In the Rose Garden
yesterday, President Trump announced the United States has tested one million
people for COVID-19 and unveiled a new rapid test kit manufactured by Abbott
Laboratories which delivers a negative result in 13 minutes when the virus is
not detected.
Also during the
Coronavirus Task Force press conference, he announced Ford Motor Company is
repurposing an auto parts factory west of Detroit to start building simple
ventilators to treat patients diagnosed with the virus.
CNN was allowed
admittance to the presser. It was
towards the end of the briefing the President called on Jim Acosta. “Go ahead, let’s give it a shot,” he said.
The arrogant sumbitch
mentioned a number of statements the President had made about the virus in
recent weeks before asking, “What do you say to Americans who believe that you
got this wrong?”
"If you look at
those individual statements, they are all true. 'Stay calm. It will go away.'
You know, it is going away. And it will go away, and we're going to have a
great victory,'" the President said. "It’s people like you and CNN
that say things like that. It’s why people just don’t want to listen to CNN
anymore."
"I don't want
panic in the country. I could cause panic much better than even you," he
said. "I would make you look like a minor league player, but you know
what? I don't want to do that. I want to have our country be calm. Instead of
asking a nasty, snarky question like that, you should ask a real question."
Inescapable facts: China knew in November 2019 about the
coronavirus and lied to the world about its outbreak. Xi Jinping refused offers to help from
outside the regime to prevent its spread.
It did not close its borders to prevent carriers of the virus from
transmitting it outside the affected region.
It silenced anyone who attempted to sound the alarm.
When China closed down
the Wuhan Province in late January 2020 sealing off 11 million, the Democrat
Media Complex downplayed the deadly global threat to come.
Two weeks later, China
extended the lockdown to 50 million people.
It was only then the Washington Post showed any concern.
A month after that,
CNN’s Anderson Cooper told his three viewers, “So, if you’re freaked out at all
about the coronavirus, you should be more concerned about the flu.”
One of the problems
with coronavirus coverage is the major media outlets have been
insufficiently skeptical of China’s government for decades. National Review’s
Jim Geraghty compiled “The
Comprehensive Timeline of China’s COVID-19 Lies,” and it’s infuriating.
Xi Jinping’s state-run
media are relying on critics of President Trump to step up its propaganda
attacking the United States by spreading deliberate lies about the pandemic
outbreak. The regime’s distortions of the truth are now more than abstract
problems for the international community.
The American media’s
myopic concerns are not about matters of life and death; rather they are about
political correctness and electoral politics and they are eager to help China
gaslight the entire world.
The White House
Coronavirus Task Force briefings reveal the schism between what the President
tells Americans and what the media says he says.
Effing disgraceful.
COVID-19 has spread to
more than 177
countries, claiming more than 27,000 lives according to the Center for
Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University at 12:53:01 AM on
March 28, 2020 precisely because of the Chinese government’s arrogance and
incompetence. One can only wonder what
is motivating Western journalists who pretend the contrary is true.
Tectonix GEO ran an
analysis using data from anonymized cellphones that were active during Spring
Break at just one Florida beach.
It’s a frightening insight into how the movement of people across states
is proliferating the country’s outbreak as local, state and federal officials
desperately try to keep the public at home to flatten the curve.
President Trump has
pointed out that he “inherited” a woefully under-prepared system to deal with
the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Examiner highlighted reports
from the Los
Angeles Times and Bloomberg
News which attempted to criticize the President but buried an
important piece of information about the mask shortages. It turns out the Obama
Administration is squarely at fault for the current lack of N95 masks, not
President Trump.
Last Thursday, after a
growing swell of questions arose asking, “Where’s Joe?” the former Vice
President tweeted:
The Obama-Biden Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense to prepare for future pandemics like COVID-19.
Donald Trump eliminated it — and now we're paying the price.
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 19, 2020
The deliberately incurious Democrat Media Complex
never questioned The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer for ANYTHING. EVER.
Lo and behold, from a source you would never
expect, The Washington Post reported
last week, “After Barack Obama
became President in 2009, he eliminated the White House Health and Security
Office, which worked on international health issues. But after grappling
with the 2014 Ebola epidemic, Obama in 2016 established a Directorate for
Global Health Security and Biodefense at the NSC. A directorate has its own
staff, and it is headed by someone who generally reports to the National Security
Adviser.”
President Trump proved that
theory wrong when he took the bold step of banning
travel from China back in January. He got torched for it. Barely a month
later, World Health Organization experts admitted it worked and saved
lives. America has not, at least to this point, experienced the catastrophic
outbreaks seen in Italy and Iran.
