Posts on Saturday, October 3, 2020
‘It’s Personal’–Trump Supporter Chokes
Up Talking About President Outside Walter
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Up Talking About President Outside Walter
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Americans gathered outside Walter Reed Medical Center on Saturday night to show support for President Trump after he tested positive for the coronavirus.A woman named Anna told Breitbart News she attended the prayer rally because the president spoke up for Americans when they could not speak for themselves.“Donald Trump had the courage and backbone, despite persecution, to speak for us and have commonsensical stances on major issues that we were not represented with,” she said. “So the least we can do, when he’s suffered so much to represent us, is to come out here and let him know that the love for him is so great and
The Georgia Bulldogs could come under fire from the Southeast Conference for potential violation of COVID-19 rules.
Many photos of cheering Georgia fans went viral during their big SEC battle against the rival Auburn Tigers on Saturday night at Sanford Stadium. Many of the fans were packed together and not wearing masks.
The SEC released guidelines in August for their schools to enforce.
One of the guidelines read: “Face coverings (over the nose and mouth) shall be required as a condition of all guest ingress, egress, and movement throughout the stadium, as well as any time guests are unable to maintain the recommended physical distance
As President Trump and Joe Biden debated on Tuesday evening in Cleveland, Steve Bannon was not huddled with other campaign advisers backstage, scrolling nervously through Twitter. Nor was he watching from a flatscreen in the White House. He doesn’t have a West Wing office anymore, having been dismissed from his job (he claims he resigned) as the president’s chief political strategist in the summer of 2017. His relationship with Trump since then has been one of rifts, reconciliations and, most recently, fraud charges(snip). It is difficult to imagine someone more attuned to the forces that coalesced in the strange brew called Trumpism. In 2016, Bannon was his campaign chief executive
A new poll released late this week revealed that a large percentage of Democrat voters are “happy” or “excited” over the news that President Donald Trump has been infected with the coronavirus, which originated in China. “General shock and concern over the commander in chief’s positive diagnosis were the most dominant voter emotions, according to the new poll: 2 in 5 said the word ‘surprised’ described them ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ well, while a similar share said the same of the word ‘worried,'” Morning Consult reported. “The emotion with the largest partisan gap was sadness. While 55 percent of Republican voters said the emotion described how they’re feeling today,
‘He’s on the wrong team’: Christian leaders
criticize Biden campaign ads highlighting Biden’s
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criticize Biden campaign ads highlighting Biden’s
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Christian leaders criticized 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden for “deceptive ads” highlighting the former vice president’s faith to Catholic and Evangelical voters. Biden’s campaign is launching a seven-figure ad buy in October targeting religious Americans, Religion News Service reported Thursday, featuring three new ads and two 30-second television spots running on Evangelical and Catholic programs. (Video) “We are running these ads to highlight to faith-motivated voters that Joe Biden is the clear moral choice in this election,” Josh Dickson, the Biden campaign’s faith engagement director, told Religion News Service in a statement.
Forty percent of Democrats are “happy” that President Trump contracted the Chinese coronavirus, according to a Morning Consult/Politico survey released on Friday — less than 24 hours from the official confirmation of his positive test results.
According to the survey, conducted among 905 registered voters Friday afternoon, two out of five Americans “said the word ‘surprised’ described them ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ well, while a similar share said the same of the word ‘worried.’”However, the reactions differed significantly across party lines. While a majority, 55 percent, of Republicans described their emotions regarding the news as “sad,”
A Trump supporter who stood outside of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday to show his support and love for the president said Trump has been “fighting for us” and he’s going to “fight for him” in turn.Reggie, a Trump Prayer Rally Attendee, told Breitbart News that he decided to come to the rally outside the hospital after seeing a few Trump supporters doing so the night before.“Since I live an hour and a half away, I thought it’d be important for me to come out here and show my support for the president and to show how much I love him and what the’s doing
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intended to appoint conservative author and pundit Larry Elder and President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton to his administration.From the White House statement: President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key positions in his Administration: Thomas Fitton, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. Laurence Allen Elder, of California, to be a Member of the Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys.Fitton serves as the president of Judicial Watch, a citizen watchdog group
NC Sen: Cal Cunningham Admits
to Sending Sexual Messages to California
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to Sending Sexual Messages to California
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North Carolina Democrat Cal Cunningham, who is running to unseat incumbent GOP Senator Thom Tillis, found himself involved in a sex scandal late on Friday night. The Charlotte News-Observer reported that Cunningham admitted to sending a series of sexual messages to a woman other than his wife; the National File first reported alleged texts between Cunningham and a California public relations strategist, Arlene Guzman Todd, that his campaign confirmed to be authentic. Cunningham ranks as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve and Todd is married to a veteran, so their plans to engage in an extramarital affair would violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice and risk court martial.
