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| 04-15-20 05:27pm - 1672 days | #1609 | |
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Real news: Trump is the Man: the most stable genius the United States has ever had. He knew that as president of the United States, he would be forced to take command and lead our country out of raging epidemic. And he has done a magnificent job. World leaders, our state governors, and members of the House and Senate, are bowing down before Trump, saying he has saved countless Americans from death. Here is a brief summary of the way Trump saved our great nation: "The president, meanwhile, has dramatically shifted his message to the public over the last several months. He initially downplayed the risk of the coronavirus, called it a Democratic "hoax," and insisted it was no more dangerous than the flu and that the US was well prepared to handle it. As the disease gained a stronger foothold in the country around mid-March, Trump acknowledged the severity of the crisis and claimed he "felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." He pivoted to focus on the economy near the end of last month and said the US would "be open for business" again "very soon," despite public health officials warning that preemptively lifting stay-at-home orders would exacerbate the outbreak. But Trump doubled down, saying "we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself." In recent days, Trump has become even more aggressive, lashing out at reporters who question his administration's preparedness in the early days of the pandemic and falsely claiming he has "total" authority to compel governors to reopen their states' economies." Trump, the greatest, bestest president ever of the United States. We need to change the constitution and make Trump President For Life. Even better, make him King Donald J. Trump the First, the first of his family to serve as King. And give Ivanka the title of Princess Ivanka, who will lead our nation after her father is called to Heaven. ---------- ---------- The Trump National Doral resort in Miami just laid off 560 employees Business Insider Sonam Sheth Apr 15th 2020 4:57PM The Trump National Doral resort in Miami, Florida, has laid off 560 employees, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing filings the resort made in Florida. Most of the cuts affected staffers working in food service, hotel services, and golf course operations. Forty-three housekeepers, 123 servers, and 25 cooks were placed on furlough, according to The Journal. The coronavirus has decimated the US economy as businesses across the country shut down and millions of workers either lose their jobs or are forced to work from home. The Trump National Doral resort in Miami, Florida, has laid off 560 employees, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing filings the resort made in Florida. Most of the cuts affected staffers working in food service, hotel services, and golf course operations. Forty-three housekeepers, 123 servers, and 25 cooks were placed on furlough, according to The Journal. The Trump National Doral, one of President Donald Trump's flagship properties, was forced to shutter as federal and state officials enforce social-distancing measures and limit outside activity in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The coronavirus, which causes a disease known as COVID-19, has decimated the US economy as businesses close their doors and millions of workers are forced to work from home or have lost their jobs. The service industry has been particularly hard hit, with restaurants, bars, hotels, and clubs shuttering entirely or only remaining open for takeout and delivery. Nearly 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks, overwhelming states who were already struggling to keep up with the number of claims. AdChoices The number of jobs lost in the last three weeks now exceeds the 15 million jobs lost during the Great Recession over a decade ago. Economic forecasts also predict the numbers will keep rising and the unemployment rate will top the 25% peak it hit during the Great Depression. "In its first month alone, the coronavirus crisis is poised to exceed any comparison to the Great Recession," Glassdoor Senior Economist Daniel Zhao said in a statement to Politico. "The new normal for UI claims will be the canary in the coal mine for how long effects of the crisis will linger for the millions of newly unemployed Americans." "We are nowhere near the end of this," tweeted Heidi Shierholz, policy director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. "The labor market has been upended." Trump signed a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus package last month that significantly expanded unemployment benefits for those who have been laid off as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. But NPR reported that obtaining those benefits can be a huge challenge as state unemployment offices are overwhelmed and people are unable to get in touch with anyone to file claims. The president, meanwhile, has dramatically shifted his message to the public over the last several months. He initially downplayed the risk of the coronavirus, called it a Democratic "hoax," and insisted it was no more dangerous than the flu and that the US was well prepared to handle it. As the disease gained a stronger foothold in the country around mid-March, Trump acknowledged the severity of the crisis and claimed he "felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." He pivoted to focus on the economy near the end of last month and said the US would "be open for business" again "very soon," despite public health officials warning that preemptively lifting stay-at-home orders would exacerbate the outbreak. But Trump doubled down, saying "we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself." In recent days, Trump has become even more aggressive, lashing out at reporters who question his administration's preparedness in the early days of the pandemic and falsely claiming he has "total" authority to compel governors to reopen their states' economies. | |
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| 04-15-20 05:47am - 1672 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Kirk Cousins: Playing games without fans due to coronavirus would be ‘refreshing’ But the question is: how can you play football if you are obeying the 6-foot-distance rule? Will the players keep at least 6 feet away from each other? Will everyone wear surgical gowns and surgical masks on the football field? And will the football be dis-infected every time someone touches it? Enquiring minds want to know: --------- --------- Kirk Cousins: Playing games without fans due to coronavirus would be ‘refreshing’ Yahoo Sports Ryan Young Apr 15th 2020 4:51AM Nobody knows what the NFL season will look like this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought the sports world to a complete halt over the last month. Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins, however, thinks that there are “creative and unique ways” to ensure that the season takes place at least in some form. One of the options many have floated is to simply play games without having fans in attendance. While that would undoubtedly provide for a strange atmosphere — and still put players, coaches, officials, staff and more at risk for contracting the virus — Cousins said Tuesday that he actually wouldn’t mind playing in an empty stadium. In a way, he said, it would be kind of nice. “Honestly, we practice every day in an empty grass area and pump in fake crowd noise for away games,” Cousins said, via ESPN. “But more often than not, you’re used to it. OTA practices don’t have a lot of pomp and circumstance to them. “So honestly to go out and just play the game would kind of be refreshing, a breath of fresh air, to just let us know that we don’t have to have all the smoke and the fire, we can just play football.” Cousins threw for more than 3,600 yards and 26 touchdowns while completing better than 69 percent of his passes last season, his eighth in the league. There were more than 580,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States as of Tuesday night and nearly 1,700 in Minnesota. At least one notable health expert, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, told The New York Times last week that he didn’t think it would be a “plausible possibility” for larger gatherings like conferences, concerts and athletic events to return until “fall 2021 at the earliest.” Regardless, Cousins doesn’t care how it shakes out. He just wants to play. “As long as we’re playing the game, I won’t have a lot of complaints,” Cousins said, via ESPN. “And hopefully if it’s still not returned to normal, we can find a way to make it work.” | |
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| 04-15-20 05:37am - 1672 days | #1608 | |
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Real news: Donald Trump, the stable genius President of the United States, is saving money for the US. He plans to halt funding for WHO (World Health Organization). The coronovirus is old news. Why spend money on old news, when you can spend it on building a wall to keep out dirty Mexicans? And if there is any money left over, build a wall to keep out sneaky Canadians, who come into our country without a passport. Trump is a hero, who is leading the fight against the coronavirus. And he does not want to waste money on an organization that will fight the virus in other parts of the world. And that was nice to China, who probably started the disease, along with dirt bag Democrats and other evil persons that don't respect or admire Trump. Trump, the leader of Free White Men in the USA. --------------- --------------- UN Secretary-General rebukes Trump over plans to halt funding for WHO amid coronavirus pandemic Business Insider Sarah Al-Arshani Apr 15th 2020 5:27AM The UN Secretary-General said "now is not that time," in a rebuke to President Donald Trump's call to halt funding to the World Health Organization. Trump claims WHO mishandled the coronavirus outbreak and was too sympathetic to China. The United Nations Secretary-General rebuked President Donald Trump after he announced his plans to halt funding for the World Health Organization on Tuesday. In a statement, António Guterres wrote: "It is my belief that the World Health Organization must be supported, as it is absolutely critical to the world's efforts to win the war against COVID-19." WHO is an independent international organization that works with the UN. During Tuesday's White House press briefing, Trump was critical of the organization's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and claimed it enabled China to hide the real extent of the coronavirus outbreak. "With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have deep concerns whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible," Trump said during a press conference at the White House's Rose Garden. "The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion." However, despite his criticism of WHO, Trump has been accused of not responding quickly enough to the threat of the virus in the US, and some health care experts said early lockdowns could have saved lives. "As usual, Trump is looking to deflect blame for his own failures. After he wasted weeks calling COVID-19 as harmless as the flu. International cooperation on public health has never been more critical. Freezing funding for the World Health Organization will only make it worse," Rep. Adam Schiff said in a tweet. According to Reuters, the US contributes about 15% of the WHO budget, approximately $400 million. The organization has requested $1 billion to help fund initiatives to deal with the pandemic. "As it is not that time, it is also not the time to reduce the resources for the operations of the World Health Organization or any other humanitarian organization in the fight against the virus," Guterres wrote in his statement. "As I have said before, now is the time for unity and for the international community to work together in solidarity to stop this virus and its shattering consequences. " Trump has previously threatened to cut the WHO funding earlier this month as well after he accused them of being sympathetic to China. WHO receives $40 million from China. At a press conference, Trump became defensive after a reporter asked him how he could criticize WHO for praising China's transparency when he did the same thing in a late-January tweet. "I don't talk about China's transparency," Trump replied. "If I'm so good to China, how come I'm the one that closed our borders against China?" Guterres wrote that they'll be plenty of time after the pandemic subsides to learn and understand how it spread and managed to be destructive: "The lessons learned will be essential to effectively address similar challenges, as they may arise in the future. But now is not that time." | |
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| 04-15-20 05:21am - 1672 days | #1607 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Real news: Claiming credit where credit is due. Donald Trump, our beloved President and Commander-in-Chief, will have his name printed on paper checks of coronavirus relief payments. The Treasury confirmed that it won't be a signature, but "President Donald J. Trump" will be printed on the checks. The Washington Post, which first reported the story, said the process of adding Trump's name to the checks could slow their delivery by days. The Treasury Department official disputed that and said there would not be any delays. Anyone who works for the Treasury Department knows they must honor and obey Donald Trump, or risk getting fired. So even if they have to tell little white lies, that's all well and good, because keeping your job is more important than telling the truth. Which is what everyone knows, who is familiar with Donald J. Trump. Stay tuned for further developments on the coronavirus healthcare scam, which was started by sneaky Chinese and dirt bag Democrats (according to true blue Republicans who follow President Trump). ---------- ---------- Trump's name will appear on coronavirus relief checks NBC News Josh Lederman and Phil Helsel Apr 15th 2020 7:57AM Paper checks of coronavirus relief payments approved by Congress to be sent to Americans will have President Donald Trump's name printed on them, a Treasury Department official has confirmed to NBC News. It won't be a signature, but "President Donald J. Trump" will be printed on the fronts of the checks, the Treasury official confirmed. Congress last month passed a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package that includes direct cash payments of up to $1,200 for individuals, with an additional amount for children, as well as other measures. Trump signed it into law. The majority of coronavirus relief payments are expected to go out by direct deposit, but some people will get paper checks. The Treasury Department expects the checks to start going out next week. The Washington Post, which first reported the story, said the process of adding Trump's name to the checks could slow their delivery by days. The Treasury Department official disputed that and said there would not be any delays. "Economic Impact Payment checks are scheduled to go out on time and exactly as planned — there is absolutely no delay whatsoever," a Treasury Department spokesperson said in a statement. "In fact, we expect the first checks to be in the mail early next week which is well in advance of when the first checks went out in 2008 and well in advance of initial estimates." The move to add his name to the checks sparked criticism that Trump, who is aiming to be re-elected in November, is trying to get voters to believe he is giving them the coronavirus relief payments. It is Congress that passed the package that authorizes the payments. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted: "You are getting your money late because the President thinks it is more important that his name be on the check than that you are able to pay your bills on time." Walter Shaub Jr., who resigned as director of the independent Office of Government Ethics in July 2017 months before his term was to expire, tweeted that Trump was using the relief checks to promote himself. "Where you see the dying and suffering of your fellow Americans, Donald Trump sees another opportunity to promote himself — and, by extension, his reelection campaign. Corruption, you see, has its visionaries," Shaub wrote. The coronavirus epidemic has shut down large parts of the economy, and around 16 million people have filed for unemployment in the past few weeks. As of Tuesday night, there have been more than 606,500 cases of the coronavirus illness COVID-19 in the U.S., with more than 29,500 deaths, according to NBC News' tally. | |
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| 04-14-20 08:22am - 1673 days | #1606 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Real news: President Donald Trump rushes to help the oil and gas industries. He wants higher prices for oil and gas, to help the companies in those industries make money. What a wonderful man. Since the coronavirus epidemic has forced a lot of people into isolation, demand for oil has dropped, and oil prices have dropped. That is part of the reason Trump wants to end the stay-at-home and get people out of the home, to help the economy. So what if a few more people die from the virus? Death is a natural part of life. Go, Trump, the Man with a heart of gold. Force the US governors to stop the restrictions on health care, since health care is a waste of federal monies anyway. And if the US governors don't go along with Trump's plans, declare martial law, and have the US Armed Forces arrest any governors who don't obey our commander-in-chief. | |
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| 04-14-20 05:58am - 1673 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
I Feel Myself A good site, mainly female masturbation, with some lesbian and b/g. Quest for Orgasm is a channel in the LetsDoeIt network that is female masturbation for orgasm. My favorite channel in the LetsDoeIt network is The White Boxxx, a very glamcore channel where they can make the women look like goddesses. But Quest for Orgasm shows women masturbating to orgasm, sometimes multiple orgasms. yonitale.com was female orgasm, with a lot of pretty or beautiful models. It was masturbation. No b/g sex. But they closed a little while ago. A shame, because it was a fine site. Lots of attractive models. I don't consider any of the sites I recommended extreme. Just female masturbation. No rough or kinky sex. Maybe my recommendations are not in line with what you are looking for: those sites were girls looking for orgasm, and you seem to want: Female edging / orgasm control / denial: which seems to imply some cruelty/sadism/masochism. Whatever. A different type of sex play. Edited on Apr 14, 2020, 06:12am | |
