Posts on Monday, October 5, 2020
News came out today that White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
Jim Acosta tried to blame her for not wearing a mask at a briefing yesterday when she was outdoors and socially distanced from anyone. As my colleague Sister Toldjah wrote earlier, you had crazy tweets from reporters such as the one from CBS correspondent Ben Tracy. Just so much idiocy.
But here’s the thing on top of that.
A fair question, albeit a surprising query coming from the New York Times. Joe Biden has gone out of his way to set a good public example of social distancing and mask-wearing in the COVID-19 pandemic, in contrast with Donald Trump’s efforts to make things look more normal than they really are. However, Biden and his campaign have been remarkably opaque about the protocols in place to protect the septuagenarian’s health in this election, the NYT notes, and it’s beginning to worry them. Is something going on? But beyond the public examples of safety precautions, Mr. Biden’s health protocols have remained largely under wraps, with his campaign saying little
Disturbing parallels can be drawn between the United States and the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe, commentator and bestselling author Rod Dreher says.
Dreher, a senior editor at The American Conservative, received a phone call in 2015 that sent him on a journey to investigate whether America is losing its freedoms in the same way that Eastern Europe lost its liberty to the Soviet Union. What he found inspired his latest book, “Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents.”
Dreher joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the book and what the future may hold if Americans do not stand against the agenda of the radical left.
President Trump recorded a stirring address to the nation immediately upon his return from a three-day stay at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland for treatment of an infection by the COVID-19 China coronavirus.Trump was diagnosed with the virus early Friday morning after showing symptoms on Thursday and then Friday during the day.Monday night Sean Hannity announced that President Trump is planning on participating in the October 15th presidential debate.The president will debate Joe Biden and his former intern Steve Scully.
Hollywood elites experienced an epic meltdown after President Donald Trump tweeted that he would be leaving Walter Reed Military Hospital on Monday evening. At the center of Hollywood’s temper tantrum was the president’s advice: “Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life.” Those words set off a Hollywood freak out in which celebrities launched social media attacks at the president and even his medical team, spreading conspiracy theories and wild accusations intended to hurt Trump. “You are faking your recovery!” tweeted NBC’s Community actor Ken Jeong, who is also a medical doctor.
WASHINGTON—Vice President Mike Pence and opponent Kamala Harris will duke it out between a sheet of plexiglas and 13 feet of social distancing at their first and only debate in Utah on Wednesday.The last-minute changes were approved by the Commission on Presidential Debates amid mounting concerns of COVID-19 transmission after President Trump and at least a dozen associates and White House staffers contracted the virus, Politico reported.While Pence has not tested positive for COVID-19, critics of the administration called for the Utah showdown to be delayed out of fear that the veep could be unwittingly carrying the virus.
Americans really are drinking more during the COVID-19 pandemic. New research suggests that alcohol consumption in the United States rose 14% during pandemic shutdowns.
The most dramatic increase was in heavy drinking episodes in women, defined as four or more drinks within two hours. Women reported a 41% increase in episodes of heavy drinking in the spring of 2020 compared with their drinking level in the spring of 2019.
"We've had anecdotal information about people buying and consuming more alcohol, but this is some of the first survey-based information that shows how much alcohol consumption has increased
President Donald Trump released a positive video message on Monday evening following his release from Walter Reed Medical Center, telling people not to live in fear of the pandemic. “I just left Walter Reed Medical Center, and it’s really something very special—the doctors, the nurses, the first responders—and I learned so much about coronavirus” Trump said. “And one thing that’s for certain, don’t let it dominate you. Don’t be afraid of it. You’re gonna beat it. We have the best medical equipment; we have the best medicines—all developed recently—and you’re gonna beat it.”
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said Monday that Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that mandated all states recognize same-sex marriages, is "found nowhere in the text" of the Constitution and threatens "the religious liberty of the many Americans who believe that marriage is a sacred institution between one man and one woman." The statement was written by Thomas and joined by Alito about the case of Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who said she would not give same-sex couples marriage licenses.
President Trump was discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returned to the White House on Monday evening to continue his fight against the novel coronavirus, after his medical team warned that he “may not entirely be out of the woods yet.” Dressed in a navy suit and tie and wearing a face mask, Trump walked out of Walter Reed on his own. Upon walking out the doors of the hospital, he made a low fist pump and gave a thumbs up to the press as he got into a black SUV to head to Marine One.