The public response to President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis went a step beyond the malicious Friday morning, as strange accounts flooded the social media announcement with Satanic imagery and apparent curses. Trump had taken to Twitter on Thursday evening to directly inform the nation that he and first lady Melania Trump had both contracted the coronavirus and would be quarantining at the White House, effective immediately. “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19,” Trump wrote. “We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!”
Scores of Americans are developing conspiracy theories about what they see as suspicious timing after President Donald Trump announced Friday he and first lady Melania Trump — and other Republicans — have suddenly contracted the disease. First and foremost, there are the optics of the president getting sick: Conspirators note the irony that Trump has now come down with an illness he has, in the past, downplayed as not so serious — which is technically true, given that the earliest models predicting millions of deaths in the United States alone were grossly inaccurate.(Video)
Joe Biden on Saturday jumbled his words and had trouble reading his teleprompter again during a virtual town hall with the Amalgamated Transit Union.Biden kept wiping his nose during the virtual event.WATCH:(Tweet/Video) Biden went on a bizarre rant and warned Governors not to endorse him because Trump will punish them and cut off federal aid.“I probably shouldn’t say this but you know me,” Biden said to the ATU boss. “I told some governors: ‘Don’t endorse me because you’ll pay a penalty. You won’t get what you need from the federal government in terms of this Covid crisis.'”
With only top Republicans, including the President, contracting the China coronavirus this week, Americans are curious why no Democrats contracted the virus.
Now authorities have been able to determine that a recent outbreak started in Cleveland at the site of the Presidential debate. Now let’s see if authorities can tell us who these people are and how this happened.FOX News provided a list of Americans who have contracted the China coronavirus along with the President – note all of these people are Republicans:
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced a new select subcommittee to investigate and oversee the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans knew we were in for a fight. Democrats were going to use this subcommittee to relentlessly hamper, harass and pass blame on the Trump administration in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century.
Over the past months, I’ve led Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as we’ve tried to cut through the noise and partisanship. After over a dozen hearings, Democrats have still failed to uncover any major fault in the Trump administration’s pandemic response
However, despite Democrats’ best efforts to obstruct our investigations,
China’s Communist Christ
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EARLIER this year, we learned of the Chinese Communist Party’s intention to undertake its own, state-approved “translation” of the Bible. Evidently, the Christian Scriptures are not as amenable to CCP orthodoxy as the Politburo would like.
According to the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the Party assembled a group of obedient and pliable “scholars” late last year and charged them with “making accurate and authoritative interpretations of classical doctrines to keep pace with the times.” In other words, the CCP plans to turn the Scriptures into another piece of regime propaganda by rewriting them beyond all recognition.
Saturday afternoon to declare he feels so healthy, “I could get out of here right now.” The former Big Apple mayor said his friend of 30 years sounded hale and hearty during the 2:30 p.m. conversation. “If you can judge by the way he speaks, he sounded like vintage Donald Trump,” Giuliani said. [Snip] “You go tell people I’m watching this coverage [reporting he’s taken a turn for the worse]. “I feel I could get out of here right [Snip] “I had to confront [the virus] so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly.
Before their shout-out on the national debate stage earlier this week, the Proud Boys had previously made a name for themselves with incendiary social media posts and street brawling at protests in cities like Portland and New York. The small, but loud, right-wing group also has roots in Florida, where they have made appearances at marches and rallies and gained notoriety for their connections to high-profile political figures. The Proud Boys were founded in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Media. They call themselves a “fraternity," “social club” and “men’s drinking club,” according to members.
