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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
‘A whole lot of hurt': Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response
[Washington Compost] President Trump’s repeated assertions the United States is "rounding the turn" on the novel coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading into a long and potentially deadly winter with an unprepared government unwilling to make tough choices.

"We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation," Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. "All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly."

Fauci, a leading member of the government’s coronavirus response, said the United States needed to make an "abrupt change" in public health practices and behaviors. He said the country could surpass 100,000 new coronavirus cases a day and predicted rising deaths in the coming weeks. He spoke as the nation set a new daily record Friday with more than 98,000 cases. As hospitalizations increase, deaths are also ticking up, with more than 1,000 reported Wednesday and Thursday, bringing the total to more than 230,000 since the start of the pandemic, according to health data analyzed by The Washington Post.

Fauci’s blunt warnings come as Trump has rallied in states and cities experiencing record surges in infections and hospitalizations in a last-ditch effort to convince voters he has successfully managed the pandemic. He has held maskless rallies with thousands of supporters, often in violation of local health mandates.

Even as new infections climb in 42 states, Trump has downplayed the virus or mocked those who take it seriously. "Covid-19, covid, covid, covid," he said during one event, lamenting that the news media gives it too much attention. In another rally, he baselessly said that U.S. doctors record more deaths from covid-19, the disease the coronavirus causes, than other nations because they get more money.

"I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say, ’I’m sorry but everybody dies of covid,’ " Trump said Friday at a rally in Waterford Township, Mich., without offering any evidence.

By contrast, former vice president Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala D. Harris have consistently worn masks in public, and have held socially distanced events. When two people around Harris tested positive for the coronavirus in October, she canceled travel for several days. Asked about the difference between their approaches, Fauci said Biden’s campaign "is taking it seriously from a public health perspective." Trump, Fauci said, is "looking at it from a different perspective." He said that perspective was "the economy and reopening the country."

Fauci, who once took a starring role in the response and briefed the president almost every day as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, described a disjointed response as cases surge. Several current and former senior administration officials said the White House is almost entirely focused on a vaccine, even though experts warn it is unlikely to be a silver bullet that ends the pandemic immediately since it will take months under the best of circumstances to inoculate tens of millions of people to achieve herd immunity.

Officials told governors on a call Friday that they hoped to begin distributing a vaccine by the end of the year, giving some specific guidance on how states would receive their first doses. Fauci focused on the rise in cases, according to people familiar with the call....

ZeroHedge comments:
Dr. Fauci also said he has "real problems" with Dr. Scott Atlas, a new advisor to President Trump who has in many ways supplanted Dr. Fauci as the president's go-to advisor.

White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement that Dr. Fauci's comments were "unacceptable".

"It’s unacceptable and breaking with all norms for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the President’s Coronavirus Taskforce and someone who has praised President Trump’s actions throughout this pandemic, to choose three days before an election to play politics," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement.

Deere added that Fauci was "choosing to criticize the president in the media and make his political leanings known by praising the president’s opponent —
exactly what the American people have come to expect from The Swamp.
" Dr. Fauci has praised Joe Biden's campaign for allowing its candidate to sit in the basement, while claiming President Trump is tackling the outbreak from a different perspective, one focused on "the economy".

Additionally, "Dr. Fauci may have just admitted that he is afraid the cure will be worse than the disease and that unlike the president he has no confidence in the American people to make the best choice for themselves armed with CDC best practices," Deere said.
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lockdown fanatics kill far more than the virus.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2020 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I have "real problems" with Dr. Fauci. In the beginning of this mess he discouraging the wearing of masks by the general public since he knew there would be a severe shortage of masks at that time. Dishonest! He was in a prime position to anticipate that problem -- since pandemics have been predicted for many years now -- by advocating a massive increase in warehoused PPE by the federal govt. That never happened because the people like Fauci did nothing.
In addition he discouraged using HCQ at a time when little was known about it. His position got massive media coverage months ago. The next day during a live interview with a talk show host, Fauci admitted that if he would use HCQ to prevent a severe case of COVID-19 since at the time doctors had nothing else to offer. This Fauci contraction got zero coverage by the media, and has apparently been disappeared.
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 || 11/02/2020 3:26 Comments || Top||


#4  Viruses are very small. If you can smell odors (which you can through most masks) — like tobacco smoke, perfume, etc., the COVID-19 virus can pass through that mask.

