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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 28, 2020 9:03:45 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 28, 2020 9:13:38 GMT -6
Showing more & more why their protections need to be eliminated:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 28, 2020 14:08:50 GMT -6
More leftist censorship of doctors admitting President Trump was correct:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2020 6:33:31 GMT -6
www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-implementation-president-trumps-executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ On Monday, the Department of Commerce, as directed by President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship, filed a petition to clarify the scope of Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The petition requests that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) clarify that Section 230 does not permit social media companies that alter or editorialize users’ speech to escape civil liability. The petition also requests that the FCC clarify when an online platform curates content in “good faith,” and requests transparency requirements on their moderation practices, similar to requirements imposed on broadband service providers under Title I of the Communications Act. President Trump will continue to fight back against unfair, un-American, and politically biased censorship of Americans online.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2020 8:57:12 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/07/30/trump-kate-brown-portland-oregon-protest/Trump Tells Oregon Gov. Kate Brown To Clear Out Protesters Or He ‘Will Do It For Her’ President Donald Trump criticized Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday, telling her to clear protesters out of Portland or the federal government would “do it for her.” Trump’s tweet came one day after the Trump administration reached an agreement with Brown to proceed with a phased withdrawal of federal agents from downtown Portland. Trump had earlier said the agents would stay in the city until it is “secure.” Brown had initially contradicted the Trump administration on the timeline of the withdrawal, saying federal ICE and CBP agents would be leaving on Thursday. She then corrected herself and announced the phased withdrawal. Trump and Brown’s agreement came one day after Attorney General Bill Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to defend the Trump administration’s handling of the protests and riots occurring across the country, including those in Portland. Democratic representatives lambasted Barr for the actions of roughly 200 federal agents deployed to defend the federal courthouse in Portland, saying they used unnecessary force against “peaceful protesters.” Barr pointed to several pieces of evidence showing the demonstrators were not peaceful and had in fact blinded several officers and attempted to burn down the courthouse.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 30, 2020 9:15:25 GMT -6
Right on cue, the President causes the left to melt down: www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-suggests-election-delay-over-vote-mail-fraudTrump Sparks Firestorm With Suggestion To Delay Elections 'Until Vote Can Be Safe' President Trump fired off a Thursday tweet that's about to dominate the weekend news cycle - suggesting that the 2020 election could be postponed over concerns that mail-in ballots will lead to "the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," adding "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???" Trump's tweet ignited a firestorm from the left: Both CNN's Manu Raju and Business Insider went with the very editorialized "baseless" to describe voter fraud, despite a plethora of evidence it's indeed based (see below).And of course, this is also a giant distraction: This plays into an April warning by former VP Joe Biden, who said "Mark my words I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can’t be held." "We have to figure out how we are going to conduct a full and fair and safe election in November and no one should have to risk their lives to cast a ballot," Biden added. The Trump campaign's 'War Room' account replied to the president's tweet with a report that "68% of Voters Are Concerned About The Security of Mail-In Ballots." A poll in late June by The Hill - HarrisX found that 68% of registered voters were either 'somewhat or very concerned about the possibility of tampering with mail-in ballots.' Republicans are much more likely to be worried about it, which is likely a reflection of President Trump's rhetoric on the issue. Trump has repeatedly warned, without providing evidence, that mail-in balloting is subject to fraud.
Eighty percent of Republicans in the survey said they were somewhat or very concerned with tampering with mail-in ballots, compared to 68 percent of independents and 56 percent of Democratic voters.
Fifty-eight percent said they were worried about the privacy of their vote if they voted by mail, including 70 percent of Republicans, 53 percent of independents and 51 percent of Democrats.
But voters overall were more concerned about being exposed to the coronavirus when voting in person. -The Hillthehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/505210-poll-68-percent-of-voters-concerned-with-vote-tampering-issuesIn May, Trump tweeted that mail-in ballots would lead to the "greatest Rigged Election in history." Concerns about mail-in voting and fraud aren’t new.
A bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker declared, “Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.”
In the 2018 midterms, a congressional election in North Carolina was overturned and had to be re-held because an unscrupulous Republican operative was using mail-in ballots to scam the system.