In their words, their ideology revolves around being “Western chauvinists”
Public safety is the issue of the day, especially in the suburbs. This ad was produced by “Moms For Safe Neighborhoods” and is playing, I believe, mostly in Florida. But there are also some spots in Minnesota, and likely elsewhere. It includes an imaginary news person who says that the Democratic Congress and President Biden have cut spending on the police, which the federal government doesn’t really do. But the basic point is correct. If you like riots, looting and arson, the Democrats are the party for you. The fact that Joe Biden can’t bring himself to condemn Antifa–and no Democrat, needless to say, will condemn #BLM–makes the case.
These first responders got fired up to unexpectedly work together, as their teamwork marked a first in their department’s 57-year-history – the first all-female fire crew to staff a shift.
On Sept. 18, Rescue Lieutenant Krystyna Krakowski, Fire Medic Kelsey Krzywada, Fire Medic Julie Dudley, Lieutenant Monica Marzullo and Driver Engineer Sandi Ladewski were serendipitously scheduled as a crew for the Palm Beach Gardens Fire and Rescue in South Florida, Krakowski recently explained on “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“Two of us were on overtime and the others were assigned to that shift,” she told host Jedediah Bila. “So we just got lucky, and organically it just occurred."
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign released an ad this week narrated by a popular rapper who has called Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan his “mentor” and a “great guy.”The ad, narrated by Jeezy, aims to boost black voter turnout as part of the campaign’s “Shop Talk” series.“If you are out there marching in these streets, exercising your rights, you need to exercise your right to vote, too,” Jeezy says in the ad, which is posted to the Biden campaign’s YouTube channel.“It’s the only way to make sure we get the change we’re looking for.
There’s been a lot of debate lately on what generation of Americans is the most to blame for the current failures of the US as a society.
Baby Boomers blame millennials for being weak, lazy and entitled;
millennials blame boomers for ruining the system before they were ever born while enjoying the fruits of a more prosperous economy.
The real answer is that it’s partially the fault of BOTH generations, but not for the reasons often argued. The boomer vs. snowflake conflict is a controlled narrative that deliberately avoids the greater issues at hand. Yes, the newest generations of Americans have been utterly pussified,
Biased ‘newsman’ Chris Wallace paraded
on network way too much after debate
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on network way too much after debate
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On Friday, two days after Fox News host Chris Wallace’s widely panned moderation of the first presidential debate, the embattled newsman-turned-liberal advocate reportedly made approximately eight appearances on the network, leading some to wonder if he was being “paraded” out in an attempt to restore his damaged reputation.Yet his appearances seemed to always involve him either trashing President Donald Trump and his top officials, or lecturing the president’s supporters about one thing or another. (Video)
SHEFFIELD TWP. — The Lorain County Board of Elections spent more than $400,000 out of a grant provided by a world-famous social media billionaire and his wife to ensure a free and fair election this November.(Snip)The money received by Lorain County is a small portion of $250 million provided to the tech center by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, which the CTCL "will regrant to local election jurisdictions across the county to help ensure that they have the staffing, training, and equipment necessary so that this November every eligible voter can participate in a safe and timely way and have their vote counted,"
Leading Democrats have described pressing ahead with Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination 'irresponsible and dangerous' and said a virtual confirmation is not acceptable, after seven people at her nomination ceremony tested positive for COVID-19.Six of the 12 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were present at Saturday's event - Mike Lee, Marsha Blackburn, Ben Sasse, Josh Hawley, Thom Tillis, and Mike Crapo. Two - Lee and Tillis - tested positive on Friday. Coney Barrett, 48, tested negative on Friday, her office said.
North Carolina has played a key role in Democrats’ hopes to take control of the Senate this year. Republican Thom Tillis is considered an uninspiring figure, while the Democrats seemed to have found a strong challenger in veteran Cal Cunningham. But yesterday the news broke that Cunningham has been carrying on a torrid affair with a political consultant from California. Both Cunningham and the consultant, Arlene Guzman Todd, are married.
The affair became public when someone leaked a series of texts between Cunningham and Todd. Here they are; click to enlarge:
A self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” who traveled around Minnesota spreading conspiracy theories about the state’s large Muslim community is now the Republican nominee for a seat in Congress. (snip) The fact that it has found even partial acceptance in the mainstream is why Asma Jama is considering a return to Africa.
