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6/3/20 - And We’re Supposed to Take the Public Health ‘Experts’ Seriously?

IT'S A MIRACLE! Dozens of 'Public Health Experts' Sign Letter Saying COVID Risk Shouldn't Stop People From Protesting
  • Dozens of health experts have signed a letter saying they support the massive protests that have drawn tens of thousands of people together in cities and towns all across the country, despite the fact that for the past three months, we’ve all been warned to stay in our homes and not stand close to each other for fear of spreading the coronavirus.
    Why? Well because apparently, while COVID is still allegedly a major risk to gym-goers, grocery shoppers and church congregants, it magically disappears when thousands of people take to the streets to burn down their city protest racism.

More on ‘Lancetgate’ (British medical journal publishing dubious study knocking hydroxychloroquine - Daily Skirmish 6/1/20) -
Surgisphere, the company providing the data, is very sketchy and no doctor or hospital is vouching for the data.  More here.


6/2/20 - It’s Not About George Floyd Anymore + Making Friends with Bears

With his death now ruled a homicide, surely there is justice in George Floyd’s cause.  But it’s not about George Floyd, anymore:

Among the evidence piling up the riots are a creation of far-left radical groups -
This bus was stopped yesterday at Broad St. & 3rd due for obstruction of traffic. There was a suspicion of supplying riot equipment to rioters. Detectives followed up w/a vehicle search today & found: bats, rocks, meat cleavers, axes, clubs & other projectiles.  Columbus Ohio Police (meat cleavers - very imaginative!)

“My brother was about peace… just channel your anger elsewhere. Don’t tear up your town. All of this is not necessary because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you?” Powerful words from Terrence Floyd, George’s younger brother.  Tweet from Ronna McDaniel, GOP Chairwoman

Making Friends with Bears - Here we have the essence of liberalism: Remember the documentary about the couple who wanted to make friends with bears and ended up getting eaten?  That’s liberalism in a nutshell.  Now for today’s news:
'Progressive Newspaper' Reporter Shocked To Learn Liberals Aren't Exempt From Riot Violence
A reporter for a “progressive” newspaper was shocked on Sunday to learn her place of businesses wasn’t exempt from left-wing violence just because they were liberal-leaning themselves.


6/1/20 -  ‘No Evidence the Rioters are Anarchists’ + HCQ Study Flawed

Well, this is embarrassing.  PBS Newshour correspondent and NBC contributor Yamiche Alcindor claimed there is no evidence any of the rioters are anarchists.  However, NBC reported that anarchist groups planned ahead for their next clashes with police by raising bail money, recruiting medics, placing advance scouts, using encryption, and planning resupply routes for rocks, bottles, and gasoline.  NBC News

A Lancet study concluded that health benefits of taking hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 could not be confirmed.  However, more than a hundred scientists wrote an open letter pointing out errors in the study and the fact that the authors kept their data sources hidden.  The Lancet said it stood by the study’s findings despite failing to address nine other points raised in the letter.  Epoch Times


5/29/20 -  You’re Fake News, You’re Haters, and You Pander

The fake news New York Times admitted that it falsely reported a 26-year-old ER doc died of COVID.  In fact, the doctor did not have COVID and did not die.  And you still trust the New York Times?
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President Trump tweeted: 
So ridiculous to see Twitter trying to make the case that Mail-In Ballots are not subject to FRAUD. How stupid, there are examples, & cases, all over the place. Our election process will become badly tainted & a laughingstock all over the World. Tell that to your hater @yoyoel 
Examples of voter fraud associated with mail-in balloting abound.  [Daily Skirmish 5/27/20]  And you put your faith in people who are so blinded by hate and Trump Derangement Syndrome they can’t think straight?
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Joe Biden recently used the term ‘Latinx’, which prompted this tweet from Hannah Castillo: .@JoeBiden you're out of touch. We don't want to be called "Lat-een-x".  And you still support people who are only interested in you once every 4 years when they’re pandering for your vote?


5/28/20 - Firing Back Against Twitter, Whitmer, and ‘There is No Voter Fraud’

‘Trump and his people have voted by mail’
“This is a disingenuous argument and everyone making it knows it. There’s a vast difference between absentee-by-mail and mailing every registered voter a ballot, which is what Dems want. Voter rolls are notorious for having people who no longer live there or are even dead.”  Trump Campaign

Regarding a certain Michigan Governor who is enjoying her emergency powers way too much:
“Michigan *still* hasn’t abandoned terrible nursing home policies, while also declining to release data on nursing home deaths. How is this remotely defensible?”  Guy Benson

Turning Trump’s fight with Twitter to Trump’s advantage:
“Joe Biden may have all the Big Tech billionaires interfering in the election on his behalf, but President Trump has the support of the American people!”  Trump Campaign


5/27/20 - Debunking the ‘Fact Checkers’ on Mail-In Ballot Voter Fraud

President Trump tweeted about mail-in ballot voter fraud yesterday.  Twitter marked it ‘! Get the facts about mail-in ballots’.  Clicking the link takes you to the assertion ‘fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud.’