And the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) just released data that more than 28 million ballots by mail went unaccounted for from 2012 to 2018, with more than one million going to the incorrect address in 2018 alone.
“Absentee ballot fraud is the most common, the most expensive to investigate, and it can never be reversed after an election,” said the organization’s president J. Christian Adams.
“The status quo was already bad for mail balloting. The proposed emergency fix is worse.”
More recently, “in a Supreme Court contest in Wisconsin in April, about 1,600 ballots were discovered the morning after Election Day in a mail processing facility in Chicago — 1,600 voters whose ballots did not count,” The Hill reports. “Hundreds more who applied for absentee ballots did not receive them in time, according to a report by the state Board of Elections.”
And literally the same day President Trump tweeted that mail-in ballots “would be forged,” the Department of Justice announced a mail carrier in West Virginia was being charged with attempted election fraud by committing forgery on mail-in ballots.
* * * Of course it should be noted that the executive branch doesn't have the authority to change the date of presidential elections - rather, it would be in hands of Congress to decide such a drastic measure.
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Post by Only 90 more days on Jul 31, 2020 8:11:34 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2020 8:40:46 GMT -6
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Post by 90 more days on Jul 31, 2020 8:45:33 GMT -6
Trump has fucking ruined this country, the economy is shot and he botched the whole Covid pandemic. He's an incompetent fuckup and a racist pig.
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Post by Only 90 more days on Jul 31, 2020 8:53:10 GMT -6
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Post by 90 more days on Jul 31, 2020 9:19:00 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2020 9:32:40 GMT -6
Trump has fucking ruined this country, the economy is shot and he botched the whole Covid pandemic. He's an incompetent fuckup and a racist pig.
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Post by 90 more days on Jul 31, 2020 9:38:20 GMT -6
All he does is sit on his fat ass, watching tv, tweeting and whining like a little bitch about how nobody likes him in between visits to his golf courses...pathetic
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2020 9:39:46 GMT -6
CJ Pearson, an up-and-coming teenage black conservative who has gained international attention for his outspoken support for President Donald Trump, just announced on Twitter the formation of The Free Thinker Project, which aims to produce a series of ads addressing Joe Biden’s racist past. freethinkerproject.org/“The Free Thinker Project is a fact-based movement committed to bringing unheard truths to communities of people that have been long misled by the left. In the short-term, The Free-Thinker Project plans to create and release a series of ads addressing Joe Biden’s racist past and abysmal record when it comes to delivering for the black community, targeted towards black voters in key swing states.
In addition, The Free Thinker Project will also have a presence on high school and college campuses throughout the country as it seeks to cultivate and uplift the next generation of free-thinkers.
According to the Left, I’m not supposed to be conservative. I’m a black kid from the Deep South raised by progressive grandparents. I’m a free-thinking black man and they hate that. But I’d be lying if I said I cared.
Now more than ever, America needs more free-thinkers – armed and equipped with truth – who see through the Left’s deceitful narratives. That’s exactly why I’m launching The Free Thinker Project – to cultivate and uplift the next generation of free-thinkers – and to ensure that Joe Biden never steps foot into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidante and advisor who has spent decades eradicating racism across America and fighting for justice reform, praised Pearson’s new effort. “Young Black Conservatives like CJ Pearson are shattering stereotypes and leading the way for liberty for an entire generation.”Biden’s racist past, including support for segregation and crafting of the racist 1994 crime bill that tore apart Black families, also ignored a series of lynchings in his home state. Joe Biden and Robert Byrd, a former KKK kleagle
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Post by redrex on Jul 31, 2020 9:41:04 GMT -6
All he does is sit on his fat ass, watching tv, tweeting and whining like a little bitch about how nobody likes him in between visits to his golf courses...pathetic Its 10:35 and ICKY is still an idiot
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Post by redrex on Jul 31, 2020 9:43:57 GMT -6
You know ICK you really should understand what the number is before you post it----But I am sure you only read the headline