Pete Buttigieg, who is reportedly helping Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris prepare for Wednesday's upcoming debate, said it would be "a real mistake to underestimate" the skills of her Republican rival. Buttigieg discussed Vice President Mike Pence's past debate approaches, and what Harris might expect from him this week, during an interview with Indianapolis Monthly, published on Sunday. Harris and Pence will participate in this year's vice presidential debate during an in-person event set to take place in Salt Lake City on Wednesday evening. "He was very effective in 2016," Buttigieg said in the interview, responding to a question
Cancel all the debates, now
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COVID-19 and Donald Trump's bullying behavior provide the excuse to do what should have been done already: cancel the presidential and vice presidential debates. The Trump-Biden debate was one of the low, degrading moments in the history of American politics. That several people there, including the president, came down with the virus underscores the perils of forums today. The Tuesday debacle only dramatized that these debates have outlived any usefulness. Even before Trump's blustery and boorish performance they offered little value to voters other than as a spectator sport. With the premium on cheap cracks, clever cliches and one-liners, these
It’s Official: Senate Judiciary Committee Schedules
Hearings On Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS Nomination replies
Hearings On Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS Nomination replies
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made good on his promise to schedule a formal hearing on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that Barrett’s hearing will begin, as expected, on Monday, October 12, 2020, at 9 am.“The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on the nomination of the Honorable Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to begin Monday, Oct. 12 at 9:00 am & continue through Thursday, Oct. 15,” the committee tweeted Monday, alongside an official statement and calendar item.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has dropped a “national mask mandate” from his platform but instead proposed a “guidance” on Saturday. Speaking to the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Biden went through a litany of changes he would implement, including ordering his Department of Transportation to create a “nationwide mask guidance”: (Video) “We have to make sure you get all the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) you need. You need it for job safety and for our safety to be able to continue to transport people,” Biden said. “We need a nationwide mask guidance so that no one gets on a public transportation unit without a mask,” he said.
The Art of Propaganda
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How did Germany, arguably the most cultured and civilized nation in Europe, degenerate so quickly?
The answer is propaganda. Man is a herd animal, and propaganda moves the herd.
(Snip) Hitler was notoriously verbose, but in this passage he offered the key to the political tactic quite succinctly:
“Of the great masses…their intelligence is small. All effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and harped on in slogans.” (Snip) BLM was ostensibly organized in response to Ferguson. The rallying cry of that fatal incident, “Hands up don’t shoot,” was a lie. Mr. Brown wasn’t murdered; he was killed, shot while charging at a police officer after attacking a
Doctors at Walter Reed gave everyone good news on President Donald Trump’s health on Sunday after he went in for treatment for COVID-19.Well, one reporter didn’t think it was good news.A hot mic picked up one reporter saying, “That wasn’t as much fun as yesterday.” (Tweet/Video) Granted, America’s media thrives on drama and controversy. So maybe this reporter wanted something juicy.But God forbid the president improves in his fight against COVID-19! Trump Derangement Syndrome has literally broken these people. They’ve trashed and vilified Trump over the pandemic.It’s like they wanted him to get it really bad (hopefully none of them hoped he would die)
Three former astronauts are endorsing Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in her special election battle against astronaut and Democratic challenger Mark Kelly. "We remember a not-so-distant past when the Air Force wouldn’t let women fly in combat. Instead of sitting down accepting the status quo, McSally stood up, fought for change and made strides for generations of women to follow her," astronauts Tom Stafford, Charlie Duke and Jack Lousma wrote in an OpEd recently published in The Arizona Central. The astronauts say that while McSally has a record of accomplishments to point to, Kelly's positions remain largely unknown.
Joe Biden traveled to South Florida on Monday to pander to the Latino community. Biden gave a speech at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex and told the crowd to fantasize about President Trump being delivered a final death blow on election eve. “Think about this, wouldn’t it be an irony, the irony of all ironies, if on election eve, patience delivered a coup de grâce in this election,” said Biden as President Trump is at Walter Reed Medical Center.WATCH: (Tweet/Video)
When President Trump and First Lady Melania tested positive for Covid, Democrats were gloating and hoping for the worst. They thought a sick (or dying) Trump would be unable to campaign down the homestretch and hand a victory to Basement Biden.
