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Ben Affleck Tells Daughter to Get Real in Demand for Mask Mandates

by Will Jones
19 July 2024 5:00 PM

Ben Affleck has told his daughter that she needs to be “realistic” about her demands for mask mandates and can’t rely on his celebrity status after the 18-year-old was left “extremely disheartened” by the “ridicule” she received in response to her speech. The Mail has the story.

Violet Affleck called for an end to all “mask bans” in medical facilities and Government buildings during an impassioned plea to the governing body for Los Angeles County last week, in which she detailed her experience of contracting “a post-viral condition” in 2019.

Unsurprisingly, her unexpected speech, which clocked in at just under one minute, proved divisive, with some hailing her “courageous”, while others branded her “utterly deluded”.

Violet, the eldest daughter of Ben, 51, and his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52, is said to be struggling with the “ridicule” and has been left feeling “alone” in her fight to strengthen pandemic-era protections.

“While Ben and Jen will always support their daughter, Ben had a conversation with her and told her that she needs to be realistic with this because he doesn’t want her to waste all of her time putting effort into something that probably won’t make a difference in the long run,” an insider told DailyMail.com.

“He knows how strongly she feels about this, but now that Violet is an adult, he felt that it was his duty to let her know that she is David fighting Goliath and that most people unfortunately do not feel the same way she does about this.

“He was also concerned that Violet felt as if her parent’s star power was going to be able to guarantee her the outcome that she wanted which, in this case, it is not.”

During her speech, Violet urged the board “to confront the Long Covid crisis” by strengthening protections, offering high-quality tests and opposing a ban on masks.

“I demand mask availability, air filtration and Far-UVC light in Government facilitates, including jails and detention centres, and mask mandates in county medical faculties,” she said.

“You must expand the availability of high-quality free tests and treatment, and most importantly the county must oppose mask bans for any reason.

“They do not keep us safer. They make vulnerable members of our community less safe and make everyone less able to participate in Los Angeles together.” …

Violet – who recently graduated from high school – is now looking to pull back from pushing the pleas further.

“Violet is extremely disheartened and feels that her plea did nothing more than to set her up for further ridicule,” the insider continued. “She believes that her plea for mask mandates fell on deaf ears because it isn’t even being considered.

“She stopped reading the critique and, while she is proud of her bravery in doing this, she sees no point in pushing the envelope even further.

“It is clear to her and to those around her that she is pretty much alone on this one.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Covid HysteriaCOVID-19Face maskMask Mandate

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jeepybee
jeepybee
10 months ago

You’ve got to feel for the kid. She was 14 when it kicked off, probably just as f*cked by the propaganda as the others.

Being part of Hollywood hasn’t helped, but at least her famous parents are being vaguely normal about it…

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
10 months ago
Reply to  jeepybee

I do feel sorry for these kids because, as you’ve said, they’ve grown up with all this risk-free nonsense (and all the other damaging nonsense) being normal. Unfortunately, these kids also need putting in their place – we can’t just afford to be sympathetic.

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jeepybee
jeepybee
10 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Brought back to reality, definitely.

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Hester
Hester
10 months ago
Reply to  jeepybee

I agree, but look at the indoctrination that has bought her to this, a girl of 18 terrified of life, who is now feeling “vulnerable” because people didn’t agree with her view of the world. This is and I say this not out of unkindness, because its sad, this is a weak and rather pathetic human, infantilised by the school and Government, she is not alone, look around you we have allowed governments to take over the parental responsibility and look at what they have created! A generation of young people who are scared of everything, the air, their planet, being disagreed with, in summary life.

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Kone Wone
Kone Wone
10 months ago
Reply to  Hester

‘…….this is a weak and rather pathetic human, infantilised by the school and Government,…’

Well put; an a true product of the acting business. Her peer group is regrettably of similar mind (or lack of). She deserves all the opprobrium she has attracted.

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stewart
stewart
10 months ago

You must expand the availability of high-quality free tests and treatment

Classic socialist delusion.

What socialists like to call free are things that need to be paid for with confiscated money.

They basically love to give away other people’s money.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Yep. They long to be other people spending other people’s money on what other people have told them are other people’s problems.

“Why is it always only about money with you people?! Haven’t you any soul?!”

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

And happy to see you in a Gulag if you disagree. Of course, anyone that disagrees with her worldview is a dangerous Far Right nut job.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Free tests for covid. A dangerous thing as it leads to the comment “Oh it is all right, it is not covid”.

