Friday, May 29, 2020

Politics and Coronavirus related links 052920



Chinese state media releases animated propaganda video mocking US coronavirus response

Pompeo falls on his face by contradicting himself within 15 SECONDS live on air

Let's talk about what Trump can learn from some old interviews....

Let's talk about teens and moral injuries again....

Jared Kushner, Mike Pence & the Entitled Elites Destroying America | The Common Good w/ Robert Reich

What kind of person calls 100,000 plus dead a very good job?

Ben Rhodes: ‘We cannot trust the information’ coming from the White House.  The White House is struggling to build trust with the American people, says MSNBC contributor Ben Rhodes.

COVID-19: PRO-KREMLIN MEDIA DEFEND BEIJING

Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn was in charge: This crisis demonstrates the lamentable missed opportunity Britain had to install a politician who actually gave a damn about ordinary people.

Journalist goes undercover at "wet markets", where the Coronavirus started | 60 Minutes Australia

Trump's spy chief pick grilled over claims intel shows coronavirus originated in Chinese lab

Trump White House calls need to test all Americans a 'myth': Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Medical Expert Dr. Kavita Patel react to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany downplaying the need for robust testing across the nation.

Trump Rebukes Nurse On National Nurses Day And Critics Are Livid: ‘How Dare He!’  Trump took issue with a nurse’s claim that the delivery of PPE has been “sporadic.”

Closing down criticism: No.10's campaign to silence the outrage over covid

Trump's personal valet tests positive for coronavirus: President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have since tested negative for the virus, the White House said Thursday.

Senate GOP blocks Democratic oversight bill for small-business aid

Timeline: Trump's Coronavirus Response | NowThis

Pandemic Leads Supreme Court To Delay Oral Arguments

Church, State And Coronavirus: A Worldwide Pandemic Has Shuttered Restaurants, Stores And Shops -- But Some Houses Of Worship Are Demanding Special Treatment

Outbreak Of Nonsense: Christian Nationalists At First Tried To Minimize The Coronavirus Pandemic -- Then They Got Really Offensive
https://www.au.org/church-state/may-2020-church-state-magazine/featured/outbreak-of-nonsense-christian-nationalists-at

Curbing The Conoravirus: Religious Freedom Confers No Right To Spread Sickness

Hobby Lobby Criticized For Actions During Coronavirus Pandemic

Americans United Concerned Over Tax Aid To Religion In Coronavirus Relief Bill

Graham Screens Volunteers To Ensure Anti-LGBTQ Views At NY Field Hospital

The Puritan Impulse: For Christian Nationalists, The Coronavirus Pandemic Provides An Opening To Seek More Control

Trump Sinks to New Depths

The Next Coronavirus Bill Must Protect the 2020 Election: We need no-excuse absentee voting now — and that’s the bare minimum.

Froma Harrop: In a reversal, Trump 'authorizes' governors to do their job

Amid a Pandemic, Trump Still at War with Government

Wisconsin Voters Brave Pandemic Voter Suppression, But GOP Plans New Tricks for November

Colorado Lockdown Protester Arrested For Possession Of Pipe Bombs

Michigan Gov. Whitmer: Protesters 'carried nooses and Confederate flags and swastikas': Whitmer, a Democrat, was referring to the hundreds of demonstrators who protested Michigan's emergency measures at the state Capitol building last week.

Once pandemic passes, people of conscience must step up

Lessons from the Pandemic

Will the Post-Coronavirus World Order Be Humane?

There Is Nobody Else to Blame

Neither Elizabeth Warren Nor Other Congressmen Have a Plan for the COVID-19 Depression

When You Drown Government in a Bathtub, People Die

Global report: virus has unleashed a 'tsunami of hate' across world, says UN chief.  António Guterres pleads for an end to ‘hate speech’; Beijing says it will cooperate with WHO on Covid-19 origin; global deaths near 270,000

In the Face of a Deadly Global Pandemic, the Government Can Ban Large Gatherings—Even Religious Ones

Ivanka Trump assistant tests positive for coronavirus, among other White House staff

Harvard professor among three charged with lying about Chinese government ties

As Deaths In U.S. Continue, A Look At Trump's Words On Virus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

AP Exclusive: Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report

Kushner coronavirus effort said to be hampered by inexperienced volunteers

Pence Self-Isolating After Aide Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Trump defends not wearing a mask alongside 90-year-old WW2 veterans

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s perfect China ‘ban,’ death toll myths

New Report on 138 Coronavirus Cases Reveals Disturbing Details: A highly contagious patient, virus transmission inside a hospital and unexpected turns for the worse have emerged as part of the epidemic in China.

