President Joe Biden received a touching gift from his grandchildren just in time for Presidents Day on Monday. Naomi Biden, the 27-year-old granddaughter of Biden posted a pic of the gift on social media. The proud grandfather can be seen wearing a tan baseball cap embroidered with the presidential seal. Above and below the emblem, the cap reads, “Presidential Retreat, Camp David’, the back reads “Pop.”

Joe Biden is obviously adored by his grandchildren, what a marked contrast from the dysfunctional Trump crime family. I’ve never seen any photos of Trump playing with his grandchildren, and I doubt if he would recognize Tiffany Trump if she visited him at Mar-a-Lago.

The presidential seal emblazoned on the cap symbolizes the gravitas of the office that Biden occupies and the respect that he commands, and “Pop” represents his humanity.

I see red whenever I see Trump or any of his cultists wearing the read MAGA cap, but I felt a sense of relief when I saw the pic of Biden wearing the tan cap. The color tan speaks to the sense of calmness that Biden has brought to the presidency after the four years of chaos and just plain fuckery of the Trump regime.

In the first weeks of the Biden administration, we have witnessed the first couple holding hands and walking their dogs, kissing, and hugging each other, and now this image of Joe beaming as he proudly wears the baseball cap his grandchildren gave him.

Thank God we have a normal family back in the White House.

“Escalating its defiance of Los Angeles County public health orders, an evangelical megachurch in Sun Valley is gearing up to host an indoor conference expected to draw thousands of men from across the country in what officials fear could become a potential superspreader event.

Grace Community Church, whose pastor has preached for the last six months to his congregation of mostly unmasked members that the pandemic is a hoax, is expected to draw at least 3,000 people to its sprawling campus.”

Los Angeles Times

White evangelical Christians and their fanatical loyalty to their autocratic messiah, Donald Trump, are an existential threat to democracy. The January 6, 2020 Insurrection, led by Christian Nationalists, failed to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s landslide victory, but evangelicals still pose a threat to our democracy.

Grace Community Church poses a challenge to the spiritual integrity of the Gospel, a health risk to Los Angeles County, and a threat to the rule of law and order.

The evangelical megachurch is in an area that has the highest case rates of COVID-19 within the county, and neighbors have pleaded with churchgoers to wear masks. But taking their cue from their anti-masker pastor, John MacArthur, parishioners are as likely to wear a mask as racists are likely to wear a yarmulke at a Klan rally.

When church members are challenged to wear a mask to stop the spread of the virus, they are likely to respond with pablum like, “Jesus in my vaccine” or “The Holy Ghost protects me from the coronavirus.” But it’s instructive to note that attendees to the conference are required to sign a liability waiver that included:

“I understand that each activity poses inherent risks of exposure to and/or contracting the COVID-19 virus,” The legal staff of Grace Community Church isn’t relying on the power of the Holy Ghost to protect them from litigation; they don’t want to be liable when some of the maskless idiots succumb to COVID-19.

Although the Supreme Court recently ruled that indoor services are permitted under certain restrictions, a conference where attendees must pay a $300 admission fee doesn’t qualify as a worship service. Christians aren’t special and they aren’t exempt from the rules and laws that apply to everyone else.

The American people had the good sense to vote the racist buffoon Donald Trump out of office, but our work isn’t done. We must continue to expose the racism, hateful spirit, unscientific views and undemocratic tendencies of white evangelicals.

“To help stem the coronavius pandemic, Greenhouse of Walled Lake is offering free pre-rolled joints to anyone who gets the Covid-19 vaccine.

‘We’re all stressed out, but the vaccine is hopefully what’s going to finally end this pandemic, and we just want to reward people who are going ahead of the curve to get the vaccine,; Greenhouse owner Jerry Millen told CNN. ‘If I can help stop the pandemic in any slightest way, and this is the way I can do it, so be it.’

The ‘Pot for Shots’ promotion is a joint effort with UBaked Cannabis Company, which is providing the pre-rolls. It started on Friday and runs through February.”

CNN

Once a country reaches a point of collective immunity where a virus is no longer likely to spread, it reaches the herd immunity threshold. The estimate for COVID-19 is that about 80% of the population will need to be vaccinated to reach this threshold.

Vaccine hesitancy is a real problem, many Americans are hesitant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus because it’s a novel vaccine and they are worried about unforeseen long-term side effects and complications. Then there are the anti-vaxxers who disagree with the use of any vaccine for a variety of reasons, and let’s not forget the conspiracy theorists who believe the coronavirus pandemic was a cover for a plan to implant trackable microchips inside vaccines.

I applaud any company or organization that seeks to incentivize people to be vaccinated against the raging pandemic, and the “Pot for Shots” promotion is high on my list of effective motivational schemes.

How can anyone say “NO” to a free pre-rolled joint as an incentive to be vaccinated? The operative word being “pre-rolled”, it’s so difficult to properly roll a joint that there’s thousands of articles online and hundreds of YouTube tutorials on how to properly roll a joint. Watch a few tutorials, and you will soon be rolling a joint with the smoothness and artistry of Snoop Dogg. And speaking of the Doggfather the free joints weren’t rolled by him, so don’t expect to receive a fat ass blunt.

A joint is the perfect prescription for the soreness in the arm that some people experience after receiving an injection. Smoke some weed and you won’t even care if one of the long-term complications is that your manhood will eventually wither and fall off.

Pot for Shots? Hell Yeah!