After 100 million masks
were used in the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, it was strongly recommended the Obama Administration
replenish the masks. Obama and Biden
blew it off. Charles Johnson, President of the International Safety Equipment
Association said, “our Association is unaware of any major effort to restore
the stockpile to cover that draw-down. ”The outbreak “caused a 2 to 3-year
backlog of orders for the N95 variety [respirator face masks],” adding “the
stockpile distributed about three-quarters of its inventory and didn’t build
back the supply.”
The media’s blind rage
and fatal arrogance compels them to repeatedly denigrate President Trump for
his handling of this pandemic. Don’t be
fooled. They want you ignorant and
terrified. They think you’re stupid.
But wait.There’s more.
The Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) is now turning to targeting President Trump as part of its global
disinformation campaign by aggressively pushing
the narrative that this is the “Trump Pandemic.”
China’s state-run Global
Times newspaper in a March 22 article,
titled “Trump Pandemic Rages,” attacked the President’s response to the Chinese virus and promoted the anti-Trump hashtags (#Trumpandemic and #TrumpVirus)—claiming
Trump has now “run into a brick wall.”
There is a direct
relationship between the brutal and oppressive nature of the communist regime
and the global spread of COVID-19.
Internal government
documents have highlighted how the Red Chinese purposefully underreported cases
of the Wuhan virus and censored discussions of the outbreak, helping
to fuel the spread of the disease, which is now confirmed to have infected more
than 383,000 people internationally according to data from the Center
for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University as of
5:28 AM on March 24, 2020.
This is the story of a
woman and a civilization going through a war with an unseen enemy that will
leave no one unchanged in its aftermath.
Scarlett O’Hara is a
woman who can deal with a nation at war, selfish bastards carrying off
everything from disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer, comfort food and yes,
toilet paper to hoard for themselves without any regard for their fellow man.
What will she have to
do to survive?
The store shelves are
barren. Amazon can’t keep anything in
stock. Lawdy, whatever will she do?
Much like the scene in Gone
With The Wind where a starving Scarlett hungrily pulls up a tiny radish to
eat, our heroine can be heard to say, “As God is my witness, as God is my
witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when
it's all over, I'll never be without toilet paper again. No, nor any of my
folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never
be paperless again.”
In the final scene,
with tear-stained eyes uplifted in a sudden, curious burst of hope beneath all
the turmoil of the Great Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020 we hear her say, “After
all, tomorrow is another day.”
One great thing about working from home during
the coronavirus lockdown is the dress code. Now pants optional Monday doesn’t
end up with a Human Resources hearing like in the past.
I was perusing the
Twitter machine and found this totes adorbs nugget from CNN’s
helium-voiced chubbo Tater Stelter. It
seems he’s keeping a “Dear Diary” just like his equally self-absorbed colleague
Jim Acosta.
Here’s the entry
from his “special Saturday night/Sunday morning edition” newsletter:
Every day blends
together, one into the next, with few clear delineations between weekdays and
weekends except for the newscasts on TV. The news is a dull roar — empowering
some of the time but disconcerting most of the time. The reports from hospitals
are straight out of a nightmare. And if you're anything like me, the virus has
started to infect your dreams, too.
Mostly I wanted to
write an abbreviated edition of the newsletter to say: Hang in there.
Stay strong. Whatever mix of emotions you're feeling right now, others are too.
Write it down. Get it out. Someday your loved ones can read your diary about
this experience. In the Stelter household, we're recording lots of
videos and making lots of FaceTime calls and writing lots of newsletter
items...
UPDATE: Welcome readers of Whatfinger News. United we stand six feet apart until this
pandemic is over. Please stay healthy.
On Thursday evening CNN’s
Anderson Cooper hosted a global Town Hall with world-renowned epidemiology and
virology expert Sean Penn.
During the farcical
town hall, Penn was asked to share his expertise on how the U.S. military could
stop the spread of the Chinese virus everyone wants us to refer as COVID-19 so
as not to stigmatize the pandemic’s country of origin.
Penn will always be Jeff Spicoli, the bud-loving high school
burnout who starred inFast Times At Ridgemont High,in my eyes.
Spicoli said, “There is no greater humanitarian force on the
planet than the United States military. The logistical skills, commitment to
service, their care for the people. It’s really time to give the military the
full breadth command and control of this operation. I wouldn’t blink, I would
have put command and control in their hands a month ago, certainly today.”
“I could talk quite a
bit about what should have been done, now with the lives that have been lost
and the amount of people that are sick, clearly what we have to do, and what
the military does so well, in terms of coordination…coordinating with
hospitals, building hospitals, they can build a hospital in 25 minutes,” Penn
said, explaining that he highly respects the National Guard but the military is
needed on U.S. soil during the pandemic.
