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So more like a repeater than a reporter?How is she even considered a reporter when she doesn’t even ask for any confirmation of anything he is saying?
What do you expect? Axios stuff?
So more like a repeater than a reporter?How is she even considered a reporter when she doesn’t even ask for any confirmation of anything he is saying?
At least he was able to package this without looking batshit crazy (pun intended).For FUCKING Fuck sake, THIS FUCKING GUY!!
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1393961772927922176/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1394028296791216134/
At least he was able to package this without looking batshit crazy (pun intended).
Zero evidence for the wet market theory, but piling indirect evidence for the virus lab?! I mean...the first week of the pandemic was about the question whether there's human to human transmission vs. animal to human transmission. People don't understand that there are a bunch of diseases like brucellosis where the humans get the infection from the animal but don't infect each other. The common denominator of patients zero was their frequenting the market. So he's actually lying about one thing, to make another thing sound more feasible. I'd also think that if they are so aware of intels like this, I wonder where this newly awoken sense of ethics was during the Trump admin?
That said, this is definitely a matter that needs to be investigated thoroughly and emphasized to be unproven unless there is overwhelming evidence emerges.
The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.
Most of the reductions were made at the Beijing office of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and occurred over the past two years, [so in 2018 and 2019] according to public CDC documents viewed by Reuters and interviews with four people familiar with the drawdown.
The Atlanta-based CDC, America’s preeminent disease fighting agency, provides public health assistance to nations around the world and works with them to help stop outbreaks of contagious diseases from spreading globally. It has worked in China for 30 years.
“The CDC office in Beijing is a shell of its former self,” said one of the people, a U.S. official who worked in China at the time of the drawdown.
Separately, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the global relief program which had a role in helping China monitor and respond to outbreaks, also shut their Beijing offices on Trump’s watch. Before the closures, each office was staffed by a U.S. official. In addition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) transferred out of China in 2018 the manager of an animal disease monitoring program.
Trump admin worked like the mechanic who every time they touch your car they forget to put a bunch of parts back with a shrug indicating, look it works, so it wasn't needed. And when the car breaks down, he blames the owner, the previous owner, the car maker, the part maker, the road, the other drivers, the weather, and so on. Prior to his admin, the USA used to be (rightfully) proud of its global health presence and initiatives. These guys now propose without showing evidence that something adverse happened as a consequence of these efforts, etc. However, the same sort of moral dilemmas don't seem to be raised in the context of military interventions and funding. Which absolutely gives off a dishonest vibe. It's sorta like the moment they lost the WH they became fiscally conservative again.When it comes from Devin Nunes you can bank on one thing: it is not only political but hyperpartisan.
The Trump admin's take from the get-go: they did not like that there was a large contingent of US researchers from CDC (about 50) working with Chinese counterparts in China focused on unraveling issues of virus transmission in the so-called wet markets in Wuhan et al. Trump admin reduced that staffing from 47 to around 14 a couple years before the covid-19 pandemic got a leg up.
Reuters ran a piece about this in March 2020:
Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak
The Trump administration cut staff by more than two-thirds at a key U.S. public health agency operating inside China, as part of a larger rollback of U.S.-funded health and science experts on the ground there leading up to the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters has learned.www.reuters.com
Ted Cruz’s Tweet About Russia Army Makes 'EmasculaTED' Trend
The Texas senator angered people on Twitter by suggesting the Russian army was better prepared than America’s “woke, emasculated military.”www.huffpost.com
Honestly, I'm losing track with Rafael. My basic assumption is that he is a troll and not this dumb, but I don't see the endgame and motivations. I really used to think he's out for a presidency, but trolling 24/7 on Twitter is an absolutely losing tactic even for a guy like Trump who has a real cult behind him. For Cruz, it's all the problems and hardly any of the perks. So I think he's actually given up on presidency... Then looking into his 2018 election results it dawned on me:Not only did TF guy lose his manhood, but any clues or honesty as well.