That’s a farce.  Here are the facts from recent stories:
Moreover, the Heritage Foundation voter fraud database shows some 200 prosecutions for absentee ballot voter fraud. 
There’s more, lot’s more.  Start here:
“Team Trump to Jim Acosta: Here’s Your Examples of Mail-In Voter Fraud” (Breitbart)

Now, consider this: Trump fired back accusing Twitter of election interference.  This is a credible accusation given that Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of ‘site integrity’ hates Trump with a passion: “racist tangerine”, ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, blah, blah.


5/26/20 - Gov. Cuomo Tries to Shift Blame for Nursing Home Deaths

“Gov. Cuomo has blamed President Trump, the CDC, and nursing homes in his state, among others, for the epidemic of deaths in these facilities in New York. See New York Post article Gov. Cuomo: ‘Ask President Trump’ about nursing home deaths.’

“CMS Administrator Verma posted a Twitter thread yesterday in response, with a link to the CMS directive to nursing homes in March, before Gov. Cuomo issued his order telling nursing homes they must accept returning hospitalized COVID patients.

“Verma explains that the CMS directive says facilities are obligated to protect existing residents from new patients who could spread the virus. Many nursing homes had neither the training nor the protective equipment to do that, which they made clear to government officials. Gov. Cuomo’s mandate nonetheless was not relaxed until early this week.”

(Galen Institute mailing)


5/22/20 - Petulant Michigan Officials Whine About Trump Not Wearing a Mask

Nessel calls Trump 'petulant child,' says he would not be welcomed back to Michigan

Because Trump wasn’t wearing a mask on part of his Ford tour.  Predictably, the media pack dogs jumped all over the story - GET TRUMP!

  • If you want to focus on trivia, you go right ahead.
  • It’s all a game, it can’t be taken seriously.  How do we know?  Because of the CNN reporter who took off her mask at the White House press conference as soon as she thought the cameras were off.
  • If Trump isn’t welcome in Michigan, I guess this means Michigan will be withdrawing its request for federal funds for the Midland flood.
  • Please, Gretchen, more comments from your summer home after you ordered people not to go to their summer homes. 
  • Petulant child? Dana Nessel has been working to root out hate groups in Michigan.  If she wants to see hate, she should look in the mirror.


5/21/20 - Schumer Way Behind the Curve

Schumer tweeted: “It's May 20th, and President Trump still doesn’t have an adequate national testing strategy.”

This was three days after the Washington Post reported, “As coronavirus testing expands, a new problem arises: Not enough people to test”


5/20/20 - Lancet Too Clever by Half + Abortion

The Lancet claims President Trump asserted the Lancet published reports in December 2019 of coronavirus being present in Wuhan.  “This statement is factually incorrect,” the Lancet huffed and puffed, noting it published “no report in December, 2019, referring to a virus or outbreak in Wuhan or anywhere else in China.” Politico ran with the story.  However, the Lancet’s moral preening is based on a deliberate misreading of what Trump actually said: the WHO “consistently ignored credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal.”  Any moron can see Trump was claiming the virus was spreading in Wuhan in December 2019, not that the Lancet published about it in December 2019.  Trump was right:  the virus was circulating in December as finally verified by January 2nd, as the Politico story admits.  Shame on the Lancet and Politico for deliberately misreading Trump’s letter in an effort to damage him politically - too clever by half.  Here’s Trump’s letter, laying out the entire case against the WHO.

Documentary: Pro-life groups paid ‘Jane Roe’ to recant her pro-abortion stand
Well, it was recorded on video at the end of Roe’s life, but it doesn’t square with Roe’s decades of public and private pronouncements against abortion or her conversion to Catholicism.  As her priest said, those things can’t be faked.  LifeNews  However, the real rebuttal to this remains Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the architect of the Roe v. Wade campaign.  He personally performed 75,000 abortions but, towards the end of his life, totally repudiated his pro-abortion advocacy and activities.  He told his entire story to conservative activist Terry Beatley who published a book on it.


5/19/20 - Gavin the Gangster

Gavin the Gangster:
Governor Gavin Newsom Promises “First Responders Are the First Ones to Be Laid Off” Unless California Gets More Govt. Cash
 
This ranks right up there with ‘we’ll have to close the Washington Monument’ every time there’s a budget crunch.
 
Does California’s Governor Gavin Newsom have any idea how this looks to the rest of us?
 
Talk about priorities out of whack:
 
California’s Cash for Illegals Draws Lawsuit - Good!

Bonus / Trending on Twitter - Trump campaign ad faux investigative report ‘Truth Over Facts’ - funnee!