Spicoli Penn has no medical
background, although he did play a 19th-century doctor in a movie last
year. He has never served a day in the military. He is a wife
beater. He just adores murderous
drug cartel leaders like Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. In 2016 he interviewed the Mexican drug lord
for Rolling Stone. The interview
unintentionally made it possible for U.S law enforcement to locate and capture the
slimeball.
The socialist douchebag has repeatedly drawn criticism for
his activist efforts even attempting to blend it with journalism by visiting
Iraq after
the U.S. invasion in 2005.
What CNN’s Town Hall amounted to was little more than an
attack on President Trump’s handling of this national health emergency. It offered little in the way of rational
information, instead it promoted panic and hysteria. Their desperation to fill up airtime with a
hard-left, intellectually underdeveloped actor is both unserious and
disgraceful.
“It's in the nature of
political writing and reporting to dramatize and the rewards in the Internet
era are entirely on the side of hysterical dramatization. The past 20
years of Internet-driven panic and hysteria have dramatically lowered the
public opinion of media; writers and artists in general. In the liberal
community, these professions are generally seen as caring and driven by the
desire to educate. But that's seldom true. Those professions are
mostly home to reckless drama queens determined to advance their personal
ambitions with dramatic presentations. And most of those entertainers and
artists aren't very smart. The emotionally self-indulgent are
naturally inclined to be irrational.”
Last yesterday afternoon,
POLITICO published
a report pointing out former Vice President Joe Biden has made no public
appearances or statements since his most recent victories against Comrade
Bernie. He has instead been talking with
health officials, businesses, governors and members of Congress in an effort to
start “shadow briefing” on the coronavirus pandemic to show how he would handle
the crisis.
Biden’s home is being outfitted
with equipment that would enable him to livestream events, have interactive tele-press
conferences and broadcast interviews with network television. Biden confessed he hired a professional team
to do that because “that’s a little above my pay grade to know how to do that.”
Brad Parscale, Trump
Campaign Manager said, “Biden will take attention from real updates Americans
should know just to score political points.”
His first virtual town
hall, a week ago today, was an unmitigated disaster rife with technical
difficulties, garbled audio, blank screens and randomly going live to
unsuspecting participants. And
hilariously, at one point Biden walked out of the frame and could be heard
asking, “Am I on camera?”
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Bless his heart.Wanting desperately to appear presidential,
Sleepy Joe Biden issued a statement calling out the Trump Administration’s
so-called “inaction” to the growing pandemic and pressing him to invoke the
Defense Production Act to meet the increasing demand for life-saving hospital
equipment.
Babbling Biden said, “Prioritize and
immediately increase domestic production of any critical medical equipment
required to respond to this crisis.”
biden sends out a statement demanding trump invoke the Defense Production Act minutes after trump...invokes the Defense Production Act pic.twitter.com/D2R0EnoBVg
President Trump had alreadydeclared
his intention to invoke the Defense Production Act as part of America’s war
against the coronavirus. The 1950 Act grants
the President broad authority to mobilize the private sector to manufacture
emergency materials for the purpose of national defense and national security.
“Right after we finish
this [press] conference,” the President said, “I’ll be signing it and it’s
ready to go. There’s never been an
instance like this where no matter what you have it’s never enough. If we need to use it, we’ll be using it at
full speed ahead.”
More than 50 Democrats
sent a letter to the President urging him to invoke the Defense Production
Act.Something tells me when the President
cleaned out that viper’s nest when he got rid of Lt. Col. Vindman and his twin
brother from the NSC the pipeline of leaks was shut off and the Democrats did
not count on the President taking the action.They thought they had him.President Trump outfoxed them good and hard.
Everybody knew Bernie
was going to lose Florida once he spoke in glowing terms about dictator Fidel
Castro who was responsible for driving a million Cubans into the sea toward the
Sunshine State.
His trash-talking about Israel and its democratic leadership while surrounding himself with openly
anti-Semitic surrogates like Ilham Omar, Rashida Tlaib and the Bronx Bolshevik was
an unmistakable turnoff for Florida’s 600,000 Jews.
A scant three weeks ago
bumbling, stumbling Uncle Joe had been left for dead.Since that time he has won 19 of 24 Democratic
primaries.
After Biden’s highly
anticipated victory in South Carolina, voters went for him on Super Tuesday
by a margin of 47 to 26 over Comrade Bernie.