What did former President Obama call this? A “teachable moment.” But it’s not the lesson Democrats hoped for. [Snip] Trump has three traits above all others. First, he is relentless. He never gives up. He always finds a way to come out on top. My favorite saying is, “NBAT: Never Bet Against Trump.”
A Trump supporter who gathered outside of Walter Reed hospital with fellow supporters on Sunday said that they effectively “brought a Trump rally” to the president, as Trump remained in the hospital undergoing treatment for the Chinese coronavirus.“Trump has been giving us rallies basically four, five times a week, every day the last three, four weeks,” the Trump supporter, identified as “Greg,” told Breitbart News. “Right now he needs us. So we brought a Trump rally to him and he came out and he said hi and it made his day.”
Earlier in the day, Trump made a surprise visit to his supporters who have gathered outside of the hospital throughout
Carl Sagan, who spent his career in search of extraterrestrial intelligence, was apparently hard-pressed to find it here on Earth. The famed astronomer made a case for socialism in a 1989 interview on CNN with billionaire television mogul Ted Turner when asked simply, “Are you a socialist?” A clip of their exchange has gone viral on Twitter with more than 100,000 likes and more than 3 million views since Sunday night. “I’m not sure what a ‘socialist’ is,” Sagan, who died at 62 of cancer-related pneumonia in 1996, responded. “But I believe the government has a responsibility to care for the people.
President Donald Trump announced that he would leave Walter Reed Medical Center Monday at 6:30 p.m. after being treated for the coronavirus.
“I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M.,” he wrote on Twitter. “Feeling really good!” The president’s physicians are expected to brief reporters on the president’s condition shortly. The president was transferred to the hospital on Friday and remained there over the weekend.
Trump offered some advice for Americans,
Rogue partisan Walter Reed doctor, CNN
contributor, slammed for blasting Trump’s
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contributor, slammed for blasting Trump’s
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A physician at Walter Reed Medical Center who is also a frequent contributor to CNN appears to have inappropriately criticized President Donald Trump’s drive-by on Sunday so he could wave to supporters gathered outside the hospital as a thank-you to them. In a series of tweets, Dr. James Phillips, M.D., an attending physician at Walter Reed as well as chief of Disaster Medicine at George Washington University, accused the president of endangering lives including those of his Secret Service detail for taking the short trip.(Video) “That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has become the latest person in the President's inner circle to test positive for COVID-19, three days after Trump confirmed he'd been infected. McEnany, 32, continued going to work at the White House despite Trump testing positive late on Thursday night and she took her mask off on Sunday to brief reporters. She had been in close contact with the President and others at White House who have tested positive, but repeatedly tested negatively herself until Monday.
Duluth–About 20 trucks with signs and flags supporting Donald Trump paraded by Mayor Emily Larson’s house Friday evening, days after she called the president a white supremacist and accused him of sowing division. Ahead of Trump’s rally in Duluth on Wednesday, the mayor condemned Trump’s “message of hate and division” on a call with local and state Democratic officials.
“We have a white supremacist in the White House who cares only about himself, who says he is about law and order, but I can guarantee you is coming into my community, disregarding the laws of health and safety for Minnesotans,” Larson said on the call.
CDC revises coronavirus guidance
to acknowledge that it spreads
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to acknowledge that it spreads
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidance on the coronavirus Monday, acknowledging that it can sometimes spread through airborne particles that can “linger in the air for minutes to hours” and among people who are more than six feet apart.
“These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” the CDC’s new guidance says. “Sometimes the infected person was breathing heavily, for example while singing or exercising.”
This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.
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You wouldn't expect this to be the final resting place of a rock star. Sunlight filtered through the autumn trees as we drove through the Ohio countryside in Geauga County. My wife, Susie, and I turned onto a gravel drive flanked by brick pillars and iron gates, and nodded to two motorcyclists as they rolled toward the exit.
We apparently were on the same pilgrimage. As the rumble of engines faded, silence returned to St. Patrick Cemetery in Thompson Township. A lonely cricket chirped from a hiding place in the grass. Benjamin Orr’s headstone was easy to find.