You cannot stop or a eliminate the COVID-19 virus with quarantine-type practices and orders. A virus with such high viral loads (titers), recalcitrant environmental persistence, and transmissibility factors can’t be stopped with public health and welfare environmental management. IMO, inevitably ALL of the USA population will contract COVID-19 at some point (however this is less and less of a concern, since the ORF8 is deleting from viral strains — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104525).

The only real choice ever was to slow the curve enough so as to buy the time needed to stand up resources.

To buy the time necessary to stand up resources, the FDA, CDC, NIH, etc., and their dead-enders (like “the Fauch”) served a very critical and useful purpose that has now been outlived.
Posted by: cingold || 11/02/2020 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Thankfully, the COVID-19 virus is non-lethal to the great majority of otherwise healthy people infected. Exceptions to this general rule would be presence of ORF8 (immune evasive) COVID-19 viral strains, or co-infections with influenza. For the general populace, the greater of these two concerns will be influenza--since no research has been done about how an influenza vaccine program is unlikely to be sufficiently protective under the circumstances, and that any influenza vaccine will likely also promote the same kind of ACE2 proliferation that makes a co-infection with the COVID-19 virus so dangerous.

It would be ironic, wouldn’t it, to have a nationwide influenza vaccination program create the very ACE2 proliferation conditions the vaccination program is supposed to prevent (all in the name of COVID-19 and “save the children“—TM)?
Posted by: cingold || 11/02/2020 6:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Fauci said Biden’s campaign "is taking it seriously from a public health perspective." Trump is "looking at it from a different perspective." the economy and reopening the country."

I don't disagree with either statement, and they are not mutually exclusive. Obviously, some people like Trump's perspective.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/02/2020 7:53 Comments || Top||

#7  2020 has been a real bad year for "experts" like Fauxi.

Just another example of a power tripping deep-state slug.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/02/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#8  To covidians, the only thing that matters is putting whatever panic move is in vogue this week ahead of every other consideration.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/02/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Thanks in advance, MM. I am stealing your quote. Dead on!!
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/02/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#10  I find it interesting that the net effect of COVID and the COVID control measures is to reduce the net monthly deaths in the US by about 2000.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/02/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Trump campaign stops have seen MASSIVE crowds since he recovered from Covid and returned to Campaigning.

So why aren't they super-spreader events? I've only seen one claim of such from a media that would love to make such claims. Even the lefty media knows it won't fly without charts showing the spikes and those haven't happened in any correlation to Trump events.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/02/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Officials told governors on a call Friday that they hoped to begin distributing a vaccine by the end of the year, giving some specific guidance on how states would receive their first doses. Fauci focused on the rise in cases, according to people familiar with the call...

Of course he did. His fifteen minutes of fame are coming to an end.

Fauxi is proving once again the Democrat Party is the party of fear, failure, doom, gloom and pessimism. The real "losers and suckers" are Democrats.

The purpose of the Chinese bio-weapon and the mass media fear campaign that accompanied it was to shut down America's economy and to prevent mass rallies that help Trump win election. It plays right into the hands of leftist control freaks.

But Republicans are the party of optimism, courage and success. They will not be cowed. They will go back to work and continue to attend Trump rallies so they win.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/02/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#13  RJ, some of the media called ACB's swearing in a super-spreader event. We never got the tsunami of deaths that Sturgis was supposed to cause either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/02/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Seven different 'disease forms' identified in mild COVID-19
Now, it is a matter of implementing these findings and using them for the development of highly-effective COVID-19 vaccines."

Rather more obvious is to get everyone under 50 one of these mild strains and skip the cost and risks of a vaccine totally.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#16  Kamal-Ho's a Super Spreader
I'm Willie Brown, and I approve this message!
Posted by: Vernal Omeretch1791 || 11/02/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

#17  Go to your room, Vernal.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/02/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||

#18  If/when Trump wins, I'm burning my mask.
Posted by: Regular joe || 11/02/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#19  “Rather more obvious is to get everyone under 50 one of these mild strains and skip the cost and risks of a vaccine totally.”

