Michigan Governor: 'Revolting Against A Tyrannical Government Is Simply Unamerican' https://t.co/dywKXvwDiJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2020
Rules are for the little people, certainly not CNN media personalities
Headline of the day – California
Sabo on reopening
B-52’s on Guam
A U.S.MH-60S Knighthawk, Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk, Navy MQ-4C Triton, five Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses and six KC-135 Stratotankers stationed at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, perform an elephant walk April 13, 2020.
Pizza delivery
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1252325604231348231
Trump blasts media, Obama for being ‘duped’ by China in another epic repudiation of ‘fake news’ CNN
Jon Dougherty:
“…The establishment media has consistently utilized President Donald Trump’s coronavirus briefings as a platform for ‘performance journalism,’ rife with ‘gotcha’ questions that are primarily designed to attack him rather than actually inform the American people.
And one more than one occasion, now that these briefings have stretched into weeks, the president has had his fill of the nonsense.
Like on Sunday.
After being accused by CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond of being more focused on his administration’s coronavirus achievements than ‘the death toll’ everyone in the Washington press corps wants us to endlessly focus on, Trump had had enough.
“Can you explain why you come out here and you are reading clips and showing clips of praise for you and your administration? Is this really the time for self-congratulations?” Diamond asked — the implication being, of course, that Trump doesn’t give a damn about Americans who have died, which is patently and obviously absurd, given what he’s done to try to save people.
“What I’m doing is standing up for the men and women that have done an incredible job,” Trump replied, adding “I’m also sticking up for doctors and nurses and military doctors and nurses.”
“Those people have been just absolutely excoriated by some of the fake news, like you.” Trump continued, adding “You’re CNN, you’re fake news. And let me just tell you, they were excoriated by people like you that don’t know any better because you don’t have the brains you were born with.”…”
Journalism
Coronavirus antibody testing shows LA County outbreak is up to 55 times bigger than reported cases
We may find that the infection rate is much higher than previously reported or anticipated. The disease may have been freely circulating in certain states since late November or early December 2019. The death rate may be much lower than thought, more in line with a bad flu.
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- The Covid-19 outbreak in Los Angeles County could be up to 55 times bigger than the number of confirmed cases, according to new research from the University of Southern California and the LA Department of Public Health.
- The data, if correct, would mean that the county’s fatality rate is lower than originally thought.
- With just 4% of the population infected with the disease, LA County is still very early in the epidemic, said USC professor Neeraj Sood, who led the study.
A good decision
Nancy Antoinette
This is CNN
Soviet Union, China, or Facebook?
Lockdown protests organized on Facebook will be taken down as “harmful misinformation.”
Unapproved thoughts or actions will not be tolerated from the masses.
Trump on DOJ/FBI/CIA malfeasance
I agree with this 100%
On China
China is not a friend of the United States. They are a competitor intent on surpassing us.
H. R. MCMASTER:
“…Leaving China, I was even more convinced than I had been before that a dramatic shift in U.S. policy was overdue. The Forbidden City was supposed to convey confidence in China’s national rejuvenation and its return to the world stage as the proud Middle Kingdom. But for me it exposed the fears as well as the ambitions that drive the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to extend China’s influence along its frontiers and beyond, and to regain the honor lost during the century of humiliation. The fears and ambitions are inseparable. They explain why the Chinese Communist Party is obsessed with control—both internally and externally.
The party’s leaders believe they have a narrow window of strategic opportunity to strengthen their rule and revise the international order in their favor—before China’s economy sours, before the population grows old, before other countries realize that the party is pursuing national rejuvenation at their expense, and before unanticipated events such as the coronavirus pandemic expose the vulnerabilities the party created in the race to surpass the United States and realize the China dream. The party has no intention of playing by the rules associated with international law, trade, or commerce. China’s overall strategy relies on co-option and coercion at home and abroad, as well as on concealing the nature of China’s true intentions. What makes this strategy potent and dangerous is the integrated nature of the party’s efforts across government, industry, academia, and the military…”
My favorite headline today
Media personalities expose themselves
I crawled in bed and cried for our pre-pandemic lives. Tears that had been waiting a month to escape.
I wanted to share because it feels freeing to do so. Now is not a time for faux-invincibility. Journos are living this, hating this, like everyone else. https://t.co/dIDujZZvQZ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 18, 2020
What a colossal, self-important jackass. He is a high school girl and his feelings got the better of him. Stuff your feelings up your ass, you jerk.
If you had any question about who the media is, now you know.
#MeToo
Joe Biden Exposes #MeToo Movement as Total BS
If you were paying attention at the time of the Kavanaugh kerfuffle you knew this was BS long ago. You may not have recognized just how disgraceful and low the media and Democrats would go.
Now you know.
Democrat dishonesty on virus response
Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds
Condoleezza Rice on China’s responsibility for the virus
Condoleezza Rice: China Wants To Shift The Narrative On COVID-19, Don’t Let Them
“…Hoover Institution Fellow Condoleezza Rice speaks with Hoover’s Tom Gilligan about the “reckoning” the Chinese Communist Party is likely to face over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and both the public and private conversations U.S. officials should have with them.
Rice primarily accuses China of a coverup of the early outbreak of the virus, which cost the world time that could have been used to prepare. It is “very hard to get answers from China,” she said.
“The Chinese did what authoritarians do,” she said. “They silenced those who were trying to sound the alarm, they wanted time to create the narrative that would be blessed by the Communist Party of China, which means it probably had to go to Beijing before you could say anything. It is just the nature of the system. It is a real problem.”
“Can you imagine those people being silenced in the United States or Germany or Brazil?” she asked. “No… it would have been known that there was a problem.”
“The Chinese and trying to create a counter-narrative… to shift the narrative from their initial responsibility for not fessing up to what was happening, to ‘We got on top of it and this is how we helped the world.’ That’s how they’re going to shift the narrative. Don’t let it happen.”
She concluded: “If you keep the focus on how this started, and China’s role in that, they will be embarrassed by that. If you let them shift the narrative to all they’ve done sending out PPE, you’re probably not going to make progress.”…”