Should We Be Kind to the Rich?  A reader also asks about the ethics of ordering groceries online during the pandemic.

Mitch McConnell: Obama 'should have kept his mouth shut' instead of criticizing US coronavirus response

Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities: Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.

Obituary: Pioneer of orphanages in Tibet dies from COVID-19 in Switzerland

What Really Inflamed the Coronavirus Epidemic: Censorship didn’t worsen the deadly virus outbreak. Incompetence did.

Fact check: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic 'game plan.' Obama left a 69-page playbook
          
Retired Kansas farmer who sent an N95 mask to Cuomo gets an award he’s waited decades for: a college degree

Trump is trying to normalize coronavirus deaths Dan Rather says: Donald Trump is attempting to normalize the thousands of coronavirus deaths that have occurred, veteran news anchor Dan Rather believes. Rather tells Joy Reid, ‘It is an effort to use the pomp of the presidency to accentuate the positive… and diminish the negative.’

Trump is pressuring the CDC to change its death-toll methodology and produce a lower figure, report says

Sen. Warren: Americans Suffering From Lack Of Federal Leadership | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

The path to reopening is clear: Our national strategy is not

Trump Is Gambling for His Political Future with American Lives: Voters have turned against Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis, so he’s going for broke.

The politics and price of premature opening

Leonard Pitts Jr.: I will not die of stupid

Only facts will lead us to COVID-19 origin

Trump deferred to China for too long as virus threat grew | Opinion

For Trump, China is the new Mexico - The Washington Post

Trump seeks to replace HHS watchdog who reported hospital shortages

“Political Connections and Cronyism”: In Blistering Whistleblower Complaint, Rick Bright Blasts Team Trump’s Pandemic Response.  Two weeks after being pushed out of his post, the former head of a $1.5 billion federal health agency formally accuses top officials of pressuring him to approve unproven chloroquine drugs and award pricey contracts to friends of the administration.

2 Russian doctors are dead and 1 is in ICU after plunging from hospital windows

How the Corona Crisis Liberated Massive Public Spending: A Prospect Roundtable.  Five distinguished economists comment on the role of deficits and debts in preventing a depression.

Why summer likely won’t save us from the coronavirus: Summer weather could help slow the coronavirus. But it’s likely not enough.

Can Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci serve President Trump in good conscience?

Israel After Coronavirus: One Crisis, One State – and That Includes the Palestinians.  All of a sudden Palestinians can sleep in Israel, Arab health workers are garnering praise and Israelis are experiencing an 'occupation.' Maybe this crisis will show that we are all human beings?

‘Apocalypse Any Day Now!’

Masks Are a Tool, Not a Symbol: Lives will be lost if Americans allow the culture war to determine whether they cover their face in public.

Our meat is more important than meatpacking workers, according to Trump


Dr. Fauci on remdesivir: 'What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus'

Federal role among White House objections to shelved CDC guide: AP Jason Dearen, reporter for the Associated Press, talks with Ali Velshi about his reporting on the White House suppression of a CDC document offering guidance on reopening amid the coronavirus epidemic, and editing guidance to remove the recommendation of a federally coordinated national response.

Private jet company founded by Trump donor gets $27 million bailout

GOP Used Pandemic To Lavish Billions On The One Percent — Including Trump And Kushner

Whistleblower: US still lacks virus plan; Americans at risk

As coronavirus rolls on, Republicans hit ‘pause’ on new aid

Trolls and bots are flooding social media with disinformation encouraging states to end quarantine

Heavily Armed Protesters Gather Again At Michigan Capitol To Decry Stay-At-Home Order

Trump's Propaganda Reaches a Fever Pitch and Elon Musk's Most Selfish Week Ever | TCG w Robert Reich

Trump's rebuke of Fauci encapsulates rejection of science in virus fight

Trump says he will mobilize US military to distribute future COVID-19 vaccine

Let's talk about Trump, secrets, and sharing....

