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Nursing home residents stage heartbreaking protest outside facility: ‘Rather die from COVID than loneliness’

Residents of a long-term nursing and rehabilitation facility in Colorado organized a protest against the state’s COVID-19 restrictions on Thursday.

What are the details?

According to KCNC-TV, the protest took place at Fairacres Manor in Greeley.

The station reported that many of the facility’s residents — many of them in wheelchairs — stood outside of the facility and held signs that read "Rather die from COVID than loneliness," "Give us freedom," "Prisoners in our own home," and more.

In a statement, Ben Gonzales — assistant administrator at the facility — said that Fairacres’ residents are not happy.

"They want to be able to hug their grandchildren, they want to be able to hold the hands of their loved ones," he said.

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Resident Council President Sharon Peterson — a 75-year-old woman — told the outlet that she and other residents are desperate for a change.

"We used to be lucky here at Fairacres to show each other what we mean to one another and we cannot do that anymore," Peterson said. "Fairacres follows the rules and, with that, we think they would keep us safe while being able to be with our families again."

Peterson, who helped to organize the demonstration, said that the protest was necessary because "one thing we have to look forward to is a simple hug."

"It gives us meaning," she said. "Fairacres needs to be commended on how well they have cared for all of us, but it’s time for our voices to be heard."

Gonzales said that several staff members joined those at the protest, and pledged that the staff wants residents to know "that their voice does matter."

Gonzales also said that Fairacres staff and residents sent letters to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment as well as Gov. Jared Polis’s office in August, begging for rules to be relaxed to permit physical contact. Gonzales said that no one received a response to the inquiries.

In response to the protest, Polis issued a statement.

“We absolutely understand how difficult it has been for residents of residential care facilities and their families," Polis’s office said on Friday. "Social interaction is essential to physical and mental health, and so we have provided guidance to residential care facilities that allows for that interaction while also keeping residents safe from COVID-19."

The statement continued, "Restrictions have been in place previously, but residents are now able to visit loved ones both indoors and outdoors. In addition, we are doing everything possible to help long-term care facilities mitigate and prevent the spread of COVID-19 by working directly with facilities on proper infection control practices that have been proven to slow the spread of COVID-19."

According to the Greeley Tribune, the nursing facility was the site of a COVID-19 outbreak in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

"The outbreak was discovered in late March," the outlet reported. "From then until mid-May, 16 residents were lab-confirmed positive for COVID-19 with another two dozen residents determined to be probable cases, according to CDPHE data."

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‘Clown Car Vagina’: Feminists Hurl Sexist Attacks at Amy Coney Barrett’s Motherhood

Ah, feminists — they’re all class and empathy. Sorry for the joke. We all know they often are the most vulgar people in the world. When it comes to dealing with pro-life, conservative women vying for SCOTUS positions, feminists like Jill Filipovic refuse to apply their convictions and end up hitting these pro-life women with sexist attacks all the same.
During the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings in front of the U.S. Senate, crazed feminists Jill Filipovic, Helaine Olen and Lauren Hough smeared Amy Coney Barrett’s femininity. Just like the treatment Democrat African Americans give to conservative blacks, AKA “race traitors,” these blue-check feminists acted as though Barrett’s femininity was wrong.
Jill Filipovic, the feminist author and Washington Post contributor who is so pro-woman that she has asked females to divorce their “republican husbands” in order to preserve sexual equality, made a cynical attack on Barrett’s accomplishments as both a successful career woman and mother to seven children.
According to Filipovic, being both isn’t a huge feat of femininity but an accomplishment merely meant to benefit the GOP patriarchy. She tweeted, “It does seem telling that the Republicans who have spoken so far have emphasized Amy Coney Barrett’s fertility and family size.” Yeah, so? 
“It’s almost like the message is, ok you’re a very successful Career Woman, but you’ve justified your selfish ambitions by having seven kids so it’s ok,” the feminist added, as if it’s impossible for anyone to genuinely be impressed by both facets of Barrett’s life. But again Republicans hate career women of course.
Washington Post contributor and Helaine Olen felt pretty uncomfortable hearing about Barrett’s large family. She tweeted, “By the way, I’m really tired of hearing about Amy Coney Barrett’s family.”
“I’m sure she’s a great mom!  I’m sure she’s better than me! (I can barely manage 2 kids, never mind 7). But she’s not getting voted into a parenting position. Let’s move on.” Olen added. Though we are sure that if ACB was pro-abortion, Olen would’ve welcomed the SCOTUS nominee showing the entire Senate Judiciary Committee the family photos she keeps in her wallet.
Feminist author Lauren Hough uttered the most disgusting, sexist insult towards Barrett imaginable. She tweeted, “It’s a very weird thing to watch these old creeps congratulate a handmaid on her clown car vagina.” Wow. That is vile.
Hough also added “You can tell a lot about how a judge will rule by her fertility so I’m glad she’s already proven hers because the cervix check really shouldn’t be done live.” These women are pretty hateful, and are proof that feminism excludes and even hates conservative women.