It looks like that is exactly the kind of COVID-19 infection released especially in China, but also generally in other Asian countries. The USA appears to have been gifted with much more lethal varieties, including a high number of ORF8 strains.
Posted by: cingold || 11/02/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#20  Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers butt blunt assessment.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/02/2020 19:22 Comments || Top||

#21  Looking forward to seeing this man be fired. Out of cannon. Into the sun.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/02/2020 20:39 Comments || Top||

#22 
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 21:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Texas Police: Sure Looks Like The Biden-Bus Incident Was Caused By A Biden Supporter
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 14:35 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And Foul Gas is careful to find a "blame both" angle to maintain their hatred of Trump and his supporters.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/02/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I think this was what precipitated the trailing white Biden SUV switching lanes, which was followed by that black Trump truck overtaking the SUV and resulted in the SUV trying to bully his way back behind the bus and getting head stomped.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2020 21:22 Comments || Top||


Never Forget the Time Joe Biden Said 'Don't Assume I'm Not Corrupt'
[Western Journal] An old clip of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden discussing whether he could be corrupted by power has taken on new significance with less than a week before the Nov. 3 election.

The Democrats’ lone shot at seizing power from the American people next week is currently embroiled in controversy surrounding reports that he used his son to peddle his influence while he served as the country’s vice president.

Contents discovered on a laptop that reportedly belonged to his son Hunter Biden continue to bring up questions about Biden’s alleged involvement in the younger Biden’s international business dealings.

Numerous and credible reports that Biden himself was involved in making money from Hunter Biden’s business in China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine have also not been challenged on substance.

But they portray a political family rooted in corruption, and they make a case that Biden himself allegedly guided American foreign policy while serving as VP with his own financial interests in mind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2020 10:47 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


‘Destroy Trump Ballots' Demands NYT, Atlantic Mag Writer
[AnationalPulse] Jon Schwarz, who is also published at mainstream outlets including The New York Times and The Atlantic, also advocates for illegal immigrants to vote repeatedly in presidential elections.

Schwarz identifies himself as an alum of filmmaker Michael Moore’s Dog Eat Dog Films and "a research producer for Moore’s "Capitalism: A Love Story."

"He’s contributed to many publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, and Slate, as well as NPR and "Saturday Night Live," his bio also claims.

Schwarz’s Twitter account, however, contains a litany of tweets advocating for the destruction of "Trump ballots" dating all the way back to 2016.

In response to a user insisting he visited a voting site "to fake IDs & assist in ferrying illegals from polling station to polling station," Schwarz responded "let’s not rest on our laurels though, everyone’s needed in Wisconsin to destroy Trump ballots during the recount" in December of 2016.

let's not rest on our laurels though, everyone's needed in Wisconsin to destroy Trump ballots during the recount

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) December 7, 2016

Schwarz also reacted to a Huffington Post Editor tweeting: "i love my job working at a voting site in washington dc destroying trump ballots," which prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) probe, by insisting he "want[ed] to emphasize to the FBI that, while @nickbaumann was joking, I was completely serious. I am not kidding."

He appears to be referencing his countless tweets supporting the destruction of pro-Trump ballots.

Boasting he has "destroyed 1000s of ballots", Schwarz added, "it’s weird the FBI is investigating Nick for jokes when I’m the one who destroyed 1000s of ballots."

it's weird the FBI is investigating Nick for jokes when I'm the one who destroyed 1000s of ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) December 7, 2016

What’s more, Schwarz added that he felt "at least 75% of the MSM, including me, has a side job destroying Trump ballots" just days before the 2016 election.

My guess is that at least 75% of the MSM, including me, has a side job destroying Trump ballots pic.twitter.com/8kg5VYNSQB

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

"When you love something as much as we love destroying Trump ballots, you make the time," he added as a follow up to the tweet on November 1st.

when you love something as much as we love destroying Trump ballots, you make the time

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz continued, tweeting an acknowledgment that "lots more people want [Trump] to be president," adding "but that’s why we destroy the ballots, otherwise wouldn’t bother."

well lots more people want him to be president but that's why we destroy the ballots, otherwise wouldn't bother

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz also tweeted "it’s not a felony, it’s legal to destroy Trump ballots" and "no, the constitution says you can destroy trump ballots."

it's not a felony, it's legal to destroy Trump ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

no, the constitution says you can destroy trump ballots

— Jon 👻🎃👻 Schwarz (@schwarz) November 1, 2016

Schwarz’s more recently social media activity includes sharing an article entitled: "The Election Isn’t Over Until Trump’s Gone," which furthers the suggestions made by groups like the Transition Integrity Project, which called for "street fights" in the wake of a Trump victory.
Posted by: 746 || 11/02/2020 09:33 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US Code Incitement to commit Voter related fraud.
When will the NYT be charged with

