Piers Morgan Turns on Trump

Harbingers of DOOM: CBS Decries Trump’s Messages of HOPE in Crisis

See the question Trump wouldn’t let Dr. Fauci answer  Washington Post.

Trump blew it — not the WHO, Fauci or the Jews  Washington Post.

U.S. Press Disgusted Trump Grilled Hong Kong Reporter on China Ties

Andrea Mitchell Smears Red States, Blames Them for Corona Spread

Trump Encourages Pro Sports to Resume in Summer; Deadspin Calls It Desperate Swing for Fences

Tucker: Mika’s Claim Trump Has Financial Stake in Virus Drug Is ‘Crazy, Paranoid, Stupid’

NBC Still Pushing Fake News That Trump Called Coronavirus a ‘Hoax’

TOP 10: Celebrity Attacks on Trump’s Handling of the Pandemic

Joe Scarborough: Daily COVID-19 Briefings Show The World ‘How Ill-Equipped’ Trump Is  But oh, how loud he’d bitch if Trump didn’t have them.

CNN’s Harwood: ‘Authoritarian’ Trump ‘Lashed Out’ at Hong Kong Reporter’s ‘Legitimate Criticism’  Where do they find these idiots?

CNN’s Tapper Insists He Wasn’t Calling Trump ‘Insane’ With Retweet

Megyn Kelly SAVAGES Unhinged CNN After Lemon Says He’s ‘Mad as Hell’ at Trump

‘Law & Order’ Actor Blasts ‘Piece of Sh*’ Prez, Accuses Him of Wasting Time With ‘Golf’

MSNBC’s Heilemann: Trump Will Refuse to Accept Election Result If He Loses  He must think Trump is a Clinton.

Liberal Treated With Hydroxychloroquine Hopes He Still Dies Of COVID-19 To Prove Trump Is Stupid  Babylon Bee.

‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Star Faces Backlash After Saying Trump ‘Has Feelings’

Pathetic: Joy Behar Begs ABC’s Karl to Call Trump a Liar, March Out of Briefing Room

Ohio State Democrat Lawmaker Is… Referring Trump For “Crimes Against Humanity” to the Hague for… Having an Optimistic View of the Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine

‘Americans, Are You Mad As Hell?’: Don Lemon Compares Himself To Fictional Character Howard Beale While Criticizing Trump’s Press Briefings

Univision Knocks Donald Trump for Hopeful ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’ Tweet  Can’t have that! Must have doom & gloom!

“Journalist” Jonathan Karl “Forgets” to Tell Trump That the Government Official Whose Scripted Attack Line He is Reciting is an Obama Administration Official

Howard Dean Refuses To Appear On MSNBC Until They Stop Airing Trump Coronavirus Briefings  Win-win.

Fake Tapper Retweets Obese Cu*k Calling Trump “Insane,” Then Scrambles to Lecture People About His Nonpartisanship

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Imagine what it could do for a destroyer — or a cruiser. (I don’t think it’s quite big enough for a carrier.)

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It worked for the Athenians, who invented political democracy.

Wouldn’t you rather have a plumber or an electrician as Speaker rather than Nancy Pelosi?

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Good. These people have to learn that the gravy train is going to stop.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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There ought to be some way to sue her over this giving of taxpayer money to criminals.

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CNN has published a lengthy article suggesting that wearing face masks to guard against coronavirus is racist due to African-Americans not being able to wear them over fears they will be treated like criminals.

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her decision to get a haircut despite urging citizens to stay at home in accordance with the state order.

I’d like to get a haircut, but all of the shops are closed.

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The Democrats are hysterically blaming President Trump for the fact that the Wuhan virus is killing some Americans. No doubt, they also will blame Trump for the recession that will be caused, not by the virus, but by government’s reaction–overreaction, in my opinion–to the virus.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #405

Science team points out a new failure of climate models

‘Trump is killing his own supporters’ – even White House insiders know it  The Guardian.

Fox Anchor Confronts Surgeon General Over Trump Declining to Issue Lockdown

The worst president. Ever.  Washington Post.

Schiff won’t stop weaponizing intelligence absent DOJ indictments: Plot Against the President author

Embarrassing: WH Reporters Ask Odd Questions Attacking Grocery Stores and…Hope?

