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 What is it going to take for the millions of unvaccinated citizens to realize they're on the wrong side of the COVID pandemic?

With new variants reportedly emerging overseas, and headed here, there are still a large number of adults that are behaving like children, refusing to take the vaccines available to them because they've taken bad advice from right wing media and politicians. Talk show hosts Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel, and Dr. Phil McGraw, the latter appearing on James Corden's CBS after hours yack-fest, have shredded the anti-vax crowd.

You have Florida Governor Ron DeSantis lying about the politicization of face masks and the pandemic. He's a poster child for the GOP's ambitions to reclaim control of Congress, and, ultimately, the White House. His counterpart in Texas, Greg Abbott, as we wrote before, was shredded by NY's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for his controversial anti-abortion policy and threats to eliminate rapists. 

President Biden is calling on large businesses to enact mandatory vaccine mandates, and Head GOPer Ronna McDaniel is already threatening a lawsuit that has no basis.

To those who think this is about personal freedom, no, it's not. It never has been. You've been played by the GOPers all along. 

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WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley had some pointed words for the company earlier this week. Give a listen.

Kross, the former NXT champion, has been given a gladiator style red costume since losing the belt last month. A perfect illustration of what Mick referred to when he invoked the line that if it isn't broken, you don't fix it. This is the sort of bad idea Vince McMahon gets from his equally geriatric stooges, John Laurinaitis and Bruce Prichard. 

Another idea that surfaced earlier in the week had Adam Cole (Austin Jenkins), who has since signed with All Elite Wrestling, being called up to manage old nemesis Keith Lee in an attempt to recapture whatever chemistry existed between current WWE champ Bobby Lashley and his former manager, Lio Rush, a couple of years ago. Cole signed with AEW so he could reunite with some old friends, particularly the Young Bucks, and be under the same professional roof as his lady, women's champion Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, who is, in fact, also a practicing dentist in her spare time.

Speaking of Lee, he missed five months of action due to health issues earlier this year, most of it related to heart troubles. Turning him heel, and giving him Cole as a hype-man/manager was a bad idea, given their history, which main roster creative would rather you'd forget. Lee's done the heel thing before, back when he was in Ring of Honor a few years back. Apparently, Cole was insulted by the idea, which hastened his exit.

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Meanwhile, Paul "Triple H" Levesque is on the mend after a "cardiac event" earlier this week, which required surgery. That it wasn't made public until after the surgery speaks to how tightly the McMahon family cherishes its privacy off-air. Our prayers are with Levesque as he continues to recover.