What Media Disdain for America Looks Like

It did not even take one day. On Sunday, CNN soft skull host S.E. Cupp drew attention for a message she sent out, addressing the conflict taking place between President Trump and the members of the media. Following another coronavirus briefing where the President had pointed words of dismissal for some in the press corps, Cupp sent out this missive of defense on behalf of her profession.

Don't flatter yourself. We didn't like you before the Chinese Corona Virus showed up. Just sayin.....

— DiogenesMiddleFinger (@DiogenesKnows) March 31, 2020

In less than 20 hours, the members of the media completely invalidated Cupp’s tweet. The long-running battle between Trump and the press we have seen in place for years now has not abated during this viral crisis. In fact, both sides appear to be gritting teeth and narrowing eyes during this crisis.

One of the benefits of people being sequestered in their homes is they have the opportunity to see the journalists of this country acting in biased fashion on a nearly daily basis. A number of business owners who have lent their corporate efforts to aid in getting the supply chain fed with needed goods were in attendance. One who spoke at the briefing was Mike Lindell, the maker of My Pillow. As Lindell spoke, the members of the media lost their collective minds, and lashed out in ugly fashion. CNN cut away from the briefing as Lindell was speaking:

Velshi, why ya gotta be a turd ???? What's your contribution?

— DiogenesMiddleFinger (@DiogenesKnows) March 31, 2020

Note how Velshi gives no details as to why Lindell was there. This is a supposed journalist, who struggles with the basics of journalism. A journalist might be somewhat curious to look into things, to find out that Lindell has converted 75% of his company’s assets and workforce towards producing much needed surgical masks for the healthcare workers.  this is what is passing for journalism these days.

You would think that in a time of crisis that the press would rise up and react to such a sprawling challenge. We would expect when the country is cast into turmoil the media would serve as a guide and strive to deliver needed information. Instead, we have watched with regularity as journalists have devolved into petulant scolds.

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Joe Biden's “Wayne’s World” Campaign

Saturday Night Live, back when it was actually funny, once had a running sketch called “Wayne's World” portraying two metal-head fans broadcasting on a local access television station from Wayne's mom's basement. That is precisely where the Biden campaign is right now, confined to his basement and broadcasting to empty airport lounges with makeup overdosed CNN anchors.  He occasionally rises from his hole to appear on a podcast, a town halls, or stumble through a pathetic “shadow briefings” teleprompter reading to counter daily White House coronavirus briefings.

While the White House briefings have gone on unimpeded every day, the “shadow briefings” seem to have gone AWOL. Then again when you attract 2,800 viewers- which is probably less households reached by the mythical Wayne and Garth basement extravaganza, perhaps it is good that his handlers decided against any more torture.  And ol' Joe is very much uncomfortable with the situation because he is a politician built for another time. He can hire all the tech-savvy people he wants so that he could get his message out, but there is only so much one can do with those tools. The tools in the wrong hands results in disaster, and we are seeing that with Biden.

At this point, Joe appears to be the most pitiful candidate for President ever. In his last CNN town hall, he managed to pull in about 1.15 million viewers according to Neilsen Ratings.
Conversely, DJT's town hall regarding coronavirus on Fox News brought in 4.2 million viewers. While Biden was finishing third in his time slot’s rating, Trump brought in the largest audience ever for such an event. I venture a half of those 1.15 million tuned in just for a laugh. I know I did before boredom set in and that documentary on the Donner party on the Weather Channel was infinitely more interesting.

Watching Joe bumble through his Wayne’s World candidacy thus far has convinced many that Biden will be either dead or in a nursing home before his term is completed.

Behind the Scenes At Biden's Basement - Earl Done This 

[Diaries]
[UpTick]
[CNN]

You would think people who have a habit of stepping on rakes would be a little more careful where the step.....

When DJT announced that two US Navy hospital ships would be deployed to support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, Ricky Maddow scoffed. He mocked the president’s promise in a segment that was filled with his standard mixture of lofty arrogance, righteous indignation, and obnoxious condescension. Oh Ricky. Foiled Again! 

