[NationalReview] Once it was announced that President Trump had COVID-19, the media almost immediately talked of all the people in the "Trump orbit" who fell ill from COVID-19 — including many on his staff, U.S. senators, and at least three White House reporters.
The surreal subtext was not that the toxic Trump had been infected by someone else. Apparently reporters, in their Trump-obsessed universe, believed in some mysterious Aristotelian concept of spontaneous generation, by which his self-spawned coronavirus germs had sickened all within his deadly circuit. Or perhaps Trump was guilty of catching the germ from one of his staffers, who in turn would never have been sickened if they had never been close to Trump in the first place. The possibility that the White House "positive" reporters might have been careless at times or might’ve infected others was never entertained.
Within a few hours, the usual camps and suspects weighed in. Former Clinton and Obama staffer Zara Rahim prayed for Trump’s demise and celebrated his infection with a terse "I hope he dies." The Washington Post hastily took down an official Twitter feed automatically posting an op-ed column expressing a similar hope for a dead president: "Imagine what it will be like to never have to think about Trump again," on the realization that running such a headline while Trump was sick "rendered it tasteless"— as if it was not tasteless when he was well. Write that after swapping the name "Obama" for "Trump," and the FBI would have shown up at their doors.
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CEO and Owner Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs
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Mr. Hunt called a meeting with all of his Coaches, Players and field staff and firmly told them, "You are all simply paid performers on a stage and that field is my stage! You will stand, with your hand over your heart and with respect, when our Country's National Anthem is being played or you will no longer be a Kansas City Chief, a Coach for the Kansas City Chiefs or have any association with the Chiefs Organization! I will immediately fire you, no matter who you are! You can make your political statements off the field, but when you're employed by me and I'm signing your check, I demand that you make our fans proud and not embarrass them."
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The obvious thing that never seems to come up is these people are at work. Who else gets to initiate their working interaction with a political statement?
The Jiffy Lube guys or your accountant, bartender or waitress, not so much. I'm pretty sure they have strong feeling about a lot of things too.
Couple that with the glaring fact the athlete class has a cottage industry devoted their every move and moronic utterance on and off field and court.
#9
We are routinely told (with glee, by the usual suspects) that social media like Fartbork and Sh*ttah are free to censor any way they please because they are a private business. This is different exactly how? Hmmmm?
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Seems it's fake. Like most of Rense.com
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Too late. They showed their, as it were, true colors. Now I'd rather mow the grass with finger nail clippers than watch their strutting.
I decided a couple of years ago to start following your plan. Part of getting out of debt for me included paying off my car. I’m taking your advice, and saving up to pay cash for my next vehicle. I know you like mutual funds, so should I put the money I’m setting aside for that purchase in a mutual fund?
Corey
Dear Corey,
I’m glad to hear you’ve decided to get control of your money. Mutual funds are great for long-term investing, and by long-term investing I’m talking about a bare minimum of five years—preferably 10. But I wouldn’t recommend them as a way of saving up for a vehicle purchase. The problem with mutual funds, in the type of short-term scenario you’re talking about, is they can go up, or down, in value.
I’d suggest a simple savings or money market account when it comes to stashing the money you’re saving for a newer car. They don’t pay much in terms of interest, but your money will be safe, and you won’t have the ups and downs of the stock market to worry about.
Did you know the average monthly payment in America for a new car right now about $554 a month? It makes my head hurt to think about that much cash flying out the window every month on something that’s dropping in value like a rock. Even if you just stashed that kind of money in a shoebox you’d have over $6,600 saved in just a year. And despite what some people say, that’s enough to buy a dependable, pre-owned car.
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Obviously nothing wrong with sound financial management, but lending rates for new cars are often quite favorable. 0.0% is a thing, and at that rate you are better off financing.
#2
Only if you can get it, for some reason, despite my excellent credit, I never seems to get that zero interest rate, it's almost always 4% or higher and if you're even a day or so late with your payment, the interest automatically goes to 21 or 26% (whatever your state maximum rate is).
