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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Critics: Trump Ratings Up Because Evening News Inadvertently Making POTUS Look ‘Competent’

As President Donald Trump’s approval ratings hit all-time highs, Trump’s critics are now arguing that the nightly news broadcasts are inadvertently upping his ratings by inadvertently making Trump seem “coherent,” “competent,” and “presidential” by truncating his rambling responses during the Coronavirus crisis.

Press Watch’s Dan Froomkin argued on Wednesday “that the broadcast networks shouldn’t break into regular programming to show the briefings live anymore. Watching them, unfiltered, makes their viewers dumber and less safe.”

“More often than not, mainstream reporting on even the most incoherent and contradictory Trump briefing consists of cherry-picking quotes that make him sound coherent, and in no way whatsoever indicate the true nature of the lunacy,” Froomkin continued. “To some degree, we’re getting the worse of both worlds right now. When Trump says something outrageous, the media unthinkingly broadcasts it live – then ignores it.”

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie said that the evening news broadcasts could also be making Trump seem more competent because they have a limited amount of time to air Trump’s words. Bouie flagged a tweet about evening news broadcasts last week seeing a 42 percent increase in viewership (32 million viewers) from last year and said “this may help explain” the president’s approval ratings because “evening news broadcasts are featuring a truncated Trump who appears more competent than he is as a result of...

See That 26% Of Europeans Who Go On Welfare?

Deport Their Asses!

Oh, And Deport All The Other Assholes Too!

Feminist SJW Politician Says Coronavirus is a ‘Gendered Crisis,’ Although Men Die At Over 2x The Rate as Women

More blather from a far-left demagogue.

An Australian politician has called the coronavirus pandemic a “gendered crisis,” arguing that the Chinese virus impacts women the most drastically despite the facts.

“COVID-19 is a gendered crisis. Nurses, nurse aides, teachers, child carers and early-childhood educators, aged-care workers and cleaners are mostly women,” wrote Australian Senator Mehreen Faruqi in a Twitter post.

“They are on the frontline of this public health crisis and carry a disproportionate risk of being exposed to the virus,” she added.

Faruqi, a practitioner of Islam who describes herself as a proud feminist and Pakistani migrant, also posted a rant of herself whining on the Senate floor about how the coronavirus is sexist.

COVID-19 is a gendered crisis.

Nurses, nurse aides, teachers, child carers and early-childhood educators, aged-care workers and cleaners are mostly women.

They are on the frontline of this public health crisis and carry a disproportionate risk of being exposed to the virus. pic.twitter.com/uY56bDmlJ7
— Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) March 25, 2020

Even though Faruqi is complaining about women “on the frontline of this crisis,” the actual numbers show that it is men who are dying in disproportionate rates due to coronavirus.

The data shows that coronavirus is likely impacting men by at least a 2-to-1 margin rather than women:

More than 10,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus, with men seemingly hit harder by the virus than women, according to early data.

A study out of China involving 99 cases found that two-thirds of the patients who required hospitalization were male, while data out of Italy suggests...

'It's all just a little game': Relive Conor McGregor's explosive octagon debut at UFC Stockholm (VIDEO)

On April 6, 2013, a super-confident Irishman made his UFC debut and announced his arrival to the sporting world as the next big global superstar. His name? Conor McGregor.

McGregor had captured the featherweight and lightweight titles in European promotion Cage Warriors, leading to a groundswell of support in his native Ireland.

And, when UFC president Dana White arrived in Dublin for a talk at Kings College, he was inundated by fans imploring him to sign the ebullient Irishman. It led him to check out McGregor's recent performances and, eventually, he inked the Dubliner to a multi-fight contract.

McGregor's first assignment came at UFC Fight Night in Stockholm against former graduate from The Ultimate Fighter, Marcus Brimage. "The Bama Beast" was building a reputation as something of a prospect killer, after handing the highly-rated Jimy Hettes his first loss inside the octagon in his previous fight, and he planned on...

Dr. Fauci Answer Busts Media’s Anti-Trump Narrative, Says ‘Of Course’ He’d Prescribe Chloroquine

Maybe this will get NBC’s attention.

