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    Reality, you know it when you see it – maybe not.

    I was very impressed with Gov. Cuomo’s briefing this morning – informative, comforting and non-combative. Read a whole different version on CNN. It appears Cuomo is the typical politician who speaks out of both sides of his mouth as it suits him.

    Found Trump’s briefing aggravating in his repetitious declarations and self-aggrandization claims. Did like his giving Governor’s voice in the decision-making process of opening up the economy. Scary as all hell for the citizens but not doing so would exacerbate the chaos.

    Then I am subjected to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s letter on her thought process.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartandhp

    "The truth is, from this moment on, Americans must ignore lies and start to listen to scientists and other respected professionals in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones."

    Agree! But is Trump the only one lying, Nancy?

    "The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility," she wrote. "A weak person blames others."

    Have you ever looked in a mirror or listened to yourself, Nancy?

    Pelosi and the Democrats have a decidedly different view, arguing that there can be no return to economic normalcy until the coronavirus has been eradicated and the public health scare has passed.

    Just how long before the virus is eradicated and what plan does Pelosi and her cohorts have in place to sustain its citizens? At least the majority of the Governors understand the lockdown can’t continue indefinitely and are coordinating to open up the economy.

    While we remain anxiously sequestered at home, follow social-distancing guidelines when outside for necessary / emergency reasons, and hope for reasonable, bipartisan cooperation from our government officials and for unbiased media reporting, we are assailed with **** like this.

    Scared? You should be! I am!

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    THE DEBATE | POLITICS | SECURITY | EAST ASIA
    Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?
    PRC moral turpitude forces us to consider the unthinkable.

    Ben Lowsen

    April 15, 2020
    Did Xi Jinping Deliberately Sicken the World?

    A member of a Chinese honor guard wears a face mask as he stands guard on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020.

    We often ascribe a basic level of humanity to even the cruelest leaders, but People’s Republic of China leader Xi Jinping’s actions have forced us to rethink this assumption. Although the emergence of the novel coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was probably not due to China’s actions, the emphasis that its authoritarian system places on hiding bad news likely gave the disease a sizable head start infecting the world. But most ominously, China’s obsession with image and Machtpolitik raises serious questions about its lack of moral limits.

    At some point the Chinese Communist Party learned of the epidemic and made a decision to hide its existence, hoping it went away. Exposés in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and the Chinese mainland’s Caixin show that the information that did flow out of China early in the crisis did so only because of the courage of individual Chinese people in the face of government repression. People in the Wuhan epicenter, however, began to get wise — and scared (here and here) — by the end of December 2019, forcing their government to say something. The authorities gave the impression of a nontransmissible disease already under containment. We know now this was entirely false, likely designed more to ease civil unrest than protect the people.

    The mayor of Wuhan even suggested that the central government prevented him from revealing details about the epidemic until January 20. Considering the first public announcements came out of Wuhan on January 1, we can assume that Xi had a sense of the danger prior to that.

    Clearly, downplaying the disease wasn’t working and it was time for the Party to get serious. But how serious? Would it provide full cooperation to the international community? Would being seen as the source of this virus hurt its international image? Beyond these, there was a darker dimension: the more Beijing cooperated, the less the disease stood to affect other countries. This includes countries China sees as a threat to its existence, like the United States. Why should China suffer the effects of a pandemic while others stayed safe — and increased their strength relative to China — based on China’s own costly experience?

    Such a question is of course inimical to human decency. And yet we must consider that Xi Jinping has produced the greatest program of ethnic cleansing in the world today. He has curtailed freedoms in China severely and is the father of the panopticon state. His incessant military buildup threatens neighbors while using economic and other subversive means to erode the sovereignty of countries around the world. We should not assume it was beyond his imagining to withhold a degree of support from the international community to ensure that China would not suffer alone.

    Strong evidence supports this idea. Hearing the World Health Organization (WHO) repeat and praise the Party line while giving short shrift to health advice until quite recently has alarmed many. Seeing Beijing sell defective wares and claim it as humanitarian aid has angered many more. Spreading disinformation during the crisis and hinting at using life-saving goods for leverage (original here) — while denying even the faintest hint of wrongdoing — I suspect have ruined China’s reputation for some time to come. In short, China’s good offices have been reserved almost entirely for burnishing its image at the world’s expense, while calling it “the greatest kindness and good deeds.”