52 U.S.C. 10308: Civil and criminal sanctions
§10308. Civil and criminal sanctions
(a) Depriving or attempting to deprive persons of secured rights

Whoever shall deprive or attempt to deprive any person of any right secured by section 10301, 10302, 10303, 10304, or 10306 of this title or shall violate section 10307(a) of this title, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
(b) Destroying, defacing, mutilating, or altering ballots or official voting records

Whoever, within a year following an election in a political subdivision in which an observer has been assigned (1) destroys, defaces, mutilates, or otherwise alters the marking of a paper ballot which has been cast in such election, or (2) alters any official record of voting in such election tabulated from a voting machine or otherwise, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(c) Conspiring to violate or interfere with secured rights

Whoever conspires to violate the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section, or interferes with any right secured by section 10301, 10302, 10303, 10304, 10306, or 10307(a) of this title shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.


My Question is this Per vote or Per ACT
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/02/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||


Biden: As president, I’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, implement universal background checks
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I will also make hair sniffing mandatory."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  If you locked up gun toting blacks longer you'd practically solve gun violence in the US...

It's not whitey shooting blacks...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  It's amazing how these "progressives" all think they'll have Stalinesque dictatorial powers, and that's how it should be.

They really didn't learn Harry Reid's lesson about seizing power did they?
Posted by: AlanC || 11/02/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  If he read the FBI findings he would know that "assault" weapons and high-capacity magazines are very seldom used in crimes. Slick Willy"s ban did nothing because they aren't used.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/02/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  It isn't about safety. It is about control. Always has been.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Now the big question is what the definition of assault rifle is and what do they mean by high capacity
Last time I checked most shotguns and a lot of sporting rifles would fall under the definition
I think they are trying to not only ban firearms it also ban hunting
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 11/02/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||


#8  Two-legs Citizens with guns bad, four-legs Antifa with clubs good.
Posted by: magpie || 11/02/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#9  I live in the mountains and my 4x4 is 1999. I wanted to buy a Jeep but I will not do it if bitten is prez. My weapons were given to me before everything was registered. I have the first gun I ever fired some 65 years ago.
Posted by: Betty Bourbon1618 || 11/02/2020 19:05 Comments || Top||


Pop Star Lizzo Dresses as a Fly in Mike Pence's Hair for Halloween. Hyuk hyuk
[BREITBART] Grammy-winning pop star and Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
backer Lizzo dressed as a fly in Vice President Mike Pence’s hair for Halloween, clad in a pair of black wings and bug eyes. The singer posted edited photos and videos depicting her twerking on top of the vice president’s head."....aaaaand we just gettin started #halloween2020," wrote Lizzo in an Instagram caption alongside a video of the singer dancing in her fly costume with an image of the vice president’s zoomed-in head behind her.
The poor thing appears to have forgotten her pants..


View this post on Instagram

....aaaaand we just gettin started. #halloween2020

A post shared by Lizzo (@lizzobeeating) on


Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She beat anorexia and then some.
Posted by: Thrairong Ebbusomp4597 || 11/02/2020 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  A major Heffer!
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Beat anorexia you say? Pig meat here has crushed anorexia, had it driven before her and heard the lamentations of the wait staff.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/02/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  What's that animal on Pence's forehead?
Posted by: Lemuel Phuse5198 || 11/02/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Just another lard-ass C-list 'entertainer.'
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 11/02/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Peak 2020, or rock bottom? You decide!
Posted by: Raj || 11/02/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  at least obesity kills em young
Posted by: 746 || 11/02/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#8  "Yo, Lizzo! You so fat, when you fly you got a WSO!"
"Don't you fat shame me! I'll be on you like a fly on... uh... ooh, ooh, a flyspeck. And anyway, that ain't a WSO... more like a boom operator. Or the rear steering station on a ladder truck. So there."
Posted by: Maggie Grusoque3716 || 11/02/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#9  Ah yes, the Creative Caste.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/02/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Now there's something to get me to vote for Biden. Right after I gouge my eyes out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/02/2020 14:39 Comments || Top||


Lady Gaga mocks us ignernt rednecks, hyuk hyuk
[BREITBART] Lady Gaga has launched an effort to win votes in the swing states by dressing in camouflage and crushing a beer can by a pickup truck.
How many beers and how many takes were needed before that one was deemed acceptable?
On Saturday, she announced that she would be riding into an unnamed swing state to drum up votes for Joe Biden:



[Opens beer can]

Hey. This is Lady Gaga. I’m voting for America, which means I’m voting for Joe … Biden. And if you live in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Florida, or Arizona, I encourage you to vote. And if you have a friend that lives there, tell them to vote.