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2020 9:49:53 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/07/30/trump-obama-tonopah-crescent-dunes-solar-energy-solyndra/Trump Recovers Taxpayer Cash On A $1 Billion Obama-Backed Solar Plant That Was Obsolete Before Ever Going Online The Department of Energy reached a settlement Thursday to recover $200 million in taxpayer funds from a loan the Obama administration distributed in 2011 to finance a $1 billion solar power plant that was deemed obsolete before it could officially go online. The settlement between DOE and Tonopah Solar Energy must now be approved by a bankruptcy court, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported. The DOE provided a $737 million loan to Tonopah in September 2011 for the purposes of financing the $1.1 billion Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project in Nevada. The agency disbursed funds for the plant in 2011 and 2013 before the project experienced problems requiring improvements, rendering the Crescent Dunes obsolete by 2015, Bloomberg reported in January. Thursday’s settlement will allow the DOE to recoup a portion of the $424 million Tonopah owes. The plant experienced an outage in 2016, forcing a shutdown lasting from October 2016 to July 2017, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board reported in January. Another outage occurred in April 2019 and is ongoing. Both problems were a result of issues with the facility’s hot salt tanks, TheWSJ Editorial Board noted. FILE PHOTO: Workers clean photovoltaic panels inside a solar power plant in Gujarat, India, in this July 2, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Amit Dave/Files/File Photo “This project has consistently faced technical failures that have proven difficult to overcome. The Department’s decision was made after years of exhausting options within our authority to get the project back on track, given the significant taxpayer investment the prior Administration committed to this project,” Shaylyn Hynes told the DCNF. DOE officials sent a default notice in September before Crescent’ only customer, NV Energy, terminated its purchase agreement. (RELATED: Another Solyndra? Lawmakers Worry This Obama-Backed Solar Project Could Fail) SolarReserve, the developer behind Crescent, sued for the dissolution of Tonopah Solar Energy LLC. The developer told a federal court in November that “the plant is moribund—neither generating energy nor revenue” and had debt of more than $440 million with “assets of much less value,” TheWSJ Editorial Board reported. ACS Cobra, another developer that aided in the project, would control Tonopah once the DOE is free of its obligation, allowing the developer to make appropriate repairs and eventually negotiate with of one or more new Purchase Power Agreements at competitive rates, Hynes noted. The loan was distributed three weeks after Solyndra got $535 million in government loan guarantees during the Obama administration before declaring bankruptcy in 2011. Abound Solar got a $400 million loan guarantee from former President Barack Obama’s administration, but only used $68 million before the DOE cut off funding in the wake of Solyndra’s bankruptcy.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jul 31, 2020 15:56:40 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/07/31/steve-scalise-grills-dr-fauci-coronavirus-hearing-trump-administration/‘Did That Decision Save Lives?’: Scalise Grills Dr. Fauci During Capitol Hill Hearing Republican Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on his assessment of the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Fauci testified Friday — alongside CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield and fellow Coronavirus Task Force member Admiral Brett Giroir — before the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, and Scalise used his questions to push back on committee chairman Democratic South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn’s claims that the Trump administration had ignored warnings from experts like Fauci. (RELATED: Steve Scalise Leads Charge, Demands Answers From Governors Who Ordered Nursing Homes To Take COVID Patients) WATCH: Scalise began with a general question, aimed at Clyburn’s claim that Trump had “sidelined” experts who refused to fall in line with the position taken by the White House on coronavirus.
“Were any of you sidelined from coming here?” Scalise opened the question to the witnesses. “Some people try to use that term. I haven’t heard of anybody sidelined. But if any of you were sidelined, please share it.”
At least one of the doctors gave an audible “no,” and Scalise turned to Fauci. (RELATED: Fauci Dragged For Touting New York’s ‘Correct’ Response To Coronavirus Pandemic)
“Dr. Fauci, let me ask you about some of the decisions that you work with President Trump on, and the whole team did. I know when you go back to the beginning of this the China ban was very heavily discussed. Were you involved in working with President Trump on deciding to ban flights from China?” he asked.
Fauci said that he was, and Scalise asked whether he agreed with that decision and whether he believed that decision had saved lives.
“Yes, I do,” Fauci replied.
Scalise then turned to the expanded travel restrictions that included Europe and the United Kingdom, asking Fauci again whether he had agreed with those decisions and whether he believed that lives had been saved because those decisions were made.
