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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 13:09:22 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 15:06:43 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/rose-mcgowan-the-washington-post-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accuser-tara-reade/Rose McGowan Slams The Washington Post Over A Story On Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Accuser Actress Rose McGowan accused the Washington Post of having an “agenda” after the outlet published a story on Joe Biden’s sexual assault accuser. McGowan shared her thoughts on her Twitter account Sunday night. This is not journalism, this is an agenda,” McGowan tweeted. “This is a hit piece. You’ve sunk to a new low in slanted journalism and victim shaming @washingtonpost.” “As a survivor, the way you launched into this woman’s assault is truly vile,” she added. “I feel violated by your shitty writing @bethreinhard. @washingtonpost your motto is ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ well I guess it’s dead because you are dark. Evil lives and it loves the DNC.” Presidential candidate Biden has been accused by a former senate staffer. Tara Reade accused Biden of sexual assault stemming from an interaction between the two in 1993. The Post’s story was published with the headline, “Sexual Assault Allegation By Former Biden Senate Aide Emerges In Campaign, Draws Denial.” In the article, the outlet reported that Reade “did not mention the alleged assault or suggest there was more to the story” when interviewed by the Post about inappropriate touching by Biden. (RELATED: Alyssa Milano Says Joe Biden Deserves ‘Due Process’ In Sexual Assault Allegation) After reporting that Reade had filed a police report in Washington, D.C., the outlet noted that filing a false police report was punishable by jail. McGowan, who accused convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, also slammed co-star Alyssa Milano, who has supported Biden despite the allegation. You are a fraud,” McGowan reacted at the time. “This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump & Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie. You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 15:09:00 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/former-cnn-producer-jim-acostas-grandstanding-makes-all-the-press-look-bad-will-help-trumps-reelectionFormer CNN Producer: Jim Acosta’s Grandstanding Makes ‘All The Press Look Bad,’ Will Help Trump’s Reelection Steve Krakauer, a former producer at CNN, denounced White House correspondent Jim Acosta as a self-promoting grandstander who gives the media a bad name. Writing in his media newsletter, Fourth Watch, Krakauer even went as far to say that Acosta’s actions may indeed help President Trump get reelected because it only helps to illustrate his claims of media bias. Though Krakauer has no personal animus toward Acosta and even believes him to be a competent reporter, he ultimately faults the correspondent for putting fame over duty. I don’t think CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is a bad guy,” wrote Krakauer. “I worked with him at CNN, and he was a solid, competent reporter. If Acosta’s goal was to be a great White House reporter, he could probably do it.” “But that’s not Jim Acosta’s goal,” he quickly added. “Jim Acosta wants to be famous. I’ve written before, three years ago, that Acosta clearly aspires to use this opportunity to spar with President Trump, #Resistance Signal on Twitter and generally build his brand to move on to bigger things – a prime time show maybe, or at least a few late-night TV appearances.” Krakauer then presented a photo of Acosta’s Twitter profile from last year, which showed him smiling alongside late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, as evidence of him putting fame over duty. Since his actions do nothing but help Trump, Krakauer even jokingly asserts that Acosta might be in on a scheme to reelect the president another four years. Jim Acosta loves nothing more than Jim Acosta,” Krakauer continued. “But I’ve also half-joked that if we found out, years from now, that Acosta was actually a plant and was secretly working for the Trump re-election campaign, I wouldn’t be shocked.” Krakauer then highlighted Acosta’s recent skirmish with President Trump last week at the White House coronavirus task force briefing, during which he accused the president of using the conferences to throw out “happy talk.” “We hear from a lot of people who see these briefings as sort of ‘happy talk’ briefings,” said Acosta. “Do we have enough masks? No. Do we have enough tests? No. Do we have enough PPE? No.” “There’s nothing happy about it, Jim. This is ‘sad talk,'” Trump responded. “These are the saddest news conference that I’ve ever had. I don’t like doing them. You know why? Because I’m talking about death…There’s no ‘happy talk’ Jim. This is the real deal.” Beyond this, Krakauer also directed criticism at reporter Yamiche Alcindor of PBS, who asked Surgeon General Jerome Adams to address using terms like “Big Mama,” which she said some considered racist. “Adams’ answer was nuanced and thoughtful. He described conversations he’s had recently with the NAACP on how they’d like him to target outreach to the Black community,” wrote Krakauer of the moment. “Exchanges like the ones with Acosta and Alcindor Friday during coronavirus briefings are actively helping Trump get re-elected – and they make all in the press look bad.” As reported by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra in 2018, multiple reporters have complained of Acosta’s conduct behind closed doors. Read more in: CNN,Jim Acosta
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 15:12:23 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/blog/modeling-covid-19-and-the-lies-of-multiculturalism/Modeling COVID-19 and the Lies of Multiculturalism Perhaps the best thing that could come out of this entire debacle and turning America into a police state — where people are arrested for going somewhere in their cars and never leaving their cars — should be a total disdain for and disbelief in computer models. The Imperial College of London model that terrified our largely scientifically illiterate politicos and therefore killed the world economy, like every other model that tries to model human behavior, assumed a spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum. What am I talking about? Exactly what I said. Computer modeling can be incredibly useful, particularly when you’re modeling physics: an object dropped from such and such a place, which has such and such velocity, will impact on such and such a place with such and such force. However, as the mother and wife of STEM people for whom physics is a game and who create such models for fun, I know that the accuracy of the model depends on how much you put into it and how much of the real factors on that day, in that place, you can put in. That spherical cow of uniform density in a frictionless vacuum has long been a joke among physicists, because of course cows aren’t spherical, nor do they have a uniform density, and a vacuum, such as we know it, is never frictionless. (Unless it’s in a small, contained enclosure, usually in a laboratory, a vacuum contains small particles.) And all of those variables mean that your model will be wrong if they’re not included in it. So, at its basis, if you’re designing a computer model for fun, or to settle a bet with your brother (yes, my family is weird), you can ignore all the variables. When you’re actually modeling a real-life situation, you cannot and should not. Unfortunately, we have willfully and on purpose, over the course of the last 50 years, blinded ourselves to one of the most important factors when modeling disease in human populations: culture. We have taught our kids in school that culture is food and clothing, and sometimes -- but not always -- language, but that culture is inherently the same underneath those trappings. That is what's assumed by those models, and it is enough of a lie to be a d*mned lie. Mind you, the computer modeling of humans in general is always hazardous. This is why no one can give accurate predictions of what will happen with the economy at any given time, and that is why most legislators are completely baffled when the second- and third-order effects of their legislation hit. Because to them, we are all spherical cows in a frictionless vacuum. The Covid-19 Phony War However, culture is the most important – or should be the most