PBS Discusses Why Biden Is Better Than Perverted, Virus-Empowering Trump

Tinfoil Mika: Trump Promotes Possible COVID Cure So Much He Must Have ‘Financial Tie’

Study: While CNN Bashes Trump, They Barely Covered Virus Outbreak

Democratic State Rep. Plans To Refer Trump To The Hague For ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Larry David Claims ‘Worst Dictators in History’ Not as Bad as Trump

Morning Joe: White House Briefings ‘Complete Waste of Time,’ ‘No Value’  But they’d be the first to bitch & moan if Trump didn’t have them.

FCC Slaps Down Request To Investigate Networks That Air Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings

Maybe Trump Is Right about China: The Atlantic

‘View’: ‘Totalitarian’ Trump Stirring Up Virus Fears, Causing People to Die With ‘Clown’ Briefings

Sunny Hostin Says ‘People Are Dying’ Because Of Trump’s Press Conferences: ‘Listen At Your Own Peril’

President Trump Rips NYT and WashPost Apart, Journos Go #PeakTriggered

Democratic Michigan State Rep. With Coronavirus Credits Trump With Saving Her Life  Shhh! Don’t tell the ‘media’….

NYC Comptroller Blames Trump for Mother’s Death

61% of Celebrity Performers at Upcoming WHO Virus Benefit Concert Hate Trump  But you knew that.

Media Freaks Out As Trump Asks Asian-American “Reporter” If the “News” Outlet She Works For is Owned by China Spoiler Alert: It Is China-Controlled Propaganda, But Media Are Still Outraged

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Wisconsin’s Tuesday primary election will be taking place as scheduled, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday after blocking Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ executive order to postpone the primary due to coronavirus concerns.

Well, I guess there really are limits to what ‘executive action’ can do. Color me surprised.

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“China has been providing updates about the disease in a responsible manner, including setting up an online Covid-19 knowledge center that’s available to all countries,” according to Cui, who did not include the numerous reports backing up the belief that China has consistently tried to hide information about the virus.

Reports indicate that China made efforts to conceal the virus when it first originated in Wuhan, China. A study published March 11 from the University of Southampton found that the world could have avoided a global pandemic had China acted three weeks earlier, when they first learned of a novel coronavirus.

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Apparently the U.S. exists to subsidize the inhabitants of the turd world, both here and abroad.  Glad we cleared that up.

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Could the coronavirus be racist? CBS This Morning explored that angle on Monday as reporter Jericka Duncan brought on a far-left network contributor (a man who has refused to condemn the anti-semitism of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar). The segment began by examining the perfectly valid topic of whether certain groups of people are more likely to get the virus. But then Duncan veered into a discussion with Ibram X. Kendi, explaining, “CBS News contributor Ibram X. Kendi is also the director of the Antiracism Policy Center at American University.”

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The New York Times has published an Op-Ed which shames people into the ‘correct’ way to clean up after dropping a steamer – arguing that amid an absurd toilet paper shortage due to coronavirus, people should simply ditch trees and begin using bidets to strip-mine their crevices.

ZMan pokes at some illusions.

In recent years, this thirst for universal equality has turned into a weird cargo cult, where simply making people appear equal will cause universal equality to spring forth. You see a bit of that in the National Review post. The author seems to be hoping the virus is a great plague that hits the elites as hard as everyone. In the midst of the suffering, so the thinking goes, everyone will suddenly embrace the equality of man. Only a fanatic can believe that he not so subtly hopes for a plague.

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Contrary to what almost everyone has said during the last three months – from media talking heads to presidents and epidemiologists and your neighbor – the growth of pandemics is not exponential. The number of people infected and number of dead don’t follow “exponential” curves. They follow S-shaped curves.

An S-shaped curve is initially like an exponential curve, before it stagnates and levels off. What we’re arguing over is when exactly this exponential phase will end, and what we might be able to do to bring that fortuitous event closer.

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We have posted several contributions by our friend Brian Sullivan. Brian is a serial entrepreneur who founded and now runs a cutting-edge cancer research company. He is an exceptionally able man in several respects; among other things, he understands mathematics. Unlike, apparently, every journalist in the United States. Brian has been analyzing international data on COVID-19 and has come to some striking conclusions.

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Everything related to the coronavirus shutdown of the country is guided, in large part, by projected deaths and hospitalizations. But what if the computer models are wrong, way wrong? We look at what one of the most prominent models said would be the number of hospital beds and ICU units needed at this point and compare it to what the actual number for both of those are and speculate as to why there is such a huge discrepancy between the two.

Sarah Silverman ‘Hates’ Trump Supporters! ‘Hatred Is What I Feel’ For ‘These People’  Reciprocated.