I think I know what’s really going on. Over at KAOS headquarters (otherwise known as Trump Tower), the show runners were recalling the palmy days of the Access Hollywood tape four years ago, when everyone said IT’S OVER!—PUT PENCE AT THE TOP OF THE TICKET NOW! The attempted sequel—the Melania Tapes—bombed, so someone said, “I’ve got it! Let’s go with COVID! Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
On Sunday, Monica Showalter demonstrated that Chelsea Clinton is a horrible person to have as a friend. (Or is just a horrible person, period.) Today, it’s time to demonstrate that Chelsea Clinton isn’t just a horrible friend and person, she also lives in a fantasy world untethered to facts. And in this regard, Chelsea is just like every other anti-Trump leftist.
Chelsea Clinton is an almost pathetic person. She’s got a handful of degrees from prestigious institutions, but she hasn’t done anything with them. Chelsea got every job she’s held because she’s famous, not because she has any discernable talent. That’s it. That’s what Chelsea Clinton is.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany revealed she tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday morning and will start the "quarantine process," becoming the latest person in President Trump's orbit to get the virus.
“After testing negative consistently, including every day since Thursday, I tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning while experiencing no symptoms,” McEnany said in a statement. “No reporters, producers, or members of the press are listed as close contacts by the White House Medical Unit.”
When prehistoric hunters first dipped their arrows in snake venom, we turned nature’s toxic gifts against one another for the first time in history. It would not be the last.
Over the centuries, different lethal concoctions have been in vogue, and the popular pick was generally whatever could be plucked off the local herbalist or apothecary’s shelves. "A poison in a small dose is a medicine," said Alfred Swaine Taylor, a 19th century toxicologist, "and a medicine in a large dose is a poison."
Classic poisons like hemlock, nightshade, aconite, foxglove, opium, and strychnine were used to treat a range of ails, from the humble head cold
I trained hard, both mentally and physically. I cut any alcohol and caffeine out of my system. I worked out harder and ran a lot to make sure I had endurance, which also helped clear my mind. And then I studied certain strategies Bobby uses on Beat Bobby Flay. I watched a bunch of them to see his cooking style, his technique, the way he seasons and how fast he was. That definitely worked to my advantage too. It’s like a sport. I’m checking out who I’m going against, whether it’s a team or not.
I also reviewed things in my head that I had self-sabotaged in the past, like overthinking.
While you don’t know for sure if President Donald Trump is behind it, somehow you just know he is.
A peculiar thing happened Sunday night outside the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, hot pizzas kept showing up. By the dozens.
A throng of Trump supporters have been holding a vigil outside the facility since the president was admitted on Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, or as Trump is now calling it, the “plague from China.”
According to one enthusiastic supporter, Domino’s pizzas were being delivered every 45 minutes to the crowd — 250 pies and counting. [Tweet]
The man was convinced that the gift was from President Trump
The latest news cycle over President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis illustrates yet again how destructive the U.S. corporate media are to national unity and a clear understanding of reality.
While we are all aware that COVID-19 can be a truly devastating and deadly disease for some, despite the volume of media coverage dedicated to it in the past seven months, the American public still lacks crucial context for understanding Trump’s diagnosis. Not only has major media coverage not brought clarity, but it has also, as usual, obscured reality. This is especially harmful to a story with such significant potential ramifications for the nation and world.
The first presidential debate on Tuesday was also the first bit of fun we’ve had in a while.
(Snip)
like Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxing legend, the president floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. A masculine force at full tilt, Trump provided plenty of energy and entertainment as he blattered Joe Biden, while being funny in the process. (Snip) Soy-boy Ben Shapiro was having none of the fun stuff. Glum and sanctimonious, Shapiro tweeted out: “I literally have no idea who won this debate. I just know we all lost.”
Deep, man.
The self-styled philosopher-king’s funereal pronouncement received the benefit of a Michelle Malkin reenactment.
As every sentient person knows by now, our mainstream media and Big Tech platforms are limitlessly corrupt. Almost nothing they say, report or interpret can be trusted. They have become mouthpieces for the political Left, resonating bullhorns for the Democratic Party, the “social justice” insurgency, the feminist movement, domestic terrorists like Antifa and BLM, and the concerted effort to vilify and destroy the sitting American president. A dead giveaway of their malignant agenda is the customary reliance on the “expert,” the “insider,” a someone-in-the-know code-named as “a source” or, more explicitly, “an unnamed source.”