important – in modeling the spread of any disease in a human population. Next and almost equal to it should be the physical home of that culture: where do the people live? How dense is the population? How much air do they share? The models for how bad COVID-19 would be, and the measures for mitigating its spread, all, without exception, ignore these factors. I don’t think COVID-19 is a hoax. (Though frankly, this news makes me wonder, but that’s another matter.) I do think it has got really bad “in clusters.” I also think if you go and look at the clusters, you’ll find that there are reasons why it got exceptionally bad there, but not anywhere else. And it was never going to get as bad anywhere else. And the measures should have been taken specifically in those places, without the ruinous cost of crashing the economy. For instance, my friend in Albany, Georgia, tells me he assumes part of the reason it got so bad in his neighborhood (the worst per capita in the U.S. last I looked) is that “we are the touchiest, most social people I know,” i.e., there is a lot of touching and hugging. At a guess, this is the reason it got so bad in Italy, too, but not nearly as bad in Germany, where, frankly, people aren’t that touchy/feely/huggy. New York City — do I really need to say this? — is not Colorado. I can go months without using an elevator. I can’t remember the last time I used a subway, and the last time I used public transport was last year while visiting my parents in Portugal – and even then, only when I was going to downtown Porto because it’s almost impossible to park. If I keep the curtains closed in the bathroom, I can’t see my closest neighbor (who admittedly is close, but that's on one side). That’s in Denver. I have open space in the front and back of the house, and the only people I share air with are my family. Now, in NYC, besides the fact they all live in modified closets with shared air, you can’t get anywhere without rubbing elbows with strangers. Subways and elevators are simply parts of daily life for most New Yorkers. And as for social distancing… well! Every time I go East, when I hit the first layover, I want to start singing, “Don’t stand so close to me.” So, would a complete lockdown of the city, with perhaps distribution of food so the grocery stores could be closed, make sense for NYC? Sure it would. Of course it would. A grave violation of everyone’s rights? Sure. No doubt about that. But perhaps necessary for a limited time in a limited space. Does a complete lockdown in places where the culture is completely different make any sense? No. Also no. With a side of no. UPDATED: Churches Are Fighting Tyrannical Government for the Right to Celebrate Easter While Social Distancing Now, there are still differences that don’t make a lot of sense, like the difference in death rates between Portugal and Spain, but that might be entirely because we don’t – frankly – know much of events that take place in other countries. When I told my mother (yes, still in Portugal, as is all my blood-family other than my sons) that I couldn’t figure it out, she said something about various demonstrations and civil unrest in the lead-up to the outbreak. She said it in the off-hand manner that assumes, of course, I’ve heard of this, but I’m ashamed to know I hadn't, since, frankly, I rarely read European news these days. So I have no idea how significant that is. The other thing is that I remember – lost in the flurry of early news – that Spain’s first response to this was the nationalizing of its health care system. Which means that before this “emergency,” Spain had (as to an extent even we do) parallel public and private health systems. At the onset of the epidemic, the private health care system was folded into the public. Not only would this have caused the usual difficulty of socialized medicine – that a patient is treated as a figure and that figure is in the debit column – but it would also undoubtedly have caused confusion, disorganization, and general mess as many different hierarchies were folded into an overarching one, and doubly so, because Mediterranean cultures are not really good at organization in general. That alone would explain things like the abandonment of elderly people in old-age homes (in some cases part of the health care system) as well as other horrors we heard of. These problems are not caused by malice, but by utter pants-on-head disorganization to a level Americans can’t even conceptualize. Our media relays scenes of panic and death without the slightest context that might make the rest of us realize that the factors leading to those are unlikely to occur in our own neighborhood. This is partly because most of our so-called journalists are incredibly ignorant and glib. And it is partly because they think crashing the economy and blaming it on Trump will get the Democrat Spokeszombie elected. But that's a whole 'nother matter, for another article. So, yes, COVID-19 got very bad in spots (though the rates of both infection and death surfacing as more studies in Europe are done, as well as the rates of infection and death for the Diamond Princess, still indicate that those “bad spots” are nowhere near as bad as has been advertised). And we might have been justified in closing down, isolating, and stopping travel to and from those spots. It would have been economically painful enough since one of those spots is NYC. However, with the rest of the country (or the majority of it) working, we would have been fine. It wouldn’t have been the disaster that it’s been made into by the blithe "multiculturalist" assumption that “culture” is all about clothes and food, and not about how people behave and act in concert, due to cultural assumptions and the physical environment of their daily lives. I can only pray that in the destroyed hopes of our children and grandchildren, in the scorched landscape of the world economy, in the revolt – dear Lord, I hope it’s a revolt to come, otherwise the United States as we knew it is dead – against the police state imposed during this madness, people will see what multiculturalism and inane computer models have wrought. I hope if no other good comes of this, that people will open their eyes to the insanity of treating humans as equal widgets who all behave the same way and all cultures as essentially the same under their colorful wrappings. If we learn that lesson, then perhaps greater insanity – like the Green New Deal or ever new and shinier forms of socialism – can be avoided along with even greater mortality, ruin, and blighted lives.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 15:14:31 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/trending/another-editing-mistake-cbs-news-again-airs-italy-hospital-footage-in-u-s-coronavirus-segment/ANOTHER 'Editing Mistake'? CBS News Again Airs Italy Hospital Footage in U.S. Coronavirus Segment It's not just your imagination: left-leaning outlets seem to be exaggerating the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. On Saturday, CBS News appeared to run footage from an Italian hospital in a segment about an outbreak in Pennsylvania. This came exactly two weeks after CBS News ran the same footage in a segment about the outbreak in New York on March 25. CBS News acknowledged the March 25 "mistake" in a statement to the Daily Caller on March 30. "It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows," a spokesperson told the Daily Caller. The network did not say whether or not it would issue an on-air correction or retraction. On Saturday, the misleading footage appeared on CBSN, the network's streaming video news channel. "In Pennsylvania, cases are skyrocketing at the rate of 1,000 a day," a reporter narrates as the notorious footage from the Italian hospital appears on-screen. "Governor Tom Wolf is appealing to citizens to help." The misleading footage first appeared in a March 22 segment on Sky News discussing the outbreak in Italy. COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, spread quickly through northern Italy, overwhelming hospitals. While the pandemic is spreading rapidly in the U.S., it has not yet overwhelmed American hospitals to the same degree. Some Twitter users went through the footage from Sky News and CBS News, identifying key markers from the Italian hospital scene which exactly correspond with the footage CBS News ran. If CBS News really "took immediate steps to remove [the clip] from all platforms and shows," why did it emerge again on Saturday? Is it just me, or does this seem like something other than an "editing mistake"?