    None of this can prove whether or when Xi made a deliberate decision to withhold information in order to imperil others. However, as a long-time student and admirer of China, it is with great sadness I must concede that such a state — and its increasingly paranoid leader — might very well provide less than full cooperation to stem the pandemic of the century in the crass pursuit of its own interests. This may constitute biological warfare. But even if it doesn’t Xi should be brought to account for his other crimes against humanity.

    The views expressed in this paper represent the personal views of the author and are not necessarily the views of the Department of Defense or of the Department of the Air Force.
    Reference: https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/did-...ken-the-world/

    ...and...

    State Department leaked cables renew theories on origin of coronavirus

    By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News


    US sounded alarm on Wuhan lab studying coronavirus two years ago, report says
    State Department cables obtained by The Washington Post warned about the safety and security of coronavirus testing on bats in China in 2018; Gillian Turner reports.

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    A Chinese laboratory at the center of new theories about how the coronavirus pandemic started was the subject of multiple urgent warnings inside the U.S. State Department two years ago, according to a new report.





    U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

    IF CHINA ACTED EARLIER, CORONAVIRUS CASES COULD HAVE BEEN CUT BY AS MUCH AS 95 PERCENT, FDA CHIEF

    Those cables have renewed speculation inside the U.S. government about whether Wuhan-based labs were the source of the novel coronavirus, although no firm connection has been established. The theory, however, has gained traction in recent days.

    Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday afternoon, "It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that and we've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. I would just say at this point, it's inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we don't know for certain."

    Dr. Saphier: Bad information from China, WHO led to mitigation 'hiccups'Video
    The United Kingdom has said that the idea that the virus, which has turned into a full-blown global pandemic, was leaked from a Wuhan lab is "no longer being discounted."

    A member of the U.K. government's emergency committee of senior officials claimed Sunday: "There is a credible alternative view (to the zoonotic theory) based on the nature of the virus. Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is a laboratory in Wuhan."

    Foreign affairs expert Gordon Chang said in a recent opinion piece on Fox News that "many Chinese believe the virus either was deliberately released or accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a P4-level bio-safety facility."

    He added: "This lab, known for studying coronaviruses, is not far from the market that had been initially identified as the source of the outbreak."

    In a series of diplomatic cables labeled "Sensitive But Unclassified," U.S. Embassy officials warned that the lab had massive management weaknesses, posed severe health risks and warned Washington to get involved.

    EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CORONAVIRUS

    The first cable, which was obtained by the Post, also sent red flags about the lab's work on bat coronaviruses and more specifically how their potential human transmission represented the risk of a new SARS-like pandemic.

    "During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory," the Jan.19, 2018 cable, written by two officials from the embassy's environment, science and health sections who met with the WIV scientists, said.

    The cable argued that the United States should give Chinese researchers at the Wuhan lab more support because its research on bat coronaviruses was important and dangerous. The lab had already been receiving assistance from the Galveston National Laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

    AUSTRALIA'S PM SAYS IT'S 'UNFATHOMABLE' THAT WHO SUPPORTS REOPENING OF WET MARKETS

    The cable also called attention to Shi Zhengli, the head of the research project, who in November 2017 published a paper that showed the horseshoe bats collected from a case in Yunnan province were most likely from the same bat population that had been behind the first SARS coronavirus in 2003.

    The cable states that "the researchers also showed that various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus. This finding strongly suggests that SARS-like coronaviruses from bats can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases. From a public health perspective, this makes the continued surveillance of SARS-like coronaviruses in bats and study of the animal-human interface critical to future emerging coronavirus outbreak prediction and prevention."

    China censoring research on COVID-19 origins, deleted page on Wuhan University website suggestsVideo
    Despite evidence that points to dangerous practices inside the Wuhan labs, top U.S. military brass, as well as other senior officials, have told Fox News that the origins of COVID-19 did not come from a laboratory nor was it the result of a bioweapon.