Biden beat Bernie
by nearly 39 points in Florida. That’s bad if you’re the commie.Just how bad you ask?No Box Bloomberg, who dropped out of the race
two weeks ago got more votes in Florida than Bernie’s totals in New Hampshire,
Iowa and Nevada.
In state after state, Sanders underperformed in comparison
with 2016.
Bernie has hit a brick
wall. UPDATE: The marxist old fart has paused his digital
advertising spend on Facecrap ads following his disappointing showing in
Tuesday’s primaries.He and his wife Jane
are traveling back to Vermont to “assess
the path forward.”
Weijia Jiang, a CBS
News correspondent accused an unnamed White House official of calling
COVID-19 the “Kung Flu” this morning in a tweet and Brandon Morse, Senior
Editor at the website RedStates, lowered the boom on her:
Shouldn't it be a good thing that everyone is kung-flu fighting. That the task force is fast as lightning despite this virus being a little bit frightening? https://t.co/Cs1XN6UQoy
Morse’s reference may be lost to the
younger set. It comes from the single released in 1974
by Bus Stop during the chop-socky film craze that featured martial arts and
kung fu films made in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The song has been featured in films like Rush Hour 3, Beverly Hills
Ninja and Kung Fu Panda 3.
It’s an indisputable
fact that the Wuhan Virus, known to all of us as coronavirus or COVID-19,
originated in Wuhan, China, the capital of Hubei Province. Every documentable
piece of evidence demonstrates this to us.
China is doing exactly
what you would expect a communist nation to do—manipulate public opinion via
the woke leftism of a complicit Democrat Media Complex. The idea that we can’t
label the virus by its place of origin without being xenophobic is laughable
when, in fact, the media was calling it exactly that recently.
On March 8, the People’s
Republic of China’s state-run rag
Xinhua threatened to impose pharmaceutical export controls after which
America would be “plunged into the mighty sea of coronavirus.”
The article goes on to imply
China would be justified in taking such a step. It would simply be retaliating
against “unkind” U.S. measures taken after COVID-19’s emergence, such as
restricting entry to the U.S. by Chinese and foreigners who had visited China.
Inside China, a raft of
conspiracy stories has appeared online, including that the contagion was spread
by the U.S. military. This bile was spewed by Lijian Zhao, Deputy Director
General for Red China’s Foreign Ministry who tweeted, “It might be the US Army
who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe us an explanation!”
Can any one of you
imagine Germany, Japan or other responsible nations performing such a dark
passive aggressive threat disguised as hurt feelings?
The pull
quotes from one of my favorite columnists, Victor Davis Hanson, hits the
nail on the head:
“In a reductionist
sense, it is not surprising that a China, systematically lying to and cheating
its trading partners, cannot be trusted to tell the world how a virus was born
on its own soil, spread among its population, and hopped oceans into other
nations.”
“When the virus peters
out and the panic fades, China may be permanently rebranded and recalibrated by
the world at large. Its trading partners will trust it far less to honor any
commitments or to abide by any international agreements. Supply chains will be
diversified. Tourism will be reduced in fears another such coronavirus will
follow SARS and COVID-19—and be hushed up. Countries that had particular close
commercial and cultural ties with China—Iran, South Korea, and Italy—were hurt most
during the epidemic by Chinese silence and duplicity.”
I guess I’ll have to own
up to a willingness to stigmatize the culture a of people who dine in
disgusting “wet markets” that feature bamboo rats, civets, pangolin, bats,
snakes, wriggling grubworms, live snakes, turtle, cicadas, guinea pigs,
badgers, hedgehogs, otters and even wolf cubs.
So yeah, people in this country will get a little rude when you start a
pandemic that destroys people’s lives.
Toilet
paper was purportedly sold out at most major grocery stores, pharmacies and
other outlets across the country. There
are videos showing panic-stricken people actually resorting to fisticuffs over
the last pack of TP. It’s not only happening here, its happening in Europe and
Australia as well. Shoppers are clearing shelves as the number of COVID-19 (coronavirus)
cases grow.
Will
the Great Toilet Paper Crisis of 2020 last?
Not if Georgia-Pacific and Procter & Gamble can help it. Both
companies have noticed the spike in demand and are working to keep store
shelves stocked according
to Forbes.
If we make it through
this pandemic together, let’s all have a day where we wrap ourselves in our
unused toilet paper and go outside pretending we’re all mummies.
This is not just
another bizarre “Florida Man” news story.It’s the story of one of the darlings of the Democrat Party caught in a
drug-fueled party with naked gay men in a hotel room.
According to a published
report in USA Today, Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee and 2018
Democratic nominee for governor of the Sunshine State, was involved in a meth
overdose incident in the wee hours of Friday morning in a Miami Beach hotel
room.