In an interview Tuesday night with a Philadelphia radio show, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the physician who’s become one of the most recognized faces on television during the COVID-19 crisis, said he wouldn’t hesitate to prescribe a known antimalarial drug to a patient who’d been infected with the coronavirus if there were no other option available.

As President Donald Trump put it in a news briefing last week, “What the hell do you have to lose?”

Those weren’t the words used by Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who has become a fixture of Trump’s White House media briefings on the coronavirus.

But they would have summed up his viewpoint pretty well as it came out during a WNTP-AM broadcast while answering a question about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two drugs that most Americans probably never dreamed existed before words like “social distancing” and “flatten the curve” entered the national vocabulary.

When asked by host Chris Stigall about the prospects that the drugs could be useful for coronavirus patients, Fauci gave an equivocal yes — that might not have been as...

A Public Health Crisis Is No Time for Private Pension Bailouts

Now is the time to address the COVID-19 crisis, not throw money at decades-long problems.

House Democrats’ inclusion of a massive taxpayer bailout for a select group of multiemployer or union pension plans in their most recent 1400-page pork-filled COVID-19 legislative package flies in the face of 60% of U.S. households that have suffered significant retirement account losses of their own with the stock market’s roughly 25% COVID-19 tumble.

A private pension bailout as a “solution” for the current situation is both ironic and disturbing.

The Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pension Plans Act, which the House of Representatives passed in July of 2019, would initially give more than $70 billion in taxpayer dollars to about 10% of the most underfunded multiemployer pension plans, allowing them to keep paying 100% of their massively over-promised and underfunded pension benefits.

One plan—the Central States Pension Fund—would receive $3 billion in direct cash in 2020 alone.

In addition, those highly insolvent plans would receive over $40 billion in taxpayer-backed loans that they could invest in the stock market.

The notion here is essentially that plans could arbitrage low-interest taxpayer-backed loans into higher-risk investments, such as stocks, to improve their plan funding.

Not surprisingly, considering these are loans to insolvent entities, the Congressional Budget Office estimated a roughly 80% default rate, with the overwhelming majority of plans receiving assistance still becoming insolvent.

The recent market decline shows precisely why it’s absolutely inappropriate to use taxpayer dollars to invest in the market—especially in an attempt to dig out of debt.

Had the bill actually passed and $32 billion in loans been distributed to plans and invested in the market in January of this year, taxpayers would already be $8 billion in the hole.

In the end, if Congress extends a pension bailout to all union pension plans, it could cost taxpayers well beyond the $638 billion in multiemployer pension underfunding (that is more likely in the $700-$800 billion range today).

And then there’s $4 trillion to $6 trillion in state and...

US jobless claims hit 3.3 million, four times the previous record

Nearly 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week — more than quadruple the previous record set in 1982 — amid a widespread economic shutdown caused by the coronavirus. The pace of layoffs is sure to accelerate as the U.S. economy sinks into a recession.

Stay Strong Patriots, We Have The Best Possible Leader In President Trump To Fix The Economy Again After This Chinese Pandemic Is Solved.

WARNING GRAPHIC: Joe Biden’s Sexual Assault Accuser Breaks Silence With Graphic Allegations

In the interview excerpt, former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade described a graphic 1993 incident where a superior asked her to take a gym bag to Biden “down towards the capital.” Then she recalls being called towards the “side area” where Biden greeted her.

“We were alone and it was the strangest thing,” she said. “There was no like exchange really. He just had me up against the wall.”

Reade went on to say that she was wearing a business skirt with no stockings because it was hot at the time. While up against the wall, Reade says Biden’s “hands were on me and underneath my clothes.”

The details get even more graphic and disturbing from there. VERY disturbing. (Listen below)

Reade also said Biden was kissing her and saying multiple things to her. She remembered a couple of the comments.

“I remember him saying first, like as he was doing it, ‘Do you want to go somewhere else,’” she said. “And then him saying to me when I pulled away, he got finished doing what he was doing, and I kind of just pulled back and he said, ‘Come on man, I heard you liked me.’ And that phrase stayed with me because I kept thinking what I might’ve said and I can’t remember exactly if he said ‘i thought’ or ‘I heard’ but he implied that I had done this.”

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