Annals of the delusional

https://youtu.be/U0nfRlkEW3w

Madame Speaker – ‘The President is asking people to inject Lysol into their lungs’

Boober Eats, topless food delivery

Strip Club Coronavirus

I called Boober Eats for a take out order, but they said they’re in Oregon and don’t deliver to southern California.

Politicization of Hydroxychloroquine

FDA issues warnings on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after ‘serious poisoning and death’ reported.

Politicization of this drug as a potential treatment for Coronavirus is prevalent in the media. Politicization of bureaucracies in the U.S. government under the #resistance moniker is equally prevalent. These two things combined render unbelievable almost all reports emanating from U.S. media relating to the drug.

Trump on departure of AT&T CEO

Journalism during a Republican administration

“Stop Looking on the Bright Side: We’ll Be Screwed By the Pandemic for Years to Come,” John F. Harris, POLITICO.

“Humans Are Too Optimistic to Comprehend the Coronavirus,” Olga Khazan, The Atlantic.

“U.S. Exceptionalism Is Over,” Katrin Bennhold, New York Times.

“We Are Living in a Failed State,” George Packer, The Atlantic.

“Opening up the economy won’t save the economy,” Matthew Yglesias, Vox.

And finally…

“New Seismic Map of North America Reveals a Continent Under Tremendous Stress,” George Dvorsky, Gizmodo.

Tremendous stress? I blame the Left.

Stephen Green strung this together

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Hydroxychloroquine Derangement Syndrome

Brian C.Joondeph, MD:

“…Trump derangement syndrome (TDS), according to Urban Dictionary, is a “Contagious, debilitating psychiatric disorder manifesting in a precipitous decline in intellectual and emotional stability and resilience.” The contagious and debilitating bits sound much like the Wuhan flu.

TDS, also known in infectious disease circles as Covfefe-45, not to be confused with Covid-19, has mutated into another form, namely hydroxychloroquine derangement syndrome, referring to the abject media hysteria over the innocuous prescription medication. Attorney General William Barr even noticed and, “Claimed that the Washington press corps is on a ‘jihad’ against President Trump over his promotion of an anti-malaria drug to treat the novel coronavirus.”

This is simply a small battle in the larger war against all things Trump, which the left and the media (sorry to be repetitive) have been engaged in since June 2015 when candidate Trump rode down the escalator at Trump Tower announcing his candidacy…

…The VA health system recently published the results of their experience using hydroxy for COVID. The media was giddy with delight, even though few actually appeared to have read the study. Instead their hysterical headlines reflected their hydroxy derangement syndrome.

From CNN, “Study finds no benefit, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19.”

AP in perfect harmony wrote, “More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus study.”

Even Fox News, lurching to the left as fast as the Drudge Report, ran this headline, “COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine showed no benefit, more deaths in VA virus study.

See, see. Trump was wrong. He’s an idiot and dangerous. He promoted this deadly drug since he wants to Make America Dead Again. COVID affects darker skinned individuals preferentially and Trump is a racist for pushing a drug that kills blacks. It’s Charlottesville all over again. Orange man bad. You get the picture…

…In other words, the three groups were not comparable, a feature of randomization. Sicker patients received these medications. Sicker patients, by the fact that they were sicker, were also more likely to die. As they did. The healthier patients received nothing and fared better, as expected. The media asserted that the hydroxy killed these patients when in reality they died from the virus, which may not have been adequately or aggressively treated.

An honest and inquisitive media might get off their high horses and ask relevant questions. Why should hydroxy only be reserved for the sickest patients, when such treatment may be too little too late? Should hydroxy be used much earlier in the course of infection?

We do know, based on 65 years prescribing experience, that hydroxy is relatively safe. Some studies say it is effective, others say it is not. Yet if it can save one life, it is worth it, to borrow a phrase from the left. Looking at the totality of data and experience with hydroxy, the risk/benefit ratio favors benefit.

Perhaps that ratio may change over time, as is most thinking on the virus including clinical manifestations and best treatment practices.