“There’s a part of me that just wants to give up and just throw the towel in. I’ve been thinking about going back home… like go back home for good,” she said. “I’m just saying if people like Laura Loomer can easily win, then we have a lot of work to do. And I don't think I'm cut for that.”
President Trump's physician is treating his coronavirus diagnosis with Regeneron's experimental treatment and his one infusion "seemed to go through very well" and "will last a long time," the company's chief scientific officer explained to "CAVUTO Live" Saturday.
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley and other members of the medical team briefed reporters on Trump’s condition. Conley said they were “extremely happy with the progress” Trump is making. "It's all about beating the virus and so we're just helping the natural immune system beat it, by supplementing it with this antibody cocktail," Dr. George Yancopoulos, the co-founder, president and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, explained to host Neil Cavuto.
In his latest Twitter update from Walter Reed Military Hospital, President Donald Trump heaped praise on his medical team, adding that he is “feeling well” as he continues to battle the coronavirus. “Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!” the president tweeted Saturday afternoon. “Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!” (Tweet)
On Wednesday night, the NBA held a ‘More Than A Vote’ campaign during the first game of the NBA finals – because the NBA is now a political arm for the DNC first and a basketball league second. President Obama crashed the party to push for the Democrat cause — during the NBA finals! What a complete turnoff.During the NBA Finals the NBA worked in tandem with radical liberals of the Democrat Party in an effort to get out the vote. RepublicWorld.com reported on the event:
It’s a testament to the American spirit that mere months after the arrival of a new, deadly virus on our shores, we’ve taken the steps necessary to protect the vulnerable and return to our daily lives.(Snip) Although hospitalizations and deaths in the state have remained flat since mid-June, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker refuses to fully reopen the state. While much of the country returns to normal (more or less), he’s reimposing and heightening restrictions. In Illinois, in addition to the momentous choice for president, voters are facing a critical question on the November ballot. It’s whether to adopt Pritzker’s signature policy proposal: a constitutional amendment that would allow Illinois
President Trump is “doing very well” and has no difficulty breathing, his medical team said Saturday -- the morning after he was transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
White House physician Dr. Sean Conley and other members of the medical team briefed reporters on Trump’s condition. Conley said they were “extremely happy with the progress” Trump is making.
"This morning, the president is doing very well," he said.
However, moments after the press conference, a source familiar with the president's health gave a more cautious diagnosis to the press pool.
Dem 'Squad' accuses Twitter of
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shielding Trump from hate-tweets
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Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are complaining that Twitter has gone the extra mile to shield President Trump from tweets wishing him ill as he battles COVID-19 after failing to block death threats against them. As Trump, an avid Twittter user, faced brutal attacks on the platform Friday after reporting his diagnosis, the San Francisco-based social media giant said posts "that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against *anyone* are not allowed and will need to be removed."
Former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has tested positive for COVID-19 just days after he admitted he was in a room with a group of maskless White House advisers and staff members – at least four of whom later tested positive for the virus – to help prepare President Trump for the first presidential debate. Trump announced he was positive for COVID-19 on Friday and was later admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for precautionary care. Christie said he took a coronavirus test on Friday after that announcement and said the results came back positive on Saturday.
President Donald Trump’s symptoms are “resolving and improving”, his physician said Saturday, and he said doctors were “extremely happy” with the president’s progress, after news early Friday that Trump had COVID-19.
“The team and I are extremely happy with the progress the president has made,” said Dr. Sean Conley at Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where the president is staying.
“He had a mild cough and nasal congestion and fatigue, all of which are now resolving and improving,” said Conley.
Conley said that Trump had no fever for 24 hours and that the president was not currently on oxygen.
Mexico’s president on Friday said he suspected political interference behind a new migrant caravan in Central America, promising to keep his country out of the U.S. presidential race as the group splintered and some began turning back. More than 2,000 migrants, many wearing face masks against the coronavirus, barged past Guatemalan troops at the Honduras-Guatemala border on Thursday. Some said they were seeking to escape poverty aggravated by the pandemic.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, (snip)suggested that the caravan’s departure from Honduras had been timed to provoke.