#3
I paid cash for a new car two years ago. The dealer did not want it. Wanted me to get a loan and pay it off. After paying for the car he said he could not give me the .37 cent change. I ended up taking a dollar back and made him run the .67 cents on a credit card. Two months after the purchase I was notified by the IRS and they looked into the sale. The USG and car dealer certainly dont want cash sales.
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You can pay for a car in full without actually giving the dealer cash. If you have a credit card with a high enough limit, use that and then pay the card off. That's better for your credit anyway. Or, write a check for the final amount and let the bank know ahead of time what is going on. A dealership can clear that check electronically on the spot with depositing it.
Paying for something and using a large sum of cash is only inviting unwanted prying into your personal business by entities whose attention you probably don't want.
#5
#4 Wow, good information. Best to keep a low profile these days. They want a cashless society. In China an American jaywalked so in about 20 minuets he gets a text his bank account had been charged for his jaywalking. In the world of Obama you didn't earn that money anyway.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many older Americans have turned away from President Donald Trump this year as the coronavirus ravages the country, eroding an important Republican support base that helped propel him into the White House in 2016, Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows.
Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden now split American voters aged 55 years and older almost evenly: 47% say they are voting for Biden on Nov. 3 while 46% back Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos national surveys in September and October.
That could be an alarming sign for the president, who trails Biden with 25 days to go before the election.
Republicans have relied on the support of older Americans in national elections for years, routinely benefiting from a demographic that consistently shows up in force on Election Day.
Trump won the 55-plus age group by 13 percentage points in 2016, according to exit polls. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, achieved the same margin.
Reuters/Ipsos state polls also show Biden outperforming Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, among older voters in a handful of battleground states, where seniors make up an outsized proportion of the electorate.
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Trump/Pense needs to make commercials showing who the virus has hit NY far harder than anywhere else. Add video of Cuomo saying Trump gave him everything they needed. Then some bits about the nursing home disaster and Cuomo trying to blame Trump for the Virus when heat came on.
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More bullshit.
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#5 Trump/Pense needs to make commercials showing who the virus has hit NY far harder than anywhere else. Add video of Cuomo saying Trump gave him everything they needed. Then some bits about the nursing home disaster and Cuomo trying to blame Trump for the Virus when heat came on
Yep.
I made the same point in a more general way in one of the Pence debate threads from yesterday.
Never assume that "everybody just knows" what the Dems have been doing.
Make the point about they were doing, repeat it and reinforce it.
#13
Today's journalism is promotion of events they manufacture that you are supposed to accept. Tomorrow something else because stories like these disappear quickly. Truth has staying power. Lies disappear quickly.
Big news today: Many Americans
In Vegas just blew their inheritance
Or fell off a ladder
Or yelled "Black lives matter!"
Or dallied with lovely librarians.
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[Daily Beast] Fox News Media announced Thursday that Trump campaign adviser Harlan Z. Hill, a self-described Washington public relations and political consultant, is no longer welcome on their air after he tweeted that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris "comes off as an insufferable lying bitch."
"We have no intention of booking him as a guest on any of our platforms," a Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement to The Daily Beast, the morning after Hill—a frequent Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network guest over the past five years—unleashed his misogynistic attack on the Black California senator during her debate with Vice President Mike Pence.
Hill’s tweet—which was on-brand with President Donald Trump’s repeated claim on Thursday morning to Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo that Harris is "a monster"—provoked immediate condemnation along with around 6,000 retweets and 6,300 likes from Trump partisans.
It also received sharp responses from, among others, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson and former paid contributor Julie Roginsky—both of whom sued the channel claiming sexual harassment and discrimination and received monetary settlements.
Carlson—whose July 2016 sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit resulted in the ouster of Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and won her a $20 million settlement—tweeted "Uhhh...THIS" over Roginsky’s comment: "To be clear: Fox News jettisons women who do nothing more than speak up about being sexually harassed but promote men who call women ’bitches.’ But please, Fox PR: tell us again about how the culture has changed for the better over there."
[PJ] California’s state legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery.
Apparently, when California’s one-party government cannot find solutions to current existential crises, it turns to divisive issues that have little to do with the safety and well-being of its 40 million citizens.