Oh Look, Another Fake Hate Crime
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It was another one of those Jussie Smollett-like "hate crimes" that sounded perfectly made up to any well-adjusted person, which probably explains why liberals fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. A biracial woman in Madison, Wisconsin, told police officers back in June that she was attacked by four racist white men who looked like frat boys. The woman, Althea Bernstein, 18, claimed the four men pulled alongside her vehicle at a stoplight, called her a racial epithet, sprayed lighter fluid through her open window, and then lit the teenager on fire. a window at a nearby government building. While police have ruled out any
The Commission on Presidential Debates announced its three moderators for this year’s planned debates in early September.Chris Wallace from FOX News — a major Trump hater, was a complete disaster. Wallace jumped in the ring to assist Joe Biden like a tag-team teammate on Wrestlemania. And Wallace blocked any unkind words of Joe Biden or the Biden crime family.Kristen Welker from NBC, another far left Trump-hater and Steve Scully from C-SPAN will moderate this year’s debates.Wallace is a complete anti-Trumper. he completely took sides,
On Sunday, President Trump issued another of his short videos from Walter Reed Hospital. In it, he promised his supporters a surprise. He then followed through with that surprise by taking a car ride past those of his supporters gathered outside the hospital and waving as he drove by. Trump’s supporters were thrilled. Leftists, both inside and outside of the hospital, had a collective mental breakdown which, coming on top of their sustained four-year-long breakdown, was even more irrational than usual.
It all started with a sweet video in which Trump, looking great, said that he’s doing well, thanked his caregivers, talked about some of the military patients at the hospital,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday accused Republican leader Mitch McConnell of "jamming through the hearings on Amy Coney Barrett, even though three senators have COVID, even though he has said it’s not safe for the Senate to meet in session, but it’s OK to have the hearings."McConnell tweeted on Saturday: "Senate floor proceedings will be postponed until October 19th. The @SenJudiciary confirmation hearings for Judge Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court will convene on October 12th as scheduled by Chairman Graham."In an accompanying statement, McConnell said the Senate’s floor schedule “will not interrupt the thorough, fair, and historically supported confirmation process
President Donald Trump began this Monday -- his third day in the hospital -- with at least 18 tweets in rapid succession, explaining what's at stake in the upcoming election.
Although the COVID-infected president cannot campaign in person right now, he can make his views known on Twitter, which he did, starting around 6:20 a.m. Here's the first batch of 18, to be followed, no doubt, by more tweets as the day goes on:-- PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH (BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME). VOTE!-- SAVE OUR SECOND AMENDMENT. VOTE!-- FIGHT THE CORRUPT FAKE NEWS MEDIA. VOTE!
It's a common belief that our well heeled betters live in a different world than we do.
If they wish to, people of power and means can enjoy the very best nutrition, housing, and health care available. When it comes to buying personal protective equipment, money's simply no object to them.
So why are luminaries like the president, members of the Senate, White House correspondents, and NFL stars coming down with COVID-19?
Because the measures the so-called experts keep blathering about, wearing face masks and social distancing, are next to useless.
Here's a piece of post-debate fallout news that slipped under the radar.
According to Reuters:
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro reacted angrily on Wednesday to U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s call for a world effort to offer Brazil $20 billion to end Amazon deforestation or face unspecified “economic consequences.Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook he interpreted Biden’s comment in a U.S. presidential debate on Tuesday night as a threat of economic sanctions if Brazil did not take the offer.
Bolsonaro wrote in Portuguese and English that he does not accept “bribes” or “coward threats.”
Trump ‘Ready’ to Return to Work,
White House ‘Optimistic’ He’ll Leave
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White House ‘Optimistic’ He’ll Leave
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President Trump is “ready” to get back to work, and the White House is hopeful he will be discharged from Walter Reed Medical Center sometime on Monday, the White House said Monday morning.
“Spoke to the President this morning. He continued to improve over night and is ready to get back to a normal working schedule. He will meet with his doctors and nurses this morning to make further assessments of his progress,” White House Chief of Staff Meadows said.
“We are still optimistic
Rather than seal the doom of President Trump’s re-election battle, as most of his haters expect and not a few of his supporters fear, I see strong signs that President Trump will use his experience to re-define himself and act as an inflection point, resetting the election. Watch carefully for a “New Trump” to emerge from Walter Reed Hospital, dare I say a kinder, gentler Trump, one humbled by his brush with mortality and a far more sympathetic figure in the eyes of many voters who have found him a bit too much to take.