“I was actively involved in that discussion, sir,” Fauci replied, saying that he did agree that the decision had saved lives.
“When you looked at the 15 days to slow the spread, initially it started at 15, were you part of the decision — to implement that decision?” Scalise moved on to his next topic.
“I was very much involved in that,” Fauci confirmed.
“Did that decision save lives?” Scalise asked.
“I believe it did,” Fauci said.
Scalise addressed the extension of that plan, asking, “When President Trump met with you and Dr. Birx to extend that another 30 days, do you agree with that decision that President Trump made to extend that?”
Fauci confirmed, “Yes, I was very much involved and I agree with it.”
“Did that decision save lives, Dr. Fauci?” Scalise asked again, to which Fauci said he believed that it had.
“So I know we’ve heard a lot about disagreements,” Scalise addressed reports that President Donald Trump and Fauci — and other experts — had often been at odds with regard to the nation’s response to the pandemic. “Clearly there are many decisions made, in fact there are many very internationally respected doctors that are involved in each of those decisions, is that correct?”
“Yes,” Fauci said.
“By and large, would you say that you and President Trump been in agreement on most of those decisions?”
“We were in agreement on virtually all of those,” Fauci replied.
“I appreciate that,” Scalise said, turning to the other witnesses for the remainder of his time.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 4:33:43 GMT -6
www.statesman.com/zz/news/20200731/supreme-court-lets-trumps-border-wall-projects-proceedThe Supreme Court declined by a 5-4 vote Friday to halt the Trump administration’s construction of portions of the border wall with Mexico following a recent lower court ruling that the administration improperly diverted money to the project. The court’s four liberal justices dissented, saying they would have prohibited construction while a court challenge continues, after a federal appeals court ruled in June that the administration had illegally sidestepped Congress in transferring the Defense Department funds. “The Court’s decision to let construction continue nevertheless I fear, may operate, in effect, as a final judgment,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in a brief dissent for the four liberals. Friday’s order means the court is not likely even to consider the substance of the issue until after the November election, while work on the wall continues.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 4:39:59 GMT -6
Fake news. It was actually 9.4-9.5 depending on the numbers used: newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2020/07/30/multiple-outlets-journalists-push-false-stat-gdp-fell-329It turns out the news media can’t even report bad news without making it worse. Multiple outlets pushed a false statistic that U.S. GDP fell 32.9 percent in the second quarter. Fact: It fell 9.5 percent. Not 32.9 percent. The 32.9 percent figure is more than three times higher than what actually happened. The 32.9% figure is the “annual rate” of decline in GDP. But just don’t expect that to be reported properly by CNN, some of the breaking news headlines, or journalists and news outlets firing off wild tweets on Twitter.
The “annual” rate was less than the reported “34.7” percent decline economists were expecting.Addressing misreporting by CNBC specifically, former NewsBusters contributing editor Thomas Blumer broke down on Facebook how the idea that U.S. GDP contracted by more than one-third is fake news. He wrote: “Second-quarter GDP did NOT ‘plunge by 32.9 percent.’ The government’s tables, excerpted below, tell us that annualized GDP fell from $19.0 trillion to $17.2 trillion. That’s a very serious decline, but it works out to -9.5% (most analysts effectively expected 10% or more), NOT -32.9%.” ....... Breakdown with government charts: www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223476341399408&set=a.10217874228990099&type=1&theater
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 4:41:34 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 5:53:01 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-says-he-will-take-action-to-ban-chinese-owned-app-tiktok-from-u-sTrump To Take Action To Ban Chinese-Owned App TikTok From U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters late on Friday that he will take action as soon as tomorrow that will ban Chinese-owned app TikTok from the United States. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier this month that the administration was “very seriously” looking at banning the app for national security reasons. “With respect to Chinese apps on people’s cell phones, I can assure you, the United States will get this one right too,” Pompeo said. When asked if people should download the app on their phones, Pompeo responded, “Only if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.” India has already banned TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps because they were deemed to be a “threat to sovereignty and integrity.” Australia reportedly is considering banning the app, and the Trump administration’s decision to ban the app could lead to other U.S. allies deciding to ban it as well. Earlier this month, the U.K. announced that it was banning Chinese-owned Huawei from its 5G network over national security concerns. U.S. federal agencies and the U.S. military started banning TikTok on government-issued devices late last year and early this year. On Tuesday, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote a letter to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and the director of the FBI highlighting concerns about the app. The letter stated: We write to raise concerns about TikTok, the Chinese social-media service, which could enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to engage in influence operations against the United States, including operations designed to interfere with our elections. The Trump Administration has rightly taken steps to maintain the security and integrity of our elections. As President Trump stated in