The only way to watch MSNBC pic.twitter.com/0tjK4MaANj

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 30, 2020

USNS Comfort has arrived in NYC. It’s passing World Trade Center right now on the Hudson River. I can hear cheering from Jersey City. pic.twitter.com/a7kTK2dmQh

— Kevin Rincon (@KevRincon) March 30, 2020

This morning, the USNS Mercy hospital ship docked at the @PortofLA. 🚢

This @USNavy ship will increase California’s hospital capacity during the #COVID19 outbreak. pic.twitter.com/gSFyurA1WV

— Office of the Governor of California (@CAgovernor) March 27, 2020

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Ugly, Stupid and Wormy is not Donald Trump's Fault

I have to admit that I wasn’t paying much attention to much social media on Wednesday until I saw Kathy Griffin trending. “Oh no,” I thought to myself, knowing full well what was to come when my index finger touched her name in the trending feed on Twitter, “we’ll never hear the end of this one.” And yes, it appeared for a little while, we wouldn’t.

EARL DONE THIS

The horror her husband has to live with daily must be all-consuming as he pauses at his jugular vein while shaving and says to himself, "Today is the day I free myself from this torment."

Dispatches From the Frontline of a Local Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus Self Quarantine

From the desk of Scooter Van Neuter

The reason I haven't written anything for a while is because our home has become ground zero for the coronavirus, and the situation is dire.
It all started when my girlfriend Sissy and I had dinner at a Chinese restaurant close to Disneyland last month. At that point, the coronavirus was barely in the news, so we were oblivious to the danger.

Anyway, while using the restroom, my genitals inadvertently made contact with the toilet handle, hand dryer button, and soap dispenser (how is not important). I thought little about it at the time.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks later when I started showing symptoms of a bad cold. Sissy was watching a news report on the Wuhan virus and suddenly came to the startling realization that we had recently eaten at Hung-Lo while in California. My blood turned to ice water as I remembered the bathroom incident and I told Sissy about the accidental contact.

I regret a lot of things I've done in my life - the thong incident, the lobster dare, the drunken, inappropriate comments to that cage fighter's slutty 10-year-old daughter, urinating on the police dog, etc., but none more than telling Sissy about the Chinese bathroom. The result is now Sissy won't come near me unless we're both wearing surgical masks - me wearing two - one on my face and one on my genitals. In order to not accidentally touch her face, Sissy also wears oven mitts and secondary face protection (Halloween mask), which makes her look retarded.

As if our normal life isn't compromised enough by this hideous disease, even date night has turned into a farce, with Sissy Skyping me from the bedroom in that meter maid outfit I like so much, while I rub up against the lawnmower in the backyard shed. To make matters worse, I'm now suffering from a festering rash which I fear may be agricultural, and thus untreatable.  After all this, you would think I'd be bitter, but nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, I'm upset with the Chinese for ruining date night and likely killing me with an infectious disease, but my religion (Reformed Appliantology) dictates that I forgive them.

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And Now For Something Completely Different.

【進化型だるま落とし】
Corona beer challenge with plunger. pic.twitter.com/17Dui0AQDQ

— ウエスP(Wes-P／Mr Uekusa) BGT2018&AGT2018 (@uespiiiiii) March 22, 2020

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Looks Like Someone Needs a Snickers Bar!

...and people wonder why we've never elected a female president.

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The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Thanks You for the $25Mil. From the Coronavirus Relief Package

If you’ve perused the contents of the Senate’s coronavirus relief bill, you’re probably not happy. No, it’s not as bad as what Nancy Pelosi was orginally demanding, but it’ still stacked with rancid pork piled so high it’s begun sloughing out of the barrel.  One of the most egregious examples, outside of the $350 million for migration and boarder jumper assistance, is a 25 million kool ones that you, the taxpayer, have generously decided to donate to one of the pleasure palaces of the D.C. elite, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. And they thank you. 

Sure, that money could have been used to manufacture ventilators or other necessities for the healthcare professionals. It could have been used to fund locations where the dead will have to stored since New York City is running out of room. And I know it sounds crazy, but it could even have been returned to the people who actually earned it.  Instead, it’s going to fund a currently-shuttered theater, a playground for wealthy DC elites. One in which Nancy Pelosi enjoys standing ovations.

Here is the Message of thanks from the tone-deaf  folks at The Kennedy Center.

Ahh, this explains it.
Pelosi gets standing ovation at Kennedy Center Honors https://t.co/V2smELOHHW

— Señia WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS! (@ayasgirl) March 26, 2020

The audacity to make a case as to why the building deserves government money in this time of need for our country is insulting and elitist. Of course the elite would want to save their entertainment and gala ball, etc. events! How else to signal their achievements, especially in DC!  If a Robespierre ever returns, they will not find a better place to start than this rat’s nest of the coddled and worthy. Bite me in D minor!