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| 04-13-20 12:38pm - 1674 days | #1605 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Real news: This is a woman who deserves to be a top aide to Donald Trump. She is able to tell people that she is an independent thinker, who is not afraid of the coronavirus. She also said that she would never put anyone's kids at risk, so maybe she believes that her child can lick instruments that other kids will use, and the other kids will not become sick: or if they do become sick, that the sickness cannot be linked to her child's actions. Except the mother posted a video showing her daughter licking tongue depressors and putting them back in the holder where they could be used to infect other children. Can the mother use the stupidity defense? Or the Donald Trump defense, that she is innocent until proven guilty? ------------- ------------- Girl Licks Tongue Depressor in Doctor's Office, Mom Arrested Mom Arrested After Daughter Licks Tongue Depressor in Doctor’s Office July 24, 2019 / Wellness, Family Health / By Sara Gramling There seems to be a new, disturbing trend of licking things in public places. The most notable, perhaps, is the girl in Texas who opened up a container of ice cream in a grocery store and licked the top. Then there was another licking incident that occurred earlier this month in Jacksonville, Florida, when a mom recorded her daughter licking a tongue depressor in a doctor’s office and shared it via Snapchat. Cori E. Ward, a local mom, was at the All About Kids & Families Medical Center and filmed a video of her daughter licking the tongue depressors. In the video, which shows someone reaching in and taking the wood depressors, there a sign that’s visible that says, “Please do not touch medical supplies. Thank you.” Unfortunately, the warning was not heeded and in the video you can see the young girl take out one of the tongue depressors, lick it, and put it right back into the container. The mom, who posted the video to Snapchat, added, “Don’t tell me how to live my life.” There are laws, though, that dictate how you’re going to live your life, at least in certain ways. On July 12, Ward was arrested on a felony charge for “tampering with a consumer product without regard for possible death or bodily injury.” Ward told the local news station, WJAX, “I mean honestly I wasn’t thinking. I know what it’s like to have to worry about your kids’ health and stuff. I would never put somebody else’s kid at risk.” All About Kids & Families Medical Center also spoke to WJAX, “Upon notification of this isolated incident, we contacted law enforcement to request a full and thorough investigation,” the doctor’s office said. “We immediately removed all materials and containers from the specific exam room and re-sanitized our entire facility.” The moral of the story? Stop licking things that don’t belong to you in public! Stay tuned for updates about Cori E. Ward and this developing story. Sara Gramling | |
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| 04-13-20 12:22pm - 1674 days | #1604 | |
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Real news: Trump slams Chris Wallace, a reporter for Fox News, for being critical of Trump's actions in the fight against the coronavirus. If Trump were the Supreme Dictator of the United States, he could have Chris Wallace arrested, tried for treason, and shot. Or he could have secret assassins execute Chris Wallace, and deny he had anything to do with Chris Wallace's death. But until Trump becomes Supreme Dictator, he can only fire off tweets, his not-so-secret weapon, to bring down Chris Wallace, a scum-sucking reporter who lies and spreads false rumors about our wonderful, stable-genius president. ------------------ Trump slams critical Chris Wallace, Fox News HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Apr 13th 2020 8:36AM President Donald Trump on Sunday took time out from his COVID-19 fight to check what Fox News was saying about him — and he came up furious at Chris Wallace. “What the hell is happening to Fox News?” Trump tweeted. He slammed “Mike Wallace wannabe” Chris Wallace and said he’s convinced the Fox News host is “even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd” of MSNBC. He complained that it’s a “whole new ballgame” now at Fox. Trump didn’t detail what specifically set him off. But Wallace featured Johns Hopkins health expert Tom Inglesby, who said on Fox News Sunday that had the Trump administration taken earlier action against COVID-19, “we’d be in a much better position” now. Trump has referred to Mike Wallace, Chris Wallace’s late father, in the past when attacking the Fox News host. “One of us has a daddy problem, and it’s not me,” Wallace quipped last year about Trump’s insults. Mike Wallace had a reputation as a take-no-prisoners investigative reporter for CBS who would have likely been far harder on Trump than his son. Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, referred in his interview with Wallace to a New York Times report Saturday that Trump ignored serious warnings from his health experts and waited precious weeks before taking action to contain COVID-19. “If we’d acted on some of those warnings earlier, we’d be in a much better position in terms of diagnostics and possibly masks and possibly personal protective equipment and getting our hospitals ready,” Inglesby said. AdChoices Wallace himself referred to the Times article detailing a delay of more than a month as “stunning.” Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser also joined Wallace Sunday to discuss data suggesting that the worst of the coronavirus crisis won’t begin to ebb in her district until the end of May. Wallace asked her if that means she will ignore guidelines and a timetable pushed by Trump, who is aiming for May 1 as the start of a return back to business as usual. Bowser pointed out that there have been absolutely no stay-at-home guidelines anywhere from the Trump administration, even though his top health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has recommended them. “We’re going to follow what the data on the ground tells us,” said Bowser. “As we have heard directly, the president hasn’t issued any stay-at-home orders for any jurisdiction in the United States of America.” The “most optimistic modeling points to interventions remaining in place through the end of May,” she added. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 04-13-20 12:12pm - 1674 days | #1603 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Donald Trump, our beloved president, loves the Post Office. But he is afraid the Post Office may be forced to become a private organization. This would stop the US Government from giving handouts to the Post Office. And make the Post Office a strong business, that would stand on its own two feet. Donald Trump, the stable genius who knew that the Post Office was running their business in a poor manner, depending on handouts from the Federal Government. No more. Let the Post Office run its business as a good business should. ------------- ------------- Coronavirus may give President Trump a long-sought chance to privatize the Postal Service Yahoo News Hunter Walker Apr 13th 2020 12:49PM WASHINGTON — Amid a cash crunch threatening to put the U.S. Postal Service out of business, the Trump administration is being accused of blocking bipartisan efforts to provide money to the agency as part of a long-sought conservative effort to privatize mail delivery. The coronavirus pandemic has led to a precipitous drop in mail deliveries, worsening a crisis for an already financially troubled service. Last week, Postmaster General Megan Brennan said financial woes exacerbated by the pandemic could cause the agency to run out of money by October. The $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package passed on March 25 did not provide assistance for the Postal Service, despite bipartisan support for the funding, according to an aide to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Postal Service. Instead, the legislation only allowed the Postal Service to borrow $10 billion from the Treasury Department. “There was bipartisan support for direct appropriations to go to the Postal Service,” said a committee aide, who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin “said you can have the loan or you can have nothing.” Yet in the weeks since the stimulus passed, the Treasury Department has not approved the loan. A spokesperson for Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, did not respond to a request for comment. While the White House will not comment on the reason for the delay, American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein said the administration is using the loan to try to push privatization. He blames administration “idealogues,” including Mnuchin, for using the crisis “to push their privatization agenda.” A spokesperson for the Treasury Department said Mnuchin and the White House are “supportive” of the loan. “Treasury, including Secretary Mnuchin, has been in direct contact with the USPS multiple times this week, and we are working closely with the USPS to put the new $10 billion line of credit with the USPS into effect,” the Treasury spokesperson said in an email. While the administration says it is working with the Postal Service, Ronnie Stutts, the president of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, accused the White House and Treasury Department of blocking postal funding as part of an effort to privatize the agency. “Everything was going good with this until they got to the White House,” Stutts said. The Treasury Department and Trump want “to privatize postal service,” he added. “There's no two ways about it. And when it got there, he killed it. They said no. He was not going to give us any money.” While the Postal Service is a quasi government agency, it is in a unique position since it has not been funded by taxpayer dollars since the 1980s. Instead, the post office relies on its own revenue from mail services. While the Postal Service has made a profit, it has been facing financial woes since 2006, when legislation was passed requiring the Postal Service to pre-fund retirement for its workers. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Postal Service was already in dire straits with its liabilities and debt vastly outpacing revenue. Last year, the U.S. Government Accountability Office described the “overall financial picture” of the Postal Service as “deteriorating and unsustainable.” The coronavirus has dramatically worsened this situation by causing a large decline in mail volume due to decreased commercial activity. The Postal Service saw a 24.2 percent decline in delivered mail volume during the week of March 29 to April 4 and delivered-mail volume was down over 30 percent for the first three days of last week, according to a presentation made by the Postal Service and distributed to members of Congress last week. The presentation, which was obtained by Yahoo News, predicted that there would be 35 billion fewer pieces of mail in the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends in September. The Postal Service is forecasting the declines to continue through the next fiscal year leading to a $23 billion increase in net losses over the next 18 months. The presentation said the agency hopes to receive a $25 billion grant to cover losses related to the pandemic. It also said the Postal Service needs a $25 billion modernization grant to “weather the longer term economic impacts” as well as debt relief and additional borrowing authority. A spokesperson for the Postal Service declined to answer questions and referred Yahoo News to a statement Brennan, the postmaster general, released on Friday describing the agency’s stimulus needs. Stutts, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association president, said that even if Mnuchin approves the loans authorized by the last stimulus, it will not be enough to solve the Postal Service’s financial problems. “Right now it’s approximately $11 billion that we’ve defaulted and it’s about 5.5 billion each year to pre-fund retirement. We just don’t have the money,” Stutts said. “It’s not going to be paid back. And if we borrowed $10 billion, it’s just going to put us further in debt.” On April 7, during a coronavirus task force press briefing, President Trump dismissed allegations he was essentially trying to end the U.S. Postal Service. “Oh, I’m the reason the Postal Service — the Postal Service has lost billions of dollars every year for many, many years. So I’m the demise? This is a new one. I’m now the demise of the Postal Service,” Trump said. Trump went on to blame the situation on “internet companies,” including Amazon, which he has frequently accused of not paying enough for its use of the U.S. Postal Service. “They lose money every time they deliver a package for Amazon or these other internet companies, these other companies that deliver,” he said. “They drop everything in the Post Office and they say, ‘You deliver it.’” While the White House and Treasury Department did not respond to questions about whether the president or Mnuchin want to see the Postal Service privatized, they have signaled support for this approach in the past. In 2018, Trump issued an executive order that created a postal task force to identify potential ways to improve the agency’s financial woes. Mnuchin led that task force, and its final report advocated selling off parts of the service to private companies. One major concern about privatization is that the Postal Service has a universal service obligation that requires it to deliver mail for equal rates anywhere in the country. This includes rural routes that are not necessarily profitable. Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union, noted private companies do not have any similar obligation. Other companies, he said, can pick and choose where they want to go. “The Postal Service can’t, shouldn’t and won’t,” he said. | |
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| 04-13-20 12:02pm - 1674 days | #1602 | |
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Trump is the Man. He is more powerful than all the states combined. If he disagrees with a state, he can overrule the state. Also, states can ask for aid from the US government, but they can only ask. Trump is the one who decides whether he wants to give the states what they ask for. The coronavirus is only a bad flu. Don't worry about the virus. Don't be afraid. Be like Donald Trump, the man who is strong and courageous and not afraid of the common cold. Vote for Trump, the man who will save us from the coronavirus epidemic. The federal stockpile of emergency supplies is basically exhausted. So if the states ask for help, they are shit out of luck. The federal government has done more than enough to help the states. The states must now do it themselves. Trump, the stable leader who had done more than enough to help the states. If the states are not prepared, that is the fault of the states, not the federal government. We need to hold a public rally in Washington DC, where millions of Americans hold hands and pray for the soul of Donald Trump, God's messenger on earth, and the hope of Americans everywhere to lead the fight against the coronavirus. ---------- ---------- Trump claims he can overrule states on ending COVID-19 shutdowns Yahoo News Christopher Wilson Apr 13th 2020 12:41PM With millions of Americans locked down at home and out of work, President Trump asserted on Monday his authority to reopen the country at a time of his choosing, although questions remain over the limits of his power because he is not the one who shut it down. “For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government,” tweeted Trump on Monday. “Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect. It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue. A decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!” The comments echo a statement Trump made at Friday’s White House briefing. “I like to allow governors to make decisions without overruling them, because from a constitutional standpoint, that’s the way it should be done,” said Trump. “If I disagreed, I would overrule a governor, and I have that right to do it. But I’d rather have them -- you can call it ‘federalist,’ you can call it ‘the Constitution,’ but I call it ‘the Constitution.’ I would rather have them make their decisions.” Over the last month, Trump has been an on-and-off-again supporter of social distancing steps to slow the pandemic. But he has not imposed such measures on the whole country — and probably could not, except by declaring martial law. He has advocated following CDC guidelines about limiting gatherings and social contact, washing hands and disinfecting surfaces. But steps such as closing schools, restaurants, theaters and shops have been taken by state or local officials, or by businesses themselves. Medical experts warn that attempts to reopen things too quickly could lead to a resurgence in the virus. Because there is no vaccine for the coronavirus, medical professionals battling the disease are at risk, and a surge of cases combined with a shortage of protective gear and intensive care beds could overwhelm hospitals. However, Trump has also been pushed by business leaders and conservative media personalities to get back to normal, seeking to reboot the economy that has seen millions of job losses over the last month. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, pushed back against Trump’s tweets on Monday. “It was our call through executive order … to go to essential businesses only versus having to make the tough decision to shut down non-essential businesses to going to groups of 10 or less in terms of social meetings and thing of that nature,” Sununu said in an interview with CNN. “What we did with restaurants with take-out orders. All of these are state executive orders and so therefore it would be up to the state and the governor to undo a lot of that.” Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, said Monday that he would be meeting with other governors in the region to discuss plans for reopening, with an announcement on details coming later in the day. On Sunday, Politico reported that the White House still had no roadmap of how to restart the economy. The outlet said that while they were seeking private business leaders for a second task force devoted to the economy they were struggling to finalize the list because “not all companies wanted to participate, said a handful of lobbyists, because some wanted to keep a low profile after Trump got into public spats with corporate giants like 3M over the production and sale of medical masks.” Trump does have the power of the bully pulpit because his daily briefings on the virus reach millions who still give him high marks for his response to the pandemic. There’s little reason to doubt that if Trump began broadcasting every day that it was time for Americans to return to their normal life, millions would heed his advice. But in jurisdictions where a governor or mayor had put restrictions in place, tweets or statements from Trump would not supersede those orders. There is also the question of whether businesses that typically draw crowds would see their regular business. Would younger people who are less at risk for the disease still flock to bars, as happened in many places on St. Patrick’s Day weekend? Probably. But would Major League Baseball or the National Basketball Association cram thousands into stadiums and arenas for games if medical experts were warning against it — risking headlines about how they helped spread the coronavirus in their city? What about movie theaters, concert venues, malls and airports? If the death toll continues to tick up and horror stories about churches, families and neighborhoods stricken by the virus spread, how eager will Americans be to get back to normal? If Congress fails to provide an adequate legislative response for working Americans — whether that’s increased unemployment insurance, direct cash payments or various types of debt or housing relief — then there will be pressure to get back to work, but if large parts of the population are still staying home, it’s difficult to imagine the economy or stock market quickly recovering the ground it has lost in the past month. Other countries have implemented legislation to reimburse businesses for a portion of their payrolls if they keep workers on the job, but the most recent legislation passed by Congress wasn’t nearly as robust. In late March, Trump proposed the idea of opening the country back up by this past Sunday’s Easter holiday because “I just thought it was a beautiful time. It would be a beautiful time, a beautiful timeline. It's a great day.” Amid warnings this could spark a new wave of infections, the White House backed off the idea. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who was a leader in the coronavirus response, made clear his view that the government’s first priority should be saving lives. “Protecting people and protecting our economy are not mutually exclusive,” DeWine said. “The fact is, we save our economy by first saving lives. And we have to do it in that order.” “Some of the messaging coming out of the administration doesn’t match,” said Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. “We don’t think that we’re going to be in any way ready to be out of this in five or six days or so, or whenever this 15 days is up from the time that they started this imaginary clock.” DeWine and Hogan are both Republicans. | |
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| 04-13-20 08:21am - 1674 days | #1601 | |
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Trump is the Man. He is in charge of the war against the coronavirus. He is the leader who will keep us safe. And Trump is such an extra-ordinary genius, he does not need to rely on fake health experts. So if Dr. Anthony Fauci is not supporting Trump 10,000%, Trump should fire Fauci, and get a better expert who will support Trump with his whole heart, mind, and body. Who needs Fauci when we have Trump? ------- ------- Trump retweets 'Fire Fauci' coronavirus message in Easter Sunday Twitter rampage HuffPost US Ed Mazza Apr 13th 2020 4:49AM President Donald Trump on Sunday retweeted a message from a supporter criticizing infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leaders of the White House effort to battle the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. And the message included a #FireFauci hashtag. The tweet was part of a flurry of messages Trump fired off on Sunday, many of which attacked the media: The message refers to a CNN interview on Sunday in which Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was asked about a report that his team pushed for earlier social distancing measures, but were rejected by the White House. CNN’s Jake Tapper asked if earlier action could have saved lives. “It’s very difficult to go back and say that,” Fauci said diplomatically, then added: “I mean, obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated.” Trump last month said he and Fauci “get along very well,” and called the highly respected infectious diseases specialist “extraordinary.” Fauci, for his part, has defended Trump as well. “The president has listened to what I have said and ... what the other people on the task force have said,” Fauci said in a radio interview last month. “When I made recommendations, he’s taken them. He’s never countered or overridden me.” Trump’s Sunday message ― part of an Easter tweetstorm attacking the media including Fox News host Chris Wallace― could signal a rift between the two. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 04-13-20 04:09am - 1674 days | #17 | |
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Doe Projects Part of the Let's Doe It network, which is listed. So should be easy to list this channel. | |
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| 04-12-20 03:00pm - 1675 days | #1600 | |
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Trump is a man with a heart of gold. He cares for all Americans. But he is also the father of our great country, and he wants to do right by all Americans. Therefore, he rejected wasting money on bailing out US Postal workers. The US Postal Workers are crooks and slum-type people who need to work to get paid. They don't deserve handouts. If they don't work, they won't get paid. And if they do work, then they need to find where the money is. Or go on unemployed job lines. Money for strong Americans. No money for the disloyal US Postal Workers. If postal workers really need money, they can take out personal loans. That's what Trump did when he funded his casinos in years past. And why he was forced to declare bankruptcy, washing out billions of dollars in losses. Trump is a real businessman. The US Postal Service needs to become a real business. ---------- ---------- Trump rejected approving a bailout package that would rescue the US Postal Service: Report Business Insider Grace Panetta Apr 12th 2020 3:44PM The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has plunged the US Postal Service into dire financial straits, as more Americans than ever rely on post offices to deliver necessary medicine and supplies, especially in underserved rural areas. And as the coronavirus crisis has pushed over a dozen states to postpone their presidential primaries, move to conduct them entirely by mail, or both, the Postal Service's lack of funding could impact ongoing and upcoming 2020 elections by harming states' efforts to expand absentee voting and vote-by-mail. House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and Rep. Gerry Conolly, who runs the subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service, sounded the alarm that the agency could run out of funding altogether by June if Congress doesn't act soon. "Based on a number of briefings and warnings this week about a critical fall-off in mail across the country, it has become clear that the Postal Service will not survive the summer without immediate help from Congress and the White House," the two said in a March 23 joint statement, calling on Congress to appropriate $25 million in emergency funds to the agency. But President Donald Trump, who has been vocally hostile to the idea of expanding vote by mail, is actively opposed to any measures to help the Post Office and refused to sign the CARES Act stimulus package if it included a bailout for the agency, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. "We told them very clearly that the president was not going to sign the bill if [money for the Postal Service] was in it," an administration official told the Post. "I don't know if we used the v-bomb, but the president was not going to sign it, and we told them that." The significant decline in Americans using the Postal Service, which operates as a semi-independent government agency that doesn't run on taxpayer funding, is only exacerbating existing financial woes which were manufactured in part by Congress. The agency is especially burdened by 2006 legislation that required the agency to pre-fund 75 years' worth of employee pensions in advance. The service saw its annual losses double to $8.8 billion in 2019, and currently has $11 billion in outstanding debt. In addition to the agency's chronic lack of funding, postal workers have reported facing hazardous conditions on the job due to the coronavirus crisis with little to no protective equipment. Postal Services employees have told outlets including Business Insider, the Federal News Network and ProPublica that while they are designated as essential employees and come in contact with hundreds of pieces of mail every day, they lack consistent access to masks, hand sanitizer, and gloves to stay safe on the job. While the Postal Service maintains they are providing mail carriers with the appropriate protective equipment, two postal workers told Insider's Ashley Collman that they've had to make their own hand sanitizer, purchase their own gloves out-of-pocket, work in unsanitary mail trucks, and encounter people not following proper social distancing protocols while working their routes. Other workers told ProPublica that they were pressured to continue to work their routes and not take sick days even while experiencing coronavirus symptoms, which the agency disputed. So far, at least 500 of the Postal Service's 600,000-person workforce have tested positive for COVID-19 and at least 19 have died from complications stemming from the disease, the Post reported. While the stimulus package signed into law by President Donald Trump includes $400 million in election assistance grants to states, election access advocates argue that amount doesn't come close to what's required to ensure every state can run a fair election that gives every voter an opportunity to cast a ballot. The non-partisan Brennan Center for Justice estimated in a recent report that Congress needs to allocate at least $2 billion to states in order to ensure that states can implement safeguards including online voter registration, expanded no-excuse absentee voting and vote by mail, and enacted measures to make polling places safer. Tiffany Muller, the President of the advocacy group Let America Vote, told Insider in a statement that the $2 billion in election assistance funding they and the Brennan Center are calling on Congress to allocate should "include pre-paid postage for all ballots so everyone's voice can be heard regardless of income," adding, "if additional funds are necessary to ensure the United States Postal Service can operate, Congress should provide those funds." And while the stimulus bill extended the Postal Service greater flexibility to borrow up to $10 billion from the federal government, it didn't extend USPS any emergency government funding or eliminate its $11 billion in outstanding debt, two of the measures that Maloney and Connolly called for. The Post reported that while Congress initially intended on giving the Postal Service a $13 billion grant, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stepped up in to quash the grant, telling lawmakers, "you can have a loan, or you can have nothing at all." "To give it $10 billion of additional credit is, frankly, a meaningless gesture. It's a slap in the face, and it's not what they need," Connolly told the Federal News Network. "They don't need more debt capacity, they need debt forgiveness." | |
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| 04-12-20 07:37am - 1675 days | #1599 | |
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Real news: Donald Trump, the most stable genius president the United States has ever known, used his genius thinking to craft a plan to overcome the coronavirus. He wanted the virus to wash over the US, and to allow herd immunity to build. So what if some people died? The bulk of the population would still be here, alive and kicking. And in gratitude, they might even elect Trump as President For Life. What a man. What a hero. Also, the US has more coronavirus cases than any other country in the world. We are #1. That's another feather in Trump's hat. Death is a natural process. If the US has more deaths from the coronavirus, Trump can proclaim that he is the leader that saved America from the pandemic. Vote for Trump, the most glorious, bestest president the US has ever had. ----------- ----------- Trump reportedly asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether it was possible to allow the coronavirus to 'wash over' the US Business Insider Tom Porter Apr 12th 2020 8:30AM President Trump considered allowing the novel coronavirus to "wash over" the US, The Washington Post reported Saturday. At the time some experts believed that the best way to deal with the crisis was to allow "herd immunity" to build. But Trump's top scientific adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, warned the president that the policy would mean "many people would die." The US acted in a slower and more piecemeal way to the coronavirus crisis, and currently has more cases than any other country in the world. President Donald Trump weighed allowing the novel coronavirus to "wash over" the US as he considered strategies for dealing with the growing crisis in March, The Washington Post reported. In a Situation Room meeting on March 14 — the same day Trump extended his travel ban to the UK and the Republic of Ireland in a bid to slow the spread of the pandemic — Trump reportedly suggested allowing the US to develop "herd immunity." The controversial approach — advocated by some experts at the time — involved letting the disease spread on the assumption that many would develop only mild symptoms and widespread immunity to the disease would begin to build. "Why don't we let this wash over the country?" Trump reportedly asked Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the top scientific experts on the president's coronavirus task force. Two anonymous sources familiar with the president's remarks confirmed the details of the meeting to the publication. According to the report, Fauci initially didn't understand what Trump meant by the phrase "wash over." When he realized what Trump was saying, he became alarmed and laid out the likely consequences. "Mr. President," Fauci responded, according to The Post. "Many people would die." Trump was not alone in backing the "herd immunity" strategy at the time. Top government scientific advisers in the UK reportedly initially backed a "herd immunity" strategy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially resisted the sweeping lockdown measures that were being put in place in other European countries. Related: Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020 It was only when new projections from scientists at Imperial College in London found that 500,000 could die if the disease was allowed to spread largely unchecked that the government abruptly changed course and introduced compulsory lockdown measures on March 23. Sweden has also resisted introducing sweeping lockdown measures, with government scientists there saying that if introduced too soon, such measures can be counterproductive. With the death toll in Sweden rising, such measures could soon be introduced, according to reports. But the government insists no such plans are imminent. Trump has veered between advocating widespread lockdown measures, and claiming that the measures could do more damage than the disease itself. Before extending lockdown measures for a month in early April he had previously considered ignoring the advice of his top scientists and lifting the lockdown in Easter. In tweets he has claimed that "we can't have the cure be worse than the problem" and that there is an urgent need to mitigate the damage to the US economy. According to The Post, though Trump accepted Fauci's warning in the March meeting, he is continuing to push for an early reopening of the US economy. Read the original article on Business Insider | |
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| 04-11-20 04:09am - 1676 days | #16 | |
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Zemani. Used to be listed at PU and TBP. As a side note: If you drop the listing of a site, it would be helpful, instead, to list the site, with a note such as "Not doing business with this site," even if you can't or don't want to list a specific reason. This will at least give people a heads-up that there might be problems with the site. Even better would be to list some reason why PU or TBP does not do business with the site, if some legal-proof explanation could be given. | |
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| 04-10-20 05:43pm - 1677 days | #1598 | |