5/18/20 - H1N1 Pandemic Showed Obama Was Not in Charge

Former President Obama said over the weekend, “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing. A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

However, his administration made many missteps during the H1N1 pandemic and it was only luck that kept it from turning into a mass casualty event.  Joe Biden told the public not to be in confined spaces, only to have that message walked back later by the administration:
  • “The snafu was the first of many scrambles and setbacks by the Obama administration in its initial response to the swine flu. POLITICO interviewed almost two dozen people, including administration officials, members of Congress and outsiders who contended with the administration’s response, and they described a litany of sadly familiar obstacles: vaccine shortfalls, fights over funding and sometimes contradictory messaging.  “It is purely a fortuity that this isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” Ron Klain, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time, said of H1N1 in 2019.”

Bonus One - White House press secretary schools journos on Obamagate - great!

Bonus Two - The Daily Skirmish warned on May 1st of shifting rationales for the COVID lockdown.  A recent story put it elegantly: ‘When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure?!’  Or, as a mathematician who called into a radio talk show put it: ‘Flattening the curve changes the shape of the curve, but the area underneath it stays the same,’ meaning that the same number of people will get infected eventually.


5/15/20 - CNN: ‘Spygate is just a distraction from bad pandemic news’

CNN: ‘Spygate is just a distraction from bad pandemic news’

CNN said for two years supposed Trump/Russia collusion was an important story.  They pounded it relentlessly.  Zucker said stay on it.  And now it’s no longer an important story because it’s not breaking their way?  Sorry.  I agree - it was an important story, it STILL is an important story, and I’m going rub their noses in it every chance I get.

Bonus - Sidney Powell destroys Barack Obama for claiming there is no precedent for the Flynn dismissal: Does the name Ted Stevens mean anything to you? 


5/14/20 -‘No One Should Ever Believe Another Word Schiff Says’

WSJ Editorial Board: ‘No One Should Ever Believe Another Word Schiff Says’

“Newly released documents show [Schiff] knew all along that there was no proof of Russia-Trump collusion."

“a parade of former Obama officials who declared under oath they’d seen no evidence of collusion or conspiracy—Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Samantha Power...”

More here


5/13/20 - Trump Will Shred Biden in the Debates on Flynn

What did Joe Biden know and when did he know it?

"Joe Biden was in the room when one of the greatest abuses of power by an administration in American history was in progress," Trump campaign spokesman Matt Wolking said.

Biden was aware of the Flynn unmasking.  Fox

“I know nothing....” to “I was aware....”  Watch Biden fumble around on ABC news here.

Mount up and attack!


5/12/20 - What’s a Little Coup Between Friends?

Trump-haters consistently minimize the fact that the government spied on the 2016 Trump campaign.  They even dismiss Spygate as Trump just trying to deflect from his “faltering response to the pandemic.”  Not a bad try, considering they have to make stuff up every day.

Some months ago, I was discussing the Trump/Russia collusion and Ukraine narratives with a Democrat on the golf course.  He said he wasn’t interested in the Spygate side of the story (the general outlines of which have been known for at least three years), because ‘these people (Comey, et al.) have sacrificed their lives for this country.’  Try not to laugh; the golfer really believed what he was saying.

President Trump nailed it when he called Spygate “the biggest political crime in American history” and “treason”.

The Obama White House weaponized the intelligence agencies to spy on an opposition presidential candidate and sabotage an incoming opposition president.  This was nothing short of a coup.  We now know, among other things, that Christopher Steele got his information from U.S. intelligence agencies; the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign shared the cost of the phony Steele dossier which was used to get the FISA warrants; the coup plotters planted spies in the Trump campaign; Obama officials testified they had no evidence of Trump/Russia collusion while publicly claiming they did; former President Obama met at the White House with the coup plotters in January 2017, etc., etc., etc.

U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating every aspect of this. 

Tick-tock.


5/11/20 - Flynn He Bad Man
 
Flynn didn’t tell the truth, dropping his case breaches the rule of law, etc.