California has the highest gas taxes in the nation, even as its ossified state highways remain clogged and dangerous. Why, then, does Sacramento kept pouring billions of dollars into the now-calcified high-speed rail project?
When fires raged, killed dozens, polluted the air for months, consumed thousands of structures and scorched 4 million acres of forest, in response the governor thundered about global warming. But Newsom was mostly mute about state and federal green polices that discouraged the removal of millions of dead and drought-stricken trees, which provided the kindling for the infernos.
When gasoline, sales and income taxes rose, and yet state schools became even worse, infrastructure remained decrepit and deficits grew, California demanded that federal COVID-19 money bail out its own financial mismanagement.
In a time of pandemic, mass quarantine, self-induced recession, riot, arson and looting, the California way is to borrow money to spend on something that will not address why residents can’t find a job, can’t rely on their power grid, can’t drive safely, can’t breathe the air, can’t ensure a high-quality education for their children, and can’t walk the streets of the state’s major cities without fear of being assaulted or stepping in excrement.
So it is a poor time to discuss reparations, even if there were good reasons to borrow to pay out such compensation. But in fact there are none.
[Breitbart] Chris Wallace, who came under fire after moderating a contentious debate between President Trump and Joe Biden (D), appeared to favor the Commission on Presidential Debate’s decision to move October 15’s in-person debate to an online forum, calling it a "perfectly reasonable idea."
"I know he says that he’s cured. I know he says that he doesn’t have COVID anymore, but, the White House has not told us that he is negative," Wallace told The Brian Kilmeade Show. "All the scientists say that it is 14 days, which would be within the window of next Thursday’s debate."
On Thursday morning, the commission announced its intention to nix the in-person debate, opting for a virtual forum.
"The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which the candidates would participate from separate remote locations," the commission said.
"The town meeting participants and the moderator, Steve Scully, Senior Executive Producer & Political Editor, C-SPAN Networks, will be located at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami, Florida," the commission added.
Trump immediately rejected the commission’s plan to nix the debate.
[Free Beacon] New polling shows that affirmative action is unpopular among California voters, even as California Democrats move to reinstate the practice at public universities.
A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California shows 47 percent of California voters plan to vote against Proposition 16, a ballot measure that would repeal the state's ban on racial preferences in public institutions. Just 31 percent of voters say they support the measure, and 22 percent are undecided. Prop 16 has nonetheless garnered approval from powerful left-leaning stakeholders, including the University of California system, which voted unanimously to endorse the ballot measure in June. The UC's board of regents said its endorsement was part of the "amazing momentum for righting the wrongs caused by centuries of systemic racism in our country."
Vice-presidential candidate and former California attorney general Kamala Harris is another big-name proponent of Prop 16, despite its unpopularity in her own state. Before she became a U.S. senator, Harris filed legal briefs in favor of race-based admissions at both the University of Texas and the University of Michigan. The UC system—the top lobbying force behind Prop 16—was the top donor to her 2020 presidential bid.
Likewise, Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Karen Bass (D., Calif.), former Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Tom Steyer, and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti (D.) have all endorsed the measure. So have a slew of teachers' unions and a Los Angeles Unified School District board member, who represents the second-largest public school district in the country.
"Separate but Equal" was a buzzword used to spin South Africa's white only voting... Sounds familiar here just different forms of state discrimination.
#2
I guess all those Donks admit that one or two communities are actually inferior and can not compete in world along the rest of the population. Doesn't that make them the actual proponents of 'white supremacy'?
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.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many older Americans have turned away from President Donald Trump this year as the coronavirus ravages the country, eroding an important Republican support base that helped propel him into the White House in 2016, Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows.
[Daily Beast] Fox News Media announced Thursday that Trump campaign adviser Harlan Z. Hill, a self-described Washington public relations and political consultant, is no longer welcome on their air after he tweeted that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris "comes off as an insufferable lying bitch."
[PJ] California’s state legislature just passed, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed, Assembly Bill 3121 to explore providing reparations to California’s African American population — 155 years after the abolition of slavery.
[Free Beacon] New polling shows that affirmative action is unpopular among California voters, even as California Democrats move to reinstate the practice at public universities.