[WTOP]
[Robert Laurie]

Journalist Group Calls for Coronavirus Rescue Bill Cash for Themselves and Your Daily Propaganda Outlets

The Chinese Coronavirus has disrupted our world as we know it. But trillions of dollars are on the horizon to help float the economy and save the nations essential small businesses and related jobs. And while the most powerful of American industry are in line for help, according to a post in the respected Columbia Journalism Review, the media and policymakers aren’t talking enough about how a recovery and stimulus package could help journalism.

Yes, a 'Social Change & Racial Justice' non-profit 501c3 named Free Press (original ain't it) knows there is more money to come down the pike and is on the forefront of calling not just for a welfare money grab for the nation's over-saturated journalistic endeavors, but tax credits for subscriptions to their leftist political propaganda.

"We’ve long campaigned for more federal and state support for public media and argued that journalism is too important to democracy to be left to the whims of the market. In the face of this pandemic, the public needs good, economically secure journalists more than ever. To support that work, we need a journalism stimulus now...." 

"Too important to democracy to be left to the whims of the market." In the days of a more or less unbiased media, whims of the market were of no concern. But just as the Free Press admits it's own bias in it's description of Social Change & Racial Justice and today's leftist opinion masquerading as a poor excuse for news, the last thing we need is more state sponsored media greased with taxpayers money.

"Free Press is asking for at least $5 billion in emergency funds right away—which would be less than half of one percent of a trillion-dollar recovery package—and that Congress put a foundation in place to help sustain journalism over the long term......" 

Just so you know, a proper journalism welfare package should include:

*Doubling federal funds for public media. This would amount to an additional $930 million. Congress should dedicate an additional $70 million specifically to a fund for small nonprofit newsrooms and startups. 

*$2 billion over the next two years to fund newsroom jobs.  The industry’s worst wounds were self-inflicted, but the emphasis now needs to be on keeping reporters employed and refilling some of the empty seats. 

*Direct, emergency subsidies of  $25,000 per news gathering position, Just $625 million would help retain 25,000 newsroom jobs. 

*Journalism Tax Credit could offer $40,000 per newsroom employee hired during the remainder of calendar year 2020; the tax credit would apply through the end of 2021. forthcoming recovery or stimulus bill should also include another $2 billion to seed a “First Amendment Fund” to support new positions, outlets, and approaches to news gathering. 

*Household Tax Credits for paid subscriptions to local news outlets. 

Yes, I know Jeff Bezos is taking a little hit over at Amazon, but I'm sure the richest man in the entire solar system would appreciate a little recovery and stimulus cash to help pay the limo service for the editorial board members over at The Washington Post. And I heard Wolf Blitzer needs new glasses. 

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Engine Room, Full Ramble Mode!!

Like the old guy wearing a jersey three sizes to small who once long ago kicked a winning field goal, Democrats seem to have coalesced around Biden for his past rather than for anything in his present. "Have another Juice Box Joe, and get us to the convention."

Democrats and their media allies have repeatedly challenged Trump's mental health, but now their bar for Joe Biden - who frequently seems confused - is just stay alive through November. What a message.

— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) March 25, 2020

It’s as if Biden exists primarily as an idea, rather than an actual candidate. Democrats have chosen Biden as their leaky battleship for Trump’s defeat, and that choice is the entire point: The vanquishing matters more than anything else. Biden was never really convincing anyone on the stump. His political power at this point is an idea, held collectively, about how to defeat DJT.  But even in his prime, Biden was an unimpressive candidate who's mouth regularly outran it's supply line, and who very few voters took seriously. He's now just a place holder. But for who?

[The Atlantic]
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Capital Hill Police Issue Alert

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Wednesday -1:00 AM
For Immediate Release:

Capital Hill Police do hereby issue warning to all Congressional members, their staff and all Capital Hill support employees to DO NOT position oneself either on purpose or by accident between the Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, and any Network News Reporter, camera or microphone this Wednesday morning. 

The risk of being knock down or run over and trampled by the Senator while rushing to get to any nearby microphone or camera to take full credit for saving the country with the Coronavirus Stimulus Bill negotiated late last night is considered very high and likely. 

The Senator's past history make it imperative all personnel on the Hill today to be on the lookout, be of concern and take extreme care in this matter.

Cuomo the Elder Has No Desire To Be Biden's Diaper Boy.

RS - One of the saddest things in presidential politics is when a candidate for leader of the free world has to pick someone as their vice president to make him look serious. I understand picking a woman or three-toed redhaird Eskimo pygmy to appeal to a particular demographic or voting bloc, but when you pick someone to convince America that you have a non-idiot within hailing distance of the Oval Office, it is sort of embarrassing for just about everyone.

