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On Friday, writing for The Washington Post, conservative columnist Max Boot tore into Republican governors for their attacks on President Joe Biden's new vaccine rules for employers — and argued that they are proving exactly why Biden was right to move forward with this plan.

After Biden's announcement on Thursday, several Republican governors blew up, with Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) vowing to protect Texans' "right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine," Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ) calling Biden's order "dictatorial," and Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) vowing to defy the rules, among several others. No matter, noted Boot, that OSHA — the workplace agency responsible for the rule — regulates every aspect of worker safety already, right down to "the placement of step bolts."

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Friday criticized President Joe Biden for ending the war in Afghanistan, which dragged on for two decades.

Before taking over Strom Thurmond's seat in the U.S. Senate, Graham voted for the war in Afghanistan as a member of the House of Representatives.

On Friday, writing for The New York Times, conservative National Review writer Kevin Williamson outlined how Republicans are still trying to execute former President Donald Trump's coup attempt — and how the Capitol attack on January 6 was only the beginning of the effort.

"As the Republican Party tries to make up its mind between wishing away the events of Jan. 6 or celebrating them, one thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the party: We can't go home again," wrote Williamson. "The attempted coup's foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures. For example, last week in Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced a draft of legislation that would require an audit of the 2020 general election in the state's largest (typically Democratic-heavy) counties, suggesting without basis that it may show that these areas cheated to inflate Joe Biden's vote count."

As President Joe Biden and health professionals urge Americans to get vaccinated and wear masks, one chiropractor in Pennsylvania is signing exemption forms for anyone seeking to evade public health measures.

Chiropractor John Dorobish of Cherry Tree Chiropractic in Uniontown was interviewed by WTAE-TV about the state's new mask mandates for schools.

On Friday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a federal judge is refusing to release Jacob Chansley, an infamous January 6 Capitol rioter known as the "QAnon Shaman," to St. Louis ahead of his sentencing.

"U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order was made public Friday," reported Robert Patrick. "Chansley was required to show by 'clear and convincing evidence' that he was not a flight risk or danger to the community, and Lamberth said he failed. Although Chansley's lawyer, Albert Watkins, had arranged for a place for Chansley to stay, with mental health treatment, Watkins failed to show how anyone would prevent Chansley from fleeing the area. Watkins' plan also does not mitigate the possibility that Chansley's supporters would provide him money to flee, the judge said."

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel flipped out on the Anti-Defamation League on Friday after the organization criticized him for equating vaccination mandates with the Nazi gestapo.

The drama started when the ADL called on Mandel to apologize for his campaign video in which he urged followers to stand up to President Joe Biden's "gestapo" policy of pushing companies to either ensure their workers are vaccinated or to give them weekly tests.

Washington Post reporter Philip Bump on Friday compared states that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 with states that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 and found it was "impossible" to separate politics from pandemic outcomes.

In a chart posted on his Twitter account, Bump showed how much Biden-voting states have diverged from Trump-voting states ever since vaccines started rolling out late last year, and he found that blue states are now doing significantly better than they were a year ago at this time, while red states are doing significantly worse.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Friday accused President Joe Biden of trying to make Americans forget about the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by pushing out new rules intended to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19.

While appearing on Fox News, Ernst accused the Biden administration of "leading by coercion" when it comes to vaccines, and she then added that "this is a diversion away from 9/11, away from the 20th anniversary, and away from the debacle that was his Afghanistan withdrawal."

In a Twitter thread this Friday, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene lamented the fact that her fellow Republicans aren't glomming on to her calls to "impeach" President Joe Biden.

Greene wrote that ever since "Dictator Joe Biden" began what she calls the Democrats' "Communist takeover of America" -- namely his announcement of nationwide COVID-19 mandates -- she hasn't had a single "call on my calendar or an email in my inbox from leadership to stop this insanity."

Recent polls are showing that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is in far less danger of being recalled than he was just a month ago, and California Republican operatives are telling the Washington Examiner that talk-show host Larry Elder bears much of the blame.

Rob Stutzman, a GOP operative in Sacramento, tells the Examiner that Elder's penchant for making controversial statements helped Newsom change the race away from being a referendum on his governorship and into a choice between a Democratic governor and a Trump-loving Republican.

According to a report from Newsweek, the National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) has been forced to walk back a fundraising email that made it look like former Vice President Mike Pence was questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

Pence is currently reinserting himself into the public eye after being accused of disloyalty to Donald Trump for refusing to stop the certification of the Electoral College votes on the day that the Capitol riot occurred. Given his public refusal to attack the results of the 2020 presidential election, the email from the NRSC immediately drew complaints over the misrepresentation of the former VP views.