MSNBC Talks Over Birx to Bash ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Rambling’ Trump ‘Mentally…Unraveling’

Trump’s War on Solar  Rolling Stone.

Brian Stelter Oozes Press Is ‘So Essential,’ and Trump Is ‘Very Dangerous’ With His ‘BS’

Shannon Sharpe, Deadspin Trash Kushner, Trump Over Comments On COVID-19

ABC Claims Trump Is Treating Crisis Briefings Like a ‘Reality TV Show’

J.B. Pritzker Still Blaming Trump For GOP Governors Slow To Enact Stay-At-Home Orders

ABC Asks Biden to Blame Virus Deaths on Trump, Ignores Sexual Assault Claim  Bias? What bias?

HBO’s Bill Maher Argues Trump Virus Response More Impeachable Than Russia/Ukraine Matters

CNN’s Tapper Beclowns Himself With Rant Suggesting Trump Doing Nothing

The Guardian: Can we Rescue the Great Barrier Reef?

Here’s Why Californians Are Getting Reamed At The Gas Pump Despite Rock-Bottom Oil Prices  Prices are always higher in a People’s Republic.

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Believe it or not, the word “sunscreen” appears dozens times in the CARES Act, and it’s thanks to the Treatment of Sunscreen Innovation Act being placed into the bill.

The attitude of our elected representatives, when dealing with any emergency, seems to be As Long As We’re Spending Money How About We….

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There’s no proof the coronavirus accidentally escaped from a laboratory, but we can’t take the Chinese government’s denials at face value.

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Richard Blumenthal has been attacking internet services he doesn’t understand since before he was even a US Senator. It has carried over into his job as a Senator, and was abundantly obvious in his role as a co-sponsor for FOSTA. His hatred of the internet was on clear display during a hearing over FOSTA in which he flat out said that if smaller internet companies couldn’t put in place the kind of infrastructure required to comply with FOSTA, that they should go out of business. Blumenthal’s latest ridiculous bit of legislation lose your Section 230 protections. And while Blumenthal likes to pretend that the EARN IT Act doesn’t target encryption, he also lied about FOSTA and insisted it had no impact on CDA 230 (which it directly amended).

But Blumenthal has now taken his ridiculousness up a notch. Following the (legitimately concerning) reports that the suddenly incredibly popular videoconferencing software Zoom was not actually providing end-to-end encrypted video chats (despite its marketing claims), Blumenthal decided to step in and play the hero sending an angry letter to the company, while linking to the Intercept’s original story about Zoom’s misleading claims about encryption….

There’s no pleasing some people.

Former UN Climate Action Leader on Covid-19: “Moments of crisis are always moments of opportunity”

Donald Trump fires intelligence watchdog who sparked impeachment process  The Guardian. So of course the story is full of pull-quotes from the Usual Suspects criticizing the move.

‘It’s a sh– sandwich’: Republicans rage as Florida becomes a nightmare for Trump  Politico.

NY Times Front Page Actually Attacks Fox News for Blaming China for the Coronavirus

Hollywood’s ‘Trump Is Hitler’ Argument Even More Pathetic Now

Future, Not Fact! AP Fact Checkers Trash Trump for PREDICTING Suicide Increase

Trump: Too Easy an Excuse and Target

Spanish Nets’ Willful Suppression Of WH Coronavirus Briefing Enables Fake News

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A coronavirus infection usually plays out one of two ways: as an infection in the lungs that includes some cases of what people would call the common cold, or as an infection in the gut that causes diarrhea. COVID-19 starts out in the lungs like the common cold coronaviruses, but then causes havoc with the immune system that can lead to long-term lung damage or death.

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A phone app to tell you what’s actually in stock in local stores. No idea how well it works, but it’s a clever idea.

Mencius Moldbug weighs in.

The terrible truth the virus has revealed is that the US and UK — as opposed to post-Communist Asia and post-Napoleonic Europe — are not even countries. They are free-trade zones. Our governments are not governments. They are bureaucratic anarchies with ceremonial elected monarchs. Pitting them against this ruthlessly objective virus is sending Don Quixote to Vietnam.

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Anyone repeating lines like “the Trump administration has failed” is spreading an Orwellian lie. There is no “Trump administration.” There is an elected showman and his cronies, fronting for an unaccountable permanent government. The celebrities are neither in charge of the bureaucrats, nor deserve to be. Anyone can be excused for thinking either team is worse than the other. No one can be excused for confusing the two.