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 17:03:53 GMT -6
On Monday Dr. Tony Fauci took the microphone early in the daily press conference and walked back his statements on the White House actions in February saying “it was a poor choice of words.”
When Dr. Fauci was finished with his comments a White House reporter asked him if he was pressured to come out and make his statements!
Horrible.
Dr. Fauci was offended at the suggestion!
Reporter Paula Reid: Are you doing this voluntarily or did the president pressure…
Dr. Fauci: Everything I do is voluntary. Please.
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Which then led to this:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 17:06:22 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/fauci-media-trump-coronavirus-mitigation/Dr. Anthony Fauci corrected the record Monday, announcing during the Coronavirus Task Force briefing that President Donald Trump had taken action when it was recommended. Fauci explained that a hypothetical answer from a Sunday morning CNN interview had led a number of outlets to suggest that Trump had ignored calls from the experts to shut things down earlier — and that just was not the case. (RELATED: Our Reckless Media Isn’t Built For Anthony Fauci’s Careful Words) Fauci began by explaining that he answered a hypothetical question Sunday about whether earlier mitigation steps might have saved more lives — and he said that it might have. That answer, as Fauci noted, was quickly taken as a suggestion that someone — namely Trump — was to blame for mitigation efforts not beginning sooner. “The first and only time that Dr. Birx and I went in and formally made a recommendation to the president to actually have a ‘shutdown’ in the sense of not really shut down, but to really have strong mitigation, we discussed it,” Fauci explained. “Obviously there would be concern by some, and in fact, that might have some negative consequences. Nonetheless, the president listen to the recommendation. And went to the mitigation.” Fauci went on to say that the second time was no different, adding, “The next second time that I went with Dr. Birx into the president and said 15 days are not enough, we need to go 30 days, obviously there were people who had a problem with that, because of the potential secondary effects, nonetheless, at that time the president went with the health recommendations, and we extended it another 30 days.” Appearing to take a shot at the media, Fauci continued, “So I can only tell you what I know and what my recommendations were, but clearly as happens all the time, there were interpretations of that response to a hypothetical question that I just thought it would be very nice for me to clarify, because I did not have the chance to clarify. Thank you.” One reporter pressed Fauci on the date of the mitigation recommendation, and he replied, “To be honest with you, I do not even remember the date. I can just tell you the first and only time that I went in and said we should do mitigation strongly, the response was, ‘yes, we will do it. ‘” CBS’ Paula Reid asked Fauci whether he was clarifying the comment voluntarily or because he’d been instructed to do so, prompting Fauci to rebuff her. “I am doing it — everything I do is voluntary, please. Don’t even imply that,” he said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 17:07:52 GMT -6
And another argument for restarting our economy: www.dailywire.com/news/israeli-study-suggests-lockdown-has-no-effect-on-coronavirus-timeline-say-israeli-space-agency-chairIsraeli Study Suggests Lockdown Has No Effect On Coronavirus Timeline, Say Israeli Space Agency Chair Analysis of novel coronavirus-related international graphs and comparisons suggests stay-at-home orders and lockdowns do not have an effect on the shelf-life of COVID-19, which is about eight weeks, professor and Israel Space Agency chairman Isaac Ben-Israel explained Monday. In light of his findings, the highly-regarded PhD has urged Israel to start re-opening the economy immediately and be back to full capacity by the end of April, arguing that Israel “will pay with more human lives with our health system in the current state.” According to Ben-Israel, the nation is “already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic,” an Israeli National News report detailed Monday. “The incidence of patients was greater by the day,” explained the professor. “This was during the first four weeks after the epidemic was discovered in Israel. As of the sixth week, the increase in the number of patients has been moderate, peaking in the sixth week at 700 patients per day. Since then it has been declining, and today there are only 300 new patients. In two weeks it will reach zero and there will be no more new patients.” “This is how it is all over the world. Both in countries where they have taken closure steps like Italy and in countries that have not had closures like Taiwan or Singapore,” Ben-Israel emphasized. “In such and such countries there is an increase until the fourth to sixth week, and immediately thereafter moderation until during the eighth week it disappears.” Ben-Israel has based his analysis off “various graphical studies to his colleagues, Prof. Ziegler of the Technion and Ronnie Yefarah, who helped him formulate his encouraging position,” Israeli National News noted. The data is “based entirely on past data without attempting to guess what will happen in the future,” according to the professor, the report said. “This is happening both in countries that have closed down like us and in those that have not closed until today like Sweden, every country no matter its response. The decline and rise occur according to the same timeline,” Ben-Israel continued. “It’s clear to us how the epidemic is starting and what is causing the increase. What is causing the moderation is unclear.” “I propose that we end the closures immediately after the current week,” he urged Israel. “We will start increasing the workforce from 15 percent to fifty percent and in two weeks we will reach 100 percent.” The professor said good hygiene practices should continue, as well as mask-wearing, and the banning of excessively large crowds, claiming such action is prudent and will minimally hurt the economy. “What bothers me is the damage to the economy,” he said. “We are paying NIS 100 billion a month because of this closure. This also has implications for health. We will pay with more human lives with our health system in the current state.” Israel currently has 9,781 active cases and a total of 116 fatalities.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 17:44:04 GMT -6
And they wonder why their credibility, etc is shot with the American people?
CNN repeatedly posted statements on screen attacking President Trump during Monday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing with such viciousness they read like attack ads by the Democratic Party. Indeed, a Biden campaign official tweeted her approval of CNN’s attack on Trump.
CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz posted a series of photos of CNN’s chyron statements:
Biden campaign senior advisor Symone Sanders tweeted her approval of CNN, “Chyron on point today CNN.”