“It is very weird, very strange,” Lopez Obrador told a news conference. “It’s a matter that I believe is linked to the U.S. election.”
Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway responded to the news of President Donald Trump and the first lady’s positive coronavirus diagnosis on “Fox and Friends” Friday morning, noting she was “genuinely disappointed” to see many people cheering and responding to the news with glee.
“I was disappointed — genuinely disappointed — to see the glee with which some people responded to this news,” Hemingway said, referring to a number of political figures and verified Twitter users tweeting comments such as, “I hope he dies.”
Hemingway said there is a proper way to respond to this news, which includes prayer and avoiding unnecessary hysteria.
In July 2017, Chris Wallace confronted Jay Sekulow, a member of Trump’s legal team, with breaking allegations that Donald Trump, Jr. participated in a meeting with at least two Russians at New York’s Trump Tower in June 2016. Characteristically, Wallace simply made an allegation without really posing a question. (Snip)I am unable to locate any interview in which Wallace confronted any Democrat with the revelations that Clinton ginned up the Russia collusion scandal to distract from her email troubles.
Contrast this to Wallace’s stunning lack of curiosity over the recent revelations contained in a Senate report that, among other allegations, Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million payment from Elena Baturina, the
The Washington Free Beacon reports, a federal court ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay the NRA’s lawyer fees of approximately $150,000, just months after he ruled a city ordinance violated the gun-rights group’s First Amendment rights.
The City of Los Angeles tried to penalize any contractor with ties to the NRA. The NRA sued over the ordinance and federal district court judge Stephen Wilson ruled it was an unconstitutional violation of the NRA’s First Amendment rights. The city eventually repealed it and on Tuesday, the judge ordered city officials to pay the NRA’s attorney fees totaling about $150,000.
Is there anything more obnoxious than a health scold?
About 40% of Democrats are "happy" that President Trump has caught COVID, according to a MorningConsult poll. Some have popped out of the woodwork and expressed just that, making their "I hope he dies" tweets the words they'll be remembered for.
But some are a little smarter than that bunch, recognizing how repellent such a response is to normal people.
Instead of death-wishing, they're concern-trolling. They're the Karens,
Left Wing Governor Of Washington State
Freaks Out As Boeing Moves Production
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Freaks Out As Boeing Moves Production
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Jay Inslee, the left wing governor of Washington State, is freaking out because Boeing has decided to move production of its 787 airplane to the more conservative and business friendly South Carolina.Who can blame Boeing for making such a move, especially if it benefits them financially? Besides, in Seattle, leaders have shown that they will allow mobs of left wingers to destroy businesses.KING 5 News reports:
Boeing moving all 787 Dreamliner production from Everett to South Carolina. Boeing will relocate all 787 Dreamliner production from Everett to South Carolina, the company confirmed Thursday.
Former FBI Official Proposes ‘Bipartisan
Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates
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Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates
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A former top FBI official on Thursday proposed that a “bipartisan commission” be created to vet presidential candidates so people like President Trump can never be elected again.
“We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again,” said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.
During a discussion on MSNBC about Trump’s taxes Thursday morning, Figliuzzi opined that the president’s supposedly dire financial situation made him “vulnerable” to certain entities like {{{Russia}}}. (Snip) He suggested that the media in 2016 didn’t dig “deeply enough” to find dirt on Trump, and added “it’s time to have a discussion about a bipartisan committee that demands tax
The Joe Biden campaign is releasing three ads this month targeting Catholic and evangelical Christian voters in an effort to portray the Democrat presidential nominee and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as “the clear moral choice” in the election.The Biden campaign is investing financial resources in an attempt to win over Americans of faith at the same time the Democrat Party has embraced the radical position of access to abortion at any time during pregnancy; an insistence it has no room for pro-life individuals or candidates; a stated intention to provide full taxpayer funding for abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood; and an announced plan to force taxpayers to fund abortions.