    "And if I could just be clear, there is nothing to that," Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs told Fox News last week. "Someone asked me if I was worried. That is not something that I'm worried about. I think, you know, right now what we're concerned about is how do we treat people who are sick, how do we prevent people from getting sick. But no, I am not worried about this as a bioweapon."



    Still, there are others who have been trying to trace the origin of the novel coronavirus back to the Wuhan lab.

    Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.

    Reference: https://www.foxnews.com/world/state-...inese-lab-bats
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    Does this leave you scratching your head?...

    Democrats blast Trump's move to suspend WHO funding

    BY JUSTIN WISE - 04/14/20 08:01 PM EDT 736



    Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday strongly denounced President Trump's decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, saying that it ignored the administration's own mistakes in its response to the global pandemic.

    While speaking at a briefing on the White House lawn, Trump said that the administration would halt funding for the WHO pending a review of the organization's "role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus."

    The president claimed that the international body, which is part of the United Nations, "failed to adequately obtain, vet and share information in a timely and transparent fashion" and targeted the group over its opposition to large-scale travel restrictions.


    Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said in a statement that the move "makes as much sense as cutting off ammunition to an ally as the enemy closes in."

    "The White House knows that it grossly mishandled this crisis from the beginning, ignoring multiple warnings and squandering valuable time, dismissing medical science, comparing COVID-19 to the common cold, and saying 'everything will be fine,'" Leahy, who also serves on the subcommittee overseeing foreign operations, added. "Not wanting to take responsibility as the deaths continue to mount, he blames others."

    Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), an outspoken critic of the president, said in a tweet that the announcement felt like a "distraction." Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called it a "grade school caliber attempt to deflect attention from his China fawning and his ongoing negligence since."

    "He wants this to be about other countries so he doesn’t have to explain why South Korea and the USA got hit with their first cases at the same time, but South Korea prevented mass deaths," Schatz added.

    Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Jesús García (D-Ill.) echoed those remarks, with Bass calling the move an "abdication of international responsibility and leadership."

    "International cooperation on public health has never been more critical," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) tweeted. "Freezing funding for the WHO will only make it worse."

    The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the WHO's budget in the world. Trump's fiscal 2021 budget request proposed cutting funding from $122 million to about $58 million.

    Amid scrutiny over his administration's own response to the outbreak, Trump earlier this month began targeting the WHO and suggesting that it hid information about the severity of the disease when it first began spreading in China. Republican lawmakers have vocally supported the president's position, with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last week vowing to end funding for the WHO under its current leadership.

    Leahy acknowledged that the WHO made mistakes in its early response, saying that it "could have been stricter with China and called for travel restrictions sooner." But he argued that the group is serving an "essential function" right now and needs U.S. support.
    Reference: https://thehill.com/homenews/House/4...nd-who-funding
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    Hey Mark:

    Unless I am off the track, your posts are intended to shed light on the unlikelihood that Trump alone bears the responsibility / blame for the delayed alarm and response to Covid-19. There is strong indication that China acted irresponsibly in its initial reporting and severity of the virus, as well as the WHO’s complicity in not sounding the alarm.

    Whether or not Trump is right in any of his declarations won’t matter one bit to a Democratic Party meant on undermining him in any way to remove him from office.

    I listened to the View this morning because Brix and AOC were the guests. Needless to say, the View hosts skewered Trump as usual. He just about created the virus and delayed addressing the seriousness of the virus, the WHO was spot on, and AOC was AOC and even came to the remarkable conclusion that either Biden or Trump was going to win the presidential election.

    Mark, you and I have posted numerous times that Trump was not our Republican selection in the primary. We voted for Trump because we were ‘never Hillary’ advocates. We have stated we would seriously consider a moderate / centrist Democrat in this year’s election. Biden appeared to be that candidate, but no longer since he started ‘dealing’ with the Marxist, pandering for votes.

    I once again thought Cuomo held a good briefing today – crediting the federal government for its assistance. Yet, while declaring ‘let’s take the politics out of this’, he failed to do so.

    Then I read: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is vowing to challenge President Trump's decision to halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), a controversial move that comes as the coronavirus outbreak continues to ravage the globe.