I’m gonna be in one of these states tomorrow. Guess which one I’ll be in? Hint: I used to live there.

[Sips, crushes beer can]

Cheers. The 2020 election.

The pop star, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, once lived in the town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with her then-fiancé.

In September, Lady Gaga told an interviewer: “When you’re born in this country, we all drink the poison that is white supremacy.”

In another video message released on Twitter last week, she told Americans to vote if they “want the country to be different than it is.”

She added: “If you want to change this system, if you want this country to be different than it is right now, you have got to participate in this election.”
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When you submit to as I tell you how and what to sing, then you can tell me how to live my life.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/02/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully she'll get a Texas Escort wherever she goes.
Posted by: Thrairong Ebbusomp4597 || 11/02/2020 2:33 Comments || Top||

#3  What is a Lady Gaga and what would I do with one if I found one?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/02/2020 6:42 Comments || Top||

#4  She's a bit over weight....
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice truck.

Just needs a few Trump flags and signs.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/02/2020 7:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Suddenly I can't find the "...Fellow Humans!" meme making fun of this.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/02/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#7  She's right, on a massive red wave will the insanity.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/02/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#8  What's up with the silver years pole dancer boots?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/02/2020 10:24 Comments || Top||

#9  I don't suppose you understand that this is how you got Trump to begin with?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/02/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#10  I can see a few union members voting against Biden because of the arrogance and insult behind this.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/02/2020 11:19 Comments || Top||

#11  To get "famous" she had to dress like a clown; her talent just wasn't enough.

And she still doesn't have the talent of Puddles Pity Party.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/02/2020 17:22 Comments || Top||

#12  I love Puddles
Posted by: Beavis || 11/02/2020 17:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Lady Gag-me is a pig. And another one who must have felt irrelevant recently. I thought those insurance commercials on TV were idiotic. This broad tried to top that.
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||

#14 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 20:05 Comments || Top||


Facebook Claims 'Enforcement Error' in Blacklisting of 'NJ Women for Trump' Group
[BREITBART] Facebook claims that an "enforcement error" resulted in the blacklisting of a "New Jersey Women for Trump" group from its platform. The company quickly reversed course after President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
demanded it restore the unjustly banned group on Sunday.A popular group with over 29,000 members called "New Jersey Women for Trump" was removed from the Facebook platform on Saturday.

Facebook’s decision to remove the group caught the attention of President Trump. "@Facebook Put them back NOW!" the president tweeted early Sunday morning. The president’s tweet included an article from NJ.com which detailed Facebook’s decision to blacklist the group just days before the election.

In a Facebook post, Confrey announced that Facebook had restored the group.



Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funny how those "errors" only go one way.
Posted by: Thrairong Ebbusomp4597 || 11/02/2020 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  They have been threatening all the Republican or right areas in FB. Esp. Private groups.
One of the Ace of Spades private groups is under extreme duress with actual threats to delete everything and permanent ban from FB for all members.
Of course with the CEO having a ChiCom wife it's understandable.

Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "Error" after "error" after "error"....
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  FB still not allowing new members to join the group.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/02/2020 15:55 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 20:06 Comments || Top||


Biden Drops 8 Points In 3 Weeks In Florida
[THEFEDERALIST] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
continues to lose ground in Florida, even in polls that have historically been quite favorable to him. Biden’s most favorable pollster in the Sunshine State is Quinnipiac, which just three weeks ago claimed Biden held an 11-point lead. Its latest poll has shown President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
gaining 2 points and Biden losing 6 points, dropping Biden to a 3-point lead.By comparison, Quinnipiac’s final Florida polls in 2018 showed Democrats winning both the Senate and governor races by a 7-point margin. In fact, the Republicans narrowly won both races.