There are trillions at stake…
As a consequence there are a myriad of ideological efforts underway, simultaneously with increased intensity, intended to influence the 2020 election. Pelosi/Soros Inc. working earnestly on mail in ballots. Big Tech continues efforts to disconnect the voices of their political opposition. Big Media continues efforts to frame anti-Trump narratives to assist their political allies. The big Wall St. multinationals, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, are pouring money into efforts to block the re-election of President Trump.(Snip)We can all see it; this time they are not trying to hide… Eyes wide open. Cue the coordination with the open-border immigration lobby:
Texas House of Representatives member Gene Wu (D-Houston) lamented on Twitter Friday evening that it would be “hard to serve a prison sentence” if President Donald Trump dies of Coronavirus. Not long after, the tweet was deleted and replaced with well wishes for a full recovery. The southwest Houston politician did not offer an apology for the original statement. (Photo) Rep. Wu followed up the deleted tweet wishing the President “a full recovery. I’ll pray for him and send him healing thoughts.”
Sen. Ron Johnson has tested positive for COVID-19, he revealed Saturday. Johnson is the third Senate Republican to come down with the virus in recent days. “Senator Johnson feels healthy and is not experiencing symptoms. He will remain isolated until given the all-clear by his doctor,” a spokesman for the Wisconsin senator said in a statement. Johnson first learned of the diagnosis Friday afternoon.
The senator’s positive test result comes after he recently completed a 14-day quarantine for possible exposure during which he repeatedly tested
Escape from 2020
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Maybe 2020 seems jinxed because familiar institutions are collapsing on themselves like they have never done before. Global civilization now relies on natural and human networks of such complexity that their interactions generate unpredictable events with increasing frequency and make the present ungovernable. In retrospect the currrent crisis may have shown itself as far back as Brexit in 2016 and been accelerating ever since.We are met by fresh shocks at very turn. The hope is that 2021 will bring new “luck” . But if 2020 happened not from bad luck but the result
Many harsh words are traded on Twitter each day. Dick Costolo, the former CEO of the company, added some of his own tonight.
Costolo was responding to a debate that has consumed tech’s elite on Twitter over the past few days, an argument about whether the industry should actively promote social justice causes and encourage political conversations at work. Costolo’s comments had the effect of dumping a jerrycan’s worth of fuel on the fire. “Me-first capitalists who think you can separate society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution,” he tweeted. “I'll happily provide video commentary.”
Costolo’s extraordinary language
The Commission on Presidential Debates has agreed to seat Kamala Harris and Mike Pence 12 feet apart at the vice presidential debate next week, after the Biden campaign raised health and safety objections to the original spacing between the two candidates because of Covid concerns. As of Friday evening, however, the commission would not accede to the Biden campaign‘s request that Harris and Pence stand during the debate. Instead, the two will be seated, which was the preference of the Trump campaign, a source familiar with the discussions told POLITICO.
Election season is in full swing, with October surprises popping up like a jack-in-the-box at any moment. (snip)President Trump was flown to Walter Reed Medical Center for "the next few days," not because he was sick, but as a "precautionary" measure.(snip)Trump's actual symptoms are unknown but obviously not severe if he could walk unassisted from the White House to Marine One. (snip) The Regeneron cocktail, rumored to be called the Covfefe Double Shot, is a "novel two-antibody cocktail, REGN-COV2, with potential to diminish risk of viral escape by effectively binding to the virus's critical spike protein in two separate, non-overlapping locations."
Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the possibility that she might become acting president if neither President Trump nor Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins enough electoral votes to declare victory in the election on or after Nov. 3.
Pelosi, a California Democrat, told reporters Thursday that she is preparing House Democrats for a potential role in determining the winner with a vote by each state delegation.
But if a majority still does not emerge for either Trump or Biden, Pelosi said, “then it goes into another range where the speaker becomes the [president]. It’s complicated after that.”
It is rare for the House to play a role in determining the outcome
New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) said Wednesday that the widely reported readmission of coronavirus patients to nursing homes at the height of the pandemic in the state "never happened."
Cuomo said that despite a March 25 advisory issued by his administration barring nursing homes from denying admission to patients "solely based on a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19," readmissions never took place. He claimed that, because the state "never needed" those nursing home beds, readmitting COVID-positive patients "just never happened."
Get Well Soon, Mr. President
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News that President and Mrs. Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, announced by the President this morning, will no doubt be met by sneering and ill wishes by many of the President’s detractors. Yet it is being met by many more — millions of Americans, ourselves among them, and by millions abroad — with hopes and prayers for a speedy recovery.