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Rand Paul: Republicans Want a Judge, Democrats ‘Want a Politician That’ll Vote for Their Cases’


Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told reporters on Monday that Democrats’ approach to the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett showed that they wanted a “politician” on the bench, not a judge.

Democrats, he said, think “all justices are politicians, and so they want a politician that’ll vote for their cases.”

Paul spoke after the opening round of statements on the Senate Judiciary Committee on day one of Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings.

They had focused their statements in the confirmation hearing on policy questions like Obamacare, he said. “instead of whether of not a justice will adhere to the law.”

Republicans, he said, urged that judges “not be politicians” and follow the law instead.

Asked whether Democrats had violated the “Ginsburg rule” — Joe Biden’s 1993 standard, which states that judges should not be asked about pending cases during their confirmation hearings — Sen. Paul predicted that Democrats and the media “will show they have a double-standard.”

If Judge Coney Barrett tried to use the Ginsburg rule to avoid answering a question about particular cases, such as the pending litigation about Obamacare, Sen. Paul said, they would likely attack her.

As for the question of whether Republicans had put her in a difficult position by backing a court challenge to Obamacare, Paul disagreed.

“I’m one who thinks Obamacare was a disaster, made health insurance more expensive, and didn’t necessarily help those it was intended to help,” he said.

The way to help those with pre-existing conditions, he said, was to “allow individuals to group together and buy insurance.”

“There are market ways to try to fix these problems that don’t involve the government taking over health care,” he added.

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Biden-Harris joint appearance in Arizona draws no spectators — as in ZERO attendees


See also: In Arizona, Biden’s supporters left something to be desired

Who are you going to believe – the polls or your lying eyes? With apologies to Groucho Marx, we now have the answer to the question: “What if they held a Biden-Harris rally and nobody showed up?” The answer is a shocked TV street reporter:

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With nobody visible on the street outside, the reporter said, “Pretty much all the people we saw who pulled into the parking lot about 45 minutes ago were with the Biden-Harris campaign or the pool reporters.” And she noted that because both halves of the ticket were appearing,it was “technically, a big event.”

Not big enough to draw a crowd.

See also: In Arizona, Biden’s supporters left something to be desired

Who are you going to believe – the polls or your lying eyes? With apologies to Groucho Marx, we now have the answer to the question: “What if they held a Biden-Harris rally and nobody showed up?” The answer is a shocked TV street reporter:

Twitter video screengrab

With nobody visible on the street outside, the reporter said, “Pretty much all the people we saw who pulled into the parking lot about 45 minutes ago were with the Biden-Harris campaign or the pool reporters.” And she noted that because both halves of the ticket were appearing,it was “technically, a big event.”

Not big enough to draw a crowd.

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Biden Talked of Attending Black Church As a Teen, But Members Don’t Recall It

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On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has talked frequently about his early years in the civil rights movement. As a teenager, he says, he regularly attended a black church in Wilmington, Del., where he was involved in organizing anti-segregation protests in the early 1960s.

"I got raised in the black church," Biden said in a speech to Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH coalition last year. "We would go sit in Rev. Herring’s church, sit there before we’d go out, and try to change things when I was a kid in college and in high school."