The most recent Susquehanna poll also showed a significant drop for Biden. Near the end of September, Susquehanna had him up 3 points but their most recent poll has Trump leading by 4 points.

Recent polls either show Trump leading by 3, 4, or 4 points — or Biden leading by 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, or 6 points.

Earlier this month, Biden had as much as a 4.5-point lead in the RealClearPolitics average of Florida state polls. Now he’s down to just 1.2 points. Still, he’s doing, about 1.2 points better than Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
was at this point in the 2016 race. She ended up losing that race by 1.2 points, about one point more than she was projected to lose it by, in the RealClearPolitics average.



Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not that he is losing ground. Joe's appeal is becoming more selective.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/02/2020 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Gotta roll back some of that fake polling before the election, you know. Can't be seen doing a poor job. The NY Slimes promised they would do better after the 2016 election and this is what they meant, I guess.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2020 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, prime time expectation management.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2020 3:00 Comments || Top||

#4  at least 50% of the votes are already cast in FL

I wonder how this is accounted for in polls.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/02/2020 3:28 Comments || Top||

#5  ^And if they were cast by mail, we know that they'll say.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 3:43 Comments || Top||

#6  at least 50% of the votes are already cast in FL

Many states require your party affiliation so you vote in the right primary. If you early vote or request a ballot they know your affiliation and can assume you are voting for your party. That means Republicans did a lot of early voting. Now if you poll the Democrats who actually returned a ballot you can get a guesstimate on the actual voting (not just what they are registered as). I assume those guesstimates are interesting.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#7  I would not assume democrats are always voting for their party. A large number are voting Trump.
Posted by: Cleting Closh2157 || 11/02/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#8  8 in three weeks? That's nothing! Hunter's been known to drop 6 in one night, and... wait. We're talking about the election, aren't we?
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/02/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Joe never had the support. The polls are fake. Now they show a "tightening" race so they can still claim a bit of credibility when Trump wins in a landslide.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/02/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Florida is already counting mail in ballots as they did in 2016 and will likely be one of the first States to announce results. Polls close there at 7 ET in most of the State and 8 pm ET in the west panhandle. I think that in 2016 they announced Trump as the winner by about 9pm. Of course that year the mail in vote was about half of what it is this year.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/02/2020 16:14 Comments || Top||

#11  Joe was never ahead in Florida. The polls were lies. Now that the one and only opportunity to measure polls against data is coming up, they are being adjusted closer to reality, and afterward the pollsters will brag about how accurate they were.
Posted by: Iblis || 11/02/2020 17:08 Comments || Top||

#12  The only reliable pollster is Trafgar Grouo, which corrects for the biases suffered by the other pollsters (nonresponse, inaccurate weighting, bad sampling etc).

Trafalgar has Trump winning Ohio easily and up by a clear, though narrow, margin in every one of the other battlegrounds: up by ~3 in MI, NC, FL, and AZ.

If Trump wins PA and FL and OH, and takes either AZ or NC, then he only needs one more midwestern battleground state -- MI or WI or MN -- to win with high-270s EC votes.
Posted by: Chavimp Spawn of the Weak4469 || 11/02/2020 18:47 Comments || Top||


Stevie Wonder Demands Reparations During Biden Rally in Detroit: 'I Know Joe Biden Will Do It'
[BREITBART] Because Stevie Wonder really, really needs a check to get by...
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think he'll ever see a reparations check.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/02/2020 1:52 Comments || Top||

#2  It's there. Just go on welfare. The only problem is it makes you weak.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2020 1:55 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as Papa Joe gets 50%.
Posted by: Thrairong Ebbusomp4597 || 11/02/2020 2:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Reparation should be a FREE ticket to Liberia.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2020 3:13 Comments || Top||

#5  I've always wondered about Stevie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2020 3:20 Comments || Top||

#6  ^You have to be blind to vote for Biden?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 3:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow. It's been so long since I heard anything from him I assumed he was dead. I see that's wrong and he's just a very rich old 70 year old living on a huge estate.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I see all that systemic racism hurt Stevie Wonder's career.
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Get a job.
Posted by: Angeater Omick2705 || 11/02/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#10  The problem with reparations is the need to compare it to something. It would appear the only fair comparison would be to sub-Saharan Africa. Some genetic testing should point to a region of origin and you can base off that dynamic.