Executive Order 13848 in September, 2018, “the proliferation of digital devices and internet-based communications has created significant vulnerabilities and magnified the scope and intensity of the threat of foreign interference.” The administration has acted decisively on this threat by forcing media outlets controlled by hostile state actors like Russia and China to register as foreign agents, imposing sanctions on foreign officials who attempted to meddle in American elections, and issuing repeated warnings about efforts by hostile foreign powers to interfere in upcoming elections. TikTok has become a popular forum for Americans-particularly younger Americans-to engage in political conversations. We are greatly concerned that the CCP could use its control over TikTok to distort or manipulate these conversations to sow discord among Americans and to achieve its preferred political outcomes. TikTok is owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, and the majority of the company’s engineering and development resources are based in China. ByteDance regularly modifies TikTok content to satisfy CCP censorship rules. In 2019, the Washington Post reported that ByteDance employees based in China set TikTok’s content standards and issued commands to remove TikTok content they deemed “subversive or controversial.” In November 2019, TikTok locked the account of an American teenager who posted a video critical of the CCP’s horrific crimes against the Uighur people in China. TikTok only reversed this act of censorship and unlocked the young woman’s account after a public outcry. The CCP devotes significant resources to conduct information operations overseas. Beijing exploits the openness of Western democracies and social-media platforms to propagate the Party’s preferred narratives. The CCP conducts these influence operations by coopting traditional media outlets, spending tens of millions of dollars to purchase space in major U.S. newspapers for propaganda by state-owned outlets like China Daily, and working to ensure Chinese state television channels like CGTN dominate Chinese-language media overseas. The CCP also manipulates overseas political discussions on Chinese-owned social media platforms like WeChat. Chinese government officials increasingly use Western social-media companies, including those banned in China, to flood global social media with propaganda and misinformation. With this history in mind, we respectfully request answers to the following questions about TikTok: Do you believe ByteDance’s ownership ofTikTok gives the CCP an opportunity to conduct influence operations within the United States, including campaigns directed at changing the outcome of elections? Given the CCP’s control over ByteDance, is it possible Chinese officials could direct TikTok’s employees to amplify or suppress certain political content for U.S. users? Could the CCP direct networks of bots to create or boost its preferred political content on TikTok and other social-media platforms? If evidence emerges of CCP electoral interference via TikTok, would ByteDance be eligible for sanctions under President Trump’s September 12, 2018, executive order on foreign electoral influence? What other Chinese social-media applications and technology corporations present vectors for election interference in the United States? Thank you for working to ensure the integrity of our elections from Chinese interference, which is important in order to maintain the American people’s trust in the democratic process. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 6:04:42 GMT -6
So, the director of the CDC admitted that hospitals are inflating their Covid numbers for economic reasons. Again, the numbers are false.... www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/31/cdc-chief-agrees-theres-perverse-economic-incentive-for-hospitals-to-inflate-coronavirus-deaths/United States hospitals have a “perverse” monetary “incentive” to increase their count of coronavirus fatalities, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s director Robert Redfield indicated under questioning from a Republican lawmaker during a House panel hearing on Friday. Asked to comment on what Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) described as the “perverse incentive” during a hearing by the House Oversight and Reform Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Dr. Redfield responded: I think you’re correct in that we’ve seen this in other disease processes too, really in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack, but also have HIV — the hospital would prefer the [classification] for HIV because there’s greater reimbursement. So I do think there’s some reality to that. When it comes to death reporting, though, ultimately, it’s how the physician defines it in the death certificate and … we review all of those death certificates. So I think, probably it is less operable in the cause of death, although I won’t say there are not some cases. I do think though [that] when it comes to hospital reimbursement issues or individuals that get discharged, there could be some play in that for sure. According to Congressman Luetkemeyer, Adm. Brett Giroir from the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department has conceded that there is an economic incentive for hospitals to inflate their coronavirus fatalities. Giroir “acknowledged that the statistics he is getting from the states are over-inflated,” the Republican lawmakers said. The admiral testified earlier during Friday’s hearing but was no longer present during Luetkemeyer’s questions about coronavirus deaths. Across the United States, the seven-day average number of new infections had plateaued as of Thursday evening and even begun to come down in recent days. Meanwhile, new fatalities reported daily, and their seven-day average, continue to go up, but remain below peak levels. There is a lag of about three weeks or more between infection and death. As of mid-day Friday, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) had infected nearly 4.5 million people and killed over 150,000, the Johns Hopkins University tracker revealed.