REBUTTALS
  • Flynn WAS HONEST with the FBI agents.  It was the agents who later lied and falsified the interview form 302 to create ‘false’ statements. (knowledgeable source)
  • the Mueller team was ethically bankrupt and rotten to the core from inception (knowledgeable source)
  • Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann has a long history of outrageous ethical transgressions.  When corruption has been shown, as here, extraordinary measures are needed to set the matter straight (id.)
  • “Anyone who knows how the system works in practice would understand why an innocent man—or a defendant in a close case—might be coerced into pleading guilty.... in this case, it is alleged that the government threatened, if Flynn did not plead guilty, to indict his son.” Alan M. Dershowitz
  • “From a legal and policy point of view, encouraging the FBI to misuse its legitimate authority to investigate past crimes, solely to create future crimes is both immoral and illegal. That is why Congress added the word material to its statute.” (id.)
  • Obama wants to talk about the rule of law?  OK, why did he issue the DACA executive order when he previously said numerous times he didn’t have the power to do so?  Dozens more Obama rule of law transgressions at Liberato.US
  • “First and foremost, Flynn was not charged with perjury. Second, we now know Obama discussed charging Flynn under the Logan Act which has never been used successfully to convict anyone and is flagrantly unconstitutional. Third, this reaffirms reports that Obama was personally invested in this effort. Finally, there is precedent. There is a specific rule allowing for this motion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a). There are specific Supreme Court cases like Rinaldi v. United States addressing the standard for such dismissals. The Justice Department has dismissed cases in the past including the Stevens case. That was requested by President Obama’s own Attorney General Eric Holder for the same reason: misconduct by prosecutors. It was done before the same judge, Judge Sullivan. How is that for precedent?” Jonathan Turley


5/8/20 - Are these the rules Joe Biden wants for himself?

Biden says he'll reverse DeVos rule bolstering protections for those accused of campus sexual assault

Let’s look at the rules Joe wants to bring back:
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 Are these the rules he wants for himself in his current predicament with Tara Reade? 


5/7/20 - Universal Testing Wouldn’t Accomplish Anything

Universal testing is a myth:

“White House Press Secretary @KayleighMcEnany: The notion that everyone needs to be tested is nonsensical, the people who need to be tested are vulnerable populations”
  • If you tested everybody, you’d have to keep re-testing them because they could conceivably contract the virus at any time.


5/6/20 - ‘No New Cases’: Don’t Fall for Chinese Propaganda

China reports 1 new virus case, no deaths

REBUTTAL

 
 
  • China is not credible.  Don’t forget: they earlier claimed the virus started in the U.S.  Also, they hid the virus from the world while they stockpiled medical equipment to sell overseas later.
 
  • China lied about Tiananmen Square, its persecution of the Uighurs, and what it intended for Hong Kong.  Why should coronavirus be any different? #ChinaLiedPeopleDied
    • Dr. Lee Edwards: When I visited Communist China a decade and a half ago and lectured at major universities in Beijing and Shanghai, I was usually asked how the United States and China could improve their relations. I always replied that enduring relationships had to be built on a foundation of truth, and until Beijing was willing to tell the whole truth about the Tiananmen Square massacre—as well as the human price of disastrous Maoist experiments like the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward—there could be no meaningful relationship. The invariable response was a frozen silence.


5/5/20 - Scummy Media Show Desperation Again - GET TRUMP!

Models Project Sharp Rise in Deaths as States Reopen
   - The Trump administration is privately projecting that daily coronavirus deaths in the U.S. will nearly double by June 1

Rebuttal:
  • “This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the task force or gone through interagency vetting. This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the Coronavirus Task Force or data that the task force has analyzed.”  White House official Judd Deere
  • “Even though I released a statement today, which multiple people at @CNN confirmed receiving, @CNN just aired a package about a "new internal document" on #COVID19 deaths with no mention of my statement that said this is not a WH doc & is not reflective of data the TF analysed.” White House official Judd Deere
  • “Justin Lessler, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who reportedly created the model reported by the Times, told The Washington Post that the work contained a wide range of possibilities and modeling was not complete.”  NPR


5/4/20 - Trump Approval Rating at All-Time High

Go on offense:
Trump Approval Rating Hits All-Time High in New Gallup Poll
  • 49 percent, up from 43 percent two weeks ago


5/1/20 - Watch the Shifting Rationales

When the pandemic started, the mantra was ‘we need to flatten the curve so the hospital system won’t be overwhelmed.’  Implicit in this rationale is the idea that the same number of people would die, eventually, but at least the hospitals would be able to handle the situation.  But the rationale has shifted over time, putatively justifying extended lock-downs despite the fact that hospitals are not overwhelmed.  Here are the new formulations:  “really ensure we protect one another”, “lockdowns save lives” (heard on NPR), and, of course, ‘if it will save just one life....’ (ubiquitous). 

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w̷e̷ ̷i̷n̷c̷r̷e̷a̷s̷e̷ ̷t̷e̷s̷t̷i̷n̷g̷
w̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶ ̶v̶a̶c̶c̶i̶n̶e̶
n̴o̴ ̴o̴n̴e̴ ̴i̴s̴ ̴s̴i̴c̴k̴
the election is over and you welcome our new green socialist utopia
— Razor (@hale_razor) April 22, 2020

They’re Getting Desperate -
NBC: Trump suggests virus CREATED in Wuhan lab
DEMOLITION: “He never said it was "created in a lab." He said it likely came from a lab. If you're too stupid to understand the distinction, you should find another line of work.”  Sean Davis