On Friday, John reported on the return of an unwelcome fall ritual. That would be the start of the migrant caravan season when illegal aliens gather together in huge groups to attempt the trek from Guatemala and Honduras up through Mexico to either try to cross the United States border illegally or present themselves for asylum. (Snip)
By yesterday, their numbers were estimated to have swollen to 2,000. But in a surprising turn of events, the governments of both Guatemala and Mexico stepped up their games and shut the caravan down almost entirely. As of this morning, the vast majority of them were on buses heading back to Honduras.
The Full Crowley
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In the second presidential election debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering. Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the American mission in Benghazi for likely terrorist attacks. And such laxity resulted in a horrific attack and the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
On September 27, Dan Bongino, Fox News contributor, host of one of the most popular political podcasts, and best selling author (and prior to all of that a former Secret Service agent who served on the presidential protection detail, and a NYC police officer), appeared on Fox and Friends (6-9 A.M. E.T.) and confirmed that he had a serious health issue involving a tumor in his neck. Earlier this morning (snip) appearing from a hotel room in NYC, announced that he would be having surgery at a New York hospital on Wednesday to determine the extent of the tumor and its treatment.
Joe Biden – along with his amen chorus in the press – keeps insisting that he and President Barack Obama handed Donald Trump a booming economy when they left office in 2016.
"We left a booming economy, " Biden said during the first presidential debate, "and he caused the recession." Debate moderator Chris Wallace jumped in to help Biden, adding that job growth was faster in the last three years of Obama's term than the first three of Trump's.
One is a flat out lie, the other a clever deception.
After presiding over the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression, Obama
The Democrats and their friends in the Fourth Estate could hardly believe their luck when the news broke that President Trump had contracted COVID-19. They clearly believe he is finished politically and that their Potemkin presidential candidate will now win the upcoming election in a walk. The following headline from Politico captures this collective delusion: “Biden looks to seal election after Trump’s week from hell.” This is precisely how they reacted to the Hollywood Access tape that was released at the same point in the 2016 presidential race. Most “experts” pronounced the Trump campaign dead and Hillary Clinton began measuring the drapes for the Oval Office.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Sunday she will not continue to enforce Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive orders “through criminal prosecution” after the state Supreme Court ruled the orders unconstitutional Friday.
“In light of the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday, the Attorney General will no longer enforce the Governor’s Executive Orders through criminal prosecution,” read a statement from Nessel’s press secretary posted to Twitter on Sunday. “However, her decision is not binding on other law enforcement agencies or state departments with independent enforcement authority.”
In the first post poll since President Trump announced that he had COVID-19, his chances of reelection surged, a sign that his infection and raucous debate performance didn’t hurt his chances for reelection.
The new John Zogby Strategies/EMI Research Solutions survey shared with Secrets showed Biden up 49% to 47%, his smallest lead yet in their polls. In a four-way race, Biden leads 47%-45%, with 2% each for Dr. Jo Jorgensen of the Libertarian Party and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins.
The survey challenged the media’s narrative about Biden building his lead over Trump and even surprised pollster John Zogby.
The Supreme Court on Monday will kick off a new term in which the justices will hear the latest Republican challenge to ObamaCare, a bid to reinstate voting limits in Arizona that were struck down as racially biased and House Democrats’ long-running pursuit of secret Russia probe materials.
The court resumes its business just weeks after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal, left a vacancy that is expected to be filled by President Trump’s third nominee to the bench, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who would cement a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.
A woman who, when she was an illegal immigrant, worked at one of President Trump’s golf courses says she paid more to the IRS than President Trump did, given what has now been reported about his finances.
Others point out that if what The New York Times wrote about Mr. Trump’s debt is true, then he may not even be the wealthiest candidate in the presidential race. That might be Democratic nominee Joseph R. Biden.
The newspaper said Mr. Trump, through use of tax breaks and write-offs, paid no income tax most of the past 15 years. In 2016 and 2017,
During one of the many sharp exchanges at last week's presidential debate, Joe Biden flat out denied his son Hunter had any business relationship with the Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, the billionaire wife of the late Moscow mayor.
"Why is it, just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow's wife gave your son three and a half million dollars?" President Trump asked during one flash point.
"That is not true," Biden answered.
"Oh really, he didn't get three and a half million?" Trump persisted a few second later. "It's totally discredited," the former vice president snapped back. "Totally discredited."