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1395569066354618372/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1395714325831208965/
Not only did TF guy lose his manhood, but any clues or honesty as well.
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1395569066354618372/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1395714325831208965/
Is there a conspiracy bingo card generator out there? Feels like that rant alone would give someone a full row and Bingo! …
So much for intelligence.
CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans
The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was "nothing" in America before white colonizers arrived.www.huffpost.com
CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist, inaccurate remarks he made about Native Americans, HuffPost has learned.
Santorum, a former Republican senator and two-time failed GOP presidential candidate, sparked outrage last month after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived and that Native people haven’t contributed much to American culture, anyway.
“We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here,” Santorum told students during remarks at a Young America’s Foundation event. “I mean, yes, we have Native Americans, but candidly, there isn’t much Native American culture in American culture.”
Target Stores To Halt Sales Of All Trading Cards From May 14th Forward
In a move that likely will be widely regarded as frustrating, yet understandable, Target has decided halt trading card sales entirely.bleedingcool.com
Chaos At A Walmart As People Rush To Buy Pokémon Cards
The continued shortage of Pokémon cards, fueled by the pandemic, Twitch streamers, and scalpers, led to a chaotic situation at a Walmart in Pennsylvania. The moment the store opened, folks began to run to the section of the store where trading cards are sold, leading to chaos and one sad sight.kotaku.com
Marjorie Taylor Greene compares House mask mandates to the Holocaust
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during an interview on a conservative podcast this week, compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to continue to require members of the House to wear masks on the chamber floor to steps the Nazis took to control the Jewish population during the...www.cnn.com
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1396634356538658822/(CNN)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during an interview on a conservative podcast this week, compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to continue to require members of the House to wear masks on the chamber floor to steps the Nazis took to control the Jewish population during the Holocaust.
Greene, in a conversation with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody Real America's Voice TV show "The Water Cooler," attacked Pelosi and accused her of being a hypocrite for asking GOP members to prove they have all been vaccinated before allowing members to be in the House chamber without a mask.
"You know, we can look back at a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany," Greene said. "And this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."
Jewish groups were quick to condemn Greene's remarks.
Tuberville says he informed Trump of Pence’s evacuation before rioters reached Senate
It’s long been unclear precisely when Trump learned of the danger that Congress and his vice president faced.www.politico.com
Their memories make goldfish seem like elephants…TF guy reminding everyone of his intellectual prowess
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1396949540809363457/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1397018766249058304/
Also if true, NOT a good look
Chip and Joanna Gaines reportedly donated $1,000 to a Texas school board candidate trying to ban teaching about systemic racism
Chip and Joanna Gaines donated $1,000 to his sister Shannon Braun's campaign for a Texas school board. She wants to ban critical race theory.www.insider.com
Chip and Joanna Gaines reportedly donated $1,000 to a politician who supports banning critical race theory education in Texas public schools.
- Chip Gaines' sister Shannon Braun is running for a school board position in Colleyville, Texas.
- Braun has spoken out against critical race theory as part of her platform.
- The Gaineses reportedly donated $1,000 to her campaign.
Chip Gaines' sister, Shannon Braun, is running for the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (GCISD) school board in Colleyville, Texas.
According to her website, Braun's platform intends to provide "kids the education they deserve" — which she doesn't believe includes critical race theory.
Critical race theory looks at racism systematically, examining how generations of racism and inequality still impact society today.
"It's an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it," a lawyer and founder of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw told CNN.
To critical race theorists, racism is not something that happened in the past tense, but an experience people of color deal with every day, while white people continue to benefit from an imbalanced system.
Critical race theory is not currently part of the GCISD's curriculum, as The Dallas Morning News reported, though a growing number of conservatives claim Texas school districts have plans to implement it.
Texas legislators are considering passing a bill that would make it more difficult for teachers to educate their students about racism, while deaths caused by domestic extremists who have racist ideologies are on the rise.
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