So imagine how Andrew Cuomo felt when he read in the media today that Joe Biden was saying he would be the chief of staff in a Biden White House. Not vice president, because that has been promised to someone with sniffable hair. Not secretary of defense. Not secretary of state. Chief of freakin staff.... Why is Biden doing this?

Because after his disastrous debate performances and utterly bizarre remote address from his ‘basement shadow government’ yesterday he has to convince the American public he’s up to doing more than slurping his cream-of-wheat. Andrew Cuomo, though given to bouts of wide-eyed panic, has been a good partner with the Trump administration and seems to have a better grip on what needs to be done than any other Democrat.

With the SS Biden nearly dead in the water, there is zero reason for Cuomo to expend his political capital backing not only a loser but a loser of such loserliness that even other abject losers are jealous. Cuomo’s best play is to ensure that he’s not associated in any way, shape, or form with the Biden 2020 train wreck, and focus on the open election in 2024. His second best play is to be waiting in the wings if, as I more and more think will happen.

Nancy Pelosi's Attempt To Legalize Ballot Box Stuffing

Democrats, who have in the past taken stealing elections to heights never dreamed by the founders, have always clutched their pearls and insisted there is no such thing.  But just read the history of the democrat party and you will see they are, as usual, lying.(JFK-LBJ in particular)  Recently there's this slick little thing they came up with called "Ballot Harvesting".  Made legal in California in 2016, and first used in the 2018 midterm elections, democrat operatives dropped hundreds of thousands of ballots off at polling stations helping Democrats flip seven Republican congressional seats. Just a 'Milk Run' for when they ever regain control of congress. 

Harvesting allows people to canvas, with ballots in hand, Nursing Homes, Homeless shelters, Rehab facilities, Homes for Wayward Nymphomaniacs etc. and (in states with same day registration) register and help fill out ballots *wink wink*  and deliver them to polling stations.  There is no process for vetting or verifying those delivering the ballots, no background checks or identification requirements.

Now you understand why democrats are so against purging voter roles of long inactive voters?? It's Tank Abrams' wet dream. Easier voting for the our infirm, unconscious or deceased citizens. 

The sleazy Speaker of the House wants to make the process legal nationwide and override state laws by slipping it into her version of the the coronavirus stimulus package.

This from Breitbart:

Her bill, released Monday afternoon, provides that every state: A) shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted and sealed absentee ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off location, tribally designated building, or election office so long as the person designated to return the ballot does not receive any form of compensation based on the number of ballots that the person has returned and no individual, group, or organization provides compensation on this basis; and (B) may not put any limit on how many voted and sealed absentee ballots any designated person can return to the post office, a ballot drop off location, tribally designated building, or election office. 

In other words, party operatives can literally truck thousands and thousands of ballots to the polls, provided they earn a salary or fee, and not paid by the ballot. 

It is a practice that is known in Third World countries as “ballot stuffing,” and is outlawed in every democracy, no matter how poor — even in countries where the physical and administrative obstacles to voting are far greater than in the world’s most developed economy.

And it is just one of many of the dem's ridiculous conditions in negotiations with the Senate that have nothing to do with saving the U.S. economy from coronavirus.

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We Told Ya Biden's Pretend Press Conferences Would Be A Train Wreck

If he bumbles his way through a made-up press conference, he'll simply remind people how lame he is.

Let me get this straight. The Biden camp has INSISTED for the past six days that—rather than simply hiding from the public—he was tirelessly briefing with top COVID19 experts. Now, in his first public address in a week, he can’t remember what he learned. pic.twitter.com/M6uNXOzzq8

— Aren R. LeBrun (@proustmalone) March 23, 2020

Why don't they just dub a voice over his like the actor in the Liberty Mutual commercials. Y'all get that man some pudding. (Betting behind that podium, he's wearing boxer shorts and house shoes that have toilet paper stuck to the bottom.) 

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Joe Biden Plans to do Mystery Science Theater on Trump Press Conferences

His house is being outfitted with equipment that would enable him to live-stream and he's going to pretend he has a job where he has pretend press conferences to correct the lies & deceptions of DJT, update people on the on the coronavirus and functioning of government, even though he doesn't work for the government.