Minority Rule in the Senate
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Pressure is building on Senate Democrats to abolish the chamber’s filibuster, which liberals believe has long frustrated enactment of their preferred policies. But the filibuster is the foundation of senators’ personal influence and a key reason why they are far more powerful than individual members of the House of Representatives. The filibuster includes loopholes that enable moderate Democrats to enact their main policy goals, while protecting core Democratic interests from the prospect of sweeping legislation under Republican rule; it also serves as a useful scapegoat for the failure to enact impractical legislative wish lists. Senate Democrats are unlikely to abolish it any time soon.
The dramatic events of the last week will be studied for decades, and much information remains unknown. (snip) Omar Navarro, a Republican politician in California, developed the theme: “1.RBG dies. 2. Trump announces he will nominate new justice before election. 3. Pelosi makes “Arrow in our quivers comment to stop him.” (snip) In the almost four years since Trump has become president, Republicans have suffered three potentially mass fatality events.
Understand that when someone tells you he wants you dead, he wants you dead.
And that’s a very dangerous thing to want, because the intended victim gets a say, and he may start saying the same thing about you. I could talk about walking through the wrecked villages of Kosovo – villages that had mostly belonged to the Serbs who started the civil war then lost it – but that is probably going to be lost on the pampered and parochial left. History, be it modern Balkans or ancient, such as the cautionary tale that was the decline and fall of the Roman Republic,
Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden flatly denied at Tuesday night’s debate that his lawyer son took huge sums of money from corrupt oligarchs and Chinese communists during his vice presidency, but Treasury Department reports show that Hunter Biden did receive the money.
President Trump chose to make an issue of Hunter Biden’s cash haul from Russia, Ukraine and China with the implication that unsavory figures were trying to buy Vice President Biden and the Obama administration. [Snip] A Senate Republican report by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee says Mr. Trump is right, though
According to The New York Times’ Ben Smith, top reporters at three of the major newspapers in the nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, have been assigned to update President Donald Trump’s obituary.Those reporters include Peter Baker at The New York Times, Marc Fisher at The Washington Post and Mark Z. Barabak at The Los Angeles Times, Smith claimed people from the various papers confirmed to him.Smith noted of the “reporters arrayed at Walter Reed military hospital on Sunday” that “the White House press corps is working with admirable aggression and openness. We need to know who is in charge of the government,
Worse Than Watergate, Part 3
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She’s old, obsolete, and irrelevant but when you search for who’s at the bottom of almost any political corruption, Hillary Clinton always manages to slither back into the spotlight. The September 29 letter from Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is only the latest example.
The letter makes three points.
That in July 2016, U.S. intelligence, deriving its facts from Russian intelligence we obtained, had reason to believe that Hillary Clinton had personally approved a campaign plan to tie her opponent, Donald Trump, to Russian President Putin and Russian interception of Democratic National Committee emails.
It’s truly remarkable how silly the lefty commentary on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has gotten — a clear sign the critics don’t dare discuss her actual merits.
First the flap over whether a multidenomational prayer group she enjoys was “the inspiration” for Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” What difference would it make — since Atwood went hog-wild with her imagination? The real group plainly doesn’t push subordination of women — or Barrett, an ambitious and successful woman, wouldn’t go for it.
Yes, she’s an observant Catholic — which prompted Sen. Dianne Feinstein to charge that “the dogma lives loudly in you”
Everyone agrees that the first televised debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was atrocious. Like sitting through ‘an argument about an arcane procedural rule during a senior bingo night at a nursing home in purgatory’, as one columnist put it. But the media’s follow-up on the debate hasn’t been much better. The way the media have obsessed over what Trump said (or didn’t say) about so-called white supremacy confirms that Trump and Biden aren’t the only ones who are incapable of engaging in an honest, reasoned discussion about the problems facing America.
Trump and white supremacy
A California man who defrauded several local governments in the state five years ago is now charged with trying to steal $22 million from the Paycheck Protection Program.
Attila Colar, 48, was charged on Friday with bank fraud in an alleged scheme to take advantage of the federal program that was intended to provide relief funds to small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco announced. Prosecutors told the court that Colar tried to destroy records related to PPP applications by flushing them down the toilet when investigators executed a search warrant at his home in the Bay Area.