    China and the WHO should be held accountable for their failings / missteps / deceit in the handling of the virus crisis. Unfortunately, they will get a pass from the left and biased mainstream media – the hate for Trump supersedes rationale.

    BTW, Mark, while speculation abounds about who would best fit as Biden’s VP to beat the Trumpster – even Michelle Obama – I found this poll interesting:

    https://www.politico.com/amp/news/20...rom%20%251%24s

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Hey Mark:

    Unless I am off the track, your posts are intended to shed light on the unlikelihood that Trump alone bears the responsibility / blame for the delayed alarm and response to Covid-19. There is strong indication that China acted irresponsibly in its initial reporting and severity of the virus, as well as the WHO’s complicity in not sounding the alarm.

    Whether or not Trump is right in any of his declarations won’t matter one bit to a Democratic Party meant on undermining him in any way to remove him from office.
    You are, as always, "Spot On" Mr. C.





    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Mark, you and I have posted numerous times that Trump was not our Republican selection in the primary. We voted for Trump because we were ‘never Hillary’ advocates. We have stated we would seriously consider a moderate / centrist Democrat in this year’s election. Biden appeared to be that candidate, but no longer since he started ‘dealing’ with the Marxist, pandering for votes.
    You are entirely correct.

    In my mind, Governor Huckabee was the 2016 candidate whom I thought was eminently electablein the general election, and was the best candidate to apply with Presidential dignity, "common sense" populist policies with a conservative flavor.

    In terms of being open to a Democrat centrist, I of course would be open to such consideration, but since the Bork and Thomas hearings, I could never stand the Biden; he was and in my opinion, remains a partisan, Leftist hack.

    With that said, any perception other than Biden is such a hack, was blown to smithereens with his current philosophical race to the ult- Left, not to the general election center, but to the extremist primary season Left. In fact, Obama's endorsement yesterday doubled-down in support of stupid when he labeled "Crazy Uncle Joe" that "most progressive Democrat candidate." To wit, I respond, "Not my monkey, not not my circus."

    Regrettably, the Democrat Party is simply bankrupt of such "moderate" holdings; there are no John F. Kennedys or "Scoop" Jacksons lurking about today.

    Regarding Trump, while I hate his presentations, and always have, I believe given the glaringly rude and hostile press with which he must contend every day, I can not say that I really blame him. I guess I just expect a presentation from the President which would be superior to my own comments under such circumstances.

    I do however, want to make clear that I believe President Trump does love the America that you and I remember, which is the America that that I believe the Founders intended.


    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    I once again thought Cuomo held a good briefing today – crediting the federal government for its assistance. Yet, while declaring ‘let’s take the politics out of this’, he failed to do so.
    I know you and I may part company on the Cuomo conduct, but I still give him high marks for his advocacy on behalf of the state he represents. As an advocate, he is doing an outstanding job; as a crisis manager, I think he is doing an overall solid job, but, my praise stops there.

    I felt his "New Yawk" transcended his "New York" when he dangled possibility about removing the ventilators from WNY and sending them downstate to New York City. In that regard, Kudos to Congressman Brian Higgins.

    Also, his pressers are quite obviously presented with political dividends in mind, and when contrasted to those of Trump and his even-handed praise for Governors of both parties, Cuomo emerges as the partisan hack that he has always been.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Then I read: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is vowing to challenge President Trump's decision to halt U.S. funding to the World Health Organization (WHO), a controversial move that comes as the coronavirus outbreak continues to ravage the globe.
    Together with your previous observation...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Whether or not Trump is right in any of his declarations won’t matter one bit to a Democratic Party meant on undermining him in any way to remove him from office.
    As I have observed on post#1665...

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    Remember when Nancy Pelosi herself said that the Impeachment of President Trump said was a matter of "national urgency?"

    Is it not reasonable for one to ask, why did the Speaker fervently hold those expressed beliefs, and loudly deliver them at a time concurrent with the early hours which presented the first significant whispers of the pandemic which was about to descend?

    Perhaps the answer resides in a rather perplexing timeline beginning in 2016?