When cops arrived they
found plastic baggies with crystal meth out in the open on the bed and floor of
the hotel room.Gillum was there with
two other men.One had to be treated for
a possible drug overdose.
The man being treated was
Travis Dyson, who according to WPLG
Local 10 in Miami, “identifies as a pornstar performer and mentions gay
massages in a Rent Men profile.”His Instagram
account, now made private, shares sexual videos of him with a “muscular man” in
a thong he identified as Dyson’s boyfriend.
"I was in Miami
last night for a wedding celebration when first responders were called to
assist one of my friends. While I had too much to drink, I want to be clear
that I have never used methamphetamines. I apologize to the people of Florida
for the distraction this has caused our movement.”
“I’m thankful to the
incredible Miami Beach EMS team for their efforts. I will spend the next few
weeks with my family and appreciate privacy during this time.”
Gillum is no
stranger to scandal. His 2018 gubernatorial campaign began to falter after revelations
surfaced about his interactions with lobbyists and undercover FBI agents
during out-of-town trips.
You might assume the
story ends there.You would be
wrong.Tallahassee
Reportsreveals “at least nine law enforcement officials responded to
the call, including three captains.”
The incident did not
result in any arrests.Why not?The presence of such high-ranking law
enforcement officials raises some serious questions.You know where I’m going with this.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan
Gelber, who donated $1,000 to Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign told reporters, “There
does not exist an active investigation surrounding this matter.I have no further comment.”
The final police
report, which has apparently been amended several times, indicates a
photographer was on the scene and “BWC USED”.The acronym BWC refers to Body Worn Camera.
Somebody needs to make
a FOIA request for the video before its magically inadvertently erased.If it is true that there are 768 sealed indictments
in the North Florida District, how many have Gillum’s name on them?
Gelber, according to his
Wikipedia profile,
served in the Florida Legislature from 2000 to 2010 and the Democratic nominee
for Attorney General of Florida in 2010.I smell RICO organized crime activity.
It seems appropriate to
quote Walter White (Bryan Cranston) from the hit TV show Breaking Bad:
“If
you don’t know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread
lightly.”
House Democrats and the
White House fell short of sealing a deal providing economic help to the victims
of the devastating coronavirus.
Nancy Pelosi said
Thursday night an agreement is all but assured today.
"It's fair to say
we're close to an agreement, subject to the exchange of paper, and hope to have
an agreement tomorrow," she told reporters just outside her office in the
Capitol.
Honest to God,
listening to this stuttering clusterfuck should cement in any rational mind
this old crone should sit down and shut the eff up.She reminds me of the old cartoons of Porky Pigsaying, “Tha, tha, that’s all folks!”
In his historic Oval
Office address to the nation on the coronavirus outbreak President Trump said, “We
are responding with great speed and professionalism. To keep new cases from
entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United
States for the next 30 days.”
The President also
announced he will take “emergency action” to give financial relief to impacted
workers.
“Using emergency
authority, I will be instructing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments
without interest or penalty for certain individuals or businesses negatively
impacted,” he said. “Finally, I am calling on Congress to provide Americans
with immediate payroll tax relief.”
That, however, was not
the story on CNN when Jim “Dear Diary” Acosta and Fredo Cuomo were worried
about how the President worded his statement.
On CNN, Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta says President @realDonaldTrump referring to the coronavirus as a "foreign virus" "smacks of xenophobia." pic.twitter.com/1aibFjZp5R
Even before the World
Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus a pandemic on Wednesday, the
Democrat Media Complex discovered “Wuhan virus” and “Chinese coronavirus” served
as racist dog whistles just in time to attack Republicans during the 2020
election cycle.
COVID-19 originated in
China, in Wuhan specifically. That’s an
indisputable FACT. It spread across the
globe due to the Chinese Communist Party's ridiculous, self-serving reluctance
to admit error, provide other nations with the DNA
and RNA codes to help develop an effective vaccine as well as its seemingly
bottomless capacity for arrogance, incompetence and opacity. Those are FACTS as well.
It
is unfathomable to think, in a moment of crisis, the douchebags at CNN are more
concerned with something sounding xenophobic than they are about what the President
actually said.
I thought it only
fitting to have Acosta pictured in a Communist Chinese jersey with his trusty
microphone while policing the President’s very somber address to a justifiably
worried nation.
Later on in the Fake
News evening lineup at CNN, the meltdown continued unabated.See for yourself.
Oh man!
You gotta check out this back-and-forth between Don Lemon and John Kasich in which Lemon straight-up admonishes Kasich for thinking Trump's address was fine.
