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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sean Hannity: Cuomo's coronavirus failure – the real reason for New York's ventilator shortage
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Britain
UK PM Johnson admitted to hospital with persistent coronavirus symptoms
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2020 17:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not that anybody looks good when they are ill, but PM Johnson looked a bit rough in his social media video the other day. Hang in there, Boris, and get well soon!
Posted by: Clem || 04/05/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Bush Foundation Sent 2 Million Masks To China Despite Domestic Shortages
[National Pulse] In partnership with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the U.S.-China Business Council, the foundation “sourced” the sizable donation. American companies Chubb and Walmart also contributed, and FedEx comped shipping fees.
Graphic at right - Henry Kissinger is flanked by Deng Xiaoping, right, and Qiao Guanhua in 1974.
Meanwhile, China’s reaction to the onset of the pandemic was to poach vast quantities of medical supplies from other countries.

A company insider at the Chinese Communist Party affiliated developer Greenland Group exposed the operation: “Basically all employees, the majority of whom are Chinese, were asked to source whatever medical supplies they could” including “bulk supplies of surgical masks, thermometers, antibacterial wipes, hand sanitizers, gloves and Panadol.”

And that’s coming from the same regime that insists on“global cooperation” to combat the pandemic it caused.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2020 07:45 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank you box stores and FedEx. Nothing new here, nothing likely to change.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#2  China makes everything. Who in hell thought this was q good idea in the first place? That is, to give away our wealth to China? Why couldn't they make their own medical masks, supplies, ventilators and other such things? Now there is a shortage of these things here.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Battered spouse brings batterer a beer. "Anything else, Daddy?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Globalism writ large
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  So they could sell them back to us?
Posted by: gorb || 04/05/2020 22:23 Comments || Top||


De Blasio: I told the Pentagon "a week ago" to give me "1,000 nurses, 150 doctors, 300 respiratory therapists" and "I'm still waiting"
[Twitter] HT: AoS
Listening to the audio, he may have said [he'd] "...have asked the President and The Pentagon over a week ago...", but y'all be the judge.

In any case, I've yet to see Mr. Wilhelm demonstrate an appreciation for how a "federation of states" works. Maybe that's "Prog" thing.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shouldn't his request have gone to Cuomo first?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/05/2020 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Delusions of grandeur via Mayor Putz
Posted by: Lex || 04/05/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#3  He sounds like the Federal Government simply keeps nurses, doctors, and therarsit stored in a warehouse somewhere. Stacked like cordwood to be used only in case of an emergency.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/05/2020 0:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the president did, he send the hospital ship USNS Comfort to NYC. Last I heard, the ship only has 20 patents.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 04/05/2020 1:11 Comments || Top||

#5  This fucking idiot called the General helpline and said this and hung up.
Posted by: newc || 04/05/2020 2:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Get rid of this democrat shit if you prefer something real, whatever you are.
Posted by: newc || 04/05/2020 2:01 Comments || Top||

#7  I repeatedly told Bibi to give me a million Swiss Franks, I'm still waiting.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2020 3:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I know where he can get some blow-up nurses, but they're probably used.
Posted by: gorb || 04/05/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#9  ^😂
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2020 4:22 Comments || Top||

#10  :Heh: People always want more than they need when someone else pays the bills.
Posted by: magpie || 04/05/2020 7:42 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe De Blasio should work with Governor Cuomo to get these things. As Trump said, it is not up to the federal government to supply all these things. There is too much reliance on the Feds for everything.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

#12  #8 - Now you're in Skidmark Territory™
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Ref #8:I know where he can get some blow-up nurses, but they're probably used.
Posted by gorb


Shortness of breath? Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Surprised Billy Boy didn't place a call to his Cuban of Venezuelan friends. Or, maybe he did!
Posted by: Clem || 04/05/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#15  Should have thought of that before telling everyone to just go out and party a month and a half ago.

Now shut the fuck up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2020 9:27 Comments || Top||

#16  And going to the gym.
Posted by: Clem || 04/05/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#17  DeBlasio on March 10:

"Sure. We - look. We are - we have the biggest public health capacity of any city in America, and we have been employing it now for weeks and weeks in anticipation of this. I am very, very concerned, like every other mayor in America, but I do want to put in perspectives - you know, as of now, 36 cases against the backdrop of a city of 8.6 million people. So we do expect a substantial increase in number of cases, but we also know that this is a disease that - for the vast majority of people who get it, it will have a minor impact on them."

Link.
Posted by: Matt || 04/05/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#18  So Hizzoner was trying to control the panic, and he probably got hammered for trying to be calm and rational, so he set his hair on fire.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/05/2020 12:10 Comments || Top||

#19  Was he wearing his General’s uniform covered in self awarded medals when he called the Pentagon?
Posted by: Airandee || 04/05/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#20  ^Not Field-marshal's?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/05/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#21 
'Send Nudes' didn't work for the good chaps in the trenches, what makes him think he's special ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/05/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#22  Warren Wilhelm (real birth name) has been a fake, fraud, commie POS all his life. He Peter-Principaled into the Mayor spot and has proven his lack of worth
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2020 17:00 Comments || Top||

#23  Seems the 'models' are starting to fall down. From the link:

In New York, the IMHE model predicted that as of yesterday, 50,962 people would have been hospitalized as of yesterday due to the Coronavirus. The actual number? 18,368.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/05/2020 17:02 Comments || Top||

#24  You know buttercup, /YOU/ don't tell the Pentagon anything. You tell either the governor or your disaster preparedness officer liaison.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/05/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||


#26  Now you're in Skidmark Territory

Yep! I'll go wash my brain out with soap and self- quarantine for a couple weeks.
Posted by: gorb || 04/05/2020 22:21 Comments || Top||


Did Radical Democrat Ilhan Omar Just Celebrate The Coronavirus's Deadly Impact On America?
Response to this from a few days ago.
[DCWhispers] The junior congresswoman’s "Praise Allah!" response to the news that America faces some very difficult days ahead as the coronavirus continues to work its way through the population has gone viral via social media.

It appears Ilhan Omar has recently deleted the tweet after she was strongly challenged by others, including some fellow Muslims, who were offended/concerned she would say such a thing.

Her tweet and one of those challenges are included below:



Per Ms. Omar, in "explaining" the tweet: "islamophobes, this is the same as "good god". [sic].

Per Learn Religions: Subhan Allah‐can be translated to mean, among other things, both "God is perfect" and "Glory to God."

Per LEXICO: "Among Muslims: ’(all) praise be to God’. Also used as a general expression of praise, gratitude, or relief. "

Per yahoo.com: "Subhan'Allah (Arabic سبحان الله) is an Arabic phrase often translated as "Glorious is God."

You be the judge.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  that thing
Posted by: newc || 04/05/2020 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  There's that Taqiya/Kitman thing too. Why elect someone who cannot be believed for any word of truth?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||


Biden Flip-Flops, Now Supports Trump's China Travel Ban He Once Called 'Hysterical Xenophobia'
[PJMEDIA] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
, in what can only be called a stunning flip-flop, now supports President Trump's travel ban with China, which was imposed on January 31.

"Joe Biden supports travel bans that are guided by medical experts, advocated by public health officials, and backed by a full strategy," Kate Bedingfield, Biden's deputy campaign manager, told CNN. "Science supported this ban, therefore he did too."

But Joe Biden did not support Trump's travel ban with China. His record is quite clear on this. In an op-ed in USA Today, Biden decried "reactionary travel bans," just a few days before the China travel ban was implemented. Biden advisor Ron Klain said the idea of a travel ban was "premature."

When the travel ban was implemented, Biden criticized the move during a campaign rally. "In moments like this, this is where the credibility of a president is most needed, as he explains what we should and should not do," he said. "This is no time for Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s record of hysteria and xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, to uh, and fearmongering."

Posted by: Fred || 04/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shitshow Joe
Posted by: Lex || 04/05/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope Biden's handlers get masks, gloves, and cattle prods
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 04/05/2020 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Every day his RAM resets
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  He's a place holder who will very likely have to be carried across the finish line. Soetoro's initial reluctance to endorse Biden was telling.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 7:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Labels such as "Xenophobia" or any other phobia and "ist." are political tools used by the left to demonize anyone who disagrees with then, they don't like or threatens their power. They have "darker" tools, as well, if the PC crap doesn't work.

I don't think Biden is going to be the candidate. I think the Dems will spring someone else on the Party when the time comes--probably at convention time.