If he decides to come out of the dark an bumble his way through a made-up press conference, he'll simply remind people how lame he is.  Biden's handlers must have gotten some assurances from the media they will cover for him to try a stunt like this.  The chance of it blowing up in their faces is pretty high and reeks of desperation, with huge downside risk of Biden making yet another dementia-seeming gaffe. Internal polling for Biden versus Trump must be horrible!

At what point do they have to tie a rope around Joe's ankle so that he doesn't get disoriented and wander off. Too think that there are people who consider him a viable candidate for anything is an indication of the high level of their desperation. It's hard to see how this is a good idea for his campaign or the country.

I look forward to an accidental live feed of Joe Biden in an open bathrobe and boxer shorts barking at half a dozen highly paid aides who are doing their best to help him find his slipper. Or what are the chances they just dub a voice over his like the actor in the Liberty Mutual commercials. They could call it "Uncle Joe's Poolside Chats".

Red and Blue America Aren’t Experiencing the Same Pandemic

A flurry of new national polls released this week reveals that while anxiety about the Chinese Coronavirus is rising on both sides of the partisan divide, Democrats consistently express much more concern about it than Republicans do, and as our betters they are much more likely to claim they have changed their personal behavior as a result.

A similar gap separates people who live in large metropolitan centers, which have become the base of the Democratic electoral, are more dependent on government services (i.e. transportation), and are less likely to be independent and self-sufficient, from those who live in the small towns and rural patriotic America. Democrats tend to be sorrowful, less optimistic people, hand-wringing not only about the virus, but what we call the virus.

The feeling increasingly is that experts and the media are all part of this elite class that is self-dealing and is looking down on less-educated and less-fortunate people, and they can’t be trusted to tell the truth.  It's inarguable that the left has a never-ending, overlapping set of constantly evolving catastrophes that they peddle non-stop. It's their primary means of obtaining power. And lets not forget that the left was praying for something like this to go wrong under Trump. In their passion to damage him they ignored the damage they were asking for all of us. These people will not miss an opportunity to rock their anti-Trump and anti-Republican hobbyhorses.

It's an epidemiological fact that big cities are more at risk for this type of pandemic, and media complaining Republicans are celebrating it is false, much more false than those on the left we have *witnessed* openly cheering the economic disruption and possible death of "older people who skew Republican" merely because it may improve their electoral chances.

It's in the nature of political writing and reporting to dramatize, and the rewards in the internet era are entirely on the side of hysterical dramatization.  The past 20 years of internet driven panic and hysteria have dramatically lowered the public opinion of media, writers and artists in general. In the liberal community, these professions are generally seen as caring and driven by the desire to educate. But that's seldom true.  Those professions are mostly home to reckless drama queens determined to advance their personal ambitions with dramatic presentations. And, most of those, entertainers and artists in particular aren't very smart.  The emotionally self-indulgent are naturally inclined to be irrational.

* Obama Waited Until 'Millions' Infected and 1000 Dead in U.S. Before Declaring H1N1 National Emergency

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Today in Chinese Coronavirus Craziness

There have been 3 White House Press briefings this week. This is the first tweet from CNN's lead White House correspondent over the duration of these daily press conferences. This is the guy and network who shouted from the rooftops about no WH press briefings. https://t.co/VLW1nH3zU3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 19, 2020

The tiny cable channel @OANN can do whatever it wants. What it chose to do today – is shameful.

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 19, 2020

Funny how the Left is now freaking out over OANN reporter Chanel Rion asking the president if he thinks the term "Chinese food" is racist.

She's just holding a mirror up to your face. She's literally showing you what you look like, and you're offended. lol.

— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) March 19, 2020

Your network has put Anthony Scaramucci on the air 3 times this week as an expert on biological contagions and pandemics.https://t.co/WvuxZnmCIA

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 19, 2020

Nobody watching CNN now that airports are empty lol

— Conservative Cam (@quillacam) March 19, 2020

*One* question about how major media outlets are peddling Chinese propaganda talking points (which they are), and the media is breathlessly spiraling into anger. https://t.co/gRUmQyhTES

— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) March 19, 2020

  

Don't have any idea who most of theses people are in the vid below,  but my guess they're restless entertainment industry attention whores....

