Whitmer backtracks after COVID-19 contract awarded to Dem consultant who said Trump should ‘get coronavirus ASAP.’

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‘Go F*** Yourself, Gretch’: Michigan Governor Grilled Over WWII Comments

“…Whitmer sought to deflect heat off of her during a press conference on Monday, comparing the coronavirus outbreak to fighting in World War II.

“In World War II, there weren’t people lining up at the Capitol to protest the fact that they had to drop everything they were doing, and build planes, or tanks, or to ration food,” Whitmer said. “They rolled up their sleeves, and they got to work.”

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Political commentator John Hawkins wrote: “They were fighting against people then that wanted to destroy their livelihoods, take their freedom and keep them imprisoned. Now, the person that wants to do that is their own governor.”…”

Hat tip to Ed Driscoll

Michigan Governor: 'Revolting Against A Tyrannical Government Is Simply Unamerican' https://t.co/dywKXvwDiJ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 20, 2020

Chris Cuomo Touts ‘Official’ Quarantine Release a Week After Caught Outside With Family

California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say: ‘It speaks to an absolute ignorance of expert opinion and defiance of common sense.’

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.

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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.”…”

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Major Media Outlets Fail To Expose Bombshell Evidence Showing Dodgy Dossier Was Russian Disinformation

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.

• • 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.

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UK Just Dumped China’s Huawei in 5G Tech Roll-Out — Citing its Lies Over Coronavirus

Lockdown protests organized on Facebook will be taken down as “harmful misinformation.”

Unapproved thoughts or actions will not be tolerated from the masses.

I agree with this 100%

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…”

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Harvard Law Prof Calls for Ban on Homeschooling, Saying It’s ‘Dangerous’ to Leave Children with Their Parents 24/7

Liberals! What next?

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.

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.

WaPo Columnist Who Wrote A Book About Brett Kavanaugh Now Says #BelieveAllWomen Is ‘Dumb’ Given Accusations Against Joe Biden

Now you know.

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds