[DailyWire] Kellyanne Conway Presses CBS Reporter At Center Of Kung Flu Controversy For Details. Reporter Refuses To Answer.
Senior White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway pressed CBSBS News reporter Weijia Jiang on Wednesday for details about a claim the reporter made earlier this week that has since generated media-driven controversy.
Jiang, who is a self-described "Chinese born West Virginian," tweeted on Tuesday, "This morning a White House official referred to #Coronavirus as the Kung-Flu to my face. Makes me wonder what they're calling it behind my back." That would be "squirrel bait" honey.
The claim, which Jiang has provided no evidence to substantiate, has generated controversy fluffed up by the media.
Kellyanne Conway on the rumor that a White House Official called Coronavirus, Kung Flu: "Tell us all who it is." pic.twitter.com/wJth3RAlZM
TPUSA Chief Creative Officer Benny Johnson tweeted: "Name this person. Otherwise, you are a liar. You are using a moment when people are suffering to score cheap political points. You are the reason people hate the media."
[Wash Free Beacon] Embattled California Democrat Rep. T.J. Cox loaned his campaign more than $250,000 even as he failed to pay $175,000 in back taxes. No mercy
Weeks after the IRS filed liens against Cox in January showing $145,000 in unpaid federal income taxes for 2016 and 2017, the state of California hit the Democrat with a new lien listing an additional $30,000 in unpaid 2017 personal income tax. Even as he failed to pay his taxes in full, Cox loaned his campaign more than $250,000 from July 2017 to March 2018 while mounting his bid to oust former California Republican representative David Valadao.
Cox will again face Valadao in 2020 after defeating the then-incumbent by less than 1 point. Republicans are hopeful they can win the district back in November, pointing to Valadao's success in California's open primary, which advances the two candidates with the most votes to the general election regardless of party. Valadao received 53 percent of the vote to Cox's 36 percent in early March.
The Cox campaign did not respond to a request for comment. Oh, reeeaaally?
In addition to the January and March liens filed against Cox, the Democrat in 2017 paid $48,000 in unpaid income taxes dating back to 2015. Cox blamed the previous lien on the IRS.
"I have lived through basically bureaucratic incompetence," he said. "My check was stuck on the back of somebody else's payment."
Cox has also faced multiple liens against his businesses and was subject to a December lawsuit alleging fraud and failure to pay back $150,000 in loans. He dismissed the suit as "politically motivated."
Cox voted last week to block the Members of Congress Tax Liability and Garnishment Accountability Act of 2020, which would require members of Congress to report back taxes in their financial disclosures, garnish their wages to repay the debt, and hold their pay in escrow until liens are fulfilled. Following Cox's vote, the Valadao campaign accused the Democrat of "using his vote in Congress to protect himself."
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Nothing to see here. Move along now...
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Just a sec. If he was elected, why doesn't he have the money - why get elected otherwise?
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In case you're curious, I estimate his approximate yearly earnings at $265,000 if he's single and incurring self-employment tax (Schedule C or guaranteed payments from a partnership) and paid in nothing via estimated tax payments and / or withholding from wages. If it's income not subject to self-employment, jack that income number up to $282,000. If he's married, the numbers are $327,000 and $350,000, respectively.
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Shit - I used the wrong (2019) tax tables for the above numbers, and those two years of Cox's income can be dropped by about $5,000 or so in each case.
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"I have lived through basically bureaucratic incompetence," he said. "My check was stuck on the back of somebody else's payment."
How did your payment, presumably sent in an envelope to the Fresno, CA IRS campus, miraculously get 'stuck' to someone else's payment? Did you jizz on it first so it got sticky? What a putz. Use EFTPS next time!
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Frank G - back in December, I put together this monster Excel spreadsheet (297 KB in size, all formulas, input sheets and worksheets that do the number crunching for this and that particular number) that basically calculates a 1040 tax return and its Mass. state equivalent. It's fairly accurate to incomes of about 400K; the only thing screwing me up are bugs I have with calculating two of the add-on Federal taxes - the Net Investment Income Tax and the Additional Medicare Tax, and those aren't terribly far off. After two weeks of testing and tweaking, I matched that spreadsheet to the tax software I use for 2019 - Federal income tax was off by a single dollar, and I found that bug after a few minutes of hunting and wrapping a few Excel statements with a =Rounddown(x,y) statement. Being a former software engineer geek, I was asking myself why I never attempted this before because once you have the basic plumbing installed, all that's needed is update the tax (and some other) tables, and incorporate some tweaks, so now I can do accurate estimates on the fly from a jump drive.
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LOL, and all along these years, I assumed Raj meant you were Indian (dot) background!
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Raj was a silly high school nickname, the long version of which was Raj Kareem Abdul Hassan. You're probably a Lakers fan - you'll get that part, and that son of a bitch killed my Boston Celtics back in the '80's, so that shit was ironic in the extreme! My high school buddy Jim Beaupralant (in my German class) and I were goofing on Arabs back then, and he hung that one on me, sort of. I'm cool with it.
[DailyWire] Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum grilled Biden adviser Symone Sanders on Wednesday night for falsely claiming that referring to the coronavirus by a name that signifies that it came from China is a “racial slur.”
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#2 Wrong. To the left everything is about power. Since an average American is pretty decent - believes in fairness and prone to guilt feelings, the race card was a strong one. Therefore it got used a lot - until the beneficiaries of the racial preferences overdone it.
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I contributed to Trump's numbers in Texas (March 3rd) , as a 'vote of confidence', but he was not uncontested. IIRC, there were 6-8 running against him on the Trunk ticket. Never heard of any of 'em.
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California Libertarian ballot doesn't allow you to vote for GOP so voted for Trump as a write-in.
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I be she's watching liberal governers flirt with authoritarianism and cries herself to sleep thinking if she'd only tried for Governor she could have had total power right now.
[BREITBART] The Idaho Senate voted Monday to approve the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act (HB 500a), which would ban biological males who identify as female from competing on girls’ and women’s athletic teams.
The bill passed the State Senate, 24-11, after being approved by the House in February, 52-17. The House must approve a Senate amendment to the bill prior to sending it to the desk of Gov. Brad Little (R) for his signature.
The State Senate approval means Idaho could become the first state in the nation to protect girls’ and women’s sports from an ideology that makes gender identity subservient to biological science.
Left-wing LGBT activists and their media allies are attempting to shame members of the Idaho legislature who voted to protect girls’ and women’s sports as the coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic continues.
"This is downright shameful," tweeted GLSEN, which pushes LGBT sexual relationships and gender ideology in state-mandated comprehensive sex ed curricula and in public school districts.
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#4 That's the biggest bull I've heard today, Skid.
Male teachers been driven out of their profession - which is a lot harder than you can imagine - by accusations of sexual misconduct "all men are rapists".
As a result, STEM subjects are taught by female teachers who are no more competent on these subjects than I would be in breastfeeding.
My views are based on having taught in University, College, and high-school in Israel (and I imagine the situation in USA is a 100 times worse).
That's the reason that the bulk of Millennials are, basically, animals who been taught not to shit on the carpet.
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WOW! Aren't you special. Male teachers been driven out of their profession - and found other jobs.
Sorry you hate your profession and your skills aren't portable.
[BREITBART] Left-wing challenger Marie Newman defeated incumbent Democrat Rep. Dan Lipinski in the primary for Illinois’ third congressional district on Tuesday.
Newman, who fell short of unseating Lipinski in 2018, was backed by pro-choice and "progressive" forces eager to take down the moderate Lipinski, who compiled a pro-life, pro-Israel, and pro-market record over the last fifteen years representing the southwest side of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... and nearby suburbs.
In 2010, Lipinski was one of several dozen Democrats to oppose Obamacare ...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... , doing so against tremendous pressure from the leadership of his party.
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Rep. Dan Lipinski could probably do a Romney/Bloomberg and 'identify' as a Trunk.
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Third District is near-southwest side of Chicago (Oak Lawn, Bollingbrook, Orland Park). Can't imagine that the average folks living there would vote in this POS, but then the 'Squad' types are really good at masking their true intentions and have massive turn-out-the vote mechanisms.
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[NYPOST] 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... beat Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... by nearly 39 points in the Democratic primary in Florida. That’s bad if you’re Bernie.
What’s even worse is this: Michael Nanny Mike Bloomberg ...former Republican mayor of New York. He tried to take the credit for Rudy Giuliani's actions in the wake of the 9-11 attacks. He was known as Nanny Bloomberg for his war on 32-ounce Slurpees. Nanny was a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination in 2020. He was born on Valentine's day, 1942, which makes him 78.01364 years old, which is pretty ripe. Mike has lots of money, some of which he spends on grass roots organizations pushing for common sense gun laws along the same lines as his common sense Slurpee regulations.... , who’s been out of the race for two weeks, got more votes in Florida than Sanders received in aggregate in New Hampshire, Iowa and Nevada ‐ the first three states on the Democratic primary calendar and the places that suggested Sanders might be romping his way to his party’s nomination.
But wait, there’s more, if you would like to take a moment to dance either a merengue or a hora on Bernie Sanders’ chances.
And I would.
Olé!
And l’chaim!
Everybody knew Bernie was going to lose Florida, since he seemed determined to speak in positive terms about Fidel Castro, the totalitarian monster who drove a million Cubans into the sea and toward the Sunshine State.
Then there was his insistence on trash-talking Israel and its democratic leadership while surrounding himself with openly anti-Semitic surrogates and staffers, which would tend to be a turnoff for Florida’s 600,000 Jews.
But the advent of the coronavirus ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... raised questions about whether Bernie might overperform his expectations in Florida because it might radically decrease turnout among Joe Biden’s most dedicated voters. In demographic terms, it’s the older the better when it comes to Biden, and of course it’s the older the worse when it comes to the virus.
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[Arutz 7] - Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz has agreed to a unity government in which Binyamin Netanyahu will serve as prime minister first.
Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi reportedly supports the compromise, but fellow party leaders Yair Lapid and Moshe Ya'alon are opposed to any deal which would allow Netanyahu to remain in office. The dispute could lead to the breakup of the Blue and White party. Hope raises eternal
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Wash Free Beacon] Embattled California Democrat Rep. T.J. Cox loaned his campaign more than $250,000 even as he failed to pay $175,000 in back taxes.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
...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...