Yet the hair-on-fire media remain hell bent on discrediting hydroxy, regardless of the facts, simply because the big bad orange man recommended it as a potential treatment option for COVID. Derangement indeed. Forget the media chattering class. Think for yourself. Trust yourself…”

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Durham investigation and journalism

Durham hires top prosecutor Anthony Scarpelli for spygate team

Related journalism:

CNN tries to discredit Durham

Remarkable Democrat headline of the day

Oregon county creates race-specific ‘grounding space’ to escape ‘whiteness’

I thought separate but equal went out with the 1960 Democrats. Ah well, everything that’s old is new again.

Former top CIA spy blasts old boss John Brennan’s ‘unpatriotic’ conduct as ‘dereliction of duty’

Sophie Mann:

“…Former CIA Moscow station Chief Daniel Hoffman laid into his former boss at Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, during an interview with Just the News.

“One of the things that bothers me the most is when someone kind of starts with their answer, and then they try to twist the facts to fit it,” Hoffman said Tuesday. “I saw Brennan do that when I served under him CIA. And I saw him do it when he was, you know, a contributor at MSNBC accusing the president of treason with nothing whatsoever to back it up.”

The former station chief said that Brennan’s behavior related to the Russia collusion narrative was not much different than what he witnessed during his time serving under him at the CIA, the country’s top spy agency.

“There were policies he supported, whether it was the policy in Syria or Iran. And when you told him something that would force him to challenge his assumptions, his response was just to get mad at you and not really want to hear what you have to say,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman called Brennan’s public behavior since leaving his CIA post an “extraordinary dereliction of duty.”…”

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Dossier author loses source documentation

This guy is walking a thin line line between freedom and jail. He should be thoroughly investigated and, if evidence supports it, prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Vernon Jones, Democrat for Trump

Kooky

https://twitter.com/TheFigensezgin/status/1252672745315459073

Democrat

Detroit Democrats to Censure Democrat Lawmaker for Saying Trump Saved Her Life

California

Inmate arrested for carjacking 40 MINUTES after he was released ‘early’ by California

Young golfer

https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1253258050540109824

Laura Ingraham exposes the truth about recent HCQ testing

Trump’s greatest one-liners, watch

Absurd charges of racism and praise for China’s government destroy public faith in journalists, just when the nation needs that trust the most

Worst media and political class of my life maybe of all time. Many in the press seem delusional.

Ken Langone:

“…In our national war against this virus, public trust is perhaps our greatest weapon. Without it, we can’t hope to succeed in the extraordinary common effort required to control the virus’s spread, protect our most vulnerable neighbors, and reopen the economy. The media have a critical role to play in fostering this trust, and never have we counted on them more to shoot straight and deliver focused, accurate information from the front lines.

Yet in the midst of the greatest test of their mettle in a generation, the New York Times devoted a Sunday front-page article to the absurd claim that criticizing China’s role in this catastrophe amounts to “scapegoating” that is motivated by bigoted “xenophobia.” The piece is an example of the axe-grinding ideology pretending to be news that has become commonplace when our country can least afford it.

It’s a stone-cold fact that the Chinese government repeatedly misled the world about the origin and nature of the virus. Their deceit is entirely consistent with how the Chinese Communist Party has mangled the truth about public-health calamities in the past, including prior outbreaks, and as far back as the state-induced famines of Chairman Mao, which killed millions of China’s own citizens.

But according to the Times, Americans are being manipulated into considering those realities, all part of a cynical strategy to “divert attention” from domestic politics. For proof, the Times showed poll results that nearly 80 percent of Americans fault the Chinese government for dishonesty and negligence in handling the crisis.

How did people get that idea? From “attack ads,” the Times says, that “rely heavily on images of people of Asian descent.” Yet the only such depiction they cite was of the former U.S. ambassador to China, who was shown meeting with their leadership, the same image the Times itself published when it happened. And how should an issue ad address China without using any photos of leaders from China? With mannequins, perhaps?…”

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Journalism – CNN edition

CNN ran 700 articles on Kavanaugh smear – Guess how many on Biden sex charges?

Democrats worst nightmare

MLK’s niece declares Trump’s pandemic immigration ban will help black workers

‘We’ve got to strengthen our own borders, our own lives, our own families, our own communities. Once we do that, then we can help others,’ King said

Doug Santo