Then you would utilize the annual income, living conditions including but not limited to housing, potable water, sewage treatment, functioning utilities, medical availability and degree of civil rest/unrest. Then you have to look at life span.

After you figure out how the comparable African lives, you either add or deduct from a baseline score. Short story long, even liberal back of the napkin ciphering would strongly suggest that any foray into reparations is going to put that segment of the population back into bondage for a gargantuan bill.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/02/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#11  ^ A lot less work and finagling to just say "no."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/02/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Fuck You
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/02/2020 9:07 Comments || Top||

#13  A Multi-Millionaire Demanding Reparations

While I cannot support Reparations for something that CEASE to exist in American 155 years ago.

MAYBE Offering a put or shut compromise.

* 1 way airfare ticket to their DNA verified Ancestral Homeland.

* Give a 1 time 1 year average income for that DNA verified country.

* Provided they MUST renounce their US Citizenship and not apply for return or visitation (VISA's).

Since a VAST MAJORITY of American slaves came from: Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, west-central Africa, including what is now Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.
The DNA determined source location should be used as the 1 time Average annual income source.

Quick Check of the African listed above locations, indicates they will return and live FAR WORST health & sanitary conditions, have few rights and usually have to forego all Government handouts.

Its Sink or Swim over there baby ☺☻.


BTW: US Average Black Income = $58,985
US Poverty level = $12,760.

The average Social Security retirement benefit in 2020 was about $18,200 a year.


Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/02/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#14  Go to your room, AlmostAnonymous
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/02/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#15  Well, he just trashed a lot of good will.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/02/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#16  just hand him a bunch of 1's . he'll never know the difference
Posted by: Chris || 11/02/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||

#17  Nice restaurant. A marathon session.
A diner with worried expression's
About to run out...
When he smiles. Sudden shout:
"There's a fly in my racist oppression!"
Posted by: Maggie Grusoque3716 || 11/02/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#18 
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/02/2020 19:26 Comments || Top||

#19  Can we make it in the form of an Easter egg hunt for you Steve.
Posted by: Slappy || 11/02/2020 20:51 Comments || Top||


'Nothing to' Hunter Biden Laptop Story, 'My Son's an Honorable Man'
[BREITBART] During an interview with Iowa’s KCRG on Friday, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
stated that "there’s nothing to any" of the "smear" stories about his son, Hunter’s laptop and "my son’s an honorable man."

KCRG Anchor and Managing Editor Beth Malicki asked, "So, what about the Americans who really, today, only want me to ask you about Hunter Biden’s laptop, how are you going to get them to see that you are fighting for them, when they’re so dead set against you?"

Biden responded, "By the way, there’s nothing to any of that, nothing to any of that. It’s all a smear. Every major outfit, every serious investigator has pointed out that this is a smear. This is classic Trump. We have four days left, and all of a sudden, there’s a laptop. And you may recall, there’s also talk about, four months before, there was a similar thing that somebody had, allegedly. There’s overwhelming evidence that — from the intelligence community that the Russians are engaged. I mean, look, this is — my son’s an honorable man. And all the investigations that were done around the issue of what was going on in Ukraine, if you noticed, every one of the major people who worked for Trump, during the impeachment, went under oath, and under oath said, [Joe] Biden did his job. No law was broken. ... Hunter Biden broke no laws."
Posted by: Fred || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And Uncle Joe is just as honorable.
Posted by: gorb || 11/02/2020 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The Biden family oozes honor.
Posted by: Thrairong Ebbusomp4597 || 11/02/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Apple, tree, negligible roll upon ground impact.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2020 3:03 Comments || Top||

#4  And Brutus is an honorable man.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 3:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Reminds me of the parents called to school over a "bad" child. MY CHILD IS PERFECT! IT'S ALL LIES!
Posted by: 3dc || 11/02/2020 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Lying senile sack of shit

You're comprised by Chinese intelligence and your son is a deranged sicko. After your other son died, he screwed his dead brother's widow - your daughter in law. Who accused him in text messages of hitting on your 14 year-old granddaughter . That would be his child-niece.

You and your "honorable" son don't deserve to walk the same earth as honorable men.

Go back to your basement and stop shitting on our country.
Posted by: Enver de Medici5413 || 11/02/2020 7:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Honorable men don't get kicked out of the Military for rendering themselves unfit with illegal drugs.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/02/2020 9:31 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Going to meetings was too stressful for Hunter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/02/2020 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Just what any [legit] company needs for their board of directors.