The church Biden referenced, Union Baptist Church, was a prominent African-American church in Wilmington run by Rev. Otis Herring, an acclaimed pastor who passed away in 1996. But Biden has made comments that seem to contradict the account. When reporters questioned Biden’s claim in 1987 that he marched in the civil rights movement, he acknowledged that he "wasn’t an activist" and that his most significant experience with civil rights as a youth was when he worked at a majority-black swimming pool as a college sophomore in 1962.

Now, interviews with long-time church members are raising questions about his story. Biden befriended Herring as an adult, they say, but they do not recall him attending the church as a teenager. 

Phyllis Drummond, Herring’s longtime assistant who attended Union Baptist for 39 years, said she was not involved with the church in the early 1960s but does not think Biden attended at that time. "No. Not at our building. I think he was probably in Claymont, [Del.,] [or] in Pennsylvania then," Drummond told the Washington Free Beacon.

The Biden campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Joe Biden speaks at Rev. Herring's 19th pastoral anniversary in 1981

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Juanita Matthew, who joined Union Baptist in the 1970s and has run its affiliated day-care center for decades, said she wasn’t aware of Biden’s attendance as a teenager. Herring, she said, befriended Biden after the newly elected senator’s wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in 1972, and Biden became "a great friend of the church and the pastor."

Biden’s biographical claims have raised eyebrows since his first presidential run over three decades ago, when he was forced to drop out of the race after falsely claiming that he was the first in his family to attend college and that he was the descendant of coal miners. In February, Biden repeatedly told a story about getting arrested while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in South Africa in the late 1970s. But the campaign later acknowledged this was not true following a New York Times report that challenged the claim. Andrew Young, a United Nations ambassador who traveled with Biden to South Africa, told the Times, "I was never arrested and I don’t think [Biden] was, either."

The former vice president has also made dubious claims in the past few years about having his helicopter "forced down" down outside Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Afghanistan and getting shot at in Iraq.

Biden also claimed to have participated in anti-segregation sit-ins along Route 40 when he was just 18 years old, which could not be corroborated by participants and historians.

Now, his claims about Herring and his involvement with the church are coming under scrutiny. Biden said over the summer that he had been "involved with the civil rights movement, the African-American community since I was a junior in high school, desegregating movie theaters."

But Biden said previously he "didn’t know any black people" until he started working at the majority-black pool in Wilmington in 1962. "It was an incredible awakening to me," he told the Morning News in 1986. "I had just assumed everybody treated everyone fairly."

Biden’s claims about Union Baptist have prompted skepticism from progressives. Shaun King, a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, reported in January that he spoke to unnamed "former members" of Union Baptist and people close to the Herring family and was told Biden’s stories about attending the church as a youth were untrue.

"Four different people in Wilmington expressed to me that these claims of Biden are so outrageous and dishonest that it caused them to truly worry for his mental health," he wrote. King, who has tempered his criticism of the candidate since Biden became the Democratic nominee, did not respond to a request for comment.

In an Intercept article in February, reporter Robert Mackey also challenged Biden’s account, noting that the former vice president’s 2007 memoir Promises to Keep made no mention of these stories.

"Given that the memoir describes his time in high school and college in detail, it seems odd that Biden failed to make any mention at all of what he now describes as formative experiences: the picketing of the segregated Rialto movie theater and attending civil rights organizing sessions at Rev. Otis Herring’s Union Baptist Church," wrote Mackey. "Asked about the discrepancy … Biden’s spokesperson argued that the book was written as something of a manifesto for his 2007 campaign and was not intended to be an exhaustive autobiography."

Herring—a devoted religious and community leader, blind since young adulthood, and admired as a "visionary" by his parishioners—was first installed as the pastor at Union Baptist in September 1962, according to news reports from the time. At the time, Biden was a college sophomore at the University of Delaware.

Biden gave a tribute to Herring on the Senate floor after his death in 1996, praising his "legacy that endures because he lived his faith." The tribute did not mention Biden attending his church as a teenager or helping organize civil rights protests.

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