A Trump victory in the fall.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Lex, "Shitshow Joe" has a poetic ring to it. LOL
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  We suffer from two viruses in this country: 1. COVID-19 and 2. The Deepstate Virus which has been ongoing probably from at the least after WWII and maybe longer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 8:29 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Is it too early to suggest the two viruses are connected ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#9  200 news cycles short and 3 months too late.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Every day his RAM resets

But the parity error resurfaces almost immediately.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2020 10:15 Comments || Top||


Former Secret Service Agent for Barack Obama Spills Some Major Secrets
25 minute video on the Facebook page of Ryan Fournier, Co-Chair and Founder of Students for Trump.
Former Secret Service Agent for Barack Obama Spills Some Major Secrets by laying out detailed accounts about how Obama tried to spy on Trump and how Trump eventually tricked him!
Discussed here ad infinitum for at least 3 years. Dan provides an effective overview.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sane people deleted facebook a while back. This video is not accessible.
Posted by: Chitle Thromose5239 || 04/05/2020 4:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ^So true.
Posted by: Albemarle Bourbon4037 || 04/05/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  I didn't delete FB, but I just stopped using FB. I might delete in the future altogether.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Any company that refers me to their Facebook page is a company I won't deal with. " He has a hob setting on his shoulder saying , " Breathe in , Breath out."
Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 || 04/05/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  No Facebook for me. Not now, not ever.
Posted by: Clem || 04/05/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Hope somebody writes this down for those of us who refuse to use Facebull .
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/05/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||

#7  I can't seem to load Facebook on my AOL. Is there a trick to it?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/05/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#8  When it comes to Baraq's secrets, I think it's safe to assume the worst.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/05/2020 15:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Firefox no problems. I read Don nearly every day. I am all over the world with FB contacts.
Posted by: Dale || 04/05/2020 15:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Me too on FB. Privacy settings, people
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2020 16:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Fantastic summation! Someone should post this for Sunday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfMab4K-5g
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/05/2020 21:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Secret service is supposed to be silent. This type of stuff, if he's real, just further degrades their reputation. I bet a lot of folks are pissed.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/05/2020 22:57 Comments || Top||


Government
Top US watchdog vows 'aggressive' oversight of Trump administration after intel firing
This will persuade all those deplorables that there’s no such thing as a Deep State for sure.
[AlAhram] The top U.S. federal watchdog vowed on Saturday to continue to conduct "aggressive" independent oversight of government agencies, after President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
fired the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community late Friday night.

Michael Horowitz, chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE), an independent agency in the executive branch and the inspector general at the Department of Justice, said in a statement that Michael Atkinson was known for his "integrity, professionalism, and commitment to the rule of law and independent oversight."
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Posted by: trailing wife || 04/05/2020 01:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He’s decapitating the leadership of the intelligence community in the middle of a national crisis," he said. "It’s unconscionable, and of course it sends a message throughout the federal government and particular to other inspectors general."

Precisely what needs to be done. Was it not our own intelligence community that attempted to "decapitate" the Orange Man ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Michael Horowitz, ... said in a statement that Michael Atkinson was known for his "integrity, professionalism, and commitment to the rule of law and independent oversight."

It was Horowitz's report that criticized Atkinson and placed the noose around his neck. Hypocrite.

BTW, Atkinson's wife is linked to Mary Jacoby (wife of Fusion Glenn Simpson). So much inbreeding in Washington.
Posted by: Shock Ominese5736 || 04/05/2020 3:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Inspector General's have a "community"? So they are like they IRS?
Posted by: Beau || 04/05/2020 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  What else is new?
Posted by: SR-71 || 04/05/2020 5:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The only time Dem jackasses pretend to be concerned about how Federal dollars are spent is when it's done by Republicans.
Posted by: Raj || 04/05/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Yes, a valid observation which is consistently proven true.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/05/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Trump did the right thing in dumping Atkinson. Atkinson has never been forthcoming. We've never seen his deposition or testimony behind closed doors in the Schiff Show. We have never heard who the two whistleblowers were in that ginned-up lynching of Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/05/2020 8:12 Comments || Top||

#8  He may well have some or all of those lofty qualities. What he apparently lacks is any spectrum of judgement considering the entire situation came down to the president having done nothing illegal or in any way beyond his authority. The entire dilemma distills down to it wasn't what they might have done. That is a waste of time, money, and effort.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/05/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#9  The demoncrats are going to impeach Trump again anyway. He might as well fully clean house.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/05/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||

#10  After all, if he is "aggressively" watching Trump, it leaves the IC "community" free to play fast and loose, eh?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/05/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#11  IIRC, Atkinson is the one who accepted a 'whistleblower' report based entirely on hearsay. Good riddance.
Posted by: Nero || 04/05/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#12  ^ He changed the criteria to allow the hearsay evidence
Posted by: Frank G || 04/05/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  He changed the criteria to allow the hearsay evidence

That right there is the key to the whole mess.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/05/2020 14:30 Comments || Top||

#14  He changed the criteria to allow the hearsay evidence

That right there is sufficient cause for his dismissal.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/05/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

#15  So now they want to be aggressive. The eight years prior to Trump were laid back time? Gee, wonder why.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/05/2020 15:32 Comments || Top||



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