Attorney General William Barr will self-quarantine for several days out of caution, a spokeswoman said on Sunday.Barr, who has tested negative for the coronavirus, has remained at his home since attending a meeting at Justice Department headquarters on Friday. All four of Barr’s coronavirus tests since Friday have come back negative, Justice Department spokesperson Kerri Kupec said. But she said the AG plans to self-quarantine for several more days. Barr was at the Sept. 26 Rose Garden ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett
Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton, on his Sunday show “The Next Revolution,” reacted to President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis and his recovery.
Hilton argued Trump’s recovery from COVID is “a powerful symbol of America’s recovery,” slamming 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for “hiding in his basement.”
“The president’s recovery is a powerful symbol of America’s recovery,” Hilton stated. “Yes, he got the virus because he was out there fighting for the future of the country, not hiding in a basement. He’s been saying for months we need to be open, not closed, that we’ve got to beat the virus, not surrender to it. Of course, that has risks,
North Carolina Senate race in 'chaos'
after Cunningham sexting scandal,
Tillis coronavirus diagnosis replies
after Cunningham sexting scandal,
Tillis coronavirus diagnosis replies
The critical and expensive Senate race in North Carolina, central to determining which party controls the upper chamber, was thrown into uncertainty this weekend.
Within the span of just a few hours on Friday, Republican incumbent Thom Tillis announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, while his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, acknowledged and apologized for exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a woman who is not his wife. Tillis has “mild symptoms,” a spokesperson said Saturday, and the diagnosis forced the first-term senator to cancel in-person events with just one month until the election.
James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas have stirred the pot with a new video report on voter fraud. The headline in Breitbart News read, “Project Veritas Exposes Ilhan Omar Allies in Alleged Ballot Harvesting in Minnesota.” Soon thereafter, President Donald Trump jumped in, tweeting the Breitbart story and adding, “This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not???”What’s notable about this alleged vote fraud is that it took place in a Democratic primary — that is, in the August 11 Democratic primary election in the fifth Congressional district of Minnesota.
Scaramucci: Trump Should Drop Out of
Presidential Race — ‘He’s Not Physically or
Mentally Capable’ replies
Presidential Race — ‘He’s Not Physically or
Mentally Capable’ replies
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci Sunday on MSNBC called on President Donald Trump to drop out of the presidential race in light of his positive coronavirus diagnosis.
He based his call on both mental and physical reasons.
Scaramucci said, “The truth of the matter is he’s very sick. He’s not going to make it to the debate. Anyone who looks at this situation knows that. So it will be interesting as to what the campaign will do as a contingency plan given the fact the president is not going to make the debate next week.”
He continued, “He still may be forced to drop out due to his health.
President Donald Trump now leads Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in the national popular vote by one point, according to the Sunday Express/Democracy Institute Poll released on Sunday.
The poll found that 46 percent of likely voters nationwide support Trump while 45 percent support Biden.
The poll of 1,500 likely voters was conducted between September 30 and October 2 and has a margin of error of 2.5 percent, which means the results indicate a statistical tie between Trump and Biden. The poll surveyed voters in the wake the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden on September 29.
Rob Reiner will take a break from rage-tweeting about President Donald Trump to bring the band back together and help flip Pennsylvania in favor of Joe Biden.
The cast of the popular 1984 rock music mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap will reunite on October 14 for a virtual fundraiser to benefit Pennsylvania Democrats. Reiner will team up with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer to reminisce about the making of the movie, with anti-Trump comedian Patton Oswalt serving as moderator.
“Every dollar raised goes directly towards ending Trumpism by winning Pennsylvania,” the official invitation reads.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said that Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation would move forward despite three Republican senators having tested positive for coronavirus during this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Anchor Maria Bartiromo said, “Your colleagues have tested positive. It looks like it was that Amy Coney Barrett gathering at the White House to introduce her to lawmakers. That really was the place where so many people were exposed.”
Cotton said, “What I can say is everyone is eager to be a work when they need to be at work.”
Bartiromo asked, “You think this will not impact the schedule or the agenda?”
Upper Yoder Township, PA.– This is a suburb of Johnstown, located in the southwest corner of Cambria County, on the foothills of the Laurel Mountains. Full of young families and retirees, the homes here are lovely and well-kept, the neighborhood is tidy and the school district is highly ranked. And it may end up deciding the 2020 election. (snip) Trump didn’t win the majority of female voters in 2016, especially in suburbs of New York City or Washington, DC; but he did win just enough of them in suburbs in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan and Florida to