    With that said, no explanation or definition has ever been offered which satisfies many minds, as to what Peter Strozk's reference to an "insurance policy"truly meant. One can only speculate that the reference was to an unspecified tactic to guarantee a Clinton election, and to advance her rather cryptic promise of a "Stronger Together" America.

    If the "Stronger Together" theme was in fact a code for a concerted effort to advance the kindred policies of an axis consisting of the Globalist, Deep State, Neo Con, the Socialist Democrats in Washington and on the state and local levels, and fanatical Left, and that those efforts were to be jointly applied to favor the imposition of a "New World Order," is it not reasonable for the confused or the cynic to theorize that the entire post-2016 election sequence of events, may not be entirely happenstance?

    To wit:

    (1) Is it truly reasonable to consider that out of the ashes of the unexpected Clinton's defeat, came fanciful and now discredited Russia Collusion narrative?

    (2) After Russia Collusion disintegrated, was Ukraine and Impeachment truly resultant of a statistically-supported game of chance?

    (3) Then within mere days, from the extinguished embers of the failed Impeachment, does a once-in-a century opportunity arrive by a perchance roll of the dice; a convenient circumstance which favors a further discrediting of the Trump Presidency, while simultaneously establishing a tested template for authoritarian rule?
    My previous comments on post #1665 still stand; I am not surprised at all.


    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    China and the WHO should be held accountable for their failings / missteps / deceit in the handling of the virus crisis. Unfortunately, they will get a pass from the left and biased mainstream media – the hate for Trump supersedes rationale.
    Total agreement from me Lee.
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    Bret Baier Just Reported The "Costliest and Bloodiest Cover-up In History"...

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cor...ete-us-sources
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    Quote Originally Posted by mark blazejewski View Post
    Bret Baier Just Reported The "Costliest and Bloodiest Cover-up In History"...

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cor...ete-us-sources
    In addition to this post, more media attention is surfacing to give Trumps allegations against China and the WHO validity:

    In the early days of the crisis, the WHO amplified Chinese claims and figures without signaling that they could be inaccurate. The organization was slow to address the risk of human-to-human transmission, slow to declare a public health emergency and slow to use the term pandemic.

    Yet it was quick to praise Beijing. As evidence mounted that China silenced whistleblowers and undercounted cases, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general, continued to heap compliments on Beijing and dodged questions about worrying problems with the Chinese response.

    Criticism about how the WHO handled China is resonating well beyond the White House. Japan’s deputy Prime Minister recently called the WHO the “China Health Organization.” Nearly 1 million people have signed an online petition calling for Tedros to resign.


    As time passes and we hear and learn more about Covid-19 from its origin to its management, restrictions and contraction we realize we have been misled by just about everyone in government.

    Today’s edict from Governor Cuomo on mandated mask wearing flies in the face of what was being advocated early on, and into mid-March – no need to wear one except if one is exhibiting virus symptoms. Wash your hands!

    This past week there have been numerous media reports on the need to sanitize / wash just about anything you have worn out in an enclosed environment, the products you purchase, the take out foods you receive, every suspected home surface touched after entering the house, etc. Sanitize your car keys, steering wheel, door handles, etc.

    Bottom line, IMHO, we are unable to follow such advise for myriad reasons and at some point (until a vaccine is discovered) will become exposed to the virus. It is being reported that 45% of the population is experiencing emotional distress. Individuals who require medical / dental treatments are not getting scheduled services.

    To think that we have government representatives who will act in their best interests / political agendas over that of the citizenry, and a biased media that fosters divisiveness at this time is disgusting!

    But Trump alone is the fall guy, right? Wrong! America coming together for the common good, my ass! Hypocrites, every one of them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Today’s edict from Governor Cuomo on mandated mask wearing flies in the face of what was being advocated early on, and into mid-March – no need to wear one except if one is exhibiting virus symptoms. Wash your hands!
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    IRONIC, EH?

    On another social medium, I wrote yesterday:

    "At the very least, China created the virus; mishandled the virus; isolated the virus in Wuhan China, but knowingly permitted flights out of Wuhan to the rest of the world.

    If true, China did not deliberately put the virus on a missile, but like Pearl Harbor and 911, the airplane was knowingly used to rain death from the air, just my opinion of course."
    In response to the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, President Roosevelt said:

    "It seems to be unfortunately true that the epidemic of world lawlessness is spreading.

