “white supremacist” last year
It’s actual malice, defaming my character for him to say something like that. It’s actually quite hysterical how nobody can go back and look at the facts of the case. “He crossed state lines” – false. “He’s a white supremacist” – false. None of that is true. And the lies that they can just get away with spreading is just sickening. And it’s a disgrace to this country.
- Ibid.
The Mets are better off without Syndergaard. In case you haven’t noticed, they have been without him for years.
- Longtime WFAN host Mike Francesca, tweeting after Noah Syndergaard left the Mets for the Angels
…didn’t know you were still alive. Congrats
- Syndergaard, in response
I competed every day for 35 years (and won) in my chosen profession in the greatest city in the world. Noah whined and ran away.
- Francesca’s reply
Only thing you’ve ever won is being a gasbag Mets-hating opportunist.
- Syndergaard in response
As gawkers tried to snap pictures of him indoors not wearing a mask, America’s doc would put it on and take it off depending on whom he was around.
- Politico reporting about a recent party attended by Dr. Fauci who was trying to avoid someone snapping a “gotcha moment” picture of him not wearing a mask
Starting [soon], Staples Center will be known as Crypto.com Arena, which doesn’t sound creepy at all.
— Jimmy Kimmel
But a lot of people around here don’t like the new name at all. You know you’re in a weird spot when fans are like, “We have to go back to when it was named after an office supply chain!”
— Ibid.
It’s not like Staples is a sacred name from the ancestors — it’s a store where you buy 50 packs of binders even though you only need one.
— Trevor Noah
In 2020, you wrote a paper called “The People’s Ledger,” where you said we need to abolish bank accounts and make everybody set up an account at the Fed where the federal government will have access to your data. In 2020, you wrote another paper called “The Climate Case for a National Investment Authority,” where you said what we need to do to the oil and gas industry is have the federal government bankrupt them so we can tackle climate change. In 2019, you joined the Facebook group, a Marxist Facebook group, to discuss socialist and anti-capitalist views. Now, that’s what I see from your record, and you have the right to believe every one of these things. You do; this is America. But I don’t mean any disrespect – I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade.
- Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) at the confirmation hearing for Pres. Biden’s nominee for comptroller of currency Saule Omarova
It was probably just self-defense #Wisconsin #KyleRittenhouse.
- Mary Lemanski, social media director of the Democratic Party of DuPage County, Illinois, posting on Twitter, moments after a recently-paroled felon intentionally ran over innocent people at the Waukesha holiday parade, killing at least six and injuring dozens more
Living in Wisconsin, he probably felt threatened. I’m sure he didn’t want to hurt anyone. He came to help people.
- Ibid., continuing her demented rant moments after six innocent people were run down and countless more were transported to hospitals with serious injuries
I’m sad anytime anyone dies. I just believe in Karma, and this came around quick on the citizens of Wisconsin.
- Ibid.
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The grim reality of the Nebraska Cornhuskers finishing yet another season with a losing record proved to be too much to bear for Milton Andrew Munson, who decided he’d seen enough of this world during the team’s recent bye week. The Huskers may not have sent him into the afterlife with a victory but at least they didn’t lose. And sometimes, that’s the best you can hope for.
- From the obituary of Nebraska resident and Cornhuskers fan Milton A. Munson Jr. , age 73
I continue to call on President Biden to responsibly increase energy production here at home and to reverse course to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built which would have provided our country with up to 900,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, one of our closest allies.
- Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Because of the actions we’ve taken, things have begun to change. End of quote.
– Pres. Biden, reading the teleprompter instruction as well, while reading a speech from a teleprompter