MICHIGAN CLOSES DOWN CAPITOL IN FACE OF DEATH THREATS FROM ARMED PROTESTERS AGAINST GOV. WHITMER

Michigan Cancels Legislative Session to Avoid Armed Protesters

Demanding 'Unprecedented' Action From Congress, Sanders Says HEROES Act Must Include Medicare Expansion and $2,000 Monthly Payments: "The Senate must improve this legislation if we are to adequately address the two most urgent needs facing working families right now: healthcare and economic security."

Australian official who met with Ivanka Trump, AG Barr last week tests positive for coronavirus: The positive test for Australian Minister of Home Affairs Peter Dutton comes nine days after he said he met with the two and other officials during a trip to the U.S.

Anti-lockdown protesters enter North Carolina sandwich shop with weapons, including apparent rocket launcher

Watchdog Demands Probe After Energy Secretary Admits WH Pressed Fed to Give Oil Companies Access to Covid-19 Funds: "These Fed facilities are not supposed to direct aid specifically to certain companies or industries—particularly not ones that were in dire financial shape even before the coronavirus crisis began."

Jayapal Clashes With Pelosi Over Her Pathetic Bill

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump will be banished from the 'club' of living former Presidents for 'cardinal sins' such as trashing Obama and George W. Bush and failing to show his predecessors respect, new book reveals

What 74 former Biden staffers think about Tara Reade’s allegations

After Wisconsin court ruling, crowds liberated and thirsty descend on bars.  ‘We’re the Wild West,’ Gov. Tony Evers says.

Key moments from HHS whistleblower Rick Bright’s testimony on coronavirus response

Rep. Dean mourns mother-in-law: These are people, not numbers. Families like mine are suffering.
Congresswoman Madeleine Dean talks to Nicolle Wallace and Brian Williams about the death of her mother-in-law: “The gravity here in Pennsylvania: We have had nearly 4000 deaths … In Montgomery County, we’ve had 556 deaths and one of those numbers is my own mother-in-law, Joan Cunnane.”

Obama Warned The U.S. To Prepare For A Pandemic Back In 2014 | NowThis

COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories

Obama Says U.S. Lacks Leadership on Virus in Virtual Commencement Speech: The virus has “torn back the curtain on the idea that the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” the former president said. “A lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge.”

Calling on Americans to Vote Trump Out, The Lancet Eviscerates US President Over 'Incoherent' Covid-19 Response: "The Lancet isn't playing. They want Trump out."

Let's talk about Eric Trump's comments last night....

Warren says death of brother from COVID-19 'feels like something that didn't have to happen'

‘Stealth Bailout’ Shovels Millions of Dollars to Oil Companies

A sitting president, riling the nation during a crisis

There Are Sensible Ways to Reopen a Country. Then There's America's Approach

Mask-free customer berates Costco employee as he gets kicked out: ‘I woke up in a free country’

Carville: Republicans "Will Kill People To Stay In Power, Literally"

Megachurch Pastor Who Claimed He Could Cure COVID-19 Dies From Virus

Trump says he takes hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus infection even though it’s an unproven treatment

Blue State Bailout? Red State Residents Received Largest Stimulus Checks, And Millions In Federal Aid

China’s coronavirus death toll 'definitely higher’ than reported: Tiananmen Square survivor: Tiananmen Square survivor Rose Tang provides insight into how China is handling the coronavirus outbreak and argues the government’s statistics cannot be trusted.

Just did a live interview barefoot on Fox Business Neil Cavuto's "Cavuto: Coast to Coast". Ha! The beauty of #QuarantineLife ! Interview on this link: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6157760089001/#sp=show-clips

Rose Tang

‘Hang Fauci’ Sign Brandished Amid Lockdown Protesters Trump Hailed As ‘Great People’: The chilling message was part of a filmed report on the protest by TV journalist Kevin Vesey, who has become a target of Trump on Twitter.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hang-fauci-trump-long-island-covid-19-protest_n_5ec1c6e9c5b6f6a9e9c6ae29?utm_source=politics_fb&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013&utm_campaign=hp_fb_pages&section=politics&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3GgT_FYbXETs1f7dIFEIYoW-s6i8KS3UlLFZ_h4Mpo7eb_DY1c2zfGBNY

Gupta: Trump should be 'ashamed' pushing untested drug to fight COVID-19. MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Vin Gupta blasts Trump continuing to push taking the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine - which the president now says he's taking - despite the fact his own FDA advises against it.