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Real news: Donald Trump, the most stable genius President the United States has ever had, is now deciding the fate of the nation: when will the US return to normal. Forget what the health experts say. Donald is ruminating all the facts, far more than a bunch of health experts like medical doctors and scientist can comprehend. Donald will go by his gut, which is far more important than what health experts can do. As president, Trump is the one who has to make the hard decisions. Thank God for genius Trump with his stable genius gut. "But I’m going to surround myself with the greatest minds. Not only the greatest minds in numerous different businesses, including the business of politics and reason and we’re going to make a decision and hopefully it’s going to be the right decision. I will say this, we want to get it open as soon as we can.” The business of politics and the business of business are important factors in when to say it's time to start going out and meeting friends and people and starting to be normal, because the coronavirus is history. Thank God for Trump, the Man with the genius IQ. Also, Trump explained that "Staying at home leads to death also and it’s very traumatic for this country. Staying at home, if you look at numbers, that leads to a different kind of death, perhaps, but it leads to death also.” So, maybe it's better to stop staying home, to go out and buy things, and mingle with people. And if you die, it's better than dying at home: you are going down fighting, which is the American way of life. --------------- On post-COVID-19 reopening, Trump weighs 'biggest decision of my life' Yahoo News David Knowles Apr 10th 2020 5:45PM President Trump said Friday that determining when it will be safe to drop social distancing guidelines to stop the spread of the coronavirus is "the biggest decision I've ever had to make.” With hospitalization rates from COVID-19 falling in New York and California, but the overall number of cases still rising in the United States, Trump spent much of Friday’s briefing by the coronavirus task force addressing the question of when the country could expect to return to normal. While state governors hold the power to lift restrictions on that have crippled economic activity across the country, Trump framed the issue as his own burden. “I don’t know if I’ve had a bigger decision than that, if you think, right? I mean think of that decision, somebody said, ‘It’s totally up to the president,’ and it is. I don’t know if I’ve had a bigger decision,” Trump said. “But I’m going to surround myself with the greatest minds. Not only the greatest minds in numerous different businesses, including the business of politics and reason and we’re going to make a decision and hopefully it’s going to be the right decision. I will say this, we want to get it open as soon as we can.” Trump said that next week he would announce the formation of an “opening our country council” designed to coordinate jump-starting the economy that would include some state governors. But Trump repeatedly stressed that he would ultimately be the one in charge. “I can listen to 35 people. At the end, I’ve got to make a decision, and I didn’t think of it until yesterday, I said, ‘you know this is a big decision.’ I want to be guided,” Trump said. “I want to be guided by them [Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx], I’m going to be guided by our vice president. I’m going to make a decision based on a lot of different opinions. Some will maybe disagree and some will — I’d love to see it where they don’t disagree.” One key question at the briefing was raised by Jeff Mason of Reuters, who noted that the statistical models now predicting a lower number of total deaths from COVID-19 — as few as 60,000, down from a range of 100,000 to 240,000 — “are based on social distancing continuing through May.” He continued: “If you were to open the economy on May 1 or sometime during that month would that impact the models in terms of the deaths that you expect?” Trump quickly turned the microphone over to Birx, who conceded the premise of the question — that the modeling does assume a continuation of social-distancing precautions through the end of next month — but quickly segued to discussing how “the models are informed by the data and you can see how much that model has shifted on the amazing work of the American people.” In a complex answer that invoked “multivariate analysis” and the widening “confidence bands” on the graphs of expected deaths, she implied that other steps, such as contact tracing, which some states have put into effect, could make it feasible to relax some of the more stringent social-distancing guidelines. Trump then reclaimed the lectern to give a more direct answer, based on his long-standing desire not to have “a cure that’s worse than the disease”: “Couldn’t it lead to death? Staying at home leads to death also and it’s very traumatic for this country. Staying at home, if you look at numbers, that leads to a different kind of death, perhaps, but it leads to death also.” Still, the president acknowledged that abandoning social distancing too soon could result in new flare-ups of the virus, as have been seen in countries like South Korea and Japan. All of these factors, Trump said, were factoring into his decision. “I’m going to have to make a decision and I only hope to God it’s the right decision. But I would say, without question, it’s the biggest decision that I’ve ever had to make.” | |
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| 04-05-20 09:56am - 1682 days | #1597 | |
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Trump agrees that the Navy captain should be fired for sending a letter asking for help with the coronavirus. The captain is in charge of a nuclear-powered ship. So what if the crew members are in danger from the virus. They are Navy men. They should man up and tell the virus "We're not afraid of a common cold." That's what Trump has done. The Navy men should do the same. And to make the letter public, exposing the Navy to shame with a plea for help? Fuck the men, and fuck the captain. You can't say, write, or message that you need help fighting a virus. Trump, leader of the World of Free White Men Everywhere. The captain should have let his 5000 crew members get sick and die before he asked for help with burying them. And if they died, he could have asked for help in a classified tweet, which is much better than writing a letter. Also, what if an enemy had read the letter? They would have discovered the ship was in trouble. And they could have attacked the ship. So the captain should be tried for treason. Loose lips sink ships. Remember the Alamo!!! ---------- ---------- Trump says the fired Navy commander's letter pleading for help for his coronavirus-stricken ship 'looked terrible' and was 'not appropriate' Business Insider mmark@businessinsider.com (Michelle Mark) Apr 5th 2020 8:26AM President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday he agreed "100%" with the Navy's decision to fire the commander who sent a letter pleading for help with the coronavirus outbreak on his ship. "I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter? I mean, this isn't a class on literature. This is a captain of a massive ship that's nuclear-powered," Trump said. Navy officials said they fired Capt. Brett Crozier because he bypassed the chain of command by sending the letter, and wasn't careful with who the information was sent to. Crozier has been hailed in the wake of his firing, with his sailors giving him a raucous send-off and chanting his name as he left the ship in Guam. President Donald Trump on Saturday bashed Capt. Brett Crozier, the fired Navy commander who wrote a letter demanding assistance with the coronavirus outbreak on his ship that sickened dozens of sailors. Trump said he agreed "100%" with the Navy's decision to fire the commander, though he acknowledged he didn't "know much about it." Navy officials removed Crozier from command on Thursday, several days after he sent a four-page letter to senior military officials pleading for help from the Pentagon as the virus spread throughout the ship. The letter was then leaked to the media. The acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told media the dismissal was because Crozier circumvented the chain of command when he sent the letter, and wasn't careful with "who that information went to." "He wrote a letter. The letter was a five-page letter from a captain. And the letter was all over the place," Trump told reporters at his Saturday press briefing, inaccurately stating the number of pages. "That's not appropriate. I don't think that's appropriate." In the letter, Crozier had described the impossible feat of implementing quarantines and social-distancing guidelines, noting that the warship had major space limitations. He urged the military officials to remove most of the 4,800 service members aboard the ship and provide space to quarantine on shore in Guam, saying he knew it was an "extraordinary measure," but that it was a "necessary risk." "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die," Crozier wrote. "If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors." In his Saturday press briefing, Trump said he thought the letter "looked terrible." "I thought it was terrible what he did, to write a letter? I mean, this isn't a class on literature. This is a captain of a massive ship that's nuclear-powered," Trump said. "And he shouldn't be talking that way in a letter. He could call and ask, and suggest." After Crozier was fired, several videos went viral showing the send-off the sailors gave him. Crozier walked off the ship in Guam to raucous cheers and applause, with sailors chanting Crozier's name. The Navy announced Saturday that 155 people aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt had tested positive for COVID-19, none were hospitalized, and 44% of the ship's crew had been tested. So far, 1,548 sailors have been moved ashore, and the ship will keep enough sailors aboard "to sustain essential services and sanitize the ship in port," the Navy said. More from Business Insider: Trump reportedly dismissed January coronavirus warnings from Health Secretary Alex Azar as 'alarmist' | |
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| 04-03-20 05:09pm - 1684 days | #1595 | |
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Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the most stable genius president the US has ever had, reveals that most people are mistaken about the Federal Government. The stockpiles of much-needed supplies that states were requesting are not meant for the use of the states: “The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.” Federal law is above state law. And federal supplies are meant for the federal government, not for states. (That's why Trump is a federal employee, and Jared Kushner works for the federal government, not a state government. Trump and Kushner are too smart to work for a state.) ----------- ----------- Jared Kushner ripped for saying 'our stockpile' isn't meant for states to use HuffPost US Ed Mazza Apr 3rd 2020 9:34AM Jared Kushner, son-in-law of and adviser to President Donald Trump, declared on Thursday that the stockpiles of much-needed supplies governors were requesting to help with the coronavirus pandemic weren’t actually meant for the states. “The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.” At another point in the briefing, Kushner patted himself and the administration on the back, claiming, “We’ve done things that the federal government has never done before, quicker than they’ve ever done it before.” Kushner also insisted that they had found and distributed them “where we anticipate there will be needs.” But his explanation about the federal stockpile and its purpose didn’t sit right with many ― and was at odds with the statement on the Strategic National Stockpile website: “When state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency.” The website also noted that the stockpile could “resupply state and local public health agencies in a catastrophic health event.” Twitter users were quick to school Kushner and wonder who the “our” in his statement referred to, if not the people of the United States: AdChoices This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 04-03-20 04:47pm - 1684 days | #1594 | |
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Donald Trump, the most stable genius the US has ever had, wants face masks to stop going to Canada. Why should masks go to Canada, one of our known enemies, who have tried to lie and sabotage our efforts in the current health care crisis? If Canadian doctors and nurses enter America to help our citizens, they don't need masks. God will protect them. And the peoples back in Canada also don't need any masks, if they are God-fearing people who worship in the right way. God bless America, the land of the Free White Men. Amen. Edit: If Trump fires a few guided missiles into Canada, he can claim he's cleared up the coronavirus threat from coming down into the US. Great idea? ------- ------- 3M fires back at Trump over order to produce more face masks The Associated Press DAVID KOENIG and ZEKE MILLER Apr 3rd 2020 3:13PM Manufacturing giant 3M pushed back Friday against criticism from President Donald Trump over production of face masks that are badly needed by American health care workers. The company said it has been producing as many masks as possible for the U.S. “over the last several weeks and months.” 3M also said the administration asked it to stop exporting medical-grade masks to Canada and Latin America, which the company said raises “significant humanitarian implications” and will backfire by causing other countries to retaliate against the U.S. The unusual but not unprecedented spat between the president and a leading American manufacturer broke out after Trump directed heads of the Homeland Security Department and Federal Emergency Management Agency to use their authority under the 1950 Defense Production Act to acquire the “appropriate” number of N95 respirators from 3M and any of its affiliates. The N95 masks, also called respirators, provide more protection against the new coronavirus than ordinary surgical masks. Governors and hospital officials around the country have warned of a dire shortage of masks and other protective gear for health care workers treating people with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The president followed up his order with a barbed tweet Thursday night at the Minnesota-based manufacturer. “We hit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their Masks. ‘P Act’ all the way. Big surprise to many in government as to what they were doing - will have a big price to pay!” Trump tweeted. The events leading to Trump's order against 3M began weeks ago. A White House official said when Vice President Mike Pence visited a 3M factory in Minnesota last month, he was told that 3M had 35 million N95 masks that were intended for commercial uses but could be used by health care workers. This week, after 3M received liability protection that it sought, the White House learned that not all of those masks were ready for the U.S. market, the official said. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, has been leading administration contacts with the company to learn where the masks went and why some were not available as promised. The situation led Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss events that have not been made public. AdChoices The company said it has been working with the Trump administration since last weekend and has shipped masks that it produces overseas back to the U.S., including 10 million N95 masks 3M made in China. 3M also raised concerns over what it said was a request by the administration to stop exporting masks to Canada and Latin American countries, where the company is a critical mask supplier. “Ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same, as some have already done. If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease,” the company said. “That is the opposite of what we and the Administration, on behalf of the American people, both seek.” The White House did not immediately comment on the company’s statement about limiting exports. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said essential health supplies and workers flow both ways across the border, and blocking exports of 3M masks would be a mistake. “I think of the thousands of nurses who cross the bridge in Windsor to work in the Detroit medical system every day,” Trudeau said. “These are things American rely on.” Doug Ford, premier of Ontario province, said he protested to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, expressing concern that Trump could create a shortage of masks for Canadian doctors and nurses. “The health and well-being of our frontline workers depend on these essential medical items and now more than ever our countries need to work together to combat COVID-19,” Ford tweeted. Last week, Trump invoked the same 1950 law to force General Motors to build ventilators used to treat COVID-19 patients. The president accused GM of not moving quickly enough and trying to charge the government too much. GM said it had been working on ventilators for weeks. Two days later, Trump praised the auto maker, saying it was “doing a fantastic job.” ___ Robert Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. | |
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| 04-03-20 01:05pm - 1684 days | #1593 | |
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President Donald Trump is a man of honor and of God. He has tried to forgive the treachery of a naval captain who has brought shame to the US Navy. Should Trump have the captain put in front of a firing squad and executed for treason? Enquiring minds want to know: Update: the naval captain was not removed for insubordination. There are reports the naval captain failed to maintain personal hygiene, and did not brush his teeth in the morning, or before going to bed at night. The navay is trying to prepare documentation on the captains improper behavior. And if they can't find proof, the Republican National Committee will dig up the dirt (or manufacture it) as needed. --------- --------- Dismissed U.S. carrier captain gets hero's ovation from crew Thomson Reuters Apr 3rd 2020 12:03PM WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier relieved of his command after seeking stronger measures in response to a coronavirus outbreak aboard his ship was given a hero's ovation by his crew when he left the vessel, video posted on Twitter showed. A brief clip showed Captain Brett Crozier walking down the gangplank of the Theodore Roosevelt as crew members repeatedly chanted "Captain Crozier, Captain Crozier!" Crozier turned to wave at the crew after he stepped ashore in Guam. The removal of Crozier, first reported by Reuters, was announced by acting U.S. Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, who said the captain of the nuclear-powered vessel of 5,000 crew members had exercised poor judgment in the way he "broadly" distributed a letter to superiors. In his four-page letter, Crozier, who took command in November, described a bleak situation aboard the carrier as more of his crew began falling ill. He called for "decisive action": removing more than 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them, and wrote that unless the Navy acted immediately it would be failing to properly safeguard "our most trusted asset - our sailors." The letter put the Pentagon on the defensive and alarmed the families of those on the vessel, whose home port is in San Diego. President Donald Trump, when asked about the captain during a White House news conference on Thursday, disputed the notion that Crozier appeared to have been disciplined for trying to save the lives of sailors. "I don't agree with that at all. Not at all. Not even a little bit," Trump said. Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden said that the Trump administration showed "poor judgment" in relieving a warship commander who was trying to stem a coronavirus outbreak among his crew. Separately, acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told Reuters on Friday that Crozier would not be thrown out of the Navy, but rather reassigned as the Navy probed the incident. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Mary Milliken and Paul Simao) | |