#Imagine you have finally corralled every person who has ever wronged you into one room. #Imagine you have amphitheater-level speakers in that room. Imagine you can shed your ethical ambivalence and you play this video. On a loop. Until they die. #Imagine. pic.twitter.com/ZJ7IgHUWCx

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 19, 2020

Does chloroquine get "Imagine" out of your head

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 19, 2020

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Baltimore Mayor Implores Residents to Stop Shooting Each Other For Awhile. " We're Gonna Need The Beds"

In a sad commentary on the majority black cities of America, Wednesday Baltimore Mayor Jack Young had to take to the podium to pleaded with residents to stop shooting each other so that the city's limited number of hospital beds could be better used. "I want to reiterate how completely unacceptable the level of violence is that we have seen recently. We will not stand for mass shootings and an increase in crime." Baltimore has seen an uptick in violence since last week that included a shooting Tuesday night resulting in seven victims transported to hospitals in serious condition.

"We cannot clog up our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we're going to need those beds for people infected with the coronavirus."

Ironically, despite the increased violence, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has taken action to suspend criminal prosecution in the city in order to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spread. Mosby ordered her staff Wednesday to drop pending criminal charges against anyone who has been arrested for charges including drug possession and prostitution, green lighting the very type of crimes that breed the violent street underworld that is doing the shootings. The actions taken by the two city officials appears to send a mixed message. The city is calling for an end to violent crime while at the same time announcing that there will be no punishment for it. And I'm sure coronavirus is high on the list of importance for the cities territorial pavement apes.

Some things are just so self-evidently imbecilic that they don't even deserve the effort to put forth a full and proper snark.

[WJZ Baltimore]
[Blaze]
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WAPO - Okay Okay Fine, DJT Didn't Dissolve the Pandemic Response Team Like We Said After All.

For weeks now, the anti-Trump media has been beating their drum and saying the White House used to have a “pandemic response team” and that DJT in a fit of stupidity got rid of it. Because hey, we never have pandemics! Who needs them?  This has been shouted thousands of times over the course of the past weeks by the soft skulls on the tweeter, from major newspapers to fake cable news networks, and in every Democrat campaign rally.

It turns out this story originated with an op-ed in the Washington Post written by one Elizabeth Cameron, who ran the White House pandemic office under Barky Obama. Some sort of change was made to her former domain when the Trump Administration took over and Cameron was apparently butthurt DJT touched it. So she fired the off a shot that Democrats and their media leg humpers have been riffing off ever since.

Just One Problem: It’s not true.....

Silly Rabbit. Very few elements of government are ever disbanded, and it always seems a little suspect to believe that had happened in this case. What does happen, just like in the business world is that areas of responsibility are shifted, the names of things are changed and sometimes resources are redirected. Sometimes an independent entity is deemed better housed in a more established agency, not “disbanded” or “dissolved”, just moved down the hall or changed form. Happens all the time. 

Tim Morrison, former senior director for counter-proliferation and bio-defense on the National Security Council, felt compelled to offer the Post a rebuttal piece. Morrison was there and knew exactly what happened, and while I’m sure they were reluctant to do it, the Post allowed Morrison to correct the record:

"It is true that the Trump administration has seen fit to shrink the NSC staff. But the bloat that occurred under the previous administration clearly needed a correction. 

As The Post reported in 2015, from the Clinton administration to the Obama administration’s second term, the NSC’s staff “had quadrupled in size, to nearly 400 people.” That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017. One such move at the NSC was to create the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one. 

It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented. If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled."

SO,  the pandemic response team wasn’t dissolved at all. It was reorganized to be more efficient and allow the true experts to have a clearer path to offer their expertise to the president. The Elizabeth Cameron piece that started this whole narrative was either a complete lie or the work of a person who didn’t know as much as she thought she did about what was really going on. Either way it should have been fact-checked. 

So now that the record has been corrected does anyone really think the original narrative is going to fade away? Do you really think Democrats are going to stop running around claiming DJT “dissolved the pandemic response team” just because it’s patently false? Of course they won’t, which is why it’s irresponsible for the Washington Post to public claims like this in the first place.

They allowed a disgruntled former Obama official to publish a baseless hit piece, and that created a narrative that will long outlast the correction of the record they published yesterday. This is how nonsense takes hold in our political discourse. A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth gets its shoes on. Especially when the media are willing to help give the lie a head start

[WAPO] 
[Dan Calabrese]
[DGR] 

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Joe Biden Calls an Audible

Assuming himself to be the presumptive nominee of the Democrat party, Smokin' Joe Biden hires a wartime consigliere in hopes of  putting away 'Bernie the Red' and addressing concerns of the organizational mess that have plagued his campaign.  It's not a real head-scratcher at all that he changes the play call and replaces his campaign manager after what we've witnessed, but it's who he chose to fill position that has us kinda smiling.