    And mark this well: When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease."

    Maybe the United States needs to "Quarantine" China?
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    Liar, liar, pants on fire

    Political spin and BS New York style:

    https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...tilator-claim/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    Liar, liar, pants on fire

    Political spin and BS New York style:

    https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...tilator-claim/
    Lee, I voted for Kathy Hochul when she ran for County Clerk. In that position, she did a stellar job.

    However, I was very disappointed with her service in the House of Representatives. She abandoned the wishes of her constituency and became a mere lap dog for Pelosi. I did not, and will not, forgive her rather unprincipled departure from her WNY roots during her Congressional service.

    In connection with the linked-article, as when voting for President and Vice President, when we New Yorkers elect a Governor-Lt. Governor ticket, we usually vote for the vision and the personage of the one who heads the ticket, and the second-spot running mate comes along de facto.

    As such, absent a resignation in protest, I really do not expect her to do anything other than support the Governor.

    With that said, she owns her hapless words of servility.

    Just my two cents.
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    Trump tells govs 'you are going to call your own shots' and distributes new guidelines

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=spartanntp

    President Donald Trump unveiled new guidelines on Thursday meant to help states loosen their social distancing restrictions, but in a retreat from his onetime claim of "absolute authority" to restart the economy, he told governors on an afternoon telephone call it was their decision on when and how to reopen.

    Yea!

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    At today’s briefing Governor Cuomo again stated that politics should be left out of Covid-19 crisis consideration and resolve. That was hypocritical in that he did politicize the briefing in a big way thereafter.

    More preposterous are the continued assertions by the left that Trump is solely responsible for American deaths from the Covid-19 virus. Kamala Harris claims Trump is responsible for the coronavirus body bags because he abandoned-leadership. Trump is charged with blaming others for his so-called delay to act.

    President Donald Trump said Friday at the White House that the United States would continue to investigate the origin of the coronavirus and that he would curtail WHO funding for their roll in the China reporting coverup.

    Democrats Say Trump’s Halt to W.H.O. Funding Breaks ‘Same Spending Laws that Brought About His Impeachment’ and Speaker Pelosi threatens to sue the president.

    A Breitbart News assessment found that the W.H.O. helped China hide the severity of the coronavirus outbreak within its borders during the early stages of the disease, parroting a Beijing propaganda claim that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” China’s Wuhan region is the birthplace of the coronavirus. Other media reports are providing like information.


    Should China not be investigated and blamed for the coronavirus origin if found guilty?

    Should the WHO not be defunded for its complicity in the coverup?

    Should those who refer to it as the Chinese, or Wuhan virus continue to be labeled racist?

    It is becoming more difficult to determine who is the patriot or who is the Quisling?

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    States with the highest number of COVID-19 cases per capita


    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/heal...tandhp#image=1

    Why some states are well positioned to reopen their economies.

    Confirmed cases vary from Minnesota 29.4 per hundred thousand of population to New York’s 998 per 100,000.

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    Had enough yet?

    Enough of the self-aggrandizing, repetitive King Trump and King Cuomo Covid-19 virus briefings?

    Enough of the likes of political figures like Pelosi, de Blasio, the squad, et al playing partisan politics during a national crisis.

    Tired of the partisan blame game for lives loss when the virus originated in China, where they presented misleading information and where the WHO covered up for them. Imagine, it is now being considered ‘racist’ to say the virus originated in China and where Pelosi is threatening to sue Trump for defunding the WHO for their complicity. Never thought I would see the day where the president of the United States would be blamed for loss of American lives when the crisis originated from another country. WTF!

    Tired of biased media reporting whose function is to create divisiveness to influence voting agendas. It took no longer than reading the front section of the Buffalo Times…err, Buffalo News, today to become depressed and lacking in hope. Buffalo Times because sixteen of the nineteen national media reports were from the liberal New York Times and the remaining three from the left leaning, Washington Post and Bloomberg editions. As expected, Trump played the role of Snidely Whiplash in all reports and the Dems were held blameless in every way.

    Had enough of the BS from all sides yet? I have!

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