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| 03-31-20 06:30am - 1687 days | #1591 | |
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President Donald Trump, the most stable genius the United States has ever produced, is like a walking encyclopedia. He knows facts know one else knows. There's no sense in trying to check the facts on the internet against Trump's facts: he's a better source of knowledge than the internet. When a reporter asked Trump on the coronavirus testing capabilities of the United States, Trump fired back with detailed knowledge of South Korea. The population of Seoul is 38 million people, according to Trump. That figure is far bigger than the 10 million people the South Korean website officially admits to. The difference is that Trump has secret, classified briefings from US officials that tell the true facts, instead of the fake news that governments give out. Donald Trump, the bestest, most honestest, most glorious President of the United States we've ever had. No one else has ever come close the the glory and honor of Donald Trump. --------- --------- Trump tried to flex by asking a reporter about the population of Seoul - then he got it wrong Business Insider Jake Lahut Mar 31st 2020 4:26AM To evade a reporter's question on the United States' coronavirus testing capabilities, President Donald Trump tried to flex with a fun fact. "I know South Korea better than anybody," Trump said when responding to the question from PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor. "It's a very tight — do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have." Seoul-proper — officially known as the Seoul Special City — has a population of around 10 million, according to the city government's English language website. | |
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| 03-31-20 02:31am - 1687 days | #1590 | |
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Real news: Our US government in action. A US senator was saying how great the US was doing to prepare against the coronavirus. While he was selling a huge part of his stock market holdings, before the stock market plunge. The senator also told a group of his wealthy donors to prepare for the coronavirus to hit America. After telling his wealthy donors to prepare for a panic, the senator made a public statement: "The US is in a better position than any other nation to handle a public health emergency like coronavirus." The senator's lawyer said Burr did nothing wrong. It's OK to tell a group of donors inside information, and to sell stock, while telling the general public everything is fine. Unless you have compelling evidence that some law was broken. Is there a smoking gun? Has he senator confessed he was guilty? No, the senator is innocent. Maybe he needed the money from the stock sales to go on vacation. Senators are like everyday people, who need a little extra cash to do things. ------- ------- US senator under fire for early coronavirus warning to donors GOP senator also sold as much as $1.5m in stock after receiving classified briefings in the early days of the outbreak. by William Roberts 19 Mar 2020 United States Senator Richard Burr, a Republican, is drawing fire after a secret recording emerged on Thursday of him warning an insider group of contributors that the coronavirus outbreak in the US would be very serious six days before he first acknowledged it publicly. In the February 27 recording, obtained and broadcast by National Public Radio, Burr can be heard comparing the coronavirus pandemic to the 1918 influenza outbreak that killed more than 20 million people worldwide. "There's one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history," Burr said in the recording. "It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic." His remarks to a group called the Tar Heel Circle at an exclusive Republican club near the US Capitol came on the same day President Donald Trump was putting a positive spin on US preparedness. "I think it's an incredible achievement what our country's done," Trump told reporters at the White House that day. Limiting the number of US cases at the time to 15 was "like a miracle" Trump said, and he suggested the virus "will disappear". At the time in late February, Trump had just appointed Vice President Mike Pence to lead the White House coronavirus task force and had just put in place restrictions on travel from China. "The comments that have come to light, what Senator Burr was saying to his monied constituents at a donor-class luncheon, are appalling," said Dr Gavin Yamey, a professor of global health and public policy at Duke University in North Carolina. "He was not providing other constituents across my state the same warning. He could have used his credibility, his megaphone, his standing to break with the president and tell the country what was coming," Yamey told Al Jazeera. "Instead, he put allegiance to Trump before his concern for North Carolinians," said Yamey. "The administration knew this catastrophe was coming and was asleep at the wheel." Burr is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and is one of the lead authors of the key US law providing for federal response to a pandemic. He and other senators had received a classified briefing from US officials on the coronavirus only two days earlier on February 25. After that closed-door briefing, Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, expressed outrage on Twitter. "This morning's classified coronavirus briefing should have been made fully open to the American people -they would be as appalled & astonished as I am by the inadequacy of preparedness & prevention," Blumenthal said. It was also reported on Thursday that Burr sold what was described as a significant portion of his US stock holdings during the same period. Citing financial disclosure forms, ProPublica reported that Burr sold between $582,000 and $1.5m worth of stock in 29 separate transactions on February 13. Members of the Tar Heel Circle group that met with Burr included dozens of invited guests from his home state of North Carolina who collectively had donated more than $100,000 to Burr's campaigns in the past, according to NPR, which obtained a copy of the RSVP list for the event. Burr also warned the group's members against travel to Europe, which has since emerged as the new global hot spot, and suggested public schools may have to close, which has now happened. "Every company should be cognizant of the fact that you may have to alter your travel. You may have to look at your employees and judge whether the trip they're making to Europe is essential or whether it can be done on video conference. Why risk it?" Burr said. "There will be, I'm sure, times that communities, probably some in North Carolina, have a transmission rate where they say, 'Let's close schools for two weeks. Everybody stay home,' " Burr said. US Congress passes coronavirus aid for families, workers (2:41) Burr even warned that the US military might be mobilised to combat the coronavirus. "We're going to send a military hospital there; it's going to be in tents and going to be set up on the ground somewhere," Burr reportedly said at the luncheon. "It's going to be a decision the president and DOD [US Department of Defense] make. And we're going to have medical professionals supplemented by local staff to treat the people that need treatment," the senator warned. But Burr said nothing publicly until March 3, when he put out a relatively confident statement after the first case of COVID-19 was identified in North Carolina. "The US is in a better position than any other nation to handle a public health emergency like coronavirus," Burr touted. Scott Huffman, a Democratic candidate for the US House of Representatives, slammed Burr's handling of the matter. "I am utterly disappointed at Senator Burr's warning to a small group of his well-connected donors about the effects of the coronavirus," Huffman told Al Jazeera. "This administration and its enablers - to me, for lack of a better word - totally ignored public health and safety," Huffman said. Huffman tweeted: The editorial board of the Raleigh News & Observer, a top newspaper in North Carolina, criticized Burr's actions as "regrettable but not surprising". "Now it appears North Carolina's senior senator was wary of publicly disputing Trump's efforts to calm the financial markets by downplaying the coronavirus threat," the editorial board wrote on Thursday. A spokeswoman for the senator did not respond to a request for comment from Al Jazeera. A statement given to NPR emphasised Burr's past track record as an advocate for public health. SOURCE: Al Jazeera News  2020 Al Jazeera Media Network | |
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| 03-30-20 03:12pm - 1688 days | #3 | |
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I don't know what to think about the corona virus. Yesterday, Trump said if 100,000 to 200,000 Americans died from the virus, that would be a victory for the Trump presidency (because they did such a great job protecting America from the disease). Today, (Monday, March 30, 2020), Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House task force, predicted there would be up to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. even “if we do things almost perfectly.” You can't believe Trump. He tells too many lies. Can you believe Dr. Birx, a medical doctor who's on the White House task force? Or do you assume that what she says is influenced by politics? If she says something Trump doesn't like, I assume she will be off the task force, which is what Trump does to people who don't follow his party line. But 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths would be a scary figure. So we're still in the early stages of the pandemic for the US. February 26, Trump said there were 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and no deaths attributed to the virus. He also said there would be close to zero confirmed cases in a couple of days. “We have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.” Now the administration is saying, expect 100,000 to 200,000 deaths from the virus, and that would be an excellent job. Rumors, lies, political spin, distort what is happening. China, the presumed source of the infection, has hidden official figures of the deaths. China kept outside governments from sending medical aid to the Chinese regions. Now Trump's administration is claiming 100,000 to 200,000 possible American deaths would be a victory. Bullshit. | |
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| 03-30-20 02:39pm - 1688 days | #1589 | |
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This is real news. Or maybe it's political news. If I didn't read it on the internet, I would think it was fake news. President Trump says if 100,000 to 200,000 Americans die from the coronavirus, he will have done a very good job. I assume he is setting the bar low, so he can brag what a wonderful president he is. But 100,000 to 200,000 American deaths, from the virus, seems like a lot of deaths. I assume, since there were secret briefings for the US President back in January and February, warning about the virus, and almost nothing was done to prepare for it, the possible death toll should probably be far less than 100,000. But I haven't read a lot about the potential death toll, until Trump announced that 100,000-200,000 American deaths would be a victory for the Trump presidency. What I can figure from this possible tragedy, is that, God forbid, if the US got into a war with someone powerful, there would be massive draft dodgers and massive protests about the way the US war was being handled. -------- -------- Trump now says if 100,000 Americans die from coronavirus he will have done 'a very good job' Yahoo News Dylan Stableford Mar 30th 2020 12:11PM At the first formal press briefing of his coronavirus task force on Feb. 26, President Trump said he didn’t agree with the assessment but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that an outbreak was “inevitable” in the United States, noting that the country had just 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and no deaths attributed to the virus. “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” Trump said. “We have it so well under control. I mean, we really have done a very good job.” Ever since, Trump has been moving the goal posts on the pandemic, and on Sunday, with coronavirus cases and deaths mounting, Trump said that keeping the U.S. death toll between 100,000 and 200,000 would be “a very good job.” “We can hold that down, as we’re saying, to 100,000, that’s a horrible number, maybe even less, but to 100,000 — so we have between 100- and 200,000 — we all, together, have done a very good job,” Trump said during a task force press briefing in the White House Rose Garden. The president repeatedly cited a projection by medical experts on the task force that as many as 2.2 million people would have died if the administration had not instituted social distancing and other mitigation measures. “Two-point-two million people would have died if we didn’t do what we’re doing,” Trump said at the briefing, during which he cited that number 16 times. “And now we’re looking at numbers that are going to be much, much, much lower than that. And it makes everything we’re doing feel much better to me.” In an interview with NBC’s “Today” show Monday, Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House task force, predicted there would be up to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. even “if we do things almost perfectly.” According to Johns Hopkins University, which has been tracking the pandemic since before its outset, there have been more than 143,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States — more than any other country — and over 2,500 deaths attributed to the virus. There are 724,945 confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, and more than 34,000 deaths. The president’s latest comments come amid criticism that his administration was too slow in responding to the coronavirus threat — and that he sought to downplay the risks against the advice of doctors and medical experts as the outbreak took hold. In press briefings and tweets Trump has repeatedly contrasted his administration’s handling of the coronavirus with the Obama administration’s response to the swine flu epidemic, which was overseen by Vice President Joe Biden. As many as 17,000 Americans died in that outbreak in 2009 – 2010. His last tweet on the subject came on March 15. “You can’t spin a pandemic,” David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior adviser, wrote on Twitter. “People are sick. People are dying. The media is covering the grim reality of the pandemic and the government’s response, which was laggard. This enrages him.” | |
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| 03-30-20 02:05pm - 1688 days | #8 | |
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Definitely yes. We need both sides for a balanced discussion. That is the only way we can arrive at the best possible solution, or best conclusion. The pros seem to outweigh the cons, so far. But I personally have not made up my mind. | |
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| 03-30-20 10:39am - 1688 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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I'm starting to see porn about the corona virus. But it doesn't follow the guidelines of social distancing. Therefore it's not safe sex. Stay at least 6 feet away from your partner, if you want to indulge in sex. That's what the surgeon general and the CDC recommend. Better safe than sorry. I know that when cum shoots out, it takes a virile man to shoot 6 feet or more. But even that is not safe sex. Stay tuned for further guidelines from the surgeon general and the CDC. Also, Donald Trump is moving his goal of churches filled on Easter to a later date. Even Trump is beginning to realize the virus can be dangerous. | |
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| 03-30-20 08:02am - 1688 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Hasbro Releases Full Episodes of ‘G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero’ on YouTube for Free Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2020 by Ethan Anderton Watch G.I. Joe Animated Series Since the population of the United States (and the rest of the world) is spending a lot more time at home these days thanks to our efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, there’s never been a higher need for streaming content. There are plenty of options at your disposal, including our recommendations in our new recurring feature The Quarantine Stream, and Hasbro has just offered up full episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, the original animated series based on the popular Kenner toys. Below is the full playlist of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero episodes that Hasbro has made available on their YouTube channel. The playlist covers the first 15 episodes in the show’s history, starting with the first two five-part miniseries and the first five episodes of the official first season, which also play out like a five-part miniseries. Here are all 15 of the episodes you’ll find from Hasbro: The M.A.S.S. Devices Miniseries “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 1: The Cobra Strikes” The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 2: Slave of the Cobra Master” “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 3: The Worms of Death” “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 4: Duel in the Devil’s Cauldron” “The M.A.S.S. Device, Part 5: A Stake in the Serpent’s Heart” The Revenge of Cobra Miniseries “The Revenge of Cobra, Part 1: In the Cobra’s Pit” “The Revenge of Cobra, Part 2: The Vines of Evil” “The Revenge of Cobra, Part 3: The Palace of Doom” The Revenge of Cobra, Part 4: Battle on the Roof of the World” “The Revenge of Cobra, Part 5: Amusement Park of Terror” The Pyramid of Darkness Miniseries (Beginning of Season 1) “The Pyramid of Darkness, Part 1: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe” “The Pyramid of Darkness, Part 2: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead” “The Pyramid of Darkness, Part 3: Three Cubes to Darkness” “The Pyramid of Darkness, Part 4: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls” “The Pyramid of Darkness, Part 5: Knotting Cobra’s Coils” We’re not sure if Hasbro intends to keep adding episodes in waves, or if this is just a way to entice fans to pick up the complete series of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. But we’re sure plenty of you G.I. Joe fans haven’t seen these episodes in years, so enjoy them now. If you want, you can pick up the entire series from Amazon for $56.95, but you’ll be waiting awhile before you get it. | |