According to the Washington Examiner, the new Biden campaign manager is Jen O'Malley Dillon.  For those not familiar with Ms. O'Malley Dillon, she has a very interesting background. She worked as field director for president Al Gore's 2000 ill-fated presidential campaign, as Iowa field director for president John Edwards' 2004 and again on his 2008 failed presidential campaigns.  O'Malley Dillon's work also includes deputy campaign manager for scandal ridden former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and a reelection campaign for my own Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, who in 2014 lost a seat to republicans that had been solidly held by democrats since 1883.

But most notably, she was the 2020 presidential campaign manager for the Psychedelic Warrior Beto O'Rourke's utter embarrassing attempt at a national election campaign.  She's now in position to play a major role in the fate of the Democrat party and their comical attempt to prop up Joe Biden to regain the White House.

The Biden Campaign just gets weirder and weirder.....and this little spectacle may be a preview of things to come. LOL!!

[The Nation]
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Fishnet Friday

Not Sure Obama's Court Jester Is One To Be Giving Guidance on Such Matters

"In the past, Joe Biden has shown terrible judgment and incompetence in the face of public health issues. The Obama White House had to publicly apologize for and clean up after Biden when his irresponsible remarks caused panic during the swine flu outbreak in 2009. 

Just weeks ago, he was openly critical of President Trump’s early move to restrict travel from China to the United States in response to the coronavirus – a decision which medical experts agree helped impede the spread of the virus to this country. Yesterday his campaign actually raised the vile conspiracy theory that the President purposely allowed the coronavirus to spread. In times like this, America needs leadership and Biden has shown none. 

President Trump acted early and decisively and has put the United States on stronger footing than other nations. His every move has been aimed at keeping Americans safe, while Joe Biden has sought to capitalize politically and stoke citizens’ fears." - Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 Communications Director

Joe Biden will again politicize coronavirus today. But his record on pandemics is one of incompetence.

During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts.

The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude. pic.twitter.com/5TCKZeShkz

— Trump War Room - Text EMPOWER to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) March 12, 2020

Someone should have called Hillary Clinton who apparently as Obama's Secretary of State traveled back in time in 2009 and helped cure the SARS epidemic in 2002-2003

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Time We All Take a Deep Breath and Relax

Shits been rolling fast and heavy these past few days. I think it's time we all to take a little break from it all and soothe the soul. What ya say.......

Grumpy Bernard is in this Until the Last Dog is Dead.

This is not entirely a shock. Sanders is no democrat. He has no loyalty to the Democrat party or its leadership. Even last night he was running against them, making vague accusations of voter suppression. His loyalty is to the movement he has given voice to. True to his commie roots, he knows that a bloody and ill-fated resistance is better than compromise. Bernie knows Biden can't make it to the convention without the media cleaning up his messes with broom and dustpan, like sanitation workers following an old sh*tting horse in a parade.

We do however have two things to look forward to. Sunday there will be an epic two-man debate in which Sanders, for moral and political reasons, must go after Biden hammer-and-tongs. And we can thank Bernie for leaving behind a babbling old man Joe and smoking crater where the Democrat party was trying to build unity of purpose.

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Joe Biden's Virus Protection Tips For Democrat Primary Voters

➥ EARL DONE THIS

Temper Fear With Reason

by Abdu Sharkawy 
Infectious Diseases Specialist, University Health Network

I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.

What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic, stockpiling obscene quantities of anything that could fill a bomb shelter adequately in a post-apocalyptic world. I am scared of the N95 masks that are stolen from hospitals and urgent care clinics where they are actually needed for front line healthcare providers and instead are being donned in airports, malls, and coffee lounges, perpetuating even more fear and suspicion of others. I am scared that our hospitals will be overwhelmed with anyone who thinks they ” probably don’t have it but may as well get checked out no matter what because you just never know…” and those with heart failure, emphysema, pneumonia and strokes will pay the price for overfilled ER waiting rooms with only so many doctors and nurses to assess.

I am scared that travel restrictions will become so far reaching that weddings will be canceled, graduations missed and family reunions will not materialize. And well, even that big party called the Olympic Games…that could be kyboshed too. Can you even imagine?