Some in the media applauded CNN:
The Trump campaign’s Abigail Marone weighed in with this observation, “This is the chyron CNN put on screen as President Trump discussed amazing technical innovations that allow us to sterilize N95 masks, providing more #PPE to our front line health care workers.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 18:30:51 GMT -6
Your tax dollars at work — paying China to study bat virus that causes global pandemic. In late March FOX News host Tucker Carlson reported on a CHINESE study on the origin of the novel coronavirus. www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/tucker-carlson-chinese-researchers-confirm-coronavirus-linked-to-horseshoe-bat-studies-at-one-of-two-wuhan-research-institutes-video/The coronavirus came from either the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention or Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. The study concluded the deadly virus came out of local laboratories in Hubei Province. The smoking gun in the study is the link to horseshoe bats which are not sold in local markets and not native to Wuhan. In fact the closest colony is 900 kilometers away. There is no evidence horseshoe bats were sold in the Wuhan wet markets. The local labs used this bat specimen and the virus came from a lab in Wuhan. Reports linking bats to the coronavirus started making the rounds back in January. But a recent paper published in the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention found the source of the coronavirus is a laboratory near the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. But that’s not all. Now there is evidence the National Institute of Health awarded a Wuhan laboratory a $3.7 million grant to study horseshoe bats that carry coronavirus. Via Lou Dobbs Tonight.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 19:44:14 GMT -6
A group of church leaders and members in California are suing Governor Gavin Newsom over his Coronavirus lockdown restrictions. A few weeks ago Newsom ordered a shelter-in-place for California and only allowed people to leave their homes for “essential” reasons such as grocery shopping. The pastors are suing to get Newsom’s lockdown order declared unconstitutional. TMZ reported: www.tmz.com/2020/04/13/governor-gavin-newsom-sued-church-leaders-lockdown-restrictions-coronavirus/A group of pastors and church members filed the suit claiming religious services are “essential for the spiritual health of the congregation so that the congregants can exhort one another during these difficult times.” In the docs, obtained by TMZ, one pastor believes they can hold services so long as they abide by social distancing tips recommended by the CDC … like keeping congregants at least 6 feet apart and requiring they wear masks and gloves. The leaders claim California’s “shelter-at-home” mandate coupled with its “essential workforce” criteria has denied religious groups their fundamental right to continue congregating. One of the pastors was fined $1,000 for holding a Palm Sunday service.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 20:36:48 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2020/04/13/coronavirus-exposes-another-chinese-scandal-rampant-corporate-fraud/Coronavirus Exposes Another Chinese Scandal: Rampant Corporate Fraud If Beijing doesn't change its policies and address corporate fraud immediately, investors might never touch stocks of Chinese companies again. Helen RaleighBy Helen Raleigh APRIL 13, 2020 Beijing may pretend it has the coronavirus pandemic under control and insist there are no new infected cases. This week alone, however, the news of notorious accounting scandals in regard to two U.S.-listed Chinese companies surfaced, exposing yet another sickening event that has unraveled in China. Luckin Coffee is a two and a half-year-old startup coffee chain in China founded with the intention to overtake American coffee chain Starbucks. Luckin’s growth speed has been astounding, from nine locations in 2017 to more than 4,500 locations across China in 2020, compared to Starbucks’ 4,200 locations. Luckin boasts its success as being more of a technology company than a coffee company; customers use an app to order drinks, and the company uses the data it collects and artificial intelligence to improve its operations. Like many home-grown brands in China, Luckin’s impressive growth was achieved by underselling its competitors. Luckin’s coffee tastes average, but it is unbelievably cheap. Luckin’s latte costs about $1 versus $4 at Starbucks. Luckin’s Luck Ran Out Luckin was listed in the NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States in May 2019, giving the startup new access to foreign investors and additional credibility. It quickly attracted sophisticated investors such as BlackRock and Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. The valuation of the company skyrocketed. At its height, it was worth about $5 billion with a share price of $51. Last quarter, the company claimed it was growing comparable-store sales by 166 percent, while more than doubling the number of new Luckin Coffee stores. In the real market, however, when a company opens a large number of stores in the same geographical location, the comparable-store sales usually suffer because newer locations will attract more foot traffic. Luckin’s magnificent growth, therefore, seemed suspiciously unrealistic. Turns out, it was. In January of this year, the U.S.-based Muddy Waters Research, a short seller that profits from exposing corporate frauds, said it received an anonymous report, which stated that “when Luckin Coffee went public in May 2019, it was a fundamentally broken business that was attempting to instill the culture of drinking coffee into Chinese consumers through cut-throat discounts and free giveaway coffee. Right after its $645 million IPO, the company had evolved into a fraud by fabricating financial and operating numbers starting in [third] quarter 2019.” The report went on to list other alleged fraudulent activities the company was involved in, while raising questions about some key management personnel’s troubled histories. Luckin quickly “categorically denied” the anonymous report, claiming “the methodology of the Report is flawed, the evidence is unsubstantiated, and the allegations are unsupported speculations and malicious interpretations of events.” The spread of the Wuhan coronavirus in the following two months took some spotlight away from Luckin. Then on April 2, all hell broke loose for the company. Through a regulatory filing, Luckin disclosed it found that its chief operating officer, Jian Liu, and several employees who directly reported to him had fabricated 2019 sales by about 2.2 billion yuan ($310 million). Since the company had previously reported that its net sales for the first nine months of 2019 were 2.9 billion yuan ($413 million), this revelation means the majority of Luckin’s 2019 sales numbers were fake. Luckin’s stock price plummeted more than 80 percent that day, wiping out more than $2 billion from its market value and causing significant losses for many foreign investors, including Americans. Then on April 6, U.S. bank Goldman Sachs disclosed that Luckin’s Chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu defaulted on a $518 million loan. NASDAQ ultimately halted the trading of Luckin stock the same day. Bad Things Come in Threes Luckin wasn’t the only Chinese company recently exposed for corporate fraud. Less than a week later, another U.S.-listed Chinese company, TAL Education Group, one of the largest education providers in China that offers K-12 after-school tutoring services, revealed on April 8 that one of its employees had inflated the company’s sales by “forging contracts and other documentations.” The share price of TAL dropped 23 percent in one day. The company said the employee in question was in police custody, but according to short seller Muddy Waters, TAL’s problem was way worse than what the company had disclosed. In 2018, Muddy Waters published a report alleging the company had “overstat[ed] its net profit by at least 43.6 percent” and “inflat[ed] its 2016 to 2018 pre-tax profits by up to US$153.2 million, or 28.4 percent.” Back then, TAL denied any wrongdoing, saying the report contained “numerous errors, unsupported speculation and malicious interpretations of events.” Now it seems Muddy Waters was not only right but two years ahead of everyone else in recognizing TAL’s fraudulent activities. Bad things usually come in threes. This week, Muddy Waters joined another short seller, Wolfpack Research, and accused the NASDAQ-listed Chinese video streaming company iQiyi of making up its 2019 revenue by up to 44 percent, while inflating its user number by 60 percent. For now, iQiyi is vigorously denying any wrongdoing. Investors will have to wait and see how long that will last. Chinese Laws Facilitate Scandal For foreign investors, the dependability of Chinese companies’ financial statements has always been a serious issue. The running joke about Chinese companies is that they have three sets of accounting books: one for the regulators, one for the investors, and one for the managers — and only the last contains the true information. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that auditors declined to endorse 219 annual reports prepared by Chinese companies, which means these auditors either found serious issues with those reports or had expressed concern about the companies’ likelihood of survival. Unfortunately, some of China’s home-grown accounting and auditing firms are just as unreliable as their corporate clients. Rather than acting as gatekeepers, these firms have turned a blind eye to their clients’ fabricated financial statements. The problem has become so impermissible and so prevalent that last year, the China Securities Regulatory Commission launched investigations of China’s homegrown accounting firms Ruihua and GP for suspected violation of securities law. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese authorities’ investigation found that one of GP’s corporate clients inflated its cash holding by $4 billion, and one of Ruihua’s corporate clients overstated its profit for four years until 2018 by $1.7 billion. As a result of these investigations, at least 23 of Ruihua’s corporate clients either delayed or canceled their fundraising plans. While Beijing attempts to address corporate fraud by cleaning house from time to time, it is ultimately responsible for fostering such bad corporate behaviors in its policies. Chinese law requires that financial records remain in China. Beijing has prevented the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. accounting board from inspecting China-based auditors of U.S.-listed Chinese firms by invoking national security concerns. Foreign investors have limited legal resources to hold these Chinese companies and their management accountable. Because Beijing actively shields Chinese firms from U.S. regulators, these companies have no incentives to provide a true picture of their financial health to investors. Coronavirus Exposes Corporate Fraud While corporate fraud is nothing new in China, the coronavirus outbreak helped bring this new wave of scandals to light. China’s economy collapsed after the two months of lockdown. Corporate fraudulent activities that were previously easily disguised in a growth environment suddenly have nowhere to hide. Just like how the 2008 financial crisis brought down Bernie Madoff, more scandals will likely emerge after the coronavirus outbreak. As Warren Buffett once said, “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” China needs foreign investors to revive its economy, but these corporate scandals, along with reports of faulty exports of medical equipment, don’t help instill any confidence in investors. We already know that China’s official coronavirus-related data is not reliable. Now investors are questioning if that is also the case with financial data of Chinese companies. Beijing can no longer hide behind its nationalistic rhetoric and dismiss these concerns. If Beijing doesn’t change its policies and address these corporate scandals immediately, by the time the pandemic is over, investors might not touch stocks of Chinese companies ever again. That will truly devastate China’s economy.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 20:40:30 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/new-york-times-dean-baquet-joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-article-edit/NYT Executive Editor Appears To Admit Edit On Biden Sexual Assault Allegation Came After Pressure From Biden Campaign Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, appeared to admit Monday that the publication was pressured by former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign after editing a story about sexual assault allegations against him. The NYT’s Sunday article, titled “Examining Tara Reade’s Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden,” told the story of allegations made by the former Biden staffer. Reade has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 while he was the senator for Delaware. The article originally contained a sentence that was quietly edited out following publication. “No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of our reporting, nor did any former Biden staff corroborate Reade’s allegation. We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable,” the NYT first reported. The second half of the sentence was later edited out and the paragraph was changed. “No other allegation about sexual assault surfaced in the course of reporting, nor did any former Biden staff members corroborate any details of Ms. Reade’s allegation. The Times found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Biden,” the NYT article now reads. There was no note included about the change. NYT’s media reporter Ben Smith interviewed Baquet about the article Monday. Smith’s article about the interview is titled “The Times Took 19 Days to Report an Accusation Against Biden. Here’s Why.” One of Smith’s questions was about the much-noticed edit made to the piece, and Baquet appeared to admit that the NYT was swayed by the Biden campaign to remove it. “Even though a lot of us, including me, had looked at it before the story went into the paper, I think that the campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct,” Baquet said. “And that’s not what the sentence was intended to say.” Baquet continued on to say that the edit wasn’t explained because “we didn’t think it was a factual mistake.” “I thought it was an awkward phrasing issue that could be read different ways and that it wasn’t something factual we were correcting. So I didn’t think that was necessary,” according to Baquet. (RELATED: Second Woman Accuses Biden Of Inappropriate Touching) Smith also asked if perhaps he was “reluctant to promote a story that would hurt Joe Biden and get Donald Trump re-elected?” “I can’t make that calculation,” Baquet answered. “I won’t. I won’t let my head or my heart go there. I think once you start making those kinds of calculations, you are not a journalist anymore. You’re some sort of political actor.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 20:42:45 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/13/cuomo-well-sue-if-trump-issues-order-that-puts-new-yorkers-in-danger/Cuomo: We’ll Sue if Trump Issues Order That Puts New Yorkers in Danger On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) stated that if President Trump ordered something that jeopardized the health of New Yorkers “we would just be off to a lawsuit.” Cuomo argued that President Trump does not have the authority to make states reopen, and that “if he tried an edict from the White House that put the people of the state of New York in jeopardy or violated what I thought was in their best interest, from a public health point of view, we would just be off to a lawsuit. And that’s the only way this really horrendous situation could get worse, is if you now see a war between the federal government and the states.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 21:12:29 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/cnn-press-release-chinese-military-pla-coronavirus/CNN Basically Published A Press Release From The Chinese Military CNN published a report Monday from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) about how the country’s Navy is reportedly doing a much better job containing the novel coronavirus than its American counterparts. The report came from China’s English PLA website, CNN noted. The network wrote that their Navy “has done a much better job controlling coronavirus than the US Navy,” according to the PLA. Portions of CNN’s write-up are extremely similar to the PLA’s military press release. dailycaller.com/2020/04/07/phoenix-tv-ownership-china-coronavirus/CNN’s article closely mimicked PLA’s report. (Screenshot CNN, edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-13-20/h_56789fcd84e51ac3bc5f96a325cfdb72)CNN’s article is almost the same as PLA’s report, which is cited by the network. (Screenshot China Mil, PLA, english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-04/12/content_9789946.htm)“The report said that the Chinese carrier was carrying out this operation while four US Navy aircraft carriers — the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Nimitz — have reported cases of coronavirus, crimping their operations,” CNN wrote. This was also noted in PLA’s write-up, as CNN noted in their blurb. PLA’s notice for comparison to CNN’s, shown above. (Screenshot China Mil, PLA, english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-04/12/content_9789946.htm)The CNN article even quoted part of PLA’s notice touting their job in preventing the virus. ‘Through the voyage, the Liaoning showed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has done a great job in the epidemic prevention and control work and COVID-19 epidemic has not had an impact on its deployment and operations,'” the story says, citing Xu Guangyu, a senior adviser to the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association,” CNN wrote. “‘It showed that the PLA can dispatch troops stationed anywhere at any time, with the troops always maintaining vigorous combat capabilities. The Chinese people can always count on them,’ Xu is quoted as saying.” A CNN spokesperson dismissed concern the outlet was simply repeating propaganda from China’s PLA, calling the post on the site a “single update from our international site’s 24-7 Live Story.” “[The story] explicitly states the sourcing as a PLA story and identifies the Global Times as ‘a state-run tabloid.’ That transparency is key as a global news source serving a global audience,” CNN’s Vice President of Communications Matt Dornic told the Daily Caller. CNN’s write-up comes at a time of mounting distrust in China regarding the novel coronavirus. Legacy media has also come under scrutiny for repeating Chinese propaganda amid the pandemic. (RELATED: The CIA Is Trying To Find China’s Real Coronavirus Data)
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 13, 2020 21:31:23 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/cnn-press-release-chinese-military-pla-coronavirus/CNN Basically Published A Press Release From The Chinese Military CNN published a report Monday from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) about how the country’s Navy is reportedly doing a much better job containing the novel coronavirus than its American counterparts. The report came from China’s English PLA website, CNN noted. The network wrote that their Navy “has done a much better job controlling coronavirus than the US Navy,” according to the PLA. Portions of CNN’s write-up are extremely similar to the PLA’s military press release. dailycaller.com/2020/04/07/phoenix-tv-ownership-china-coronavirus/CNN’s article closely mimicked PLA’s report. (Screenshot CNN, edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-04-13-20/h_56789fcd84e51ac3bc5f96a325cfdb72)CNN’s article is almost the same as PLA’s report, which is cited by the network. (Screenshot China Mil, PLA, english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-04/12/content_9789946.htm)“The report said that the Chinese carrier was carrying out this operation while four US Navy aircraft carriers — the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, the USS Carl Vinson and the USS Nimitz — have reported cases of coronavirus, crimping their operations,” CNN wrote. This was also noted in PLA’s write-up, as CNN noted in their blurb. PLA’s notice for comparison to CNN’s, shown above. (Screenshot China Mil, PLA, english.chinamil.com.cn/view/2020-04/12/content_9789946.htm)The CNN article even quoted part of PLA’s notice touting their job in preventing the virus. ‘Through the voyage, the Liaoning showed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has done a great job in the epidemic prevention and control work and COVID-19 epidemic has not had an impact on its deployment and operations,'” the story says, citing Xu Guangyu, a senior adviser to the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association,” CNN wrote. “‘It showed that the PLA can dispatch troops stationed anywhere at any time, with the troops always maintaining vigorous combat capabilities. The Chinese people can always count on them,’ Xu is quoted as saying.” A CNN spokesperson dismissed concern the outlet was simply repeating propaganda from China’s PLA, calling the post on the site a “single update from our international site’s 24-7 Live Story.” “[The story] explicitly states the sourcing as a PLA story and identifies the Global Times as ‘a state-run tabloid.’ That transparency is key as a global news source serving a global audience,” CNN’s Vice President of Communications Matt Dornic told the Daily Caller. CNN’s write-up comes at a time of mounting distrust in China regarding the novel coronavirus. Legacy media has also come under scrutiny for repeating Chinese propaganda amid the pandemic. (RELATED: The CIA Is Trying To Find China’s Real Coronavirus Data) This is nothing new. Our media has been echoing the Chi Coms all along. Does anyone really think they care about the health of their sailors?
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 22:00:54 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/states-help-illegal-aliens-while-vets-suffer/Study: States Dole Out Millions For Illegal Aliens While Veterans Struggle The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) conducted a study on how the federal government and state governments assist illegal aliens in comparison to veterans. While there are homeless veterans in states like California and New York, elected leaders there have spent millions in legal aid, educational assistance and health care on those living in the U.S. unlawfully. The study found that, if the illegal alien population continues to grow, taxpayer expenditures on the undocumented community will surpass the amount of money spent on veterans in the U.S.
Many states and the federal government are spending millions in taxpayer dollars on illegal aliens while veterans across the country still face a slew of issues like homelessness and long waits for primary care, a newly-released study found. While the federal government will spend roughly $217 billion on the Department of Veterans Affairs this fiscal year, the net financial burden of illegal aliens on taxpayers annually is nearly $132 billion, according to an analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The study was exclusively provided first to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “The War on Terrorism has resulted in more veterans who have experienced overseas combat deployments than at any time since the end of World War II,” the study said, adding that this has resulted in more veterans than ever before needing services from the U.S. government. “But, due to America’s foolhardy immigration policies, our government is now spending more and more money on services for illegal aliens — foreigners who have no right to be in the U.S. — resulting in a squeeze on resources available for the citizens and lawful immigrants who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country,” the study continued. Homeless veteran. Shutterstock A homeless US Army veteran sits on a park bench outside the opening ceremony in Madison Square Park before the annual Americas Parade on Veterans Day in Manhattan. Shutterstock FAIR looked at where the majority of homeless veterans lived and reported how much taxpayer funding illegal aliens in those localities received. There were an estimated 37,085 homeless veterans in January 2019, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Over a quarter of these homeless veterans lived in California, another 1,585 lived in Washington, and 1,270 lived in New York. In California, it’s not always easy for veterans to obtain quality health care, the study found. Veterans in San Jose waited an average of 50 days before landing an appointment with a primary care VA clinic, and the average wait time in Modesto was 95 days, according to the study. California, however, spends more than $23 billion on undocumented individuals and their children every year, according to FAIR. In regards to health care, California lawmakers passed legislation in 2019 that sets aside taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens between the ages of 19 and 25 — an initiative that will likely cost $98 million in its first year. (RELATED: Illegal Alien Involved In Deadly Car Crash In Montgomery County Charged With More Crimes, Investigation Finds) Another state home to many homeless veterans has also chosen to prioritize the undocumented community. State lawmakers in New York — which spends $7.5 billion on illegal aliens annually — allotted $27 million in college tuition assistance for the children of illegal aliens in April 2019, but didn’t add several hundred thousand dollars to an initiative that provides university education assistance to the children of disabled and deceased veterans. “That is perhaps the most egregious example of the way in which flawed immigration policies are putting veterans in competition with illegal aliens,” the authors said of New York’s educational priorities. US Border Agents Patrol Rio Grande Valley As Migrant Crossings Drop Border Patrol agents detain undocumented immigrants caught near a section of privately-built border wall under construction. (John Moore/Getty Images) Beyond health care and education, the study also highlighted examples of jurisdictions