This is a moment to reflect on the nature of our republic. Our Constitution marries a system of democracy with a compact among sovereign states. It grants the power to choose the president to the states. If they reach a majority in the electoral college,
So, Donald Trump has the Wuhan pangolin virus, and of course he does because it’s 2020 and how could he not have it? With this year, you take the most random scenario, you multiply it by 10, gobble a handful of the brown acid, and just go with it, and even then the whole thing spins even more out of control than you ever imagined. Now the question is what this all means for the campaign. I bet it helps Trump.
Joe Biden’s got to be worried. Well, Grandpa Badfinger‘s handlers have to be worried. That crusty crustacean is probably still napping, trying to sleep off the hangover
“By any means necessary” is a battle cry of the far left, coined by a Marxist philosopher on the Caribbean island of Martinique in 1960.
Fast-forward six decades, and the far left in the U.S. has embraced that end-justifies-the-means credo with monomaniacal gusto in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.
How other than “by any means necessary” can you characterize billionaire plutocrat Michael Bloomberg’s plan to shovel — or bulldoze — a staggering $100 million
The Grifters of the Left
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Tuesday night saw a firehose-style stream of ridiculous statements and ironic positions taken by the Democrat presidential nominee. But it’s hard to even fault Joe Biden for that, seeing as though he comes from a political movement that lives by the grift.
There was a time when Democrats were the party of the working man. Democrats, at least some of them, were the coal miners, the auto mechanics, the electricians.
Now? Now, they’re the lobbyists, the PR consultants, the diversity coordinators, and the nonprofit apparatchiks.
That party is fronted almost completely by people who don’t exist in the productive economy. The most productive Democrats in the private sector
Lost in the blinding gaslighting over President Trump’s remarks about white supremacists during this week’s presidential debate was the fact that Joe Biden proved again that he’s little more than a stand-in propped up by a compliant political press.
Biden was unable to answer even the most rudimentary queries about his beliefs, never mind specifics about policy. Apologies to the Twitter expert class, but opposing Donald Trump is neither a moral doctrine nor a policy agenda.
There is plenty to dislike about the president, but you rarely have to guess where he stands
In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, Democratic nominee Joe Biden cited FBI Director Christopher Wray in claiming that “antifa’s an idea, not an organization.” The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) released a powerful ad exposing just how absurd Biden’s statement was, in light of the violent and deadly riots across America this summer.
“If Antifa is only an idea then who is burning down our cities, assaulting our law enforcement officers, and causing the violence we’ve seen over the last four months?” Adam Piper, RAGA’s executive director, asked in a statement.
A few days ago a liberal columnist for the Seattle Times wrote a good column about the collapse of small business in the downtown core of the Emerald City: “Self-inflicted wounds make Seattle’s business losses worse.” Someone in Seattle’s media is finally getting it:
Shops were looted, in some cases repeatedly, this past summer. It sullies the cause of social justice protests to link the two together. The looting was pure criminality.
The city’s lack of prosecution for most shoplifting is another big DIY problem. It played heavily into Macy’s decision to close before COVID-19 and is extremely costly for small retailers.
“Hush! Hush! Hush!
Here comes the Bogeyman!
Don’t let him come too close to you,
He’ll catch you if he can!”
— Henry Hall (1932)
On Thursday night, President Trump announced that he and Melania had contracted Covid-19 and were both in quarantine. His physician reported that the president was showing mild symptoms, and on Friday evening he was taken to Walter Reed Hospital.
As expected, many on the left openly celebrated Trump’s illness, wishing upon him all manner of suffering and death. In general, though, the response of mainstream Democratic players was muted, even polite.
Why?
Perhaps because they know a sick person (even this president) engenders sympathy among decent people, many of whom are undecided voters.
A new migrant caravan is marching
north as arrests at the U.S. border
rise for fourth straight month replies
north as arrests at the U.S. border
rise for fourth straight month replies
It seemed for a while that we might be done with migrant caravans from Central America. With the coronavirus spreading around the world, borders were closed and so were shelters that house migrants along the route from Central America to the U.S. But CBS reported yesterday that a new caravan composed of nearly 1,000 migrants has formed in Honduras and is marching north: Hundreds of migrants began walking Wednesday night from this city in northern Honduras toward the Guatemala border, testing a well-trod migration route now in times of the novel coronavirus.