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Post by Out in 90 days on Aug 1, 2020 8:58:16 GMT -6
Nailed it 100%
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 1, 2020 10:48:23 GMT -6
Factual counter. Actually Democrats killed thousands.
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Post by bk2x on Aug 1, 2020 18:10:59 GMT -6
Not only did the dems blatantly kill elderly in nursing homes on purpose, they actively fight letting doctors prescribe effective medicine.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 2, 2020 15:19:40 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2020 11:43:01 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/trump-signs-another-executive-order-restricting-h1b-visa-opportunities/Trump Signs Another Executive Order Restricting H1B Visa Opportunities President Donald Trump signed a new executive order Monday that seeks to prioritize federal agencies hiring U.S. citizens and green card holders over foreign workers for high-skilled contract work. The Hiring American order limits federal agencies’ abilities to hire temporary foreign workers for high-skilled contract work and specifically prevents agencies from firing and replacing citizens and permanent residents with temporary workers in IT contract positions. The order also directs the government to conduct a study to assess how many temporary foreign workers are federally employed contractors, according to Bloomberg News. (RELATED: US Sees Worst-Ever Contraction For Second-Quarter GDP) “President Trump will not tolerate lucrative federal contractors firing hardworking Americans in the pursuit of cheap foreign labor, like at the Tennessee Valley Authority,” White House assistant press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller of the order. “Today’s Executive Order prevents this tragedy from occurring, encourages federal employers to hire Americans first, and yet again delivers on the President’s promise to secure jobs on the homeland.” The president also announced at the Monday signing ceremony that two members of the Tennessee Valley Authority were being removed for actions that prompted the order. He further stated that TVA must fire its CEO and the new chief should not make more than $500,000 a year. The president hinted at further disciplinary action in the future. Trump has signed multiple executive orders in recent months restricting immigration as a means of addressing the unemployment caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Back in June, he suspended the H1B program through at least the end of the year as a means of easing growing jobless claims. That order, however, included several exemptions for lawful permanent residents, foreign workers who are essential to the U.S. food supply, and any spouse or child of a U.S. citizen. More than 1.4 million Americans filed new unemployment claims according to the latest report from the Department of Labor.
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Post by kcrufnek on Aug 3, 2020 11:52:42 GMT -6
All he does is sit on his fat ass, watching tv, tweeting and whining like a little bitch about how nobody likes him in between visits to his golf courses...pathetic
Until you mentioned being successful and owning golf courses I thought you were talking about yourself.
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Post by soonernvolved on Aug 3, 2020 19:56:04 GMT -6
Radical Democrat Governor Sisolak and Nevada Democrats called a special session over the weekend with no public present and inside of 24 hours they rammed through mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.
Democrats did this during the special legislative session.
The new Democrat law allows people not related to or friends with elderly voters to fill out their ballots and turn them in to be counted!
President Trump challenged the “Illegal late night coup” and told Nevada Dems he will see them in court!
Illegal ballot harvesting destroyed conservative pockets of California during the 2018 midterms.
Democrats ‘harvested’ over 250,000 ballots in Orange County and flipped the traditionally conservative Southern California enclave from red to blue in 2018.
Democrats in Orange County continued to count ballots weeks after election day in 2018 and unseated FOUR GOP candidates who were declared winners on election night.
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