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ELH
ELH
10 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Maybe the hyphen is in the wrong place – high quality-free tests.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
10 months ago

Loonies like this need ridiculed. I think it’s our civic duty to continue doing so. I know I will. Two daughters who are mentally ill ( the other thinks she’s a man or non-binary, or some such non-existent claptrap ), how great is the parenting with him and his ex? Totally dysfunctional, in other words. Two daughters who expect everybody else to dance to their delusional tune so as to indulge their fantasies and legitimize their obvious psychoses even further.
I thought everyone was in therapy in the U.S. It’s a ‘cultural norm’, right? Well if they’re not get them there quick sharp, otherwise god knows how they’ll be years down the line. They both need their heads read.

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Smotters
Smotters
10 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Couldn’t have put it better 👌

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Mogwai
Mogwai
10 months ago
Reply to  Smotters

Well, as per my above post, this person illustrates my point perfectly. I actually don’t even know if this is satire, but nor can I tell if this person is male or female. But why in the world would anyone film and upload this if it’s not for comedy purposes? Send help! Preferably of the ‘head doctor’, white-coat variety…

https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1814349779268177940

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago

I also felt alone at times, being the only one walking into a Caffe without a mask. I feel your pain love!

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varmint
varmint
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

I walked into a bar once —————I went “ahhhhhhhh jeez that was sore”. —-It was an iron bar ——chuckle.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
10 months ago
Reply to  varmint

A dyslexic man walks into a bra;

“Hey, what’s the problem? I have dailysex!” 🤡🙈

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varmint
varmint
10 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

A man walks into a chemist shop and asks “Have you anything at all for severe loss of the voice” and the assistant says “Good Morning, can I help you at all”?

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varmint
varmint
10 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Ok enough of this fooling around. Lets get back to the main task of tearing strips of the woke, the climate charlatans and the Islamophiles.

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Hester
Hester
10 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

I know I felt alone too, I felt alone and vulnerable when the lovely villagers threw me out of local groups because I hadn’t taken the injection, I felt even more vulnerable when after returning from a break, I was visited by one of the Government stazi agents to check I was indoors (even after testing negative on preflight to UK), and then 2 days a later being visited by the local police to check I was staying indoors. Which incidentally was a suprise as where I live I thought they were an extinct species, based on the lack of ever tackling crime.
I wish I had the courage of Violet and had just taken mysef off into a safe space, as opposed to getting on with my life but always remembering those who became inhumane at the request of the men and women in Whitehall

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  Hester

I remember telling people “I’m exempt” a lot, usually worked. In the Kebab shop they did question me when I told them I have Asthma, he asked what type inhaler I used, I just mumbled something and walked out. If they wanted confrontation, they were on the right path. Walked into a Caffe looking for a sandwich without a mask, and most people are looking with amusement. There was a Coffee shop in another town where I didn’t bother say I’m exempt he didn’t serve me so I leant over to him and told him you’ll be wearing those things for the next five years and walked out. As I’ve said. We need more bolshy people like Godfrey Bloom and the TV characters like Victor Meldrew and Alf Garnet.

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Heretic
Heretic
10 months ago

Well done to Ben Affleck for being a strong, sensible father and reining in the sprog his wife no doubt turned into a spoilt brat. “I demand…”, said the teenager. Sounds like that other spoilt brat Greta, “How dare you! How very dare you!”

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
10 months ago

““He knows how strongly she feels about this, but now that Violet is an adult, he felt that it was his duty to let her know that she is David fighting Goliath and that most people unfortunately do not feel the same way she does about this.”

So he supports her position? Ok, that’s really going to help her.

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Baldrick
Baldrick
10 months ago

Various conversations with maskees:-
1) X: “I thing masks should be worn all the time”
Me: “probably not a good idea to wear them outside in the rain”
X: “Oh I hadn’t though of that”

2) Y : “Why aren’t you wearing a mask”
Me: “Because they don’t work, which is why your glasses have steamed up”

Oh you get the general idea.

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factsnotfiction
factsnotfiction
10 months ago

“Violet – who recently graduated from high school…”

What the hell are they teaching in high school these days!?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
10 months ago
Reply to  factsnotfiction

Safetysm!

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johnboy12
johnboy12
10 months ago

Terrified of her own mortality. On the flip side, she will save on lipstick..and men

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
10 months ago
Reply to  johnboy12

Except that many men provide extensively for the fairer sex.
Overheard in a restaurant “I dumped him pretty quickly because he did bring me a present on our second date”

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Hound of Heaven
Hound of Heaven
10 months ago

The whole face-covering hysteria has deranged many minds. I am reminded of a woman who flew into a panic because she had forgotten to put hers on before entering a dining room, where she would only have to remove it again. When face-coverings were imposed on society, I immediately bought a mask-exempt lanyard from Amazon, which I wore everywhere when out and about. Once day, a woman, masked to the eyeballs, asked me if I didn’t feel ridiculous wearing it…. What is it about this practice that has people hooked on it like a narcotic? That is to say, they will never be cured, only learn to manage without their theatrical prop.

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Epi
Epi
10 months ago

What a silly silly girl.

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