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| 03-28-20 11:28pm - 1689 days | #1587 | |
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Real news: In an emergency, you have to prioritize where your resources go, to make the best use of them. President Trump has decided Michigan does not need medical supplies for the coronavirus, because Michigan can take care of itself. Trump declares he loves the people of Michigan, who will always be in his heart. But his love for Michigan's governor is not as strong, because she doesn't appreciate all the help he's given to the state. Trump is a stable genius, able to make these hard decisions. Thank God for Trump. ------- ------- Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer says medical vendors were told not to supply state HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Mar 28th 2020 10:08AM President Donald Trump’s latest target, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told a radio station Friday that medical supply vendors informed her they’ve been told “not to send stuff” to her state amid the battle against COVID-19. Whitmer, a Democrat, didn’t say if the orders were coming from the White House or if vendors may have been intimidated by Trump’s feud with the governor. But she did appear to link the problem to the president because she told WWJ-AM in Detroit that she tried Thursday night to call the White House to discuss the issue. She couldn’t get through to Trump, who was at the time trashing Whitmer — whom he referred to as “that young ... woman governor from Michigan” — to Sean Hannity on Fox News. “We don’t like to see the complaints,” Trump said in a phone interview. Whitmer told WWJ: “When the federal government told us that we needed to go it ourselves [on medical supplies], we started procuring every item we could get our hands on. But what I’ve gotten back is that vendors with whom we had contracts are now being told not to send stuff here to Michigan.” She added: “It’s really concerning. I reached out to the White House last night, asked for a phone call with the president, ironically at the time that all this other stuff was going on.” Whitmer told CNN later in the day that the state’s shipments of personal protective equipment are being “canceled” or “delayed” — and sent instead to the federal government. She said it’s happening to other states as well. Trump’s willingness to punish a state’s residents amid a pandemic over a feud with a governor appeared evident in a statement at his press briefing Friday. The president said he had instructed Vice President Mike Pence, who heads up the president’s coronavirus task force, not to call the governors of Washington or Michigan. The two states have among the highest number of coronavirus cases in the nation, and Michigan is experiencing a dramatic spike in cases from 350 a week ago to nearly 3,000 Friday. “I say, ‘Mike, don’t call ... the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens,’” Trump said. Whitmer told WWJ that she has been critical of the weak federal response to her state’s needs amid the fight against rising COVID-19 cases but that other governors have also complained about the lack of “federal preparation.” She complained earlier this week that the number of masks and gowns sent to her state by the federal government was barely enough to cover a single shift at a besieged hospital. The state hasn’t received a single ventilator despite a critical need. “I’ve been uniquely singled out,” Whitmer said. “I don’t go into personal attacks. I don’t have time for that, I don’t have energy for that, frankly. All of our focus has to be on COVID-19 right now.” She said she remained thankful to Pence, with whom she has a “really good working relationship.” Trump said at his press briefing that he expects governors to be “appreciative” for any federal help. Whitmer has asked the president for an emergency declaration in her state, which frees up funds and other aid. But the president told Hannity: “She doesn’t get it done, and we send her a lot. Now she wants a declaration of emergency, and, you know, we’ll have to make a decision on that.” He claimed, though, that he “loves” the people of Michigan, a swing state where Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by less than 11,000 votes. Whitmer’s office could not immediately be reached by the HuffPost to provide more details on the governor’s comment about vendors. A spokesperson declined to comment further to Crain’s Detroit Business. Michigan emergency room doctor Rob Davidson posted an angry video on Twitter before his shift Thursday defending Whitmer and attacking Trump. | |
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| 03-28-20 08:07am - 1690 days | #1586 | |
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President Trump must call upon his war powers and put the traitorous doctors in jail. Doctors are spreading lies, saying that people must be kept separate. While Trump wants to ignore social distancing and reopen churches and businesses by Easter. Vote on whether you believe in Trump, or a pack of treasonous doctors who seek to spread fear and civil disobedience throughout our great nation. --------- --------- 800,000 physicians tell Trump social distancing must continue HuffPost US Sebastian Murdock Mar 27th 2020 4:42PM More than 800,000 physicians across the country signed a letter urging President Donald Trump to keep social distancing practices in place after he said he wants to reopen businesses by Easter. “Significant COVID-19 transmission continues across the United States, and we need your leadership in supporting science-based recommendations on social distancing that can slow the virus,” the letter, released by the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, said. “Our societies have closely adhered to these measures by moving our staff to fulltime telework and canceling in-person meetings (including annual meetings). These actions have helped to keep physicians and other health professionals in health care facilities, including hospitals, and reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19.” AdChoices The virus continues to spread across the U.S. and has killed at least 1,000 people in the country. In order to slow the spread of the virus, many states have closed schools, restaurants and other places where people gather in large numbers, and nonessential workers have been told to stay home. The president, along with his sycophants at Fox News, have continuously downplayed the threat, at one point falsely claiming the virus was a Democratic or media “hoax” made up to hurt the president’s chances of reelection. A lack of testing kits and an administration downplaying the threat has only exacerbated the dangerous situation. Earlier this week, Trump said he wanted to end social distancing and have the economy back up and running by Easter, a date he chose for no other reason than it would be “a beautiful time.” “Easter’s a very special day for me,” Trump told Fox News on Tuesday. “Wouldn’t it be great to have all of the churches full? You’ll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time.” Medical professionals disagree. “Federal, state, and local governments should only set a date for lifting nationwide social distancing restrictions consistent with assessments by public health and medical experts,” the letter from CMSS said. “Lifting restrictions sooner will gravely jeopardize the health of all Americans and extend the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-28-20 07:55am - 1690 days | #1585 | |
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Is Fox News distancing itself from the greatest, most stable genius the US has ever had? Fox has fired Trish Regan after she stated her beliefs that the coronavirus was "another attempt to impeach the president". I, myself, have thought that the virus was a hoax dreamed up by the Chinese and scummy Democrats (are there any kinds of Democrats other than scummy?) to attack our great leader in the White House. Fox used to be one of the only sources of real news. Standing 1,000% behind President Trump and supporting his every action and belief. But now Fox is no longer Trump's staunch supporter. There are cracks in Fox's loyalty. Can President Trump bring down his fists of power upon Fox, and force the network to straighten out and speak the truth again? Or will Fox go down in infamy and start spreading lies and untruths about President Trump like the rest of the Fake News? Enquiring minds want to know: Can we believe in Fox News any more? I have doubts. ----------- ----------- Fox Business host out after coronavirus comments The Wrap Lindsey Ellefson Mar 27th 2020 5:29PM Fox Business Network has parted ways with Trish Regan days after her comments that the coronavirus was “another attempt to impeach the president” went viral. “Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan – we thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors. We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the coronavirus crisis,” the network said in a statement. Regan added in her own statement, “I have enjoyed my time at Fox and now intend to focus on my family during these troubled times. I am grateful to my incredible team at Fox Business and for the many opportunities the network has provided me. I’m looking forward to this next chapter in my career.” Her show, “Trish Regan Primetime,” as well as another, “Kennedy,” were removed from the lineup at the outset of the coronavirus crisis, followed by “FBN am” and “Bulls & Bears” last week. At the time, Fox Business president Lauren Petterson said, “While FBN will remain committed to delivering up to the minute breaking business news and analysis, our first priority is the health and safety of our employees. This scaled back schedule will ensure we continue to deliver critical information to our audience amidst this global pandemic and time of market volatility while helping to fight the further escalation of the coronavirus.” | |
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| 03-28-20 07:34am - 1690 days | #2 | |
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It would be nice to see better deals. But unless you're thinking about special discounts (which are usually linked to holidays, but can also be used with any event), I doubt that porn sites will, in general, being lowering their regular prices any time soon. Porn sites need the income or revenue to pay for site maintenance, salaries, new product, etc. Even if they run out of new product (e.g. updates), they still need income if they are to survive. Porn sites regularly go out of business for different reasons. I assume that lack of revenue is the main cause. I've seen a lot of good or fine sites disappear over the last few years. I hope not too many will go under because of the virus outbreak. But since a lot of porn production has stopped because of the virus, even more sites could go under. And I seriously doubt that Trump's trillion dollar bail-out package will be sending a lot of money to the porn industry. Even though the movie industry is asking for billions of dollars in aid. | |
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| 03-27-20 05:34am - 1691 days | #1584 | |
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Trump rejects New York's plea for ventilators. Says it's their own fault. New York is full of hot air. Saying they need lots of ventilators. If they really needed the ventilators, they should have bought them in 2015 but “turned it down.” Trump is a man with a heart of gold. And he loves New York. But he was forced to leave New York and make Florida his official residence, because of legal issues. But Trump is still willing to help New York, because Trump loves all Americans. Even people from New York. Also, Trump wants everyone to go to church on Easter. To pray for the country. So ignore what health care officials are saying: obey the president of the United States. Go to church on Easter. -------------------- -------------------- Trump rejects New York’s plea for ventilators: ‘I don’t believe you need’ that many HuffPost US Nick Visser Mar 27th 2020 4:32AM President Donald Trump rejected calls from New York’s governor that the state needed tens of thousands of new ventilators to treat a mass of patients infected with the novel coronavirus, saying he didn’t believe those numbers were accurate. “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying can we order 30,000 ventilators?” He added: “Look, it’s a very bad situation. We haven’t seen anything like it, but the end result is we’ve got to get back to work, and I think we can start by opening up certain parts of the country.” The president’s statements came as public health officials declared the United States the leading country in terms of coronavirus cases with more than 81,300 infected. More than 1,000 people have been killed by the virus, many in New York, which has the worst outbreak in the nation. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) warned Thursday that the state’s hospitals could soon be overwhelmed with patients afflicted with the COVID-19 disease, noting more than 5,200 people had been hospitalized, including 1,290 in intensive care. On Tuesday Cuomo said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was sending 400 ventilators after he warned that the state needed thousands more to deal with an impending “apex” of its infection rate that he estimated would take place in a few weeks. “What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000?” Cuomo said at a news conference at Manhattan’s Javits Center, which is being turned into a makeshift hospital to treat New Yorkers. “You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators? You’re missing the magnitude of the problem.” Trump later said 4,000 additional ventilators would be sent to New York’s hospital system, but he blasted the governor’s leadership, saying he had a chance to buy the machines in 2015 but “turned it down.” Cuomo has ordered that 7,000 more be purchased but warned it’s still not nearly enough. The state approved a plan to allow two patients to share one ventilator if needed as infections grow more dire. The president has been insistent that the country can soon “open up” after many states have urged residents to self-isolate and socially distance in their communities to halt the spread of the virus. He’s pushed the Easter holiday weekend as his deadline, despite warnings from health officials that doing so could spell disaster. “I think we can open up sections, quadrants, keep them going until the whole country’s opened up,” Trump told Hannity on Thursday. “The people want to get back to work. They want to get back.” - This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 03-25-20 01:34pm - 1693 days | #15 | |
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Any updates on the sites you list? | |
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| 03-24-20 05:04am - 1694 days | #1583 | |
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Real news: Texas Lt. Governor suggests the elderly should risk their lives to save the economy. Dan Patrick says that senior citizens need to start buying things to save the economy, which is far more important the the lives of senior citizens. Seniors are expendable. But our great way of life, America, is far more important. Besides, mortuaries and cemeteries need the business. So, people, start shopping today, and hug as many people as you can. Forget about the virus. Listen to the President. If President Trump says to go out shopping, that is more than good enough for this Texan politician. ------ ------ Texas Lt. Governor suggests the elderly should risk their lives to save the economy Yahoo Entertainment Video Stephen Proctor Mar 24th 2020 5:13AM As the coronavirus continues to spread in the United States, forcing people to stay in their homes and causing an economic downturn, Lieutenant Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, joined Tucker Carlson Tonight where he made headlines by suggesting we get back to our normal lives to save the economy even at great risk to the country’s senior citizens. Patrick, who turns 70 next week, believes it’s up to older Americans to take that risk. “Tucker, no one reached out to me and said, ‘As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’ And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in,” Patrick said, later adding, “My message is, let’s get back to work. Let’s get back to living. Let’s be smart about it, and those of us who are 70-plus, we’ll take care of ourselves.” Patrick’s suggestion was not well received on Twitter. And though the mortality rate for seniors is much higher than for others, Patrick believes it’s worth it to stem the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. “Our biggest gift we give to our country, and our children and our grandchildren, is the legacy of our country,” Patrick said. “And right now that is at risk, and I feel like, as the president said, the mortality rate is so low, do we have to shut down the whole country for this?” Patrick also believes the country will collapse if we shut down for more than three months, and when asked if that would be worse than dying, he said that it was. However, Patrick didn’t suggest that everyone go back to work immediately, just that it happens sooner rather than later, and that he’d trust President Trump to make that decision. Earlier in the day, Trump showed signs of growing impatience with coronavirus-related shutdowns, saying he’s “not looking at months.” Tucker Carlson Tonight airs weeknights at 8 p.m. on Fox News Channel. | |
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| 03-22-20 08:40pm - 1696 days | #1582 | |