I’m scared those same epidemic fears will limit trade, harm partnerships in multiple sectors, business and otherwise and ultimately culminate in a global recession. But mostly, I’m scared about what message we are telling our kids when faced with a threat. Instead of reason, rationality, open-mindedness and altruism, we are telling them to panic, be fearful, suspicious, reactionary and self-interested..........MORE

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The media have been afflicted with a raging case of Katrina virus. There's no known cure for the self-inflicted disease as long as a Republican occupies the White House, but political experts say the Katrina virus will instantly reverse course if a Democrat ascends to the nation's highest office.  Anything can be a Katrina moment if you add enough sizzle from the media.

H/T to that Van der Leun fellow

A Good Monday Morning

Bernie Hires 9/11 Truther as Senior Campaign Advisor

Bernie has a growing tendency to surround himself with 
nasty unsavory characters. Media Yawns.

This is potentially a problematic hire for the Sanders campaign pic.twitter.com/z7pBoauyDu

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 7, 2020

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Phillip Agnew, who also goes by Umi Selah, is a self-described "militant" who tweeted on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that America remembers the day "she turned on herself, dismantled her constitution, and killed her own citizens in the name of money."

It was announced Saturday Agnew was hired as Sanders 2020 Senior Campaign Advisor. Agnew has spoken alongside other high-profile Sanders surrogates such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex and Michael Moore at recent campaign events.  Agnew is co-founder of the Florida based leftist activist group Dream Defenders, which boasts anti-Semitic activist and fellow Sanders surrogate Linda Sarsour as well as notorious Black Panther and Communist Party member Angela Davis as board members. The organization advocates for far-left causes such as the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) and the idea that every person has a right to a home, clothes, food, and job provided by the government. In other words, they're just another bunch of commies like Bernie.

Agnew joins a growing list of controversial and anti-Semitic figures in the Sanders campaign including Sarsour and the left-wing nut-case and fake negro Shaun King.  The Free Beacon reported this past December that another Sanders campaign official, Darius Khalil Gordon, deputy director of constituency organizing, has a history of racist and misogynistic tweets including homophobic slurs and anti-Semitic references to ‘Jew Money.’

I'm still trying to get my head around why Bernie puts people like Phillip Agnew and 2020 Co-Chair, Nina Turner, the whacked-out loud mouth Negress out front of the campaign.
   

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Middle Finger Symphony Theater

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This Ladies & Gentlemen is Elite Media Brain Power in Action

MSNBC's Brian Williams and NYT Editorial Board member Mara Gay do the math and conclude that Journalist Mekita Rivas is right, with the $500 million Bloomberg spent on ads he could have given $1 million to every American. pic.twitter.com/S9yWNqxoHN

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 6, 2020

Consider the levels of failure here:
-original tweet from a blue-check writer for Glamour and WaPo
-TV production staff
-anchor Brian Williams
-NYT editor Mara Gay
2/3...

— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) March 6, 2020

Sexism Had Little To Do With It.

You knew it was coming sooner or later, just like the sunrise: someone inside the democrat party blaming sexism for failed female presidential campaigns. I admit that part of me was disappointed to hear that Lizzy Warren was dropping out of the presidential race because I was looking forward to watching Liz and Bernie politically destroy each other and their party (during the convention) along with it. 

Her supporters wanted her to remain in the race in part because she was the last woman standing outside of Tulsi Gabbard , who is sticking around more or less as sand in the democrats butt crack then anything else. So imagine my lack of surprise when reactions from “feminists” and prominent former presidential candidates like Kamala Harris started rolling in, trotting out the “woman” card to explain why campaigns like her’s and Lizzy's failed.  Both Warren and Harris may think it sounds good to suggest the fact that they are women played a starring role in the failures of their respective campaigns, but the reality is that’s just not true. 

Nay, the real reason for their failures are the electorate judged them as tone deaf, pandering, unlikable persons with extremely annoying voices!!  In Kamala they saw a Creepy Voodoo Witch persona with a horrific track record, a coastal lefty and a terrible candidate. She actually thought she could appeal to clueless suburban soccer moms at the same time fanning the flames of racial resentment with talk of reparations and pretending to be down with the struggle.

In my mind, Lizzy conjures up a vision of a self-medicated crazy cat lady, shaking like a speed freak, jumpin' the stage and spouting some expensive goofy leftist policy idea in an annoying voice that wore thin very quickly. Her spastic style of dancing alone should disqualify her from any public office on this planet. I suspect Lizzy already has a book deal in the works and will fire both barrels at you misogynous bastards.

Truth is neither's strong suit, appealing to sensible people is not in their skill set. They’re using the “woman/sexism” card-playing as an excuse to mask their real failures. It’s embarrassing and yet predictable all the same.

[Sister Toldjah]
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