I still wanna know what want-ad Hunter answered to get that job. /sarc
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#10  [translation from the Chinese]
CEFC seeks American partner. Excellent pay. Minimal hours. Must bring strong connections with top officials . Business experience not required. Special consideration for those who know how to live large and enjoy life.
Posted by: Elmavirt Threash2349 || 11/02/2020 10:21 Comments || Top||

#11  I'll need Google translate for that and the Ukrainian translation.
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Guess if your hobby is feeling up 8 year olds, crack whoring is a step up.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/02/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#13  B idens
L apdogs or laptops
M atter
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/02/2020 16:43 Comments || Top||

#14  Every comment really misses the reason Joe is running. If he becomes prez, he will pardon his relatives and retire.. Then Piglosi will become VICE president.
Posted by: Lionel Train || 11/02/2020 18:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Maybe because every comment doesn't believe Joey will win.
Posted by: Clem || 11/02/2020 19:59 Comments || Top||

#16  "my son’s an honorable man."
Compared to you, Joe, he is.
HE does his job.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/02/2020 22:15 Comments || Top||


Government
‘Every City Is Preparing For It’: Here’s What Police Are Doing Ahead Of Possible Election Unrest
[DailyCaller]
  • Police departments are likely to collect intelligence on social media, cancel days off and prepare tactical response teams ahead of possible Election Day unrest.

  • A New York-based police union official likened the city’s level of preparedness to the days following 9/11 and said “This is not something to take lightly right now.”

  • Two union officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation that officers should apprehend instigators quickly in the event that riots break out as the election nears.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Oct. 24 told businesses within the boroughs to prepare for possible political violence, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 24. The department has reportedly been preparing for weeks to keep the city secure in the event of election-induced calamity.

Miami, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Orlando, Chicago and other major cities have also reported prepping for possible violence, according to Fox News.

Slocumb also indicated that law enforcement agencies can establish arrangements with surrounding departments, known as mutual aid, to establish contingency plans if more officers are needed to supplement a certain city’s police force. Those same authorities are likely to begin talks with local trauma centers and their respective fire departments, he said.

The union official, however, insisted that the department’s response is contingent on the “marching orders” given by Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Vallelong said previous decisions by de Blasio during earlier racial justice riots proved to be ineffective.

“I know what should be done, but it’s gonna be a matter of what are the marching orders that are going to be given from city hall when all of this happens,” he said. “We know from the past with watching what we saw — they let everybody run loose and pretty much destroy everything in the city.”

Vallelong also said the NYPD is struggling with a lack of officers, as the department experienced a 75% surge in retirements compared to 2019, according to Newsday.

Additionally, Yonkers, Westchester, and other New York agencies pledged to refuse to enter the city following a police reform bill that banned chokeholds and other methods of restraints, NBC New York reported.

“If it gets that bad and the NYPD can’t handle it, I don’t know of a bigger police department out there that could come and save them,” Vallelong said. “At that point you’re talking about the National Guard.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/02/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Resigning in droves?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/02/2020 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I recommend the Blue Flu. How's that confiscatory gun control working out for y'all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/02/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Thank G_d, pursuant to common law (as recognized in both federal and state laws), that the Sheriffs all across the USA only answer to the PEOPLE who elected them, and do not have to kowtow to any state official, including governors, and are coequal in authority with federal agencies — superseding the federal agencies in the areas of their (typically county) local jurisdiction. I hope they are all locked and loaded.

And, while I still think sharpshooters should be posted to quell insurrection and to protect life, a kinder and more effective approach would be to douse all these malcontents with generous portions of Israeli skunk water. See, e.g., Skunk Water: A Weapon That Uses Stench to Control Crowds
Posted by: cingold || 11/02/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  What if the mentally ill unwashed on antifa already smell like skunks?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/02/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ then they smell teen skunk spirit and move toward ze liqueur d'amour, per Pepe Le Peu
Posted by: Herman Darling of the French9333 || 11/02/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Those businesses boarding up are smart. If Trump wins it may save their business from rioting from the leftists. If Biden wins they can just leave it boarded up and go out of business permanently.
Posted by: Airandee || 11/02/2020 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Condolences to those who live in Democrat controlled cities.
Posted by: Whusosh Slomble1535 || 11/02/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||



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