doling out millions in legal assistance for the undocumented. In Oakland, California, a $300,000 fund was established in 2018 to help undocumented immigrants fight removal from the country, according to the study. A larger fund was established in Los Angeles, which has so far spent over $7 million in legal aid to those living unlawfully in the U.S. Baltimore approved $200,000 in 2018 to support aliens facing deportation, and Montgomery County, Maryland, has allotted $370,000, according to the study. Meanwhile, FAIR found that more than 6,000 veterans committed suicide in 2017, including 491 veterans in California and another 78 in Maryland. “If states cared more about veterans than illegal aliens, many of those 6,000 Americans may still be with us today,” the study stated. Altogether, FAIR concluded that there were 14.3 million illegal aliens living in the U.S., posing a financial burden of $132 billion annually for their health care, educational, and other welfare services. In comparison, there are 19.5 million veterans in the U.S., and their needs will cost the country $217 billion this fiscal year. (RELATED: Democrats Across The Country Are Fighting To Give Coronavirus Aid To Illegal Aliens) FAIR concluded that, should the illegal population continue to grow, the cost to meet their needs will surpass those of veterans. “Americans who care about the members of our armed forces should ask, ‘Why are we spending billions of dollars catering to illegal aliens when we aren’t properly taking care of the men and women who risk life and limb to protect us against all enemies foreign and domestic?'” the authors said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 22:46:43 GMT -6
If this study is accurate then the mortality rate of the coronavirus is 0.1% Via Andrew Bostom.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 22:48:52 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2020/04/13/world-health-organization-human-transmission-timeline-china-covid19-coronavirus/WHO Official Says She Suspected Human-To-Human COVID-19 Transmission ‘Right From The Start’ — But The WHO Echoed Misleading Chinese Claims To The Contrary For Weeks A World Health Organization official said Monday that she suspected human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus “right from the start,” beginning on Dec. 31, 2019. But WHO officials echoed Chinese authorities and denied any suggestion of human-to-human transmission for weeks after Dec. 31. Chinese doctors, meanwhile, were reported to have known for weeks prior that the virus could be transmitted between humans. “Right from the start, from the first notification we received on the 31st of December, given that this was a cluster of pneumonia — I’m a MERS specialist, so my background is in coronaviruses and influenza — so immediately thought, given that this is a respiratory pathogen, that of course there may be human-to-human transmission,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said in a press briefing Monday. Despite Van Kerkhove’s apparent suspicions, the WHO repeated Chinese authorities’ downplaying the possibility that the virus could spread between people. (RELATED: WHO Chief Who Won Election With China’s Help Now Running Interference For China) The WHO repeatedly stated in early and mid-January that Wuhan healthcare workers weren’t becoming infected with coronavirus — a key indicator of human-to-human transmission. Yet Wuhan doctor Lu Xiaohong told China Youth Daily that by Christmas she had already heard of doctors becoming infected with the virus. The Wall Street Journal similarly reported that Chinese doctors were aware of human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 since late December, though Chinese authorities censored those who spoke out. Additionally, a study by The Lancet found that by Jan. 2, only 27 of 41 laboratory-confirmed coronavirus patients had connections to the Huanan seafood market thought to have been the source of the outbreak. But a Jan. 12 WHO press release said: “Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.” “At this stage, there is no infection among healthcare workers, and no clear evidence of human to human transmission,” it continued. That press release came one day after, Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who authorities punished for warning the public about the virus, came down with the virus. The WHO, which didn’t return a request for comment for this story, continued asserting that there was no evidence that the virus could be transmitted from humans. “To date, there has been no suggestion of human to human transmission of this new coronavirus,” the WHO said in a Jan. 13 press release. “There have been no infections reported among health care workers, which can be an early indicator of person to person spread.” “Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China,” the WHO tweeted Jan. 14. “To date, China has not reported any cases of infection among healthcare workers or contacts of the cases. Based on the available information there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission,” read a WHO press release that same day. Also on Jan. 14, Van Kerkhove acknowledged that “it is possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission, potentially among families,” but added: “it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission.” By the time the WHO acknowledged evidence of human-to-human transmission, which they did on Jan. 22, the U.S. had already detected its first coronavirus case.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 13, 2020 23:15:37 GMT -6
www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/liberal-media-scream-reporter-suggests-payback-for-trump-voters-now-your-loved-ones-can-dieLiberal Media Scream: Reporter suggests payback for Trump voters, ‘now your loved ones can die’
Zurawik on the April 12 Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter:
“Health workers are risking their lives daily. And to see him come out there and for 90 minutes, and two hours, sometimes, doing exactly what you said — he’s spinning a narrative. And the narrative is, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong. I was ahead of everybody. I was great! The federal government’s doing great work.’ And it’s an outrageous lie. But what’s worse is every minute he spends doing that, he is not getting respirators to hospitals, he’s not helping the states out with the kind of PPE they need. People are dying because of his foolishness. It’s really foolishness at this point.
“You know, America — you know, folks who loved him, fine. You voted for him. You stuck it to the elites for three years. But now your loved ones can die. The game’s over. This isn’t reality TV anymore. People are dying and this guy is acting a fool.”CNN isn’t even trying to hide this. They tweeted it out:
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 13, 2020 23:46:37 GMT -6
Poor Fredo. Sucks being him. Coronavirus-stricken Chris Cuomo trashes CNN gig during radio show meltdownChris Cuomo’s coronavirus-induced fever may have subsided but the CNN anchor was red hot on Monday. The longtime cable host, 49, had a mini-existential crisis on his SiriusXM show, lashing out at his lucrative primetime gig and blasting President Trump as being “full of sh-t.” “I don’t want to spend my time doing things that I don’t think are valuable enough to me personally,” Cuomo said. “I don’t value indulging irrationality, hyper-partisanship.” Cuomo said his battle with COVID-19 has made him rethink his values and question his position as a public figure. “I don’t like what I do professionally,” he said. “I don’t think it’s worth my time.” Cuomo then launched into a tale about a “loser biker” who confronted him on Easter Sunday for being outside his Southampton home with his family despite his coronavirus diagnosis. “I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat tire biker being able to pull over and get in my space and talk bullsh– to me, I don’t want to hear it,” he said. Cuomo said he wishes he could have acted like a regular Joe and told the biker to “go to hell.” “That matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year… because I’ve saved my money and I don’t need it anymore,” he said. “I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth… I don’t get that doing what I do for a living. “Me being able to tell you to shut your mouth or I will do you the way you guys do each other.” Speaking about his job as the host of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” the Queens-born anchor said he doesn’t want to spend his time “trafficking in things that I think are ridiculous.” Like “talking to Democrats about things that I don’t really believe they mean” and “talking to Republicans about them parroting things they feel they have to say.” He also wants to stop analyzing the president, “Who we all know is full of sh-t