Trump threatens to withhold aid to 2 states over expanded voting by mail

Trump administration paying huge premium for mask-cleaning machines. Which don't do the job.
The president pressured the FDA to waive rules for mask-cleaning machines that ballooned to 10 times the original cost. But the process may damage the masks.

National Day of Mourning Slams Trump and GOP's Failed Covid-19 Response as US Death Toll Nears 100,000: "We need to drive home to this administration that Trump's lies and inadequate response to this pandemic have had real, fatal consequences."

Let's talk about life after Trump and the low points....

Florida scientist fired for refusing to 'manipulate' coronavirus data, report: Florida Today reports that the scientist who handled Florida’s coronavirus data portal was fired “she said, for refusing to manipulate data.”

Trump outbid governors on coronavirus supplies after telling them to buy their own

Trump says he won’t close the country if second wave of coronavirus hits

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says GOP is ‘ready to euthanize’ the elderly

Trump Administration To Planned Parenthood: Return Coronavirus Relief Funds

Senate Leaves For Recess Without Passing More Coronavirus Relief: A three-week session ended with no new bills passed to deal with the crisis that has caused nearly 100,000 deaths in the U.S.

Live updates: Coronavirus may still be spreading uncontrolled in 24 states, study suggests

U.S. Sends Ventilators To Russia In $5.6 Million Coronavirus Aid Package

Trump Gives $354 Million Drug Contract to 4-Month-Old Company

GOP 'Plot to Gut Social Security Behind Closed Doors' Gains Steam in Senate Covid-19 Talks: "With seniors most at risk from Covid-19, we need to be increasing Social Security's modest benefits, not creating secret commissions to cut them."

Trump describes medical researchers as enemies because he doesn’t like their results

Trump admin won't require nursing homes to count COVID-19 deaths that occurred before May 6: The most recent computation by NBC News found that as of May 11 at least 27,000 older Americans who were residents of long-term care facilities had died.

Mitch McConnell pledges to scrap a newly enacted $600 boost in weekly unemployment benefits, calling it a 'crazy policy' allowing people to earn more while they aren't working

As States Loosen Pandemic Restrictions, Dr. Leana Wen Warns “We Are Not Ready for a Safe Reopening”

Theoretical Preparation for Revolution Under Quarantine

6 states might be manipulating COVID-19 data as they reopen, reports suggest — here's what can skew the numbers

Trump heads to golf course as US coronavirus death toll nears 100,000: President is believed to have hit the links more than 250 times since taking office

Rev. Barber: ‘The people in power right now are too comfortable with other people's deaths'.  Co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign Rev. William Barber and Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy of Massachusetts argue that pay and protections for service workers should reflect their essential role in the American economy.

Will America Wake Up Before It Is Too Late?

Small businesses left in limbo as Senate waits to pass PPP extension

Mitch McConnell Could Be Out in 2020. Good Riddance.

'This is not about politics': GOP governor says wearing masks is public health issue.  "This is one time where we are truly all in this together," Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Sunday. "What we do directly impacts others.”

This is Trump's greatest failure of the pandemic

White House Covid cases contradict Trump's message on opening

Coronavirus: Obama says US response a 'chaotic disaster'

Trump says he's no longer taking hydroxychloroquine: “Finished, just finished,” the president said of the unproven treatment he'd said he was taking to protect himself from the coronavirus. “And by the way, I’m still here.”

Trump FALLS ASLEEP During COVID-19 Briefing

Former head of pandemic response team speaks out: 'I'm frankly scared'

Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19

Trump's coronavirus failures have caused the 'American carnage' he promised to end: More than a million Americans have gotten sick, a hundred thousand are dead and 39 million are unemployed because this president refused to lead.

Lemon slams Trump's attacks on Biden and Marine vet congressman

Op-Ed: In a nasty push, Republicans want immunity for companies that negligently spread COVID-19

For a numbers-obsessed Trump, there’s one he has tried to ignore: 100,000 dead

Top 12 Things Trump Did to Speed the Pandemic

Economic devastation from COVID-19 did not have to be this bad: COMMENTARY | The feds should pay people to stay home while investing in a long-term recovery plan

Revealed: UK’s lockdown dithering led to worst death toll in Europe


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