Biden launches ads touting his
faith after cardinal says he's 'not
a Catholic in good standing' replies
faith after cardinal says he's 'not
a Catholic in good standing' replies
Former Vice President Joe Biden has launched an ad campaign seeking to highlight his faith as many conservatives and fellow Catholics have questioned the sincerity of his beliefs.
The campaign includes three ads that are set to run in 14 states, many of which are major battlegrounds, according to Religion News Service (RNS). “These ads are one component of our expansive, direct appeal to people of faith that Vice President Biden’s agenda is much more aligned with their common good values than the divisiveness, racism, and fear we see from the current administration,” Josh Dickson, who leads the campaign's faith engagement, reportedly said.
MSNBC host Joy Reid raised eyebrows on Friday for suggesting that President Trump was fabricating his coronavirus diagnosis to "get out of the debates."
President Trump shocked the world late Thursday night when he revealed that he and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted the coronavirus.
However, hours before it was announced that the president was being transported to Walter Reed Medical Center for a lengthy hospital stay, the "ReidOut" host echoed claims that her "friends" were sending her via text.
President Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, tested positive for the coronavirus Friday evening, a campaign official told Fox News, hours after the president and first lady confirmed they too had contracted the virus. Stepien plans to quarantine until he recovers and work from home, the official said. A senior campaign official said Stepien was suffering from “mild flu-like symptoms,” Politico reported. Deputy campaign manager Justin Clark will oversee Trump's headquarters in Arlington, Va., while Stepien works remotely, Fox News has confirmed.
A group of Trump supporters have gathered at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where President Donald Trump is undergoing treatment for COVID-19.The group organized quickly to show support for the president amid a sea of media filming outside the hospital.Jack Posobiec of One America News is at the scene and shared videos of the crowd. (Tweets/Videos) Now later tonight Trump Chief of Staff went outside Walter Reed to hand out chocolates to the Trump supporters.The president told Mark to hand out the chocolates.Via Jack Posobiec.
Report: Trump’s Hollywood Star Under
Repair After Someone Dressed As
The Hulk Wrecked It With Pickaxe replies
Repair After Someone Dressed As
The Hulk Wrecked It With Pickaxe replies
A person dressed as the Incredible Hulk took a pickaxe to President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame early Friday morning, rendering it unrecognizable and in need of thousands of dollars in repairs, law enforcement sources told TMZ.The Hollywood-focused media outlet reports that law enforcement officials said that the Hulk-dressed figure delivered about $5,000 of damage to the Hollywood star, but no one has yet been arrested for the incident. It remains under investigation.Rana Ghadban, CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, decried the act of vandalism to TMZ, saying: “When people are angry
Twitter says it will suspend users who tweet that they hope for President Trump’s death following his positive coronavirus diagnosis.The social media platform told Motherboard it could dole out the suspensions under an “abusive behavior” rule that’s been in place since April.“Content that wishes, hopes or expresses a desire for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against an individual is against our rules,” Twitter said in a statement to the outlet.The anti-abuse policy explicitly bans tweets “hoping that someone dies as a result of a serious disease e.g., “I hope you get cancer and die.”
Judge Amy Coney Barrett tested positive for the coronavirus 'over the summer,' The Washington Post reported Friday, on the heels of President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Sen. Mike Lee all testing positive for COVID-19. Barrett was at the White House with the Trumps and Lee on Saturday, when Trump officially nominated her for the Supreme Court. She met with Lee on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Barrett would have been tested at the White House before meeting with the president. The White House also confirmed she tested negative Friday after the Trumps' diagnosis was made public.
Now that he has arrived at Walter Reed National Medical Center for observation and treatment for COV-19, President Trump will be in the hands of 7,000 or so staff members including some of the nation's top doctors. Trump will stay in the hospital's designated Presidential Suite, a lavish portion of one of its 88 buildings. Known as Ward 71, the Presidential Suite is one of six special patient rooms reserved for high-ranking military officers and members of the White House cabinet. The suite is 'specially outfitted with protective devices and communications gear used in support of the president,' wrote Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, who served as a physician