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“The patients treated at our hospital were all young to middle-aged. Their symptoms were generally mild and included flu-like symptoms like cough, fever and a loss of taste and smell,” explains the other lead author, Prof. Dr. Clemens Wendtner, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at München Klinik Schwabing, a teaching hospital of LMU Munich. “In terms of scientific significance, our study benefited from the fact that all of the cases were linked to an index case, meaning they were not simply studied based on the presence of certain symptoms. In addition to getting a good picture of how this virus behaves, this also enabled us to gain other important insights, including on viral transmission.”

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NPR, so I’d check another source, if not two.

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Earlier this week Tucker Carlson did a segment on the origin of the coronavirus. Carlson, who has been pretty aggressive in his coverage of the virus, pointed out a Chinese research paper (since pulled by the author) which claimed the virus could not have arisen at the Wuhan wet market because the horseshoe bats where the virus arose were not for sale at the market. In fact, the bats are not naturally found anywhere within 900 miles of the market. However, bats were being studied for viruses they carried in two labs including one just a few hundred meters from the market.

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Racism! Is there anything it can’t do?

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Escaping the coronavirus only to be snuffed by Hammer tech.

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The U.N. has gone beyond being useless to serving as an positive force for evil in the world.

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No surprise. California LOVES people who break the law to come here. (California Providing Millions Of Dollars For Illegal Alien Business Owners Not Covered By Coronavirus Stimulus)

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The opportunity cost of flattening the pandemic curve has come at a tremendous economic cost, resulting in a downturn and high unemployment. Bloomberg notes that Finland has the best welfare system in the world, which is now starting to crack as the surge in unemployment applications is overwhelming the system.

And just like that, in a matter of weeks, 300,000 Finns lost their jobs because of quarantines. The tradeoff is preserving the nation in the long run while dealing with short term economic pain.

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Unbelievable.

COP26 Delay: Climate Activists Hopeful They’ll Have New President in the White House

OOPS! MarketWatch Falls Prey to Climate Change April Fools’ Day Prank

NYT’s Friedman Spews Trump Climate Change Response Could Be ‘More Destructive’ than Virus Response

ABC Claims Trump Blocking Insurance Enrollment During Crisis, Own Report Proves They LIE

PBS Anchor Nawaz Frets Trump Is Stoking Racism with ‘Chinese Virus’  If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.

Reporters Rage: Trump Has ‘Blood’ On His Hands

Mika Makes Case for Obama Aide’s Demand That Trump Should Resign Over the Virus

No Good Deed: As Patriots Jet Brings Mask Shipment, Jemele Hill Dismisses Owner as ‘Friend’ of Trump

Coronavirus: CNN’s Cillizza Avoids History to Claim Trump Rewrites History

Wow: Gavin Newsom Rejects Nasty ‘View’ Attempts to Bash Trump, Praises POTUS Instead

Democrats Have No Interest In Impeaching Trump For The First Time Since 2016

Biden Campaign Unsuccessfully Lobbies Twitter to Remove Trump Video

After Mocking Trump For Suggesting Hydroxychloroquine Might Be Effective Against Coronavirus, Media Starts To Admit That Maybe It Is

Google Flip-Flops on Ad Policy After Dems Complain It May Help Trump

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Apparently they’re willing to try anything.

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Let’s hope.

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Coronavirus! Is there anything it can’t do?

The Ikhwan in Luxembourg

Liberal anti-Semitism enabled Erdogan’s Turkish autocracy

Saudis suspected of phone spying campaign in US

Saudis Claim US Patriot Missiles Activated In Major Yemeni Houthi Attack On Riyadh

German Ricin Bomb Plot Conviction Highlights Non-Conventional Terror Threats

The Ikhwan in Italy

Man, 72, Dies of Injuries 3 Months After Hanukkah Stabbings

Twitter ‘Mistakenly’ Suspends, Then Reinstates Iran’s Supreme Leader

Iran Blames “Terrorists” For Pipeline Explosion On Turkish Border, Gas Exports Halted

Islamists are frustrating Pakistan’s fight against coronavirus

How Middle Eastern Extremist Groups Use Europe as Their Battleground

Foiled Jihadist Pleads Guilty For Plotting To Blow Up White House With Anti-Tank Weapon

Pakistani Court Overturns Conviction in Daniel Pearl Killing

Nigeria launches ‘massive’ joint operation against jihadists