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President Trump is a man with a heart of gold. He's willing to forgive his enemies in this time of the coronavirus problems: ------------- ------------- President Trump after hearing of Mitt Romney’s isolation due to coronavirus exposure: ‘Gee, that’s too bad’ Published: March 22, 2020 at 8:31 p.m. ET By Shawn Langlois Utah Senator Mitt Romney announced on Sunday that he would self-quarantine after fellow Senator Rand Paul announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. What does President Trump think of that? ‘Gee, that’s too bad.’ When asked by a reporter at the White House briefing Sunday if he was being sarcastic, the president denied it. Watch the full exchange and judge for yourself: Needless to say, the two have history. Romney was the only Senate Republican to break from the party and vote to convict Trump on abuse of power after the Senate impeachment trial. The disease can be fatal, especially for those 60 and above and/or with pre-existing conditions. Romney is 73 and his wife, 70, has MS. | |
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| 03-22-20 09:31am - 1696 days | #1581 | |
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President Trump offers US aid to North Korea in the fight against the coronavirus. North Korea says there have been no cases of the coronavirus in North Korea: But international officials suspect North Korea may be hiding the truth, and fear a major outbreak in a nation with a struggling public health system. But that's no problem, because Trump himself has said the US is well-defended against the virus, and will become even stronger and prouder because America is so well prepared. Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, two heroes in the fight against disease. Can Trump honor Kim Jong Un with the Congressional Medal of Freedom? Can Kim honor his best buddy Trump with the highest medal of honor for North Korea? -------- -------- Trump wrote to Kim Jong Un offering coronavirus help, says North Korea HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Mar 22nd 2020 9:28AM President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Kim Jong Un offering help dealing with a coronavirus outbreak in North Korea, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday. The White House confirmed that the president sent a letter, but would not reveal its contents. But an unnamed senior administration official told The New York Times and Agence France Presse that the letter was “consistent” with Trump’s “efforts to engage global leaders during the ongoing pandemic.” North Korean policy aide Kim Yo Jong, who is Kim’s younger sister, said in a statement carried by the news agency: “We regard it as a good judgment and proper action for the U.S. president to make efforts to keep the good relations he had with our Chairman.” She said that Trump reaffirmed his intention to promote good relations between the nations, and “expressed his intent to render cooperation in the anti-epidemic work.” The president said he was “impressed by the efforts made by the Chairman to defend his people from the serious threat of the epidemic,” the statement added. Kim had “mentioned his special personal relations with President Trump again and appreciated the personal letter,” said his sister. But his sister suggested that the leaders’ personal relationship may not be sufficient to promote better ties between the nations. Talks between the nations have stalled over the past year after a failed summit in Vietnam last February to address the country’s nuclear ambitions. Kim has since pledged to jump-start the weapons program, saying in January that North Korea was no longer bound by a moratorium on testing. On Saturday, Kim witnessed the launch of what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles from the country’s east coast into the sea. AdChoices Pyongyang has insisted there have been no coronavirus cases in the nation. But international officials suspect North Korea may be hiding the truth, and fear a major outbreak in a nation with a struggling public health system. U.S. critics would likely prefer Trump focus on helping the U.S. His administration has come under fire for serious delays in rolling out COVID-19 testing and failing to adequately address a supply shortage of ventilators for patients and protective gear, including face masks, for health care professionals. | |
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| 03-22-20 08:20am - 1696 days | #1580 | |
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The truth is revealed: The coronavirus is a weapon developed by China aimed at the US. But the US is fighting back: They are offering to help Iran, with the virus. Except Iran thinks the US might be using the virus to destroy Iranian lives. Why can't we trust each other to play fair? Do leaders from different countries really want to kill the people of those other countries? Enquiring minds want to know: Do you trust the leader of China? The leader of the US? The leader of Iran? Is the US trying to spread the virus in Iran with a fake offer of aid? ------ ------ Iran leader refuses US help, citing virus conspiracy theory The Associated Press JON GAMBRELL Mar 22nd 2020 9:50AM DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's supreme leader refused U.S. assistance Sunday to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments come as Iran faces crushing U.S. sanctions blocking the country from selling its crude oil and accessing international financial markets. But while Iranian civilian officials in recent days have increasingly criticized those sanctions, 80-year-old Khamenei instead chose to traffic in the same conspiracy theory increasingly used by Chinese officials about the new virus to deflect blame for the pandemic. “I do not know how real this accusation is but when it exists, who in their right mind would trust you to bring them medication?" Khamenei said. "Possibly your medicine is a way to spread the virus more.” He also alleged without offering any evidence that the virus “is specifically built for Iran using the genetic data of Iranians which they have obtained through different means.” “You might send people as doctors and therapists, maybe they would want to come here and see the effect of the poison they have produced in person," he said. There is no scientific proof offered anywhere in the world to support Khamenei's comments. However, his comments come after Chinese government spokesman Lijian Zhao tweeted earlier this month that it “might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe(s) us an explanation!” Lijian likewise offered no evidence to support his claim, which saw the U.S. State Department summon China's ambassador to complain. Wuhan is the Chinese city where the first cases of the disease were detected in December. In recent days, the Trump administration has increasingly referred to the virus as the “Chinese” or “Wuhan” virus, while the World Health Organization used the term COVID-19 to describe the illness the virus causes. Even a U.S. senator from Arkansas has trafficked in the unfounded conspiracy theory it was a man-made Chinese bioweapon. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. Scientists have not yet determined exactly how the new coronavirus first infected people. Evidence suggests it originated in bats, which infected another animal that spread it to people at a market in Wuhan. The now-shuttered Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market advertised dozens of species such as giant salamanders, baby crocodiles and raccoon dogs that were often referred to as wildlife, even when they were farmed. An article published last week in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Medicine similarly said it was “improbable” that the virus “emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus.” Khamenei made the comments in a speech in Tehran broadcast live Sunday across Iran marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year. He had called off his usual speech at Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad over the virus outbreak. His comments come as Iran has over 21,600 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus amid 1,685 reported deaths, according to government figures released Sunday. Iran is one of the hardest-hit countries in the world by the new virus. Across the Mideast, Iran represents eight of 10 cases of the virus and those leaving the Islamic Republic have carried the virus to other countries. Iranian officials have criticized U.S. offers of aid during the virus crisis as being disingenuous. They have accused the Trump administration of wanting to capitalize on its “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran since withdrawing from the nuclear deal in May 2018. However, the U.S. has directly offered the Islamic Republic aid in the past despite decades of enmity, like during the devastating Bam earthquake of 2003. Reassigning blame could be helpful to Iran's government, which faced widespread public anger after denying for days it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing 176 people. Widespread economic problems as well has seen mass demonstrations in recent years that saw hundreds reportedly killed. Iranian hard-liners have supported conspiracy theories in the past when it suited their interests. Following the Sept. 11 attacks, some publicly doubted al-Qaida's role and state TV promoting the unfounded conspiracy theory that the Americans blew up the building themselves. Former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad similarly raised doubt about the Sept. 11 attack, calling it a “big lie," while also describing the Holocaust as a “myth.” Meanwhile on Sunday, Iran imposed a two-week closure on major shopping malls and centers across the country to prevent spreading the virus. Pharmacies, supermarkets, groceries and bakeries will remain open. ___ Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report. | |
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| 03-22-20 07:21am - 1696 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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My heart bleeds for Daniel Craig. Not only were his hopes of playing Superman dashed, but he was forced into playing James Bond. What is a super-star actor supposed to do? And he married Rachel Weisz, instead of Miss World 2020, which must have been another Mega-disappointment. Actors lead terrible lives, full of faults and crises. Can we pass the hat around for Danny, so that he can afford a better role, a better wife? True facts: in 2015, Daniel Craig said in an interview: "I'd rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again" After four films as 007, British actor says if he did reprise role, ‘it would be only for the money’ But now that he's done it for the money, he feels better about playing James Bond. ------- ------- Daniel Craig Wanted To Play Superman As A Kid, But Ended Up As James Bond Rafael Motamayor March 21, 2020 3:30 pm Not everyone gets to fulfill their childhood dream. Maybe you wanted to be a writer but ended up with an office job, or dreamed of being a paleontologist and instead ended up writing this very article. Or maybe, just maybe, you’re Daniel Craig and you couldn’t fulfill your childhood dream of playing Superman, so you had to settle for playing James Bond. In an interview with Saga magazine (via Metro), the actor talks about what his dream role was as a kid. “People are always saying to me, ‘You must have dreamed of playing James Bond when you were a kid.’ The answer is no. I never did.” Craig said. “I dreamed of being all sorts of other things – Superman, Spider-Man, the Invisible Man, even a good old-fashioned cowboy. But Bond so much, which seems ironic now.” Talk about a downgrade, especially considering he’s played the iconic spy five times (including the upcoming “No Time to Die”) while the latest Superman actor played the part only three times before the franchise was quietly scrapped (at least for now). Of course, Craig has nothing but good things to say about playing James Bond, adding “‘I’ve been lucky enough to land one of the best roles in movies. There’s been no downside to playing Bond.” When the conversation turned to his role in “No Time to Die” the actor said he wouldn’t have felt comfortable leaving after “Spectre” in 2015 as he originally intended. “I’m really … I’m OK. I don’t think I would have been if I’d done the last film and that had been it. But this, I’m like … Let’s go. Let’s get on with it. I’m fine.” | |
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| 03-19-20 12:40am - 1699 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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The easier way to find them is to check rabbitsreviews.com. But they are scattered at the PU and The Best Porn sites as well. Metart, 21 Sextury, Devils Film, Wicked Pictures, etc., all for under $10 the first month. | |
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| 03-18-20 05:42pm - 1700 days | #9 | |
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While I don't think the posts are helpful to the PU site, or community, I would rather they were not deleted. Because I believe they establish a record of the debate between mbaya and myself. Which is a fairer, better record than a self-serving remark that mbaya is an adult who behaves like a gentleman. End of story (until mbaya starts another complaint).  | |
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| 03-18-20 05:29pm - 1700 days | #8 | |
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biker, I disagree. mbaya posted a public reply to my review, stating it was not a review of a site, but of the network it belongs to. And that I previously submitted a review on that site less than a year earlier. So, that's going through channels? And keeping it private, when it's a public comment on my review? Why am I being childish, when I publicly post that I disagree with mbaya? He publicly posts replies to my reviews, stating they are faulty. And he sometimes publicly posts in those replies that he is informing the PU staff about his criticism, in a private email to the PU staff. Or else he asks the PU staff their opinion about my review, in his public reply. So how is he being adult, while I am being childish? I'm being childish by exposing my thoughts on a PU thread? And mbaya is an adult, because he uses public comments to report that my reviews should be denied? mbaya says he lets it drop when the PU admin makes a decision. Except he keeps coming up with reasons why newer reviews should be denied. So, it's not a one-time event. Or a two-time event. He's a adult who likes to jab me whenever he feels like it. You don't believe criticism is helpful. Who started the criticism? mbaya. And he keeps doing it. So that's an adult? Who keeps it private, by using public replies that my reviews are faulty, and states that he is asking for the PU staff to study my reviews, to see if they should be denied. I will agree with you (biker) that these disagreements are not constructive. I wish they never happened. If I make a mistake in a review, I try to correct or improve it. But I don't believe mbaya is helping me, or the PU site, by his criticisms of my reviews. | |
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| 03-18-20 02:11pm - 1700 days | #5 | |
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The PU staff runs the site. True. But if mbaya complains about my reviews, I don't have the right to defend myself? I'm supposed to take it and say nothing? Let's put it another way: I'm not complaining when I see mbaya breaking the rules: I'm helping the PU site enforce the rules: which makes for a better site.  | |
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| 03-18-20 05:13am - 1700 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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HuffPost WOMEN 02/06/2020 04:03 pm ET Erykah Badu Plans To Sell Incense That Smells Like Her Vagina The R&B singer’s announcement follows Gwyneth Paltrow’s, who is selling a candle with the scent of private parts. headshot By David Moye Content loading... Attempting to market a line of incense scented like one’s private parts may or may not be a bad idea, but it’s definitely a Badu idea. R&B singer Erykah Badu told 10 Magazine that when her new online store, Badu World Market, launches on Feb. 20, one of the items will be closer to her than others: A personal brand of incense that she claims smells like her “superpower,” subtly named “Badu’s Pussy.” “I took lots of pairs of my panties, cut them up into little pieces and burned them,” she told the publication. “Even the ash is part of it.” Apparently, the intimate-scented incense will just be a “first edition” since Badu claims she now no longer wears underwear. Badu is the second celebrity in recent weeks that’s trying to market a private-part-perfumed product. Recently, Gwyneth Paltrow started selling a candle that supposedly smells like her vagina. However, it’s no secret that Badu has previously sung the praises of a good smelling genitalia, as this 2014 tweet amply demonstrates: --------------- ErykahBadoula  @fatbellybella Ladies..For a SWEET vagina I Drink raw cranberries often. Now the secrets out. (Reluctantly) ALSO promotes healthy,strong WOMB &bladder. --------------- | |
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| 03-18-20 02:57am - 1700 days | #3 | |