by design.” As a public figure, Cuomo said he has to tolerate other people’s opinions of himself — and it’s just not worth it to him anymore. “I don’t think its worth it to me because I don’t think I mean enough, I don’t think I matter enough, I don’t think I can really change anything, so then what am I really doing?” “I’m basically being perceived as successful in a system that I don’t value,” he continued. “I’m seen as being good at being on TV and advocating for different positions… but I don’t know if I value those things, certainly not as much as I value being able to live my life on my own terms.” When the biker confronted him, Cuomo said he’d wanted to respond, getting heated when he detailed how the guy “didn’t know the rules” and how he’d made sure to take social-distancing measures. But “here I am in an almost powerless position against this asshole because I’m a celebrity and he’s allowed to say whatever he wants to me.” “And I have to take it or he’s gonna call the New York Post and lie about something and then I’m going to have to deal with it,” Cuomo continued. The anchor then alluded to a caught-on-tape incident last August, when he launched into a profanity-laced rant against a man who called him “Fredo.” “I have to tolerate people’s opinion about me because I’m a public figure,” Cuomo said. “I don’t want to do that, I don’t think its worth it to me.” nypost.com/2020/04/13/chris-cuomo-trashes-cnn-gig-during-covid-19-meltdown/
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 14, 2020 0:34:55 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/13/hollywood-triggered-by-trumps-council-to-reopen-america-the-death-squad/Hollywood Triggered by Trump’s Council to Reopen America: ‘The Death Squad’ A slew of left-wing Hollywood figures hurled personal attacks against members of the Trump administration’s newly formed Council to Reopen America and jumpstart the economy. As the United States prepares to re-open after suffering the affects of the Chinese coronavirus, Hollywood elitists have taken up bullying the members of President Donald Trump’s newly formed council tasked with getting America back to work. “WHERE ARE THE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS? Where are the doctors? Where are the scientists? WHERE?!” proclaimed left-wing actress and activist Alyssa Milano, who was last heard lecturing Americans by telling them to stop buying firearms during the coronavirus pandemic. Actress Rosanna Arquette also chimed in with her remarks on the subject, sharing a simple eight-word tweet, which even included one typo. “They council has zero credibility at this point,” tweeted the Diary of a Sex Addict actress. “Okay, first idea: Has America thought about inheriting wealth from its dad?” commented the Twitter account for The Daily Show. “An overwhelming majority of the American public — 87% — is now making the effort to stay at home when possible, a new YouGov survey finds, with most saying they’ll continue regardless of any official limitations,” tweeted Ava DuVernay. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would convene an economic advisory council focused on reopening the country. “I call it the ‘opening of the country council,’ so we don’t get it confused with Mike’s task force, which has done so great,” the president said, referring to Vice President Mike Pence’s coronavirus task force. The council is still being built and reportedly consists of doctors, business leaders, and administration officials. But the left-wing celebs rushed to social media to smear the officials who were reported to be part of the new initiative. The president stated on Monday that White House advisors Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump would not be on the council. “In other words, we don’t trust Trump and these criminals,” added the Hollywood director. Ava DuVernay said in a tweet that she quickly deleted. “Look, you’re free to think that these are the end times, but this is really putting your thumb on the scale,” said actor-comedian Andy Richter, who once noted that he was “eternally grateful” to Planned Parenthood over he and his girlfriend deciding to abort their baby in 1992. Actor David Cross quipped, “Are very own Star Chamber.” “Why can’t I get appointed to stuff? I’m not qualified for anything, either,” tweeted left-wing actor Michael Ian Black, who has previously tweeted about child molestation involving so-called jokes about having sleepovers with young girls, and having “quick” intercourse with a baby. “Supervillain Task Force,” tweeted actress Kristen Johnston. Actress Mia Farrow also piled on, My God- these ⬇️ are the people to decide on when the country should re-open. Not one doctor.” “The Death Squad,” tweeted British-born actor Alex Winter. “May have taken over a decade but we finally got our death panel,” quipped comedian Travon Free, who currently writes for the show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which had lost a plethora of advertisers in 2018 after its host called President Trump’s daughter Ivanka as a “feckless cunt.”
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 14, 2020 3:41:23 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/04/13/hollywood-triggered-by-trumps-council-to-reopen-america-the-death-squad/Hollywood Triggered by Trump’s Council to Reopen America: ‘The Death Squad’ A slew of left-wing Hollywood figures hurled personal attacks against members of the Trump administration’s newly formed Council to Reopen America and jumpstart the economy. As the United States prepares to re-open after suffering the affects of the Chinese coronavirus, Hollywood elitists have taken up bullying the members of President Donald Trump’s newly formed council tasked with getting America back to work. “WHERE ARE THE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS? Where are the doctors? Where are the scientists? WHERE?!” proclaimed left-wing actress and activist Alyssa Milano, who was last heard lecturing Americans by telling them to stop buying firearms during the coronavirus pandemic. Actress Rosanna Arquette also chimed in with her remarks on the subject, sharing a simple eight-word tweet, which even included one typo. “They council has zero credibility at this point,” tweeted the Diary of a Sex Addict actress. “Okay, first idea: Has America thought about inheriting wealth from its dad?” commented the Twitter account for The Daily Show. “An overwhelming majority of the American public — 87% — is now making the effort to stay at home when possible, a new YouGov survey finds, with most saying they’ll continue regardless of any official limitations,” tweeted Ava DuVernay. President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would convene an economic advisory council focused on reopening the country. “I call it the ‘opening of the country council,’ so we don’t get it confused with Mike’s task force, which has done so great,” the president said, referring to Vice President Mike Pence’s coronavirus task force. The council is still being built and reportedly consists of doctors, business leaders, and administration officials. But the left-wing celebs rushed to social media to smear the officials who were reported to be part of the new initiative. The president stated on Monday that White House advisors Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump would not be on the council. “In other words, we don’t trust Trump and these criminals,” added the Hollywood director. Ava DuVernay said in a tweet that she quickly deleted. “Look, you’re free to think that these are the end times, but this is really putting your thumb on the scale,” said actor-comedian Andy Richter, who once noted that he was “eternally grateful” to Planned Parenthood over he and his girlfriend deciding to abort their baby in 1992. Actor David Cross quipped, “Are very own Star Chamber.” “Why can’t I get appointed to stuff? I’m not qualified for anything, either,” tweeted left-wing actor Michael Ian Black, who has previously tweeted about child molestation involving so-called jokes about having sleepovers with young girls, and having “quick” intercourse with a baby. “Supervillain Task Force,” tweeted actress Kristen Johnston. Actress Mia Farrow also piled on, My God- these ⬇️ are the people to decide on when the country should re-open. Not one doctor.” “The Death Squad,” tweeted British-born actor Alex Winter. “May have taken over a decade but we finally got our death panel,” quipped comedian Travon Free, who currently writes for the show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, which had lost a plethora of advertisers in 2018 after its host called President Trump’s daughter Ivanka as a “feckless cunt.” Don't we already have a team of doctors and science guys? Isn't this supposed to be about the economy? All those crybabies and no one bitched about diversity?
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