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President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. It's customary for the opposing party to deliver a rebuttal afterward. It was delivered this year by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds 

They deserve exactly what every single other person above the age of five in this city and every single other person in this state is getting today. Join me in demanding that Mayor Adams unmask our toddlers,' she finished to the sound of the crowd chanting 'unmask our toddlers!' 

'Instead of moving America forward, it feels like President Biden and his party have sent us back in time to the late '70s and early '80s,' Reynolds said. 'When runaway inflation was hammering families, a violent crime wave was crashing on our cities, and the Soviet army was trying to redraw the world map.'

Angry New York City parents and children flooded City Hall Park on Monday morning - the first day children over five are permitted to shed their masks - demanding that those under five be given the same freedom.

'Well the American people share that view. Enough is enough. And it's not just with D.C. spending, Americans are tired of a political class trying to remake this country into a place where an elite few tell everyone else what they can and cannot say, what they can and cannot believe,' Reynolds said. 

'But we shouldn't ignore what happened in the run-up to Putin's invasion,' the GOP governor continued, pointing to sanction waivers the Biden administration allowed on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project.  

'North Korea is testing missiles again at an alarming rate, the Speaker of the House recently warned our Olympic athletes not to speak out against China, and now Russia has launched an unprovoked full-scale military invasion of Ukraine - an attack on democracy, freedom, and the rule of law,' Reynolds said. 

'Two years of pain, two years of heartbreak, of uncertainty, of business loss, of schools closing, of just conflict inside our households, but I said from  since the time I was elected I said that this virus was not going to define us, we're going to define ourselves.'

'Now all Americans must stand united in solidarity with the brave people of Ukraine as they courageously defend their country against Putin's tyranny, as they fight for their freedom,' Reynolds said. 

Julian was introduced to Sarah Ann (pictured together) two years ago by his older sister, the fashion designer and girl-about-town Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs, who also helped play cupid to Prince Harry and Chelsy Davy back in 2004

Protesters argued that the mandate is unnecessary because of the low risk of infection for those under five, and that the rule is 'damaging' to the emotional and social development of young children. Along with a vaccine mandate for municipal employees, the under-fives rule is among the only Covid restrictions NYC Mayor Eric Adams didn't lift last week.

'They tired of people pretending the way to end racism is by categorizing everybody by their race,' she continued. 'They're tired of politicians who tell parents they should sit down, be silent and let government control their kids education and future.' 



In Virginia, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's pro-parents campaign allowed the first-time candidate to take out former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who's been involved in politics for decades.     

His comments came as officials in France seized an £86million superyacht linked to Rosneft chairman Igor Sechin - a close ally of the Russian President - in the Mediterranean port of La Ciotat close to Marseille.

Monday's rally was just one of several outpourings of public frustration after New York Mayor Eric Adams confirmed last Wednesday that the United States' most populous city would remove mandates requiring masks for public school children aged five and over and proof of vaccination to dine out or enter entertainment venues. 

So far Britain has banned Russian ships and aircraft from the UK, imposed restrictions on a number of Russian banks, successfully lobbied for Russia's removal from the Swift banking system, and personally sanctioned at least five oligarchs with known links to the Kremlin.

Despite the city's reputation for obstinance, Adams said that New York business were 90 per cent in compliance with restrictions pandemic restrictions that were placed on them, including limited hours, restricted capacity for stores, worker safety protocols and other regulations.

'Republicans believe that parents matter. It was true before the pandemic and has never been more important to say out loud: Parents Matter,' she said. 'They have a right to know, and to have a say in, what their kids are being taught.'

Four years later Louis made an unlikely cameo in an Instagram snap shared by Nicki Minaj. The dashing aristo posed with his arm around the rapper in a backstage meeting after one of her concerts. Nicki was clearly taken, joking: 'Check out our wedding photo'.

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