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The problem is that mbaya has questioned the eligibility of several reviews I've written. That he states or implies that my reviews should be declined. The reasons for decline can be ambiguous. The last case, where he says the review has only 2 facts on the site I wrote about, seems to be flawed. I read what I wrote, and it seems to me to be a review about a site. mbaya says that's wrong: the review is not about the site, but the network. And since I wrote a review about the same network 7 months ago, the current review should be rejected. If he is going to push for my reviews to be rejected on such flimsy grounds, then I need to ask or demand that mbaya be rejected on any and all technicalities that he breaks. In the current instance, mbaya's last 3 reviews are clear examples of cut and paste. Which is illegal. It breaks the rules. So am I complaining? Yes, I am. I'm complaining that he doesn't like my reviews, and wants them to be rejected. And the specific reasons he uses for rejection can be flimsy. He has accused me of fraud, because I changed my alias when I had a problem logging in to PU. The site (or my computer) would not bring up my account. I don't know what the reason for the problem was. But mbaya said, that because my alias was new, that I had an unfair advantage about submitting reviews, because the PU server recognized me as a different account, and did not hold me to the 1-year limit about submitting a new re-review of a site. That wasn't why I asked for a new alias. I clearly explained the PU site was rejecting me from logging in to my account, and that's why I wanted a new alias. But mbaya said that was fraud. Because it allowed me to submit re-reviews without the time limit. In theory, the site explains somewhere that "After 6 months, a fresh re-review can be written to replace the old." In practice, the PU server seems to use a 1-year limit before it will accept a re-review on a site. I did submit a re-review of a site a few days before the 6 month limit, one time. Which he pointed out, and stated he was sending an email to Freddie to protest the review. I think the re-review was maybe 3 or 4 days before the 6-month re-review limit; but because the re-review was submitted under a different alias, the review was accepted by the PU server. I hadn't realized I was submitting the re-review under the 6-month limit, and publicly posted the review could be rejected, or applied to the next week's raffle, or whatever decision Freddie made. But Freddie accepted the review as it was. Sorry for the minor details. But if mbaya is going to complain to PU staff and demand that my reviews follow rules that he seems to make up in his head, then I need to complain and demand that he follow every rule exactly, or be rejected as well. Do I like complaining? No. But I am getting hit by complaints about my reviews, saying they are illegal and should be rejected. So what should I do? Thank mbaya for his complaints, some of which I think are ridiculous. No, thank you, mbaya. No thanks. | |
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| 03-17-20 09:57pm - 1700 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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The last 3 reviews by mbaya seem to be cut and paste. mbaya complained my review barely said anything about a site. Let's look at how mbaya writes his reviews: How much original content is there in the pros and cons of the 3 sites from New Sensations network, or is it one review, repeated 3 times? Can you tell me if these reviews meet the requirements for an eligible review? mbaya Hot Wife XXX Pros: -Part of New Sensations Network of 25 Sites -Decent size archive of 124 videos on the site -No download limits -Updates once a week -Discount through PU Cons: -There is a prechecked cross sale -Advertising on member’s pages -Many scenes were on DVDS first. -The biller is Epoch, reliable but I don’t like them mbaya Stretched Out Snatch Pros: -Part of New Sensations Network of 25 Sites -Large archive of 288 videos -No download limits -Discount through PU Cons: -There is a prechecked cross sale -Mostly remastered videos so the specs say one thing and what you see is of lesser quality. -Scenes are taken from DVDs. They may not be exclusive. -Advertising on member’s pages -Mostly low quality videos -The biller is Epoch, reliable but I don’t like them. mbaya Fresh Outta High School Pros: -Part of New Sensations Network of 25 Sites -Large archive of 346 videos -No download limits -Works well a couples porn -Discount through PU Cons: -There is a prechecked cross sale -Mostly remastered videos so the specs say one thing and what you see is lesser quality. -Scenes are taken from DVDs -Advertising on member’s pages -No updates from September of 2018 to one scene in February 2020. -The biller is Epoch, not one of my personal favorites, but reliable. | |
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| 03-17-20 06:56pm - 1701 days | #8 | |
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Can I use the same logic as mbaya and demand that most of mbaya's reviews about sites that belong to a network should be deleted? Because, as far as I can tell, if mbaya writes about a site in a network, he is writing about the network. So let's be fair. | |
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| 03-17-20 06:47pm - 1701 days | #7 | |
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The basic review guide (I don't know if it is still an "official" review guide any more): 1. A combination of at least 5 unique pros and/or cons. Each pro/con should be useful for fellow readers. 2. A bottom line statement about the site. Should include an overall opinion of the site and any other items worth mentioning. 3. Review should be balanced (not one-sided), honest, and respectful. 4. Review should be unique compared to previously written reviews. No copy/paste material. 5. Review should contain at least 150 words of useful content. The review guide does not require a minimum number of facts. Instead, it requires pros, cons, and opinions about the site. As far as I can tell, my review more than satisfied the requirement for a basic review. And I believe it also satisfied the requirements for an excellent review, because of the number of pros, cons, and bottom line statements about the site. A review is built on pros, cons, and a bottom line statement. The review I wrote has 9 pros for the site. The review I wrote has 6 cons for the site. The review I wrote has a bottom line containing facts, opinions, and details about the site. To say that "The only facts about the site per se are that it updates once a month and there are 121 videos and photo sets." seems ridiculous. And for mbaya to write: "My objection is that the review in question barely says anything about the site." Again, either mbaya is biased, or I'm biased, because our opinions of my review are completely opposed. I fail to understand how he can read my review and complain that it says almost nothing about the site. Except maybe he believes that if I mention the word "network", that wipes out any meaning of the idea of a site. So mbaya may be reading the review as a network review, and not a site review. And that's how he justifies the idea that the review is not a site review, but a network review. And since my review of the network was less than a year old, that's how he justifies his position that the review should not be approved. | |
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| 03-17-20 04:18pm - 1701 days | #3 | |
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Integrity is important. If I broke a rule by posting a review on a network and then posted a review on a site belonging to the network, maybe Tom can speak up. Or if mbaya broke one or more rules by posting a review on a network site, and then posted a review on a different site in the network, maybe Tom can speak up. How many reviews has mbaya posted on sites in the same network? Is that breaking the rules, of consanguinity? There was some discussion previously about reviewing related sites, but I didn't understand a lot of it, or if it was being implemented. Can the PU staff check if the reviews being submitted are acceptable, or if they are breaking the rules? We want a friendly atmosphere at PU. But mbaya seems big on rules. Some of the rules he seems to make up by himself. I would rather follow rules set by the PU staff, instead. But in the interest of fairness and integrity, the rules should be the same for everyone. And if mbaya does win a prize, maybe he can buy new glasses, so that he can read what's written in a review and try to understand it, instead of twisting the facts to support his claims. JMHO | |
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| 03-17-20 12:30pm - 1701 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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https://www.pornusers.com/replies_view.html?id=111401 mbaya's reply on 2020-03-17 to my review of First BGG, submitted 2020-03-17: Correct me if I am wrong. I must be getting senile. This is a network review. The only facts about the site per se are that it updates once a month and there are 121 videos and photo sets. I must have missed the rest of the information about the site. Tom, what do you think? Teen Mega World had a review by the author last July so it is not a year yet. ----- ----- Reply from LKLK: mbaya must have skipped over the review, or read it too hastily to understand what I wrote: From the pros section: Facts and details that refer not just to the network, but to the First BGG site: -They are working constantly to update and improve the site and network. One of the benefits or pros of the First BGG site: -As part of the Teen Mega World network, you get access to 33 teen porn sites. There are no premium sites you have to pay extra for. -The site (and some of the network) has 4K videos, as well as lower definition videos. -The site (and some of the network) has high resolution images. -Navigation is easy. It's easy to switch between sites in the network. -PU has a discounted price of $14.95/month recurring. -Unlimited downloads. -Unlimited streaming. -Although this is not a glamour site or network, the girls are basically white teens who are attractive. From the cons section: I explain that you should join through the main TMW site, because the search returns content from the entire network. If you join through the First BGG site, or one of the other sub-sites, the search will only return content from the site you joined through. This is important--even though the search at the TMW site is poor, and used to be better. -If you join through the main TMW site, the search returns content from the entire network. However, if you join through one of the other sites in the network, the search returns only content from the site you joined through. So do yourself a favor, and join through the main TMW site. -I think they did a recent update on the search engine and messed it up. Assume you log in through the TMW site, and not the First BGG site. You enter the name "Lolly Small" in the search. What you are returned is a huge number of hits, most of which have nothing to do with Lolly Small. The search for "Lolly Small" returns 301 results. And Lolly Small only has 10 videos at the network. I've been a continuous member of the network for over 3 years now, and the search at the TMW site used to be good, returning only results that matched the model's name. This refers to the site (as well as the network): -Pre-checked cross-sale on join page. -Login and member pages are non-secure. Not https. So easy to hack. I explain why the First BGG site has a slow update rate: -Although the network has a daily update, the update rate for the site is approximately 1 per month. 2018-11-27 the site had 110 videos. 2020-03-17 the site has 121 videos. So over time, the update rate is less than 1 per month. The reason for the slow update rate for the site is that updates are spread over the network, so the BGG site gets less than 1 new video plus matching photo set per month. Which is more than acceptable, since there is a huge amount of teen content in the network to look through. The biller for the site is Vendo. Which is less well known than CCBill or Epoch. -Vendo is the billing agent. Not as familiar as CCBill or Epoch. But I've used Vendo many times, and never had a problem. So I'm listing it as a minor con, but it's not really a con. I've used Vendo for WowGirls, DDF Network, Ultra Films, Lust Week, etc. -Many of the sites are archive sites, that haven't updated in years. The quality of the archive sites is definitely less than the current output of videos and photosets. Some of the archive sites do not have streaming; you have to download the video or photo set to see it. The site photosets have a zip file, but only in 1 definition: -The photosets have a zip file, but it's only in 1 definition, not low, medium and high. BOTTOM LINE(START OF): Site theme: One guy on two girls. Forget love, these girls are interested in sex. And they are willing to share a guy. Site stats: videos: 121 photo sets: 121 This review is on First BGG, but I believe the details on the TMW network, of which First BGG is part of, can be helpful. What I like about the site and network: The models are mainly attractive young teens, who put on a good show: they seem to enjoy the sex. The models are real teens. Not a lot of fake boobs. Not a lot of tattoos. This is not a glam site or network. The network started around 2005. The site (First BGG) started around 2011. The network started out as a low-rent teen hardcore collection of sites. Over time, they have spent a lot of time, effort and money into upgrading the network and included sites. For the last few years, you can stream or download the most recent videos in 360p up to 2160p. The upgrades included: With a membership in any site in the network, you now get access to all the sites (currently 33 sites.) Better equipment for filming and photographing, better, more expensive sets, better costumes (the costumes are street clothes, but better street clothes than what they used to wear), better lighting, sound control. The videos and photo sets from the last few years are excellent quality: not glamcore, but still excellent quality. The quality obviously gets worse as you look at the older material. First BGG is part of the TMW network. TMW is one of my favorite teen hardcore network. I wouldn't say that First BGG is one of the top sites in the network, but it is a worthwhile addition to the network. I'm giving the site a score of 90. That is basically because joining any site in the network gives you access to the entire network. If I had to score the First BGG by itself, without network access, the score would be much lower. But it's still a good site, with 121 videos and matching photosets. In conclusion: although I am mixing details of the site and network in the review, I believe it helps to understand the site better, if the network details are included. To say that "The only facts about the site per se are that it updates once a month and there are 121 videos and photo sets." seems like a huge error. Did mbaya read the entire review? Did he understand my review? To me, it seems he has an agenda that the review is worthless, because it's from a fellow PU member that he seems to regard as a competitor. Is the review worthless, or did it break any PU rules? Not in my opinion, certainly. But different opinions from different folks. To be fair, you could ask the PU members to vote on whether the last 5 or 10 reviews from me, and from mbaya, have any value. Or if they meet the standard of quality that PU should accept. I'm more than willing to accept the vote of the PU membership, if my reviews have any value, or lack value and should be denied. If you are willing to have the PU membership vote on mbaya's reviews, as well. Do mbaya's reviews have any value, or should they be denied? If you really want to get specific: Look at mbaya's reviews of sites from each network. Compare the points he makes with the points in each review. He is comparing a network review I wrote with a review on a specific site (The TMW network and the First BGG site). How many similar points does he make in his reviews, of sites from the same network? Can we go back and deny or disqualify all his reviews that have too many similar details? mbaya, please stand up to be counted for truth and honesty: do you repeat details from related sites? Do you repeat details from former reviews? How many of your reviews have stated there is a pre-checked cross-sale on the join page? How many of your reviews have stated there are no download limits? How many times has mbaya stated the site was part of a network (as one of the pros of the review)? If you delete the repeating points, I believe many of mbaya's reviews should have been denied, due to lack of pros, cons, or bottom line details. Edited on Mar 17, 2020, 12:34pm | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
The Pentagon has tested less than 500 people, out of the 3.2 million people it employs. Way to go, President Trump. ------ ------ Pentagon has tested fewer than 500 for the coronavirus Yahoo News Alexander Nazaryan Mar 17th 2020 12:22PM WASHINGTON — The Pentagon likes to call itself the nation’s largest employer, with 1.4 active men and women in uniform, roughly 1.1 million reservists and more than 700,000 civilian employees. But of all those employees, the Department of Defense has tested only 495 for the coronavirus, Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, staff surgeon of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pentagon, said in a Monday morning press briefing, and little detail was available about where those tests had taken place. “We don’t have a breakdown of how many servicemembers vs family members vs DoD civilians, etc, nor do we have locational info for this,” s, Lt. Col. Christian Mitchell, a Pentagon spokesperson, told Yahoo News Monday in an email. A Pentagon official had previously testified that there were 13 laboratories testing members of the military and civilian Pentagon employees. In a Monday briefing for members of the press, Friedrichs and Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman revealed that 37 employees of the Pentagon have been infected. Just under half of them, or 18, are servicemembers. The other 19 are civilian employees. AdChoices Speaking last Thursday, Mitchell said that about 300 people at the Pentagon had been tested, though he cautioned the number was not exact. Friedrichs said on Monday that the 495 tests had been conducted as of Friday. It was not clear if any tests had been conducted over the weekend. A nurse holds swabs and test tube to test people for COVID-19 at a drive through station set up in the parking lot of the Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. on March 16, 2020. (Paul Sancya/AP)AP Another spokesperson for the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Carla Gleason, explained that the number of servicemembers and civilian Pentagon employees that had actually been tested was almost certainly higher, since nothing stipulated that they had to be tested at a Department of Defense facility. But until this week, civilian facilities for coronavirus tests were overwhelmed and underequipped, making it unlikely that a significant cohort from the Pentagon was tested at either state-run or commercial laboratories. Despite the low testing numbers, the Pentagon is taking the coronavirus threat seriously. Last Friday, it banned domestic travel for servicemembers. On Monday, defense secretary Mark Esper and his top deputy David Norquist were enjoined to keep a physical distance at all times, lest one of them fall sick with the coronavirus and imperil the nation’s military command. | |
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